Skittle-dash

The emblem in back is getting made bigger, that is already set down. The thread on horn was on the board at first also. It was axed over marker look it gave. To get a nice crisp line it has to be embroidered or constricting the fabric by making a slight crease. Neither is easily done at this scale and has high margin of error. For the smile, it too was on the list, but was removed because while easy to imagine on side view, the true angles of the face were giving it a wavy pattern. The same way drawing a straight line on a pumpkin only is straight from one vantage point. It always had this perpetual sad face or cheesy smile. The eyes as you mentioned are also being processed and are in the works. That mane is back to haunt us again I see. The mane has been shortened and lengthened so many times that it’s excluded from half the drawings. We have the show accuracy fighting from two angles on this one. Show actuality would say, lengthen it. When we go listen to show dynamics it says shorten it to maintain the free waviness and positions. For the larger the points of contact on a curved shape, the less a plane can move without serious deformation. In this case a wrinkle would appear when flopped over to the side. As for anything offical, I can't do anything till everyone has their plush in their hands. No worry about that. However, on that note. This is my grand overreaction to the one message I got today that blew my mind. I got the message saying: "isnt this a character from neopets?" To at what I responded: "If there is one that resembles this, then it's 100% coincidence.” Next message he mentioned something else about it being copyrighted so I franticly searched for what in Celestia’s Luna’s name this guy was talking about. Finally it struck me… This person actually thought that the name Luna was something original that was created by neopets. With the glory of the internet and all the easy information available, that this person is clearly on… went out of his way to message me… to tell me that I might be infringing on someone’s copyright… by using a 3000 year old word… (Ignoring the obvious part to us) Where was this kid when he learned about a “Lunar Eclipse” in science? I forgive those who don’t know the basics such as, it’s from Latin. But to not take the time to double check something when making such a direct statement when the information is in your lap? The whole thing just made my head shutdown as I stared in disbelief. It wasn’t even a troll account. His profile had more activity than anyone else that I have bothered to check. As I said, this is just me overacting, I tend hold the general populous to unrealistic standards in terms of unnecessary knowledge.

I'll post all the current updates that can only be seen by backers currently: Working with manufacturer to increase rear embroidery emblems size to correct proportions. The rear emblems thread is being changed into pure black rather than the deep iridescent indigo which caused too many highlights. This is to make it more accurate to the form we have in mind. Before changes: http://i.imgur.com/AsghA.jpg Product Support (I know it's early but do the number of orders, statistically it will happen, might as well be ready.) To help keep everything... sparkling well organized. Please use the following e-mail address for any problem you may have with a reward such as damage upon arrival etc. Even thou everything will be closely inspected before shipping, we all know that stuff happens, even to plushies! (Had a fork truck impale a box on a personal shipment.) E-mail: Support@carbonesque.com Then someone had brought this to my attention under the updates comment section: "That is a great idea! While you're making changes, I have a tiny suggestion for one. Her eyes are a tad off. They're mostly white, but Luna's eyes are mostly big bluegreen iris. Maybe work a little on the white to iris balance? Then she would be PERFECT ! Can't wait to see her finally!" For which I had to respond: " Wow. So I back tracked all the information I sent them and followed it to see what happened. Basically a whole bunch of little inconsistencies compounded on each-other due to the transition of making this physical. First, all the eyes are a gradient with a light and darker side. The reference I used didn't have the light side visible. Also for embroidery, it gets very complicated to do a gradient at this scale. So I had to pick a solid color, which happened to be on the darker side. Secondly, color on a screen doesn't translate well into physical color. So we use the Pantone system as a way of standardizing it into real world color. This allows us to recreate the same color from different places consistently. As a result, there are significantly less colors that can be easily manufactured. Therefore it's common that a color ends up in-between two colors on the Pantone system and we are forced to go one way or another. This time the hue that was deemed closer by the computer was bias for the blue. I had referenced an image with her looking forwards, as the a result the iris was smaller and pushed forwards. The ratio of the amount of black got shifted towards black because of thread thickness. I will see what I can do to correct these details. I was focusing so much on trying to get the form right, and these errors were so gradual, didn't notice it until you pointed that out. Some of the colors already are going to have be custom dyed, which is going to cost a decent amount extra. However I won't have them send anything into production till this kickstarter is over and we all see the modified sample. Thanks for pointing that out!" Later, for post of someone who wanted to make sure this was indeed what they thought it was, backed with this comment: "Your happiness is my number one goal. Mass production will not start till everyone has been given the opportunity to view the new changed sample and make comments. Some things I will be unable to change since they are in there for manufacturing purposes. Others will be errors that I didn't notice, such as the eye color." This means the final form is not set in stone. It costs the manufacture a lot of money to make samples, therefore I will have to wait till I'm sure the project is 100% go ahead (end of kickstarter date). So from now till then, I'm making list of corrections. I did not make it a large message to backers yet because we are still not in the clear. Then everyone can make their comments on the final update comments section. Some of the changes won't be possible for manufactering problems. If there is a split on a change, current form takes bias. Once we have the list, I will make drawings to show the changes, they will make a sample and take photos and give to us. If everything is good after that then they can mass produce it. This might delay the project by 3-5 days, but I think that it's for the best. Her crown had been omitted for a few reasons. First, at the scale it was being done at, all of the stiching made it look unacceptable. It also adds a lot of stichwork to an already crowded area, which at this scale could lead to cross thread pulling as the machine pulls on threads that are put down before it, causing poor qualitly control and deformations. Therefore I decided it to be best for the crown to be omited. Sadly I can not do anyother characters. I don't have enough money to do this again. However, since I didn't make any money from this, and the many other legal walls for protection I have. I'm thinking about asking hasbro for an offical license to sell beanbag versions. While working on this I realized that the shows proportions are very close to beanbag style with their extremely wide legs to body proportions. I feel it would be easy to make it look more show accurate than funrises demons. Plush they would be cheap, fun to play with. sold at Toys R US. This however would have to mean the liences given to Funrise doesn't include beanbags as a definition of a plush. Sorry for the super long posts, I'm strapped for time as you could imagine and I am unable to visit here as often as I should. I have to answer every single comment and e-mail by myself. Some nights it can take hours.

