Over the past couple of weeks we've been barreling towards delivering the print ready finals, and things are going really well! We've made significant progress on the design of everything, including the interior of the box:
Check out the GM Screen / Box Interior Emanoel and Mikey have been cooking up!
Decided to add this to the bottom :P
We're super stoked at how things are cookin' and looking forward to getting the final proofs in our hand. That said, we do have a bit of bad news today: it doesn't look like we'll be able to begin printing before the Lunar New Year, meaning we're probably delayed around two months.
Updated Timeline
Here's what we're working with now:
Deliver Final Print Ready Files to Factory (January 2024)
Lunar New Year Shutdown (February 2024)
Printing & Manufacturer (February-March 2024)
Ocean Freight (March-April 2024)
Fulfillment (April 2024)
The Why
Basically, we were facing a situation where our window was becoming increasingly narrow and the hours longer and longer to meet the crunch. All of this is pretty normal for creative projects looking to hit market / fulfillment, but because we're making something we haven't really made before, there was a high likelihood that any round of back and forth with the manufacturer (box not quite right, colors not quite right, etc.) would've led to us missing the Lunar New Year cutoff anyway.
I didn't want Mikey and the rest of the team crunching through the holidays, and so I made the decision to push us back until after CNY, knowing that doing so pushes back our timeline a few months.
Plus! Doing so means we can definitely get the Solo Rules by Michael Elliot into the core book, which is a nice bonus :)
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Apologies for the delay, and thanks for understanding. Happy holidays, and see you next year!
