Reminder: All cards with remaining balances will be charged tomorrow! Plush production has officially begun!
Production will take 35 factory work days to complete. There's a holiday break in the middle of our production timeline, so it will realistically take our manufacturer ~2 months to complete production. I will continue to post frequent updates regarding production and fulfillment on Discord and BackerKit!
Cade sporting a lovely party hat!
⭐ Because the plushies are entering production and so close to fulfillment, I will be charging everyone for their shipping costs starting tomorrow!
⭐ There are also a few backers who still need to answer their surveys!! I have been sending reminders via email periodically. Unfortunately, if you do not answer your survey, I will not know what items you want and your pledge will be considered a donation. You will not receive your rewards if the survey is not filled out.
Our coloring book came out soooo cute! The sample is currently on the way to us. We will test the paper with various materials before we begin production to ensure that the paper is high quality.
I am sooo proud of this book! All of the guest artists' pages came out absolutely perfect as well!
P.S. All of the blankets arrived today! We have a convention next weekend, but it is our goal to begin shipping "blanket only" orders upon returning. We will keep you all updated! ♥
Yayyyyyy
We want to have the 4 other plushies in hand before fully approving the designs, juuust in case something needs corrected. The factory is going on holiday February 1st for ~3 weeks, so getting started now is pretty important. The remaining samples should get here and be approved for production in the next week or so! The factory will hold onto all of the Cade and Fizz plushies until the others are completed, so everything will still ship together. 🫡
We also got approved to rent a space short term for fulfillment!! I'm excited about that because our home is kind of tiny, so that's been a concern lol. The space we're renting is right next to a local game store too!
💜
Here he is!!! The man, the myth, the legend... Timmy T Rex!
Fun fact, his original concept wasn't cool kid gamer boy. He was actually going to be an employee at the arcade. We realized pretty early on that it would be a shame if he wasn't invited to the party, so we scrapped that idea and revived him for #gamerlyfe
Our manu is currently working on fixing the propeller fabric and shape, but just look how stinkin' cute he is!! I think the colors and the embroidery turned out so beautiful on him. I'm honestly very shocked that our manu was able to get this color for us. The last time we spoke about colors for this design I was told that they couldn't order what I wanted. Very pleasant surprise.
I also reeeeally love his goofy 3D teeth.. he's just a baby.
he's so cute djfhakdsjfh
embroidery!!!
tatted up
u got games?
he angy
We will begin production once this sample is approved! Reminder that any remaining balances will be charged on January 12th!
If you've missed my posts, I've been actively updating everyone over on Discord and Bsky! (+ Telegram and Instagram when I remember to)
I kinda sorta typed up a few drafts to post here, but forgot to actually submit them.. >_>
If you're not active on those platforms, I come bearing great news... Our designs are nearly completed! Everyone is finalized aside from Timmy, and the manu said we should be getting updates tomorrow. Claws crossed!!! 🤞
Here are some finalized plush sample pics:
🍕
Pete's printed fabric was slightly misaligned, but I wanted to speed up sample production, so it will be corrected during mass production.
🍕🍕🍕
"touch my butt and buy me Pete" or whatever 2010's tumblr said
Confetti, my angel 🥺
HER TOOTSIES
beautiful, stunning, gorgeous, showstopping
Byte was a STRUGGLE with the manu, they originally weren't going to include half of my design elements
We're getting a custom ordered vinyl patch for the faux screen on the tummy!! It will be added during mass production~
Such a cutie!!! Worth the struggle imo!!
Waiting on final Timmy updates, but this is where we left off :3
We've also completed all of the illustrations for the coloring book! A sample for that has been ordered as well, so I can test the paper quality with alcohol markers. We should have it within the next week or so. Production will begin once that sample is approved.
The front cover
Some fun coloring pages!
I also have all of the stickers. The blankets are currently on their way to us too. Trying to find a place to store these things before/during shipping has been a headache, but we'll figure it out! ;w;
Our plush manu has informed me that production will take 35 days, so we're looking at a slightly later fulfillment date. I will have more updates ASAP! On that note, as we reach milestones in the production and fulfillment phases, I will begin giving more frequent updates. I wanted to give you all a heads up in case those notifications become annoying, but hopefully they will be just as exciting!
Cards with any remaining balance will be charged January 12th!
If you owe money, your card will be charged on January 12th. BackerKit will email you reminders if your payment fails. You will have a few weeks to correct any failed payments.
We are slightly behind schedule due to manufacturing woes, but nothing that wasn't expected or outlined in the project details. However, I do sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. We plan to begin production of all future plush prototypes ahead of launch to navigate this issue moving forward, this was not possible for our first campaign unfortunately.
There's a TON of work happening behind the scenes to bring this project to fruition, and everyone has been so understanding of that. Thank you all for your support, I cannot overstate my gratitude 💜
Hi I'm also wondering about updates on this project, itll be 6 months since the last prototype update in a week.
I know it's close to the holidays (happy holiday and happy new year!) but I just want to check and make sure everything is okay.
I sent an email over 20 days ago to the email you’ve been offering for inquiries, but haven’t gotten any reply. It has to do with the straps not being long enough for over the shoulder wear on the canvas bag, so I was wondering if my email just got lost or you haven’t gotten to it yet. Thank you!
My canvas bag arrived today :D
Just wondering if there was meant to be a strap that was meant to be for cross body wear? My bag came with three straps all roughly 35"~ adjusted to its longest lenght, but I reread the description and it said there was a strap that would be 42"+ long? I don't know if that just didn't end up happening or if mine wasn't packed with my order?
Sorry for the delay on this announcement, there were a few orders with loose ends that were getting wrapped up but besides those few, ALL ORDERS HAVE SHIPPED :D (we've been in this status for a short while now, haha)-
If you need any tracking info, it should be sent to your email but any inquiries about shipments should be sent to [email protected]! They've done an incredible job with this project, I couldn't be happier :)
I've already been seeing some wonderfully decorated bags on BSKY and I love when you all tag me to show photos!
For any straggler backers with incomplete surveys or incomplete payments, I will be emailing to inform of the next steps/options. Fortunately that's not too many.
I think beyond this update, I will hopefully put a shoutout on when I have the series stocked in my online shop (shop.toripng.com) in case anyone wants to grab items they didn't previously :)
Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season! Thanks so much for your support!
