Teddy Talk: Creating, Collecting, Connecting

Do they have it in audio format?

Tami, long time no see.  Hope everything's okay with you.  I've missed reading your posts.

Oh darn, you have to register to see the pic?  I'll talk to the administrator about that, but that forum is awesome by the way.  Some of the picture posting web sites don't work for me because they're not accessible for my screen reader.  I think you would like that forum, though.  It's for bear cfollectors.

Yep, he does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTCBJDMwjOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw_U2iBwgBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiB5rebVgCw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hsd3c31gsM
All right, I'll quit.  I really want this bear.

http://www.teddybearsforum.com/showthread.php?t=1028
Here's my picture from the other forum of these bears since it didn't work here.

Why is that?  How would you know whether there is anything in the plushie that shouldn't be there?

Could it be Bingo Bear?  I'll post a video from Youtube in a few minutes so you can see what I'm talking about.  He was from the 80s, though.  I had one as a kid and I adored him.  I'm obsessed with talking bears and 80s bears.

Would some time in February be okay?  I know the Christmas season is coming up, so I figure that would give people plenty of time so they can sell their bears they have to make.  BTW, it doesn't have to be a bear.  It can be anything you want.  The only rule is that you can't use your eyeballs except for cutting out the bear because I can't ask someone to do something I don't know how to do.

http://www.teddybearsforum.com/showthre … 5#post7845
Some of these pics stink because I was using the braille method, but I did finally manage to get the pic of Rochester.  He's the last pic there.

Yeah, I see what you're saying.  I wouldn't pay $$$ for a lot of the plushies I'm seeing at the store today.  If I'm going to pay a lot for a bear, or if I could pay a lot for a bear that is, it would be an artist bear or an antique. 

Lenora, I love you to death, but Arcto was made in China.  He is giving you a big ol' womp womp womp.  Sorry, piano player joke.

Aw come on, you're killing me here.  You know I love the 80's.

Aw man, I can't see pictures.

His head comes off?  Cool *plays the same diminished chord, which would be very appropriate for a critter when he takes his head off*.

What's wrong with unjointed teds with plastic eyes?  I love that type of bear, and besides they're more accessible for kids.  I have noticed, though, that whenever I go into a store like Walmart and I look at their plushies, it's major league blah.  They don't even have bears anymore and it's always that weird texture instead of fuzzy fur.

Yeah, I see that.  I'm new to artist bears and most people I know don't collect bears, so yeah, I can see where that would work.  I think I could be mildly autistic, though, or either OCD, and I have weird reactions to some words.  Soft sculpture is one of them.  It's like for some reason whenever I hear it I also hear a big diminished chord like they use in movies or something.  It's a really weird thing that I have.

Awesome.

Let's try this again.

I'll try this again.  I really wish they would change the photo size allowance.  This is the only site I ever have a problem with uploading pics.

Oh absolutely.  When I heard about that 80s bear, I wanted to spit.

A friend of mine gave me these two bears because I told him I was looking for an antique bear.  He got these bears from some friends who have a booth at our local antique mall.  I'm kind of curious about these guys.  Their names are Lloyd and Bonnie because the man who gave them to me suggested I name them in honor of the man he got the boy bear from and his wife who passed away.  These bears are so cool.

I finally have a camera now, so I'll be able to post pics here at last.  I took this today, but I had to have some help pointing the camera.  Here's my bear Rochester.  I hope this is the right size because cropping using the braille method doesn't work.

I don't freak out about them living in a display cabinet when they're not being played with.  I know they have to have a house.  I just feel bad when they're not played with at all.  I heard about a bear someone had from the 80s, not an artist bear, that she kept in a box.  I'm obsessed with 80s bears and I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!  Sorry, I'm weird, I know.

Some of them are.  I think Arcto may just be a few years old, not sure.  Some of my bears are very new, but most are older because I love adopting secondhand plushies that people don't want anymore.

Do you think it would be something I'd be able to make a bear out of?

That's true.