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The Furbtroller: A Fully Functional Terrifying Furby XBox Controller

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Because dreams really do come true, and that means nightmares as well, engineer Chad Etzel went and built the unholy Furbtroller: an Xbox controller modded using Furby body parts, including eyeballs and mouth for joysticks. I only hope by the time you’re reading this that it’s already been cleansed with fire and wiped from the earth.

Chad says he was originally inspired to build the controller after fellow gamer Ben Bayliss made a rendering of a Furby-themed Xbox controller (seen above), and decided to take that inspiration to the next logical step. That step being the abomination you see here. Never before have I wished the internet axiom ‘What Has Been Seen, Cannot Be Unseen’ wasn’t so true.

Could you even imagine trying to actually play a video game with this nightmare? Forget about beating a boss in Elden Ring, I’d be more concerned with destroying the monster in my hands. I’ll be honest – I’m seriously considering starting a Patreon for Chad and contributing if he promises not to make any more controllers in the future.

Modder Builds a Furby Synthesizer Module and It’s as Disturbing as You Might Imagine

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Look Mum No Computer (aka Sam Battle) clearly has some sort of strange obsession with making musical Furbys. You may recall his previously posted electronic organ created using 44 singing Furbys. I think we can all agree that is entirely too many Furbys in the same place at the same time. Well, now the mad musical scientist is back, this time adding a Furby module to a synthesizer board that can be played using the synth’s voltage input. What does it sound like? A nightmare isn’t far from accurate.

Subject 44B, as Sam likes to refer to the Furby Module, is controlled by a variety of switches located on the synth board to its immediate right, including a glitch switch, loop switch, one that makes the Furby respond to a belly rub, one that responds to feeding, and one that makes it think it’s been turned upside-down, all of which have control voltage inputs, leading to an absolute cacophony of sound.

What’s next on Sam’s list of Furby-related projects? Only time will tell, but if it involves artificial intelligence, you can rest assured it will herald the Furby apocalypse and the beginning of the end of humanity as we know it. Obviously, if that does happen, I will have a small amount of regret for ever contributing to Sam’s Patreon.

Oddbody Furbies Are Either Adorably Weird or Straight-up Nightmare Fuel

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Furbies have always been a little creepy to me – perhaps it’s that I’ve seen what they look like on the inside that did it, or maybe it’s just their hypnotic eyeballs. Either way, they’re already pretty weird looking straight from the toy factory. But toy modder Plushie Couture thinks they can do better.

These guys make what they call “Oddbody” Furbies. In other words, these are toys with the faces of Furbies but grafted onto the bodies of other toys. If you liked Sid’s mutant toys from Toy Story, then these should be right up your alley. In fact, they made an Oddbody version of Woody, a Furby Woody if you will.

Other bizarro Oddbody mods include the Stay-Puft Marshmally Furby, the Lost in Space Furby Robot, Furby Barbie, and Furby Boombox among others. I recommend browsing the entire Plushie Couture Etsy shop to see what kind of Furby surgery they’ve been up to lately. Prices for the Oddbody Furbies start around $72.50, but that’s a small price to pay for something that’s sure to leave a long-lasting impression in your brain.

[via CreepBay]

Furby Centipede Is the Stuff of Nightmares

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Let’s face it. For as cute as Furbies were supposed to be, more often than not, they’re kind of creepy. People have done some really crazy stuff with these electronic pets over the years, from slicing in two with a waterjet, to turning them into an insane musical instrument. Now, somebody has gone and turned the Furby into a centipede.

Crafter Look_I_Made_A_Hat created this Furbish monstrosity, and it’s quite the nightmare fuel. In the Instructables post “Longify Your Furby,” the professional sushi chef, costume designer, and Furby surgeon walks us through the step-by-step process of tearing open a classic 1990s Furby, and extending its body.

It’s not exactly a simple process, and depending on the type of Furby you choose to perform this operation on, can require its body to be completely skinned and then given a new fur coat. Yeesh.

If you want to longify your own Furby, head on over to Instructables now for the comprehensive build guide. The more feet you include, the more creepy, so keep that in mind when you draw up your design.

Oh, and then there’s this…

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Guy Builds a Singing Furby Organ to Haunt our Dreams

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Furbys may be fun for kids of a certain age, but to the rest of us they are slightly terrifying. Now they’ve become even more nightmarish in the hands of Sam Battle, the hacker and musician behind the YouTube channel Look Mum No Computer. He hacked together 44 Furby toys to build the world’s first singing Furby organ. I will be seeing this when I close my eyes tonight. No sleep for me.

While I’m impressed at Sam’s technical expertise, to be able to build something like this, what the hell has he unleashed onto the world? Watching this Furby choir and hearing their nightmarish wails just feels like I’m watching a scene from a new Gremlins movie. Like maybe they got together in a church to sing some songs before they torch the place with everyone in it.

Sam had to lots or rewiring and create custom software so that each toy would respond to commands from the keyboard, and produce specific notes and vowels on-demand. Ohhhhh, their high-pitch squeal… This is the soundtrack of a trip to hell and these sounds will stay with you all day. Hey, I had to hear it, so you do too.

[via Digg via Sploid]

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This DIY Furby Echo speaker will probably give you nightmares

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Furby is already a tad creepy by itself, but a new DIY mod just stepped up the spookiness: Howchoo has converted a Furby toy into a makeshift Amazon Echo. The project works its dark magic by shoehorning a Raspberry Pi Zero W mini-PC into the critter'...

When tech nostalgia goes too far

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Nintendo had a bonafide smash on its hands with the NES Classic. And it looks like the SNES mini console will fly off of store shelves just as quickly. But it's not the only company looking to cash in on your nostalgia. Nowadays, there are reboots of...

Watch a Furby Get Roasted Alive from Within

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I don’t know why nightmares like the Furby exist, but at least we can kill them… with fire… from the inside. Then watch whatever canned demons are inside, as they escape from it’s dead ashen husk. In this video, a red hot nickel ball is called on to perform the exorcism.


The searing hot sphere sinks nicely into it’s evil cranium creating one hell of a Furby candle. Smoke escapes it’s evil and dead eyes. Then tears. The entire top of it’s head is a blazing inferno and the last of it’s inner demons have now escaped. The corpse is quiet and restful for the first time in it’s existence. Evil has been vanquished and balance restored to The Force.

God bless these holy men, doing God’s work with their red hot nickel balls, purging the world of such vile creatures. Now do the rest of these vile creations!

[via Sploid]

Watch Two Furbies Get Dissected by a Water Jet

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Back in the ’90s, the Furby was the hottest toy of the Christmas season. Well, now there’s a new edition with modern tech inside. It is more lifelike with creepy new digital eyeballs for instance. But nothing can prepare you for seeing what this thing looks like while it is being cut in half by a powerful water jet.

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Fun fact: The 2016 edition’s colorful eyes have 150 different animations. That must be why when they cut this thing, it at first looks like tears streaming from it’s eyes, then black blood-like goo oozes from its beak and it is all just wrong. The horror show begins around the 2:45 mark.

So sad and disgusting. I can’t watch anymore.