Look at them!!  

Perfect!! ✅

Now we are waiting on Golden Dragon and the finals of Wittles and all their color variations as well as final look and feel for Warmables, but it's all happening quick and smooth!

A lot of transactions are still processing/fixed and the funds are still moving through Stripe to get to my account, but in the meantimeeee

Just a lil show of the embroidery on the Bold Rainbow Dragon's face and Behind the Scenes work to show off here~~

The Backer Surveys are going under review ASAP and then they'll be sent out, latest date, on the 7th once the full BackerKit team are back in office and able to make sure everything on the boring backend if 100% so that no mistakes are made en masse.  

Also, have a cleaned up rasterization of the filigree pattern of the Gold Dragon to prepare for vectorization that an embroidery machine will use on the final fabric of the Gold Dragon :)

Never did I ever believe my dragon designs would inspire so much passion when I first drew them last spring! You guys have been nothing but enthusiastic and endlessly supportive! 

We have already soared past this crazy number and keep climbing in the last hours of the campaign! 

With fancy filigree patterns and sparkles all over, this hefty Wonder is sure to dazzle the skies!

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As we come to the end of the campaign, some housekeeping things
1.) Cards will be charged at the end of the campaign, which is midnight tonight PST (December 31st, 2024)
2.) Backer Surveys to collect shipping addresses and color choices for your tier will go out ASAP. I hope to have them in your inboxes by the end of the week (first week of January).
3.) Final prototypes of Bold Rainbow, Wittles, and Warmables will be revealed as soon as they are finished, which should also be within the next week or so.
4.) The option to change your pledge tier post-campaign has been TURNED ON as discussed in a Discussion thread, but I am repeating it again here so those who have last minute changes can do those changes.

No one's choices of colors are locked in until far after prototypes are revealed, so no worries on selecting a color quickly if you are not confident of your choice until a actual plush is shown live in living color!

Additionally, an approximate budget will be shown as payments and accounts are finalized in the coming weeks for full transparency.  A bulk of the money will go toward pure production (+overseas shipping) of the plush, especially to have lots of inventory post-fulfillment of the campaign, but some will go toward warehousing, insurance (both for the shipping containers and the product once it reaches the warehouse), wages for helpers (forklift drivers, warehouse staff, customer service, etc) many of which are the family and friends shown in the 'About the Artist' section, but some of who will be hired on temporarily for the initial fulfillment push. 

We will have a better idea of the budget breakdown after the dust of the campaign is settled.  This will take a little bit of time as me and BackerKit work together to pay for AdSpend, their commission, and their platform fee, and any and all transaction fees.  

We are still 100% on track with the given schedule posted on the campaign page, but I will again post here:

A housekeeping update on the dawn of the new year!

Here are some frequently asked questions I've been seeing to help clear up what the next few days will look like as the dust clears.

By the end of the week into the start of next week (Beginning of January 2025). 

The delay is to make certain everything is neat and tidy on the backend and is given a thorough review by BackerKit staff before sending out thousands of emails to you all! 

BackerKit Staff are not back into the office until tomorrow (January 2nd), so we will take our time as the dust settles with card transactions and Pledge Manager set up so you have the smoothest experience possible!

All of them are currently being finalized by our manufacturer and will be revealed the moment they are finished.  

This will not happen all at once as prototypes tend to be finished on a variable schedule.  No one has to lock in their final color choices until MUCH later down the road.  We take a semi final count for production reasons shortly after the majority of Surveys are submitted, but always have more than enough units of any particular variant to accommodate changes to choices down the line.

This will take a lil more time and there is no rush for this, as those postage costs do not need to be covered until fulfillment begins.  

The reason for this taking time is I have to, mostly manually, calculate the cost for each international backer and then submit that invoice to each international backer.  I promise to do this in a timely fashion, but there is no rush in the next few weeks to pay these costs off as we focus on submitting for production and getting all that in order.

These will be resolved in the coming days as we come out of bank holidays and BackerKit comes back into the office to help out with any transaction issues.  

Please keep note of your inbox to help us resolve any issues in a timely fashion if something should come up.