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Baby Bestiary
29 days ago
Production update (stuff is getting made, but not all of it)
Hey All,
I was able to nail down a few updates last week, but i thought i was getting samples this week (turned out it was a book sample for a different project).
Some things are forward and other things less than I want them to be
Accessories
They've shown me updated axe, red potion and sword. I think the only things im left waiting on is the revised magnet placement of the staff and the gold-foil fix for the bags...then they should be ready to start production (but in my response to them, ive inquired for them tell me what they believe is remaining, and that Id like to review final samples before production, especially since its changed hands since)
What is moving (says should be finished production on 8/28)
Full size plushes in production
- Purple Owlbear
- Purple Keychain
- Mossy Owlbear
- Brown Owlbear (more of them)
- Brown Keychain (more of them)
Not yet started need samples (they say a preproduction sample should be ready on the July 10th, which would then need to be shipped to me)
- Snowy Owlbear
- Snowy Keychain
- Charcoal Owlbear
Also I saw a few emails come in about fixing up the merge on rewards, so will be heading to work on those.
Should have another update sooner once these samples and accessories get locked in,
Andreas
I was able to nail down a few updates last week, but i thought i was getting samples this week (turned out it was a book sample for a different project).
Some things are forward and other things less than I want them to be
Accessories
They've shown me updated axe, red potion and sword. I think the only things im left waiting on is the revised magnet placement of the staff and the gold-foil fix for the bags...then they should be ready to start production (but in my response to them, ive inquired for them tell me what they believe is remaining, and that Id like to review final samples before production, especially since its changed hands since)
What is moving (says should be finished production on 8/28)
Full size plushes in production
- Purple Owlbear
- Purple Keychain
- Mossy Owlbear
- Brown Owlbear (more of them)
- Brown Keychain (more of them)
Not yet started need samples (they say a preproduction sample should be ready on the July 10th, which would then need to be shipped to me)
- Snowy Owlbear
- Snowy Keychain
- Charcoal Owlbear
Also I saw a few emails come in about fixing up the merge on rewards, so will be heading to work on those.
Should have another update sooner once these samples and accessories get locked in,
Andreas
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Baby Bestiary
4 months ago
Wave One has landed at the Warehouse (no accessories though)
Hey all!!
Apologies for the delay in updates, I had originally wanted to make an update for when products arrived at port, but I was waiting for the manufacturer to get back to me with the updates I wanted for the accessory kits.
Unfortunately and annoyingly, the manufacturer has been painfully slow to communicate since CNY (which is a change from pre-CNY, and something I'll need to escalate internally again).
But now, Wave 1 of products have arrived at the warehouse! I just got my box with a little bit of everything that came inside (which is the keychains and the dragon turtle and phoenix full size plushes), all the pins we have already on-hand. I know they aren't the accessories, but its progress none-the-less.
Apologies for the delay in updates, I had originally wanted to make an update for when products arrived at port, but I was waiting for the manufacturer to get back to me with the updates I wanted for the accessory kits.
Unfortunately and annoyingly, the manufacturer has been painfully slow to communicate since CNY (which is a change from pre-CNY, and something I'll need to escalate internally again).
But now, Wave 1 of products have arrived at the warehouse! I just got my box with a little bit of everything that came inside (which is the keychains and the dragon turtle and phoenix full size plushes), all the pins we have already on-hand. I know they aren't the accessories, but its progress none-the-less.
That said, there is a handful of you that have rewards that only contain Wave 1 products. I pushed these orders to final address confirmation. (there was a small handful of wave one that also included some snowy and charcoal that we do have in stock so i included those orders as well, and you also would have gotten the address notification).
this includes the following items:
- Owlbear Plush Brown
- Owlbear Keychain, Brown
- Phoenix Plush
- Pheonix Plush Keychain (bearded)
- Dragon Turtle Plush
- Dragon Turtle Keychain
- Pins (all of them)
(we do NOT have yet)
- other colored plushes inc purple
- class accessories kits (wizard, fighter, fishing)
- other colored owlbear keychains
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Accessories-wise, I have feedback I am still waiting to hear back from. (i was actually pretty suprised, that when I attended the GAMA trade show last month, and the manufacturer was there; They didn't take that as an opportunity to bring samples or provide any updates.
As said above, they've been painfully slow to respond since CNY, all the more reason to keep looking for manufacturers after this project is done.
Just this week, I approved the new production quantities (doc below is what they provided this week), but that still shouldn't have slowed them down for any reason on getting those samples ready.
I will also try to continue providing production updates as they come in, sorry they didnt come in more on time, I wait for an update and more time passes than I would have liked (and then im just waiting for the update to come in).
Also taxes made things busy on the backend busy as well.
If you need any assistance or have any questions,
feel free to let me know
Andreas
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Baby Bestiary
6 months ago
Schedule Updates
Hey all!
