It’s closed!

That’s extraordinary.

Thank you for being into space and cats.

All pins and stretch goals AND my daughter’s Planet X are officially going into production. I’ll be posting updates as we get manufacturing proofs and move toward fulfillment.

For now — truly — thank you.

Thomas Romer
aka Chop Shop Studio

Glad to have them all done days before the campaign ends! This is the last pin to be designed.

To some, Pluto is still a planet… but then what about Eris? We couldn’t leave Pluto out of the run and I would never include Pluto in a series without giving Eris equal measure. It is just as large, may have more than one moon… it is just more recently discovered. 

So we decided to put them together on one pin to represent the Kuiper Belt and dwarf planets everywhere!

We have been tracking our climb under the Cat-Tastic banner and its been a ride. There are 14 projects and after the first 24 hours we were at #11. Then about a week later we were chasing the #8 spot and that took about a week to do. But this past week we have been able to move past four other projects to #4 and the #3 spot is only 6 backers away.

This makes us fell like maybe we are picking up new followers thanks to Pintopia '26 as our usual places for outreach were mostly used up after the first three days. 

#1 is like 120 away, so… that is not happening. ;)

Btw, if you join two other Cat-Tastic banners with ours, you get that free Comet Cat pin. Competition is healthy, but I still want to help our fellow creatives.

We also added a Outer Planets set for those of you who prefer the more exotic places in our Solar System. Included Jupiter, Saturn and the newly designed Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto/Eris cat pins. 

Mercury. Venus. Earth. Mars. Jupiter. Saturn. Uranus. Neptune AND Pluto/Eris. Fully unlocked. Fully designed to look like cats and ready to be produced. This is the only time they will be licking each other, cozy in a snuggle-up at campaign pricing.

Backers of this and any two other Pintopia '26 Cat-Tastic campaigns will receive yet another FREE bonus pin. Yup. This tier disappears when the campaign ends too.

Banging them out! Neptune is done and I’m really hapy with it.

The two I was most worried about might be my favorites. Uranus came out great and although Neptune has the spot and the large moon Triton — I still wasn’t sure what to do with all the others already doing everything else. So very happy about this and how much it really feels like Neptune.

It has already been added to the rewards and add-ons/

I like it! I was worried Uranus might be a bit bland…

When Voyager passed by in 1986, Uranus was in its quiet season — just a smooth, blue-green ball with no visible features. But thanks to Hubble and Webb, we now know it’s far more dynamic. So we based her look on those more recent observations. And those vertical rings? Perfect setup for a trick-cat hoop jump!

Look at that symbol [  ♅  ]. Crazy. 

BTW: That yellow dot is the orbit of Saturn. All the other planets including Jupiter are ALL hidden behind the cat. The inner planets at this scale are actually too small to depict as four separate planet orbits. They would be a dot about as big as Saturn is shown here.