#original longfurby

[frostcorpsclub]

this is a statement but i feel like january would like a long furby. thoughts?

source: https://twitter.com/sunnybiss/status/1176328374538686467

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/LongFurbies/comments/108mauu/the_handy_girl_furby/

source: original creator's tumblr seems to be gone or at least the post is

[lost-cyptid]

I want one.

[modthe]

guess what im making

[furbinthewoods]

this was originally just a reply but i exceeded the character limit lol

Ive made two, one with an owl and one with a snowball. IIRC the original one was made with a buddy, and the original creator’s tutorial was about buddies. I believe the argument against doing so is because they are a limited supply, however personally I don’t think it’s wrong. I’ve always viewed toys, including vintage or antiques, as meant to be played with in some way and I’ve never been a big fan of just trying to preserve things pristinely with tags and boxes and stuff. Making longfurbies with original buddies entails, imo, acts of lovingly molding them into their new form which you go on to enjoy. both the making of the long furby and the enjoying of it after count in my book as fulfilling the play that was their original purpose.

hello furblr. a question for you: is longifying a 1999 furby buddy a genuinely controversial thing? i recently ordered one for that very purpose and in the search for an in depth tutorial found people against it, like to the point where they refuse to even write a tutorial for it. i get the idea that it's mine now and i can do whatever i want with it, but i also want genuine input

[faintpastel]

✨hand sewed a dress for tiktaalik✨

💕more on her ig: tiktaalik.furby💕

[monsterwives]

Madonna and Child

[pintakupins]

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[furby-o-rama]

But you're not the original creator of longfurby? So selling it feels kind of ick?

Oh sorry, I forgot that anons on tumblr get to make all moral rules for independent creators lol.

Why don't you go harass people who sell real long furbys? Or if im not the original creator of Frubei why don't you materialize one in your hand! It should be easy, given the smell of entitlement wafting off of this ask.

[indig0trolls]

ok Trixie i see how about ☕️ furbies, both originals and the new abominations, aka scary killer longfurby when? I'm sure B34T-B0X will accept a new soft sibling

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Send “☕️” + a TOPIC and my muse will spill their honest thoughts and opinions on it

[furbypurrs]

do you guys remember before oddbodies..  remember original longfurby and how she took the world by storm? remember furby organ? people STILL send me furby organ and longfurby. 

[furbyfuzz]

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Soon! It will be time! For Anthrocon!

I'm having a panel!

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Hosted in Pittsburgh, PA, this Furry convention is the place to be. I will be holding a panel on Saturday of the convention @ 9am-9:50am, in room 333 of the convention center! This can be found in your con schedule, which you will get with your badge upon admittance to Anthrocon.

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The last photo in this set is not part of the panel, but of the Art Show & Auction of Anthrocon. Please visit the Art Show & have a look & maybe bid on this one of a kind & very soft Long Furby Friend!

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[funky-furby]

rough furby fandom timeline

reminiscencing abt old furblr made me wanna revisit some of the changes we’ve seen over time! to give new people an idea of it, and also to spark discussion with older members, i joined in 2017 and i havent been as active as of 2019 so i cant speak of prior or after, but heres my thoughts

2017

fandom is still small, but growing

focus is on them as toys

lots of posts are guides on names of colors, or how to push start

2005s are not very popular, i saw someone struggle to sell 2 working ones just because their beaks were damaged

besides the pink ones, people really liked those

i also lost a bid war on an orange 2005 that ended up going for 50 bucks, do you  understand the regret i feel

lots of furbys are cheap, furbys in general are cheap, besides the occasional person thinking their nib snowball is worth 300

rise of furbology (later furbae)

popular for owning a lot of furbys, and owning a very very roughed up frog furby called swampy

theres discourse abt drawing furbys with 4 feet

small nature of fandom means that discourse usually involves people everyone knows directly (furbyconfessions accidentally contributes to drama but some spin off accounts purposefully try and start it, furby discourse blogs are a thing)

small nature also means that a lot of people remember each others furbys by name

each furby usually has a personality attached to it too, describing things that furby tends  to do more than others, or what its physical differences mean (like being mute)

furby brotherhood is the only furby discord server and it gains notoriety due to the lack of moderation but in my experience it was a really fun wild ride

