- Joined
- Dec 11, 2016
This needs a "blessed" rating.
The Furby Community - Because robots in fursuits are serious business.
- Thread starter Vyxenn
- Start date
-
🏰 The Fediverse is up. If you know, you know.
-
Want to keep track of this thread?
Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
Create account
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2018
That is a BLESSING.
- Joined
- Jun 21, 2018
Longfurbs are somehow less horrifying than regular furbs. Only like, 10% less horrifying, but that goes a long way when you're talking about the nightmare-inducing hellspawn that haunted my childhood.
¡Viva la longfurb!
¡Viva la longfurb!
- Joined
- Nov 26, 2018
It is a Christmas miracle!
Longfurb has blessed us, truly.
Longfurb has blessed us, truly.
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2018
is it yours?
- Joined
- Nov 26, 2018
It is!
I can dispense a materials list if you want, but tbh the most expensive part was the Furby toy itself.
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2017
I'd like a materials list. I have an old Furby that needs to ascend to its final, glorious form.
- Joined
- May 29, 2018
i'd like a list too! I dunno why but this thread made me interested in doll modification.
All i need is to find a cheap furby.
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2018
This thread is definitely infected, and I'm so glad to be a part of the virus.
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2018
congrats on the furb, may longfurb the first bless him with happiness and many hotdogs
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2015
This furb has arms to hug you with and hands to hold.
goma
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2016
Okay, that's hilarious.
This furb has arms to hug you with and hands to hold.
- Joined
- Nov 26, 2018
Okay, so...
I was wrong, the armature cost more, but not by much.
I was wrong, the armature cost more, but not by much.
Materials:
Furby (90s McD's toy, all plastic, eBay $9)
Plastic armature (3/32" size, Morezmore, eBay $11)
1 1/2 fuzzy socks ($3 for 2 pair)
Felt (sheets are like 25 cents at walmart, I always have some lying around)
Floral wire (leftovers from something else)
Craft foam (cheap, available at walmart)
Yarn (remnants but again, walmart)
Thread
Needle
Scissors
Stuffing
Hot glue
Fabric glue
Elmers glue
Printer paper
Dremel (optional)
Hacksaw (dollar store lol)
Got that particular furby because the gimmick on it was movable eyes and ears, and I wanted the extra poseability. It had security screws. Fuck that, hacksaw wins. FATALITY. Used the cutting wheel on the dremel to remove some smaller sections around the bottom of the mouth.
I couldn't keep the actual mechanism for the toy intact (got some pics of it tho), so I just sueded the pins the eyeballs rotated on with hot glue so they'd stay where I pushed them. The ears didn't work out perfectly but I think the one higher/one lower gives him personality. Basically the eyes, ears, tuft and the front of the head are all that I needed in the end. Hot glued the end of the armature into the bottom of the beak.
Cut a slit in the toe of one sock, hot glued it strategically around the edges of the face without impacting the desired motion of the ears. Stuffed, then cut sock #2 at the ankle and stuffed that as well. Attached the socks to each other with a ladder stitch.
Cut bits of yarn and ran them through the 'chest' area, then combed them out a la hair wefts to make fur. Did the same with the tail tuft except those are actually knotted and sewn into the end of the tail.
Scribbled out the wing patterns on the fly (eyyyyy), cut 2 of each from black and pink felt. Glued those together with the floral wire between the layers. Sewed the wings to either end of a strip of craft foam and stuck that in through a slit in the body, then sewed that shut.
Painted over the fake eyelashes on the eyelids and glued in paper eyelashes instead. Done!
He's a little floppy due to the thinness of the armature, and I could have stuffed him a little fuller, but he holds a pose well enough and the eyes definitely make up for it. Not too awful for a first attempt, even if I picked the one needing the most modifications as a starter project (because of course I did lol). I will also say these little guys are dangerous. They make you want to carry them around, or pose them to freak people out. Go forth and longfurb!
Furby (90s McD's toy, all plastic, eBay $9)
Plastic armature (3/32" size, Morezmore, eBay $11)
1 1/2 fuzzy socks ($3 for 2 pair)
Felt (sheets are like 25 cents at walmart, I always have some lying around)
Floral wire (leftovers from something else)
Craft foam (cheap, available at walmart)
Yarn (remnants but again, walmart)
Thread
Needle
Scissors
Stuffing
Hot glue
Fabric glue
Elmers glue
Printer paper
Dremel (optional)
Hacksaw (dollar store lol)
Got that particular furby because the gimmick on it was movable eyes and ears, and I wanted the extra poseability. It had security screws. Fuck that, hacksaw wins. FATALITY. Used the cutting wheel on the dremel to remove some smaller sections around the bottom of the mouth.
I couldn't keep the actual mechanism for the toy intact (got some pics of it tho), so I just sueded the pins the eyeballs rotated on with hot glue so they'd stay where I pushed them. The ears didn't work out perfectly but I think the one higher/one lower gives him personality. Basically the eyes, ears, tuft and the front of the head are all that I needed in the end. Hot glued the end of the armature into the bottom of the beak.
Cut a slit in the toe of one sock, hot glued it strategically around the edges of the face without impacting the desired motion of the ears. Stuffed, then cut sock #2 at the ankle and stuffed that as well. Attached the socks to each other with a ladder stitch.
Cut bits of yarn and ran them through the 'chest' area, then combed them out a la hair wefts to make fur. Did the same with the tail tuft except those are actually knotted and sewn into the end of the tail.
Scribbled out the wing patterns on the fly (eyyyyy), cut 2 of each from black and pink felt. Glued those together with the floral wire between the layers. Sewed the wings to either end of a strip of craft foam and stuck that in through a slit in the body, then sewed that shut.
Painted over the fake eyelashes on the eyelids and glued in paper eyelashes instead. Done!
He's a little floppy due to the thinness of the armature, and I could have stuffed him a little fuller, but he holds a pose well enough and the eyes definitely make up for it. Not too awful for a first attempt, even if I picked the one needing the most modifications as a starter project (because of course I did lol). I will also say these little guys are dangerous. They make you want to carry them around, or pose them to freak people out. Go forth and longfurb!
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2018
Bizarre but wholesome thread. I ran into a few furby community folks a few days ago and was mostly kinda creeped out by them. Something about a large number of 25+ year old women obsessed with furbies makes me viscerally upset for reasons I can't quite articulate. It's deeply unsettling.
Anyway, I've got one of these guys in my attic somewhere.
I have very vivid memories of it talking to me in my sleep. Maybe it would be funny to make a long furb out of him. It'd be a fun day project at least. Get a few pictures, then auction it off for a tidy profit. It's already tranny pride colors so I'm sure some loon on tumblr would flip their shit over it.
Anyway, I've got one of these guys in my attic somewhere.
I have very vivid memories of it talking to me in my sleep. Maybe it would be funny to make a long furb out of him. It'd be a fun day project at least. Get a few pictures, then auction it off for a tidy profit. It's already tranny pride colors so I'm sure some loon on tumblr would flip their shit over it.
- Joined
- Nov 7, 2014
A happy belated New Year, everyone! May Longfurb take you gently by the hand and guide you to wherever you need to be.
Backpacker
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2019
Orange furby bad!
Also, I found a blog for furby drama and it's fucking hilarous. https://furbydiscourse.tumblr.com/
Last edited:
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2014
That thing looks like a fluffy about to be tortured.