Apologies for the delay in an update. But for the last two months, we confirmed error phoenix hats, owlbear colors and quantities, new owlbear keychain colors, and made comments to the second pass of accessories. Also we confirmed shipping quantities to our warehouses (US, UK, and AUS).
Main thing about accessories
- fishing hook can support an owlbear (carefully)
- axe was missing thickness and magnet
- bags looked great and was missing the beak on the gold foil
- magnet placement on axe and staff needed to be adjusted
that aside everyhting else was great
Apologies for the delay in an update. But for the last two months, we confirmed error phoenix hats, owlbear colors and quantities, new owlbear keychain colors, and made comments to the second pass of accessories. Also we confirmed shipping quantities to our warehouses (US, UK, and AUS).
Main thing about accessories
- fishing hook can support an owlbear (carefully)
- axe was missing thickness and magnet
- bags looked great and was missing the beak on the gold foil
- magnet placement on axe and staff needed to be adjusted
that aside everyhting else was great
Schedule-wise, we're at the following.
Shipping (from manufacturer) before CNY (only to US warehouse)
- Owlbear Keychains
- Drgon Turtle Keychains
- Error Phoenix Keychains (with little hats)
- Brown Owlbears
- Dragon Turtle Plushes
- Phoenix Plushes
Shipping (from manufacturer) After CNY (all warehouses)
- Fighter Accessories
- Wizard Accessories
- Fishing Accessories
- Updated (non-beardy) Phoenix Keychains
- Purple Owlbear keychain
- Snowy Owlbear Keychain
- More Brown Owlbears
- Snowy Owlbear
- Charcoal Owlbear
- Mossy Owlbear
- Purple Owlbear
More updates as they come,
Andreas
PS, i notice a few people asking about getting rewards (for those who just got pins or a single owlbear thats in stock), in the next few days ill run a couple filters and see which ones we can get fulfilled (usually its messy to spit things up, esp when export actions, but ill do what i can)
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Baby Bestiary
8 months ago
A whole new purple! + Schedule Updates
Christmas came early for me this week (well it was supposed to arrive monday, but ill take what i can get)
Here is a new purple owlbear, (and brown and purple dice for reference)
What i did this time was provided them with the pantone of the purple dice we have, since i thought that was a pretty good purple)
pantone for reference
Now as you know, this wasnt our first purple owlbear, we had our prototype owlbear from our first manufacturer (below on the left), and as you can see that one is a little bit darker still.
And just because (with the fuchsi, below)
(Left to right) Old manufacture sample, new sample, wtf is this purple sample
I think this new purple is far better,
now as you can see there is some shaping of the owlbears that needs to be corrected (esp looking at the cheast and heads), but
overall, I think this color is good. but what do you think? (Darker? Good? if we go darker then ill have to pick a new pantone (and additional sample cost).
Schedule
Also looks like me getting product will come in two waves (Freight leaving before Chinese New Year and after (which goes till march 3rd)
Feight Before is (this would likely arrive ~April 2026)
- Brown Owlbear Plush
- Dragon Turtle Plush
- Pheonix Plush
- Owlbear Keychain
- Dragon Turtle Keychain
- Error Phoenix Keychain (with santa hats)
Freight After CNY is (likely arrive ~June 2026)
- Mossy Owlbear Plush
- Purple Owlbear Plush
- Fixed Batch of Phoenix Keychain
- Accessories (all of them)
Accessories
In regards to the accessories update (they've confirmed they're going to finish their new sample on dec 22nd (so prolly arriving next after)
Tarrifs
one unxpected benefit from this taking so long is that at least the tarrifs are not 100-300% anymore. they're still elevated (i think in the 20-30% range, but faaar better than that madness we had earlier).
Hope you have a great christmas holiday and more updates to come when i have them.
Andreas
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Baby Bestiary
8 months ago
Late November Update!
Hey Caretakers,
Apologies for the late update, I was hoping from my last update, that i'd get news sooner...but that wasn't the case.
Past couple weeks have been talking about the salvage phoenix plushes, but since there are soo many things going on (and ive been waiting for), i asked for a full update on everything, so we can get a full picture of where things are at (since i was unsure where things were on production timing, if even at all) .
Got that response last night, and here is where everything stands:
Accessories Kits
Apologies for the late update, I was hoping from my last update, that i'd get news sooner...but that wasn't the case.
Past couple weeks have been talking about the salvage phoenix plushes, but since there are soo many things going on (and ive been waiting for), i asked for a full update on everything, so we can get a full picture of where things are at (since i was unsure where things were on production timing, if even at all) .
Got that response last night, and here is where everything stands:
Accessories Kits
- Fighter Kit - qty 2000 - (my last feedback was that the material didnt feel good and magnets needed to be stronger), "We have adjusted the design of fabric pieces and send them for printing. Because there are much components involved, we anticipate it will take approximately one more week to complete."
- Wizard Kit - qty 2000 - Same update as Fighter Kit.
- Fishing Kit - qty 2000 - Same update as Fighter Kit.
