Please support us!

[Hepcat]

To encourage donations I'd suggest making sure that contributor patches appear beside or under members' names or avatars.

[Mike Scott]

Is there a place, like the ones that make mugs with your art on it, that makes pinback buttons?

[Monsters For Sale]

Is there a place, like the ones that make mugs with your art on it, that makes pinback buttons? 

Get a Bade-A-Minit press and make your own.  It will last for years.

[Mike Scott]

Get a Bade-A-Minit press and make your own. 

Whew! 500 bucks!

https://www.badgeaminit.com/k176.html?utm_source=k176&utm_medium=shopping%2Bengine&utm_campaign=googleproducts&gclid=CjwKCAiA-_L9BRBQEiwA-bm5frTdWVOY5QvpVbjCLaeNxjughUbtSapq0rk80eRFo8seyE4ZGVyfbhoC854QAvD_BwE

[Monsters For Sale]

Whew! 500 bucks! ... 

I was thinking about something more like this - for smaller runs of badges.

      https://tinyurl.com/y47he6cs

[horrorhunter]

While on UMA I keep getting 503 Service Errors that may be capacity problems. I have to keep reloading the same page. Anyone else having these issues?

[Mike Scott]

While on UMA I keep getting 503 Service Errors that may be capacity problems. I have to keep reloading the same page. Anyone else having these issues?

It's been doing that all day.

[Mike Scott]

I was thinking about something more like this - for smaller runs of badges.

That's much better. You also need the paper punch and more buttons if you make more than 50 buttons.

[Monsters For Sale]

That's much better. You also need the paper punch and more buttons if you make more than 50 buttons.

Realistically, how many active members do we have - and how many buttons would you anticipate needing in any given year?

[Mike Scott]

Realistically, how many active members do we have - and how many buttons would you anticipate needing in any given year?

Less than 50?

What kind of a button would anybody want? This UMA logo?

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/

[Mike Scott]

Ah! It says 50 button "parts",  meaning "halves" (or, 25 buttons).

[Rex fury]

I'd be willing to throw a few more bucks in to have a badge or some such made for members. A few years ago I met up with several other devote Kirby fans at a convention. We identified each other because we all wore our old MMMS pins. Just food for thought-
RF

[geezer butler]

Just donated. Keep up the great work guys!!!

[Mike Scott]

The old monster mags usually had a 3 piece membership package. A button, a members card and a certificate. The last two things would be easy enough to print up.

[horrorhunter]

I got my only UMA item off eBay:

Nice!

I thought I had a couple of old UMA buttons from eBay but when I checked they're Monster Bash buttons, which don't turn up often either.

I did a search for Universal Monster Army on eBay and nothing came up. I couldn't even find any UMA swag when I searched Google Images. There just isn't much (any?) of that stuff available on the secondary market currently.

Of course anyone could have UMA pinback buttons made but they wouldn't mean a lot unless they were tied to UMA membership and the donation. If UMA does new pinback buttons hopefully they will state "Donating Member" or something to that effect to give the button proper significance. Ideally the fan club would include a cheap membership card that could be hand numbered. And, membership in the fan club would carry the "Donator" title with the member's UMA name for posts. We grew up with this stuff- Creepy Fan Club, FM Fan Club, etc. I'm currently a member of The Creeps Fan Club (really nice large pinback button, numbered membership card, and poster, for $20). I know UMA is pretty slow these days but I believe enough people would donate $20 for cool fan club swag to make a difference. Most of us are collectors  . I know we wouldn't get a poster, but the large pinback and hand numbered membership card should be easily doable. I'd donate another $20 for that stuff.