Seven's Magpie wolf have finally arrived! I'm not in love with them. Almost all the noses are placed too high and the ears are smaller than I wanted. I'm definitely done working with Seven's company. I hope to maybe find a different manufacturer who can do a better job with faces, but keep the body the same one day! I do love how buttery soft and floppy they are.
This one has one of the best faces of the bunch :/
Anyways, I want to start fulfillment next week! Probably on Friday.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SWITCH YOUR MAGPIE WOLF TO TINA'S VERSION, MESSAGE ME BEFORE THURSDAY THE 17TH. [email protected] I also am not opposed to canceling and refunding if you do not like this plush at all and don't want Tina's version. Again, just email me before the 17th, I'm easy to work with :)
After September 17th I will fulfill all orders as marked and no changes can be made.
Thank you everyone! And sorry for the long delay in fulfillment.
Finally! Tina's Magpie wolf and coyote pigeon have arrived and are waiting patiently for me to start opening and packaging them.
This month is crazy for me so fulfillment will be SLOW! I also don't want to hurt myself again so please be forgive me. You've all been so patient and I thank you so much!
Overall Magpie wolf looks awesome. The muzzle is maybe a little fatter and shorter than I'd like, but otherwise he's good!
Coyote Pigeons were stuffed in smaller boxes so I'm having a harder time with them. They need to be shaken and fluffed up again, but they are SO squished it takes about a day for them to come back to normal. This is them after sitting for over 24 hours. Their wings have taken the longest to come back to normal. Yours may have wrinkles in it, but once they get enough oxygen they should bounce back to normal! You can really manipulate the fur around the eyes to change their expression! This plushie below is the same plushie as the one above The biggest thing that bothers me is the paw sculpting. I did NOT know that you'd see the thread on the bottom of the paws. It's on all of them (Magpie too) to varying degrees. My prototypes are not like this :( I will be talking to Tina about it to see what she says. I don't like it at all and I'm so sorry to everyone else that is bothered by it. Another thing is a lot of the noses can be twisted slightly? Which has been nice to fix the crooked noses for me, but I can see it bothering others. And the black around the eyes can also be manipulated on some which is great to fix expressions! But again, some people might be bothered by it for which I apologize. Ears are not perfectly matched on any of them really. My B Grade piles are mostly based on eye placement, how crooked the nose is, holes, and other strange defects.
Anyways, when you get your plush give it a nice shake and a good brushing! These guys have long fur and it kind of gets tucked in the seams and especially around the eyes. I'm going to try and NOT touch them all up before they go out or fulfillment will take me forever. There may be random loose string that just needs cut too and some plastic that can be pulled off from the embroidered paw pads.
These guys really are impressive in person! I will have extras, probably mostly B grade. They will go up on my website after fulfillment is complete. If you have ANY problems with your order once you receive it please reach out to me at [email protected]
Hey everyone! Update on Tina's wolves for those waiting on them.
Tina's Magpie wolf shipped over 2 weeks ago and will probably take another 2-3 weeks to reach me. Here's pics of the mass produced ones before they were packaged!
Tina's coyote pigeon's have JUST shipped, but with a faster shipping method so they should also arrive in 2-3 weeks. The reason they took longer is I had them redo ALL the eyes. The black parts around the eyes were angled too far down so they all looked a little sad/dopey. Here's the before pic
And now they all look more like this one below! I got sent a video to confirm and they look SO much better in my opinion. I feel a little bad because you can't reuse plastic safety eyes (from my understanding once they are put together, they don't come apart without breaking). So that was the delay in them being finished!
Totally worth it in my opinion! I'm very happy with the pics and videos and can't wait to see them in person. I have close to 110 of these larger wolves ordered so give me time to package them when they arrive. There will be extras available to purchase after I complete fulfillment :)
Seven's Magpie wolves should be finished soon! I just reached out and will update this post with what they say. UPDATE, they should be finished by the end of this month
Thank you everyone for being so patient. Waiting really is the hardest part!
*Edit to add* Tina's coyote pigeon and Magpie wolf are SO close to completion. They should ship to me in the next 2 weeks and then it will be another 30+ days till I receive them. Only Seven's Coyote pigeon has arrived. Seven's Magpie wolf is in production. I may poke them for an update, but they only just started production a couple weeks ago.
There's only 11 of you, but I received Seven's coyote pigeons today! They are pretty cute, super soft, and the faces are sweet. Lots of B grades, but plenty of A's. The only problem is their hang tags have not arrived yet! They are supposed to be shipping with my horse pins, but those wont arrive for probably another 2-3 weeks. My question is, do you want your plushie now?? And then I can mail your tag in a letter envelope later? It would only cost me an extra $9.50 so I'm happy to do it to get people their plushies faster :)
And here are pictures! A video is posted to my instagram
I LOVE how big they got the ears. They don't have anything in them to firm them up so they are super flimsy and floppy. They can stand up on their own though! And the only thing I don't love is the embroidered mouth. I like it, but I don't like how it squishes the fur under it? I don't know, it's not lined up as perfectly with the seams as I'd like. I think maybe next time I'll see if they can do the mouths by hand (not embroidered) like how Tina does the fox mouths :) I also feel like the tails are placed on weird, but I'm also just being super picky. He is cute overall! I would buy one, lol.
I really want to put him up on my website when I finish fulfilling preorders, but again, I have no hang tags yet! So extras will be available in roughly 2-3 weeks :)
And thank you everyone for the website orders this week! I feel like I'm in the green finally and it's such a relief <3
Please give me 1-2 weeks to fulfill these orders. Maybe longer if there's a lot of interest. I'm going to go a bit slower to protect my hands this time.
And if you want to order a B Grade, but are scared of what defects it'll have, just message for a small selection of B grades to choose from! This will definitely make fulfillment take longer, but I'm happy to do it. I have A LOT of B Grades. There are no A Grade Blue Jays or Violet Budgies available. I need to save those for the people who haven't finished their survey yet.
Thank you everyone! I'm working steadily on getting my 2nd plush campaign ready and I have a list of things for my manufacturer to watch out for next time during mass production. I want the next series to be even better!