- Velvet Kit Bags (for the accessories, with gold foil stamp) - Will get an update next week (i had previously sent them files early on in the process, so we'll see if i need to resend files).
Plushes
- Brown Owlbear - qty 1000 (prolly need to update to 2k) - Production planned to finish mid December.
- Mossy Owlbear - qty 1000 - was waiting for approval (i have no issues with the mossy sample they produced, so I approved, and will get update on production timing).
- Purple Owlbear - qty 2500 - Since the fuchsia color, I had sent them a Pantone for them to match (which is the same color as our purple foam dice), they're going to send pictures of that dyed swatch next week.
- Dragon Turtle Plush - Qty 1500 - I've requested to see final version, they say they'll send a picture next week.
- Phoenix Plush- qty 1500 - I had received a small stock for GenCon last year, they say that production will be finished mid December (though I would have figured with the GenCon stock they would have finished producing all of them).
Keychain Plushes (since production is paired with the owlbear plush restock)
- Owlbear Keychain - qty 3500- planned production finish of mid December.
- Dragon Turtle Keychain - Qty 2500 - planned production finish of mid December. I want to see pictures of the production model (since back spikes were in question).
- Error Phoenix Keychain - qty 2500 -We found a solution, though it seems like they would charge me full price for them (that said, Christmas hats are just 0.5 each).
- Phoenix Keychain - qty 2500 -unsure on status on fixed phoenix keychain (no beard), they say i should get an update next week
Error Phoenixes, they came back with a little chistmas hat,
It works, and would be paired with the bearded phoenix (not affixed).
A little mixed, since it sounds like to them, id pay normal price for the production (even through they messed them up (i was hoping i could get a discount on them, since they're wasted work).
And as noted above, should be getting more news on the updated accessories, in the next two weeks.
Hope you had a great thanksgiving as everyone prepares for the christmas to come,
All the best,
Andreas
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29 days ago
Project Update: Production update (stuff is getting made, but not all of it)
Hey All,
I was able to nail down a few updates last week, but i thought i was getting samples this week (turned out it was a book sample for a different project).
Some things are forward and other things less than I want them to be
Accessories
They've shown me updated axe, red potion and sword. I think the only things im left waiting on is the revised magnet placement of the staff and the gold-foil fix for the bags...then they should be ready to start production (but in my response to them, ive inquired for them tell me what they believe is remaining, and that Id like to review final samples before production, especially since its changed hands since)
What is moving (says should be finished production on 8/28)
Full size plushes in production
- Purple Owlbear
- Purple Keychain
- Mossy Owlbear
- Brown Owlbear (more of them)
- Brown Keychain (more of them)
Not yet started need samples (they say a preproduction sample should be ready on the July 10th, which would then need to be shipped to me)
- Snowy Owlbear
- Snowy Keychain
- Charcoal Owlbear
Also I saw a few emails come in about fixing up the merge on rewards, so will be heading to work on those.
Should have another update sooner once these samples and accessories get locked in,
Andreas
I was able to nail down a few updates last week, but i thought i was getting samples this week (turned out it was a book sample for a different project).
Some things are forward and other things less than I want them to be
Accessories
They've shown me updated axe, red potion and sword. I think the only things im left waiting on is the revised magnet placement of the staff and the gold-foil fix for the bags...then they should be ready to start production (but in my response to them, ive inquired for them tell me what they believe is remaining, and that Id like to review final samples before production, especially since its changed hands since)
What is moving (says should be finished production on 8/28)
Full size plushes in production
- Purple Owlbear
- Purple Keychain
- Mossy Owlbear
- Brown Owlbear (more of them)
- Brown Keychain (more of them)
Not yet started need samples (they say a preproduction sample should be ready on the July 10th, which would then need to be shipped to me)
- Snowy Owlbear
- Snowy Keychain
- Charcoal Owlbear
Also I saw a few emails come in about fixing up the merge on rewards, so will be heading to work on those.
Should have another update sooner once these samples and accessories get locked in,
Andreas
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Do we know anything else yet? I know this is largely due to manufacturer delays, but it seems we get less and less communication as time goes on. That makes it feel like the hope is for us to just forget that we pledged and paid for this (I know that isn't the case, but I'm sure many people feel that way). Would it be possible to do updates more regularly? Even if the update is "hey haven't heard back yet" just like this one. I know the transparency and communication would go a long way with a lot of people and help keep people wanting to support your business. Ultimately, the delays are not what cause people to lose faith, but the lack of communication ABOUT the delays.
I pledged and have been charged for a mossy owlbear plush on its own with no accessories. Have been seeing photos of this colourway on socials advertised for sale, and still have not received mine yet which makes me quite sad. An update on manufacturing would be appreciated, my confidence that I will receive anything from this campaign has faded and I may not be at the same address by the time this ships :(
its been so long since this was supposed to ship and since we have had a meaningful update that I completely forgot that I was waiting on this to arrive...
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