question for the megamind fandom
Ok, so in recent years i’ve gotten into Disney Pin trading. Along the way that segued into fantasy pin collecting (that’s when fans produce and sell limited editions of their own pin designs. like this:
It’s a surprisingly large community with a ton of amazing pins and i decided i wanted to get into making fantasy pins myself. Mostly Disney, but not necessarily exclusively Disney.
I was looking through instagram and just wound up trying to look up Megamind related pins. There’s none. Like NONE. I couldn’t find a single one. And we all know how under merchandised Megamind is.
So I thought maybe I should do it. But here’s my question. Is that even something the fandom wants? How fantasy pins tend to work is that the designer does a presale and then uses those funds to produce the actual pins. And it’s rather pricey. Fantasy Pin sellers sell 3inch pins for around 35 dollars. (or more if they are a popular seller, i’m talking in the 100 dollar range, it’s pretty nuts)
I myself don’t like to spend more than 25 dollars on a single pin so that’s the price i’d be wanting to charge. And based on my research so far i’d have to presale at least 50 or so pins to be able to finance this. I don’t even know if there are enough active fans around that would be interested in something like this.
So this is basically what my idea is, i want to do 4 designs, one each for Megs, Metro, Roxanne, and Minion. 25 dollars each, or 80 for all 4. They would be pretty similar to the Disney Heroine Profile Pins that have been really popular of late. These:
Same size, (3 inches) hard enamel, with the sandblasted background. I’ve drawn up 2 designs so far, Roxanne and Minion:
So, thoughts? Interest? Is this nuts?
This is still prelim, there’s the etched backgrounds to design, but this is what we’re looking at:
Thoughts? Is Megamind’s pose okay? i figure if anything he’s the one most people are going to want the most so he’s the one i most need to get right.
So about a couple years ago I posted the above about making fantasy pins. There wound up not being enough fandom interest to actually go through with it and so I put the designs aside and basically just forgot about it.
Well recently my kitten Ridian got really sick and his treatment is expensive (but working, he's doing really well) and I've been trying to fundraise. So I was thinking, if pins are too costly what about stickers? I have everything I need to make them myself. Would there be any interest in that?
I was thinking of charging 2 dollars per sticker. They'd be about 2 to 3 inches and colored with full shading and colored lineart. I wanted to see if there would be any interest before I put the time into completing the designs. I never got any further than what is shown in the original post.
