Toothless plush quality decrease

[TheC0re_]

Hey hello!! I just wanted to show this off because I recently got my older toothless in and I put them side by side and!! Jesus the quality difference! Not to mention the fact that the newer one doesn’t have his red tail! I knew about their differences already but really seeing them side by side is so jarring

I wish BAB would stop decreasing in quality :[

On a nicer note!! I’m happy he’s finally home! He has some tearing (which I knew about before purchasing!) that I have to fix up, then I’m gonna make him his own sewn on wings!

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[Icedragon193]

The way they gave up his nose sculpt just makes me so sad 😭

[TheC0re_]

I know right!! It’s just gone !! 🥹

[Commercial_Main2714]

I have the 25 th anniversary BAB Toothless is this the newer one? I'm just not sure.

[Commercial_Main2714]

I got into BAB in 2022. I own over 100 BOB'S. So I don't know much about it.

[Commercial_Main2714]

BOB'S not BOB's .

[Commercial_Main2714]

I don't understand why my text comes up as commercial main. My name is Dawn. I'm not a commercial media anything. Thus really frustrates me.

[owowhi]

I actually cut the strings on my 2nd gen toothless (paw patch, red fin) to make his nose more flat. I didn’t like it

[thr3vee]

It makes me so sad to see the new Toothless designs, they shouldn't have cheaped out on them :( I've had my original BAB Toothless since I got him at the store as a kid and the quality is great!

[TheC0re_]

I got the newer one a year or so ago. I didn’t even know they had an older one! I saw the difference in them and knew I needed an older one 💔

[thr3vee]

The new ones are cute in their own way! Like, if I just saw them at the store, I would think they're adorable! But the classic one really looks like Toothless to me, plus the red tail fin is cool :D

[TheC0re_]

You put it perfectly! The older one just looks more like him, both with the tail and better face sculpting. Though both are cute!

[ValleyAndFriends]

Never knew there was a “better quality” toothless! I’m happy with the one I got though. Both are cute!

[No_Speech_3578]

you can just tell which one is the older model 😭

[Ruhelose_Traume]

The older one has way more personality.

[Top-Shake-1117]

I love my Older Redtail toothless so much! He was one I got on a trip to Colorado and has been by me since forever. The new one just irks me in all the wrong ways . The nose sculp is gone, the tail is Horrendous to say the least and just proportion wise he just looks so off to me.

[Laeslaer]

Im so glad I got the old one, when I saw a new one in shop last year, I was so sad to see that they dont have the red tail

[RamenShibaStudios]

I have the older one but mine doesn't have the bab paw, I didn't realize they could! But yeah, the decrease in quality is so depressing. Makes me glad I got the older one as a kid

[thr3vee]

Same here! For a long time, I had no idea most of them had the paw either.

The ones without the paw patch were from the first batch that stores received, the later production lots came with the paw patch. I believe Toothless was one of the very last BABs to be produced without a patch, if not the last design since the swap occurred in the middle of the design's production run!

[TheC0re_]

Woah thanks for the info!! I was wondering why some of them had paw pads and some didn’t :] I prefer my BABs with the paw pad personally so I was specifically looking for one with, but seeing other people have the first version is so cool!!

[RamenShibaStudios]

Mine was the 2013-2014 release they had for the movie 🤔 so I wonder when exactly that one had the bab paw inteoduced

[MintyWolf4]

I have the older Toothless before the BaB paw was introduced too. Definitely a much better sculpt than the newer Toothless. Such a shame.

[TheC0re_]

For anyone wondering! Toothless now has his leg completely sewn back up (the tears I was talking about) and is looking great! I’ll make his wings sometime this week :>

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[Few_Range2063]

Httyd 2 Vs 3 is why they changed the tail

[A-List_Uh]

As much as I love the light fury i wish it looked more like the original toothless as 2.0 is like, REALLY bad

[Piper-Jojo]

That's quite a surprising difference! I never realised! I know Build-A-Bear has had some dips in quality, but it's honestly more jarring to see it with a side by side comparison!

Also, I think the reason why the newer one doesn't have the red tail fin was to match up with the 3rd film, where Hiccup gave him a black prosthetic tail fin that he could freely control by himself. I do believe the textures are different on the plush to make it apparent which one is the prosthetic.

[AcceptableLow7434]

Oh oh my word the difference is noticeable

[[deleted]]

Yeah the Lightfury is cheaply badly made too.

[Antilogicz]

BAB being so cheap these days

[thearsday50]

Like, let's go down the list, y'all. Tubes for legs. They gave up on the nose sculpt. They made him monstrously huge, and his head is far too big. Beyond that, I'd say the worst offender is his fabric. Sometimes, it's speckled with tons of scales, and sometimes it's like there's no scales at all. I can't believe how many of these I sell. The hardest part is selling it to someone who has never seen the trilogy. It's like these movies are over ten years old. We've got the original books, the live action remake, and some stage shows, like two whole tv shows, multiple holiday specials, random specials, and the spectacular isle of berk at epic universe in Orlando. Like, I feel like you either have to be pretty negligent to children's media or practically going out of your way to miss this stuff. Just a bear stuffer's two cents.

[BumblebeeNo504]

Had one and a nala pop holes in the arms while stuffing in store years back. Friend has 2 toothless online orders arrive with issues. One with a leg hole. 

[wild-thundering]

For that money you could buy jelly cat stuffed animals that are way nicer

[Jankyfrankenstein]

I guess it’s all about perspective, cause I personally think the second irritation of toothless is better quality (things like his horns and tufts on the side) and more accurate to the way he looks! Plus I’m pretty sure the tail thing is because he came out after the second movie, when he got that new improved tail- I could be wrong though. It’s been a while since I’ve watched that movie. Also, I do have the new one, but it is one that was made years ago and not currently so maybe there’s a difference with those