Under a week, we have already unlocked so many cool things, thanks to you!
🏳️🌈 Bandana Accessories
The next stretch goal will unlock Bandana Accessories! For $5-7 each, you can accessorize your Pocket Friend if you want to show off more than one identity!
Here is a preview of 7 out of the 12 bandanas designs that will be made. We will also include MLM, Gender Queer, AroAce, PolyAm, and Disability designs! We want to offer more stretch goals to offer more designs as well, yay!
We have produced two bandanas before for Pocket Friends, which you can see below!
🏳️🌈 Sponsor Tiers?
A few backers reached out to us about the possibility of sponsoring plush or bandana designs for certain identities. We are currently crunching numbers with our manufacturer but we think it is a great idea! With manufacturing goods, artists need to meet a certain minimum order quantity (MOQ) in order to get something produced. Plush toys require a high MOQ for us, for example, but since we have such a great relationship with our manufacturer, they will allow us to offer much lower a MOQ (10-25 units) for a few designs.
What do you think? Let us know!
🏳️🌈 Discuss With Us on Discord!
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Thank you all so much again for supporting this campaign and making it SO AMAZING!!! We are all so so so grateful!! Since we are nearly at $40,000 for the next stretch goal, we decided to share the voted designs early.. so check them out below!!
Don't see the flag you voted for? Never fear! Another stretch goal is in the works to get more plush made with even more identities!!
A huge thank to our mentors over at GayBreakfast for being incredible and helping us with these designs! We are so grateful for their wisdom! Gaybreakfast is known for thir amazing inclusive enamel pins! Also.. they did our guest pins!!!!
The next plush toy designs will be MLM, Gender Queer, AroAce, Polyamorous, and Disability Pride!
🏳️🌈 Bandanas
I am currently working on the designs for the next goal.. bandanas! They will be representing each of the unlocked designs. With each unlocked plush design, we will make a matching bandana design as well!
🏳️🌈 Discuss With Us on Discord!
We have a small and friendly community over on Discord where you can get faster updates, talk to other backers, and more!! Everyone is super sweet!
As we reach the last stretch of the campaign, here are the last 2 pins to be added to the list. I say last because its looking like some fees are higher than I was expecting and needed more wiggle room than I estimated, so unless we suddenly get thousands the last few hours (lol), this is looking like our final line up.
However this is not the end for the other 2 flag designs. Like I have mentioned before, those and a handful for other designs will be available post campaign for a second chance to fund via a minimum order amount. If those goals are met they will be funded and ordered! If not, you will not be charged so no risk there! Here are the designs currently going to be available.
I'm currently between homes at them moment so I apologize for the brief lapse in updates! I got some fun things for you all as we approach the end of the campaign!
First, some design edits!
Here's Suzaku! I fixed a mistake - the words on the swords was always supposed to be white. Oops!
Next is Seiryu! Folks were concerned about the text and since my manufacturer's black enamel tends to be on the light side I decided to just make the text screen-printed.
And finally, Oni! I felt something was missing with this design so I added some metal flair to the pants. Already a huge improvement! It's a little hard to see here, but the effect will be very neat when light shines on it, kind of like iridescent fabric that has become popular with Asian street wear.
Last, since we are so very close to 9k and could still reach 10k, I wanted to show off what the collar pins would look like! I'm starting it off with one of my identities - AroAce! These collar pins will be: - 1.5" tall - Gold plating - Screenprinting - 2 backing posts with butterfly clasps - A combination 5" + 6" chain that connects to the backing posts
I've done a 4" + 5" chain for collar pins in the past but it always didn't feel quite long enough, so I think the extra inch will be perfect.
Flags I'm planning to do so far: - Agender - Aromantic - AroAce - Asexual - Bisexual - Gay - Genderfluid - Genderqueer - Lesbian - Non Binary - Pansexual - Polyamory (the new one) - Transgender
I would love to do more eventually, but I'm already pushing it with offering up 13 new designs at the 10k mark.
What other flags would you like seen on the sword collar pins? Please let me know - I might add it to the post campaign add-ons!
And remember - these collar pins unlock ONLY if we reach 10k during the campaign!!!
Thank you all so much for the INCREDIBLE first day! We are so thankful for all of your support and are really looking forward to getting these friends into production for all of you!
🏳️🌈 Stretch Goals Unlocked
Within the first 24 hours, we have already unlocked THREE stretch goals!! Thank you all so much for your support!!!
🏳️🌈 Next Goal: MORE PLUSH!
Our next goal is introducing five (5) more representations to the Pocket Pride plush series! Many of you already suggested so many identities over at the original post and we have already logged them into a graph to see which ones to make next.
At the moment, the MLM and GenderQueer flags are guanteed!
Feel free to suggest other flags below if you havent commented already on the original post. We will do our best to represent as many identities as possible through more stretch goals, so don't worry! The pace of the campaign is already doing amazing (thanks to you!!!) so we are confident we can add even more plush!
Comment below to suggest what flags/ identities you want to see made into a Pocket Pride plush!
🏳️🌈 Discuss With Us on Discord!
We have a small and friendly community over on Discord where you can get faster updates, talk to other backers, and more!! Everyone is super sweet!
We FUNDED!!! Thank you so much for helping us bring these Pocket Pride plush toys to life and believing in the project! We are just getting started too! 🎉
🏳️🌈 Incentives
As a reminder, backing the project in the first 48 hours will result in you getting a FREE enamel pin! If you are a returning backer, then you will get a FREE vinyl sticker!
🏳️🌈 Stretch Goals
With your help, we can unlock even more cool things! Here is just a preview of what is to come! The next goal to unlock would be more variations of the Paint Brush Pride Pins by me!
🏳️🌈 Discuss With Us on Discord!
We have a small and friendly community over on Discord where you can get faster updates, talk to other backers, and more!! Everyone is super sweet!
Thank you all SO MUCH for this amazing first day! There was hiccups with the launch but despite that, you all came to support and we cannot thank you enough!!!!
