#film red shanks

[loudestcloud]

Is it worth buying the cheap off brand Film red Shanks bear?

This is the real one vs the off brand before fixing and the most important differences are the film red logo on the foot / lack of logo, the huge color difference and the lack of the cool box to display him in. I like the brighter color of him tbh makes him less gloomy. The off brand has wonky eyes and nose too but it's not too noticeable in person if it's not pointed out to you. I got mine from eBay for £15 and I know what you might be thinking. "£15!? For a 22cm bear?? You call that cheap?" Yes. Yes i do because the real brand one is £100-£300 so yeah, he's cheap. (£15 is $19 and £100-300 is $125-$374 USD for anyone wondering)

This is mine once he was all fixed up!

Effort to fix: 4/10. I think he's worth it.

Here's what to expect and how to fix your off brand / how I fixed mine up.

In these pictures, you can see the long red string on his foot and the messy parts on the shirt. Loose string was all over the place in all colors, even the back of the collar. I cut off the long strings and then decided that the ones on the shirt can be tucked in so I did that but if you don't have a small sewing needle, you can just cut them off or if you're brave enough you can burn them off as burning them prevents them from fraying again.

I didn't expect this amount of visible plastic backing. I didn't even know this was common cheap practice until I saw a video about plushie making recently but apparently it is. So, to fix this, i took my de-seamer, cut it and pulled it out by hand. I'd recommend tweezers if you have any and more so if you have short nails like mine just because it's a bit hard to grab.

Also the foot embroidery, the white is over the outline a bit but it's not that bad and hard to notice in person. You could draw or sew over if tho if you really wanted to do something. Also if you've noticed, the 3rd claw mark isn't on both sides of his eye and I didn't decide to do anything about that because I don't think hand embroidery would match well enough to look good.

Here's what he looks like fixed up. I decided because the shirt's cut had raw edges that I'd loop stitch around it to keep fraying down to a minimum in the long run. So now the shirt is safe and his face is fluffy.

As you may have noticed, this bear has 2 arms. I joked about cutting it off, my mum joked about crocheting a sea king sleeve for him and my sibling told me to leave it but in the end, i did this

I sewed the cape to the shirt to cover his arm. In the picture you can see it a little bit but i didn't want to sew it to the trousers because they come off separate to the shirt and cape and i like that that's an option, even though I'll probably never take them off anyway. When i get fabric paint I'll probably paint that part of the shirt black but you guys can just cut it off and glue a patch over the hole or glue the cape down if you cant sew.

[reineydraws]

dads mishanks! they are. very chaotic. :')

the quotes shanks and mihawk are saying in the sketch sheet are from this post (it's fun assigning those quotes to either shanks or mihawk lol) and the one w shanks carrying mihawk + uta is a reference to that one buddy daddies scene. ah, and in the coloured one, mihawk lost a bet and had to wear the uta merch backpack thing that bepo had on in the movie to her concert. ;P

[manofbeskar]

FILM RED! featuring my designs

[eclown4hire]

family!

[theposhperyton]

Is this anything chat

[shanksxbuggy]

[kacievvbbbb]

Mihawk is such a capricious dude, oh my god. The only dude you know who is always itching for a fight but only ever a specific kind of fight so he goes out of his way to take the path of least resistance for everything else.

Like he would rather leave than fight Don krieg, Sail away than decimate the marines, live in peace instead of challenging the other emperors for the one piece. And when they do he’d rather follow buggy’s idea of just being smarter about how they go about it instead of brute forcing it like the rest. He is constantly leaving fights but then a swordsman of mild repute and an interesting technique engages him in a battle and suddenly you have his whole attention. Like with vista it was obvious that he could have just cleared him like he did everyone else but he’d never seen the flower sword techinque and by god was he going to miss this chance. And so he engages him in what is essentially a spare.

Because Mans isn’t looking for a fight, instead, like a middle aged director of a short indie film, he’s chasing a feeling.

He wants to feel like his 19 year old self did when he was strong but there were people stronger. When there were still obstacles to overcome limits to exceed. When the world was large and exciting and he wasn’t just waiting for it to catch up with him. When he could look at Shanks as the person he is instead of the person he could have been.

He wants to look at Shanks and not see visions of a grinning red haired boy with 2 arms and a strawhat laughing in the dirt and asking for “just one more round Hawky I swear I’ll beat you this time”

But there is nowhere Mihawk can run that that boy won’t haunt him.

[teddieart]

RED HAIRED

SHANKS

[mamoru-chiba-ua]

Day 2: friends and family

[skialdi]

Uta logic VS Luffy logic 🔥

[draftsrough]

I particularly like this sketch Oda drew because it means the whole time during Luffy’s flashback, Shanks was actually crying on the inside because of Uta…

[loudestcloud]

Look who came in the mail today!

That's right, it's the knock off Shanks bear! I'll add more and better pictures later in the week but to sum it all up:

Cons:

He still has plastic on his embroidery parts

His clothes have a lot of extra string on then

He has 2 arms and idk if I should cut one off or pretend he's just an able bodied cosplay bear with tattoos

He is missing the Film red logo but i expected that from the pictures. What i didn't expect was for him to have 2 and a HALF scar marks

Smaller than I thought he'd be (22cm) but that's cos I'm bad at guessing sizes

Pros:

He was £15 when the official ones are £100+

The underside of his cape is fuzzy!

His fur is my favourite type of material. It's like, swirling fluff. Kinda looks like roses

His clothes came off and I wasn't expecting that

Each item of clothing is a different material and they all feel nice

His eyes aren't as wonky as I assumed they'd be

He doesn't smell bad

He is super soft

He has no label to cut off

I can fix most of the issues I have with him

[reineydraws]

ode to coming home by @portgasu

these are my full pieces for the @opfluffzine 🥰🥰 it was really fun doing the spot art for this uta lives fic and super great to work with asriel! go show the fic some love on ao3, and if you wanna check out the rest of the zine, you can download it here for free 💞

process gifs under the cut!

[manofbeskar]

我们很久以前的样子，我还没忘记

[beanghostprincess]

these three and their relationship with substances worries me sometimes but damn it will never not be funny

[manzanamarim]

Uta! Wanted to give her braids hehe