Sorry for taking so long to respond, been quite busy as you could imagine. So I shall make up for it with a wall mountain of text. All you have to do EXACTLY, is "donate" 25$ to the kickstarter project. Shipping inside US is included! It is done through Amazon, it is their security system, kickstarter doesn't actually obtain your card information either, nor do I. You are not charge until the project end date is done. This means, if the project was to be stopped from some outside force, you shall receive 100% refund. Timely fashion, it's not exactly so fast. However I'm being completely transparent during this operation so everyone can keep track of where we stand. A good chunk of this operation is not in my hands as I shall explain. First, once the project is done, I don't get the ability to forward funds for about 14 days!!! Then once they are finally unlocked, it shall take another 30 days+ for manufacturer to produce them. Once again, we have to wait for shipping, they will shipped via boat, taking another 2-3 weeks to get from their company to mine. However once it does get to mine, things go much faster. Since while waiting, this allows me to setup all the shipping ahead of time. So once the plushies come in, I just drop the correct number into each box and off they go. Currently by the numbers, that stage should take only 1 day. Then it has to get shipped back out to you, which could be another 1-3 days. You might have noticed, there is a lot in this time frame where I have no control. The most I can do is report what the companies are telling me, such as: when it's going to be shipped from them, est times. As for your guarantee, sadly there is none except a pinkie promise. You are guaranteed your money back if the project gets canceled through automatic means. But here is where it's a double edge sword, if it wasn't a donation, I wouldn't be able to pull this off legally. Donations by stature are a gift, and I'm gifting back. I understand that this is a leap of faith. Therefore I made the risk for you a mere hop, skip and a… flat 25$. As a designer by trade, this project being successful will allow me to have more credibility to orchestrate larger and more complex projects. Hence I do have an incentive for this to work and if I can make a few bronies happy along the way, why not? (edit: grammar... Curse this site, why doesn't it have spell check!, why it not save my changes either lol!)

A lot of time is from Kickstarter itself. Takes 14 days they say for funds to be cleared. Then I can tell the manufacter overseas to make it. They say they need 30day clear time. At which point it gets shipped frieght... what can take 1-2 weeks. This gives me time to prepare all the shipment slips, dubble check with speical requests etc. Shipping costs so much, it's why I didnt have international option at first. Doubt anyone would pay that much. $60 extra for international. ($40 for Canada and Mexico) Customs and base rates take up so much. This is with cheapest option I could find meaning its frieght and from past shippments takes 2-3 weeks!!!! Domestic (inside USA) Shipping is Included!

Of course! The carbonfiber gives it spring. The head band also has a thin layer of foam on inside (to keep Luna comfortable) Also this image doesn't exist. http://i.imgur.com/AsghA.jpg The back "emblems" thread is slightly iridescent so it changes color depending on viewing angle from Black to Indigo" (edit: Reason is, sometimes her emblem was black, sometimes it was indigo, couldn't decide which one to pick... so we picked both! Hoping the company is still going to be able to secure more of the thread.)

For those that are Under the current system, even if someone picked reward #1 and gave 40$ and live in the US. Automaticly you get a higher reward, so in this case they would get 2 plush instead of one. There will always be email confermation before hand to make sure you dont want something else, like mouse the pad. So if someone donated 1500$ and checked off reward #1.... they better have room for 100 luna's because that's what is being shipped lol.

After seeing so many sad posts about people wanting a decent plush but not being able to get one saddened me. This has been an ongoing project from Reddit for a few months. Even if this project does fail, I still have my own Luna plush, so it was worth the risk! When this was first planned, I was actually on the phone with Hasbro to get a license when I found out online they had just granted FunriseToys sole access to make plushies. So I waited, when I saw the horror I was quite unhappy that Hasbro let that slip. Then I realized they don't care about product quality as long as it sells.

Of course. mousey pad $15 extra. I don't control the manufacturing process of those, or the shirts, so I was unable to drop the price to at cost like the plush. That's why the plush itself is so cheap (15$)+(10 shipping and overhead). The 10$ pays for the (overhead) facility and the personal I'm borrowing from local aerospace company, who also gave me a huge break. Have to sort everything out, package, transport and ship them. Even when order size goes up, shipping will remain the same. It's part of what is being subsidized.

Is it not showing up underneth the shirts? The mouse pads are the same images as the shirts. There should be an image of the Luna with her cloak on for mousepad example.

Actually working on international shipping but... it costs so much, an extra 40$ and that's with the company eatting 25% of the shipping costs. Unless someone is willing to spend that much more for it.

It's only going to last a few days: Luna Project A lot of the costs have been heavly subsdized already (even when goal is met, company will still have a -2000$ balance on project). 25$ for one plush (including shipping for inside the US.) Prettymuch all of the information is on that site. A lot of questions have been asked and answered on another forum: Luna is Live Didn't want to leave anyone out of the loop. It's a quick project by bronies to let everyone get something that isn't sub-demonic. Note: After project is done, this isn't going to be put up for sale, so this is the only chance. Ends on Nov 30)