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Post by Seven on Jun 11, 2021 22:34:23 GMT -5
I dont think Ive seen a post for this so... What do you think? Keychains Mirror Stickers Enamel Pins Also Notebooks Embroidered Patch
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Post by Snowfire on Jun 11, 2021 22:46:10 GMT -5
They’re overusing these minis, and why would they have stickers of the back of the minis?
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Post by kitters on Jun 11, 2021 22:55:43 GMT -5
all i can say is lol at this point.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2021 23:52:06 GMT -5
I am so tired of these designs god bless <3 it would be one thing if there were new cats but yawn
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Apricity
Bravelands is too slept on.
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Post by Apricity on Jun 12, 2021 0:45:38 GMT -5
If I see those dang minis one more time...
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Post by scarletflames on Jun 12, 2021 1:17:17 GMT -5
I'm getting so, so sick of the "mini" designs being re-used, the only difference being the items themselves (minis on shirts or minis on mirrors, but it's always that mini design! It's so lazy and un-creative, it's being done to death and I'm sooo tired of those minis everywhere!).
If I had to get any more merch besides Plushes of my favorite characters, I'd go for the mirror. I'm so sick of the mini design I'm not even planning on getting the mirror though.
With the pins, I'd rather get a Warrior Cat pin from Etsy or something, for some reason I really don't like the mini designs on those pins in particular. Something about the color and the texture looks off to me, I can't put my finger on it, but I don't think the mini design is compatible with those pins.
I don't care if this is harsh, but I've seen Warrior Cat stickers and pins from Etsy that look much more creative and professional than what the Erins are putting out now.
Then again, I'm not surprised by the over-doing of the mini-design. It's probably the cheapest and easiest for the Erins.
Plush rant:
I'm still sore with the scam with the plushies and how poorly the Erins handled it with lying about the protoype and fan input; I didn't even order those first plushies and I'm mad on behalf of those fans who did only to discover they'd been dishonest about the designs.
I eventually got a Jayfeather plush and I love him, but it was around 40 dollars if I'm remembering correctly. I'd say 30 dollars would have been a much more reasonable price since technically this is an official branded merchandise which means it will be a bit more pricey that the average stuffed animal, but 40 dollars was pushing it for me.
I definitely cannot afford to "collect them all" if the prices on the plushes stay the same, so I'm going to have to severely budget and choose which characters I'm strongly enough attached to that buying the plush will be worth the cost to me whenever the plushes get released. I wouldn't be surprised if some fans aren't able to get a $40 plush because it's so damned expensive and my heart goes out to them. I'm grateful I could afford Jayfeather, but I wish the Erins made the price closer to $30. $10 might not seem like much of a difference, but in tough financial situations every little bit helps (speaking from my own personal experience/my own opinion, I understand not everyone will agree or relate to this).
It was my choice to buy Jayfeather and I love that plush, I hope I'm not coming off as too toxic or weird with my mini-rant. I don't regret it, but I feel self-conscious about admitting I spend $40 on a stuffed animal when most stuffed animals I've seen in stores are $10-$20 average. Then again, I'm the only person in my family or friend group into Warriors so none of them would consider buying any merch, much less a $40 stuffed animal.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2021 2:42:32 GMT -5
Jesus, the notebook and pins look tacky and gaudy as hell...the plain-ass Helvetica font, I actually can't
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Post by VIXENCLAW on Jun 12, 2021 2:53:53 GMT -5
I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for them to make unique merch instead of just recycling the same designs over and over again. Warriors is a huge series, with a very predominant art community. You think they’d be able to come up with something better, pretty much everything they sell looks like there was zero effort put into it. Especially after the whole plushie scam, it really doesn’t seem like they care at all.
I’m just going to stick to Etsy, pretty much everything on there is better than what the official site is selling.
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Post by ᏞᎪᎠᎽ Ꮎf fᎪᏁᎠᎾms ミ☆ on Jun 12, 2021 3:02:01 GMT -5
I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for them to make unique merch instead of just recycling the same designs over and over again. Warriors is a huge series, with a very predominant art community. You think they’d be able to come up with something better, pretty much everything they sell looks like there was zero effort put into it. Especially after the whole plushie scam, it really doesn’t seem like they care at all. I’m just going to stick to Etsy, pretty much everything on there is better than what the official site is selling. i was gonna comment something similar. u're right. there's so many great artists in this community. u'd think they would hire one of them or a few of them to make official merch for them.
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Post by Goldy from Dappleclan on Jun 12, 2021 4:19:15 GMT -5
So sick of minis that I regret buying them lol might even throw the minis I did get in the bin
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Post by Brindlefern on Jun 12, 2021 5:27:07 GMT -5
They're bad as usual. Stop overusing the minis, these are not good merch practices.
They took the one good merch they had and RUINED it and made their fans fricking sick of them.
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Post by Thunderheart57 on Jun 12, 2021 7:41:06 GMT -5
They thought that one of the t shirt quote designs was good enough to be put on a notebook. Yet, they didn’t do anything to spice up the back of it. It looks so uninspired at this point. Come on WP. You can do much better than this. It is so disappointing that the quality of the merchandise looks so cheap. As a former fan of the books, you think that they put more care and some effort in them at least. They really like those mini designs apparently.
