Talk:Stuffed animal
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[edit] Steiftiere vs. Steifftiere
I have removed the part about the alleged link between Steifftiere and steif - this was completely bollocks, as they're always referenced with the double F in the German language. --Doco 01:00, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Aaaawwwwwww...... --Coldplayer 18:31, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
"In colloquial German, stuffed animals are often referred as Steifftiere, which derives from the name of that company." Do you have any proof for this? I'm a German native speaker, and I've never heard anybody say Steifftier...
[edit] for unique stuffed animals
Bouncy Buddies from Purr-Fection by MJC http://www.bouncybuddies.com
If you haven't heard the name "No_bob"yet, then you're probably in the minority because he is fast becoming the most famous dolphin in the world. Okay as far as dolphin's go there's not really much competition cos let's face it, “Flipper” didn't even get a sequal, but that's besides the point. No_bob is Brett Fish’s yellow-and-white stuffed toy dolphin and he even has his own web page at [1] and his name comes from the fact that Brett was going to call him 'Bob' but he doesn't!
Bouncy Buddies are stuffed animals that bounce. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.208.159.19 (talk) 20:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
The above site has apparently been nuked by the ISP. --StarChaser Tyger 05:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I am truly impressed to see that No_bob the stuffed yellow-and-white dolphin has made it to Wikipedia. It is about time that this amazing, world-famous creature is featured on a wider platform! 196.25.85.139 10:08, 20 March 2007 (UTC)M van Niekerk. Stuffed Animal Expert.
[edit] Article May Overplay the Psychological Interpretation
The weird thing about stuffed toys is that the minute you give them a name, people start acting as if they were alive and asking silly questions like 'So how is No_bob?' Like, hello people, he's a stuffed toy. Therefore he is not real. Get over it! Image:No-bob-ashley.jpg
I think the writer overplays the psychological interpretation (anthropomorphism) about why people fancy stuffed toys. The "innate need to protect small animals" sounds like an explanation that may apply to some cases, but not all. We also have a long history of collecting animals (private zoos have been around since at least Roman times), and this probably appeals to our fascination for novelty.
My point is: you can't attribute "anthropomorphism" so broadly. Children also fancy and collect non-animal stuffed toys (like blankets or plastic dinosaurs). "Anthropomorphism" is an explanation for some cases, but not all, and the explanation itself seems a little radical.WikiPicky 01:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
fROM TRACEY: Yay No_Bob! You're taking over the world!
I think that the No_bob article does not fit in the "Stuffed Animal" article, given that No_bob does not (and cannot) symbolize or represent stuffed animals in general. I would suggest the writer to create a new article for No_bob instead. This article may briefly mention No_bob with a link, but shouldn't have described it in such details here. Frank Law 09:34, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ahem
I would like to report some vandalism on this page:
u r g@y u like pen15
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuffed_animal"
The whole artical was delted for this ^ please fix it.
Never mind it "magically" changed
- Thanks for reporting it. In the future, you might wish to use the "History" tab to undo the vandalism yourself, as this will save from the trouble of reporting the vandalism and will grant you instant access to older, unvandalized versions. Shinobu (talk) 22:39, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Plushie
Look what I found on Boing Boing: http://www.den.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Eyuki/plushie/index-e.html Shinobu (talk) 22:40, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Teddy
The teddy that is the third image in the gallery is cute where can I get it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.238.131.63 (talk) 02:07, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Stuffed Toy
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to have the article under the heading, "Stuffed Toy", with a redirect from "Stuffed Animal". Not all stuffed toys of this kind are representations of animals. And it would help distinguish the toys from the work of taxidermists.--Jeffro77 (talk) 14:21, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
- Seconded. 91.107.184.131 (talk) 17:30, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
