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« on: January 17, 2021, 12:35:33 PM »
Black Hill & Scott Snee - The Wanderer
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« on: January 01, 2021, 04:45:22 PM »
PMing you!
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« on: July 06, 2017, 10:46:23 AM »
Beautiful! Do you ever plan on opening an online shop? I feel like my girlfriend would really love this sort of thing.
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« on: July 06, 2017, 10:24:32 AM »
I still have my furbies from childhood! And they still work 
But they are like baby furbies? Smaller than the others anyway. Yep, those are the babies! It's funny, even people who dislike the fullsized ones often think the babies are at least a little cute...I actually prefer the adult Furbies myself, but there's something about the tiny little features on the baby that's very charming.
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Furby by LovesBarbie, on Flickr
Here's a pic of my Furbys. The pink baby belongs to my mom.
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That's a nice collection! The giraffe is very handsome. I've been a bit apathetic about photography lately but I'll take a picture of my collection when I get the chance!
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« on: July 05, 2017, 09:59:25 PM »
I have a TON of Furby's!  (Over 300+ to be exact) 300+?! Wow! How do you store them...? If you don't mind me asking, what does your collection mostly consist of?
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« on: July 05, 2017, 09:34:32 PM »
Love furbys! I only have a um.. "boom" one right now, but I want more. My only complaint about them is that they are really loud x_x
My niece is really into them and wants me to get one for her for her birthday but I don't know where to get them new anymore haha! Nice! I don't have a Boom, but I do have the direct predecessor, which is the 2012 Furby. I feel you on them being loud. I love and appreciate them but I find playing with them slightly stressful, whereas the 1993 Furbies always relax me. Oddly, I don't think it's the actual volume at which they speak, but rather the overly exuberant voice acting, LOL I checked right now on eBay and there are several listings for Furby Booms in good condition at reasonable prices, even several that have the box included. NIB would be a bit more challenging but I'm sure those will come up too. There's also the very newest model -- the Connect, which came out last Christmas. I'm planning on getting one myself. I've got some Furbys! Most were from when I was a kid, both the originals and some 2005 ones (I don't know how many original ones I have but I've got 3 adult and 1 baby for 2005) and then I have one adult and two babies for more recent ones. I also have one Shelby.
Right now they're sitting in a box in my closet though since I only have so much space to display things. I have no batteries in all of my original ones or the newer ones because it's too easy to accidentally wake them up and then they take forever to go to sleep again lol.
I wonder why they didn't include an off switch on the newer ones after they had them on the 2005 ones... Ooh, a Shelby? Nice! Those are pretty rare nowadays. They and 2005s often cost a pretty penny on eBay. The original idea with Furbies was that they were lifelike -- you wouldn't be able to turn them off whenever you wanted the same way you wouldn't be able to turn off a dog once you were done playing with it. With the Connect, they seem to have compromised by giving it a sleep mask that will put the Furby to sleep when put on -- a "lifelike" way to shut it off, so to speak. If your 1998 Furbies are newer than the original six colors, though, there's actually something called deep sleep mode! I personally never use it but it's described at the bottom of the page here: http://www.mimitchi.com/html/fman3.htm Basically, it means that the Furby will not wake up unless it's turned completely upside-down. Kudos for storing them without batteries, though. Corrosion is no fun.
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« on: July 05, 2017, 07:02:06 PM »
I didn't know you could fix the Furbys. I was sad when I put batteries in them and they made a terrible humming noise when I tried to wake them up. Mom mom had a Furby baby also but when ours talked together they usually would teach each other to burp.  Remember when some people thought that Furbys just repeated/recorded what they heard and they were banned from the Pentagon. My Furby Baby is soild white. The hum noise is usually either a battery issue or something inside being jammed. Try another set of batteries that you know is new and see if those work, and if not, you can try the trick I described above. Of course, you should also check the inside of the battery compartment for corrosion -- that can mess with things too. I remember that, about the Pentagon! Crazy, right? Furbies with batteries in actually could not be brought onto planes or into hospitals either for a while. The fear was the the infrared signals they send could mess with equipment. This was, of course, false; the signals were far too weak to interfere with anything. It was hard enough to get them to talk to each other, so needless to say the idea of them overpowering professional-grade equipment was pretty silly.
