The Cat Backpack launched 2 years back with the biggest range of ASTRONAUT Capsule Backpack Carriers. We had a total of 18 different colors for just one design. That was crazy during the days when ASTRONAUT Capsules went viral worldwide, including Singapore, and we are already missing the very nicely done GalaxyBlue and Cheshire. It’s a pity that they are no longer available.
Why? you may ask.
Rationally, it’s been 2 years since. New range of backpack carriers had been emerging in the market riding on the viral wave. We are now carrying several good quality ones such as Purrpy Eggshell, Petkit Evertravel Bag, Bonnet Pellucid Capsule, and a few more.
However, such friendly competition is only one of the cause to the decline of regular ASTRONAUT Capsules. Another reason would be the unfriendly competition among ASTRONAUT Capsule imitations.
Over the 2 years, we’ve noted at least 8 manufacturers producing ASTRONAUT Capsules, which 2 of them were the original manufacturers of U-pet, the ‘origin’ of all ASTRONAUT Capsules. With so many manufacturers in the game, competition soon turned into a price war, and eventually resulted poor quality control of all regular ASTRONAUT Capsules. If good quality is not what you are after, you can probably get 1 for less than S$20 these days.
When most manufacturers were competing to be the cheapest, one of them stay true to their principle - To Produce Carriers with Leading Good Quality. This is the manufacturer we - The Cat Backpack are taking our stocks for ASTRONAUT series from till today. It was already impressive that they decided to abandon the entire range of regular ASTRONAUT Capsule, and reproduced the range into ASTRONAUT UPGRADE Capsules. The quality of an ASTRONAUT UPGRADE Capsule is 10 times better comparing to a regular ASTRONAUT Capsule these days. Our customers all agreed upon comparing.
So, if you prefer the classic ASTRONAUT Capsule, we recommend you to go with the UPGRADE to ensure it is the best quality you will be getting.