customization is fairly limited to maybe drawing on freckles, accessories, eyechips (people were poking them out with needles), to my knowledge tracer was the first popular furby to have further customizing

furby blogs humour is very silly, lots of piss and vore jokes

customized furbys from ebay sellers are pretty widely disliked, usually because theyre the clay ones, or because theres a lady trying to pass off her customs as rare releases that never happened

people go out of their way to help each other  find listings for their dreamies

2018

purity culture? in furblr? since a lot of people use furbys to cope (many many posts of people bringing them out in public, describing what  they and their furbys did), theres a pressure for furby blogs to be happy safe places, safefurby tag to avoid swearing and other stuff is started?, and also to avoid hatred in the main tag

theres like, a 70% chance of anyone u interact with in the fandom being a 15 year old trans guy on the autism spectrum, similarities make it really easy to make friends

considering special interests also usually mean wanting to know as much as possible, there is a WELL of information still

rise in popularity also means a lot more information is found abt furbys, like prototypes, a new factory and more obscure merchandise

since a lot of people empathize with  furbys, damaged or not completely working furbys start to go for higher prices than previously as people empathize with them

that one furby that was found in the desert (bumbleweed) gets REALLY popular

rise in customizing coincides with more stylization in how people draw furbys

whenever someone comes up with a new idea u’d see a lot of it in the next week

like stuffing a furby to make them fat, that one took OFF

painting fur and also furby patterns to sew own skins creates a strange demand for  just the furbys faceplate

furbys start to get strange names, like hot  dog water

fall of furbae as shes revealed as a scammer among other reasons

crap ton of new furby discords are started, for specific topics, or just to avoid brotherhood despite them having a completely new mod team (im a little biased)

theres a still a large overlap in furblr with animatronic and other toy robot blogs

an age of really creative stuff tho, content was constantly evolving

oddbodies are a controversial addition to customizing, longfurby wasnt the first, but i do remember a lot of people taking the faces off of plushes and adding a furby face instead

before they were called oddbodies some people were really uncomfortable with them, but people also didnt like their furby friends being tagged bodyhorror, so oddbody was a good compromise

people were calling dibs on listings before, but its more widespread here, even though you cant call dibs on an open listing

furby prices go through the roof oh my god

kid cuisines especially, i saw more than one person pay 600

2005s go up in price too

oddbodies also caused rise in price on furby buddies

2019

mainstream success?

customization and oddbodies seems to the fandoms focus?

customization starts to overtake previous guides to the point where i see newbies struggle to find information

Plushification

First plush ones have clay eyes, later ones add in the eyes of the original furbys

Some controversy over taking apart furbys

popularity from within  and outside of the community further effects prices

since 2012s are both really common, and not popular their prices seem pretty unaffected (besides rainbow crystals)

at this point i think people are taking their furbys out with them less, and i see less people make stories abt what they and their furbys did that day

customization trends were really really cool to watch happen, but since my reasons for being in furblr was the community nature of it, i have a lot less information  for 2019 as i was less active in the fandom

and for 2020, i have nothing! so essentially this is me asking, what was 2019 and 2020 furblr for u like? did i remember any older stuff wrong? whats some stuff u wouldve included or have questions about?

[munchiezxx]

kind of a random thought but Carmex kinda reminds me of Hooty from the Owl House

someone actually made a super long hooty plush inspired by longfurbies!! i can’t find the original picture but ill rb it if i find it

[kaaramel]

I don't understand why Luc feels the need to 'figure out' the Longest Furby? She doesn't seem mysterious? She is exactly what a longfurby of godlike stature SHOULD be. She makes perfect sense. Luc needs to calm down and learn to accept. Also I want to know who her 'weird friends' that she keeps introducing Luc to are.

luc will get there eventually they just are not yet over being plucked from the staid, grounded life of a banker directly into whatever the hell their life is now

re: weird friends; if i had anything in mind at the time i originally wrote the sheet ive forgotten but, presumably these: https://kaaramel.tumblr.com/post/174713573237

[furblieez]

Here's Tube!

My boyfriend and I went camping and I (naturally) had to bring Tube along! Needless to say, he needs a bath.

(longfurby is originally from @furbyfuzz :) )

[faintpastel]

my mini long furby, who is yet to be named, has found a loving family of carebears! she fits right in💕🌸💖 thank you @furbyfuzz for discovering these wonderful long furbys!!