hello furby friends, so perhaps the Biggest break in furby in almost that past 7 years which is WILD to think about, but a prototype for a new line of furbys leaked this morning on ebay at around 8am cst.
AGAIN this is wild, but is shows renwed interest from hasbro in the furby line. but first a general description,
So, bellow are the photos.
The furby is an early run electroics prototype, these are can be very close to the final design, with the cosmetic proto being handed over for electronic prototyping. the wires (as far as I can read) are as follows
Motor
Ir encoder
Microphone
Left ear led
Right ear led
Back cap
Front cap
Sw & led
Spear
Mouth sw (switch)
Neutral
So it apears they are going somewhat functionally similar to a 1998. this is also shown in the fact that they are using the og 1998 logo on the bottom.
The board also reads 5-5-2022, so it is for sure recent.
further into the cosmetics, it apears to be simialr to their fuzzalots brand.
So it seems thats the direction that they are going in. which to me is… disapointing
SO what adds to this story is the fact that Hasbo was alerted shortly after the listing and were VERY interested. showing the first public interest directly in the furby brand in years.
the ebay listing was the struck down less than an hour later
also, with the listing, it was orginaly on auction for $50 then relisted,
so overall. today has been a very interesting look into Hasbro playing around with a more modern furby… just observing the similarites to fuzzalots if this furby is released, it will retial for around 10-15$ which i think is a good price point, however I think that fans would prefer a more direct homage to 1998s, for those of you in the same boat as me, I think that the best we can hope for is hasbro having gone in a diffrenet direction, And with hasbro pushing their toy appearnce back, I suspect we will see an annoucment in mid september which would be just in time for the 25th aniversery. I will try my best to attend the toyfair in person or online and I will keep you guys updated.
special thanks to Furbccord for being a great palce to bounce ideas around! and specual thanks to FranistheMan and fubby on discord
and with that, peace and love furby community
