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Eyes5
@metroidhat.bsky.social
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Hello! I'm a professional plushie prototyper for Fangamer. I sometimes sell plushies on https://www.etsy.com/shop/Metroidhat. My website is www.metroidhat.com, where you can see a gallery of my past works. She/Her
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I carved some Metroid stamps~ I wanna stamp some fabric, though I'm not sure what I'm gonna make out of that fabric. Any ideas?! I'll also try a few paper printing experiments~
A photo of a ink pad, linocutters, and 4 stamps hand-carved from pink rubbery printing block material. There's also a paper showing test prints of the stamps. They are my Metroidhat logo, the Super Metroid S symbol, a Metroid, and Samus's helmet, with her angry eyes showing through. I use this test print to see what areas still need to be carved. There's often little raised areas that I miss on the stamps, and now I can see them easier and carve them away. A picture of some Metroid stamps before they're carved, plus the stamp design that's been printed on paper. My process is this: first I draw the design on Clipstudio, then I inverse the image and print it out on a laserjet printer. The ink becomes sticky when heated, which makes it perfect for transferring onto the rubbery printing block using an iron (though I risk deforming the block). What is left is a transfer of black ink on the pink printing block. All I have to do is carve out the black parts to get the image I want.
December 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Although I lost my save file (save your game in a separate slot before the endgame, folks!), I had a lot of fun with Metroid Prime 4! I'll play it again soon and get 100%! But for now, I'm channeling my leftover energy into making some spoiler-free, low-effort Metroid comics.
A 3 panel comic. In panel 1: Samus, on her motorbike, buzzes past a green energy crystal, thinking "whoops" Panel 2: She swerves to try to hit the shining gem, but misses. She thinks "C'mon..." Panel 3: Samus is driving donuts, yelling "Why can't I hit this rock?!" The crystal is in the middle, unmoved, untouched, moisturized. A 3 panel comic. Panel 1: A Lamorn (an alien creature with gills like an axolotl and 4 arms) says to Samus "Chosen One... To navigate our world, you must open your third eye..." Panel 2: The Lamorn plucks a googly eye sticker from a sticker sheet. Panel 3: The Lamorn sticks it on Samus's forehead, with a 'boop!' sound effect. Panel 1: A Galactic Federation soldier says to Samus "Samus! I'm a big fan!" Panel 2: With sparkles over their head, they say "I even have your trading card!" They hand Samus a card that has a picture of her on it, Justin Bailey style, with green hair and a magenta onesie that leaves little to the imagination. Panel 3: Samus stares wordlessly at the card... Panel 4: She thinks "Who am I gonna hafta sue...?" Panel 1: Samus in her blue/yellow/magenta fusion suit, fighting off some yellow X parasites. The text says "This is Metroid Fusion" Panel 2: Adam Malkovich in his blue and white general's uniform, lifting a struggling Samus up by the scruff. The text says "This is also Metroid Fusion" Panel 3: Samus in her green Metroid suit, biting Raven Beak's head. The text says "This is also Metroid Fusion" Panel 4: Sylux placing a Metroid on a Space Pirate's head, who is sweating. The text says "This is also Metroid Fusion" Okay, so I'm gonna overexplain this joke! Panel 1 depicts the setting of Metroid Fusion, but Panel 3 and 4 depicts Metroid Dread and Metroid Prime 4. Dread, like Fusion, Samus becoming more Metroid-like in her DNA. And in Prime 4, Metroids are literally fusing with creatures to make them crazy or whatever. Panel 2, which depicts Metroid Other M, has many similarities to Metroid Fusion the game, although no Metroids are fused with anything. There's many story beats, tropes, and characters in Other M that are lifted right out of Fusion. Hence, some people describe Other M as 3D Fusion.
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Sooooo, if you're at the Prime 4 endgame, be very careful about your save. Ideally, copy over your save file. I made a mistake and I basically lost my data.
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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I made a sweet little Emul plushie for a present. I love the fluffy accents in her ears, tail, cheeks, and chest! It's been a long time since I made a plushie that I didn't have to worry about replicating, so I took a lot of shortcuts and used a lot of hand sewing, which I don't normally do.
Four photos of a little hand-made Emul plushie, from Shangri-La Frontier. She's a bunny that wears a tophat, blue suit jacket, and red tunic. The jacket is removable, and I think she looks very cute without it too. One view has her face-down on the ground so you can see her fluffy tail.
