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I agree with Angelika-Zen about doing batches – it may be easier. I like ‘warm’ dragons but really dislike ‘pastels’, etc.
And perhaps the way Ms. Susie was selling the Mini-Beans post-Kickstarter would be a good way to handle choosing dragons. A photo of the sculpts on a grid marked in Alphabet + Numbers to indicate position could be posted. Then Backers can email their first through third/fourth/fifth choices. First email claiming a grid Alpha/Number gets that sculpt. When enough are claimed, another photo can be taken or simply keep the photo grids smaller to be more manageable depending upon ‘Batch’ types and quantities. Photo grids examples could be something such as Radioactive batch #1 (36 dragons) in a 6×6 grid (A1-A6, B1-B6, C1-C6, etc. BY F1-F6); Radioactive Batch #2 (next 36 dragons) in a 6×6 grid (G1-G6, H1-H6, I1-I6, etc. BY L1-L6); and so on, doing the same for a ‘Cool’ batch, ‘Warm’ batch, ‘Earth-tone’ batch, ‘Pastel’ batch… etc.
Backers can submit and potentially ‘claim’ their choices by indicating the batch and grid number on an email received, first come, first claimed basis. Again, I believe this worked well for the left over Mini-Beans and left over Adult Poads, and was fair for all in my opinion. Everyone could access the photos and everyone could email their choices. I didn’t receive my first or second or even third choices sometimes, but I did end up with Minis and Poads I liked.
I think the Livestreams are great to see previews, but on the last Kickstarter I was sometimes frustrated because I couldn’t join at the beginning or stay for the entire livestream and several items were already claimed by the time I could join for the last 45 minutes. Then when I was on, others kept getting ‘heard’ a lot more frequently within the chat and I feel that my chats were missed. On the later Livestreams emailing the form with choices was a good idea but the same issues were in play = 1.Not everyone can access the FB/Livestreams, 2.Of those that could access the FB/Livesteam, not all of us can view it from the beginning or stay on for the full 2+ hours, so by the time someone’s form was gotten to in the queue, that person may have needed to leave the Livestream.
Just my two cents …
I love the grid idea. I think it worked well with beans. Livestream was challenging to make choices and many people couldn’t access it.
I wonder if there’s a limit planned?
Also, I think that once we pick, there’s no swapping out. Make our choice and if we don’t like it after we get it home, trade on the classifieds. It’ll make things a lot easier for Susie.
Life is beautiful.
I wonder if they organized the KS dragons by colour or type, it would reduce the amount of people talking over top of each other because if you didnt want “cool” dragons, you could just sit back and watch. If you wanted “warmer” clours, you wait for those to be shown on the wheel. Categories could be cool, warm, radioactive, earth tones, and black base (just as examples) I know i would only tune into warm and radioactive. Just a thought 🤷🏼♀️
I like that thought.
Maybe even split into Radioactive, pearl, pastel, or other such?Life is beautiful.
A name for them was never chosen. Melody was still asking for names recently on Facebook. She and some people only referred to them as hoarder dragons when they couldn’t think of a better name back then. Some people liked the name and some didn’t so there’s still been talk up til now about what to name them.
I’m one of those who still calls them “Hoarder”.
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Thanks, everyone. Fingers crossed that the one I like doesn’t get bidded up into the sky.
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Just FYI, I just saw an Olympia C Keeper being offered on eBay.
Three Secret Keepers are being offered and they may be someone’s grails:
Emerald
Cinnamon Gold #7 by Olimpia Carapia
Twilight #3 by Olimpia CarapiaThey have their boxes and the two test paints have their COAs. Bidding ends next Sunday.
I can’t find them! Can someone post a link, please? One of this is a big wish for me.
Thankshttps://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F124047740955
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F124047731190
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F124047801354
Thank you!
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I was looking into it for Scathach because she was away from the computer, so I thought I could help out by getting the links for her. I’ll let her know to have a quick read here…
Cinnamon Gold is incredibly beautiful…good luck to anyone in the market and bidding!
Thank you.
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If that’s the case, I’m willing to be a surrogate home and will ship to you if anyone from outside the US wins. Just let me know 😊!
Thank you 😊
Life is beautiful.
Just FYI, I just saw an Olympia C Keeper being offered on eBay.
Three Secret Keepers are being offered and they may be someone’s grails:
Emerald
Cinnamon Gold #7 by Olimpia Carapia
Twilight #3 by Olimpia CarapiaThey have their boxes and the two test paints have their COAs. Bidding ends next Sunday.
I can’t find them! Can someone post a link, please? One of this is a big wish for me.
ThanksLife is beautiful.
I’ve got over 1,000.
Pebbles seriously did me in, followed by beans.
Poads were the first to be looking for new homes and I’ll be trimming my collection further in the next few months to pay vet bills.
Life is beautiful.
The only things to ship in a padded envelope are beans and tads. I’ve had them come from the store that way, too.
Life is beautiful.
Not a squeak but a HUGE THANK YOU for releasing the Violet Flame Sun and Moon. Those were squeaks of mine for a long time now. Now if I could only get them in White
Yes! I finally got a moon dragon to compliment a blue toned sun that I was lucky to get. I’d love to see both the sun and the moon in white, too.
Life is beautiful.
Here’s my squeaking list:
Flap Cat – Jet Black.
Flip Flap Cat – Jet Black.
Male KiRin – Albino with original style horn in both eye colours.
Baby Poad – Podge with eye colours to match KS beans.
Lap – Silvery Silver.
Old Warrior – Silvery Silver.Life is beautiful.
I know all that but some have not been in stock for 6 mouths.
You might want to look back at all the other things that Melody and team have created in the last six months and cut them a whole of slack.
There’s only so much that people can do, only so many hours in a day, only so much space in the facility, and so many business priorities to consider.
As others have said, be patient and trust that the PYOs will be restocked eventually, along with the several regular production items that many of us are waiting for.
The PYOs (and regular production) will come.
You weren’t on the forum a few years ago when we were all crying for pyo unicorns. There were huge celebrations when they returned.
Enjoy what you have now.
Life is beautiful.
