Christmas came early for me this week (well it was supposed to arrive monday, but ill take what i can get)

Here is a new purple owlbear, (and brown and purple dice for reference)

What i did this time was provided them with the pantone of the purple dice we have, since i thought that was a pretty good purple)

pantone for reference

Now as you know, this wasnt our first purple owlbear, we had our prototype owlbear from our first manufacturer (below on the left), and as you can see that one is a little bit darker still.

And just because (with the fuchsi, below)
(Left to right) Old manufacture sample, new sample, wtf is this purple  sample

I think this new purple is far better,
now as you can see there is some shaping of the owlbears that needs to be corrected (esp looking at the cheast and heads), but

overall, I think this color is good. but what do you think? (Darker? Good? if we go darker then ill have to pick a new pantone (and additional sample cost).


Schedule
Also looks like me getting product will come in two waves (Freight leaving before Chinese New Year and after (which goes till march 3rd)
Feight Before is (this would likely arrive ~April 2026)

Freight After CNY is (likely arrive ~June 2026)

Accessories
In regards to the accessories update (they've confirmed they're going to finish their new sample on dec 22nd (so prolly arriving next after)

Tarrifs
one unxpected benefit from this taking so long is that at least the tarrifs are not 100-300% anymore. they're still elevated (i think in the 20-30% range, but faaar better than that madness we had earlier). 

Hope you have a great christmas holiday and more updates to come when i have them. 
Andreas