Hi folks,

A quick progress update on production and fulfillment today:

1) I have now shipped the x90 remaining orders that don't contain Crab, Mandarinfish or Oarfish pins. Those orders should all have had tracking notifications now.

2) The Crab pins arrived today and after grading and backing I'll be shipping the x45 orders I can fulfill with those next week.

3) After a lot of back-and-forth with my manu (who claimed they can fix the misalignment in mass-production more easily than more samples...I am sceptical) I wound up agreeing to let them try the final production for the Mandarinfish and Oarfish pins on the understanding that if I'm not happy with the end result they would agree to remake them if needed.

This is not ideal but I feel I've kept everyone waiting far too long for these two pins and I'm honestly at the end of my rope with the process and don't want to drag it out waiting several more weeks for additional samples.

I received photos of the finished Oarfish today! I'm still not very happy with the alignment on the screenprint layers but at this point I've decided to cut my losses as I don't think the factory is capable of better printing any longer.
Here are the photos the manu sent me:

To be fair the screenprint details on this design are so small that the misalignmnet is only obvious when you look very closely. 🤔

4) My plan for handling the remaining orders waiting on the Mandarinfish and Oarfish pins at this point is:
 

5) In fact if you are fed up of waiting and would prefer to make a pin-swap for your order now, please drop me an email and I will make the swap and ship out your order asap.

Swap out options include: other Warped Ocean pins, the Sunfish and Turtle pins from my Warped Ocean 2 campaign (which are arrived today along with the Crab pins), Furbtaurs, Corvids of Pride, Bestiary, Neurodivergent and Horses of Apocalypse collections.

I apologise again for the delay in fulfillment on this campaign and thank you all for patiently waiting for the manufacturing issues to be sorted out.

All the best,

Abi