A Furby Sideblog

Happy Black History Month!!

for those who didn’t know I designed these black pride flags a long while ago and seen them popping up around everywhere!! which is great! it makes me so happy to see so many people showing solidarity and intersectionality within the lgbt community! 

its gay furby!! ill be making more pride based furby designs in the future so be on the look out for them!

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Gay-Tye-Dye-Furby-by-MantSmant/63682069.YIZYC

here are the bases for long fur and short fur

After a couple of nights of nonstop work, he’s all done!! I really love how he came out! (Also - he works perfectly fine, he’s just mute!) This was a fun way to combine two of my fave passions ❤️✨

What you will need:

A 2012/Boom

Needle and thread

Fabric for base

Razor blade

Screw drivers

Hacksaw (optional)

Time and patience

I’m not very good at writing so take it easy on me, I’ll do my best!

This is the Furby I’ll be using as an example, Pilot! My little brothers Furby boom who sadly has a broken motor.

Okay so first things first, you need to skin your Furby, I would show you how to do this here but there’s plenty of great tutorials you can follow for this step! Just make sure you are very careful with the clips holding the skin to the faceplate, you need these!

Once you skinned your lil friend you can wash their fur (if you need to) and leave that to dry while you get to work! Remove the silver tape from around the shell and then we can get started. First things first, there’s 4 screws you’ll need to remove on the back of the furbys shell, two near the top and two near the bottom. The back plate won’t come off until you’ve removed the ear clips however, you can either remove them like the clips on the faceplate or cut along the white lines with a razor blade (this is what I do because I’m lazy). After that the back plate should pop off.

Near the bottom of the Furby you’ll see two white plastic pieces (one near front, one near back) held in by metal rods. You need to remove these, I usually push from the smooth end or pull from the rough end with some pliers. Once you’ve done this you’ll be able to get to a lot more screws, now you need to remove every screw you can see. Don’t forget the ones near the ears! You can pop out the lower metal rod on the ears too while your at it. Once you’ve done that you can start removing plastic pieces that will come loose to reveal yet more screws.

Once you’ve removed all the screws you can get to you can force the black part back (you won’t break anything don’t worry). Remove any other screws you can see and now the faceplate should pop off. 1st part we need obtained! Next we need the eyelids, they should just pop out of their hook with a little force. Remove the 4 screws on the back of circuit board and the two on the front of plastic eye piece. You may need to force some of of robot back to get to the bottom two screws, again don’t worry, you won’t break anything.

After that the eye piece and the screen should pop out. I usually take grey glass piece too, you’ll see why In a minute. Now to tackle the ears, easily the hardest part. The ears are held in by another metal rod but I always struggle to remove this one. So you can either have patience and remove the rod or you can be like me and saw the ear off with a hacksaw. Personally think the saw works a lot better too. If you do decide to be patient, keep the metal rod once you’ve released the ear and the bottom plastic piece, you’ll need them both later.

Now you should have all the pieces you need! I usually keep all the spare parts when plushing a Furby but I mainly recommend you keep the motor and the speaker! Now to attach the ears to the skin. You can either glue the plastic base to the skin or sew it on threw the two small holes on either side of it. Personally I prefer to sew it on and then sew up the hole around the ear to keep it in place. If You used the patient method pop the ear in and put the metal rod back in to stop the ear from falling out, I usually glue it in to stop the rod falling out. Once you attached both your ears your nearly done!

At this point we need to tackle the eyes, you can paint on the plastic if you want to but I’m bad at that so I print eye chip designs and glue them to the screen and then put the screen behind the plastic eyes. It creates a more inset look but it’s a lot easier haha. Then just pop everything back together using some glue where necessary. Glue the eyelids into your preferred position and then boom your face plate is done! The faceplate will just clip back onto the skin and then all you need to do is stuff them and sew up their base with some scrap fabric. And there you have it! Your very own plush 2012/boom Furby!

Pro Tip: if you have the box of your Furby their should be a piece of their body fur on the top, you can use this to patch up the bottom (it looks a lot better if you don’t mind dismantling the box)

Here is my plush 2012 Grape Soda as another example!

This is how I put hair/spots on my furbies without the look of dye/painting the fur. Also good for long hair/mane details!

I’ve been so focused on my IG account that I forgot to post Grookey here!  Gasp!

You can download the mod HERE!

What this mod adds:

Tameable 1998 series 1 Furbies spawning in the overworld

Craftable and placeable series 1 Furby Buddies

You tame wild Furbies using cookies and can change their eye color with different dyes. Be sure to feed and pet them so they stay happy and healthy!

MUCH more is to be added in the future!

