Dream Keep Dragon Plush

Surveys are going out!!
20 days ago – Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 07:46:39 PM

This is not and drill! Get hyped!
Surveys are starting to go out, you all must check your email and your spam to make sure you get them and fill them out promptly! The sooner they are filled out, the faster our magical dragons can start being produced but it’s up to YOU to make that happen! Don’t wait to fill it out just because not all prototypes are done you change change your answer up until we lock in your answers. We need to know how many of which character to order.

Dark Dreams and the others unfortunate dragons we didn’t reach during campaign 

Now is your chance to free the other dragons and YOU get to choose! Each dragon has their own mini campaign in the form of pre-orders. Some of the numbers may seem daunting but if just a measly 200 people pledge to pre-order dark dreams he can be produced! Some of the others even less! You can do this on your surveys as well as add other unlocked items you didn’t know you wanted. We plan to lock surveys end of November to start productions. This may be extended due to prototyping but they are moving along so fingers crossed we can begin production on schedule! 


That  means you all must answer your questions as soon as possible! You won’t be charged until we lock your order and shipping will be collected later when we know weights and sizes of items. 

So keep checking! Only 11 of 51 have answered the initial batch of surveys so far. 

Surveys going out!
21 days ago – Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 02:47:46 PM

We started to send out some surveys to test the system so it doesn’t trigger the spam which is called a “Smoke Test” some of you should have gotten your survey we will be sending out the rest over the next few days so keep checking and make sure to answer the questions on it! You will also have the option to add on more items at this time! 

New Bag Update, Hearts, and Survey waiting on approval!
21 days ago – Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 11:26:31 AM

Surveys have been sent off to Backerkit to double check I haven’t missed anything and hopefully they will be approved to send soon! 

We have new updates on the bags! I LOVE them! They are so perfect! They’ve been revised they have an inner zipper pocket and inner open pocket section, and can carry one giant dragon either with head out or head all the way in the bag! The straps area also fully adjustable and wide unlike most drawstring bags so as not to put too much pressure on your shoulders with the heavy big dragons. 

Heart Updates - 

They are also prototyping the hearts! These are not the right shape yet and a little too small so they are going to make them about an inch bigger, but so far so good and super cute! It’s so incredible seeing my ideas brought to life. 

Backer Kit Surveys being Sent soon!
23 days ago – Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 01:07:42 PM

Thank you all so much for your patience I have FINALLY completed checking and double check and uploading every single item, variant, and cross checking SKUS and making sure the pledges, and add-ons were connected correctly to said items. It has been sent off to Backer-kit for Review to make sure I didn’t miss anything, but then once its approved we will be starting to send them out! They are first sent out with what is called a “Smoke test” which only sends to a couple people at a time so as not to trigger any spam filters etc. I’ll make an update here, and also send follow up email blasts to alert you all when they are starting to be sent out! Please stay vigilant in checking your emails and checking here as well for updates so we can make this go as smooth as possible for all of us! Its just me and my husband doing all of this alone, so please do be patient as we figure this all out and then work on hopefully sending things into production before January. we plan to keep surveys open at least a month possibly more but it is our goal to send things for production before the end of the year so we don’t risk price increases. 

Thank you , 

-Shottsy

Star Dreamer companion plush update!
29 days ago – Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 12:37:08 PM

Hello Dreamers, 

Thank you all for your patience for the surveys I had some issues with our Shopify store integration and we are now nearly finished. It’s a lot of tedious work! To set up your surveys we have to upload every single product manually with images and variations to backer-kit then make sure each tier that should get said item is selected, and any add-ons from campaign are connected to the uploaded appropriate item for that add-on. Then we have to upload every product and variant AGAIN to Shopify and have to make sure all the SKUs match both so that we can do fulfillment and calculate shipping and print off shipping labels accurately when the time comes. We won’t be collecting shipping right away when surveys go out as we need prototypes in hand to know weight and size etc but you will be able to add things on very soon! 

NOW on to the fun stuff! We received photos of what is called a “sketch” where they work out shape of plush with scrap materials before doing the final. There was some confusion and something we had discussed but hadn’t confirmed was keeping head same size but making body a bit smaller. My husband instantly 🥺 let out an involuntary squeal over him. Which is sort of how I feel. We are still trying to solve the heart pocket issue of size if we keep body smaller but I want to see what you guys think? Do you like this version of proportions? It’s only a couple inches smaller than original but we think he’s very cute and will be easier to cuddle as initially planned or do you like the larger body? We WILL be making the tail chonkier even if we stick to this size. Let us know in comments what you guys think! Should we stay with original size but new shape, or stay with this proportion? 
 

Below you can see I am editing the foot it will face out so he balances better 

You can see above by the hand holding him he is still a pretty decent cuddly size. They said that because of the complexity making the body smaller doesn’t do anything for cost but still, we think it looks cuter and more huggable what do you all think?

Below is the first pass. (Remember above is just scrap materials and final will he colors of this one)