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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My biggest fear when a new Metroid game comes out is that any new lore might mess with my precious headcanon.
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The Lace plushie I prototyped is finally available! Would you believe that she's been sitting on my desk for five years?? She went through at least 5 iterations. Please enjoy these pics of some of those older prototypes, plus a pic of all the patterns I went through. More descriptions in the alts.
4 pictures of my final Lace plushie prototype from different angles. She's wired, so I put her in a number of sassy poses. I picture of my first Lace prototype, posed as if she's doing a musical number in "Singing in the Rain". Something I really tried to achieve was crazy flexibility in the legs, as she's pretty much doing the splits in some of her sprites. This meant that her legs needed to be separated all the way up to her hips in order to do those high kicks. In the end, her high-riding pantaloons were sacrificed in favor of badonky pumpkin pants, which only allowed her to do little kicks at the knees. A picture of two Lace prototypes, face to face, comparing their various features. I believe the left one is a newer iteration. The feedback I kept getting when it comes to Lace's head and butt was "bigger.... Bigger... BIGGER!!" A picture of all the pattern pieces used in making of all the Lace prototypes I went through. The final pattern is in the upper right corner. I keep all my working patterns until the plushie is declared finished, in case I need to go back to a previous iteration.
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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My prototype for the Frinos plushie is a borb. It's actually kind of challenging to make a borb that has curves in all the right places, like the jut of the mouth, the subtle curve of the head, etc. Please enjoy these pics of a pink, crescent-less, toe-less Frinos plushie.
Pics of my Frinos plushie prototype at different angles. They're pink, and is missing their crescent and toes and embroidery details around the eyes.
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I was tasked with translating Trogdor's very 2D design into a 3D plushie! I prototyped just the head cuz I wanted to experiment with the eyes and eyebrow placement. Is it possible to get that 2D look in a 3D plushie? ...No. No it's not. It's just too weird!
The drawn turnaround art of the Trodor plushie. It shows Trogdor at different angles, plus various notes and schematics for the factory to follow when they make the plushie. Three different angles of the Trogdor plushie prototype head. Three different angles of the Trogdor prototype head. But this time, the eyeballs and eyebrows are oriented like the 2D drawing, all along the top sagittal plane of the head.
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Are y'all watching the Undertale 10th anniversary stream? undertale.com/10/ I made the big Toriel up for donation! It is basically a bigger version of the small Toriel plushie available for sale from Fangamer. You can win her if you donate a bunch!
A frontal picture of the big Toriel plushie I made. Her emblem isn't entirely embroidered because it's too big for my embroidery machine, so the white outline is sewn in. A side view of my big Toriel plushie. She was very huggable. A bottom view of the big Toriel plushie, showing her bare bottom. I proposed making bloomers for her at first, but that idea was shot down.
September 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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The Monster Kid plushie is adapted from a plush I made for a personal project. One interesting change is that we used knit instead of sewing fleece together to form stripes. I'm not familiar with the limitations of knit production, so it required some compromises and experimentation to make it work.
My original Monster Kid plushie, sitting in the snow. There's a lot of differences from the official plushie. They're bigger, they have a fleece shirt, their legs are yellow, and their facial features are all hand embroidered and hand appliqued. My Monster Kid plushie prototype before they have their features sewn in. I used pins and paper to position where their mouth, eyes, and nostrils should go. A picture of five curved strips of fabric. When sewn together, they form the stripes on Monster Kid's shirt, which is basically a cone. A drawing for the manufacturers, showing them potential options for Monster Kid's shirt pattern. As it turns out, stripes on manufactured knit can only be formed in straight lines, so we can't form the conical shape with stripes that would best suit Monster Kid's armless body. As a compromise, we made the shirt pattern into two pieces and put seams on the sides.
September 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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The Curly plushie from Fangamer has been revealed! I claim (take) responsibility for most of the creative work that brought him into being. And I wrote about it on my website! For lots of behind-the-scenes photos and insights, check it out here: www.metroidhat.com/ridley/curly...
A banner showing the Curly plushie kinda just lying there. The text says I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY (For the Curly plushie)
August 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I claim partial responsibility for Fangamer's latest travesty. Trucy's Magic """Bag""" is a shorts pattern in essence. Here are some of my prototype pictures and factory instructions.
