Bassoon Buffoon

Buffoon | he/him | I do art as a hobby | interests include Zootopia and Lilo & Stitch, mostly | Mr. Big/Jumba Jookiba collector |I'll also occasionally reblog music memes because I said so |

[kweltikong]

Hello, everyone.

I’ve really been wanting to update my blog into a more art-based blog recently. I’ve been drawing as a hobby for years on years, but for the longest time it’s been something I’ve done passively, and I haven’t really thought that much into the nature of my artstyle and elements of the like. Recently, however, I had a breakthrough with my style and I’m beginning to genuinely care deeply about my artwork again. Keeping most of my older posts up (at least for now), but I’m going to try to use this blog as a means to share my content as well as gauge my progress with it.

That being said, I absolutely adore Mr. Big from Zootopia so take this recent piece I did of him as style practice just so this isn’t all just me rambling.

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So like,, I’d been saving up for this Mr. Big pin I found from an eBay seller, and it wad definitely one of the more expensive pins I’ve bought (which for my standards really isn’t that much, it was under 100 dollars). And I didn’t really… question why the thing was so expensive, my tiny collector brain just went ”pretty shrew go brrrr” and was totally content with buying with because it was pretty.

Anyways I read into it out of curiosity (which, for context, this is the Walt Disney Imagineering Adorbs Mr. Big pin), mostly because I didn’t know what Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) meant, as although I collect Disney pins, I’ve never been to the parks and I do not trade them, but APPARANTLY WDI pins are EXCLUSIVE TO CAST MEMBERS ONLY AND THIS ONE IS AN LE 200. WHICH IS REALLY COOL. I BEAR THE FORBIDDEN BIG.

So I accidentally bought an incredibly rare collectors’ item just thinking it was really pretty.

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Me, a Mr. Big enthusiast who’s never seen The Godfather:

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Thinking about Lilo & Stitch on its 20th anniversary and Pride Month and how it resonates with so many LGBT and neurodivergent people by just being completely, unabashedly accepting of its cast’s eccentricities and quirks

The series and spinoffs have a few hiccups here and there but for the most part? L&S showed understanding and compassion towards “weirdness” and embraced it in a way I think was actually rather uncommon at the time, there’s other media out there from that era that did similar (like The Addam’s Family for example), but L&S managed to touch on just how validating acceptance and understanding can be from a meta standpoint-its very narrative and story embraced and celebrated these characters’ strangeness in a way that we’re only seeing come into prominence now, and I think that’s incredible to realize

I’m rambling and haven’t eaten but it’s something I just realized

[salt-comet]

Happy anniversary to this film 🎉🎉🎉

[oreopata]

I honestly can’t decide which is funnier. 

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IM DYING WHSKDNSNSNS

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Ever since I’d learned the 20th anniversary of Lilo and Stitch was this June, I’d been hoping and praying they’d release another Jumba tsum tsum for the occasion because of course I did. And, GUESS WHAT, they did. He’s in a set with Lilo, Stitch, Nani, Pleakley, and Lilo’s overexposed rag doll and they come in this little box together:

Anyways, it’s exclusive to Disney Japan, but I managed to find an eBay seller who shipped internationally and honestly all the extra and double shifts I pulled at work were totally worth it to be able to buy it because it’s a gem.

I’m really really happy with the release of a new Jumba, and I think this is a detail only I’d notice, but I’m SO HAPPY they included the little floppy ears. Here’s what he looks like compared to original Jumba. He has a softer color scheme, has the little ears, and is a bit fluffier:

Also, unrelated to the obligatory Jumba stuff that’s to expect of a Jumba collector, but I’m also overjoyed they gave us a tsum tsum of NANI. We’ve never seen one of her until this point and I’m so glad she finally got the recognition because she’s a very important member of the family.

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A good while ago, I bought this very beautiful Jumba stuffie off an online seller. I’ve never seen him in anyone’s collection, and I can’t find any information regarding where he was originally sold, if he was from a specific plush collection, etc.

He’s about this big:

I’m posting about him because I want to know if anyone in the Lilo & Stitch/Disney collectors’ community knows anything about him. The most I know about him is that he was a Japanese release and my best guess was that he was an older plush released at Tokyo Disney resort at some point due to this emblem on his hang tag:

If anyone knows anything about him or knows where I can find anything about him, or has a plush that may have been released with him, please let me know! I love him and he’s a very unique Jumba stuffie but I know close to nothing about his release.

Here’s a couple extra photos of his hang tag for further reference:

Thank you so much and have a good day

[abluestitchintime]

I have ventured on to Disney Store Japan and am not disappointed 😍 

What I saw on Ebay isnt out yet, is it all dropping on 6/26 officially?  

Source 

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My weak, Jumba collector ass who bought the tsum tsum set: 🤡

Also, I believe they officially drop on 6/10! :)

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So I found this screenshot from an old Mickey Mouse cartoon from the ’40s (Symphony Hour is the title!)

