Hasbro announced that the fluffy and chatty animatronic children’s toy will return to stores next month.

Not quite your traditional gaming, but with 600 responses to user actions at least as complex as some interactive computer games I’ve played.

[Image description: two new Furbies]

  •  comicallycluttered   ( @comicallycluttered@beehaw.org ) 
    6•1 year ago

    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.”