Ukrainian startup Ugears has launched its fourth crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in the last three years, and it’s already a success.
On March 27, the company published a crowdfunding campaign seeking to collect $15,000 with 11 new mechanical wooden models. Ugears hit its target within a day, and with 34 days still left to go, it now has $74,000 pledged by 620 backers.
Ugears has created a range of working models made almost entirely from wood that can be snapped together without glue. The models are constructed from wooden cogwheels, plywood struts and panels, and even toothpicks.
The company’s new collection of models is dedicated to exploring the mysteries of mechanics. It includes a mechanical horse, a siege tower, a windmill, a stagecoach, a steam train, a motorcycle, a roadster, a truck, and a helicopter.
All of the new models have moving parts: the siege tower can fire arrows, the horse can move, and the windmill’s sails go round.
The prices of the new Ugears models range from $35 to $385. Backers can also pay $999 to order all 30 models ever created by Ugears, as well as a never-seen-before secret one.
The first backers will be shipped their orders of wooden models by the end of June.
A mechanical wooden model called the Ugears Roadster VM-01.
In 2015, Ugears crowdfunded $406,000 on Kickstarter, in spite of originally asking only for $20,000. After this success, the company ran three more crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, collecting another $531,000 .
In August 2017, Ugears started cooperation with the Walt Disney Company to sell its mechanical wooden models in Disneyland parks and Disney stores worldwide.
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