Do you have strange Furby story to tell?
I don’t know much at all about Furbys. They look like some sort of toy that a very young child would play with. Yet they don’t seem to have any educational value for a developing child. They just talk baby talk and make sounds and do little movements.
Here’s a copule of weird Furby stories that I heard at work last week:
A guy told me that the Furby manufacturing factory was built on top of an old indian burial ground and the evil spirits of the long dead enter into the Furbys.
Also a woman said that she put a Furby in a box in her garage for about 10 years. Then one day she was walking through the garage and heard the Furby just start talking and making noises.
Another woman said that when she was a kid, her Furby would wake her up in middle of the night with it’s incoherent talking and noise making. She said that it was frightening to her.
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I just remembered ladies collecting them at Toys R Us in like 1999. Also in 1999, Pokemon was peaking. I used to go to Pokemon League at Toys R Us and all these ladies would buy Furby’s like they’d have super high value one day. And I believed it. I also noticed these ladies tended to be fat and in their 40s about. Perhaps they collected special dolls as well as kids and were simply partaking in what they thought was the next fad.
My daughter had one that would ‘wake up’ in the middle of the night and start ‘talking’. It scared the crap out of her, even though it was adorable. She had to hide it in her closet, along with a talking ‘Bubbe’ doll that scared her.
After hearing that the NSA banned its employees from taking their Furbies to work, I bought two of them planning to let one listen only to right wing commentators and the other only to their counterparts on the left. I was eager to see what they would say to each other after having learned from their respective tutors. The outcome is that they both ended up spouting gibberish, which is pretty much what one would expect in a debate pitting, say, Sean Hannity against Bill Maher.
I can see why you’d find them scary, but this is all built on the notion that the factory was built on an old indian burial ground…and that’s probably not true.. coz wheren’t ferbies chinese??
I loved my Furby! It was dark pink and absolutely adorable. (I still have it!)
But oh my God, that thing scared me! I turned it off, I even took the batteries out, and it would still randomly start talking in the middle of the night! That thing would survive the freaking apocalypse.
@augustlan The Bubbe doll didn’t talk, it was just plain scary.
@Fly Oh, right. The Bubbe doll came with a cassette tape that told stories. That’s why I remembered it ‘talking’.
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