As members of my Discord heard yesterday, the Spooky Circuit leftovers have at last been inventoried, photographed, and made available for purchase!

If you wanted to add some of the pins/stickers/patches therein to your Soft Circuit orders, the leftovers have now been appended to the add-ons and pre-order store.

Pardon the slight delay on getting these live - my grandfather passed unexpectedly last month, which prompted me to make a surprise trip back across the ocean to attend his funeral and spend some much needed time with family. I'm finally back home and getting back up to speed on everything. <3

How to add the Spooky Goods to your order varies based on the form it initially took, and whether or not you wish to combine it or expedite it:

🐺 If you backed the campaign proper, you can edit your survey to add them to your order.

🐉 If you did not back the campaign and previously made a pre-order, I can manually add the desired item(s) to help you avoid paying shipping twice. Email [email protected] with the email you used in your order, along with what item(s) you'd like to add, and I will help you out! 

🐈 If you backed for a plush or plush bandana and want to place a Spooky order that ships sooner than the estimated plush fulfillment timeline (January-February), placing a separate pre-order that does not include a plush or plush bandana is a way to accomplish this on purpose. 

All other Soft Circuit orders are set to fulfill in September, which brings me to my next update.

I checked in with my pin factory representative to ascertain the status of our order:

Everything except the Northern Lights variants are done, as rainbow plating takes longer to complete; it's absolutely worth the wait though, because as we saw with the Spooky Void Line, this manufacturer absolutely knocks the anodized treatment out of the park with lots of beautiful variation. All the other designs are finished and packed!

My rep estimates the pins will be ready to ship to me in about two weeks time. From there, they take at least a week to reach me, and then I must once again undertake the long process of grading them - examining each of the thousands of pins one by one for quality control - followed by fixing them to their backing cards. This generally takes me another month to complete, so we can now expect all non-plush orders to fulfill in late September.

As plush sampling seems set to indeed wrap up by August, orders with plush and plush bandanas are currently still estimated for January-February fulfillment. Add-ons and shipping will also be charged in September rather than August! 

I cannot accurately calculate the final plush shipping until I have the prototypes in hand to weigh and box-fit test. If they haven't reached me by then, I will segment out shipping charges for the plush orders to happen at a later date. I'll keep all of you in the loop about when charges will occur, and you will also receive an email alert 48 hours prior. :)

Speaking of which - our final fiddly little details on Byte have been squared away!! My rep from that supplier sent me a video as final confirmation, so here are a couple stills from that:

She looks absolutely spot-on and is giving 90s robot dog in the very best way, I cannot wait to meet her in person. You can see this friend in motion over on my BlueSky or Mastodon!

I'm also excited to declare that we're down to last granular adjustments on Python!

Happily, the square sockets were able to be moved directly under the wings after all with the current materials, just by shifting the seam placement! And the nose pit arrangement looks correct in this pass as well.

The top vs bottom wing embroidery now includes the desired subtle variation in line placement, so that the panels overlap more like feathers.

I sent along my final adjustment notes as well —

The designer I'm working with has since clarified that due to how thin the horns are, applique + embroidery would make the corners too stiff, so they were made with splicing instead. So contrary to my change requests, those will remain fabric only/as they are, which looks great and is fine by me.

We've now hit an incredible 67 pre-orders for Python, so thank you again for loving this playful noodlefriend! I'm hoping it will only take one or two more revisions tops to land on their final, and then all the prototypes can make their way to me.

I've also received photos of the other colorways of the plush-sized bandana, and even in the factory lighting they're looking crisp and vibrant! I look forward to being able to photograph Byte and Python wearing each of these myself once the samples arrive. 😊

The final Soft Circuit goodie update is that I now have the character magnets in hand, which calls for celebratory photos.

I'm pleased with how they turned out, and the magnetic backing on them is nice and strong too.

I ordered plenty of extras, so if you missed out on adding these guys to your order before, you can still do so up until things lock down in September!

The gears keep turning, so to wrap up I'd like to offer two more pin-in-progress sneak peeks~

You can hop over to the GEARS OF GAIA and SPECTRAL CIRCUIT teaser pages to follow either or both campaigns. :3

That brings us up to date on the current status of everything for now! If you have any questions at all or need help with your orders, feel free to reach out to me at any time. Thank you as ever for being here. <3