Incoming! The team at Grindstone Toys has shared their Callsign: Longbow February 2025 Campaign Update. Check it out –
Hello CALLSIGN: LONGBOW® Backers!
We’re back with this month’s progress update.
Back to Work
February is the shortest month of the year, so this update will be a little short too. A good portion of February is spent celebrating the Chinese New Year (CNY).
During this time, pretty much every factory in China takes a month off and very little progress is made. Anyone who has backed an action figure project on Kickstarter has encountered this or heard someone talking about it.
But the good news is, CNY has concluded, and our factory partners are back to work!
We don’t have any exciting pictures to show, but here are some progress items that were completed this month.
- The factory has received our notes from last month’s first shots and we met with our rep to finalize revisions. These revisions have been sent to the factory production team to begin work on them.
- Packaging files have been finalized, proofread, and submitted to the factory for production.
- New plastic color samples are being produced based on our notes from last month.
ZOLOCON
Troy will be joining the team from SKELETRON® for ZOLOCON on March 1st and 2nd (this weekend!) at Valley Forge Casino Resort in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. If you’re in the area, come to the show and say hello!
A limited amount of GHOST figures will be available at the show.
SKELETRON will also have a new variant cardback on their Retro Wolf Trooper figure (also by Grindstone Toys)! Below is the information from their announcement:
“Debuting at ZOLOCON 2025 — a final, special variant cardback of our Retro Series 2-in-1 Wolf Trooper/Skeletron! Featuring the bold, nostalgic art of renowned artist, illustrator, and skateboarder Tim Baron, this new cardback will be a distinctive and badass piece in any SKELETRON collection!”
“The figure is from the same production run as our Sold-Out Retro Wolf Trooper/Skeletron, so this variant cardback will appeal to those who missed out, want more, or simply enjoy another carded version with a killer Tim Baron cardback design. Can’t make it to the show? Don’t worry! This Tim Baron variant will become available online sometime after Zolocon at www.SKELETRON.com, shipping worldwide at the same price as our previously sold-out Doug Hart Retro Wolf Trooper version cardbacks. We hope to see you at Zolocon!”
We’ll be back next month with another update at the end of the month!
Thank you again to all our backers for making this project a reality!
-GRINDSTONE TOYS
Hard to believe that it’s been 2+ years since this campaign has funded (June 11, 2022). That said, from the sound of things, we’re in the home stretch so it shouldn’t be too much longer now!
Stay tuned, I’ll bring you more info as it becomes available.
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