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Deluxe Constellation Dice: Spectrum

Created by Gio Lasar Design

************** All orders received after Dec. 14th, 2021 will be shipped in mid January 2022 due to year-end inventory count. Happy Holidays! ************** Extended sets about space and the Apollo missions in new color combinations, including glow-in-the-dark painted dice. All shipments will be mailed from Italy, with an expected transit time of two to six weeks pending customs and destination. Having successfully sent thousands of parcels worldwide, and since international tracked shipping can be much more expensive than the dice you are getting, shipments will be untracked unless agreed beforehand. Shipping fees are based on weight, and are usually under €10 for Europe and USA (ranging from €5 for the smallest packages, to €20 for heavy ones).

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Adding a most wanted new full set to the rewards, Kickstarter delayed 24 hours for updates!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 07:45:43 AM

We have received confirmation today that the same factory that made the Dice Odyssey sets (Sky's Edge, Purple Nebula, Outer Space) has a slot avalaible early next year for manufacturing a Blue Nebula version of this popular design, long sold out!

Since the Discovery full set has no standard numbers, this is a most welcome addition to the upcoming Kickstarter. Of course we had the cover ready (just in case) but now we still need to update the page.

Sorry for keeping you waiting!

If you would like to check the campaign page as soon as it's ready, please subscribe to the newsletter at www.giolasar.com to receive a link before launch. Hope to see you tomorrow at this time on Kickstarter!

Constellation dice: Discovery starts in 24 hours
over 1 year ago – Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 11:55:07 PM

This is a special moment in Space History.

On December 11th, 1972 the last Apollo crew set foot on the Moon.

Exactly 50 years later, this coming Sunday, a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean will mark the completion of the first Artemis mission (named after the goddess sister to Apollo in Greek mythology) which will soon bring four astronauts, including a woman, to the Moon again.

In a few weeks, it will be also the first anniversary since the launch of the James Webb space telescope, which in just one year provided us with incredible images of great scientific - and for us stargazers, emotional - value.

We also love dice of course, and the upcoming campaign will bring some of that space magic in the palm of your hand. The Discovery full set features a selection of new and classic designs, in the same beautiful color combination from last year (a translucent starfield background, with light blue glowing paint):

  • Constellations d4 - new design following the d6, d8, and d12 you have from previous editions
  • Crescent d6 - from the Apollo edition set, featuring a prominent crescent Moon
  • Hubble d8 - new design with a selection of the main Open Clusters (e.g. the Pleiades)
  • Space Webb d10 / d100 - new design introducing galaxies to the collection
  • Moon d12 - from the Apollo edition set, where the craters display the values
  • Earth d20 - from the Apollo edition set, where smaller and bigger stars display the values

And, celebrating both Apollo and Artemis, both the Saturn V from the 60' and the new SLS-I.

All of these dice are numbered of course, just not with the standard numerals you will find elsewhere: the result is a collectors' set that will look like a full sky of stars in your hands.

The only remaining design from 2017 not yet available in the new color, the Eclipse d100 (which features regular numbers) might still be included in the full set - as a Stretch Goal.

If you missed the last campaign, this is also your chance to grab one of the few remaining full sets in the same color combinations as the new Discovery one.

Like last year, the campaign will run for just one week, with discounted early bird rewards on the first day, starting at this time tomorrow on Kickstarter. See you then!

Easter Egg
almost 3 years ago – Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 11:09:52 AM

They look sweet, but please don't eat.

Easter egg: an image, message or feature hidden sometimes in plain sight, but always unexpected.
 

Spring is finally back again, but we may need some extra color this year. Having sent all the rewards in time for Easter, we'd like to offer you backers a special treat before the online store for this campaign is advertised to the general public: a sweet double set of candy looking dice.

There are only 10 available though, otherwise where would be the fun in hunting them?

Please click here to take a look, and enjoy a relaxing holiday time!

Almost there!
about 3 years ago – Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 02:26:32 AM

Winter is coming to an end, and hopefully the next months will brighten our days with better weather and increasingly better news. Let's start today with a few. The team started fulfillment in mid January, right after most of you had submitted the surveys. Orders have been locked, invoices prepared, and in just a few weeks all your dice have been sorted out and packaged. By mid February all the rewards for EU backer had been sent. 


In the meanwhile, we applied for a special permit to print in-house on the envelopes a barcode called S10, used to couple all parcels leaving Europe with an electronic packing-list detailing their content, to be submitted to foreign customs at the time of mailing. Being now informed in advance about what's coming their way, transit through customs should be smoother and take less time.


On the flip side: this new S10 barcode is mandatory since January 1st for all mail sent outside Europe from Italy, but other countries started using it since last year; this resulted for us in returned shipments, apparently for no reason. Moreover, these barcodes (that are like tracking stickers, despite not being used for that purpose) are still quite hard to get in large quantities, and not even local post offices had rolls to spare; that's what forced us to go through the aforementioned, time consuming authorization procedure.


Anyway, the permit has been issued and the remaining shipping labels - including barcodes - could finally be printed. The preparation of the digital packing-lists took extra manual work and we are looking into automating this process, but right now this prevented us to send everything in one go. We are not over yet; however, most backers should still be receiving their rewards by March as planned. 


One more thing: while all of this was taken care of, unfortunately other issues that had nothing to do with this Kickstarter required personal attention, thus the lack of updates (sorry about that!) and no posts on social media.  Thanks for your patience and support, expecially to those of you who already posted some pictures, filling in the blanks :) more are coming soon!

Accelerating
about 3 years ago – Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:37:13 AM

Whatever the mission, all rocket launches have in common an amazing transition: from perfect stillness, to the unstoppable thrust they must generate to win gravity.

This is more or less how we'd like to fulfill this campaign (with a bang) because the only sure way to speed things up in the current situation appears to be starting as soon as possible. And that's what you did, as well! Over 75% of backers have already submitted their BackerKit survey, so their cards could be charged to proceed with invoicing and prepare for shipping. Thank you!

If instead you couldn't, or you need more time, it's ok. Your reward will simply be shipped later. 

By the way, now you can also use Paypal to take care of shipping fees and add-ons :)