Hey there sorry for the lack of updates, its been a silent time due to the Chinese new year but also plush production of over 1000+ plush takes a while haha, BUT due to switching to our new rep that is making the rest of the Mini plush we had to remake glorp from the bottom up! This costed us a lot since we had to pay for the sample + safety testing (dont eat him plz LOL)

I'M VERY PLEASED with this verison!

LOOK!!! SO CUTE!! ((reminder that factory photos sometimes may not be perfect from the final mainly the colors i have a feeling it will look more like below!))

It took def this second pass, because look at this CHONKER BELOW ((first pass)) 

yeaaah.. we are not out of the woods yet but 

- BEWHISKERED ((NEXT WEEKEND)) 
- KALAMAZOO COMIC CON (( APRIL 10-12TH)) 
- FURGDDABOUTIT (( APRIL 23RD - 26TH)) 
- FURRY WEEKEND ALANTA (BAZAAR BOOTH)) MAY 7-10TH))  

They will be in the SAME order if we reach closer to the goal, along with the werewolf ((unlocked already)) so if thats anything that you are interested in be sure to check that out!

Every bit has helped a lot, we did have to pay for 3/4 flights and all the tables & badges for these events in succession ((sucks :(   )) but its what gets us into these events to help as they bring in the majority of funds luckily we had flight credit and put some rooms on payment plans so we can focus on paying off the remaining + shipping costs (boat).

All of the pre-orders from you all, pre-order backers from previous/future campaigns, etsy/in person events mean so so much to us. Thank you so so much for your patience and understanding. 

 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!

First to last!
Pretty much nailed the first/second time!
First is Green!

Before final embroidery test they make an mock up for placement!

But I'm like I want to add HANDS!! and some lil stompers!!

Here is our final draft for the alien look at them!!

Then the grey which didn't change too too much just mainly the colors!

While cute! I felt like the color was a bit too dark for what I was looking for!

Faceplant lil alien

Here is the lighter color we gone with.

We will have extra Enamel pins but everything else will be extremely limited
especially the plush buttons!

We hope you will have an wonderful day!

I'm also preparing most products for pre-orders as we speak so we can get the ball rolling and final totals. Thank you for your patience and understanding with everything! Much Love, KaijuRiot!

WOW!! Y'all I know I just updated yesterday but you have supported us to where we should make another update this time about Terra!

Here are the pin concepts I promised! You will be able to vote for them below!

With 13 days left, I think this will be possible.. I'll be finishing the ref sheet for a sample. Though.. Would you guys like an BLUE Terra? If there is enough interest this variant could exist at the same time as the plush.. Let me know in the comments. 

I will be getting an update hopefully Tuesday about them!

If 9 backers or anyone else follows the goal to make it 100, everyone  in this campaign will be getting a special crossover sticker!

Phone charm is dominating! If you have an suggestion for which character or a star for the phone charm let us know below!

AS ALWAYS!!!
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE !!