Since tariffs are easing up some, I am just gonna start producing these one by one I guess. I asked for the final version of Toby to just be sent to me for now so I can inspect and approve it.

I also want to say thank you to everyone who has been keeping me informed about their packages.

Once they are in the hands of the post office, there isn't much I can do but I try. 

Anyways, gotta prep for Momocon and figured I would let you guys know what I am doing. I won't get to skip tariffs going forward. I may restart the Kitsune sample because I am just not liking how it looks so I will post updates on that later when I am back. It's not going how I wanted or expected. It happens which is why samples before a project tend to be ideal since sampling slows a project down substantially.

I will get Toby preorders up (for anyone who missed him) after Momocon so you can still preorder on my site, but I don't want to list him before I see the revised sample and pay for production. Thank you for your patience!

I know this project has been slow but figured I should at least update you on what the backend looks like. I also don't think I have 193 backers but the send and remind thing is forever broken so I'll get a more accurate number as the project comes closer to completion.

I have not received any tariff bills so far from UPS or FedEx (Pintopia project is basically complete once the freebies arrive) so fingers crossed that continues to be the case. I will be setting aside the keychain plush in packages for this project so as things can be sent, they will be.

Someone else said their plush was tariffed $7,800 from UPS. Obviously this situation has been kinda evolving at a crazy pace so plush on my end may just be on hold. I tend to order 200 of each design since that is my manufacturers minimum. We currently need to get Toby, Owlbear, Kitsune, Fox and Gryphon into production. This tends to be around $4k-$5k per design. If we assume each large plush order will be $5k, that's $25k for the total and at 2.5x the cost I can't reasonably afford the tariffs on that even if we dip into personal funds to cover the difference. Anyways, I will keep you updated. This project will get completed. I want this stuff produced as much as you guys do lol.

Thank you for your patience!

If you missed Pintopia, while I am still waiting on remakes of Taco dragons and a few cats (I received enough to fill the project but not the full quantity I ordered), whatever extras I do have will be posted on site for purchase. I will try and keep my prices pretty close to what they are now anyways since I had already increased prices last year in anticipation for a lot of this. I will be using any extra funds raised from sales for making the plush from this project. My next convention is Momocon in Atlanta. My collab partner for Pintopia (Wisparia) will be there with me as well some come meet us if you'll be attending!

I think one of you from this project actually came up to me at Detour? Or maybe I am wrong about which project was backed lol but thank you for stopping by! I do appreciate it!

I am pre-printing some labels, so if you get a notification from Shopify, that is why. The packages arrive on Saturday for these, we'll inspect them and start sending some of them out. I have to go through things and set a bunch aside for later orders as well.

I'm still waiting on the tariff situation (and to see the bill for these) before I progress with anything else. I'll update once things calm down. Swear it's just a day by day thing as we go so fingers crossed this gets resolved sooner than later.

Idk anyone who can afford 145% of the cost of things on top of what they already have to pay. People barely want to pay what we already need to charge, so anything over that I just don't see happening.

Anyways.. :D Excited to finally at least get something out for this project. 

The current ETA is late May. That means I won't be able to ship any of them until June at earliest.

I know I recently updated but I am actually a little annoyed that I can keep submitting changes to the shape of the Kitsune and they are not getting adjusted. I am going to keep working on it but they messaged me before I went to bed last night with a "final sample" when we hadn't even perfected the head shape. I may start a sample somewhere else and see what I get as well.

Either way, they just embroidered things, ignored some of the markings and gave it black outlined eyebrows lol.

So you know what I like vs don't like:

Anyways, sorry for a more frustrated update than I expected to have. I'll do edits later either way and I will update this on the old post as well so it's all in one place.