[rrreese]

Several commenters and the OP, seem to think that this Kickstarter will fail. Having backed quite few Kickstarter campaigns, and watched a lot more, this seems unlikely.

Backing is concentrated very heavily in the first three days and the last three. Projects that have reached 80% of their funding goal by the last three days are extremely likely to succeed.

It seems that many people delay backing till the last minute. Possibly this is just human nature, though the Kickstarter process also means that as the project progresses more information is released in a steady stream, and often new funding levels are created.

Additionally backers who really want the project to succeed raise their pledges to help the project succeed.

[mikepurvis]

And no big project like this would ever fail by < $50,000. Wouldn't the founders or their investors or whatever just max their credit cards to see it through?

Does Kickstarter explicitly prohibit such things?