I don't have a ton of extra Buster & Murphy plush of any sort so I'm mailing everything I can for now. I am going to be heavily relying on sales from the Toby plush, remaining Buster & Murphy (large) and keychain plush + any of my pins and stickers to fund the rest of this project.
Originally I wanted to order extras of each design but I am going to have to ask my manufacturer to go under the normal MOQ of 200 in order to do that I think.
I have bags of orders set to the side that I can't mail because they either did not pay at all, plan to pay or the shipping didn't charge so I could mark an order as locked (this is how I kinda keep track of where I am at with things to know I moved the order to Shopify where it can stare me down every day).
Have this super fun picture of me working this morning. I leave for Kitsune Kon on Thursday so I have to stop working at some point today to actually pack for the event, but I think I can knock out all the remaining keychain orders at least. The large Buster & Murphy plush have already either been sent or set aside for their respective orders.
If you didn't fill out your survey at all and you wanted one, you may have to pick something else or be willing to wait for a reorder on them. When I ordered them in 2024 I never expected to run out to begin with so quickly. It's a good and bad problem to have lol.
Left box is stuff to be sent today, right box is stuff that is set aside for reasons and papers on the table are partially filled orders.
I am going to try and work with someone more familiar with plush to get the Kitsune sample correct. I really want it to be perfect and this was the downside to me going yeah sure let's do this without having samples ready. = (
Either way when the Kitsune looks how I want it to look, that means the Fox will as well (theoretically). I think the Gryphon and Owlbear had fewer revisions needed overall, so fixing the main problem ones will be important.
Since I have nothing else fun to post, I will share my confirmed order numbers because data! :D
If I can reduce the minimum of these to like 50 of each design (except Kitsune where I would need to order more), then I can probably finish this project more quickly but I won't have many additional plush to sell.
Also please fill out your surveys if you haven't!
Ideally I can make some keychain plush of each of the larger designs. For now, I am throwing up a poll about Toby! I'll probably do this with each of the designs as they get finished and I find out how well they translate to mini versions without being printed. I really hate that Murphy had to be printed and I want to argue with my manufacturer a little more about that whole thing. I don't hate him but printed plush just aren't as nice looking as ones that are sewn together if that makes sense.
Anyways, feel free to ask questions or leave comments.
I have some time next week to work on the sticker designs & my Nebula 2 pin project things (we're still getting the backend together for surveys). Thank you all for your patience with me on this!
