Spirit Beast Pull-Toy
You may now worship the Spirit Beast Pull Toy, in all its glory.
How big is it?
Pretty big!
- With wheels: L: 9 1/4″ W: 3 1/4″ H: 4 1/4″
- Without wheels: L: 9 1/4″ W: 1 3/8″ H: 3 7/8″
From the hands of John at GrecoWoodCrafting.com, we are proud to offer this one-of-a-kind toy to our readers.
“Finely sanded to 400 grit and left in a natural, unfinished state. If yours has wheels, they will be attached using a non-toxic, FDA approved glue making this toy 100% compliant with the new CPSIA regulations. Due to the wood being left unfinished, oils from your hands will transfer to the wood over time, slowly adding more depth and richness to the grain and color.”
If you would like to order the toy WITHOUT wheels — or the axle holes, natch — please click this link:
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If you would like to order the toy WITH wheels, please click this link:
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We asked for a little notch between the ears, which you can partially see in the bottom picture. The top picture is a prototype pic that doesn’t show the notch, but the similar pic that does show the notch is a little fuzzy, so we went with the in-focus one.
In either form, with wheels or without, the toy is $39.95 plus shipping, which is $4.80 for a single toy to anywhere in the United States, (international shipping charges will apply, just like with our teeshirts).
You have a very limited time to place your order, after which we pull this item from sale. Saturday, 14 March 2009 is the last day you can order.
If this toy does well, we can foresee the entire menagerie of hunter-pets being offered in similar fashion.
Let’s stimulate the economy and put your tax refund to work! Order your Spirit Beast Pull Toy today and put a smile on the face of your favorite hunter!
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The hunter in me wants one.
The rules-monger in me wants to know if they come with the CPSIA certificate, as required by law.
The griefer in me wants to shoot it.
>.>
Natural, unfinished materials including wood have been deemed by the CPSC to naturally be under the lead regulations of 600 parts per million. The glue is inaccessible. Testing has been put off as a requirement until February 10th, 2010 but even then, due to the unfinished state of the wood, this would not require testing.
I hope you enjoy!
-John
That’s epic!
I want one – but shipping is expensive (to germany).
Want. Only… What tax refund? I’m not a bank president or insurance executive, I didn’t get any bailout money. Hell, I’m happy that I’m still employed, unlike half my Guildmates.
Try again in 6 months. Maybe some of us will have money to spend after the mortgage, utilities, and groceries are paid for. A new car is definitely not on the plan for this year, so I don’t need to worry about that.
I’d really love one, but college takes all my moneys away from me
Just bought one for The Boy! Now if only The Husband could get one in game…
WANT! It would be so fun to paint too. I love those old-school wood toys… for my… niece… or course… not.. my inner 6 yr old.
@ Homegrown – Best of luck in your hubby’s hunt. It’s WORTH it!
What’s next, BRK rocking horses?
no next is Rocking Rhino’s (Alliteration FTW)
hmm… Can john make a saphire hive queen? I would so buy that.
And a gorilla
:O wow those are cool, man a devilsaur one whould be way cooler though.. to bad wow steals all my moneys…
Oh. Sweet. Norgannon.
WANT.
Also, ye hunters looking for pet names, a post on the hunter forums that was totally not written by my alt whatsoever might interest you:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15443291920&sid=1
I just noticed Something =/
You have the links backwards D=
also he needs to make a proto-drake
DOH.
/fixed
lol now the rest of the 2nd links sentence doesnt make as much sense
The 1st links sentence obviosly also isnt clarified as to what is missing
I suggest if its possible reverse the previous change and just switch the links
Just used the links. Everything worked properly.
What kind of wood are the toys made from?
The toy bodies are made from Fir, so they are sturdy without feeling too heavy. The wheels are made from Maple.
-John
economy stimulated! Can’t wait till it prowls up my driveway!
Thanks BRK. Thanks John–you’ve got a great thing going!
Seems like your making a lot of money off fans of the game using Blizzards creations.
