KaijuRiot
CREATOR
about 1 month ago
Project Update: HUGE NEWS FOR YOU + NEW GLORP PIN DESIGN AVAILABLE
OKAY heres the breakdown.
FIRST, Good stuff!
Pintopia: Cryptid Critters
This campaign was pre-planned before all of this.. went down I'm proud to be invited back to Pintopia and working again with
Wyldefell Woods Click her name to check out the campaign !
This is going to sound weird but I hope this will make sense after you read it, if you seen the recent Cryptid Critters update you've seen this snippet already.
CONVENTION APPEARANCE
I was going to be attending anyways in Artist Alley, but I got an booth upgrade to be in the dealers, so I'll have a full table at MCFC, My first ever time at my Home State Furry Con! I'll be accepting Commissions, and have merch of course haha.
MOTORCITY FURCON
Feb 13-15th
Detroit, MI
With this Convention we hope to use the funds to smooth out Jellystars campaign... which i just found out the quote ALSO included the werewolves which.. is actually REALLY good for us!
CONVENTION APPEARANCE
I was going to be attending anyways in Artist Alley, but I got an booth upgrade to be in the dealers, so I'll have a full table at MCFC, My first ever time at my Home State Furry Con! I'll be accepting Commissions, and have merch of course haha.
MOTORCITY FURCON
Feb 13-15th
Detroit, MI
With this Convention we hope to use the funds to smooth out Jellystars campaign... which i just found out the quote ALSO included the werewolves which.. is actually REALLY good for us!
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Now what does this mean?
Let me Explain
We vend at conventions, thats were a lot of the funds we had come from, doing these backerkits is a fairly new thing for us, especially this past year we have been very very thankful for the patience and understanding with everyone with the bumps in the road as myself (Baja) is disabled and cannot do much physically and with my partner in crime (Hp)'s limited time its hard to get the time aside packing done. We are in the future depending on campaign success will be turning to fulfillment services to ensure that you will get your backer rewards in an timely manner.
I'm getting a bit off track, there are conventions in winter but its for the most part the end of prime convention season, we lacked conventions for 3 months, and was betting it all on Midwest Furfest 2025. Which was our first MFF, which was a very good experience but with issues with logistics of vendor to attendee ratio and other factors outside of our control many vendors were affected including us loosing a lot in sales as this is one of the largest furcons in the US. Being it relatively closer to us (we drove) and stayed somewhere relatively cheap. We thought we would make an healthy amount after the quote was given to us.. Unfortunately it wasn't the case, we didn't make baseline it was pretty bad like I said it hit practically all the vendors no matter how popular people were collectively all sales were hit some peoples 1/3 of income relies on this convention and didnt break that so thats how bad it was. TO BE CLEAR WE ARE NOT UPSET AT ANYONE OR ANY CONVENTION/CONVENTION LEADERSHIP, we are just bummed out because we hoped that this would've covered everything.
We kept getting denied/waitlisted for conventions, which is a normal thing for pretty much all vendors especially since so many apply now compared pre-covid which is awesome that more are joining in <3 I started July of 2019.. so.. yeah.. But this caused issue of income for the manufacturing. I still have been getting merch items for the campaign when I'm able, like the plush buttons,UFO Pin banner,the stickers, stickersheets, carabiners (manu made tiny ones so i had reorder big ones that are shipping to me right now so i dont what to do with tiny ones now ). So there is progress going on just the big ticket items (plush/pins) are the ones caught up in the mess.
The enamel pins I have a quote on, the spec sheets are made for all of them, I just need to put half down. I wanted to prioritize Plush Production first and then the pins because I know the pins are much more manageable to afford and that I have a longer relationship of beyond 5 years with my current rep.
We've tried loan after loans "pre-approved" to be just rejected or rude people on the phone threatening my partner with LITERAL aggression of lowering his creditscore if he couldnt answer the full phone call while at his manual labor job... Its been painful months and letters and paperwork.. And we dealt with 1K of car repairs and some medical bills which.. you all helped with because of the go fund me and we cant thank you all enough. We are still -$400 or so but we been trying our best to get back on our feet.
We vend at conventions, thats were a lot of the funds we had come from, doing these backerkits is a fairly new thing for us, especially this past year we have been very very thankful for the patience and understanding with everyone with the bumps in the road as myself (Baja) is disabled and cannot do much physically and with my partner in crime (Hp)'s limited time its hard to get the time aside packing done. We are in the future depending on campaign success will be turning to fulfillment services to ensure that you will get your backer rewards in an timely manner.
