First and foremost, I come bearing results from the past two pre-launch party polls!
The polar bear and brown bear based bot-board designs have tied over and over, so I have decided to go all in on the "Why Not Both??" approach: for the first time ever, a Unit Line will feature two showcase robots!
These big sweethearts needed matching names to mark the occasion, so the brown bear will now be Hash while the polar bear will retain the name Heap. More on their potential function and bugs can be read over on the Short Circuit Discord, and will eventually be shared here as well once their accompanying robot character art is ready. 🐻
As for our first poll -- plush are more expensive items than a BOTH!! solution can sustain, so after securing and maintaining a lead for many weeks, Python will be the next ambassador robot to receive a plush design work-up! If you want to see them become real, please share this campaign around!! Funding more than one plush design is going to be a wild ride, and we could use all the eyeballs we can get. (Remnant fans don't despair, but share extra hard: funding a third plush would be an especially pie-in-the-sky outcome, but I would LOVE to make it happen if enough folks do show up!)
Then without further ado, I would like to introduce the full planned Light Line~
So excited to see these friends in the shiny, shiny metal!
You've already met Hash, Heap, Honeypot, and Transistor, but to round out the group, Trojan the horse joins the mix!
All five are now properly vectored up and will be sent off to sampling. After a bit of waffling I realized I did firmly prefer a yellow-based primary colorway for Light, in part because of its association with our sun and in even bigger part because it helps round out the rainbow of Unit Lines as a whole. The above appearance is what will be sampled for first!
If you did prefer a white pantone, however --
No such thing as too many rainbows. <3
It also occurred to me that since we had copper alternates of two (2) Void units (Remnant and Web), it would be lovely to also produce rainbow anodized versions of two Light units! Heap is naturally a shoo-in on account of polar bears and the northern lights, but the second is up to y'allemaal. Should the other alternate be Honeypot (because of blue orchard bees) or Transistor (the elemental design of the Line, like Web was)? Vote in the poll at the end of the update to choose!
Finally, perhaps a bit out of left field and decidedly self-indulgent, but an additional soft item popped into my head and wouldn't leave me alone!
I would unabashedly wear these every single day of my life.
Robot fingerless gloves based on Byte's paws!! I've found a potential supplier and requested a couple of sublimation printed sample prototypes, one polyester–spandex and one polyester with added fleece backing, to compare the feel and visual results. These are also a bit pie-in-the-sky, but if the samples turn out well and we gather enough funding momentum then they will also be added to the campaign as a stretch goal.
Those are the main updates for the moment! Still awaiting the Byte plush prototypes; I reached out to those suppliers last week and both indicated their samples were in the embroidery stage, so hopefully sooooon. 👀
I hope you are all staying cozy and safe this December. <3
Closing link reminders --
Short Circuit Discord: The disc-orb gets Circuit 'verse ponderings and sketches extra early, and saw both the gloves and Trojan days ago! Come join us, if you'd like. 💚 Spooky Circuit Pre-Order Store: If you missed out on the last campaign, the pre-order store for Spooky Circuit will remain live until surveys lock! 🖤
