Hey everyone! Doodle here, less than 3 days to go for Pintopia and Brids of Australia!
A little more info has been found on the shipping and tariff thing!

There is only 3 days left to make your pledge! Backerlit will also remind you 48 hours before, but we may be able to get the Orange Bellied Parrot stretch goal before the end! 

All Australian based backers for FleaCircus and I Doodle Random Things will be shipped to me in one large shipment (significantly cheaper compared to shipping to everyone individually) for me to fulfil! In-country shipping on top of the larger shipment in one go to Australia will be a lot cheaper, once surveys come out and we collect address details, we can offer a better estimate on shipping -

Some community ideas put into pins!
I'm really hoping we hit 5k by the end of the campaign so the mega chonky orange bellied parrot will be available! However, I had seen some stunning ideas from some members of the community and made some little treats in the pre-order shop for after the campaign!

Wompoo Fruit (Pi)Dove col variant goal + Shiny Pidove!

If 50 people successfully pre-order this AND/OR the shiny variant of Pidove on the pre-order shop within the pre-order store period we successfully produce these colour variants to buy! I might dull the red a little on the draft of the wompoo but I think it looks pretty close to what I would want!
You can purchase both, or just one! There's a little discount for buying both ;)
 
Mega Chonky Orange Bellied Parrot!

This will only be available if we don't meet the stretch goal! But I really hope we make it, if 40 people purchase this chonky boi (based on current stretch goal progress), it will become available!

 
Stickers:

A bunch of stickers will be available in the pre-order shop!

More information regarding pre-orders will open soon after, it's been such a journey with everyone and I hope we can keep celebrating the silly nature of brids together!

 
Maths on my end, boring stuff, Important GUESSES
All US based backers, Brids of Australia will be shipped in one large shipment for FleaCircus to fulfil!
The (very approximate) calculations I found were that excluding duties, it would cost $60 USD to ship everyone's parcels altogether, with approximately 10 - 30% in duties depending on the total value of the parcel.

Australia to US via Doodle (in USD)
For the sake of estimates, it may be $175.69 to ship to the US assuming a majority of backers are US based
(Copied from FleaCircus)
US shipment via FleaCircus
A 4oz package sent to the complete opposite side of the country is $5.89. then up to 8oz is $6.24. up to 12oz is $6.60, then up to 15.99 oz is $7.78

very close to FleaCircus is 4oz $4.88, 8oz $5.30, 12oz $5.71, and 15.99o is $6.15
TLDR: If 50 backers are US based: and average a shipment via FleaCircus for $7 each
~$11 USD total per US backer! These are estimates and can only be used as a guesstimate!!!
Canada Shipment via FleaCircus
If Doodle directly ships to the US, it would cost approximately $60 USD per backer! So this is a much cheaper option!
With duties paid (so that includes the $9.95 required to ship into canada, they shouldn't need to pay more on receipt)~
up to 2oz is $21.60
4oz is $22.60
6oz is $23.60
TLDR, if 50 backers are Canada based, and the average shipment via Fleacircus is $21.6 2 oz
~$25 USD total per Canadian backer! THESE ARE ESTIMATES! But this is approximately what to expect!
If Doodle Directly ships to CA, it would cost approximately $55 USD per backer!

US to Australia via FleaCircus (USD)
Approx $60 USD to ship a large package to Australia via FleaCircus
Aus Shipment via Doodle

Approx $8 USD per package to ship within Australia
TLDR: If 50 backers are AUS based, it would cost $9.14 USD to ship within Australia! (OR $13 - $15 AUD)

Local Pickup will also be an option for Sydney backers to save on shipping!

Okay thank you for putting up with the boring maths stuff, I hope we can see an uptick of pledges before the end, and get the chonky baby available as a pin!

Hi everyone,

Doodle here again, only 5 days to go! Thank you for helping us reach over the $4500 threshold, where we have another keychain unlocked!
A poll will be open until 11th February, 12 pm PT so backers can decide what keychain will be produced!