Shouldn’t be using your blog made popular by fans of your teachings in the way of the hunter, to make money off your fans.
Sad to see Bigredkitty going corporate.
You know what, I’m gonna grab one with the excess loan money I have. I really love my spirit beast, it’s way cool, and the moneys going somewhere it needs to be, not just Hardees or something.
*Edit:
I do, however, need to know about how long it’ll be before they ship out. I need to know whether to have it shipped to my home or college address.
Completely unrelated to the cute toy ……
Can I ask why you have Mirror of Truth as one of your trinkets, when the proc is melee based? Is it just for the stats?
Also grats on having the Greatness card …. I dream of having that …. one day.
@SaddenedHunter
Honey, if you don’t wish you spend your money, noone’s going to make you.
Last I checked, I wasn’t forced to pay for access to this site.
Anyone here who chooses to buy a shirt or toy do so because they feel like it.
Ever since I started reading this blog, I’ve never noticed any high pressure sales tactics or shakedowns for fan cash. Lighten up, dear.
@SaddenedHunter
Sounds like BRK is just helping out this John feller with his little wood making business. No harm in that imho. heck, no harm in BRK selling BRK stuff. It’s not like anyone has to buy it.
btw, John, nice work.
@ My Reply’s. Profit sharing between a creator an a advertisement firm is a common corporate activity.
@ SaddenedHunter
BigRedKitty World Wide Amalgated may or may not reserve the right to act as a vendor for keychains, mugs, teeshirts, and/or Spirit Beast Pull Toys. BRK is corporate, feller. IMO, I’d get one of these if I could, props to John Greco for devoting a little extra time into this project,.It looks epic. Mr. Greco, you just keep up the good work.
Money makes the world go ’round, foshizzle.
We sell a few shirts, we make a few bucks, we can then pay for the hosting services, artists, programmers, database administrators, and 3-6TB of bandwidth (yes, terabytes) that BRK the Blog chews though on a monthly basis.
We could make the site pay-per-view. We could have a little “Donations please!” button that would get no clicks.
Or we could find a really cool woodworker who plays WoW and have him design a WoW-themed — we do NOT wish to violate copyrights — toy that people can choose to purchase.
We, obviously, prefer the tertiary solution.
Can I get an approximate date on when these will ship so I know which address to put down?
This just reminds me of how close I’ve come twice to getting him. Once saw a warrior kill him and /lol at me, then I saw a druid kill him who didn’t know about him….cool toy btw.
*cheers* Well said all. We could spend money on the crappy plastic toys out there or we can support a fellow player AND help BRK keep this great site going. Wins all ’round!
Just ordered one for a friend’s toddler son who is going to have a new baby brother in a couple of months. Thanks for making this special gift!
“Can I ask why you have Mirror of Truth as one of your trinkets, when the proc is melee based? Is it just for the stats?”
My pet does melee damage, does yours?
The toy is awesome, makes me want to hop on my flyer and camp the thing again. Too many hours spent hoping “Longnecked Grazer” would turn into “Loque’nahak”.
Indeed, in a world where people are losing their house, job, way of life. Those who can will persist through the hard times anyway they can.
Fighting tooth and claw is not unlawful. or wrong in anyway. Guess I just get annoyed seeing blog posts on my favorite blog about anything other then Hunter stat crunching an techniques.
I apologize for my outburst an rudeness toward you BRK. Guess the stresses of life in hard times will consume me before they will you, or Mr.Greco.
OMG! Noob Baby says she must have a spirit beast pull toy.
Amalgamated*
With the extra little spindle of cash from this, perhaps investing in a proper editing system is in order? Of course, it’d be very complicated…
And TERABYTES? No wonder BlogMonster screams at you o.o
Hostmonster**…
You see, this is precisely what I speaks of!
Awww, I no can do this toy. Do not have the lootz for it, saving to visit my Mum (in Canada) the end of April. However, when the Spirit Beast shirt comes out, I WILL be getting one. That has been budgeted.
misleading.
