Global Shave Club Fatboy Replica

I just noticed that Global Shave Club has announced they will be taking pre-orders for their replica of the Fatboy, they will have both a regular and a gold plated version.
According to their website it will be coming August 2020, and "The finished product will be the same as a 1960 Model 195 Fat Boy".
What are your thoughts about this, will any of you be ordering one?  Why or why not?

Keep your money in your pocket until you at least see a functional prototype. As far as I can tell, there is zero evidence that they are actually making a new Fat Boy.

Two things I got to say about this:

1. I have had really bad experience with this company way back when they introduced the $1 Challenger razor and so I warn folks to stay away.
2. For the price they are charging for a replica Fat Boy, you can get a real vintage one in good working condition for less.
3. (yeah I know I said two originally) I doubt that any company building that small of a quantity and charging that price will ever be able to build something to the level of a Gillette Fat Boy.

Hell, no.

At best the fatboy is overrated. At the prices they aim for, there is no reason to get one.

I do own one original fatboy, nothing to write home about. so i see no reason to get another. Much less a replica.

Heritage shaving brush handles with modern knots rock, but I do not need another fatboy, ether vintage or replica.

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godek

I don't know anything about them, good or bad, except they're selling something I don't want.

Blackland Razors - thank you for your perspective, coming from a razor manufacturer I value your point of view.

gvw755 - I appreciate you sharing your experience with Global Shave Club. I have never bought anything from GSC, only see their razors being used by some youtube shavers like Kevy Shaves, PaulHFilm and Kensurfs.

godek - thank you for responding to my post, I have not shaved with a Fatboy yet so it is nice to hear from someone who has used an original Gillette Fatboy and finds the experience lacking.  Perhaps I will find a reasonable deal on a real Fatboy and give it a shot.

I don't know anything about them, good or bad, except they're selling something  I don't want.

Thanks for your response.

Fatboy’s are nice shaving razors. Not the best adjustable but certainly not the worst. I agree that because Gillette made so many of them there is really no reason to make a replica when you can find a lot of fine examples of the original.

I can totally get behind a replica that is a duplicate of a rare or hard to fine razor especially if the originals where known to be good shavers like the Tradere which is what Blackland is bringing back or the Gibbs and Gillette Toggle which are also both hard to fine great shaving razors and are being duplicated and maybe improved like the Taiga and Janus for example but there’s just no need or reason for a Fatboy replica that I can think of at this moment in time.

Just my 2 cents