They're a thing a person can still obtain if said person has made a hobby of going to thrift stores and flea markets and one's mother collects stuffed animal donations for charity, and one has snarfled every one one sees for thirty-five years, and is satisfied with finding one every two years or so. :D
You can probably still get them if you keep an eye on online used-stuff sites too - the keywords are "Daekor PotBelly" (which I didn't know until I finally found one where I could still read the tag.) They seem to've been pretty popular among people our age, but stopped being made by the mid-to-late 80s (when, judging by the tags on my wider collection, stuffed animal manufacturing in general shifted from Korea to China.)
Unfortunately they don't age real well - they have shredded-paper stuffing, so they can't handle getting wet or be washed, and if they're loved, they will get seams splitting pretty quickly. (My raccoons are mostly female because of, um, a particular seam that tends to split first on them) - so they are getting progressively harder to find, as resellers just toss the more well-loved ones. :/
Would it bring your life great joy if Ricky came back to you in the mail? Because obviously one of the small raccoons I hadn't had a name for yet is a Ricky, and if he hadn't told me that name in all these years he's clearly just been biding his time here...
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You can probably still get them if you keep an eye on online used-stuff sites too - the keywords are "Daekor PotBelly" (which I didn't know until I finally found one where I could still read the tag.) They seem to've been pretty popular among people our age, but stopped being made by the mid-to-late 80s (when, judging by the tags on my wider collection, stuffed animal manufacturing in general shifted from Korea to China.)
Unfortunately they don't age real well - they have shredded-paper stuffing, so they can't handle getting wet or be washed, and if they're loved, they will get seams splitting pretty quickly. (My raccoons are mostly female because of, um, a particular seam that tends to split first on them) - so they are getting progressively harder to find, as resellers just toss the more well-loved ones. :/
Would it bring your life great joy if Ricky came back to you in the mail? Because obviously one of the small raccoons I hadn't had a name for yet is a Ricky, and if he hadn't told me that name in all these years he's clearly just been biding his time here...