great news! Wave One has landed at port! Once it gets out of customs, it'll get on a truck and get to the warehouse, in the meantime. In the mean time, ill be sorting through orders to see which can be fulfilled immediately so we can start getting rewards out.
GAMA - industry insider info Also, Two weeks ago was the GAMA Trade Show, which is the Tabletop Game Association (previously known as the Game Manufacturers Association, but expanded to all things tabletop industry). This is a convention mostly for FLGS and publishers-creators, where publishers like Wizards, Paizo, Warhammer and other bigger publishers show off their upcoming products to retail stores. For me, i just had a small booth in a large expo hall to show off our plushes (prototypes) and some of our books. Overall, it was a good show, and talking to retailers really gives me a lot of insight of how they sell plushes, and what we can do better. I did find that retailers were receptive to the keychains (as they should worked well for people who were not large plush people). I was really surprised that many were also excited for the accessories (as in ttrpgs ancillary product is usually 50% or less of the reception of the core). Main bits of feedback I heard was about shelf displays, number of plushes per box, accessory packaging (which is something i need to look at), and that it isnt evident that there is a magnet in the plush (but they love it once they find out it has it, so ill need to look into ways of making that more apparent. Oh! and for some reason,retailers really are not happy with squishables
Wave 2 Manufacturing Workers only recently came back, so I've started communication back and forth to make sure final details are nailed down. Slated for after CNY we had included more production of our colored owlbears (snowy, mossy, charcoal) so that we would have sufficient quantities for fulfillment. In addition, I am waiting for confirmation on fixes to some of the accessories (like magnet placement) before those begin manufacturing. I should be getting a status update on those things soon, and will be posting when i have more information.
