Plush 2012/Boom Tutorial!!
What you will need:
A 2012/Boom
Needle and thread
Fabric for base
Razor blade
Screw drivers
Hacksaw (optional)
Time and patience
I’m not very good at writing so take it easy on me, I’ll do my best!
This is the Furby I’ll be using as an example, Pilot! My little brothers Furby boom who sadly has a broken motor.
Okay so first things first, you need to skin your Furby, I would show you how to do this here but there’s plenty of great tutorials you can follow for this step! Just make sure you are very careful with the clips holding the skin to the faceplate, you need these!
Once you skinned your lil friend you can wash their fur (if you need to) and leave that to dry while you get to work! Remove the silver tape from around the shell and then we can get started. First things first, there’s 4 screws you’ll need to remove on the back of the furbys shell, two near the top and two near the bottom. The back plate won’t come off until you’ve removed the ear clips however, you can either remove them like the clips on the faceplate or cut along the white lines with a razor blade (this is what I do because I’m lazy). After that the back plate should pop off.
Near the bottom of the Furby you’ll see two white plastic pieces (one near front, one near back) held in by metal rods. You need to remove these, I usually push from the smooth end or pull from the rough end with some pliers. Once you’ve done this you’ll be able to get to a lot more screws, now you need to remove every screw you can see. Don’t forget the ones near the ears! You can pop out the lower metal rod on the ears too while your at it. Once you’ve done that you can start removing plastic pieces that will come loose to reveal yet more screws.
Once you’ve removed all the screws you can get to you can force the black part back (you won’t break anything don’t worry). Remove any other screws you can see and now the faceplate should pop off. 1st part we need obtained! Next we need the eyelids, they should just pop out of their hook with a little force. Remove the 4 screws on the back of circuit board and the two on the front of plastic eye piece. You may need to force some of of robot back to get to the bottom two screws, again don’t worry, you won’t break anything.
After that the eye piece and the screen should pop out. I usually take grey glass piece too, you’ll see why In a minute. Now to tackle the ears, easily the hardest part. The ears are held in by another metal rod but I always struggle to remove this one. So you can either have patience and remove the rod or you can be like me and saw the ear off with a hacksaw. Personally think the saw works a lot better too. If you do decide to be patient, keep the metal rod once you’ve released the ear and the bottom plastic piece, you’ll need them both later.
Now you should have all the pieces you need! I usually keep all the spare parts when plushing a Furby but I mainly recommend you keep the motor and the speaker! Now to attach the ears to the skin. You can either glue the plastic base to the skin or sew it on threw the two small holes on either side of it. Personally I prefer to sew it on and then sew up the hole around the ear to keep it in place. If You used the patient method pop the ear in and put the metal rod back in to stop the ear from falling out, I usually glue it in to stop the rod falling out. Once you attached both your ears your nearly done!
At this point we need to tackle the eyes, you can paint on the plastic if you want to but I’m bad at that so I print eye chip designs and glue them to the screen and then put the screen behind the plastic eyes. It creates a more inset look but it’s a lot easier haha. Then just pop everything back together using some glue where necessary. Glue the eyelids into your preferred position and then boom your face plate is done! The faceplate will just clip back onto the skin and then all you need to do is stuff them and sew up their base with some scrap fabric. And there you have it! Your very own plush 2012/boom Furby!
Pro Tip: if you have the box of your Furby their should be a piece of their body fur on the top, you can use this to patch up the bottom (it looks a lot better if you don’t mind dismantling the box)
Here is my plush 2012 Grape Soda as another example!
