Ear ear!

I'm planning on giving my furby a total makeover, so I need the ears off. 

This proved difficult! They're rubbery and glued on really tight. 

The way I ended up doing it was to slice the ear very carefully with a craft knife. 

Then I pulled both sides apart and peeled the ear off of the hard plastic inner. 

I used a combo of pulling and slicing with the craft knife, and my ears were off. Huzzah! 

I think the outer plastic would probably come off of the inner if I wanted. I'm happy with things as they are for my modding. 

Enough destruction, had better think about reassembly...

The Care and Dissection of Furbies

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any device can be improved 100% by the simple process of steampunking it up a bit. 

After making my friendly totem, Percy the sort-of perching owlthing, I thought it time to see if a little animatronic wizzardry couldn't be introduced. 

So after a bit of pondering (I'm not an electronics whizz by any standards), I decided to return to the days of my good and acquire a fuzzy friend. £20 later (hooray for Amazon), my patient had arrived... 

 

Tea, screwdrivers and a pot for the bits? Let's crack forth!