Valken is Done

[Interl0per]

So what you're saying is MCB could buy a couple of encapsulation machines

[JonM]

Bonus points if they can do .62 cal.

[TF_Aloha]

JonM, .62 cal is already out there, have you bore-sized GI Sportz Field Paint lately?

[JonM]

Touche

[Pumps4ever]

I will forever pay toward an MCB owned and operated encapcilation machine...

Come on .689

[Pumps4ever]

Honestly I would probably quit my day job and operate the machine... I think regular size paint could possibly bring the sport back

[MrBarraclough]

Update: Summitbridge's motion to convert was granted by consent. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy has now converted to a Chapter 7 (liquidation) and a trustee has been appointed. The owner of the encapsulation machines was also granted relief from stay, permitting them to come retake their equipment. The trustee will assume control of whatever assets Valken has remaining and seek to liquidate them, though if they're all subject to liens he may just abandon it all to the secured creditors who hold those liens. I have certainly had cases like that. I don't think MCB supports uploading pdfs as attachments to posts directly, so I'll put the relevant documents into a shareable folder and link them here.



Mildy interesting aside: I neglected to mention previously an interesting detail from the Summitbridge motion that was filed in September: something like $300,000.00 in inventory was en route from Asia as of September 4th, but there was a question of how much it would incur in tariffs and whether Valken would have the liquid cash on hand to pay those tariff charges or if the inventory would get impounded for failure to pay them. Sudden and massive increases in tariffs, especially on items that may have been ordered months before the tariffs were announced, can absolutely devastate American businesses.

[russonti]

soo you're saying there's a chance... All we need to do is first, figure out how to start a business. And then figure out how to get investors because who has that kind of money.

[vijil]

What's it like starting a business over there?

Here it takes about ten minutes on a govt website, I hear that's unusual.

[$L!mBo]

dang i wonder what the possibility/process for getting ahold of some of their older designs is like?
these were always my favorite pants and they are basically unobtainium already, and now the possibility of re-release is dead

[The Last Snood]

Maybe, there is a start of a rumor that if this all happens they could re-brand under that v-tac name. This was said in the new Will Ball for Soup video he put out on youtube talking about all this.

[Heavy_D]

Guess whos back, Back again, Gino's Back, Tell yo Friend!

http://www.v-tac.com

[William the Third]

Guess whos back, Back again, Geno's Back, Tell yo Friend!

http://www.v-tac.com

Very interesting. Gino has owned that domain since 2009. Based on Wayback Machine archives, from 2014 to 2024 it just had a generic placeholder main page. From 1998-2005 it was owned by a ducting cleaning company.

[PBGunny]

I like the cartoon drawings of the team... That is exactly what I thought Gino would look like.
Your typical mob boss looking guy.
And with Phat Johnny being the muscle behind International sales, how can it go wrong.
Only person missing is Guido to head up the trash disposal section.

[Chappy]

“Geno reorganized and rebranded??? Who’d a thunkit?” he said, sarcastically.

[Trbo323]

That's one of the strangest ways to do your team page I've ever seen.

Like if I were making a cartoon show about a crack detective team set in the 1940s those would be my characters. Main character is Gino, a more mob version of dog the bounty hunter
All the women are models and at least 2 have a love interest with Gino, that's petty much their whole role
Phat Jonny is the retired cop who just saw too much on the force but decided to help Gino out because Gino gave some impassioned speech about justice
Sonny is Johnny's son, the next generation
George is the ex-con who can pick any lock in 5 seconds and is ok bending the rules to get the job done
Harold is the token black guy
Steve is the young apprentice who desperately wants to impress Gino
Debbie actually keeps things running in the office


Tell me I'm wrong

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[PBGunny]

Debbie is the only one out of the bunch that looks really concerned about the whole thing.
How can this go wrong?

[TF_Aloha]

This looks like Gino plans on taking one of the encapsulation machines out of Valken's warehouse one night, put it into an RV, and hire someone to cook blue paint parked in a Wal-Mart parking lot since he can't get a lease on a building. He can call it "New Streak" and the tech can be "Heisenball."

[flyweightnate]

I'd absolutely buy some Heisenball. Especially if it's .689 and breaks clean.

[William the Third]

Damn, wish I would have thought of having the Wayback Machine make a new archive last night, as they've already taken it down and replaced it with a "Hello World" test page.

I wonder if someone got upset about what we were saying about it? Maybe it wasn't supposed to go live yet? Maybe it was a poorly planned April Fools joke?

[PBGunny]

I wonder if someone got upset about what we were saying about it?

If someone did get upset, does this mean that we will be getting a visit from Guido?
I don't really want to swim with the fishes.

[Trbo323]

Ok someone explain who Gino is to me because I feel like he is a main character here and I've never heard of him before.

Like season two just started and there's this character everyone knows always but you have never seen before

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[Chappy]

Gino started NPS back in the day. He was known for showing up to fields he supplied and undercutting them for his trunk in the parking lot. But that was a long time ago.