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Medium Red Cthulhu and New Born Baby Blue Ninjas

Medium Cthulhu Red NinjaDue to popular demand I’ve made another Cthulhu Ninja. This one is medium sized, and an evil rethinking of the original Baby blue. He’s got bloodshot eyes and tehe pupils are kinda funny shaped as well. All in all, don’t freck with Cthulhu, even if he does kinda look like a demented Santa Claus. For a mere $20 adoption fee, pure evil has never been so affordable.

UPDATE: Red Cthulhu is sold!

On a side note, if any ectomites are reading this I’ve been pondering both Squid Ninja and Octobee Ninja. Good idea, or sacrilegious?

I also made a New Born Baby Ninja. Took longer than I thought, mainly because he’s so tiny and hard to work with! I might try another one but entirely handstitch it next time. Either way, I’m keeping this one. He sits under my TV next to the PS3 controllers.
New Born Baby-Baby Blue Ninja

Ninjas on Sale and Commissions

So I’ve made a pricing change and some other decisions. All small Ninjas are now $15 instead of $25 and all medium Ninjas are now $20 instead of $30. Also, shipping is free in North America for all Ninjas. I’m no longer selling through Etsy as, while the storefront was nice, it was a pain having to shell out a % of what little profits I was making. With the price drop, getting that taken off really isn’t an option anymore.

Here are the available Ninjas, this will be updated as stock changes, though, it requires my intervention so please contact me before sending money.

If you want to buy a Ninja, CONTACT ME and I’ll tell you to send me an email money transfer to ryancouldrey AT yahoo.com or a paypal payment to the same email address. Contact me first though to make sure the Ninja is still in stock.

If you want a particular Ninja you don’t see, I’ll also take a commission. I’d require the full standard price of the Ninja plus $2.50 in advance. It seems Cthulhu Ninja was more popular than I thought he’d be, which is why I’m throwing this out there. I WILL be making at least one more of Cthulhu, in a slightly different style (will save me some time in his construction) so hold off on commissioning him just yet. Any other ideas? LET ME KNOW!

SO, to summarize, I think the original price point was too high. $25-$30 per ninja plus $5 shipping was too much. $15-$20 with FREE shipping should be much more enticing. You end up getting a cute as fark ninja for a price point that’s on par or cheaper than an Ugly Doll (those are awesome btw, I love Jeero!), it’s hand made, and they’re all mostly different from one another. Help me buy some camera equipment would ya, and adopt a Ninja!

Ninjas you can’t have: iNinja

Unlike Infected Pink Ninja, Infected iNinja has been corrupted with a much more terrible affliction; Apple-itis. I gave her away to a friend who attends the cult of Mac and he finally sent over some pics!iNinja

Infected iNinja was once just an ordinary Lenovo Ninja. Working at IBM (being a Ninja doesn’t exactly pay in terms of moolah), Lenovo Ninja was given the opportunity to start using a MacBook, thanks to IBM having decided on outfitting select employees with the infectious white ‘puter. Soon after turning it on, though, Lenovo Ninja felt a change inside of her. suddenly, she had an urge to buy anything Steve Jobs dreamt up while on the crapper, even a network hard drive rebranded as a Time Machine and subsequently priced three times more than its actual worth. Lenovo ninja fell into the hands of the Mac-intologists. Now infected, it seems she may be lost forever.

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iNinja already has a home. Sorry! Please don’t sue me, Steve. kthxSMOKEBOMBbai

Grey Piratized and Baby Blue 3D Monster Movie Lover Ninjas now for sale!

Some Ninjas love their retro cinema technology… SOLD!

Some Ninjas were once their own sworn enemy

And some Ninjas are just adorable assassins looking for a nice home!

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Ninjas you can’t have: Inebriated Orange Ninja

Ninjas you can’t have showcases Ninjas that were given away or sold outside of etsy or were something that made them unavailable publically.

