Pocket pals is back again!! This time featuring so many adorable cryptids from around the globe!! These weighted, soft plush friends are just waiting to cause mischief with you!! This mini series is full of fun!
Welcome to Pocket Pals Series 3!! Paranormal Pals!!
What exactly is series three of pocket pals? Well, it is a small collection of different cryptids from around the world!! Spooky and mysterious turned adorable and squishy in this weighted plush campaign!!
This is our third campaign for these plushies, and with the past two doing so well we are able to continue to grow our cast of adorable cuties even further!! With the help of our team, who you will be introduced to below, we have been able to not only include the plush friends in this campaign but also things like blankets, exclusive Enamel Pin sets and keychains!! We are so excited for the possibilities of this campaign, and we have plenty of stretch goals for it to achieve too with your help!!
Salty little salmon started out as a silly 3D model made by Lily. After being inspired by other weighted plush toys. She wanted to create a silly little plush that could be loved by everyone, and could be used to help those with social anxiety, something she suffers with as well. Having often bringing small plush keychains or trinkets with her into crowded places to help calm nerves, she hoped these small weighted friends could do the same for others! Happily able to say so many people have told us how these little friends help them with anxiety, or bring them joy during their work day with them on their desks.
So after talking with Soja, and sending them the model they worked on creating the first sketches and eventually final artwork for the salmon! Which is shown below. Soja went on to help create most of the first series, and a lot of the second series linearts as well!! And some of the finished designs too. Working with Kugo and Mellow on those that Soja did not work on. It has been an incredible process to get to work together with friends to bring these adorable guys to life!!
After creating the salmon, and finding success in them at Midwest Furfest in 2024, selling out in just two out of the four days of the con, She decided to continue working with soja to create even more fun critters to bring smiles to so many other people. Especially after seeing the numerous tweets from those who got their own salmon at the con we wanted to be able to give everyone a wider variety of critters!!
The original Pocket pal!
We have ran two very successful campaigns so far, and really hope for this one to be just as successful so that we can bring to you all of the wonderful designs that our team worked on!! From fish, to dragons to dinosaurs we have done it all! And now expanding into even more cuties.
Take these little guys everywhere with you!! I personally have two of my favorite Pals sitting up on the dash in my truck, they travel with me everywhere and I love them. The more we make with these, the more excited we are to continue this series and I sincerely hope that you will consider helping us bring to life these new spooky little guys!!
This was our final group from the last campaign, Prehistoric Pals! We hope to be able to continue to grow our collectable little friends bigger and bigger!!
So for this campaign we have just a little over 15 different designs for it!!
Usually we will have a lot of community voted on stretch goals, however in an attempt for keeping the shipping timeline shorter than the last two campaigns we won’t be doing any voted designs. However this will return in Prophecy Pals (launching August 2026) !!
Below are the main goals of this campaign, the first ones that will be unlocked!
Wow! This is our first ever collab for campaigns! It’s been such an honor to be a part of Pintopia 2026, and to work with my friend Shottsy on this collab!!
Their Lock Stress Monster squeeze ball plushies are absolutely beyond adorable, they have been working hard for a long time to build their own plush brand starting with their huge dream keeper dragons!!
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We are working together on this project with enamel pins! One for each of our respective campaigns, to get them all you have to do is back both of our campaigns!
My pin is created by Mello, one of my talented team members!
And the Comfort Kingdom pin is made by Shottsy!
Both pins will be about 2 inches in size! And on the back of mine we will have a comfort kingdom x pocket pal logo embossed onto it!
Stretch goals!! While we won’t have any community voted designs we will have some stretch goals!! In the form of already designed plushies as well as some oversized ones!!
If we are able to surpass these, then the extra will go into getting larger bulk order made, a new warehouse since we are quickly expanding past our couple storage units I have, and samples for prophecy pals!!
more to come depending on funding!!
Below are some work in progress photos of the sample stuffies!! Each of them cuter than the last, which one is your favorite?
In the beginning Pocket Pals was only ran by me and my close friend Soja. We ran the first round of plushies, the salmon, just on our own! And it was so much fun we decided to continue going at it!!
Since the first campaign where Kugo was added as a concept artist for the dragons in it, we have now expanded into a total of four of us on the pocket pal team!! Plus my wonderful mother, who helps pack the orders we get! Bless her!!
I wanted to give a little introduction to each of the members of our team, so i asked them to give me their own introduction paragraphs so you guys could get to know the faces behind the pals!!
(Some of them didn’t want to share their human face!)
Lily I have been creating custom costumes and products since late 2019, and it was such a fun thing to do in college. After graduating I went into medical research for eyes, and continued working in the evenings on Lily Moon Designs. Even with leading my own projects, and working on publishing a paper the side job was what I was slowly enjoying more and more. But I never imagined I would be declining to renew my contract with the lab to run it full time. But it has been an absolute dream and has allowed me to meet so many amazing people. Some of whom have become my closest friends, this includes my friends who help with pocket pals!! In 2024 Soja, who had already been working with me as a product designer, created the first pocket pal. And it went on from there! Now we have a whole community on telegram who all talk and support each other. I am beyond blessed and thankful that i have been able to do this as a job! And hope to continue for many years!
Soja Hi there! I’m Tempered. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Lilymoon Suits and its wonderful owner for quite some time. During that journey, I’ve served as one of the head artists for the Pocket Pal campaign, along with contributing to several other creative projects. I’ve been pursuing art professionally since 2016, and I’m always excited to keep growing, learning, and exploring new creative horizons. As a side note I also love and adore studying fursuit making and fursuit history on my own time so to say this fandom holds a small passion for me would be an understatement. Thank you for reading!
I am currently a senior in college, majoring in Digital Media and Animation, and I have been working freelance for about 8 years (Thanks to the furry fandom!). With help from my long term friend, the owner of Lilymoon.Designs, I have been able to expand my reach with my art and grow as an independent artist. My goal is to graduate and become a jack-of-all-trades within the animation community, and create cute designs for merchandise!
I don't just create references for stuffed animals though! If you're interested in getting art of your own character, check out my socials for commission information:
https://linktr.ee/KugoTheDragon
Mello Hi there! I'm Mellocove, freelance and concept artist for Lilymoon design! I've been an artist in the furry fandom since around 2016, and working for Lilymoon since 2023. I've been very lucky to get to where I am, and I'll forever be grateful that I get to do my dream job and work with such a great team!
You can find my socials here!: https://mellocove.carrd.co/
Below is a rough timeline for this campaign!! Please be aware that while we will do our best to have everything done within these dates things can delay progress. But you will be updated every step of the way!!
Color key
Below is shipping informations!
**Massive note due to previous campaign. Countries like Australia, Poland, Etc have been closer to $50-$70 for a single plush, over 100 for more than three so keep this in mind when backing!! It could end up being high shipping.
This section is just to let everyone know that we have a growing telegram community chat!! There are different chanels that you can talk in, and you can even make more if you want for specific stuff!!
We have a photo sharing section, a suggestion section, general conversation and more!! You dont have to keep the conversation just related to pocket pals either. Anyone can talk about anything as long as you are respectful and kind! We would love to have you join!!
https://t.me/pocketpals/1
Here is the link!!
Below are some posts from previous customers too!!
📌 Pintopia 2026
Pintopia 2026 / Pins • Plushies • Ita Bags
This project is participating in the BackerKit event Pintopia 2026, a celebration of enamel pin, plushie and ITA bag project featuring an all-star lineup of creators crowdfunding together from January 22 – February 12, 2026.
