Snow Cat's probably slow moving because from what I saw, the stretch goal figures were pony. Arctic Flint and Jaye? Look, I love the characters, but why not more Arctic Joes like I dunno, Sub Zero or Blizzard or something?
From what I see and read it seems like the prevailing feeling is that the Haslabs shouldn't have "main" characters as tiers because then they are stuck behind an expensive paywall (Haslab). Why should people have to pay $325US to get those characters? Instead keep it at alternate looks for existing, or new, characters so that regular retail is where we can still get those regular versions.
As for the Snow C.A.T. I think they were expecting it to do as well as the previous Classified Haslabs and fund in the first week. Now that it is doing as well as a lot of other crowd funds it is probably scaring them a bit.

