BugAlien - The Galactic Creature Eater. Made in USA
A project in Phoenix, AZ by Nicholas Sulkowski000days
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Earthly aliens abound! Abduct these creepy crawlers and freakish fliers, study them up close, and set them free when you're done.
Backers: 139
Average Pledge Per Backer: $52
Funded: $7,184 of $7,000
Dates: Jun 13th -> Jul 19th (36 days)
Project By: Nicholas Sulkowski
Backers: 139
Average Pledge Per Backer: $52
Funded: $7,184 of $7,000
Dates: Jun 13th -> Jul 19th (36 days)
Project By: Nicholas Sulkowski
$7,184
current pledge level
Last Updated: July 19 @ 03:30 -0400 GMT
102%
of goal
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Latest News
Retail Packaging Finished! 
April 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi guys, 10,000 peg cards are arriving next week. I received the first four samples yesterday. I immediately strapped four crystal clear BugAliens into them and made my way to a brilliant, not so small, independently owned toy store in... (Read More)
Peg Card close up.
March 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Apologies to people I've already emailed this to. I thought you might want to read it, so I am providing a little larger size. (Read More)
Tinted BugAliens / Professional Packaging / Hand Made Display Rack
March 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Hi old friends, ---Can't thank you enough for filling out the survey!!! Incredibly beneficial to me! ---Ginny Westcott completed her design for the peg card (Illustrations by Gary Locke). We will got to press with this very soon! ---Here is a... (Read More)
Please help me out with one last thing.
February 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Kickstarters, I imagine most, if not all of you, have received your BugAliens by now. I was hoping you might do one last important favor for me. I've personally created a short survey, only eight questions, that will help me navigate the waters... (Read More)
Assembly and Shipping
January 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Well just so you know it is really happening - I'm throwing up three video links for you. I figured that many backers give of their resources to projects like BugAlien partly because they enjoy following along in the process. We've worked... (Read More)
Polish
December 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Backers, Well the 3rd generation sample run last week did not look good. After all the attempts to properly fine polish the steel, we were still looking at a foggy BugAlien. We needed a break-through move! So before we went into a 4th set of... (Read More)
Can BugAlien make Christmas?
November 27th - via: kickstarter.com
BugAlien has suffered a time consuming setback. Testing on the first set of samples found a dimensional issue in the hinge. This was not an design problem, but a tooling error where too much metal had been removed. (the worse kind of error) This... (Read More)
Reference of scale
November 5th - via: kickstarter.com
I received a valuable suggestion to send a few pictures with child and adult hands to give an idea of the size of BugAlien. My 5 year old boy was too grumpy to help. ...meet Israella instead :) . . (Read More)
First Shots
November 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi guys! We fired up the mold and cranked out our first shots last week. I am ecstatic with the results! There were a few minor issues, but nothing that can't be easlily fixed. The lens, that we were so worried about, came out wonderfully!... (Read More)
Latest Pictures of the Mold.
October 17th - via: kickstarter.com
I just wanted to pass these latest shots along. All said and done this mold will weigh over 900 Lbs and cost as much as a brand new Honda Accord! A special thanks to my design engineer Bryan at Arizona IdeaWorks, who took my concepts line by... (Read More)
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