#sharkrobot

[angelshizuka]

My Halloween playmats arrived like three weeks ago, but my shirts took much longer to ship and only arrived a few days ago. It's not obvious in the photo, but I got these as long sleeves.

Also got the standard Stolas playmat while I was at it, which seemed to have been a good decision, since it's retiring soon.

[happilyelegantwombat]

I.M.P.

[mismaxx]

Last day of September and my Sallie May + Loona summer merch finally came in. 😙💖

[sazzynatural]

Night-light Stolas is finally in my possession! 💖

[lost-romantique]

First merch buy...

I'm waiting for my paycheck on Friday to buy the other Stolitz merch.

[which-item-poll]

[blitzsicedcoffee]

My new pet is here!!!! He's so cute!!!!

[vaggietheangel]

Source: Sharkrobot

She can stab me with her spear any time 😍💜

[davekat-sucks]

Oh my goodness! That anon talking about hazbin hotel merch made me realize that Hussie could have made bank if he just made a different Homestuck merch and make almost all the merch line ups limited edition pins. With my own personal experience I can say I’ve seen pins sell well, at times they can sell slow but people are willing to pay premium for them if they’re told “I only have 300 of these and I’m never making them again. When they are gone they are gone.”

Homestuck fans are still obsessed enough with Homestuck to want to buy plushies and pins. This is a self own but if you put some Jade merch in front of me that’s GOOD I’m going to snatch it up like a fish eatting a worm on a fishing line.

This honestly shows me Hussie is really incapable of looking at others successes and taking advice. Homestuck is a BRAND focused on CHARACTERS and it is niche but a content creator can take advantage of that.

They used to have enamel pins and other unique items once upon a time on their old WhatPumpkin Store. However, they stopped producing it because the price for these pins as a set were overpriced and didn't sell enough. $15 fucking dollars for a pin set, even for the simpler smaller ones. Some were able to be reduced to $8 under ForFansByFans, but by then, Homestuck was near the end of its run and nobody cared enough to buy the merch. The Beta Kids one in the first pics were 8 dollars each and $30 if you buy all four. But even then, compared to ones like Helluva Boss or The Amazing Digital Circus, they are at least more reasonable with some having gimmicks (like the Lenticular or locket flip) or special shape designs that need better time to mold and painting. And Glitch Productions is even nice that some aren't that limited time only. But I have no idea if the sales would have been better if it was a limited time offer.

Even for recent times, Hussie or James Roach could use something like this Makeship Campaign plush to sell either Homestuck or Hiveswap related characters, but they aren't doing that either. Not even for YouTooz and their quality for making stuff is cheap as shit. What doesn't help that in one of the ForFansByFans livestreams that used to be streamed on Twitch, they or WhatPumpkin, admitted they lost some of the data files for the merch. So things like outlines about how a plushie should look like or made, the 3D model shape and mold for the Homestuck figures, the images for the shirts/bags/calendars/etc, etc. Most of them had been fan-made, so it will be hard to try and contact the original artists for it. And ones for official like the Homestuck figures, they probably have moved on to greener pastures than to stick around with WhatPumpkin and/or lost file data too. Finally, there's also MOTIVATION that is needed to buy the merch. Homestuck at its state was in Gigapause or near end of its run by the time these merch stuff dropped even after the Kickstarter was funded. Maybe some got tired of waiting for the series to update. Maybe some are unhappy with how the story turned out by the end and didn't think they could support Homestuck because of that. Besides just being able to support small indie creators, does the series make people happy or special that it would give people the energy and effort to go out and buy the merch? Even if you love or hate something too, there should at least have some drive to get people to think about a series. For Homestuck, it's nothing but emptiness.

[radiostatik]

Sharkrobot sent me a few extra Helluva Boss posters by mistake! So I am selling them on ebay! Click the link below in you're interested!

These are the posters I am selling:

They are both in perfect condition!

[l00n3ym00n3y]

Valentine’s Beelzebub outfits💕🐝

[angelshizuka]

I'm SO happy I finally got my hands on the Stolas and Blitz premium plushies! Also got the I.M.P mini plushies.

[guhudude]

I'm gonna say it here too. I would buy an official Mammon plush just so I can punch him. Please, I need this, I can't be the only one!

[mismaxx]

In other news, my Halloween HB merch finally came in. 🧡🎃

Even tho it’s over, still gonna have them out for November lol. 🍂

They’re just so pretty.

[sazzynatural]

This batch of merch was Stolitz heavy and I regret nothing. I will miss you, money.

[lost-romantique]

I loved the episode so much that I spent a disgusting amount of money on the new merch drop...

Also, this was essentially me blowing away all my birthday money. And I'm still not done...