Creating/crowdfunding a real life TESTball

[Riekopo]

Hey guys I would like to have a real life TESTball made for use as a mascot/prop/trophy/conversation piece/joke enabler/lifesaving raft/pillow/drug hider. It could be featured in our videos and taken to events. The "Holder of TESTball" would be a very prestigious honor. I have three early sketches so far and would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions. They will be custom made, 100% fleece on the outside, and 100% polyester on the inside.

I think my favorite design of the three is the winged version. The eyes on it are currently "happy". I was considering changing the eyes to "excited" which are the same except the bottom line would be arched like the top. If we go with a drunk TESTball I would probably change the eyes to the "drunk" ones. The vodka bottle would probably be grey with light blue text. It might be possible to have a variant of the TEST Squadron logo transferred onto the bottle instead of the word "vodka". I would like the bottle to be attached to TESTball at an angle. I was thinking we could use a beer mug or regular beer bottle instead of a vodka bottle. You can see the different eye designs here.

So let's hear everyones' thoughts and suggestions. Then we can settle on a design and hopefully raise some monies plox for it.

 

[SeungRyul]

#2 and #1 I think are going to most popular due to price. If can get #3 eyes on #1&2 it would be better also.

 

[maynard]

googly eyes FTW

 

[Riekopo]

This isn't a production run, at least not yet. At first we'll just by one or two. What's the best way to raise funds for it?

 

[Jhonon1]

Make an actual example, sketches are only so desirable. With the window stickers anyone could have taken our logo and made it, noone did. Once it was done demand became large, though I dunno how many are/were willing to purchase.
My monies need to be pretty particular, so I'd have to see at least a prototype before forking out any :/

 

[Riekopo]

Here's a good question. What are the official wing colors? Are they all black, all yellow, or yellow-black-yellow?

 

[WarrenPeace]

Originally all black. Currently logo seems like yellow-black-yellow, based off the logo on the TEST Squadron org page... but that's a more fancy logo. For some thing simple like a TESTball, you might want to stick with all black.

Of course, the proper answer is black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow.