Forged In Flame - A Pride Enamel Pin Collection

Hi!

Surveys are finally sent! I will order everything as soon as we reach 75% responses.

The first survey lock and charge will be Friday September 5th at around 8 PM MDT. 

Within the week I will be adding some fan art swords to the pre order store. Don't feel obliged to add them to your order - the pre order shop just happens to be the best way to manage merch pre orders - but I think these designs are pretty fun. They will be weapons from Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, KPop Demon Hunters, and Locked Tomb. These swords will be ordered a little later than the Forged in Flame pins so expect to receive your order a few weeks later. 

I have a busy convention schedule as always. Here are my remaining cons for the year!
- Matsuricon in Columbus, OH
- Mesa County Libraries Comic Con in Grand Junction, CO
- FanX in Salt Lake City, UT
- Anime Nebraskon in Council Bluffs, IA

If you happen to be going to any of these, please come and say hello! If you mention this campaign you get a free sticker or badge ribbon!

That's it for now. Sorry the survey took stupid long to finalize. I would greatly recommend against moving, keeping a busy con schedule, and running a pin campaign at the same time! Bad! The good news is that we should be mostly on schedule at this point as long as shipping into the US doesn't become a nightmare.... 

Anyways, cheers! Greatly appreciate you all~
- Lachlan

Hi all,

Just a quick update! I’m at Otakon at the moment, having a lovely time~

Survey took a lot longer to put together - I really need to stop underestimating how much time these things take, especially with massive con prep and moving/unpacking/house selling stress. I have a few things to finish up on the files on my desktop once I get home Monday night, then review, then smoke test, then full send out. That last bit should be later this coming week or very early the week after. 

Because I’m the delay, I’m amending the due dates for surveys. Take what time you need, and I will still lock and charge surveys every Friday. Obviously the faster folks get the surveys done the better, and as always I will make the pin order once I receive 75% of all surveys. This is to make sure I can make the order with a fairly accurate count. 

Pins will probably be in my hands mid October, and send out early November. Of course, there is always a chance the pins will arrive sooner - a new crop of pins usually takes my manufacturer 45 days from order placed to shipment dispatch. 

Just wanted to send this update to make sure you all know that the cog is still turning, just very slowly. I will be so happy once I can finally get settled down for real. 

Cheers friends,
Lachlan

Hey!

So I'm not sure if the last update went through, but if not, thanks again for a great pride campaign! It's been very hectic, and I apologize for the radio silence. I've actually been without internet for all of July! And phone data was being terrible too and I couldn't get BackerKit to load well. After I got back home from Anime Expo we moved into a temp apartment and they told us the day of move in that we weren't going to have internet until, well, today. Frustrating! 

Since I needed an internet connection to put together the survey and I work from a desktop, they are not done yet, but I'm going to push hard so that they can be sent out asap. I can probably finish the survey and remaining graphics in like a day and a half? But then it has to get approved by BackerKit staff so you might not see surveys until next week. 

I'm super sorry guys, I know it's frustrating for you too! 

I'll be back super soon with more updates including details on the collar pins. Thanks for sticking with me. 

Cheers,
Lachlan

Hello from California! 

I just set up my Anime Expo table and am ready to go for a very long week, but I wanted to make sure to tell you all thank you very much for a great campaign!! We ended up breaking 11k at the very end! 

Surveys should be out in a couple weeks - I have this show to do and then I'm moving into another temporary housing arrangement the next week. 

Please check the timeline in the campaign story for important dates! 

Catch you later in the next update with more specific survey information, and cheers! 

WE DID IT! We unlocked collar pins! 

I'm wrapping up a pride market and am away from my files, but I went ahead and added the collar pin as an add on! It's $25! Yippee!

Thanks and see you in the post campaign wrap up!