These are actually pretty cute, but again with the fucking app and online connection. I’d never have one of these in my house, let alone give one to my kids to play with unless I’ve disabled any network connectivity (but the simplest solution would be to just not buy one.)
I think you misread the post friend. The app says that they introduced that garbage 10 years ago, but in a misleading move, they didn’t clarify that this new iteration of Furby does not have either.
It’s a super dishonest way of writing. I hope this helped!
The furby doesn’t need to connect to the internet directly, the app on your phone already will. I expect its permissions list to look as invasive as Play Services, or Facebook.
Didn’t the terrifying Furby Connects of like 2016 have the ability to connect to internet-connected apps and would send OTA updates to the furby on a weekly basis? I think the furby itself was receive-only and wouldn’t send anything, but I might be wrong. I still think it’s fair to say that furby was at least semi-connected to the internet.
Technically Furby Connects is a subcategory of Furby, and I was talking about the main line, (and “Connect” is in the name, so that is still not trying to sneak it past consumers) but I could see the argument it is a little pedantic.
But saying THIS model has a camera and is connected to the internet explicitly goes against most of the advertising and most everyone is just wanting to act panicked about a basic toy. 😑
Oh! I actually thought the Furby Connect was another mainline furby, but I honestly didn’t find it good looking, so I passed on it completely (I’ve been more of a tamagotchi person anyway). I think a lot of the “furbies are creepy” opinions are just rehashed fear from the lies that were spread about the first couple furbies. I wasn’t allowed to have one when I was a kid because the people on tv said it was creepy because they might have cameras and would record children.
If my parents knew I have a stripped gen 2 furby with a single eyelash on my shelf looking like a skeleton, they’d definitely think it was creepy haha
I want the same toys but less loud and needy. 😭I loved Furby and tamagotchi too, but I wanted them to bring some of the stuff from those digimon pets they had way back in the 90s. Let me make tamagotchis fight!
Tangent here: Not sure if you’ve seen Owl House, but they show a tamagotchi-like device in the second season** where you can send little pictograph messages to your friends and WHAT I’D GIVE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. It reminded me a bit of Pictochat on the DS. But I know any device that was made would be pretty expensive since it would need wireless even if it wasn’t internet-connected. So that means it’d have a high resolution screen to justify the price, which would make it more expensive, then thicker for bigger batteries. It just doesn’t seem realistic or even something I’d want in the end with all the upgrades.
I do really miss little devices with low resolution displays. A lot of charm goes away for me when you don’t have to use your imagination at all- same with furbies that speak in clear english. There’s SO much room for expanding on the ideas of furbies and tamagotchis that hasn’t been explored, but unfortunately, I’m not sure if that’ll ever actually exist until a group of nerds get together and makes it happen. Being able to fight and collect things and have actual permanence in the game without babying the digital pet constantly would be amazing!
I found them oddly endearing. Maybe because I didn’t have one of my own and played with the ones other people had.
If I actually had one, I’d either have fallen on the “this is fucking creepy” side or “never leave me, Furby”. No in between.
But they were always kind of the “Gremlins without exposure to water or food after midnight”.
This being the timeline we’re in, I’m not ruling out the possibility that this changes. That they become exposed to something and we get a Furby revolt. Gremlins becomes real. Chaos.
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These things scare the hell out of me still.
Firby I’m sad, play despacito
Oh no, not again.
Huh. I didn’t realize they’d stopped selling the last reboot.
These are actually pretty cute, but again with the fucking app and online connection. I’d never have one of these in my house, let alone give one to my kids to play with unless I’ve disabled any network connectivity (but the simplest solution would be to just not buy one.)
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I think you misread the post friend. The app says that they introduced that garbage 10 years ago, but in a misleading move, they didn’t clarify that this new iteration of Furby does not have either.
It’s a super dishonest way of writing. I hope this helped!
The horror…
Ya know?
These were scary before we had the problem of internet connected cameras being stuck inside everything
Who thought this was a good idea?
Probably Mr. Wing’s greedy grandson.
The comments here prove we still don’t read the article. The new Furby is putting front and center “Does not connect to the internet.”
