We're just about halfway through the funding period for Mini Myconids, and have a bit of a mixed bag for the update today, so we're going to try and cut some fluff and get right to it. Before we do though, thank you for being here to give your support! - we are grateful to have you :3

We were quite blown away by how many requests there were, so many in fact that we unfortunately had to go through and select a collection of mushrooms from the comments instead of featuring every one of them. At the time of gathering there were 36, and by the time we went forward with research we chose to include 16 of those suggestions ;>

Tokii and I plan to participate in the Pintopia 2027 event - though we're not quite sure what project just yet! We've got a handful of new ideas as well as a few of the previous ones we'd like to revisit, so we figured... lets see what you guys think we should do!

Blades Beasts and Blooms 2:
A couple years ago we released our Blades Beasts and Blooms campaign for Pintopia 2025, it was our second ever backerkit project and focused on a vision of unity across borders. Looking at the History, Imagination, and Love that every land has. It had been originally inspired when Tokii mused about how nearly every culture has it's own version of dragon mythology - the campaign snowballed from there and was one of the pivotal projects that made CritCreations what it is today.
If we were to make a sequel to this project it would continue in the same footsteps of it's predecessor. Featuring new cultures in the same style and size as before potentially including more kinds of products like journals and pin banners, though I would predict that the amount of cultures featured would likely not be quite as many as the 20ish we focused on originally ;>

Dungeon Familiars Reimagined:
Beyond the shadow of a doubt, we here at CritCreations place a high regard on Dungeons & Dragons. It's how Tokii and I first met and has continued to be one of our primary hobbies to this day. Our Dungeon Familiars campaign launched during Pinquest 2025 a little more than a year ago and featured 12 infamous beasties from the realm of fantasy. Each critter got a pin, a colorway, and a custom statblock for dnd 5e, and the campaign featured more items like washi tape, mini pins, and acrylic charms.
If we were to do another campaign based on the previous, we would have to do something a little different. We do our best to avoid copyrighted material, which is why creatures like the plotting Beholder or illusive Displacer Beast did not make an appearance in the previous campaign and won't make it into subsequent ones, and I'd imagine that finding a completely new set of public domain monsters may prove difficult... However, what I think would be fun would be to take the monsters we've featured before and reimagine them in a larger more ornate designs, around 2-2.5". This would be the focus of the project, but beside this I can imagine a set of brand new colorways for the previous designs, mini pins based off of the dnd classes, and even stretchgoals for requested (open domain) monsters we may have missed! - made into both 1.5" cuties as well as the larger designs this campaign features.

Infernal Invasions, The Second Coming:
Infernal Invasions was our first campaign with a storyline attached and it was an absolute blast to do - displaying real world information set beside a tale of fiction was very enjoyable! Much more exciting though was that this campaign made a difference, raising nearly $4,000 of difference to be exact! You and I made our contribution together as creators and supporters to the North American Invasive Species Management Association (NAISMA) and would be working with them even more to help decide new beasts to turn our focus to!
Besides that, the project would likely be created in the same image as it's predecessor; 7 fanciful fiendish pin designs, 7 magnificent minipins, and more to be decided... This campaign of course would donate a portion of the proceeds to NAISMA so that they can fight the good fight against the invasive species that have encroached on our homes.

Rock the Boat:
They say that we know more about our solar system than we do about our own oceans, and all of our ancestors have often wondered; just what exactly the cold watery depths could be hiding from us - or more appropriately what could be hiding beneath the waves in wait for us...
This campaign would focus on sea monster myths from around the globe; all the old world lore, tall tales, and research will be wrapped up in the banner of Jolly Roger and tied together with old moor lines!
I ask ye matey, do ye dare to gaze deep into Davy Jones' locker?

Adventurer's Pair-o'-Dice:
This idea, admittedly from a pin standpoint has been done before, but it's high time that CritCreations took a shot at it. This campaign would feature a series of D&D dice as pins with numerous colorways. However, where it would stand out is that we would look into having a custom dice set made for the project, potentially multiple for each colorway ;>
DICE GOBLINS BE WARNED!

Endangered Angels:
If Infernal Invasion is Yin, Endangered Angels would be Yang. This idea is directly inspired by our previous Infernal Invasions campaign but would focus more specifically on endangered animals as opposed to invasive ones with a portion of proceeds going to help their conservation through charity.
If you thought Infernal Invasion had cool vibes, but wanted something a little different? Endangered Angels may just be for you!

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We've attached the Pintopia 2027 Project Vote onto today's update (though you can also vote in our discord if you've joined previously), but please be sure to vote in the other polls hyperlinked above if you're interested in helping to decide the winner for the current campaign's competition!

Or click down below ;>

Edible Shroomies
Nonedible Shroomies

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That's all for now,
Stay adventurous <3
Jacob & Tokii