The rainbow duo showed up at my home while I was in San Jose for Further Confusion (thanks to everyone who popped by to say hi and check out the Weighted Wonder sample :D) and look at em! They're charmers!

I think they came out so good!
Super happy with them and their sparkles are genuinely so rainbow in real life! It's hard to capture on still camera and even on video, but I'll try when I have my lightbox more properly set up!

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Some people seemed to assume, and it may have been my wording, that the last post was the FINAL prototype of the Gold Dragon and panicked changed their selection.

I assure that was NOT the final version and I have, based on feedback, both from backers and fellow designer peers, do a 2nd draft prototype with the main body/head/legs/wing fingers as a minky fur like all the other dragons

This is the reason we do prototypes, to see what works and what doesn't. Converting a piece of art to a final draft product has hurdles most people don't imagine, including, especially in this case, limited color choices within the range a particular producer makes.  Mixing a different producer's faux fur or laser fabric to access more color ranges comes with it's own set of problems and I try to avoid that as much as possible.

2nd draft will include a fur + the laser fabric for belly and horn with a more gold filigree embroidery since I felt the first was too dark.
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Reveal of final Warmable Wonder prototype will be delayed due to a safety issue found with our last (and thought, final) prototype and we are having to go back to the drawing board a little on fixing the warming element and it's implementation.  

I rather delay a reveal and ascertain something is both safe and easy to use than rush it. I doubt this delay will affect the actual fulfillment schedule, but if it does, it would only be by a few weeks/potentially a month and that's a small miracle in any campaign as large as this lol.
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Nipping this question in the bud because it is THE most repeated question (and is now answered in the FAQ), if you opted to pay with AfterPay, you will NOT receive your Backer Survey until the balance is paid.

For most of you that will mean in April, which will give you weeks to select your color(s), buy any add-ons, etc, before fulfillment begins, so there is no rush to do this.

Additionally, if you purchased add-ons, your card will not be charged until surveys are locked, so do not be surprised when those charges go through later on in early spring.

A little update for you all covering a little bit of everything! Thank you!!!!

Behold!

That said, a small note

For International Backers:
While a majority of countries have weight-based postage prices already filled out, ones that fall outside of the EU, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South American, and Asian countries will appear as an artificially inflated "$500 USD postage" catch all.

Why? To force a backer to reach out so we can manually quote them, as the countries that fall outside the nearly 100 covered often have much higher rates than can be anticipated by weight alone. Not $500 high, but this is meant to make a backer stop, pause, and reach out.  

This is the policy/method encouraged by BackerKit and part of the point of the smoke test, so we can potentially catch any re-occuring countries that can have a new weight-based postage table written up so that there is less of a need to reach out one-by-one.

That said, this is language we do not tolerate in reply to this issue or any other:

" WHY IS SHIPPING $500? I'm not paying that bullshit. No. Fuck this campaign!""
-actual email sent by a backer

This is not acceptable behavior and will not be tolerated verbiage going forward. There have already been multiple instances of harassment on email and DMs as well. This person's pledge (and others) has been cancelled and refunded and I will not allow them to re-place their order if they were to try. 

These are stuffed animals. These are not your life saving medication order. There is no need to be so aggressive on any matter, especially ones that happen because of a misunderstanding of the campaign policies.  We are not Walmart, we are not Amazon, and even their customer service reps do not deserve the level of anger and rudeness that seems "acceptable" these days.  

We do our best to provide the best service we can, but we are an EXTREMELY small team that is 90% me, 5% BackerKit staff, and 5% Leah, a part time employee - as well as occasional paid help, though I am hoping to add proper employees as we grow in the coming year. 

Shouting at us will do nothing but get your pledge/purchase/etc cancelled and refunded. We are people, not a wall to vent your frustrations at.  Please keep this in mind going forward when reaching out for assistance, which me, Leah (my assistant who you might have been contacted by if you ever reached out to the official Weighted Wildlife email) and BackerKit both.