I'm currently without my main computer, it's in the shop after a HDD failure, waiting to hear back from tech if I lost anything I didn't have backed up. Whee. Hoped to have word today, will bug them tomorrow.

Anyways, I'm not as good about keeping up on my email with my phone, I see people have been asking me about an update. Lemme try and get settled back in and I'll try and see what the status of the list is looking like. Using my wife's laptop at the moment.

As I've told me who'd messaged me recently I've been very busy with a big project at work and just haven't had much hobby time lately. I think this is the first time I've logged into Pinside in a couple months. It gets like this sometimes for me, ebb and flow.

Doing a run takes a certain amount of time just to take care of everyone and the packaging etc, so I've just not had the bandwidth to do it right. Don't give up, I haven't forgotten.

Better to just message me directly now, I've already contacted the list and I might miss you if you add yourself to it now.

Hey, so I'm still in stupid computer land, but I'm on a backup machine now at least and catching up on email etc. If you've messaged me about anything I haven't replied that's why, just been kind of a tech nightmare this last month+

Anyways, not your problem, but that's why I've been a little hard to reach. I'm stable now.

So here's the good news, my printer just reached out to me to see if I needed anything and that's the motivation I need to make a run happen. I'm gonna email my list right this moment. If you're not interested anymore not a problem, I know it's been a wait, but look for my email.

I'll go through responses this weekend, but just FYI for the people asking if they can get 2, yes, no problem at all. I can combine shipping for them.

I've gone through all the emails and marked people on my sheet, I'll send an update to everyone at some point, but if you didn't get a personal reply from me you can assume you're good to go.

I edited the message above with the google form link, don't use that anymore, just message me directly. If you use the form I might not notice you getting added to it at this point since I've already started marking it up.

If one of these emails looks like it's yours know that I'm about to drop you from this order because you haven't responded to either of my requests!

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Putting the order in now with my printer. I'm getting a few extras to cover any latecomers. So if you're one of the people who didn't email me back, or you're a new order, it's first come first served with with what I have left, just shoot me a message.

UPS scheduled to deliver prints to me today. Will email the list after I've inspected and made sure we're good to go, but I doubt there will be any problems.

I do have extras, so if anyone wants one "shipping now" just shoot me a message.

Everything checked out, as expected, but always still a relief to open the boxes and find everything as it should be.

Everyone on my list should have an email with the info, check your inbox.

I have four sets left unclaimed.

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One set left. If anyone drops out I'll update here, I have half the orders paid for so far.

Had someone drop out, the Shadow they were buying already came with my set. Not the first time I've had someone ask if they could bow out for that reason lol. No stress, I have an extra package for whenever someone comes along wanting it though.

Unless something falls through everything is claimed now.

No idea when/if such a thing will happen, really a matter of public interest.

Hey, sorry I haven't been around Pinside much lately. To be honest I kinda got bummed out on the constant negative energy in a lot of threads and been on a bit of a break. Still around, just not keeping so much of a regular eye on things.

Thanks to the folks who messaged me to say I might want to check the thread.

Yeah, that dude has been ripping me off for years. I can't be fussed to worry about it, he's in Brazil, I don't even have a Facebook account anymore. Wasting my time trying to stop someone in another country from selling bootlegs seems pointless. I assume the quality sucks, but I dunno.

Anyways, is what it is, but if you buy from anyone not me it's a bootleg, I don't give them to anyone else to sell. And obviously the quality will likely not be the high end printing process I use, but will also be a second generation scan or low resolution. Buyer beware and all that.

As far as another run goes, I can look into. I always say "this one is final" now, because it always feels like it will be. But if somehow there's enough interest I can try and make it happen.

I usually try for 10. tbh I gotta figure out the printing situation, my guy who did it all for me has left the company and I think my printing costs are going to go up but a lot because I don't have the inside connect anymore.

All of you who've had my translites before know how nice they light up, that saturated super rich color comes from the RGB laser printing process, but it's not cheap. I basically got the employee discount before, but that's done now. Was a good run, appreciate my guy a lot, but yeah, no more insider to care care of me.

Okay, looks like I gotta figure this out. And when I said costs going up by a lot I don't have an exact figure yet, but when I last looked into it without my hookup the jump was in the $30-40 range. Just for some context. I'll dig into it more to really sort it out, just wanted to give a heads up that if the price goes up that's why.

Yeah, you're not wrong, just wanted to be up front about it.