Nightmare-Chan post-campaign store

Hi fam,

So last week was a total wash due to a family emergency that had me flying to the Bay Area for the past week (which especially was terrible timing as I ended up missing the Blasphemeet show last weekend).

I just got back, so I locked shipping addresses for those receiving rewards that are NOT the Magenta or marbled figures.

I'll be spending the next day or two trimming, assembling, and packaging your orders - I realize that I didn't give y'all a chance to update your address, so if you got an email saying that your address was locked and you need it unlocked to edit, please just email me at [email protected].

Hope y'all are doing well, and looking forward to finally getting some of these toys out to you!

Thanks again for all your patience, and I due to the mold failure it's looking like everyone else will be getting their figures in the New Year ;_;

THAT SAID - there is some potentially good news.

So due to the way a small toy production factory works (both Mile High and other sofubi houses in Japan) work, is that due to the nature of how vinyl is poured into molds, orders are usually "ganged up" by color. Meaning that if there's a large order for a certain color, they will pull multiple orders of different toys at the same time. So if you happen to order toys in a popular color, those are likely to be fulfilled earlier as if they're already fulfilling another order in that color they can lump that part of your order in with a different toy being produced in the same color.

This is why the marbled ones came last - those are such a custom order that they have to wait until there's an open spot in production in order to get those done since no one else is ordering that color.

But the good news is that I ALSO happened ask for more figures in any other vinyl color that was being pulled - there was a darker maroon-ish color being pulled, and so I have a small quantity of those figures in-hand. Here's the body so you can see the difference with the magenta test pull I have.



I'm planning to do some customs for DesignerCon (Dec. 15-17 in Anaheim) using these as a base, but if anyone has ordered a magenta figure (or really, any figure color) and wants to swap for a maroon one, I'm happy to swap and ship it out sooner. Just comment here and I'll update your order. 

Please let me know if you'd like one (especially if you're swapping for a lime or robin's egg) by this FRIDAY (November 17), so I can begin planning my paint run and customs for the show (and also ship out existing orders)! Otherwise, any extras of these maroon blanks will be sold to the general public at DCON. 

Thanks again for all the patience and understanding, and I'll do my best to get you your demonic entities ASAP!

Cheers,
Rick

Hi everyone,

I was hoping to be able to update y'all with better news, but after some back and forth with Mile High, it's looking like the left arm mold has failed..meaning that a new mold needs to get made in order to finish the run.



So it's mostly bad news here tbh. I'm hoping it won't take the 9 months as my first molds, but suffice to say, none of the marbled or Magenta toys have been pulled and they can't be pulled until a functioning mold gets made :sob:

I expect to get the Lime and solid Robin's Egg figures in soon, so if you're not getting any of the above options, I'll start shipping those out ASAP. 

So this means that I'll locking addresses for some of you soon, but if you get an address lock notice, that means you'll be getting your pins/shirts/figures relatively soon. 

For everyone else, thanks for your patience. I'm so bummed this is taking longer than expected, but I guess huge delays is part of the indie toy creator world, sadly. 

The one good thing about all of this is that I had planned for the Robin's Egg to be the base color for my first painted run, which I'm hoping to premier at DesignerCon in December. 

So while we all patiently await our marbled (and Magenta) Nightmare-Chans, hopefully I'll have some painted figures for anyone swinging by Anaheim. 

Anyway, thank you again, and looking forward to sharing purely good news soon! 
-Rick

Howdy all!

Just wanted to give you alll an update, I just talked to the factory and it's looking like due to the large variety of colors I chose, I should be getting Nightmare-Chan in on or before October 9th - meaning that shipping is happening likely later that week. 

I'll reach out for address locking once I actually get a tracking number on the toys, and then I'll be madly trimming and assembling them for y'all. 

The enamel pins should be coming in the next few days, so I'll definitely share some photos ASAP. 

I'm going to do my damnest to get you your figures by mid-October, but just wanted to give y'all a head's up that I'm likely not going to have any for Seaside Oddities this weekend. I miiiight try to get a one-off done in time..

Thoughts - lottery? First come, first served? 

Thanks again for your patience and I'm now trying to wrangle all the manufacturers to get stuff taken care of! 

Have a great week!
-Rick