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toadstown
9 days ago
Survey Reminder!
Hello all! As a quick reminder - surveys lock on Monday, June 1st! Make sure to fill them out if you haven't already! When surveys lock, you will no longer be able to cha...
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toadstown
18 days ago
Surveys Rolling Out (and Pin Samples)!
🔥 Smoke Test Surveys Have Been Sent! A small sample of backers have received their post-campaign survey! If there are ANY issues, inconsistencies, or hiccups you experience ...
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toadstown
26 days ago
🔥24 HOURS LEFT!🔥 Shakers, surveys, & more!
We're in the home stretch, it's the final day of the campaign! You guys have absolutely blown this campaign and our goals out of the water, but we've got a few updates for yo...
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toadstown
about 1 month ago
One Week Remains! Final Poll Winner, New Goals!
🦖 Prehistory's Greatest Hits! It was a close shave, but Quetzalcoatlus takes the crown for community favorite animal! Quetz will join Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex up as...
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toadstown
about 1 month ago
New Stretch Goal Poll & Winners Revealed!
🦎 Poll Winners! It was a hard fought battle in the Permian Poll for the Dimetrodon, but ultimately the Diplocaulus takes the win! No bias on behalf of a fellow amphibian. Ab...
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toadstown
about 1 month ago
ALL GOALS FUNDED! What do you want to see next?
Dropping in for a quick update between the stretch goal polls to say: WOW!! Just three days into this campaign and we have reached all our stretch goals! To say we're floored...
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PROJECT UPDATE
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9 days ago

Project Update: Survey Reminder!

Hello all! As a quick reminder - surveys lock on Monday, June 1st! Make sure to fill them out if you haven't already!

When surveys lock, you will no longer be able to change your pin choices or pledge tiers, so make any final edits now! You'll still be able to update your shipping address until production is completed.

We're looking at an 88% of all surveys currently filled out! As soon as we lock down a total closer to complete by monday, we'll start taking count and get rolling on production ASAP!

In the meantime, both our first samples AND backing cards have come in. Hope this fella likes being the sacrificial fossil to show off how good they look!!


As always, please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns about the survey process. We'll get back to you as soon as we can, thanks!
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18 days ago

Project Update: Surveys Rolling Out (and Pin Samples)!

🔥 Smoke Test Surveys Have Been Sent!

A small sample of backers have received their post-campaign survey! If there are ANY issues, inconsistencies, or hiccups you experience during your survey process - you're encouraged to let us know, we're here to help! The rest of the surveys will be sent out within the next couple of days, once we can confirm everything's good to go.

You will have until June 1st to fill our your survey, which gives you just under two weeks to pick out your pins. I'll put a reminder out when there's a few days left to go, after which orders will lock and payment information will be collected.

Additionally, you will have opportunities to change your shipping address before orders start shipping. So please make sure to fill out your survey as soon as possible!

🪶 Samples, Stickers, & Shakers!

Production is already underway, and we've received our first look at the samples - Eoraptor is looking GORGEOUS! Flaunting its soft, borderless patterns and recessed detailing wonderfully. The shaker is as satisfying and shakey as we imagined it, and its artwork is so vibrant.

The Dracovenator sticker's artwork has also been finalized and the stickers for it (and the Puppypals collab) are cooking! They will both be waterproof 3x3" with metallic gold and holographic details, respectively.

🐉 Leftovers, Preorders, and... Dragons?

Of course, dragons!

If you or a buddy missed out on the live campaign, our preorder store is now OPEN!  The timeline of these pins and products will be the same as the core campaign's - expect the to be shipped around late July / early August once production is complete. It will include pins from this and our prior two campaigns!

For those who JUST want the dragons, no waiting for the dinos, the Toadstown Etsy has also been freshly stocked with gem dragons leftovers! Pins from this campaign will also be moved there once all orders are fulfilled, so make sure to give us a follow over there to catch any new merch.



Thank you all so much as always! If you have any questions, feedback, or hit any snags filling out your survey, please reach out to us at [email protected] for the quickest response and we'll get back ASAP!

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26 days ago

Project Update: 🔥24 HOURS LEFT!🔥 Shakers, surveys, & more!

We're in the home stretch, it's the final day of the campaign! You guys have absolutely blown this campaign and our goals out of the water, but we've got a few updates for you before the end is upon us...

