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FlamingDragon wrote:

Nytetyger wrote:

For here, since we have some international forum members, a practical solution would be for them to “join” using a friend in the US address, thus making it NOT a losing situation for Windstone and mailing things.

I like the ideas in your post except for what I quoted. While I understand the situation, I’d like to be able to join even though I’m Canadian. The buddy system might work if you had someone to help you and then you’de still have to pay extra shipping to get the items. If I’m going to have to pay for shipping I’d rather pay it direct from Windstone than having to pay someone else to act as a go between. Unfortunately, this would only make things even more unfair for those of us who live internationally. I hope that if the club does go ahead that a better solution to the problem is reached. 🙂

Yeah, I kinda figured that the sticking point would be that everyone would want to join, and we have forum folks all over the globe– I was just trying to make this as simple as possible for Windstone itself; the connections and getting things to international folks being on the side of US, not them, might make it more likely that it can be done with the staffing Windstone already has, and since the forum folks seem to always pull together wonderfully, doing the gruntwork on our end to lighten Windstone’s load seems fair for their effort of actually doing a club with yearly unique items. 😀

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Not sure if this would work for Windstone, but for years I belonged to the Pocket Dragon club. First off, it was US only– there was a second club for international members, hosted by an international company that sold the PD sculpts. For here, since we have some international forum members, a practical solution would be for them to “join” using a friend in the US address, thus making it NOT a losing situation for Windstone and mailing things.

When you joined, (and the membership was 50+ a year) you got a small pin, a keychain or flat printed magnet at Christmas along with a card, and a small figurine that was made just for that year. You got 4 newsletters (quarterly) and the OPTION of buying a special club figure for 150-200 dollars PLUS shipping, with orders taken from January-April, and the actual piece coming to you in the summer, giving them time to make the piece knowing the full quantity they’d need, and having the money to pay for said piece. It also allowed the collector enough time to budget for a piece and pay for it, AND gave enough lead time so no one could say “they needed more time” etc… you chose to get it, or not, and the company had no surplus waiting.

I know the Windstone staff is tight, but something like this can be done by one part time person, perhaps a forum member hired on contractually. A club year could run, say, March to March, so there would be no outcry of “I don’t have money due to Christmas, or summer vacation, etc” with a one month sign up, and perhaps limiting the first year to 50 memberships — you could even possibly put the memberships up on EBay, so the money is always gone directly to Windstone and not the person running the club. All that person would do is create the newsletters, and post to remind members when ordering the yearly piece is almost up.

::shrug:: Not sure any of this helps or is even viable, but I did similar when I ran several large fan organizations years ago. 🙂 Hope something in here helps 😀

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Kyrin wrote:

Nytetyger wrote:

Greater Basilisk wrote:

It’s a winter month. What’s to like? :nea:

well, my birthday is Saturday… so we can all celebrate that, can’t we? ::grins::

Mine is sunday…:)

Kyrin

Happy Birthday early to you, too ::girn::
::sending over more cake, one candle attached::

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Serenity wrote:

Nytetyger wrote:

Greater Basilisk wrote:

It’s a winter month. What’s to like? :nea:

well, my birthday is Saturday… so we can all celebrate that, can’t we? ::grins::

I do believe that we share a birthday…. 8)

LOL Happy Birthday missing twin 😀

And thank you to those who wished a Happy Early Birthday 😀

::passing around triple chocolate mocha cake::

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Greater Basilisk wrote:

It’s a winter month. What’s to like? :nea:

well, my birthday is Saturday… so we can all celebrate that, can’t we? ::grins::

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… and you’d need wee M&M eyes… which I’d pick off first…. mmmMMmmmmm

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ooo a chocolate colored poad? ::imp grin::

With wee heart spotting?

::hiding from thrown things::

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Greater Basilisk wrote:

Nytetyger wrote:

::uploading warm blanket, cinnamon toast and hot chai::

Feel better!

Dood, Nytetyger’s back! Haven’t seen you around in ages.

::waves hello::
I wander in and out– you can never truly leave this place– the dragons keep dragging you back 😀
How’s it going?

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::uploading warm blanket, cinnamon toast and hot chai::

Feel better!

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I really like ScatterDragons, as not all people who pick them up might understand if they were given a name based on a foreign language, etc– keeping it simple and direct is usually the best for things like this. 🙂

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Melody wrote:

FlamingDragon wrote:

Melody wrote:

I don’t know what happened to my Poad™™™ siggy. I can’t get an avatar to load either. thppp. 🙄

I’m glad to hear that the casting department is almost ready to go. As for you siggy/avatar what size are they? Maybe they aren’t loading because they are too big. The new avatar size is 100×100 pixels(bigger) and siggies are 500×100 pixels(smaller I think) You can check the size under picture properties.

Edit: One thing I just found while making my avatar bigger is that when I left the size fields blanks I got an error, but it worked when I entered the size of the picture. So when adding an avatar make sure you fill those in even though it says you don’t have to. Good luck with avatar. I did all that! It still didn’t work.whine

One thing I found for the avatar is to make sure it is under the required SIZE– I had several errors until I found one the size it accepted, and this was even after I moved it to be hosted on my photobucket account. 😀

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Melody wrote:

I forgot to mention armadillos, we have LOTS of those!

Would you ever do one in ‘fantasy’ colors? ::being hopeful::

I’d adore one in peacock… seriously– I collect armadillos and a really bright colorful one would be so very nice. 😀

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Hi there!

The frog wiz arrived today in perfect condition, and thank you so much– he’ll be wrapped for the perfect gift that I otherwise could never have afforded 🙂

I’m so sorry he had to leave you, but so glad I was able to get him!!!!!

Thanks so much!

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Melody wrote:

purplecat wrote:

that is a pretty neat idea! Though for some reason I pictured Griffins having live young….I wonder why? I guess it’s the cat portion of their anatomy. ❓

Explain a hatching Pegasus!

::mind boggling, then imploding at the thought of a horse laying an egg, then figuring how to sit on it to keep it warm::

No… can’t do it… somehow in my head, griffs and pegasus babies are liveborn… even though I adore and treature my wee peg in an egg I have from WIndstone. 🙂

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Just got mine– a lovely clear blue… but sadly the cats saw it and dragged it off… so now I have a Cyclops SuperFuzzy…

They both send their approval and thanks, however, to all the kind folks at Windstone who made this maiming possible ::grin::

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