Guys that is a freaking Special Blacklight Edition Journal 3 they’re giving away as a prize they aren’t joking around jfc
-and a Pop and a blind bag figurine…
(I already have the journal so I’m not going to play this but wanted to spread the word that there is a fanmade hunt that is apparently starting very soon…)
Dude, I wasn’t supposed to get this until the 19th! AND I don’t have to go to work until 4! SO I SHOULD HAVE MABEL AND THE JOURNAL BY THEN! *screams*
Same here! Mine was supposed to arrive like 19-23 but I got a text alert this morning saying it was arriving today!!!
Hyyyped
Im going to get spoiled on Journal 3 stuff I know it… I dont have any way to block certain tags on my phone or work computer, which is where I check tumblr from 90% of the time…
Please, please try to keep the Journal 3 Special Edition spoilers under wraps for at least the next couple of days. Definitely tag your posts, put stuff under cuts, use the Caesar cipher, whatever it takes to keep this stuff somewhat quiet. Not everyone will get it delivered on the release date, and some folks won’t get it for up to a week later. Let’s have the same respect for this edition that we saw when the first Journal came out.
Just sayin, if I see a ciphered post I’m gonna decipher it because I’m curious and I want to know what it says, so please clearly label that its a spoiler.
I sent an email to Amazon customer service regarding the over pre-sell of the blacklight Journal 3.
Generally, it appears that anyone who ordered from the 22nd to the 25th is guaranteed to get it. Unfortunately, I am unaware if this includes those who ordered on the 25th or just those who ordered between these two dates.
You may try asking customer service for more information yourself if you’re worried, but it’s likely that they’ll give the same response.
I sent another email requesting clarification on the time range- should get a response within 30-60 minutes, hopefully. 🙂
Welp, it took longer than I expected to get a response, but I finally received one!
Here’s what I asked:
And here’s what they responded with:
Still not super helpful, but it appears to me that they’ve confirmed that the time range DOES extend to the 25th, and that everyone who ordered on that day should be fine.
So, I suppose that’s some good news! 😀
Anyways, if any of you want to make sure you’ll get it, you can always send your own email to Amazon Customer Service, and they will tell you outright if you are guaranteed to receive it or not.
really bummed to hear this news. unless more copies are printed (which may not be likely considering the book is limited edition), some folks who thought they’d claimed one through preorder might end up with their orders cancelled.
apparently about 1200 copies were confirmed for pre-order in the US—200 more than it was advertised were available—while preorders are actually still open in Canada and Japan. i’m not sure yet if this is because extra copies were printed for international sales, or if preordering for these countries has been left open for some other reason.
the bright side to this is how quickly the limited edition journal sold; 1200+ copies at $150 each in 3 days. hopefully this (finally) shows DisneyHyperion how serious Gravity Falls fans are about merch—and prompts them to meet the demand.
that being said, if you’re concerned about your preorder through or you’d just like more copies of the limited edition journal to be available, contact DisneyHyperion and let ‘em know. here is their twitter and here is their website (tho i recommend twitter, as their Contact Us page on the site seems to be just a maze of FAQs).
Also, don’t be afraid to contact Amazon’s customer support! Just be sure to ask them to check your order confirmation number to see if you’ll actually get the journal.
That’s what I did, anyways, but now I’m paranoid.
Someone else contacted customer support, and were told that Amazon was unable to confirm their place in the queue. It also sounded as if Amazon may not fulfill orders in the same order that they were received…
It sounded like the reason Amazon didn’t limit the amount of pre-orders, was because they didn’t realize that the item was limited quantity.
Which is quite frankly, annoying, as I’m sure its not the first time they’ve dealt with collector edition items with limited quantities… And if pre-ordering isn’t closed yet in other countries, even more orders are coming in… tbh there is certainly enough interest for DisneyHyperion to print another 1000 copies…
Come on Gravity Falls Fandom, we all know who’s responsible for how expensive the special edition journal is….
Serious talk, since Ive heard quite a few complaints about the pricing…
The price makes sense, for the features included: Black light ink, real parchment paper, roughened edges, leather texture cover, metal pieces on the cover, a monocle/magnifying glass, removable photos and notes, tassel bookmark, and each including a note hand-signed by Alex (he tweeted that he is signing each note himself, so his signature is not just printed there)…
$150 sounds about right, for all of that. They aren’t cutting corners here, they’re aiming to make this Special Edition as accurate to the show as possible. Only way it could get better is with a real leather cover, but that would put the price even higher… But the bottom line, is that some of these features are pricy, and the cost reflects that. When Alex originally guessed $50, I thought that sounded a bit too low, and was afraid that the ‘Special Edition’ would literally be the exact same Journal as before, just with Black light text, and otherwise with no additional features. So, tbh, I’m thrilled that they’re going all out here, and making this thing right.
(Im not saying we cant joke that Stan is behind the price tho, lol. We all know Stan would price this thing at like $300+ tho probably, to get a real profit from it.)
One of my favorite memories this summer was at the end of week seven – my campers were looking through Journal 3 and I was teaching them how to solve simple substitution ciphers through frequency analysis (we didn’t see that it had a key until we’d already cracked it, but the kids agreed that they’d learned more and had a lot of fun doing it by hand).
I had them select a large sample of Bill’s symbol cipher, copy each distinct symbol into a notebook, and then solve it through process of elimination. It was a little tedious, but they were determined kids and wanted to impress me. The moment everything started to fall into place, they were beside themselves with excitement. The one we happened to pick was the section where Bill talks about “removing [his] exoskeleton to feed” and they kids flinched and started screaming in horror at the imagery and implications of that.
I… may have also screamed. But since it was marine science camp that week, it was also a great opportunity to talk about starfish digestion, and how they turn their stomachs inside out to envelop and liquefy food.
Bill Cipher: echinoderm? He does have radial symmetry, an exoskeleton, and the ability to regenerate body parts…
I love this idea so much… How to use Journal 3 as educational material. XD (Teach kids how to make their own invisible ink too lol… maybe not used IN the Journal tho)
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