I'm getting a bit off track, there are conventions in winter but its for the most part the end of prime convention season, we lacked conventions for 3 months, and was betting it all on Midwest Furfest 2025. Which was our first MFF, which was a very good experience but with issues with logistics of vendor to attendee ratio and other factors outside of our control many vendors were affected including us loosing a lot in sales as this is one of the largest furcons in the US. Being it relatively closer to us (we drove) and stayed somewhere relatively cheap. We thought we would make an healthy amount after the quote was given to us.. Unfortunately it wasn't the case, we didn't make baseline it was pretty bad like I said it hit practically all the vendors no matter how popular people were collectively all sales were hit some peoples 1/3 of income relies on this convention and didnt break that so thats how bad it was. TO BE CLEAR WE ARE NOT UPSET AT ANYONE OR ANY CONVENTION/CONVENTION LEADERSHIP, we are just bummed out because we hoped that this would've covered everything.
We kept getting denied/waitlisted for conventions, which is a normal thing for pretty much all vendors especially since so many apply now compared pre-covid which is awesome that more are joining in <3 I started July of 2019.. so.. yeah.. But this caused issue of income for the manufacturing. I still have been getting merch items for the campaign when I'm able, like the plush buttons,UFO Pin banner,the stickers, stickersheets, carabiners (manu made tiny ones so i had reorder big ones that are shipping to me right now so i dont what to do with tiny ones now ). So there is progress going on just the big ticket items (plush/pins) are the ones caught up in the mess.
The enamel pins I have a quote on, the spec sheets are made for all of them, I just need to put half down. I wanted to prioritize Plush Production first and then the pins because I know the pins are much more manageable to afford and that I have a longer relationship of beyond 5 years with my current rep.
We've tried loan after loans "pre-approved" to be just rejected or rude people on the phone threatening my partner with LITERAL aggression of lowering his creditscore if he couldnt answer the full phone call while at his manual labor job... Its been painful months and letters and paperwork.. And we dealt with 1K of car repairs and some medical bills which.. you all helped with because of the go fund me and we cant thank you all enough. We are still -$400 or so but we been trying our best to get back on our feet.
NOW what is good about this??????
Scroll back up to that convention appearance.. How did that happen?
Well I was originally was going to be in the artist alley which.. had a lot of interesting restrictions but I was suddenly taken off the waitlist a few days ago!
Instead of a half table for a half a day sale, we get 6 feet of table all weekend with the appropriate height restrictions! We can also go home and replenish stock and not just have whats in our suitcases!
Getting into Motorcity Furcon's Dealers hall...
-We are NOT paying for a hotel or extensive gas
- Parking Garage has in and out privileges ((so we can get lunch elsewhere to lower costs))
Our overhead is
Table cost and 2 badges.. WHICH IS REALLY GOOD!!
Well I was originally was going to be in the artist alley which.. had a lot of interesting restrictions but I was suddenly taken off the waitlist a few days ago!
Instead of a half table for a half a day sale, we get 6 feet of table all weekend with the appropriate height restrictions! We can also go home and replenish stock and not just have whats in our suitcases!
Getting into Motorcity Furcon's Dealers hall...
-We are NOT paying for a hotel or extensive gas
- Parking Garage has in and out privileges ((so we can get lunch elsewhere to lower costs))
Our overhead is
Table cost and 2 badges.. WHICH IS REALLY GOOD!!
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We will make enough to start production, we have a fallback last resort but no matter what. I've been stressing about production of these plush.
I've been so upset, tense, I want this to be in production, I want to fulfill everything we have. I WISH i had more updates to give!
I REALLY AM GOING TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE!!
even if it means to take drastic measures
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We will make enough to start production, we have a fallback last resort but no matter what. I've been stressing about production of these plush.
I've been so upset, tense, I want this to be in production, I want to fulfill everything we have. I WISH i had more updates to give!
I REALLY AM GOING TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE!!
even if it means to take drastic measures
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Theres also a back up... back up
yeah thats right.. A back up for all back ups.
. cryptid critters crew knows this one
The plush quote.. included the werewolves and I did'nt realize that at ALL..
I got the sample made but my rep.. put him in the bulk pricing pricing and never removed them so I know exactly how much wolves will cost. I will have to make another sample or two if we get to nightcrawler and safety testing for both designs. But we may have funds to combine the pin & plush orders for both campaigns at once.
oh god the boxes of aliens and cryptids in my house.. (jk)
This will save shipping funds, and production money by producing all at once. If this is possible it may take longer but will be more cost effective.
This may be determined by the Pre-order store for Crytpid critters (which will have jellystar plush available and ALIEN plush goal of (40) (so will all other not unlocked cryptid plush goals)
Sorry for the rambling and scrambling I've been awake pretty stressed since 2am its almost 7am.
I just deeply wanted to THANK YOU EVERYONE ESPEICALLY YOU BACKERS for this mess, I'm still new to all of this plush production, backerkit and Now that I know to raise the goals (i feel so bad doing that tbh) so we dont have this mess again. I hope for a more pleasant experience for the future. Thank you so much again everyone and Have an wonderful week. Thank you for the support!
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