[Furbcraft Discord]

I couldn’t find an in-depth tutorial on how to plushify an 05, so

(this tutorial will be very meme heavy)

For this tutorial, I was going for a plusified 05 that doesn’t look plushified. As in, I’m going to keep all the non-robotic parts that came with the 05. My victim totally willing participant today is my sweet girl Mildew, who came to me broken and in bad shape. Her beak was ripped and her feet looked like they’d been chewed on.

She badly needed a makeover!! So let’s get started :D!!

YOU WILL NEED:

your furby

seam cutters (for skinning)

armature wire

jeweler’s wire

apoxie sculpt

hot glue

poly-fil stuffing

wire cutters or just some sort of heavy-duty cutting utensil

something to drill holes with (I used a dremel)

philips head screwdriver

pliers

STEP ONE:

Skin your furby. I won’t show how to do this here but there’s some very good tutorials on youtube! After I skinned her I washed the skin, but this step is optional.

Now she nakey

STEP TWO:

begin disassembling the furby. I started by taking off the outer shell (I did have to cut some wires to do so, but she’s broken anyway so I won’t be needing her robot parts anymore anyways)

Next, we’re gonna tackle the eyelids. Get that screwdriver ready!!

See all these screws?

twist those suckers out of there. Basically if you see a screw, unscrew it.

The eyelids should come off!

Next we’ll tackle those eyeballs. See these things here?

they’re holding the eyes in. I tried to pry out the bar holding the eyes in, but

So I wound up just cutting clean through the suckers to get them out.

After that I was able to get the rod out. Thankfully there was another set of guiding holes on the inside of the eyes, which we’ll need later.

Last but not least, the beak! Simply unscrew the screws around the beak to get the rubber part off

Now, getting the plastic part off is the tricky part. It’s being held in by these two plastic bits on the top and bottom

I just snipped those off, preserving as much plastic as possible. Later on the plastic prongs won’t be necessary, but they help for posing the beak while we work on it.

Now we should have all the parts we need!

STEP THREE:

Now we’re going to re-assemble the parts!

Place the eyes in the eyelids. Line up the guiding holes on both the lids and eyes.

I hot glued the eyes to the bottom lids. Not COMPLETELY necessary, but it helps with positioning them once they’re in the furby.

Now, take your armature wire and slide it in through all the guiding holes. This will hold the eyes together!

Make sure you cut the wire extra long, so it’s sticking out from both sides a good bit.

Set the eyes aside and work on the beak.

I have this magical stuff called apoxie sculpt, it’s basically super-sturdy air dry clay. It’s two-part, so you mix equal amounts from the two tubs before you use it.

I was a fool and didn’t take pictures of the sculpting process, but basically all you do is smush the apoxie on the beak, smoothing it and giving it some bulk. It might take a few passes to do this, and it helps to do one half of the beak at a time. The apoxie takes 24 hours to fully cure so be mindful of that. Once you’re satisfied with your sculpting job, sand and paint the beak and it’s done! I opted to go for the 98 furby beak color instead of the 2005 beak color, a choice I semi-regret but it’s up to you which color you paint your beak!

STEP FOUR:

Put everything in the correct place in the furby skin. Place the eyes in the eye sockets, and mark spots in the plastic faceplate directly across from the wires. Then drill two holes in the spots you marked. Slide the wires through, twist them to secure them, and voila! You’ve successfully installed the eyes!

Now, to install the beak. I wish I could have taken out the rod the whole mouth was hinged on, but

So I instead threaded very thin jeweler’s wire through the hinged parts. Then I did as I did with the eyes, but drilled and extra pair of holes so the top hinge and bottom hinge could both be anchored in properly.

Lastly, I added a piece of foam behind the peak to keep it in place. I just hot glued it to the plastic faceplate.

And now your baby has a face again!

Don’t forget the feet! Partially re-assemble them, putting the fuzzy parts on the plastic that goes over the foot.

Mildew had chewed up feet, so I fixed them up with the apoxie sculpt and gave them a fresh coat of paint.

I also covered the part where the screw went in, since I didn’t think I’d need it. However I wish I’d kept it to screw the two foot pieces together.

Instead of using the screw, it’s hot glue time babey!! I simply hot glued the fuzz to the feet. Hot glue clings onto fur like nobody’s business so it’s pretty sturdy!

Now we have complete feet!

STEP FIVE:

Stuffing! Take some poly-fil and shove it in the fubry skin. Start with the ears, then stuff the body. It’s very satisfying to see your bab get chonky again

STEP 6:

You’re almost there!! This is the final step! And probably the hardest for some of you- Sewing! Sew the feet to the body using a ladder stitch. Thread the needle in the body, pull it out, then thread it in the mesh of the foot, and pull it out. Repeat that. Here’s a handy diagram-

It’ll look something like this. When you pull the thead, it pulls the foot into the body!

I did the same stitch the close the hole on the bottom where the battery compartment used to be.

With the feet attached and everything sewn up, you’re all done!!