Duracell Furby Commercial

Furby Drinks Bottle Promotion 2023

I'm not familiar with the language in this image, but it looks like there's some kind of promotion happening where you can claim a free Furby drinking bottle when purchasing the new 2023 Furby.

25 Years Later A New Furby Range! Finally A Website Update!

Hello everyone! As you can see from my last post, I'm probably the worst person in the world at keeping a website up to date!

I have some good News though, as from today, I am reaching into my positivity pocket and pulling out some extra effort which hopefully will help keep this desolate Furby website from drowning into the abyss! There's still lots to do! I have so many photos I need to edit and add to various pages on the website, and hopefully over the next few months, you will start to see some changes happening.

Anyway, enough about the website, let's move onto some amazing News.
A new Furby has been released! Seven years of painstakingly waiting, and we finally have, not one, but three new Furby designs for 2023, two standard versions and also an exclusive to Smyths Toys. So let's jump right in!

Coral Plush is my favourite design in the new range, although a lot of people on Social Media have just been calling her orange. The image on the Official Furby Website shows a much different colour. Light pinks, orangey yellows, but let's not criticise the colour too much, it's nice to get anything new from Hasbro regarding Furby right?

There's a couple of things I wasn't too sure about when I first laid my eyes on these new guys. No colourful light up eyes and no moving mouth? I was a tiny bit disappointed but after the initial shock, they are growing on me. The original Furby eye's are just plastic nothing special, so I guess it's a nod to old times.

Personally, I really would have loved a moving mouth, but we can't have everything we want. The addition of beads around the waste and the new Anime style eyes, tells me that Hasbro have been doing their online research, looking over how people are customising their original Furby and then doing their own take with the new design. Good job Hasbro, and we all love glowing ears, right guys?

This beautiful girl is called Purple Plush, and just like Coral Plush she has the cool beads around the waste, Anime eyes and glowing ears. Her fur is a mix of blues and purples which seems more obvious on this version. I really love this colour too, but coral is my current favourite. As you know I am an avid collector of Furby, so I really have no choice but to add both colours to the collection, when they are available over here. (I have already pre-ordered!).

So that's the two main colours for the new Furby, what do you think? I am pretty happy with them, as I said earlier, it's a blessing to see any new Furby these days. I really thought Hasbro had given up on the Furby brand, but they had to do something for the 25 years anniversary, and they didn't disappoint.

Wait a second, I mentioned three new Furby designs earlier right? Ah yes, I nearly forgot! There is a third, but it might be a little tricky to find this one, unless you live in France.

Smyths Toys are doing a special limited edition Tie and Dye Furby. I have heard rumours online that it's only available in France, but fingers crossed we will all be able to purchase this version in the very near future. Well that's all the News for now, I will post more when I receive my new Furbys. Have fun guys! imgsrc digital_momster, annichu333

London Toy Fair, No Show For New Furby

You may of read our post a few days ago about a hopeful new Furby range for 2019. Unfortunately nothing was announced at the recent London Toy Fair, and we are left wondering why Hasbro included a Furby teaser in their emerging brands investor presentation. Was it just a mistake?

Well there is still a chance this could happen as we await the upcoming New York Toy Fair on the 16th-19th February this year. You may remember the awesome Furbacca was announced at the very same toy fair way back in 2015, something no-one expected to happen, so there is still hope. After Hasbro outright ignoring Furby's 20th Anniversary, lets hope they haven't forgotten about our lovable Furry friends. We would love to see the original 1998 Furby generations revived. How about you guys?

Furbacca at the New York Toy Fair 2015

A Long Shot or a New Range of Furbys Heading for 2019?

It seems the Hasbro investor presentation has some possible interesting News for Furby fans. Check the picture snippet above and tell us what you see. Yes that is correct, Furby is listed as an emerging brand!

Could this mean that Hasbro is coming up with a new Furby range for 2019? Furby Connect was released in 2016, so my question is, why did Hasbro have Furby in their presentation towards the end of 2018 when as we all know, Furby's haven't been sold in any stores for some time now?

Let's not get too excited though, we may just be grasping at straws here, but it's definitely something to think about. London's Toy Fair runs from tomorrow 22nd January until Thursday the 24th of January. Let's keep our fingers crossed for a new line of Furbys!

Source: https://investor.hasbro.com

News About May May, The Mysterious Pink Rainbow Furby!

Today I have some fantastic News regarding the mystery of the Pink Rainbow Furby!

After my post about May May, I decided to do some detective work. I thought to myself there 'has' to be more information somewhere online about this unusual Furby, After a lot of dead links and perseverance, I have found exactly what I was looking for!

Wayback Machine is a website that archives old websites for preservation and internet history. If you type in www.furby.com in your browser today, it will forward you to the current Hasbro website, but back in 1999 and 2000, it was a very different website with a mountain of information about our loveable Furbys!

As you can see from the picture above, this is what the original Furby website looked like. From that page I clicked 'News Update' which took me to another page with the important information I was looking for.

Design-Your-Own-Furby Sweepstakes was a competition sponsored by 'Post'.

Post or Post Consumer Brands (previously also known as Post Cereals and Postum Cereals) is an American consumer cereal brand who along with Tiger ran the competition from November the 9th 1999 until August the 1st 2000. Advertising the competition on the back of cereal boxes (Cocoa Pebbles, Oreo 'Os, Fruity Pebbles, Honey-Comb, as well as others). Children were asked to colour in a Furby picture and submit their entry via post by the 1st of August 2000, after which the top 12 submissions would be placed on the Furby website and the public were asked to vote for a winner, who would then receive the grand prize of a 'Trip to Tiger’s Furby studio', and the chance to design their very own Furby!

November 9, 1999 - Post-branded products (including cereals Cocoa Pebbles, Honey Comb and Oreo-O’s as well as Jell-O yoghurt) carry entry forms for Post’s “DESIGN YOUR OWN FURBY” contest. See Post products for complete details. Note that the lucky winner of Post’s contest will get to design a REAL Furby. Visit the “Games” section of the Furby website to play new online games inspired by Hi-C and Post.

August 1, 2000 - Post Finalists Posted! The 12 finalists in Post’s Design-Your-Own-Furby sweepstakes have been selected. Kids from across the country have submitted drawings of their ideal Furby to Post for the past several months. The sweepstakes has been featured on a variety of Post’s top-selling cereals, including Honey Comb and Oreo-O’s. Post has now randomly chosen 12 submissions to compete for the grand prize: a trip to Tiger’s Furby studio, where the lucky winner will design a real Furby. To vote for your favourite Furby design, click here.

If you click the link above, it takes you to this page which shows all the Furby pictures that have been coloured in by the lucky children who made it into the randomly chosen 12 submissions.
Let's take a good look at all of these, aren't they lovely? But let's pay attention to one particular picture in the bottom right corner. Look familiar? Yes that's right, it's May May! the pink Rainbow Furby! :-)

So it turns out that this is in fact an official Furby-Tiger Release! (some doubted this on AdoptaFurby Forum). I wonder if 'Brittany from Missouri' still has her Rainbow Furby? Also were any of the other 12 entries created?

As far as I know, there are only two Rainbow Furby's in existence. The one that I own, and the other one the original seller (maybe) still has? After some more detective work, I found out the other rainbow Furby had a highest bid of $525.00 before the seller chose to end the auction early! I can only guess they had a change of heart and wanted to keep it.

I really hope my good friend who bought me May May, didn't pay so much money for her, thankfully it was a present, so I will never know.

So there you have it, the Rainbow Furby Mystery has been solved and another official Furby has been added to the database. Stay tuned for more interesting News from Hey Furby website! ;-)