Flying Friends: A Batpack Companion Project

hey all! just wanted to pop in and let you all know that surveys are at about 76% completed, which is great! as a reminder, the deadline for filling in your survey is march 31st, and most people's cards will also be charged around this time!

if you were in the mini sticker tier OR the sticker lovers tier OR placed a pre-order that only contained ready to ship items (aka none of the new pins), your cards have already been charged for shipping and you should have gotten an email to confirm your shipping address! i'm hoping to have those orders sent out by early next week, just to start getting ahead of shipping things we already have in stock!

ALL stickers for the campaign have been ordered & the last of them will be on their way to me in a few days; after that, we just need to order the series 2 batty blind bag charms (they'll be lumped in with another charm order i'm doing soon), order labels for aforementioned bags, and get started on manufacturing the new pins! samples are done for the first three (i need to make a few changes before i'll be ready to show them), and i'll be ordering the cross-collab/returning backer reward pins + the stretch goal pins without sampling first, since they're fairly straightforward designs.

all this to say that things are moving along at a great pace! i definitely feel like i've learned a lot & improved upon my work flow and process since pintopia last year. it definitely does also help that i'm not moving countries mid campaign this time also, but STILL 😅 i'm feeling proud of myself haha!

have a great rest of your week, everyone! happy thursday! 🦇

first of all, i wanted to thank you all SO much for turning up to support the preorder store! between people filling in their surveys & buying from the preorder store, we've sold a TON of batpacks & also made some great progress towards unlocking the tangerine bat pin!



unfortunately, both flying fox and vampire bat batpack designs are now currently sold out for the time being. not to worry, though, they'll be back! & vampire bat will be one of the designs restocked for the series 2 batpack project in may, so if youre holding out for one, not to worry -- there'll be plenty of chances to snag one moving forward :)

for flying friends backers: surveys are a little over 50% of the way filled out -- THANK YOU!! 🦇❤️ the sooner surveys are filled out, the sooner I can get an estimate on how many pins i'll need to order! so be sure to check for your survey in your email if you haven't already :3

hey all! first off -- if you backed the flying friends project, your surveys have been sent out, so check your email! ✉️

if you DIDN'T back the project but still wanted to grab some goods... the preorder store is now officially OPEN as well!

you can preorder pins from the campaign OR you can choose from a ton of ready to ship items, including a limited quantity of original batpacks!! 🦇❤️

a lot of ready to ship items (including batpacks) have a limited amount available, so make sure you take a look and grab anything that's low stock earlier rather than later!

if you experience any problems with the preorder store and/or with your survey, please reach out to me directly at [email protected] ! 

hey all! after futzing with shipping profiles for 5 million years, the pledge manager survey has finally be successfully set up! we had to account for the batpacks requiring a different shipping package requirement if chosen as an add on, which was a bit of a nightmare to configure.

anyway, i've sent out the smoke test as of a few minutes ago! (EDIT: THIS UPDATE DIDN'T PUBLISH WHEN I MEANT IT TO. SORRY! THEY WERE SENT OUT A FEW HOURS AGO)

this means that ~5% of backers in each pledge level will get their surveys now, & I can double check and make sure everything looks good.

barring any issues that may arise, the current plan is to send out the rest of the surveys as well as open the preorder store on saturday at 10am PST!

as a reminder, your survey is where you will submit your payment method to be used to pay for shipping/tariff fees. your order CANNOT be shipped/accounted for until your survey is filled out!

‼️if youre in the smoke test & you notice something strange about your order/survey, please reach out to me at [email protected] and let me know!

i'll see you guys again on saturday once the rest of your surveys are sent/the preorder store is opened! 🦇

hey all! I just wanted to let you guys know that i've submitted the post-campaign survey to backerkit for review, and once it's approved, the smoke test surveys will be going out!

if you don't know, the smoke test surveys are a test survey sent to a few members of each pledge tier just to confirm that everything is functioning as it should. once the smoke test comes back with good results, everyone else's surveys will be sent out! i'm aiming to have surveys out by the end of the week.

once surveys are all sent out, the pre-order store will open, as well. this is to make sure people who may want to add-on a batpack to their campaign survey have equal chance to do so before people who want to order just a batpack!

i'll have some more details about how the survey process is gonna work this time around + how the pre-order store will work in the next day or so. keep an eye out!