Hello! I am trying to make a custom furby skin for my furby and I want to know how I can remove the faceplate from the old furby and attach it to the new one. Thank you!!
hi there, anon!
you didn’t specify what type of furby you’re trying to customize, so i’ll explain how you can do it for a 1998 furby and a furby buddy, since those are the two i have experience with (i have a custom boom but their faceplates are attached to their robot insides, so there is no real removal afaik)
for a 1998 furby, if you flip the skin inside out you should be able to see the stitching that holds the fabric to the faceplate. if you rip those stitches out you can remove the plastic faceplate and then sew it into the… face hole of your new custom skin, pulling the thread through the pre-existing holes in the plastic. make sure you sew it so that the raw edge of the fabric is folded in toward the inside of the furby, as this gives them their cute puffy face and it looks a lot cleaner!
for a furby buddy, it’s a lot more complicated, and you have to be very careful - you can ruin your furby or hurt yourself if you get too impatient. i have a detailed answer for how to do that in this post right here!
tbh for the furby buddy i would recommend cutting the fabric around the face, and using it to attach to the custom skin if you can. it probably doesn’t look as pretty but… prying it apart is a lot harder than it looks lol. and once you peel apart those two halves of plastic the only way you can really reattach it to fabric is to glue it :/ i’m pretty sure i’ve also recently seen someone selling faceplates made out of resin, which is really cool and So Much Easier! no furby buddy dissection required!
anyway, i hope this was helpful in some way! if you need pictures or a more clear explanation for anything, feel free to send me a direct message and i’ll get back to you asap :)
