Adventure Buddies: Corgi Kitsune & Friends Pins and Plushies

Hey everyone!

A bit of bad news, the CPC testing recently changed and it put a huge delay on the project and is going to cost another $800. I fortunately have the money to cover that right now so don’t worry about that part! The part that is a bit troublesome is that it put everything on halt while they scrambled to update all the tags and requirements to meet the new CPC testing requirements. As such, while the plushies will be done by the end of the week, they still have to go through testing which can take 5+ days and then it will take 20-40 days to reach me.

This means they’ll likely arrive between the 10th and mid January which may too late for Christmas shipping.

As an apology and thanks for sticking with me, for anyone who ordered a plushie, I will be making a new frog pin variant for yall. And you’ll each get a little froggie pin for free.

This is an example of the frogs! This will NOT be the color variant. I still have to make it for yall 💕

I’ve approved the fixes to the face shape and so they’re all off to production! It should take about 1 month for production and 1 month to ship. So I should receive them end of October. Early November and I’ll do my best to get them out within a couple weeks after receiving them so they’re out to everyone by Christmas!

Thank you all for your patience!!! 

My next plushies will be in my Pintopia 2026 campaign Media Monsters.

For sure there will be an Okami plush, if I can get a Cerberus plush design done in time I will add that as well. 

I’m also debating opening up a sponsor a plushie’ thing where you can pay for the cost of the sample’s production + shipping to you and even if the plushie doesn’t fund you’ll get the sample. This way people who want a less popular plush, say Yae Miko or a carbuncle can still get it. But I’ll have to get that sorted out and figure out how much the sample will cost. First I need to design the Okami and Cerberus plush and make sure I still have time to get the samples done before Pintopia. 

I will likely only do one plushie campaign per year. Probably every Pintopia ^^ 

As per normal, yall tied the polls lol 💕

So I spent the night trying to figure out the best solution moving forward. The only way I can think to bring yall into the process is to make a new channel in my discord where I can poll yall and get ideas/suggestions when I’m designing plushies. This way yall can help be apart of the process before the campaign launches and so I can have the prototype in hand during the main campaign.

https://discord.gg/hftqNpajVS

This way anyone who wants to participate can and everyone can see the prototype before pledging. Just make sure you add the Plushie Design Polls Announcement rolls.

I know not everyone uses discord or likes having 10000 servers. I’ll also try to post polls to my instagram stories but I know those are easier to miss and only limit me to 4 options. So I can’t use them for larger polls and I’ll be combining the results with the discord polls

https://www.instagram.com/winterraart?igsh=aXcwcGxpcTlyaWNx&utm_source=qr

I also know not everyone likes/uses Instagram either so I’ll continue trying to brainstorm solutions but for now this is plan!

Right now there’s a discord poll for the Pintopia plushie. So if you want to help decide which plushie I start a prototype on, jump on over ^^

Hey everyone!

If you don’t like plushies skip this update! For those of you who do, I wanted to figure out what yall prefer. Looking through all the other pintopia projects, it seems I grossly underestimated how long plushies take lol as pretty much none of the plushie campaigns are done prototyping let alone fulfilling. So I guess this is normal. 

So I wanted to give yall a choice, either 
1) I keep doing a backer voted plushie but it may delay fulfillment of all plushies by up to 6-8 months (most likely 3-4 months)

or

2) I only fund plushies I have prototypes for and I do not have a backer voted plushie even option. But this way plushies should ship faster

Either way is fine with me but I understand both arguments and want to figure out where y’all lay!

Hey everyone!

Good news, all the pin orders have been fulfilled by the deadline 😮‍💨 some 500+ orders got out this month. Exception being 10 orders in which I can’t find one of the items for. I moved and things have vanished into the aether. Most of the items I placed an order for restock halfway through July, the rest I ordered 3 days ago. I imagine they’ll be here sometime in August and my sister will get them out ASAP along with a free sticker for the delay. (Some of the items include the white/red Kitsune and all the leafeons except autumn, I weirdly enough have that one) 

Regarding plushies I mailed back the original sample for them to look at. My biggest issue is that their faces look so squished or bloated lol. Once this is fixed they’ll go into production. I can’t imagine this’ll be a hard fix but it’s been hard trying to explain what the issue is. So I just mailed them back the original sample (which was perfect) ^^ I think it’s just an over-stuffing issue. 

I changed the material of the crown so it wasn’t the flimsy felt, but they put it behind the ears so I had to get it moved back up in front like the old one. 

I can’t imagine these won’t be in production by the end of August. I’m determined to get them to everyone before Christmas. I’ll include freebies for everyone with a plush to make up for it!