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I finally made it outside in day-light for curlie photos! Sorry they are just with my cell phone!
Jesus christ. Hands down this is my favorite one.
We really need “likes” – I “Like” drag0nfeathers comment about the Secret Keeper!
I apologize, I did something wrong and the Lap Dragon announcement didn’t go out as intended. I didn’t even realize that when I let it stay attached to the Secret Keeper announcement! Sorry!
When the “notify” button shows it means they are sold out, before it shows and it just says “out of stock” it means there are some in carts that haven’t been paid for yet. We only had 10 of them to begin with.
We have more Blue Morpho choices coming soon to tempt you!
Aw, well, mistakes happen. 🙂 The secret keeper is gorgeous, but so, so far out of my price range. (Also, man, that statue must be huge!! 50 pounds! Wow!)
I’m still waiting for the mother curled to come out (man but I hope I don’t miss that one as well), and I’m sure that the other laps you guys have in progress will be very nice too, so it’s not like it’s the end of the world. But as for me, there’s just not money enough in the world for me to buy sculpts I don’t absolutely LOVE, so it’s either the blue morpho lap or nothing, probably.
I got the notification email late as well – Windstone doesn’t send the new product announcements out from their site, they use a third party service.
It looks like Susie put the notice in at 10:22 am PT, but for some reason the service didn’t send it until 2:30 pm along with the SK notification.
There were only 10 in this batch I believe. I don’t know what the plan is on making more, but I imagine they probably will since they are casting horns and lap dragons again.
Does anyone know if notification speed failure has been an issue before? Not to sound like I think they should jump the gun and switch to a different third-party notifying service (if there is even another service they could use) just because of one problem, but if this is a regular or semi-regular issue it might be worth considering looking into an alternative. …Or maybe not, it’s not like the statues didn’t sell like hot cakes anyway.
If there is enough demand they will probably make more. It certainly seems like there is demand for them ^_^ We just need to be patient until they get around to painting Laps in this scheme again. There may be other sculpts in line before them, but I’m sure eventually they will get back around to them. So far Blue Morpho seems to be a huge success so why stop? They can only paint as many at a time as they can, that’s all.
True. I just hope it’s not months down the line. I know they released a second batch of curlies really quick, but they’re a much smaller statue. Regardless, nothing can be done but to wait. I wish patience was a stronger virtue in me. XD
I believe it was Melody who said “we’re going to paint blue morpho everything until our fingers fall off” so I’m sure this isn’t the only batch Wink
Not only that, but the email mentioned this:
“(note: when we have more Lap Dragons in other colors, their prices will be increased from what they were in the past)”Not to get over-excited, but it sounds like they may be getting closer to having more laps in production colours ready?
That would be wonderful. I just really want *this* particular lap dragon. XD Welp. To the classified ads to ask someone if they decide they don’t want it to resell! And also to the hope that you’re right and there will be more. Just not sure, since we’re only now apparently getting past the dreaded horn shortage. :S
I think everyone feels a little let down this time because we didn’t have time to “camp out” the purchase due to the emails… It’s no one’s fault though and I’m sure there will be more! <3
That’s really well put, actually. It’s no one’s fault, but it is a let down.
By the way, the “notify me” for restock button seems to be missing for me.
I saw, very briefly (unless it was an unlikely system error), one go back into the store a while ago. I think that means someone’s probably still got one in their basket somewhere. For me personally, this still sucks because I’m going to have to go to work soon and will probably miss it popping back out again. But for others who are watching and hopeful, maybe it means you still have a chance.
Keep super close tabs on the shop, one is chillin out in someone’s cart… the “press to notify” button isn’t back, so one might show up yet
Yeah it looks like I just missed it. 🙁
edit: Is there some delay in how long it takes the site to publish the ‘press to notify’ button? Because if someone’s just letting it lurk in their cart and keeping it from people who want it and can pay… that’s just cruel…
I got the announcement, but the time stamp on the email was 1 hour and 38 minutes after the actual release time so it wouldn’t have done me any good. I couldn’t have gotten it anyway, but maybe it was a glitch somehow? Seems a few people didn’t get the announcements for some reason.
