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The Making of Tarni
Welcome to a bit of product history. Today: join us on the journey that took Tarni from being an idea to becoming a real, inflatable shark. We will focus mostly on the creative part, since this is easy to illustrate and fun to watch. We do take a lot of time to get things "right", so this may look like a complicated way to do things. There are probably easier ways to get an inflatable made - though not necessarily with the same result. What we would like to share with you, though, is that our work is more than...
New Telegram channel
Join our new Telegram channel! Getting the right information out in time on projects, art & deliveries is not always easy. We still receive a lot of emails with questions that we thought we had already answered on the one or other social media platform. Replying to individual enquiries takes time - often that means a frustrating wait for a reply by those who have written to us, until we get around to replying or until the question has become obsolete. While the mainstay of our public communication is still our Twitter account, we realise that even with the significant...
Tarni - here comes the girl shark
Pre-orders will open on 6 August 2022 at 3 a.m. Eastern Time for Megaplex 2022 - make sure to locate Tarni at the inflatables panel and as she moves around the con, and get your special con discount for this pre order! You don't have to jump in right away. Please read this carefully if you plan to pre-order this item. Updates will be posted regularly. Please also follow us on Twitter for more. Tarni is the friendly shark girl, based on the anthro sand shark girl design by Kittell Fox. Our shark design is an attempt to blend her female appeal with...
Hop on board!
Hop on board our inflatable riders by Arin from our Magical Stable series! Affordable, bouncy fun with these friendly equines - whether on land or in the water. Pre-order them now to support the project (more bouncy animals!) - receive them in January/February 2021. Pre-orders are closed! The factory floor & outdoor samples shown for the zebra, donkey and pony represent the final versions. The final versions will not have the vertical seam across the belly (this is only on the samples) and will, as always, be screen-printed). Pre-orders are closed. Delivery is planned for January/February 2022. Regular sale will commence ca....
Post-crisis toy making challenges
The past 12 months have create a number of issues and questions for making toys - both inflatables and fabric dakis/blankets - which you can get in our store. This is not something that can be explained in one or even several short tweets, hence the blog post in an effort to shed some light on what many have experienced as shipping delays, price increases and longer lead times for projects in the recent past. Needless to say that I can safely blame the disruptions experienced in early to mid-2020 on the Corona-crisis, but the world economy has now adapted...