A picture of my """bag""" prototype dangling by the cinched up drawstring. Instead of the printed stripes and appliqued hearts of the real article, this prototype has a plain blue fabric body. Lace was used at the bottoms instead of ruffled minky. Sure looks scrotal, doesn't it. Here's some early drawn concepts for the factory to follow. They outline a lot of the specifics that go into the """bag"""'s construction. Like what parts should be printed or appliqued, what materials to use, and how the drawstring is to behave. When we moved away from a lace bottom, I made a ruffled edge sample to show how it can be done.
July 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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just want everyone to know that my company, where we have like 401k's and management structure and careers, just released its latest product
July 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Went to the Earthbound USA screening in Vancouver and saw Jazzy and Robbie on the big screen!
Jazzy and Robbie Benson on a big screen doing a live remote Q&A while I'm pointing at them like eeeee
May 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Y'all better believe that I've designed/prototyped plushies for some of these upcoming games.
April 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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I prototyped the recently released Jormungandr puppet from Fangamer! Or at least a wacky colored baby version of him.
The first prototype of the Jormungandr puppet. He's tropical orange and raspberry red colored. Plus his tail is a stubby little thing. My hand is inserted in a pouch at his neck which allows me to manipulate his mouth. Another pic of the prototype Jormungandr puppet, showing his open mouth. He only has one set of jaws at this point. Here's a pic of the inner lining of Jormungandr turned inside out. The geometry of his body was challenging to tackle, because the inner lining has to allow for your hand to stick into and has to connect to certain parts of the exterior. It also must allow stuffing to pass through in certain areas, all while keeping in mind that the factory must be able to manufacture the puppet in a logical manner. It felt like I was making two plushies at the same time which were ouroboros'ed inside each other. Proto and production sample of Jormungandr about to make out. You can see a ton of improvements in the production version, like cool blue scaled fabric, mesmerizing safety eyes, and a touch of thread sculpting between the nostrils to bring a bit more dimension to his schnoz.
March 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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My husband's out of town, so there's room on his side of the bed for two chickens to sleep. Is this a bad idea?
February 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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The Corrupted Storch plushie from Signalis is available at Fangamer! Despite how simple it looks, it has a deceptively complicated construction. That's because the stripes are actually cones, with each strip of fabric curved slightly differently in order to achieve a soft tapered candy-corn shape.
Four pictures of my Storch plushie prototype. Imagine if you will... a hunched potato body with a tapering, striped carrot head and stumpy striped legs. And it's in light green, pink, and orange candy colors. Because this is a prototype meant to show construction, it doesn't have to be game accurate and I can use whatever colors I want!
January 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Here's the Broken Vessel prototype, from the Hollow Knight game. This plushie presented unique balancing and asymmetry challenges, as I wanted to preserve their hunched, sickly in-game posture. The second picture includes an even earlier prototype, when they had a more tentacle-like body.
Four pictures of the Broken Vessel character plushie. They are a hunched-over jar-headed bug with a cape, curved horns, and a huge bulbous mass of orange infection growing out their head. They have weighted pellets in their body and legs sticking straight out, which greatly help them from tipping over. The earlier version of Broken Vessel is pictured alongside the final prototype for comparison. Instead of a body and cape, their body is simply a kinda stump from which leg-tentacles extrude. Originally, I was instructed to make their body like the Shade plushie, just with more tentacles. I suppose the idea was that it simplified BV's body, so we didn't have to make the whole complicated body and cape. Well, sometimes it's best to do things without any shortcuts. So I went rogue, design-wise, and made the body and cape without further oversight and was like "Here! What do you think??"
January 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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BAGS *clap* BAGS *clap* BAGS

Bags I made over the years!
A tote bag made of red fabric and custom printed canvas. The print on it has Mr. Saturns from Earthbound in a number of poses. Like in a 5-stack ladder, hopped up on mushrooms, showing his butt, etc. I drew them and got the fabric printed! There's also a Mr. Saturn plushie I made, hanging out to help sell the photo. A shoulder bag I made with Kirby fabric and an embroidered Samus leaning back, enjoying a tropical drink. A Metroid in a sunhat is hanging out with her. And I got a Fusion Samus keychain as an accessory. This is my current daily bag. Delightfully eclectic! A blue shoulder bag with a Samus helmet applique and embroidered text that says "SEE YOU NEXT MISSION". This was my previous daily bag. I like my personal bags to have piping, as it helps add structure and a bit of class. A beige shoulder bag with green-taupe piping and straps. I embroidered autumn and winter Sawsbucks and Deerlings on it. It was a gift to a friend who loves Pokemon and deer!
