Last week I was approached by a company, Makeship, about testing the water with some plushies. I’ve wanted to try plushies again, and they seem to do most of the work with little expenditure of time and energy on my part, and I’ve heard people say very good things about the company, so I figured it’s worth a shot.
Zeke has had the plushie treatment twice before (once sort of questionably, and once rather successfully) but not since the CAD 2.0 reboot. I’d love to make a bunch of character plushies (Speck, Console War Soldiers, The Campaign, etc), but to see if this is something you’re interested in, I figured Zeke was a strong choice to lead us off.
The process, as I understand it, works like this: During the 10 day petition, you show your interest in having one of these plushies by pledging $2. If we get 200+ people interested, Makeship will then get to work designing the actual plushie, and then launch a full funding campaign featuring photos of the actual product. If we don’t reach 200 people, you get your $2 back and we all acknowledge that plushies aren’t something this community wants and that’s that.
If we move forward, and you committed $2, that amount is credited towards the full price/shipping. Then they make all the plushies, ship them out, and if it all went well and everyone’s happy, we pick another character to do.
You can look at Makeship’s site to see examples of the work they do, I think their plushies look pretty good, and I’m hopeful they can do Zeke justice. Size-wise, my best guess is they’re in the 8″ range, but I’m not 100% on that.
So yeah, I’ll remind you again Friday morning that this petition is going live, and this is one of those things where, while I don’t want anyone buying a thing they don’t want, if you do want it, you’ll want to act because it doesn’t happen unless you show up. And they are a “we make as many as we need to fill orders and then move one” kind of a product; they won’t hang around for purchase months later as far as I know.