The audience takes their seats and the performers take the big top stage! Vote for your favorite design preview to determine the order of their introduction (and unlock order!)
Sorry for the wait, I have been busy between editing pin proofs and running a Pin Quest campaign!!
All except for 2 pins have been approved and are in production! I do have two things to say about the 2 that are not yet approved, however.
The first one is the more minor issue: The butterfly dragon has a couple very small spaces that can't be cut out completely for the stained glass. I decided to opt for them to carve it out the best they can in those areas and still use the glass. It should hopefully not change the design too much and still look pretty in the end! I am still working with the manu to fix something with the eyes and will approve it soon after that is done.
The BIGGEST offender, however, is the egg display pin. Now... part of this was completely on me. I did not think about the label part of the pin not being connected to anything. That part will be moved into the top left corner to make sure it is connected, which looks just fine, but I wanted to give a heads up about it. The thing that is giving me more issues is the branches. I have learned that unfortunately the branches do not work with stained glass, so I have been trying to adjust the design to work for stained glass without being TOO different. This is still a work in progress, though, so I will have to come back to share an image of the final design after it has been adjusted, just in case anyone feels like they need to switch pins for any reason.
In the end, nothing should be drastically different, but I wanted to be transparent about the manufacturing process and let everyone know those two had some problems! Sorry about that!
I will be back with another update after the 2 pins are approved so that I can share what the egg display will more accurately look like. In the meantime, the rest of the pins are in the works! :)
Hello Actoons nation! Just a quick update to let everyone know pin proofs have all been approved and the nurses are in production :) There will be no updates for some time until they are complete most likely!
In the meantime you can always check out my current pin campaign; Swan Lake!
Swan Lake is Currently LIVE!
Thanks so much everyone, I hope you are enjoying your summer!! 🖤Acton
Surveys have been sent out, so be on the lookout for those in your inboxes~
A lovely commenter suggested including the Baku pin as an unlockable add-on, and we loved the idea... so we did! If 3 people add the Baku pin as an add-on, then it will be officially unlocked as well!
Thank you all for your support this campaign. We can't wait to get these pins to you!
Hey everyone! I've got two options for the final unlock for this project. Once you have voted on this I'll be able to get things rolling! Took me a bit longer to settle than I anticipated, I tried a lot of ideas but ultimatly these are the only ones I was satisfied with the outcome of. I'm hoping you will be happy with them!
Both are larger designs, the retort will be gold metal and the tubes will sill be anodized(rainbow metal)!
16/20 people have added on Marie Buttons from the stretch goal addon! Only 4 more needed to have her successfully fly home with you! Thank you so much everyone for your support for my campaign, I’m so grateful <33 If you haven’t already, be sure to fill out your survey response to select which pins you want!
Letting you all know that smoke test went smoothly and that as expected, surveys were sent out last Saturday! Item counts have begun filtering through, but we've still got a handful of people yet to respond to surveys. For those of you that haven't completed your survey at this time, the deadline is on May 30th! I'll try and be sure to send out another update once we get closer to that day as well ;>
That's all for now! Stay adventurous, - Jacob and Tokii
The surveys have been sent out officially! Some of you have already filled them out (thank you so much!) but the rest of you: please try to get your survey filled before June 1st if you can help it! This is so we can get a more accurate count for the amount of pins we need to order, which we would like to do as soon as possible. Thanks!
You can find your survey in your email connected to Backerkit or do it on the site itself by clicking on your icon, "Your Pledges & Surveys", then going to the "Your Surveys" tab.
Shipping and card info will be collected now but charged at a later date, closer to when the pins have arrived. We'll make an update around a week before charging as a heads up!
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In the meantime, I have an upcoming project in the works for Pin Quest 2026 called Swan Lake! It will be updated more in the coming weeks- feel free to follow along!