This floozy finally stumbled out of the pub! She’s 7 inches tall and was given away to a friend who got married. The inspiration was when his (now) wife told me the story of her stumbling over him lying on the bathroom tiles, passed out and drunk having expelled most of his innards into their toilet (thankfully, not the couch or on their cats). He couldn’t stay til the end of his own bachelor party because he’d had about 30 double shots of hard booze.

Inebriated Orange Ninja

Her Story…

Even the best Ninjas have off days. This Ninja recently had a run in with a pirate she used to see back in high school, and it just brought back too many painful memories. A quick trip to the pub, though, and she can’t even remember her address, let alone that time she caught him with some wench. The wench didn’t last long, though, as Inebriated Orange had a few bo-shurikens on her. The eyepatch the wench wears now is definitely not for show!

At least Inebriated Orange Ninja is now living with some almost as inebriated as she is!

Baby Blue Cthulhu, Infected Pink and Sad Yellow!

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Cthulhu is sold! The other two are available, however!If you buy one I’d LOVE your feedback. Even if you don’t, let me know what you think in the comments section! Big ups to Ectomo for linking Cthulhu up as well!

Of course…

So the dolls were on sale briefly. Then I realized (sorry, my wife realized… happy Ally?) that the whole site was not really well made for selling schtuff. I’ll be going the Etsy route.

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This will be finished up TONIGHT. There, I said it. I’ll still use this site for posting news and nonsense about the Ninja Dolls, and will also post up some of them that aren’t for sale (i.e. I gave them away), just because it’d still be cool to show them off, like the iNinja.

Ninja Dolls on sale THIS WEEK

Did ya hear the GREAT news? Ninja Dolls go on sale THIS WEEK! I’ll be putting a few on sale each day. There are two sizes, small and medium. The small size ninjas (the only size featured in the above video) will cost $25 plus $5 shipping, while the medium Ninjas will cost $35 plus $5 shipping (all prices in Canadian dollars). Certain Ninjas may cost a bit extra due to their extra coolness (and as such the extra time they took to make), Baby Blue Cthulhu being one of them. Not a huge amount, but a few dollars more (those tentacles were murder to stuff!). Sad Yellow ninja needn’t be sad anymore, as his brethren (such as Mustachio’d Ninja and Ying-Yang Two-Face Ninja) will finally have the chance to find a loving home filled with unsuspecting targets. Umm, I mean adoptive parents. Ya…

If you wanna be sure to snag one be sure to subscribe to either the RSS or Email Updates. Two buttons will appear on the site once they go on sale; Available ninja Dolls will always be accessible via the associated button that says, err, “Available Ninja Dolls,” while the functionality of the “Unavailable Ninja Dolls” button will be left to your imagination.

Medium Ninjas, Sneak Peak

Medium Ninjas Sneak Peak
Jeez, I hope I can start selling these soon, I’m running out of shelf space.

UPDATE: Shelf space has returned, as ALL FOUR OF THESE GUYS are now gone!

DELAYS! And Good News

ninjasplaytime.jpgOk, so there’s at least a few people that are anxious for me to start selling the dolls. I want to do this way sooner than later, believe me! Main problem is figuring out the shipping costs for North America, even though the people the mainly know about Ninja-Dolls are in good ol’Toronto. I’m close to figuring it out, but one thing is holding me back…

How much it’ll cost to ship the larger Ninja Dolls.

Because this is taking so long, I’ve decided to start making a larger doll to go with the smaller 7 inch Ninjas I’ve currently got in stock. Not gonna spoil any surprises as to what flavor the dolls will come in (I tend to decide just before I sit down at my Singer), but there will be a few treats, as well as at least one that was specifically requested (and as such might not be publicly available). WATCH THIS SPACE!

Lastly, I’ve decided to ditch the idea of a mailing list. It seemed like a good idea in theory (after all, everyone else seems to have one) but if you really wanna know what’s going on then just subscribe to the RSS feed or you can subscribe with Email Updates. How gnarly is that?!