Truckstop 1410 🐾

In honor of the Dino Movie releasing in most of the world soon, here's a heroic and confident pic of Zuma from the first movie! One of the best shots of him imo, I really adore the shine on his suit from having climbed just out of the river.

Also his ears are so big, you could sleep under them~

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Here's a text tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.

Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 10.

Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.

My packmate @oceanicwolf47 gifted him to me last year when I was going through a VERY rough time (I love you so much dude aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 🥹😭💜). Ever since, Marshall has been helping me a lot to recover, especially from my stress, anxiety and even the burnout symptoms. He's such a "safe place" for me, it quickly got to a point where I won't sleep well if I'm not hugging him to sleep. And so far, even when I've slept on the floor of the new apartment, or on the hammock, and later sometimes at the edge of my mom's bed, he hasn't fallen from my grip all night not even once - and trust when I say I move and roll around A LOT while sleeping XD

I hadn't shown him here at all before because... Well, he wasn't exactly... Uh... Clean. Now, I know I got him as secondhand, I have no idea how many owners or kids have had him before me, I know he's nearly 10 years old (according to his butt tags (which I got removed bc they're huge but I keep them stored somewhere else), he's either from 2016 or 2017, probably 2017), so... Yeah. To say he wasn't exactly WHITE anymore was an understatement. Boy was pretty visibly dusty and dirty after looking at him for some time 😭 What surprised me when I got him though, was that he had some cherry or strawberry scent, Idk if still the official, or if the seller added it as a bonus.

I tried giving him a bath once the scent wore off, but it didn't work. He was understuffed and that made it really hard to rub some wet cloth or soap on him at all. He was still dirty even after a go in my washing machine and several days of using a hairdryer.

It changed when I went to one of my city's malls. There's a store there which works basically like how B-A-B does, called Criamigos, and they were kind enough to help with his "malnourishment issue", as my mother called it XD And then, as he was finally properly stuffed, I finally managed to scrub him well and finally got him actually clean for the very first time since he's been with me. HIS FUR IS WHITE AGAIN I'M SEEING IT WHITE FOR THE FIRST TIME I'M SO HAPPY OMFG and he's not weak on the legs anymore!!! He's standing proud!!! Puffed up chest and all!!!

Btw he DOES have his collar (I had to craft a new pup-tag, he didn't have it anymore as he was sold to me), but ever since we stuffed him, the collar doesn't fit around his neck anymore XD So I'll make him a new one soon!

And then, the other news that I'm really happy I can finally share about it too... OceanicWolf ALSO got him his official outfit!!! And just in time as I got to literally finish cleaning him when the outfit got delivered to my new address!!!

The funnier fact is that, before the official outfit, the same day I got him stuffed, I also bought him a white shirt and red pants from that same store. I intend to keep going back there to buy more clothes and accessories. Their plushes are slightly... Bigger than B-A-B plushes, so... The clothes are actually pretty oversized on him, but with more stuffing, they don't look SO oversized anymore at least. And I got my trusty old sewing machine, so I can work on fixing their sizes for him. For now, the red pants fit very well with his Firepup vest!!! And I'll paint something on the white shirt later too, so I'll have more stuff to show off soon~

From Valiente~ His smile shines as nicely as the lighting in this special~

I live in a country where horse models just aren't really a thing at all, so I've been sloooowly crawling my way into trying to find actually decent-looking toys to buy around here, because importing anything nowadays costs me an arm, a leg, a kidney and maybe an eye for the change.

The thing is... I've wanted some tack too. Only one horse I own has tack, and the bridle isn't removable, only the saddle. THIS IS WHERE I'M GOING: It's one of those "common" western type saddles I've seen in several models being posted around here on Tumblr. I found it fits most bigger horses too, maybe a little bit oversized for some others, but nothing too bad as long as I'm getting stuff like the flocked horses from the Beto Carrero Park (which is the one who came with it in the first place) or other horses like my one Grand Champions stallion.

So I tried looking up to buy more of those saddles, maybe a bundle, Idk, because I intend to have more horses than only these two, and I can craft bridles on my own but I find saddles to be more complicated to replicate. The issue is... I can't find anyone selling them? Like, just them? But they're everywhere in other horse models and toys, which makes me very confused...?

Would you happen to know if it's possible at all to buy the saddles separately, or do I need to always buy a horse to get a saddle?

First of all, your models are awesome. Both Grand Champions and flocked models are very nostalgic for me.

Second: I personally don't know where to get the saddles by themselves. One of the companies that made them was called Marchon (the company that originally manufactured the Grand Champions). Unfortunately, it seems that particular company is no longer making toys, and I can't find any info on who created that saddle or who else made them.