Grindstone Toys CALLSIGN: LONGBOW Figure Production Update

The team at Grindstone toys have shared their September 2026 update, with news on a pair of figures that will be shipped out soon! Check it out –

Hello CALLSIGN: LONGBOW® Backers!

We’re back with your monthly update on the LONGBOW® Kickstarter Project. 

*IMPORTANT* It’s time to update your address!

As we get closer to our next shipment of figures, it’s time to make sure your address is up-to-date in BackerKit. This is the software you used to select your figures and verify your address. And how we’ll fulfill orders. 

If you need help with updating your address, you can message us directly here on Kickstarter or email us at contact@cslongbow.com, and we can manually update it for you. (Please use the email you used to back the campaign so we can verify it’s really you). 

Production Update

Lancer & Krasny-Ninja

Early in the month, we received this video of the factory packaging team practicing carding the figures. You can see them :

• Prep the bubbles
• Add the figure and all of the accessories, laying face down
• Place them in a special Jig to make sure the bubble and card are straight and in the correct position
• Heat-seal the cardbacks 

Once they have the system down and they’re ready to go, they ramp up this process for the full production run. 

Just this week, we got a further update. Packaging is complete for all of Lancer and Krasny-Ninja! Here is a video shared with us on Monday of the completed cartons, palletized and ready to go.

As of this writing, these figures are still at the factory. We have given the team the details for freight shipping. We’re waiting to hear back on confirmation that these are “on the water” and on their way to our US fulfillment center. 

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Volk, Uptown, Spetsnaz, & Outlaw

For the next batch of figures, we have an image of the updated ABS parts tree. The factory team has been making some corrections to this body where there were fit or finish issues. 

Note: the front torso parts are missing from this tree. 

We expect to get updated samples on these figures as the next step in the process. Then, once those samples are approved, the factory can begin production. 

We’ll share more on these figures as we get updates from our project manager. 

Fulfillment Plan

Once Lancer and Krasny-Ninja arrive stateside, they will be processed at our fulfillment center. Kickstarter orders will be fulfilled first, then BackerKit pre-orders. 

Lancer and Krasny-Ninja will remain available on the pre-order store through October 18th. 

Once we’ve shipped those orders, we’ll share more information about how the remaining in-stock figures will be available for purchase. 
 

ASSEMBLY REQUIRED

Our final show of 2026 is approaching! 

Join us as we round out the year at our home show, Assembly Required, presented by CODENAME: IOWA, November 13-14, at the EMC Expo Center at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, IA.

We hope to see as many of you as possible at these conventions around the country!

Thank you again for making this project a reality!

-GRINDSTONE TOYS