Hi again! Last update on this hopefully - After reading over some of your comments, I had one more idea for critter's tail and wanted to propose that and let you know exactly what kind of issues we're looking at for the original tail.

As far as the new idea, I thought in order to avoid any white showing through on the tail, we could do 3 applique stripes, and sublimation print on half of each stripe: so an orange stripe with a dark pink sublimated at the base of the tail, a yellow stripe with a green stripe sublimated on the second half of the stripe, and a blue stripe with a purple stripe sublimated on the tip of the tail. I still need to pitch this idea to my manu to see if it's feasible, but I thought this would be a good middle ground and would make the sublimation printing look a bit better, since instead of white visible under the colors, it would be an orange undertone for the pink, yellow undertone for the green, and blue undertone for the purple.

The issue that we're likely to encounter with the original design is the stripes not matching up at all and/or deforming the tail shape on over 60% of the plushies. because it is so so small and fiddly, even though my manu has expert makers working on them, it'd be impossible to avoid on all of them. This is something I'd like to avoid because I will loose a lot of our funding for other rainbeanies on having to order extras of critter to compensate for this and then having to sell the excess of B grade plush at a lower price.

Please check out the poll and let me know what you think! :)

Hello hello! 2 things I wanted to update you on that will be adjusted before production + 1 on thing I'd like your feedback on:

And then the final detail: my manufacturer is worried that the large amount of applique on critter's tail may not turn out well for bulk production, so we are thinking of either switching it to 3 colors like taffy's tail, or switching it to sublimation printing instead of applique stripes. I wanted to check on your opinion on this before proceeding with one or the other!

To show you an example of what the sublimation printing looks like, here's a picture of a scrapped rainbeanies character who had sublimation printed rainbow ears.

After we get this detail sorted out we'll be ready to start production! :D

- Han

Hello all! On the survey I forgot to add a SKU for the bug sticker our wonderful guest artist bug2go made! I've updated this and it should appear on the pledge questions and as an option for an add-on for the guest artist stickers. If you'd rather not go in and update your survey, you can shoot over an email to [email protected] and we can go in and switch it out for you manually!! :D please note there's a bit of an email queue so you might not hear back for a bit but we are consistently working through it!

I also wanted to note the distinction between the original and rainbeanies variant of the woolblossom sticker: the rainbeanies variant features the blue coloration of cookie and the original is his typical brown :D

Thank you so much for filling out your surveys! We are at about 78% survey completion which is pretty awesome! I'd love to get to about 80% soon and then I can get numbers together to start production :D We've also managed to fund two additional mini pins of Beau and Beans and are one order away from funding Ruby, and three away from rainbow!! :D 

Do let me know if you have any other questions regarding the survey! Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! :D