You say it’s a Spirit Beast PULL Toy, but I cannot find the string to PULL it through the house.
Am I now condemned to push it by touching it in a place I would rather not touch my Spirit Beast :S
Furthermore, my back is killing me atm, cause I have to walk like me Gorilladin.
Don’t get me wrong. I luv the things you do and I luv the stuff you make available for us, but this is a big disappointment for me
Mirror of Truth procs on ranged attacks as well as melee–Blizz has confirmed this.
I bought one of these, because it is the only way I’m going to get a Spirit Beast–I have no patience for camping it until it spawns, and I’m running SV these days.
A guildie hunter found Spirit Beast, and killed it because she was SV…
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Ooooo…
Soo need to bribe hubby to buy one for me..
Who cares if the shipping to Australia will probably be more then the cost of the toy hehe..
OMG, want.
@Alindale, be careful, Australia’s Customs are REALLY antsy about wood products, and unfinished ones are probably not going to get in.
I moved here from the US about 6 years ago and was amazed how careful we had to be with what we brought/shipped.
@longshot: I’ve had my MoT since before they changed the text, and it still procs just fine on ranged attacks and ups my RAP. It really frustrates me that, even after the uproar when it was changed on the PTR, they didn’t bother to actually /fix/ the text.
I want one.. but I hate to pay all that extra tax to get it sent to Denmark
Putting order in now.
I just have to say thanks. There are a lot of sites out there that would just put anything up they might be able to make some kind of money on. At least the two of you got together and are creating something that will give memories long after you have stopped playing WoW. My son love’s anything on wheels and I like to get him toys like this. It helps with the imagination I believe. Now if I can convince my dog it is not a rolling log then we will be good.
@Longshot: Everyone is correct by saying that MoT is not only a melee based proc. Ghostcrawler has a Sticky on the WoW Forums somewhere explaining that it is only a tool tip mistake.
Ummm….does the pull-toy come in size BIG and color RED???
I’m just glad customers don’t have to camp out for 72 hours just to hit the buy button. ; – )
Good Toy. Hope you make a ton on any and all sales eventually because that is good for EVERYBODY in the economy.
Nice toy and idea, but I think the mutant leg coming out of the belly should be amputated.
@Longshot
The Mirror of Truth text is a typo. It procs off physical attacks (including ranged) but not spells.
There’s a blue about it somewhere
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[quote]Money makes the world go ’round, foshizzle.
We sell a few shirts, we make a few bucks, we can then pay for the hosting services, artists, programmers, database administrators, and 3-6TB of bandwidth (yes, terabytes) that BRK the Blog chews though on a monthly basis.[/quote]
Good on ya BRK. One for a great website and second for helping one of your readers with his business. Specialty hobbyists are hurting more than typical business owners for the most part (I also do woodworking & leatherworking as a hobby and business has dropped with the economy) and getting the word out on things like this is great. Not only for the initial S.B. sales but those folks that will eventually ask John, “What else can ya make?”
To John: neat idea, keep up the good work.
To SaddenedHunter:
Welcome to the real world. First off, having hosted a popular website on a woodworking hobby, this kind of endeavor isn’t cheap. Our site only brought in half of the audience BRK’s does and our annual costs easily exceeded $1000 for hosting, software, supplies, designers, writers, contests, etc.
I am willing to bet that the few shirts and other things like the Pull Toy only help BRK to break even and maybe buy a few of the Rasberry Lattes he’s so fond of.
So next time you want to comment on someone trying to find ways to support a project as large as the BRK website, without specifically asking you to dip into your wallet to access the information, do a little research to figure out what it takes to run a site like this.
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Long story short…you get to access the site for free…FOR FREE…you get to access the blog, the forums, the movies, the commentary and occassionally the personal life of BRK, you get to talk to friends, compare experiences, learn from a huge pool of other Hunters and yet you choose to complain about something you get FOR FREE when BRK makes an attempt to keep it free of charge to you. Get a clue.
