Current pin popularity!
5 more days until surveys are locked and the remainder of cards are charged! There’s still 22 people who haven’t finished their surveys yet! Make sure you get your survey in so your pins will be included in the final count 💕
For everyone else, I’ll be out of the state for all of August, please feel free to swing by and say hi! Warning, I may be spacey especially towards the end lol.
Cards were charged today and there’s about 25 people with failed payment methods! If you weren’t charged make sure you check your cards!
On a different note, moving forward I’m going to try to have all plushies I find have a working prototype BEFORE the campaign. But to ensure people can still vote on which plushies they want/be apart of the process I created a new channel in my discord just for plushies. Because media monsters will be the next campaign to get a new plushie I figured I’d share this here!
Just make sure you grab the plushie design poll notification role! I do my best to never @everyone ping unless there’s major server wide changes.
Finally! Most of the pins are in production now! The blind bag pins aren’t in production yet but will be soon. My Manu likes to do things in sets for her own organization purposes, and the blind bag pins aren’t their own set. As soon as we get them me and my sister will begin fulfilling the orders!
Also feel free to catch me at any of these cons! I may look a little spacey so forgive me lol!
Smoke tests are out! Everyone will get the survey later today or tomorrow! I tried to get a third design done but I think I’m a bit creatively burned out as I hated everything I did lol (as one does) so as a compromise, I promise Twilight Princess Link Wolf will be available for Media Monsters 2 in January!
I spent all night working on this and I don’t know if I like it or hate it and want to trash it. I decided I probably shouldn’t judge it while burned out at 1:40am lol
Also I decided to try my hand at a banner. I will say this is my FIRST attempt at one. I’m not sure the quality/feel of these banners and as such I have them listed as $12 when they’d be $20 (probably) normally. So if you decide to get one just know you’ll be experimenting with me!
Figured the tree would make for a good first banner so you can stick characters like they’re sitting on the tree?
Thank you guys again from the bottom of my heart. I’m constantly blown away and grateful for just… everything.
I’ll be at Fan Expo Boston, Anime Magic, Galaxy Con San Jose, and Matsuricon in August so I may be pretty hard to reach but please swing by if you have the chance! And also know I’ll probably look dead lol!
Also I added a new behind the scenes channel in my discord if you wish to lurk and keep up with things! https://discord.gg/rPPf4NUejw
I’ll admit I’m pretty bad about posting to socials right now with how busy I am but I do try my best to keep an eye on my discord and randomly jump in with convos ^^
Some good news! I got the Chocobo done today! I also submitted the survey for review. It should be good to launch on Tuesday. But the survey should launch Thursday at the latest! It’ll be open until July 2nd.
I’ll do my best to finish one more design before the survey launches but I make no promises! These will be available as survey stretch goals. If you haven’t seen them before, BackerKit allows new items to be funding during the survey! Pretty much I’d say, 10 people add on this pin it’ll unlock. If they don’t then you won’t be charged for that specific pin.
I look forward to getting these pins started!
Also regarding fulfillment help, unfortunately White squirrel turned out (to my understanding of their quote) to be $5 per order and $0.25 per item. So a 25 pin order would cost $11 for them to fulfill. I’m trying to work out a better system here so there’s no delays but I just wanted to let yall know they’ll still all be fulfilled in house for now! It just may require trying to find an art undergrad to kidnap lol. Craft Quest also offered to drive down to help when the time comes 💕 I could also always employ the Wayward suggested method and find a romantic partner to force to do free labor 😈 (jk, my Ace a** could never). These issues though should be long resolved before these pins are even made, let alone time to fulfill. And while I may chronically run on vibes, when it comes to timelines/operation structures I like to have everything planned and running smoothly. Being a one man operation is brutal sometimes lol.
