Bootleg bug eggs stole my art
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So, the company definitely won't manufacture just one crate to sell me and they will have to refund the money, but packages for all of you are going out this week!Every single one contains one of the original Mortasheen pencil drawings from the early 2000's, completely one of a kind and signed. Some of them were never even seen by the internet!
If you donated 15, you'll still also get the minifigure!
"SO WHAT ABOUT THE MONEY?"
It took some effort to get a refund from these guys, who kept offering different toy egg products instead, but they finally understood and paypal'd be back.
If you would rather have your $5-15 refunded instead of the art and minifigure, just let me know by email in the next couple days, otherwise I'll be putting all 30 some packages in the mail! I won't take offense, honest, money is really tight for everybody right now!
OTHERWISE, we're about to spend most of our savings on a big move, and it was kind of looking like I might have to skip reviewing much Halloween stuff this year.
So, instead of 1000 identical rubber egg cockroaches, any donations you want me to keep will go into saving Halloween 2015. Let me know if you would like a special personal thanks or credit when that happens!
So there are three things I'm pretty big on: bugs, drawing monsters, and weird, cheap dollar-store grade bootleg toys. You'll find a lot of stuff of that nature on my website, bogleech.com
One day, I'm browsing the odder stuff on alibaba.com, when to my amazement I stumble upon my ultimate mark upon the world:
A cheap, dollar-store grade, bootleg bug toy has MY monster drawing on it.
In the bottom right corner of this fake plastic egg with a fake plastic cockroach on it, you can see a rotten green snail with a gravestone for a shell. That's one of my own drawings from way back in 2009, when I was just crudely learning to do digital art.
I never authorized this use, but I certainly would have if they'd asked. It's nothing personal, of course; whatever underpaid worker put this box art together, they had no idea who I am or where that drawing came from, so there's really nothing I can do and nothing to be upset about. All I really want is to own some myself.
A minimum order of these things is, unfortunately, $200, and my usual patreon money needs to go into rent. I can handle a bit of it, but I really can't be spending hundreds of bucks willy-nilly on giant boxes of fake eggs, even if they did steal my artwork.
On the bright side, that $200 buys something like a thousand of these damn things, so I'd be set for life.
So, you can help me buy my own stolen artwork on a rubber bug, and if you donate $5 or more, you get a present!
Please note that since this is an overseas company I'd be dealing with, it could take MANY WEEKS for the items to get to me! I'll keep you posted, and if they get eaten by an alligator or something on the way, I'll STILL send you a personalized reward of some sort!
One day, I'm browsing the odder stuff on alibaba.com, when to my amazement I stumble upon my ultimate mark upon the world:
A cheap, dollar-store grade, bootleg bug toy has MY monster drawing on it.
In the bottom right corner of this fake plastic egg with a fake plastic cockroach on it, you can see a rotten green snail with a gravestone for a shell. That's one of my own drawings from way back in 2009, when I was just crudely learning to do digital art.
I never authorized this use, but I certainly would have if they'd asked. It's nothing personal, of course; whatever underpaid worker put this box art together, they had no idea who I am or where that drawing came from, so there's really nothing I can do and nothing to be upset about. All I really want is to own some myself.
A minimum order of these things is, unfortunately, $200, and my usual patreon money needs to go into rent. I can handle a bit of it, but I really can't be spending hundreds of bucks willy-nilly on giant boxes of fake eggs, even if they did steal my artwork.
On the bright side, that $200 buys something like a thousand of these damn things, so I'd be set for life.
So, you can help me buy my own stolen artwork on a rubber bug, and if you donate $5 or more, you get a present!
Please note that since this is an overseas company I'd be dealing with, it could take MANY WEEKS for the items to get to me! I'll keep you posted, and if they get eaten by an alligator or something on the way, I'll STILL send you a personalized reward of some sort!
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It is my destiny to own one of these bootleg bug in an egg signed by you
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Here you are, Jonathan! Keep being as awesome as you are. ;)