As you might imagine, our original timeline had international packages starting to ship as soon as in one week. I also said I was going to lock addresses by now, almost a month ago. But as some of you might have noticed, I have done no such thing.
We've been waiting to see when the oracle dice items would be finished, and they have let us know as of a week ago or so that we will not have all dice items finished and ready to ship to our fulfillment team until the end of May. The reason given for the delays (they originally said it would take 45 days for manufacturing to happen, and we supposedly started in March!) is that the dice engraving is taking a longer time than they imagined. So we don't have molds it seems, they are just engraving the dice individually. If they had told me it would take longer, or that they were doing it at all, I would have advised making molds instead, especially since I plan to remanufacture again someday. But, as you might be able to imagine, engraving thousands and thousands of dice is taking some time.
On the left was the previous sample. Look how much THICKER it is compared to the new ones to the right of it! We shaved off a full inch of depth to it.
The 10 glow in the dark dice in normal lighting.
The black dice after being hit with a black light and on their own in the dark.
All 10 glow in the dark dice together in the dark after being hit with a black light. Note that the above photo was taken in the same moment, just with the brighter dice removed. So weird how they glow differently!
That said, I did get the final round of samples and things are looking fantastic! The dice are great, the guides are great, the oracle decks are good-- I'm very happy with what we're getting into your hands. I was also surprised to get the neoprene mats in-- they look awesome. I'm waiting on the reading journals to arrive end of day tomorrow it sounds like, but otherwise all the items are in production.
The Updated Timeline
First off, the dice manufacturer never got me a proper timeline. Our timeline 2 updates ago was based on my knowledge that they were supposed to have started early March, and that our production timeline was 45 days at maximum. So mid-April we'd have it all done, shipped over to our fulfillment team, and begin shipping right away as able, matching the timeline I'd suggested two updates back.
So, new timeline based on them telling us items will be ready end of May:
I am going to LOCK ADDRESSES on the 20th of May. The goal is to make sure our shipping numbers and addresses are correct, and so we can begin shipping ASAP as items are received at the fulfillment center.
June 10th - June 30th, we'll see International (non-North American) shipping starting to go out.
July 20-30th, we'll see the container with the North American orders arrive to the USA. Orders for the USA will go out asap when the container arrives.
August 15th, all orders should have been shipped out and, hopefully, in-hand already.
This plants the oracle dice shipping timeline as clearly being later than the tarot decks, which I am trying to get up to date info on right now so I can share in updates on those projects soon. This will likely delay the Goblin's Tarot project, but I'll play it by ear.
We also could see this push sooner, and I'll let you all know by update here if it does! I'm anxious to get these out there, but soon! Soon!!
7DA your publishing goblin
ps,
46 folks still haven't gotten their surveys done on this project! I'm emailing them directly from [email protected] now! So check your inbox if you haven't done it. You can always log in to backerkit to check your surveys or check here if you're unsure: https://the-goblin-s-oracle-dice.backerkit.com/
