May 9 Update: Campaign surveys are pushed back but the overall project timeline is still on schedule!
Hey friends!
Thank you all so much for helping us fund the Banana Skonk and Frogwhale project! We're making the post-campaign survey right now and it will be sent out sometime next week (by May 9th)by May 16. Inside the survey, you'll be able to fill in your shipping address and, if you've ordered a collectable figurine, you'll be able to choose which figurine you'd like to receive!
Please fill out the survey as soon as you can! If you make a mistake or change your mind on the survey, you can always revisit and edit your response. Surveys will be locked once we receive the plushies and we're ready to ship them to you (hopefully around October), and we'll send out a reminder to review your survey before we lock it!
Thank you all for your support on this project so far! Every pledge now comes with a set of freebie stickers! They'll be made of waterproof, uv resistant vinyl and be about 2.5 inches tall.
Thank you so much for your support for Banana Skonk and Frogwhale, we were funded in less than 48 hours of launch, which was awesome!
During this time, I've been working on and perfecting a special additional pledge level for this crowdfunding project: Banana Skonk and Frogwhale Collectible Figurines!
I digitally sculpted them, 3d printed them, and then sealed them with UV resin to give them nice glossy finish. They make great little trinkets and I love making them! If you wanted more banana skonks/frogwhales, or if you're more of a figurine person than a plushie person, then this new pledge level/add-on will be perfect for you!
A few different angles of the figures!
Family portrait of the plushies and figurines together!
As many of you already know, the tariff situation has made it so that we weren't able to offer some of the stretch goals that we had originally planned for so I wanted to see if there was anything I could make at home! I hope you guys like the little figurines!
Thank you! Derptiles
The figurines meeting our real skink, Boss.
It's with a heavy heart that, due to the recent tariff uncertainty, we are no longer able to offer the BIG Frogwhale in this campaign. We had originally planned for BIG Frogwhale to be a core part of the campaign when we first started designing with our manufacturer back in mid-2024 and had included an additional out-of-pocket budget for tariffs, however the tariffs have since far exceeded our expectations and now it's anyone's guess as to how much it will continue to increase.
While searching for a different manufacturer is a possibility, we would have to go through the design process again and that could easily take another 2-3 months. That doesn't include the time it would take to find and vet a new manufacturer + shipping, so altogether the timing would mean that the release of BIG Frogwhale would be many months (possibly even more than a year) after the Baby Frogwhale and Banana Skonk have been sent out.
That doesn't mean we're going to give up hope on the BIG Frogwhale though! We're going to try everything we can to bring BIG Frogwhale to life, and we plan on having a separate campaign for it when all the pieces fall into place. If this is something you'd also like to see happen, we'd really appreciate if you left a comment below!