🦕 All Stretch Goals CRUSHED!

All 12 unlocked pins are available $9 each under the choose-your-own options, so you're free to enter any combination of them to your orders!

As a reminder, the set of 3 minipins are their own listing, and NOT included as the choose-your-own! Be sure to add them separately if you want the set of three!

The fossil shaker is now available as an add-on! Some of you might have caught it go before this update briefly as a $15 inclusion, but its price has been corrected to $10! ;) Feel free to switch over to the cheaper version, but if we catch any old versions in folks' surveys, we'll be sure to manually switch them over as well.

Other than that, all art has been finalized, save for the Dracovenator sticker, which is well under way.


📜 ...What happens next?

Once the campaign concludes tomorrow at 3:00pm CDT, expect the post-campaign surveys to start rolling out so you can pick your pins! This may take up to a week to get to you, so hold onto your horses!

We are on-track with the projected timeline, so backers will have until June 1st (about two weeks) to fill out their survey. From there, we'll gather up the order information, charge cards for orders, and pins will go into production. We expect to start shipping out around late June ~ early July, but we'll keep you all updated through the months as samples come in!



🦖 And Of Course, Thank You!

Within the first DAY, we had more backers on Paleo Pals than either of our previous campaigns' ends. This campaign has been an incredible success, and we couldn't have done it without all of you! Your generosity and hype never fails to floor us.

I want to extend my gratitude to the other amazing creators taking part in Beasts & Botanicals for letting me celebrate my favorite critters of prehistory. And as always, to my awesome partner Atomic [twitter] for their vectoring wizardry, and being terror birds' #1 fan. We'll get 'em next time.

We'll catch you tomorrow once smoke test surveys start rolling out! Let's make this a last day to remember!
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about 1 month ago

Project Update: One Week Remains! Final Poll Winner, New Goals!

🦖 Prehistory's Greatest Hits!

It was a close shave, but Quetzalcoatlus takes the crown for community favorite animal! Quetz will join Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex up as the last three pins of the campaign, added as new stretch goals!

Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus rex, Quetzalcoatlus

As it turns out, your guys' continued support continues to blow me away, and we soared past what would have been two of these three pins' goals. So Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus are available to pledge for out the gates! All that remains is the mighty T. Rex at $9500. But it isn't our last stretch goal of the campaign... 

🦴 Shaking it Up

As the campaign's final stretch goal at $10,500, we're hoping to fund this adorable acrylic fossil shaker keychain!

A raptor basks in the warm, lush foliage of its home, needing not grasp the long and marvelous history of the animals that came before it, and shaped the world it lives in presently. Maybe many, many years later they'll be some strange monkeys that take a liking to that kind of stuff instead. Who is to say!
An acrylic "shaker" keychain of a raptor sitting on an isometric cut-out of the earth. Inside it are an ammonite fossil, a trilobite fossil, and a carnivorus dinosaur skull.


Since this is likely the definitive FINAL goal to reach, we've included one last pin-centric pledge tier to encompass everything we've seen so far! The shaker will be priced differently than the pins if reached ($10), and as a reminder, the minipins will cost $18 for the set as opposed for the $9 per standard pin, so those are not included in the Choose-Your-Own tiers.

We'll be back soon enough with more updates as we trek into the last week, with more finalized artwork for existing mockups like the sticker and mini pins. Thank you all so much as always!
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about 1 month ago

Project Update: New Stretch Goal Poll & Winners Revealed!

🦎 Poll Winners!

It was a hard fought battle in the Permian Poll for the Dimetrodon, but ultimately the Diplocaulus takes the win! No bias on behalf of a fellow amphibian. Absolutely none.

The Smilodon and Diplocaulus have both received their pin designs as we work to finalize the other currently-sketched tiers and sticker! 


🦖 The Best Of The Best!

It all comes down to this! We're whipping up some new stretch goals for people to work towards with the campaign remaining, and feel it's only right to give the most iconic prehistoric beasts their due. Whether by movie, game, or favorite childhood toys, we're looking to include one more pin to a lineup of famous dinos (and more)!

Vote below for what animal you want to see represent the People's Choice! We did our best to include a few of the stand-out suggestions from other updates, as well as the runner-ups from the last two polls, among some other famous critters. The winner will be joining the Triceratops and T. Rex for the next stretch goals, so let's see who reigns supreme!

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