If we manage to hit $5000 at the end, we can get the Orange Bellied Parrot too! That would be so cool!

RE Shipping to the US, my collab partner has kindly agreed for US backers, I can send a large package over to reduce the overall cost per shipment, and they will be able to fulfil shipment a lot cheaper via the US!
You can back them here!
And there's a lot of freebies!

Thank you all for your ongoing support, let's aim for the $5000 mark!

Hi everyone,

Doodle here, we have less than a week left for Brids of Australia!

With a week left for the campaign we have a good chance of unlocking the keychain and Orange Bellied Parrot by the end!

For all US backers who are pledging both mine and my cross-collabs partner, we may be trying to work something out where all my end of pledges will be sent as one shipment to Ash, to make shipping significantly more affordable in the face of tariffs and customs costs!

Washi Tape and most items have been updated in add-ons! If you edit your pledge, you will find more sweet deals!
 
Support us both for the freebies! Link to her campaign here!


We are super close to unlocking the next two tiers! A pre-order shop will open at the end of the campaign as well, with some stickers also becoming available in there!

The UV Reactive Pin has been unlocked with a lot of the biggest stretch goals! There's such a big selection to choose from now.

Thank you endlessly for your support :)

Hi everyone! It's me again with another cool update and-
7 days left?? We only have one week left! It's crazy, the time is flying byyyy and I'm hoping that in this last week, we can get the support we need to unlock the keychain and next Brid of Australia pin!
Your pledge brings us closer to unlocking the next keychain and pin! Every pledge will help us grow, and especially in the last week this will be super important so we can get as many designs available for everyone!

Also the Cross Collab Pins are starting to be produced! Pledging both mine and Little Birds Big Hearts will get you a mega cute Pin and Polaroid style sticker from us!

Below will have the updates on the poll and the washi tape!


I thought we were going to 50/50 again but the Swift Parrot just inches out! But, I have ideas for the Common Bronzewing as a keychain that will be so so cool!

Common Bronzewing Keychain ideas

Instead of printing the colors I rendered, I thought it would be nice to spend a bit more to potentially print on this rainbow holo film and leave those sections transparent during printing!
That way it's more reflective (haha pun) of the iridescence seen in the real birds! What do people think? I thought it would be a cool way to use a physical medium to physically interact with the sun of your area and have a bunch of pretty colours come out :)

Washi tape things

This is the near final design!
I was recommended a darker green before but I felt it would be a bit christmas-coloured? The gold diamonds was so nice but then for washi tape it felt a bit too ribbon-like?
But I want to hear what the people think! So I made a time-limited poll for you all to decide the direction this washi tape will take.

Hi everyone! Doodle here,

We got 10 days left! Thank you all who have backed and supported this project! All of the original brid enamel pins and keychains have been unlocked and we are about $197 away from reaching the microtier and $697 away from the next big stretch goal! I highly encourage people to share this project so we have a better chance of unlocking these.

‼️IMPORTANT INFORMATION‼️
$5000 Stretch Goal
If we happen not to fund the next pin, which has so far favored the mega chonky orange bellied parrot, I'm considering self funding the remaining amount so this big chonker will see the light of the world!
Pre-order store
There will be an opportunity to unlock more stretch tiers via the pre order store after the campaign is over, additional purchases will go towards the stretch goal, with stickers being added and possibly some original art! More information will be released over time :)

And the slightly more fun bits

I'm redoing the Swift Parrot vs Common Bronzewing Poll! (Again!) Because it was another 50/50 until I threw in a vote to try and make it slightly different lol, I MOSTLY FINISHED THE COMMON BRONZEWING DIGITAL RENDER!

Just the butt left to go hahaha! WE ARE DOING THIS POLL AGAIN
It will only be open for 48 hours, VOTE NOW!

And then, the flat electroplating render for the crested pigeon is in!
It will look pretty different to the render since it wouldn't be the same rainbow plating shown digitally, but I'm so excited!