First off thank you soooo much for a successful and amazing campaign. We funded Benny's plush and enamel pin production AND unlocked ALL of the enamel pin stretch goals! That means there are 7 enamel pins in total to choose from!
Secondly I'm currently traveling so I apologize for the delayed update, but I figured you all have gotten a lot of emails from BackerKit the past few days.
If you missed the campaign, I will be setting up a pre-order store through BackerKit.
Within the next two weeks BackerKit is working on processing the pledges. Once that's done I'll send out the project surveys. I'll post more information about that once I'm back home. 😊
Eli the Egg Benedict Dumbo Octopus is the winner of our Stretch Goal poll!
I've set up a new achievement to keep track of the progress to unlock them. If we pass that stretch goal then it looks like Raymond the Egg Manta Ray will be next! Would you like to see a keychain versions of these characters as future Add-On options once they're unlocked?
Final Days of the Campaign
The campaign ends on Monday, September 28th at 12:00 PM PST. As of now we have the Bananahead Shark plush and four enamel pins unlocked. We're pretty close to unlocking Eli, so we may have five enamel pins by the end of the campaign. 🤞
Thank you again for all your continued support and feedback! I can't stress enough how grateful I am. This has been an amazing first crowdfunding campaign experience and I'm hoping to be able to host more in the future, so if we aren't able to unlock the rest of Benny's buddies there will most likely be an opportunity in the future to do so. 💛
Update #2: All Enamel Pins Unlocked! Next Stretch Goals Poll, New Pledge Tier, and New Add-on Available
We did it AGAIN! A week after launching, the plush and all four pins have been unlocked. Thank you sooo much!!
The full enamel pin set has been unlocked as a pledge option and is also an add-on option.
As mentioned previously, if we passed the $3000 funding goal, I would create a poll to vote on the next set of characters to unlock as stretch goals. That poll is now live and will be up for the next 15 days. These designs still need to be redrawn to work as screen printed dyed enamel pins, so expect another update in the future with the updated design.
Need more sweetness?
🎉 StudioFluff's Chocoroll Shark campaign is halfway funded! 🎉 If you haven't checked out her campaign, now's there perfect time to pledge. As a reminder backing both project will get you super sweet freebies from both us as a special thank you.
I've designed an acrylic shaker keychain featuring characters from both of our campaigns:
StudioFluff designed this adorable Sweet Life pin banner:
Thank you all again! Seriously, I'm blown away by the amount of support my campaign has received and all the love Benny and his friends have been getting. 🥹 I'm looking forward to seeing who our next stretch goal (or set of stretch goals) will be.
We did it!! I woke up to the amazing news that the Benny plush and enamel pin are fully funded! To everyone who has pledged so far and shared this campaign with others, thank you so much!
There are a few slots open for the Early Bird Bundle and the Early Bird Plush pledges. So there's still time to adopt your own Benny, or to share this deal with your shark-loving friends. StudioFluff's campaign also has some Early Bird slots open, so be sure to give her and Chocoroll the Sharcake some love too.
What's next? It's time to unlock the entire enamel pin set!
Our stretch goal is Claude the Crabssant. He'll be unlocked once we reach $2400.
If these goals are met, this graphic will be updated. Each character will be shown in full color, the lock will change to "unlocked" and the text will say "Unlocked!"
And after that?
If all of these are unlocked over the next 17 days, I will reach out for feedback on some further stretch goal ideas. Here are some of the other loveable Breakfast Buddies from this set that I'd love to add. I would need to update them a little bit to be turned into enamel pins, but here's a preview of what I have in mind.
Thank you all again for your support! Words can't express how grateful I am, but really, your support means a lot. 💛
We're currently ~19 hours away from the project launch so I wanted to share some exciting updates as I put the final touches on the campaign.
First off I'd like to say thank you to everyone who has subscribed to the pre-launch, shared my project, offered words of encouragement, and supported me along the way. This whole project has been 9 months in the making, from researching and drafting the plush to putting together this campaign.
Now let's get on to the fun stuff!
Campaign Goal Adjustment
I've decided to lower my initial campaign goal to fund the plush and the bananahead shark enamel pin ($2000.) I feel like this is a good goal to start out and allows for the other enamel pins to be used as stretch goals. If all of the pins are unlocked, I have another batch of pins that I can add as back up stretch goals.
Early Backer Freebie
Pledge within the first 48 hours and you'll received this sticker sheet as a special thank you.
Guest Artist Announcement
I'm excited to announce that my friend HoneyHerds has designed an adorable sticker for this project.
Cross-Collab with Studio Fluff
I've teamed up with Studio Fluff to bring extra cuteness your way. Meet Chocoroll the Sharcake!
If you back both of our projects, you'll receive two exclusive thank you gifts - a pin banner (designed by Studio Fluff) and a shaker keychain (designed by me).
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