@sad hunter
Me think you are going to cancel your internet and wow services… and donate that money to those who have lost their house.
Really, we all make choices, we all spend money… see part of the issue is that we consumers are not spending and thus the economy is falling off a cliff. So we say spend your money generate tax money and get this world wide recession on the upside.
Awww I want one of these so terribly bad! Hey John, would you be willing for a trade? My resto (tree form) druid for your spirit beast? -^_^-
I also has my “bear form” druid that I can offer >.> both are hand made by me
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5143727&l=b1706&id=745060713 is the link to the bear and
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6271777&l=5b313&id=745060713
is link to the tree =)
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“Sad to see Bigredkitty going corporate.” WTF do you pay to use BRK? if not then shove it.
That toy is just [enter] allyourbasearebelongtous [enter]
zomg all your basearebelongtous! compleatly forgot about that one =P
[...] yearned for the elusive Spirit Beast from Sholazar, you can now own yourself with this unique Spirit Beast pull toy. I have to admit, I didn’t expect to ever see this. Now that I do, it’s totally cool, and I wish [...]
“Can I ask why you have Mirror of Truth as one of your trinkets, when the proc is melee based? Is it just for the stats?”
It procs off ranged attacks as well.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=14498460745&postId=144714791106&sid=1#3
@SaddenedHunter
It takes a special kind of person to complain when someone doesn’t want to go to a lot of effort to provide you something for free
It takes an even more special kind of person to complain when someone -does- go a lot of effort to give you something for free, but tries to recoup some of their expenses on the side.
Me, I hope BRK makes a few dimes. My God, the AWESOMENESS he has given
the community of WoW, with so many hours of his own hard work.
And, this product, helping an actual craftsman, in these days of plastic cr@p
is gravy. Winwin, for everyone.
I wish I actually could edit. I copy pasted my above comment, which I wrote while at my daughter’s, and wow, it looks like poo..
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I am a long time reader and first time writer.
I am a little tired of reading sell out and other
Stuff like this. Because we are all selling out,
If you don’t believe me here is an example.
“We are playing wow and that is selling out”
(If you don’t see it that way,
Here is some other way you can see it.)
We give are money to wow for entertaining for
Our little brain in stand of give it to poor people.
Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla and bla.
If we have thing to sell we would. Because
We want money. “I know” little more!
Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla and bla.
/Lightbringer Capto
@Capto
A) That didn’t make any sense.
B) Refer to A.
I didn’t get it so that either means there was no point or there was a hidden idea or point behind this I completely missed
DO WANT!
Just…a little pricey
Hrmm…now we need a RL Sandbox Spectral tiger….
@Capto
What? I would almost assume that was meant to be a poem… if it scanned/rhymed at all.
*brainhurt*
I am sorry… My comment was not meant to be answered.
It was meant to make you think.
WOW and BRK gives use what we want.
“It is the customer´s that makes people sell out”
This is what I meant when i wrote
“We are playing wow and that is selling out”
The easy way to understand my comment
NO customers (YOU) “NO wow” “NO BRK”
I know… I am and I was really bored, when I wrote my comment.
Ty and bb all… Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla and bla.
From your friend have a good day, night and morning =) /Capto
sorry to post off topic, just wanted to say thanks for the reply on the mirror of truth – this goes to the top of my wow shopping list
Good luck with sales – not just the pull toy – I support anyone who has the initiative to actually produce a product that is marketable – and you do it with flair!
More power to you, I say!
Very cool BRK! I think I might get one for my little 3-month Hunter-To-Be.
[...] yearned for the elusive Spirit Beast from Sholazar, you can now own one yourself with this unique Spirit Beast pull toy. I have to admit, I didn’t expect to ever see this. Now that I do, it’s totally cool, [...]
I’d love to order one but only if it takes the shipping warehouse a minimum of a week to find it before packing it up.
is it no longer availble? i tried the links neither worked.