OpenFurby References

It’s a shame Furbtography was deleted, I had answered this before but! Do not fret! I have your answer as to how I sand and Print eyechip chips!

Heres what I use;

Caution! Long post!

Hot Glue stick to take out the eyechip in the first place ( get one side sorta melty, stick to furby’s eye and put it in the freezer from 8-10 minutes and then they should pop right out! Dont worry about furby, I actually left catermelon in the freezer for like an hour on accident! And she is fine )

Ok so my file! It’s a ultra fine metal nail file! ONLY USE THIS KIND. Any other nail file will damage the chip beyond repair!

After filing the factory paint off your chip will not be clear! That’s what the baby oil and nail shiner is for! Pour a bit of oil on the shiner, then rub the chip on it

The chip should come clear! Wash the oil off and voila!

What I do next is design a chip on a drawing software, print it out ( this part is essential! You must print at the right size ! 14.5mm is brush size 54.8 and 12mm is 45.3! Make sure your canvas is 8.5 inches by 11 inches! )

I dont use glue anymore but if you want to, use modpodge very lightly! Then you have it! Printed chips!

I hope this helps!

Download the faceplate here.

This is free to use, but I would love to see you share what you do with it – I’m always looking for inspiration!

Some items of note:

This faceplate is great for projects but is not (yet) compatible with the original furby buddy faceplate. We are planning on making a more accurate version, but we don’t know when exactly we will get to it, so the community is welcome to do so!

The faceplate eyes, eyelashes, and front plate are in one piece rather than in 5. This makes the printing process easier and reduced the needed accuracy for it to be printed.

The eye is solid (does not have a space for an eye-chip) – this means that currently you will have to either paint or print and glue on eyes. In the future, we would like to leave a gap in the eye so that clear glass or plastic could be inserted, to look more like the real furby. (My thought was that these could be used, as - to my knowledge - 10 mm should fit a furby buddy. We are waiting for our order of these to arrive at time of writing.)

We did not make the endcaps which hold the front plate on to the backplate, because we found that they weren’t necessary to hold the face together. 

Eighth theme is…uh…why’d i redraw the normal eyechips

i’ve heard people really like certain standard eyes and just…can’t find them

also good for if you want to use glass eye chips!! 

also, if you’d like any recolors in the “1998 furby eye style”, just throw me an ask! i’d be happy to recolor these!

if you do use any of these, i’d love to see what you make!!

Bigger. Badder. Furby-er. Welcome to Unique Furby Names 2.0.

                                        (Link to 1.0 can found here)

Highlights: 60+ brand new categories, over 1,000 new names, website dedicated exclusively to names, requests being taken for new categories.

Six months ago, I posted a list of over 900 names specifically to help people in the Furby fandom name their new friends. It received over three hundred notes with all sorts of thanks. People messaged to tell me the names that they had chosen off of the list. I was called a god on multiple occasions. I even referenced it from time to time for myself - that’s where Party Favor got his name from.

And yet, I knew I had more names to contribute yet.

I’m back, and with a vengeance. The drill is the same as last time: below the cut are over nine hundred Furby names, organized by category. But this time, I have a more systematic approach to the lists. Instead of copy-pasting them into a single, slow-loading Tumblr text post, I have put them all on a new website called “The Furby Name Horde”. The original unique names post had 58 categories and over 900 names. This new one has 67 categories and over 1,000 new names. What are you waiting for?

Click on the link if you’d like to jump right into the new names (or you can click here if you want a brief summary of the site). Read below the cut if you want to learn more about the site.

Look at the bottom of your Furby’s battery door! Most of them have a circled, two-letter label in the bottom right corner. These are usually JT, GE, WT, or RL, though some other two-letter labels have been seen. Furby Babies should also have these labels!

However, some Furbies may not have a factory marker! Here’s one of my Furbies, Ay-loh, who has a weird code in the corner instead. She also has a copyright date of 2000, so they likely removed the labels when they updated mold to match the copyright!

