All outstanding orders* are shipped, including orders delayed by sticky note production. Everyone should have tracking information for pins that are in-transit. Aside from any issues that may arise with this final shipment**, Isopod Colony is effectively fulfilled! Thank you everyone for your support with this project!
* There are two backers who never filled out their surveys. I’ve been sending Backerkit reminder e-mails a twice a month, and reached out with personalized e-mails this month. I am assuming that the e-mails are not going through, and am posting here as a last-ditch effort to try and contact you. If you are one of these backers, your pledge is not fulfilled because I cannot send you your items without your confirmed selections of what you’re receiving or your address. Please fill out your surveys. If you do so, I can ship them out! After July, I will stop sending reminder e-mails and will no longer be able to guarantee spare inventory for unfulfilled Pledge Manager surveys.
** If anyone has an issue with their order -it didn’t arrive, or there are missing, incorrect, or damaged items- please let me know before July and I will use my reserve inventory to correct these issues.
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Future Project Updates
After this update, I will no longer be sending out update e-mails for this project, so this should be the last e-mail you receive for following this project specifically! If you are a curious about my upcoming projects and want to be notified about them, follow me as a Backerkit creator and you should receive updates about new projects I’m creating here on backerkit!
On that note, my next pin project will be Herpatology Dragons. It is launching this June as a part of Pin Quest. It’s will consist of enamel dragon pins that are heavily influenced by some of my favorite reptiles and amphibians. Axolotl wyrms, tokay gecko dragons, and hognose amphipteres, oh my!
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Thank you everyone for helping to make Isopod Colony a reality. I hope you all have a great weekend, and take care!
I wanted to reach out to you all as we only have 3 days left. AAAAAH how crazy. Anyway... my lovely manufacturer has made a sample of all the pins and I am SO excited that I can share this with you!
ARENT THEY CUTE. I am super happy with them. Some of them have had change requests and are missing their screenprint. But they will be complete for the campaign and I hope you LOVE them.
📌 Feel free to share with your friends this campaign, anyone you think who would love it! This is a chance for everyone who pledges to get a discounted rate of these pins ✨
If all initial stretch goals are reached, what do you want to see more of after that?
If there are any specific color combos you’d like to see feel free to comment them on the poll as well.
((posted about the same update to cryptid critters since its the same plush order))
And that I just got the SUDDEN news that all the plush for Jelly and Werewolves are DONE... so UHHHHHHH
We'll see what happens now!!
My loan had another complication so another review is being done, we will be at another convention this weekend Thank you for being awesome backers and just heck yeahhhhh!!!
The sticky notes have arrived from the manufacturer. I think they turned out great, and I'm happy to have these little guys in-hand!
The Isopod sticky notes were the final outstanding item from my previous campaign, and I'm excited to send out the final batch of orders and finish the Isopod Colony shipping.
I ordered several extra of the isopod sticky notes. I have updated the pledge manager if you wish to select the isopods as a sticky note design option. You can add a new sticky note, or edit an existing sticky note order to use this design.
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Pledge Manager
Pledge manager surveys went out last week. Over 2/3 if you have successfully completed your surveys! If you encounter any issues, please let me know and I will work to resolve them.
The surveys will be open and editable until the end of May, at which point I will lock orders and credit cards will be charged. I will be sure to send out an e-mail notice a couple days in advance of this so it's not a surprise.
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Pre Order Store
If you missed the campaign and wanted to order some of the items from it, the Pre Order Store is now available. Preorders placed before the end of May will go out alongside the campaign orders based on packing groups. (Similar orders/regions are done in small batches to be as efficient as possible!)
If you pre order early it can help to get an accurate item counts so that I can order the correct amount of designs based on popularity. I always order at least 25 extra of every design, but if I know that one design is 3x more popular than normal, it lets me know to order even more extras of that one!
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Thank you for your support of the Elemental Myth campaign. I hope that everyone has a great week!
Short update to share that we have received final versions of the pins from the manufacturer. They look amazing!
Soon we will start the process of preparing and packing the pledges and pre-orders to send. Then we will do the charges (including shipping), and close the surveys. The packages with your pins and stickers will be sent over in early May.
The pre-order shop will be open only until end of April. After that, getting these pins will be a lot harder. Visit the Fluffypede pre-order shop in Backerkit to get yours!
It's been a month since my last update and it's been with a big reason: I've been swamped with work, a 4 day con and another 1 day con back to back ^^; All with fun work and fun things but it's been very busy which meant that I had to place some priority on things other than the pins.
Good news, I've just emailed my manu contact to pick up the project and start the production. I have to wait for an update on the quote but the enamel pin files are all sent off so it's now waiting for a correct quote and paying that.
The pins have had some minor colour changes to be more accurate with the animals, so I wanted to show you all the (digital) colours as we've chosen now. Mind you, colours can still vary a bit due to screens and print work. (Picking colours is the biggest hurdle of enamel pin making if you ask me!)
All the pin designs in their (most) accurate colours (Colours can still differ due to different monitors and screens.)
Survey info The survey is still open for changes, you can still switch around any choices of pins you'd like. I won't lock the survey until we're closer to receiving the pins. This due to the tariff issue as well in the survey.
As a reminder for the tariff costs non-US backers might saw pop up: I will manually remove these before I charge the survey. The tariff percentage might still changes so I'm gonna leave this for the last moment so it's the most accurate for all!
If anything changes with the survey (locking them, charging the cards, etc) I will first give you all a heads up for this with another update.
The other products update The acrylic keychains have been ordered a few weeks back, those will have the first colour run but I think this is pretty fun to have the differences between the amphibians. So many have different tones of coloures between the same type of frog already, it's like a mimic of real life. After this print run is sold out I will update the artworks to fit the colours of the enamel pins.
The sticker sheets are up next to be ordered, these will have the same colours as the enamel pins.
The socks are now up on the to do list to finish up the product file. My sock manu reached out this week to let me know they are getting more busy and making a sample takes 3-4 weeks now instead of 2 weeks. This means that if the socks arrive later than the enamel pins, those with socks in their orders will have to wait a bit longer on their order being shipped. One way or another, Desert rain frog socks will be send to you if you ordered them <3
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
Hi everyone! I hope you're all having a good week so far.
I wanted to update again with more manufacturer sneak peeks, as I know you're as excited as I am to see!
Please keep in mind, that these are manufacturer photos, so any B-grade defects shown on any will be things I will be vetting for when they eventually arrive and I can check their individual quality before fulfillment.
This is all I have for now, but I hope you enjoy seeing these!