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Post by dreamingof on Jun 12, 2021 8:19:03 GMT -5
This merch is so disappointing. The least they could do is take their easily reusuable mini base and create some of the other characters to make it more interesting with sets or something. But instead we get the same three/four characters for most products.
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yondertides
"You've got the guts of a coyote pack."-Cloud Cult
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Post by yondertides on Jun 12, 2021 8:29:02 GMT -5
Oooh, that notebook is painful. As everyone else is saying, there are better quality pieces of fan merch on Etsy/Redbubble/etc. It's a pity the Warriors team doesn't fully embrace the absolutely amazing art community surrounding the series and do some collaborations with different creators!
Also, am I the only one confused by the mirror? It seems like such an odd choice for merchandise.
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Aroace
#ffa100
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Taking a break from the forums because my cat died. Will probably be back mid to late October.
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Post by 𝕱𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖆𝖑𝖑 on Jun 12, 2021 9:07:57 GMT -5
This bad and definitely overused merchandise is physically exhausting to look at now.
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Post by Rio on Jun 12, 2021 9:18:39 GMT -5
Damn my 11 year old students have made warrior cats bookmarks that are so much more creative than any of this merch.
The stickers look like the original model turnaround sheets used to produce the mini figures that they've literally just slapped onto a sticker sheet.
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New merch
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Post by Aqua on Jun 12, 2021 9:32:35 GMT -5
This post is making me regret defending the last batch of merchandise. Ugh.
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Post by Mau Furlong on Jun 12, 2021 9:45:38 GMT -5
I bought a ThnderClan mug...and got a StarClan mug...
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Post by 🔥Firestar🔥 on Jun 12, 2021 9:56:07 GMT -5
You thought they could atleast give us a new set of characters, but not really.
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Post by *Ottersplash* on Jun 12, 2021 10:56:38 GMT -5
That notebook is so many levels of cringe
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Post by Phoenix1410 on Jun 12, 2021 15:27:56 GMT -5
This stuff just looks plain and boring. Can't they commission artists like the Polish?
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Post by kitters on Jun 12, 2021 17:07:38 GMT -5
Oooh, that notebook is painful. As everyone else is saying, there are better quality pieces of fan merch on Etsy/Redbubble/etc. It's a pity the Warriors team doesn't fully embrace the absolutely amazing art community surrounding the series and do some collaborations with different creators! Also, am I the only one confused by the mirror? It seems like such an odd choice for merchandise. I was thinking about the mirror last night and I'm so confused bc like... I can't tell if the sticker is on the front or the back, but either way kinda sucks, bc if its on the front you obvs cant see yourself and if its on the back... like you hang the mirror on the wall and you'll never see the sticker again.. I guess it could be a handheld mirror where you just take it places but like I dont GET IT...
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#07B04C
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The Shiny User
🎵Guess that's just the way it goes, easy come, easy go🎵
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Post by Ṣanɗypaw™ on Jun 12, 2021 17:12:40 GMT -5
Warriors team... please hire some fan artists, I'm begging you. My crappy 3-D printed Warriors drawings that I made for school look better than whatever this is.
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Post by Thunderheart57 on Jun 13, 2021 11:34:05 GMT -5
So they basically took the mostly-positive reviews on the mini figures and ran with it. Heck, I didn't even like the design in the first place, but now nobody does because it's been the only merch option for a while now. I'm really confused and disappointed that they didn't think of getting at least a second design or something other than these chibi cats...even just symbols and quotes would have been a nice option. Honestly, I would have loved if they had went with the style some of the tote bags had with the nice artwork instead of using the stock art of the mini figures for everything. At least it wouldn’t look so bad to display in a room, especially if it was on a mirror. I would pay to have fan art of WindClan on a tote bag that uses Wayne’s style or Owen’s current style.
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Post by Turin not Torino on Jun 14, 2021 2:11:22 GMT -5
It's funny - I scour the internet trying to find foreign books and merch, yet the American merch that is readily available to me I mostly avoid. I got the 2 plushies that were of the cats my irl cats were named after, the clan symbol pins (both sets), the charm bracelet, and was given the mini figures for Christmas (I could've gone either way with them at the time). I wish they would make beanie baby size/style characters, because it would take up much less room and would be a bit more reasonably priced. I also wish they would release entire clan sets of say the notebooks that looked like the canvas totes or magnets or whatever, because otherwise it appears to me as an incomplete collection.
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Post by Midnightcacoon loves Sunbeam on Jun 14, 2021 6:54:12 GMT -5
Why do they only use these 6 characters? It was ok at first but now it's just annoying. also they look lifeless.
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Post by kells on Jun 14, 2021 8:11:47 GMT -5
how did I know it was just going to be a bunch of those cat maker mini-style things...
Are they even trying anymore?
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Post by downfalls on Jun 14, 2021 15:18:06 GMT -5
The minis thing was fun at first but then it turned into this and...at this point I prefer an Ivypool plushie over this crap. I've been so sick of seeing the minis design everywhere to the point it annoys me.
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