Where are you seeing that? I don’t see anything mentioned either way about internet connectivity in TheHill article nor the hasbro announcement.
It’s on the Amazon listing.
The furby doesn’t need to connect to the internet directly, the app on your phone already will. I expect its permissions list to look as invasive as Play Services, or Facebook.
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The previous model connected via Bluetooth to a phone. I’m assuming the same with this one. No wifi, and therfore no “Internet” connection.
Depite all the black mirror watchers here not reading or looking into it, no furby has connected to the internet yet?
https://shop.hasbro.com/product/furby-purple-plush-interactive-toys-for-6-year-old-girls-and-boys-and-up/9D100875-7588-48AF-8D16-74ACFF4A437B
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLR5RGPY
Didn’t the terrifying Furby Connects of like 2016 have the ability to connect to internet-connected apps and would send OTA updates to the furby on a weekly basis? I think the furby itself was receive-only and wouldn’t send anything, but I might be wrong. I still think it’s fair to say that furby was at least semi-connected to the internet.
Technically Furby Connects is a subcategory of Furby, and I was talking about the main line, (and “Connect” is in the name, so that is still not trying to sneak it past consumers) but I could see the argument it is a little pedantic.
But saying THIS model has a camera and is connected to the internet explicitly goes against most of the advertising and most everyone is just wanting to act panicked about a basic toy. 😑
Oh! I actually thought the Furby Connect was another mainline furby, but I honestly didn’t find it good looking, so I passed on it completely (I’ve been more of a tamagotchi person anyway). I think a lot of the “furbies are creepy” opinions are just rehashed fear from the lies that were spread about the first couple furbies. I wasn’t allowed to have one when I was a kid because the people on tv said it was creepy because they might have cameras and would record children.
If my parents knew I have a stripped gen 2 furby with a single eyelash on my shelf looking like a skeleton, they’d definitely think it was creepy haha
I want the same toys but less loud and needy. 😭I loved Furby and tamagotchi too, but I wanted them to bring some of the stuff from those digimon pets they had way back in the 90s. Let me make tamagotchis fight!
Tangent here: Not sure if you’ve seen Owl House, but they show a tamagotchi-like device in the second season** where you can send little pictograph messages to your friends and WHAT I’D GIVE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. It reminded me a bit of Pictochat on the DS. But I know any device that was made would be pretty expensive since it would need wireless even if it wasn’t internet-connected. So that means it’d have a high resolution screen to justify the price, which would make it more expensive, then thicker for bigger batteries. It just doesn’t seem realistic or even something I’d want in the end with all the upgrades.
I do really miss little devices with low resolution displays. A lot of charm goes away for me when you don’t have to use your imagination at all- same with furbies that speak in clear english. There’s SO much room for expanding on the ideas of furbies and tamagotchis that hasn’t been explored, but unfortunately, I’m not sure if that’ll ever actually exist until a group of nerds get together and makes it happen. Being able to fight and collect things and have actual permanence in the game without babying the digital pet constantly would be amazing!
**https://64.media.tumblr.com/81a4345c30c8c3e9a14c8b981f4a36de/470a73424ef059ec-5e/s1280x1920/fcccd5b89485fc0e51585d25388e1c216df08bb3.png
How long until someone makes it into a Long Furby?
they are legion.
I found them oddly endearing. Maybe because I didn’t have one of my own and played with the ones other people had.
If I actually had one, I’d either have fallen on the “this is fucking creepy” side or “never leave me, Furby”. No in between.
But they were always kind of the “Gremlins without exposure to water or food after midnight”.
This being the timeline we’re in, I’m not ruling out the possibility that this changes. That they become exposed to something and we get a Furby revolt. Gremlins becomes real. Chaos.
Gizmo 2024 - Infinity.
“Furby sad. Furby see Atlas Shrugged. Furby save America. Furby is John Galt.”
Equiped with real ai this time for even more uncanny responses.
Equiped with real ai this time for even more uncanny responses.
No thanks, I’m still waiting for a long furby.
Ferret-bird.