I've been working on a thing, and I'm going to take a few minutes to talk about it here.
These are tentative plans, not set in stone yet, but representative of the general direction things are headed.
This will be a short thread.
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The idea is to use this quarterly subscription to help fund the initial production waves of each of our new toys. If we can get enough people (50 or so) signed up, we'll be able to release an average of one toy a month all year, with the initial production run funded by the fanclub.
In exchange for that, the vanguard gets 3 toys per quarter, with at least one of them in a fanclub exclusive color scheme or with fan club exclusive accessories or packaging, plus a monthly behind the scenes video, early access to comics and cartoons and video games and things of that nature, and your choice of new posters or t-shirts when they're available.
If enough folks are interested, I'll even set up a discord channel where we can chat about upcoming releases, and folks can vote on which characters (or lines) will make it into the next production wave.
We'll also do a kind of prototypes and one offs marketplace, where members can purchase pieces that didn't make it into production, or the early versions of pieces that did (like the original GIANT HEAD versions of our Mysterious Air Pirates keshi toys, of which we made 5 or 6 before adjusting to something we could produce more consistently.)
If this (12 original hand made toys a year + digital copies of all of our video games, comics, cartoons, and fiction, + your choice of poster or comic or game cartridge twice a year, + behind the scenes and maybe discord) seems like the kind of thing you might be into, let me know!
I'm still working out the details right now, and trying to figure out exactly how it'll all work, and I'm very open to feedback and discussion.
Early next year, we're going to roll out a fan club with a quarterly subscription.
I've been calling it the Vanguard of the Joyful Revolution. What do you think of the name?