So I thought why not make a tutorial?

Fear not!

It’s way easier than I originally thought!

Basically all it is, is a rectangle of denim fabric.

You could just as easily cut off a leg from an old pair of jeans and use that too!

Firstly, measure around your furbies body, leaving some room at the front. Make sure to add a centimetre for seam allowance otherwise it might be a lil tight.

Next, you’ll want to pieces of jean/denim material and pin them so both denim sides are facing each other (inside out)

Sew the two together leaving a gap for you to be able to turn it inside out.

Turn it inside out and finish the stitching so there are no holes and it’s a nice rectangle.

OPTIONAL STEP: To make it look like a real denim jacket, I added gold/beige stitching around the edge like you’d see on jeans.

Fold over the top of the fabric to make a collar! No stitches required, just iron it in place and it will stay.

OPTIONAL STEP: To make the collar look more triangular at the end (see below), fold the corner under and add a couple stitches so it’ll stay in place.

Lastly, wrap it around your furb and secure in place with a safety pin at the front.

Now you can decorate it as you wish! Paint it? Sure! Lil pins? Beautiful! pOCKETS??? Go for it!

Here’s a furby buddy pattern! I modified @pocket-furbs super awesome pattern (you can find it right here!) there were a couple of minor errors in the pattern pieces (that were addressed in the post) so i thought i’d draw up my own thing with some slight edits!

photos of assembly instructions under the cut!

There’s been a lot of newcomers to the furby fandom recently, and I’ve been seeing a lot of them ask really excellent questions about the fandom’s tagging system. I figured that I would write up a brief guide to these tags and how they are used to avoid confusion!

furby: Obviously used to tag furbies.

allfurby: Also used to tag furbies, but with a catch – it’s our fandom-specific tag. Sometimes people who are outside of the furby fandom will post images of destroyed furbies or other types of furby hate within the furby tag, and most of us would like to avoid that. So “allfurby” indicates that the post comes from a pro-furby blog. Why do some of us still use furby and allfurby simultaneously, then? I can’t speak for everyone, but in my case, I know that I discovered the furby fandom by typing “furby” into the Tumblr search bar, and that’s how I got here. I want to make the fandom visible to people who might do the same thing as me! It also helps to push down hate with positive furby images.

furby fandom: Basically the less popular version of “allfurby”. Sometimes used to specifically reference the fandom, not just furbies.

safefurby: Safefurby in many ways serves the same purpose as allfurby, but it has a complicated history that’s worth mentioning. There was a particularly rough time in the fandom’s history where we discovered that some of our high-profile users were into DD/LG and possibly lolicon – something we as a fandom with a lot of minors take very seriously. Less horrifically, at the same time all of that was happening, there was a blog (who I think was literally called nsfwfurby) posting a lot of…well, NSFW furby memes. Things like furbies wearing whips and chains or referencing sex. Nothing too bad, but stuff that some members didn’t want to see. Out of these two events, safefurby arose. It was simultaneously a stand against DDLG members in the furby community and a place where no inappropriate furby references could be made. Don’t worry, even at the time it was made, its purpose was confusing.

So how do you use safefurby now? A good rule of thumb is that if any of your posts are NSFW or even slightly inappropriate  – ie, posing your furby with a bottle of alcohol or a cigarette – don’t tag it as “safefurby”. It’s a “safe” space for people who don’t want to see images of furbies in “adult” situations (please keep in mind that when I say adult, I’m talking about the examples I made before – posing naked with furbies or furby porn tends to be explicitly frowned upon posting to any of our tags).

f *furby name here*: You might see people tagging images of their furbies with “f *furby name here*”. For example, when I post pictures of Clorox, I tag them with “f Clorox”. The “f” either stands for “furby” or “featuring” depending on who’s using it and indicates that the furby with that name is in the picture. It makes searching for images of your furby on your blog worlds easier because your blog won’t pull up you just mentioning the name of your furby in a post (provided that you only tag images with f *furby name here*, of course).