Black Friday 2021
Hi everyone!
Hope you're all doing well and looking forward to a holiday season full of thankfulness, cheer, and joy! I know holidays can be triggering, stressful and not always as much fun as society wants us to believe it to be, but you're not alone! You always have a community of support when you're in the Shishi Pup club. I know I'm often busy with running the business, but I hope you all know I'm here to chat when I have a free moment. I will sometimes not reply immediately, but as long as DMs don't bury everything, I try to always give a thoughtful response. As much as you support us, we hope we can also bring you joy in this season and year-round.
So, onto the festivities! This year, we have a bunch of new in-hand designs that are dropping for Black Friday, as well as the project Taka and I have been anticipating for far too long: our GachAnimals collection featuring 8 cute new 1-1.5" pins of various anime mascots. Gacha plays can be purchased Thursday thru Saturday. We will cut off buying Gacha plays at the end of Saturday so we can do Gacha pulls on Sunday and have orders packed and ready to ship out Monday, since I'm aiming to finish up packing orders by then as we will be prepping Monday thru Wednesday for our table at Emerald City Comic Con!
Originally this first batch was going to include Kyby, but our manu accidentally forgot to put the screenprint in Kyby's ears, so they're in the process of remaking those. Worry not, though, we won't let the pinkless-eared Kyby pins go to waste. After our Black Friday weekend and Emerald City Comic Con, I plan on working on some designs that have been on the back-burner for way too long, and one of those pin designs includes Mdka! Once I have her vectored, I'll be open pre-orders for her and anyone who pre-orders can get one of the flawed Kyby pins.
Anyways, onto other designs that will be available on Thursday
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Konpeito Sets
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Tanuki Statues
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Kyuu-chan Pins
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Squid Game Dalgona Pins
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Playstation Button Pins
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Dragon Ball Pins
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Boba Ball Pins
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Poke Ball Pins
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Artemis Pins
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Diana Pins
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Chibiusa "Spoil Me" Holo Stickers
As always, Collector grades of the new Pretty Winkers are reserved for Pin Club Members. Shipping will be free for pin club member orders over $25, which honestly shouldn't be hard to meet the requirement if you buy more than one pin. Unfortunately, because you can only use one code at a time, you will be charged shipping when you place your order, but I'll be sure to refund that as soon as we're home from having Thanksgiving with my family on Thursday.
We are also going to be having bundles available for things like the Moon Family, Inner Senshi, Mermaid Sets, Lunar New Year Sets, etc.. These are already heavily discounted, so the codes won't work for those or Gacha Plays, but should work for nearly everything else on the website.
Finally, as a fun extra bonus for you Pin Club Members, we are heavily discounting the remaining Pastel Moon Gaze Pins. As we've sold out of nearly every product we've used this design on except for this variant and t-shirts (which I imagine we'll sell a lot of at the convention since people always wanna snatch them up when they feel how amazing the quality is in person), I plan to retire this design and perhaps do a small SM (non-Pretty Winkers) fantasy series in the New Year. If you're pretty active on our IG account, you may have seen me sneak some images in stories about two weeks ago. ;)
I feel like it wouldn't be a proper update if I didn't do my usual production update, so here's what's coming soon (hopefully). Last update our manu showed us the packed and ready-to-go N3h3l3n!a, Luna, and Dragon pins, but have yet to get tracking number, but I'm super hoping they'll be sent very soon. In the meantime, our manu sent us the following production pics of M*rc*ry, P*ll* P*ll*, and *gasp* finally a pic of M!str3ss 9 remakes in progress! She finally has her metal nose and mouth! Still no progress pic of W!cked Lady, but knowing that they've got M!str3ss 9 in the works, I'm hopeful that means W!cked Lady is somewhere in the middle of progress finally too. I wish I could say I understood manu logic and speed, but I haven't the slightest clue why some designs can be pumped out so fast and others aren't. For example, we're still in November, and our manu is already at least a few colors in for M3rc*ry, P*ll* P*ll*, which is fantastic and what their old production speeds were like, but I feel like since summer, speed went down so much. Or like how Cutie Moon was done so quickly, but somehow we are still waiting for designs from July and August! In any case, I'm sure you're all as excited as I am to see some progress! I'm hoping to be able to get Usag!, N3h3l3n!a, !kuko, and Luna out to you all as soon as the next shipment comes in.
I think that covers most things for now. After Black Friday weekend is over, I'll post another update with next month's pin designs! Thank you all for your continued support and please have a safe and happy week (whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not!)
- Mandy + Taka
Hey Luisa,
No new pics of Helios, but considering everything else is moving along a little faster, I’m hoping we’ll be getting finished pics of him sooner than later since Luna and Nehelenia (who was from August along with Helios) will be coming in soon! As soon as we have new pics to share of Helios, we definitely will! :)
Everything looks amazing! Congrats!
So glad production is moving along again! Is there any update on Helios?
Thanks so much for all your effort and for keeping us informed :)