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articulated dragon

Everything captured about this concept, with the source of each figure, the places the sources disagree, and what to check next.

Interest proxy

~ 141,433

cumulative downloads, cumulative

Downloads, likes or favourites. Evidence that people looked, never that anyone bought.

thingiverse · n=4

Published floor

≥ 12,100

published monthly purchase floor, past month

A lower bound the marketplace itself published. The true figure is at least this.

amazon-keepa · n=20 · 2026-09-19

Target buyer

Who is paying, and how much, on each channel that carries this concept.

  • On Amazon the median articulated dragon product sells at $13.99, across 20 of 20 captured products.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

  • On Etsy the median physical articulated dragon listing asks $5.25, across 2 physical listings.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=2)

Observed need

What people did — downloaded, reviewed, bought — separated by which of those it was.

  • 4 indexed designs for articulated dragon have been downloaded 141,433 times in total. That is interest, not purchases.

    thingiverse:v_concept_panel (n=4)

  • Etsy buyers have left 1,308 reviews on articulated dragon listings — people who bought, not people who browsed.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=2)

Supporting demand

Search and purchase evidence, each labelled with the kind of figure it is.

  • Amazon publishes a purchase floor on 20 of 20 captured articulated dragon products, summing to at least 12,100 units bought in the past month.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

Competing solutions

Who already answers this need, and how crowded the answer is.

  • The median captured articulated dragon product holds Amazon sales rank 4,181 in its category — a position, not a volume.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

  • The median articulated dragon product has 1 offer — single-seller listings, so these are brands rather than a resold commodity.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

  • 2 Etsy listings were captured for articulated dragon, of which 2 name it in their own title.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=2)

Possible differentiation

Where a printed version could win, read off the price evidence rather than assumed.

  • Etsy and Amazon price articulated dragon within 0.37× of each other — $5.25 against $13.99. There is no craft premium here to price into, so a printed version competes on unit cost against injection moulding.

    etsy-everbee:v_concept_panel (n=2)amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

  • Amazon's median articulated dragon product is $13.99. At that price a printed unit has very little room for filament, machine time and fees, so a differentiated or personalised version is the only version worth modelling.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

Conflicting evidence

Where two sources disagree. Stated, never resolved into an average.

  • Amazon's articulated dragon products are selling 50.6% less than 90 days ago on average, across 20 products. Whatever else the evidence says, this concept is contracting on Amazon right now.

    amazon-keepa:v_concept_amazon (n=20) @2026-09-19

Unknowns

What this brief does not know. Absence is a finding, not a blank.

  • No search-volume rows match articulated dragon. Demand here is inferred from marketplace activity, not from what anyone searched for.

  • No figure here is a measured conversion rate, a margin, or a unit cost. Nothing captured tells us what one costs to produce, or what share of the people who look at articulated dragon go on to buy.

  • Trademark, patent and design-right exposure for articulated dragon has not been checked by anything in this system.

Next validation step

  1. Settle the conflicting evidence above before costing anything. A brief with unresolved conflicts is a reason to look harder, not a reason to buy filament.
  2. Run articulated dragon through the fleet planner at $13.99 and again at the Etsy median. The channel that survives its own price is the channel to model.

This brief is assembled from captured rows only. There is no blended score for articulated dragon, deliberately: the sections disagree, and a single number could only hide that.