Glorp Pin Design
 

( CAMPAIGN IS LOCATED HERE to get the pin several freebies are unlocked) 

This campaign was pre-planned before all of this.. went down I'm proud to be invited back to Pintopia and working again with 

This is going to sound weird but I hope this will make sense after you read it, if you seen the recent Cryptid Critters update you've seen this snippet already.

CONVENTION APPEARANCE
I was going to be attending anyways in Artist Alley, but I got an booth upgrade to be in the dealers, so I'll have a full table at MCFC, My first ever time at my Home State Furry Con! I'll be accepting Commissions, and have merch of course haha. 

MOTORCITY FURCON 
Feb 13-15th 
Detroit, MI  

With this Convention we hope to use the funds to smooth out Jellystars campaign... which i just found out the quote ALSO included the werewolves which.. is actually REALLY good for us!

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Let me Explain

We vend at conventions, thats were a lot of the funds we had come from, doing these backerkits is a fairly new thing for us, especially this past year we have been very very thankful for the patience and understanding with everyone with the bumps in the road as myself (Baja) is disabled and cannot do much physically and with my partner in crime (Hp)'s limited time its hard to get the time aside packing done. We are in the future depending on campaign success will be turning to fulfillment services to ensure that you will get your backer rewards in an timely manner.

I'm getting a bit off track, there are conventions in winter but its for the most part the end of prime convention season, we lacked conventions for 3 months, and was betting it all on Midwest Furfest 2025. Which was our first MFF, which was a very good experience but with issues with logistics of vendor to attendee ratio and other factors outside of our control many vendors were affected including us loosing a lot in sales as this is one of the largest furcons in the US. Being it relatively closer to us (we drove) and stayed somewhere relatively cheap. We thought we would make an healthy amount after the quote was given to us.. Unfortunately it wasn't the case, we didn't make baseline it was pretty bad like I said it hit practically all the vendors no matter how popular people were collectively all sales were hit some peoples 1/3 of income relies on this convention and didnt break that  so thats how bad it was. TO BE CLEAR WE ARE NOT UPSET AT ANYONE OR ANY CONVENTION/CONVENTION LEADERSHIP, we are just bummed out because we hoped that this would've covered everything.

We kept getting denied/waitlisted for conventions, which is a normal thing for pretty much all vendors especially since so many apply now compared pre-covid which is awesome that more are joining in <3 I started July of 2019.. so.. yeah.. But this caused issue of income for the manufacturing. I still have been getting merch items for the campaign when I'm able, like the plush buttons,UFO Pin banner,the stickers, stickersheets, carabiners (manu made tiny ones so i had reorder big ones that are shipping to me right now so i dont what to do with tiny ones now ). So there is progress going on just the big ticket items (plush/pins) are the ones caught up in the mess.  

The enamel pins I have a quote on, the spec sheets are made for all of them, I just need to put half down. I wanted to prioritize Plush Production first and then the pins because I know the pins are much more manageable to afford and that I have a longer relationship of beyond 5 years with my current rep. 


We've tried loan after loans "pre-approved" to be just rejected or rude people on the phone threatening my partner with LITERAL aggression of lowering his creditscore if he couldnt answer the full phone call while at his manual labor job...  Its been painful months and letters and paperwork.. And we dealt with 1K of car repairs and some medical bills which.. you all helped with because of the go fund me and we cant thank you all enough. We are still -$400 or so but we been trying our best to get back on our feet. 

Scroll back up to that convention appearance.. How did that happen? 
Well I was originally was going to be in the artist alley which.. had a lot of interesting restrictions but I was suddenly taken off the waitlist a few days ago! 

Instead of a half table for a half a day sale, we get 6 feet of table all weekend with the appropriate height restrictions! We can also go home and replenish stock and not just have whats in our suitcases! 

Getting into Motorcity Furcon's Dealers hall...
-We are NOT paying for a hotel or extensive gas
- Parking Garage has in and out privileges ((so we can get lunch elsewhere to lower costs)) 

Our overhead is 
Table cost and 2 badges.. WHICH IS REALLY GOOD!!

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We will make enough to start production, we have a fallback last resort but no matter what. I've been stressing about production of these plush.

I've been so upset, tense, I want this to be in production, I want to fulfill everything we have. I WISH i had more updates to give!

I REALLY AM GOING TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE!!
even if it means to take drastic measures

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yeah thats right.. A back up for all back ups.
. cryptid critters crew knows this one

The plush quote.. included the werewolves and I did'nt realize that at ALL..
I got the sample made but my rep.. put him in the bulk pricing pricing and never removed them so I know exactly how much wolves will cost. I will have to make another sample or two if we get to nightcrawler and safety testing for both designs. But we may have funds to combine the pin & plush orders for both campaigns at once.

oh god the boxes of aliens and cryptids in my house.. (jk)
This will save shipping funds, and production money by producing all at once. If this is possible it may take longer but will be more cost effective. 

This may be determined by the Pre-order store for Crytpid critters (which will have jellystar plush available and ALIEN plush goal of (40) (so will all other not unlocked cryptid plush goals)

Sorry for the rambling and scrambling I've been awake pretty stressed since 2am its almost 7am.

I just deeply wanted to THANK YOU EVERYONE ESPEICALLY YOU BACKERS for this mess, I'm still new to all of this plush production, backerkit and Now that I know to raise the goals (i feel so bad doing that tbh) so we dont have this mess again. I hope for a more pleasant experience for the future. Thank you so much again everyone and Have an wonderful week. Thank you for the support!

