Surveys will be going out on Tuesday!! (Well, assuming they are approved by then. Just submitted the surveys for review!!)
There are a few things to note about the surveys.
Series 1 pocket pals will have limited availability during them. We will be adding our remaining stock!
There are still 3 samples that are not finalized, and so the surveys will NOT lock and charge until said samples are finalized. These samples are - - Tiktalik (who i have yet to receive any phto of. should be next week.) - Rainbow raptor, who we are changing their wings - Apricot Raptor who should be done by wednesday.
Once these samples are finalized I will make another update, and lock surveys 72 hours after they are finalized. You are able to change and edit your pledge during the surveys as well.
We will have limited stock of salmon spino, spino jackets, blankets, and Ita bags during the surveys as well! Please know we wish we could stock more but just due to sheer constraint of space we can only offer what we have space for. We want to try and get a warehouse rather than a few storage units in 2026, so that we are able to offer more in the future! But living in a Rural area it is hard to find any warehouses for rent that are not insanely expensive or overly large. We also need one that hac AC and Heat, since we would pack order in it as well. But rest assured we are doing our best to try and expand to offer more!!
Once surveys are locked, and shipping charged we will begin printing out labels once the boxes arrive. So please do not be alarmed if you receive a tracking number, and it does not update for a long time. We want to work on labeling and sorting the different boxes so that when everything arrives the boxes are all already labeled, and we can just grab boxes and pack. Instead of needing to sort through all the box sizes, find the right size, label it, etc.
This is also to help us avoid losing or missplacing any labels when we have stacks of them to print. Having the labels already attached to their boxes will enable us to work much quicker and more effeciently as well. I will also send another update every time we drop off packages. The goal is to get atleast 1400 out during the first week of packing. As I have invited several friends who are also self employed to help pack from 9am-6pm daily for a week straight to hopefully mitigate the wait time for these orders. Since I know the whole process is delayed compared to where the timeline in the campaign had said we would be by now.
To avoid such a wait we are making all samples from now on before campaigns launch, so that everything is already ready before launching. Meaning we will only need to wait for production time, rather than sample creation as well. (3-4 months rather than 6+ months.) The exception to this is of course things like the jackets or Ita Bags, as they cost more to get samples of and I do not want to start those process unless we have funding for the bulk order of them.
We are also going to be sending out a mass email to all of the custom pal backers on monday as well. To get the ball rolling with that. I really appriciate everyone's support and patience with this campaign!! I am so excited for what the future of pocket pals holds!!
On January 22nd we will be launching Paranormal Pals!! Our cryptid campaign series, and the samples are currently in progress. The plan is to have the first five done by the campaign and the others in progress at the very least since Dinosaurs took a little longer than expected this will be the last campaign that samples are not ALL done before launch. But we do not foresee this slowing production as many have similar body shapes and should be way easier to produce the samples! As compared to the dinosaurs who were vastly different from each one!
And please consider joining the telegram community as well!! It has already been a huge hit with almost 100 members joining now!! There is all kinds of different topic conversation tabs, photo sharing area, and more!!
https://t.me/pocketpals/4
And also check out Lock stress monsters!! Our collab partner for the upcoming campaign!! Back both of them and get enamel pins!!
