Tuned in at 5 PM CST for the Youtube event at 6 PM EST, and it was postponed until 6:30 EST.
So I left work and went home and ignored it.
Checked around 7 PM CST once the boy was in bed and tried to watch the replay of the event. Ten minutes of introducing all of the people in the room, with a brief pan across the CSC 50 "Table Saw in a Systainer", the KSC 60 Kapex, the CTC SYS (which is already in stores) and the CTC MIDI.
Then more walking around talking to people and then they cut the feed and said "We'll be back later but don't go away".
So then I stopped the YouTube video.
If I had been watching live, I would have probably tuned out at that point as well. I find it rather rude, to be honest, to first delay the event 30 minutes and then to blow off your live remote audience by going to a blank screen? I'd definitely be curious to see the view stats by timeline for the event.
During the opening, I saw the RSC 18 Recip saw in the background, but it wasn't mentioned during the intro section.
As of 7:40 PM CST, NONE of the new tools are listed on the Festool USA website. The newest "New" tool listed is the MFT-HZ 80 clamp.
Overall, a swing a a wide miss, in my estimation.
Considering all of the tools were in the rumor mill already, and the images and sales links in Europe had already been linked, they could have at least admitted "hey, you've probably seen all of this, so we'll tell you what's coming to America this year", and then gone into demos and whatnot later.
Maybe I've gotten spoiled by Apple events and their immediate release of product information after an announcement. I know Festool isn't Apple, but they're still big enough and have enough of a social media presence to know better.