- Quoted on everything it knocked 3k off removing the aliens
Can pay partially, Sadly we cant seem to get a loan over 4.2k which is far from what we need, We are trying our best to make it possible. We may do a partial payment and see how that may go, Shipping and end of production would be the 2nd half of the payment once plush are done/completed which gives us some time to raise more funds. We are working our hardest to find loans that will be fair enough for us and interest not biting us in the behinds. I will be talking to HP soon (hes handling the loan) on the progress of searching for a loan that may benefit us the most and we will start that partial payment process so the plush are in production.
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We will also need to re-order glorps which in total will be an additional 1.4k (shipping included).. we'll see what can be done about this. ((Glorps were made with a past manu so we know the estimates)
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For those who haven't followed us, we hit a huge set of bills IRL, From $460 medical, $930 sudden tax to a 1k car repair. This has hit us greatly, You guys have really helped us during this time. While we are still raising funds we are thankful for all of the shop sales. As they are helping with this campaigns fulfillment. We apologize for this delay as this hit us in the span of less then 2 weeks.
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But we have been ordering with what we have other perks/rewards that are lower cost.


Heres whats been ordered/arrived
Pin Banner - Here
Sticker sheet - Here
Carabiner - Just ordered
Pins - Quoted just need to order them once we have enough. 
Plush buttons - here  
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Stickers - not ordered but the easiest to order during production of the plush. easily obtainable 

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I know this isnt the update anyone wanted to read, we are trying our best, tariffs really hit us hard with this and we are trying our best to really make this work. We have a last resort but we are going to try our hardest to work with what we got. 

Thank you so much everyone

We had to make a lot of large last min purchases to have original stock for MFF, prices of the plush shot up but we have the final totals for all of the plush now. Both Mixture of my own fault & Tariffs that affected this. 

 to help sort this out, but to make it low as we could


ALIEN ORDERS ARE CANCELLED, there were only 9 orders for the alien plush (pins,plushbuttons,etc are safe) We will try to revive them in our Cryptid Plush Campaign next month. We have the total it will take to make them now, so it will be easier to process how the unlock will work  

NO OTHER ORDERS will be affected, so we will be processing Refunds for the Alien Plush 

- Sticker sheets 
- Some sticker designs 
- Plush Buttons 

This is what we have Reward Wise,we will be getting other items during the production of the plush. 

PROTOTYPES!

Milkyway pup, Blue & Purple tiger have all gotten their prototypes finished!

If we decide to go back to these characters in a larger size their colors will be adjusted to more accurate colors 

We have quotes for them and hope to combine them with our MonsterMash Campaign pins
So we can ship out pins earlier if you just ordered pins. 

We deeply apologize for this bump but we are fully determined to make things work, and plans in place to ensure this doesn't happen again   

Hello there we did lock and charge cards, thank you to those who were able to lock in and were prepared! For those who have ordered some of the on-hand stock (we will try to search through these orders we will try to get orders done in December. (Just Glorps) We may have to do an addtional Glorp order but this depends on how well they will sell at MFF. 


But why this update was made is that an large amount of cards were declined 

All of the remaining Plush samples have been paid for but due to the sizes of these, design factors had to be changed... some have been design changes that have enhanced the design by my own contact from my factory! She's so nice and made an critical change to Milkyway!

She suggested that Milkyway would have mismatched colored paws.. and her colleagues agreed! This conversation made me laugh haha.

This change would reflect on the Pearlescent Pin if we reach it !

If an larger plush of Milky way is made in the future will have a swirl on the back and stars on the face, so those features will still remain on the pin but the legs will have the mismatched appearance.



Terra also needed some SLIGHT changes, in mini plush form

Mainly proportions, and less stripes and colors on the tail, If there is a larger one is made in the ~future~ I would make them more detailed but there is only so much you can do with an 5 inch plush

What has been ordered so far.. I've started the fulfillment process at least a little bit, I'll be getting piece by piece during plush production shipment as that will take sometime, at LEAST a month shipping overseas.

Our Contact as also offered keychain attachments for FREE for us! For ordering all of these lil fellas! BUT this will differ from glorp since glorp was made with an previous contact who.. didnt think glorp was a keychain plush even after being told oh well lol, we will be handling it by hand with green ring keyrings. These can be easily changed as an DIY.


Whats been ordered so far
- Sticker Sheets (should be here soon) 
- UFO Banner (should be here before or early December if you just ordered this one)
- Plush Buttons (should be here before or early December if you just ordered this one) 


What we are getting quotes for
-  Mini Star Enamel Pins
- Character Pins
- Mini Plush
Once samples are done we will figure out how much each unit will cost, shipping, safety costs and what quantity we are getting and anything else we will need to make sure they are here safely!

What's here now
- Glorps
((We have on hand but there may actually be a chance we may run out due to how much you all LOVE GLORP!! we are looking into re-ordering we are waiting for an quote currently 11/10/25))

What is Prepared to be ordered 

 Found Producer for & Artwork refinement/Redrawing  

- Stickers 
- Buttons ((Going to try to do custom artwork for these ones)) 
- Carabiner 
- Phone Charm (Artwork may be custom for the charm still w/glorp)) 
Remember! If you are an physical tier backer you get the phone charm for FREE, 
but you can buy additional ones if you like!

EXPECT PLUSH SAMPLE UPDATE PICS SOON!

 This has helped us immensely!



We will be locking orders with FINAL NOTICE! 
Be sure to modify what you need to modify!