Official Butter Furby Statue

 

"Bob Kling makes a final touch to his Furby creation at the butter cow display at the Ohio State Fair in 2000. Kling is director of Sculpting for Hasbro."

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Article From The Cincinnati Enquirer (newspapers.com transcript)

Date: August 13, 2000

Hasbro butters up the fair 

 How do you bring butter to life? Mix toy-makers with the dairy farmers during the Ohio State Fair. Eight Cincinnati toy sculptors from Hasbro went from designing action-figures to spending four days in a refrigerator sculpting butter. The local design team is behind this year's butter sculpture, the largest ever at the fair on display through Aug. in Columbus. Accompanying the annual cow and calf are depictions of Hasbro's Mr. Monopoly, pet Furby and a Tonka Truck.

The Hasbro designers approached the American Dairy Association (ADA) of the Mideast after their veteran butter sculptor of 36 years retired. The ADA Mideast liked the idea. There aren't a lot of skilled butter sculptors in the area to carry on the century-old tradition. "The dairy industry and Hasbro have a lot in common children," said Jenny Wilson, director of communications for Mideast ADA, who pointed out that the "milk mustache" ad campaign is aimed at children.

Some choice details, such as the folds of skin in the hind quarters, a big vein on the udder and the slope of the cow's back, 'were pain painstakingly patted into place. Contrary to popular opinion, butter is no easy medium. "It's slimy," said Mr. Kling "Butter responds a little bit like bad clay," he said. Although the team worked in a 45-degree walk-in cooler, they found that their body heat would still melt the butter that ran down their arms.

"At the end of the day we would shower and even then, we still smelled like butter," said Mr. Kling. However artfully successful the sculptures are, they'll last only as long as the fair. "They'll turn off the cooler and pressure wash the frames," said Mr. Kling, who said it would be too expensive to try to preserve the butter art in another medium.

Furby Bag (Exclusive to Thailand)

 

 

For a limited time, from the 8th of March until the 31st (or until stocks last), anyone in Thailand who shares this Facebook post and follows the account, can receive a Furby bag and get a 10% discount when they purchase a Furby from Central Department Store Khonkaen.

Beige 05 Prototype

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The white one looks like a recolor of the gray one on the left, and the gray one looks like the toy fair prototype.

A smaller version of the photo was on the Smyths website in 2005.

The beige one between the two Furbys is a prototype that I don't think we have a good photo of. It looks like another version of this prototype:

The gray one's ears look more like the beige one's ears, and its tummy area looks white like the gray one (this could have something to do with the image quality, but I don't think so??). Even the top part of the beak is more open.

I feel more convinced that it looks closer to the one pictured above than the prototype pictured below, which is a different type of prototype. 

2023 Furby Factory Photos!

 Jetta shared photos of Furbys being manufactured, in a few articles from 2023!

Furless Purple Furbys being worked on. The article this photo

was from mentions guests were invited to the factory to

see the production process, and that the defective rate for the 

new Furby was 1 of 10,000. Article date: 7th of September, 2023

Furby battery holders (with the feet attached) for Tie Dye Furbys. 

The feet are covered. Article date: 16th of November, 2023

Furless Coral Furbys. I'm confused about the reddish fur with grayish patches. As the 

new Furby had not been released when the article was published, maybe they were going to 

try out the fur pattern by creating a sample unit with the fur or maybe this was only meant 

to stay as a fur sample? I was wondering if the fur simply had holes, and if I was just seeing 

a part of the machine through them, but the other pieces of fur don't have those grayish 

spots. I'm absolutely lost. Article date: 20th of April, 2023

Not sure what's happening here. I wonder if the pink things

are mean to be eyes? There's a Furby box in the background

on the right. Article date: 14th of July, 2023

35 Piece Frame Tray Puzzle by Holdson

Listed on mightyape.com.au and at mightyape.co.nz. The release date mentioned for the puzzles on the Australian website and New Zealand website was October 16, 2023. I was confused about them being unavailable when I found out about the puzzles in November that year, so I contacted them and they said that they seemed to had run out of stock, which was why the puzzles were unavailable.

Oh, and since we don't have photos showing that the puzzles were produced (atleast at the time this blog post was published), here are archived links showing the puzzles were available:

mightyape.co.nz

mightyape.com.au

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Description

Oh so cute!

Great for hand eye coordination! Gift, share and enjoy this wonderful collection of Furby 35 piece frame tray puzzles.

Features:

• Pack of four containing all 4 puzzles in this series.

• Made in New Zealand by Holdson using vegetable based inks and recyclable materials.

• Each frame tray dimensions are approximately 338mm x 242mm.

• Suitable for ages 3 years+.

Furby Show (A Series of Performances)

The Furby Show, referred to as 'The Original Furby Show' on Bart's website, and 'The Fantastic Furbyshow' (De Fantastische Furbyshow [sic]) on Hasbro's Dutch website, was a series of performances by Bart Juwett, that occurred on a stage trailer, and at a shopping center in the Netherlands.

The entries were to be handed in at a large Furby stage in the shopping center, and the winners were to be announced at a ceremony just before the 4 PM show.

There used to be a list (or atleast there was supposed to be one) on Hasbro's website, mentioning the dates for the show, but the archive.org captures don't have the dates displayed.

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Official Website

According to an archived version of Bart Juwett's website, the fact that Furbys love games was reflected in the show. It also states the show consisted of two 45 minute performances, but for shopping centers, there were six 30 minute performances. I don't know if the trailer show did consist of two 45 minute performances, or if the website was referring to the duration of a show that was done somewhere else. The website says the trailer show happened after the shop event.

 The shopping center event was a conclusion to another event called "Hasbro Kids Days", occurring on the last day of Hasbro Kids Days. There were six performances in total, which included a ventroliquism act, magic acts, and a Furby song. A life-sized Furby and Furby Baby costume were present, and the stage had a light and sound system that could be used for 500 people.

Times for the shows included:

• 11 AM
• 12 PM
• 1 PM
• 2 PM
• 3 PM
• 4 PM

Hasbro's Dutch website also mentioned you could participate in Furby games, but doesn't provide more information about them.

Contest

There was a contest where Furby coloring pages were given out during the Hasbro Kids Days. Winners were to be selected from five age categories, and the participants with the most beautiful and original Furby colorings received Furby prizes. Hasbro's website did not mention what the Furby prizes were.

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