December 28, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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Any fans of Hat in Time? Here's my prototype of the official Bow Kid plushie. Obviously she's has some crazy hair, but she's got many other little delightful details. At least, I find them delightful, from a construction standpoint! You can read more about her here www.metroidhat.com/ridley/bowki...
Bow Kid plushie prototype from four different angles. She's a big-eyed girl with dark curly hair held back by a blue ribbon headband, a collared green jacket, and a tiered blue skirt. One of the angles includes an upskirt shot, showing her white panties. Hey, it's not pervy! It's important to include these kinds of angles in the initial photoshoot, in case anyone has a problem with it. Because of course the customer will turn her around immediately and see the panties once Bow Kid is in their hands. The devs indeed wanted her panties changed into purple shorts. You're welcome, for my non-pervy insight.
December 23, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Once upon a time, I prototyped these Hollow Knight backpack clings. Fangamer still sells them, but we haven't made any more plushies of this size. That's because, even though they're much smaller, they're not proportionally cheaper or easier to produce than a full sized plushie.
Four small plushies from the Hollow Knight series: Wanderer Knight, Grub, Hornet, and Myla. These small plushies are 3.5-4 inches high and have loops of cord for hanging off a backpack.
December 20, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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Here's a series of Pokemon plushies I made oh... 14 years ago! They're one of a kind and feature a lot of fun elements, like polymer sculpted eyes, internal wires, and real feathers.
An Articuno plushie photographed at several different angles. The main body and legs are suede, while the head and tail feathers are blue satin to give them some luster. The chest has a real feather ruff. The eyes, beak, and claws are sculpted and painted. Wire runs through all the limbs and the tail for maximum posing. I still remember some of the techniques I learned from making this birdy, like how to achieve a flat object that has wires running through it. Mamoswine plushie seen from a few different angles. The eyes are sculpted and painted. I was very pleased with the snout; how all the fabrics came together perfectly and the little bit of thread sculpting in the nostrils really brought out the dimension of the nose. I remember being somewhat unhappy with the feet fuzz, because I have a general distaste for leaving raw edges showing. But it worked well here. A Misdreavus plushie seen from four angles. I was so happy with the pattern I created here, at how curvy the shapes are and how balanced the whole plushie is. I mostly used crushed panne, which gives the plushie a mottled sparkle. I found a perfect set of beads in a craft store that was used for the necklace. The eyes and mouth was hand-appliqued fleece plus some needle felting. A Crobat plushie seen from the front and back. The eyes were sculpted and wire runs through the wings. The body was mostly fleece, with the webbing of the wings being suede.
December 18, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Here is a Jack Frost plushie that I prototyped for Fangamer! www.fangamer.com/collections/... I'm particularly proud of how I managed to make two holes in the hat in a manufacturable way. If you're a plushie maker, you might have some appreciation for how hard 'donut' holes are to make!
A prototype plushie of Jack Frost in three different angles.
December 11, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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I prototyped the official Astrobot plushie from Fangamer! That was about two years ago; more recently, I had heavy involvement with the Kratos version of Astrobot. I didn't prototype this new version, but I oversaw the turnaround art and the sampling process.
My prototype Astrobot plushie from four different angles. The more subtle the shapes, the more difficult they are to achieve in plushie form. Like, the head isn't just a 'circle', and the body isn't just an 'oval', so they required a lot of care. I'm very pleased with my choice of eye fabric, in which the individual sparkles are reminiscent of pixilation. Here's a construction document that I sent to the factory. It shows a piece of blue organza on a marble slab and a soldering iron. I used the soldering iron to cut and seal the edges of the organza, and I'm asking the factory if they are able to do something similar. It turns out that they were not able to do it; they ended up embroidering the edges of the cape. I also instructed them to cut the organza on the diagonal. This detail got missed, which resulted in weak capes for the first run of Astrobot, but it has since been corrected. Here's a construction document for AstroKratos. It's my drawing of all their clothes and how they should be constructed and layered.
December 8, 2024 at 5:09 AM