October
CREATOR
11 days ago
Project Update: And that's a wrap!
After a half hour of overtime on the Backerkit train the campaign finally ended last night, and now the real journey begins! I needed to give my poor heart a rest after the rollercoaster that was the 8th so sorry to just now be updating. Once again, thank you SO MUCH!! Now that the campaign is done I will have a lot less to update about, but I don't want anyone to feel out of the loop. For the update process I will be doing full break downs of the immediate steps at each major milestone (completion of said steps) and will otherwise be sharing more minor updates whenever they happen.
There is a lot of work ahead! Here's the immediate next steps!
- Card charges start now! If your payment fails, there will be a second attempt in a week, and another in 2 weeks. Please make sure you have a proper card on file by then or you will lose your campaign discounts!
- I won't receive the payment before a week has gone by. However as soon as I get access to the funds I will be ordering our 8 safety tests to get it underway and make sure we can go to production as soon as possible!
- While we're waiting for funds to be released I will be doing the art for the 2 bonus freebie stickers. Dark horned king won last second by a single vote so that design will go to everyone who pledged before standard size Terra was unlocked! White flame goddess will therefore be a freebie for EVERY BACKER! Expect to see updates here!
- While safety testing is going on I will also be ordering other rewards: stickers, keychains, scent sachet materials, and voice boxes.
- I will be reaching out to custom dragon backers via survey! Your survey questions will have brief instructions to follow.
- Once safety tests for all the plush are completed we will be moving on to manufacturing! The goal is to get that underway by July ideally.
The rest is all officially down the line enough that I won't bore you with it, but once we have reached the manufacturing stage expect another break-down update for the manufacturing + overseas shipment. After that we'll be breaking down fulfillment. At current October 2024 is still holding as a good estimate for pledge fulfillment. We will re-evaluate this at every break-down!
Other updates you can expect in the near future:
- A jumbo stuffing tutorial video! I've learned a couple of tricks handling as many of these dragons as I have, so I will be sharing them to try and make sure you all have an easy time dealing with your unstuffed jumbos.
- Reward unboxings! I will be sharing whenever items arrive. The first one is either going to be Guz stickers or the sticker books because I've already ordered those out of pocket. Keychains are likely to be the last non-plush unboxing due to production and shipping times.
- Convention announcements! Once the plush are in production I will be opening pre-orders like I normally do, so the prototypes will be doing a little more traveling. I will not be announcing shows without the prototypes, though. For that you will want to check out our convention schedule.
Some smaller announcements:
- Lairbrew is undergoing an update visually. Don't be alarmed if you see an icon you're not used to associated with it!
- I do lots of projects without crowd funding and have been holding back on announcing a couple for the Backerkit to be finished. Consider following us elsewhere if you want to see more new stuff!
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