And just… That is not how bassoons work, sir

Pop culture never references my instrument and when it does this happens

[wavygrayvy]

Excuse me Kevin but what the fuck

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

you can read this like lyrics to the DK rap

[professional-chaotic-dumbass]

His flesh holds no value

He’s full of sin

This Kong’s powers

Come from within

[notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat]

Katharsis Kong

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Why do Donkey Kong memes follow me everywhere?

[grumpydevilfellow]

Stitch - Itazura Alien no Daibouken OP3

[experimentkc]

So, I was just browsing around the web doing my own thing when I found this Instagram profile of a Thai Lilo & Stitch fan. I took a good look at their posts, saw what they’ve shared, and…

I want to cry.

Why can’t we Western fans have nice things?! 😭

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DUDE OMG WHAT COLLECTION IS THAT PLUSH OF JUMBA IN HIS HAWAIIAN SHIRT FROM?? I recognize most of them: the original Disney store plush, the Proctor and Gamble promo flash Jumba, the fifteenth anniversary Jumba, and the original Disney store Japan Jumba, BUT I MUST KNOW WHAT THE HAWAIIAN SHIRT ONE IS!

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Despite being a pretty hardcore Jumba collector, I actually haven’t posted any about my collection?

Anyways, I have this very beautiful SEGA Jumba stuffie, who’s actually based on Jumba’s traditional outfit in the second season (I believe) theme song in the Stitch! anime!

I actually wanted to post about him just because I was curious if any other L&S/Disney collectors knew anything about him. I’ve gathered from doing a bit of my own reading that he’s from SEGA’s Fun Fan Amuse Prize Collection (as pictured on his hang tag below), which was a collection of officially licensed Disney stuffies, albeit lower quality than something you’d buy at the parks, used as arcade prizes!

I’ve never actually seen him in anyone else’s collection (although to be fair there aren’t a lot of Jumba collectors out there, even if some hardcore L&S fans occasionally collect merch of the side characters), but he’s a very unique and beautiful plush, and I really wanted to know if anyone knows anything else about him or his collection!

[campyvillain]

we need to kill all forms of self deprecating humor in 2022. literally eradicate that shit

[campyvillain]

i’m serious the amount of damage that the half jokey “i-i’m trash and bad at everything hshshshshsj!” mindset has done to the minds of vulnerable mentally ill young people especially young kids and teenagers should be considered a federal crime i think. whoever decided that state of mind is Quirky and Ideal and relatable to spread to impressionable people should be guillotined and gnawed on. no more

[chokulit]

i am big and strong and immortal and also funny and good at art and also the smartest person alive i am the secret ingredient to a good day

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{TRIGGER WARNING}

Please, this is so important. Please acknowledge this. Unfortunately mental illness is still not taken seriously in so many circles (heck, it took me being hospitalized for it for my family to ultimately take me seriously), as well as being incredibly stigmatized so that makes it incredibly hard to get help in many cases. Pair that with the self-depreciative mindsets as described above being treated as a ”cute” and “quirky” thing, it makes it even harder for people to even want help in the first place because they see it as a normal and relatable thing.

As a mentally ill person, someone who’s been plagued by these constant toxic and intrusive thoughts day after day after day, too afraid to ask for help in fear that my family would view me as weak or imperfect, forcing me into a mindset that I would have to overwork myself beyond what I was even capable of doing in order for me to be seen as a respectable person at all, it’s absolutely disgusting to see the ”self-depreciative” mindset treated as something so lighthearted. And now, after I’m undergoing treatment for mental illness and thinking straight for the first time in years, I’m seeing my own brother regularly acting quirky and claiming he’s ”trash” and insulting his work and things of that nature, it’s super disheartening, and it makes me worry about what will be the future for young people who do suffer lower self-esteem and possibly psychological disorders because those symptoms are not only stigmatized, but now being treated as lighthearted and relatable.

I’m just saying, this is an incredibly destructive way of thinking and it often can be either a result of or lead to psychological disorders, which may I reiterate, are VERY SERIOUS. If you know someone who does think like this ”everything I do is trash hahaha” manner, PLEASE try to talk to them. Explain to them why this way of thinking is destructive and encourage them to think more confidently, even if they don’t always believe it! And if it’s really that serious, please urge them to get help, and even directly get them help if you’re able to because it can be very scary to ask for help and many people don’t know how to!

Take care of yourselves, guys.

[crees-a]

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@hyades-moons

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MY BABY!! OH MY GOSH THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS MADE MY DAY YOU HAVE NO IDEA

You even added the bassoon case on their back, I’m gonna cry ;;

[crees-a]

I actually wish there were more L&S fan-characters that are not experiments. I mean c'mon aliens are real here. You can create whatever you want and not just another monstrosity (nothing against them). Me and my OCs would love to meet a friendly Turo citizen if you know what I mean👁️👁️👁️

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DUDE I AGREE THE ALIEN SPECIES IN THE FRANCHISE ARE SO NEAT

[besobendito]

it’s you. it’s still you.

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Ohh this is so beautiful!! Feels.