MEET SESAME GRYPHON, WHO HAS WON THE POLL TO BECOME THE TENTH SNUG-ALONG IF $175K IS RAISED!
Sesame Gryphon is here and SO EXCITED to meet you!! They are a cold-weather, snow loving Gryphon whose soft spotted fur will keep you cuddly snuggly warm. Sesame is our third Fantasy Creature to join this lineup! Sesame might have an extra special little something coming our way too...? What could it be?
It was a very noble fight from Tiger, and I know everyone who wanted Tiger or a cat will be disappointed, but I promise there are BIG PLANS for cat lovers at LittleSofts this year, and you will not be let down. As for Tiger Snug-Alongs, this is one I have wanted to make from the start and I promise you if this campaign continues to do well, I will make more Snug-Alongs and Tiger will be first to be made.
So please continue to support this campaign if you want to see other animals made into Snug-Alongs! I am still so amazed at how this campaign has done and so thankful to everyone. I will be referencing all your comments and poll results for future projects at LittleSofts, whatever they may be, so you can continue to comment your hopes and dreams!
Another question I am getting a lot of is, will we see prototypes of the unlocked items before the campaign ends? The answer is "I hope so!", I am working hard to make that happen. I think we will have first draft prototypes to show you before the campaign ends, and I will not close surveys until the designs are final and you can see how they'll look exactly! This goes for Snug-Alongs and the BeanBuds.
One more question has been "can we see more videos of Peanut, Plum, Chiffon and ChocoChip?" Yes, they will be coming by next week! It's hard for me to film shots of them being worn all by myself and they arrived at my house one day before we launched, so we had no time to include them in our shoots before. New photoshoot and videos coming SOON!💛
Also-- we will be at Katsucon this weekend, and you can meet and even try on the Snug-Alongs there if you stop by our booth!
For now, please refrain from commenting about being disappointed if your favorite animal did not win the polls this time. I have tried my best to please as many people as I could, and it's very hard on me that I can't just make 50 backpacks right away and include far more animals. I hope to continue the series, but negativity will slow down that process, so please refrain. Thank you!
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100k in five days. Absolutely bonkers. This is CRAZY!! WHAT IS HAPPENING! Oh, and new stretch goals!
7 months ago
– Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 03:35:44 PM
Thank you so, so much everyone. I don't even know what to say? 100k should be an unattainable end goal, not a 5-days-in type thing. This one campaign has raised more in five days than my previous three campaigns did, total, combined. It's just absolutely beyond any expectations I had.
Obviously we have smashed open the stretch goals. I've been at my tablet to an endless loop of movies drawing turnarounds for new prototypes and designing graphics. You voted for Dragon, Bat and Red Panda to be added, and we added Charmy, Cloud, Lemon and Raspberry! I guess adding two dragons was a big ambitious, but they came so close in the polls, and it is the Year of the Dragon...!
Raspberry unlocked a few hours ago and we hit 100k moments ago. I am still in shock, but the next stretch goals are now revealed! We could end this campaign with ten BeanBuds and ten Snug-Along Backpacks. It's incredibly ambitious, and expensive (the backpacks are VERY expensive to produce because they are VERY high quality!!) but I think we could do it?! Let's keep aiming for the sky!!
Check the new stretch goals below!
It's Day Three and we are Snuggling Along -- new items added!
7 months ago
– Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 10:12:51 AM
So.. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UHHH!! WOW!!!!!!!!
We are adding items faster than I can design them. I never expected this, I did not have the BeanBuds or any other Snug-Along designs fully finished since it would have broken my heart to work hard on them only to not unlock them. Obviously...we are DOING IT!!! We started with 5 Snug-Along designs, unlocked all 5, now we have 2 more Snug-Alongs unlocked, 3 BeanBuds, and... as a special thanks, I have added a second Enamel Pin for you to choose from! SURPRISE!
Charmy the Trauma Dragon and his comfort teddy bear Champ debut as a new pin! I was so stunned he won the Dragon poll despite being a new LittleSofts character who isn't well known yet. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING CHARMY! If you have enamel pin in any of your pledges, you'll be able to choose from Charmy OR Sunny in your survey!
As of writing we have not yet unlocked Lemon Bat Snug-Along but I am very hopeful he may be unlocked today! Don't forget also to vote in the polls for the next Snug-Along animal! AND THANK YOU!
BIG THANK YOU + 6" BeanBuds Plush Option HAS BEEN ADDED!!!!!!
7 months ago
– Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 08:05:33 AM
So....wow!! Uh!!! THANK YOU??
I never expected this amount of incredible support .. I know everyone says that, but I am really blown away by the love shown for my backpacks. For YEARS! YEARS!!! I have been documenting, studying, photographing, trying on and obsessing over every plush backpack I've seen out in the wild, in various stores and countries, wanting my backpacks to be not only completely unique and different from what was being offered already, but also wanting them to be useful with a big pocket, and useful as an anxiety aid as I like all my plush to be helpful as well.
So Snug-Alongs have been something I've been working on for so long, and to have them supported so much that we reached $50,000 in the first roughly 12 hours? I am just so, so, so happy.
I wanted to add a plush tier from the start, but I was afraid it may take away from the main feature, the backpacks. Now that the backpacks are safely funded, the plush tier option has been added and we can begin to unlock all five characters! The BeanBuds will be handheld soft minky plushies with beanie bums and will be the perfect in-between if you wanted more characters but don't need five backpacks.
So far Sunny Pup has been officially unlocked and the others have been added to the Mega Super Stretch Goals!
Please support the BeanBuds and add them to your pledge!! And THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!!!!!