Yeah, I checked my email and it turns out I *did* get the notif… two hours after. =_=;
I’m still maniacally refreshing in the hopes that it will turn back up, for a brief minute it seems one hopped out of somebody’s cart, but I guess it must have been snagged by someone else or put back in very quickly because by the time I pushed the ‘add to cart’ button it was already gone.
It does mention “this batch” is one per customer so hopefully there will be more
I sure hope so. I mean, I know I probably sound whiny and entitled, it’s not that, I know these are very limited and it’s all luck, but I feel like I didn’t even have a chance this time around. 🙁 Guess that’s life sometimes… not always fair.
I didn’t get an announcement for this either and I have apparently missed this statue. I am heartbroken, because I would have woken myself up for this. Is there going to be a restock at all?
I’m just all over the place lately bothering people with my questions. Sorry if I’m bothering anybody. I did at least check the forum search to see if this had been asked before, but didn’t see anything.
Since horns are now being produced again and I haven’t heard anything about the ki-rins having other production/mold issues, is it possible that we might be able to see PYOs for the ki-rin family set? I’m really keen to order one or two of the new fancy ki-rin, but I love that the foo dogs can be bought and painted as a matching family unit, and I honestly would want to paint a bazillion baby kirin in addition to a family.
We don’t offer the regular Windstone line as PYOs, only the sculptures that we produce to be PYOs only. The idea was to keep the two lines distinct to reduce confusion about whether a piece was officially painted by us,or another artist.
I love doing families of creatures, so it is likely that I will do more kirins. However, there are so many pieces I want to do that I don’t know when I’ll get back to them. Things with smooth scales are the toughest to finish.
I am working on the Oriental dragon PYO ,and he turned into two different dragons, a male and a female. So now I need a baby for them.Yeah, someone had mentioned that about the possibility of a PYO mixup, and I totally understand the decision that had to be made there even if it is a disappointment. There’s enough problems with actual fakes/scammers without adding to the confusion and creating a situation where there might be accidental mixups.
However, this is really amazing news about the oriental pyos!! I do hope you do get back to the kirin eventually, but I definitely can’t be the only person who will be genuinely excited to see a whole family of PYO orientals.
Also, I’m just curious Melody. You mention that it’s the smooth scales that are so difficult to work with, I presume because they require the most amount of sanding. Would making a PYO family with the fancy scales positively impact the difficulty level there, or would it be about the same?
Wow, I had to go look up these cinnamon dragons everyone kept mentioning. *-* Sheesh. So pretty! Althought I actually think that fruit loop’s color scheme matches those eyes even better. I think the only thing I’m really not a fan of are, ironically, the grey loops that help give him his name.
I’ll have to keep an eye out for more dragons with these dichroic eyes in the future. Kind of sad to hear they’re mostly on the special edition ones, since that probably puts them well out of my price range in general.
Koi’s themselves I think are different enough. I think a koi batch would be awesome! There are oranges, whites, silvers, and even more possibilities I’m sure! Soudns awesome!
I don’t think it was a matter of koi not having different enough possibilities for patterns, but some people just don’t care so much for koirin in general, and some of us would like to see more colors offered than koirin are liable to have (black, oranges, yellows, reds, and white are pretty much the natural colors involved with koi). Any time you poll a group of people you’re going to get a bunch of different answers like this since taste/preferences are totally subjective. But, I think we can all agree that Melody should do what she thinks is best.
A name that works with her color, hmm? Maybe Toast or Pearl or Cream? I actually have a cinammon cream rum (that is DELILIOUS, holy cow) that she resembles in color called ‘Orchata, if naming her after a liquor doesn’t bother you.
Welcome! You’ll come to find the community here is really great! I have always wanted to visit Japan! So cool!
If you ever need pointers on possibly fixing up your banged up dragon I can give you some pointers. I’ve fixed over 100 Windstones already and I can give you some tips if you ever want to tackle fixing him up!
I do know a few members here play Flight Rising! You’ll fit right in ^_^
I would love that, actually. Sadly I don’t have access to the little guy right now, so it’ll have to wait till I’m home about a year from now, but once I’m there I will definitely be interested in fixing it up.