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« on: July 05, 2017, 05:52:18 PM »
Wow I didn't know u could do that! I have a hot pink special edition Valentines Day furby from the 90s. To be honest I prefer those from the 90s and early 2000s, because they have actual eyes. The recent ones freak me out because their eyes are digital. I don't know, maybe it's just me.. And that I prefer to have real eyes. Furby never freaked me out but some ppl thought they were creepy even in the 90s.. Might have something to do with the gremlin movie? I remember watching it and was shocked by the similarities between furby and gremlin Haha. I understand what you mean about the digital eyes. Imo they're not very attractive on the 2012 Furby, but are much improved on the Connect. In either case, if people thought the 93 ones were startling when they woke up at night, they clearly haven't been jolted from sleep by one of the newer ones. Just two beams of terrifying white light, LOL I also never found Furby creepy, but I sort of understand why people do. There are uncanny things about them, like the fixed stare, odd intonations of the voice, ability to sit still and unmoving for a while only to suddenly act up when you least expect it, the odd sounds they can make when they're low on batteries.............I'm probably just strange because I actually find these traits appealing.  Add that to people who lie on the internet about their Furbies being possessed and saying all kinds of things, and you've got a creepy urban legend on your hands.
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« on: July 05, 2017, 02:47:28 PM »
I like Furby. I still have my white Furby baby and full size striped Furby but they don't work anymore. If you're interested in attempting to get them up and running again, there's actually something you can try! You'll need to put in batteries and use a flashlight and a long, thin, firm instrument (like a small screwdriver.) Basically, using the flashlight to light your way, you pull the beak down to reveal the opening into the robot's interior and look inside to the left. You should see a white spiral gear. Take your long thin instrument and carefully insert it into the gap so you can start turning that gear left. Provided nothing else is wrong with the Furby, after a while of doing this you'll feel the gear start to buzz, and with just a little more work, the Furby will do its startup dance and come to life! I've fixed a few Furbies this way so I know it works.
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« on: July 05, 2017, 02:36:41 PM »
I really, really, really badly want to talk Furby stuff but I sort of despise tumblr's UI and I don't have any friends in meatspace I can discuss this stuff with.  Anyone? I'm talking all iterations of Furby -- '93, 2005, 2012, Boom, Connect. I want to hear from you!
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« on: July 04, 2017, 09:38:09 AM »
I love how dramatic she is despite her simplicity. Her hair always looks like it's being carried by a breeze and those eyelashes make her much more expressive.
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« on: July 03, 2017, 11:51:15 AM »
I have a deboxed Little Apple Doll so I can help you out here. They are definitely not made of soft vinyl. I'm not sure exactly what kind of plastic they're constructed with, but it's hard and solid with just a little tooth. Their articulation is pretty minimal -- their head can twist left or right, and they have rotational joints at the shoulders and hips, but nothing else. The one I have is Irae, and I was pretty happy with the quality of her clothing, but it might vary depending on which one you have. I haven't tried to take her kimono off because I don't intend for her to wear anything else. I honestly think the Toybox Philosopher might've just gotten super unlucky regarding the quality of her doll's hair. My Irae's isn't the nicest-feeling, but it brushes out just fine (with little to no shedding) and looks great. I don't even really mind the dry feeling, considering these dolls are supposed to be a kind of living dead. I think it suits them. I'd say they'd be great for what you're suggesting, and if your heart's really set on it, you should totally go for making a shinto-style shrine for them! Unfortunately, they wouldn't be able to kneel like how traditional Japanese dolls are often posed, so really it's up to you. I'm a little biased myself since I don't believe in keeping dolls in their boxes forever.
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« on: July 02, 2017, 05:38:34 PM »
I'm kinda interested in playing the G4 game, but I'm afraid to bring it up because even if I could convince my friend group, we tend to get up to some...fairly terrible depravity. I just know that in three sessions Princess Celestia would be dead and Equestria would descend into civil war or something, LOL
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« on: July 02, 2017, 04:47:58 PM »
I love this, it's so stinkin' cute!! She should make more dino/pony mashups!!  I think she should be making more soon! c: I linked to her Etsy above. She might take commissions, too.
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« on: June 30, 2017, 10:32:22 AM »
I usually wear glasses. I have soft-ish facial features, so sharper specs kind of help offset them, and I can't really afford to go without-- I can only see colored blobs anything more than a foot or so from my face without.
I'll wear contact lenses for special occasions, but I don't really enjoy it. For some reason my eyes get dry really fast.
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