The Yarn Yoshi amiibo figures are wonderful and cute, but if you have a mind to complete the set, good luck finding a Poochy amiibo for a decent price. They regularly go for over $100 on eBay.
Thankfully, I have another way of obtaining a Poochy amiibo: making it myself. I'm not a knitter, but I do work with clay.
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is a lot of fun. Rather than making boring old Wario and Waluigi amiibo for my collection, I decided to make the Rabbids incarnation of these characters.
The visual style is perfect for clay at this scale, and I'm very pleased with how they turned out. I half expected Bwario's mustache to break or fall off, but (knock on wood) so far the worst that's happened despite a decent amount of handling to shuffle around my shelf is he's fallen off his base and I had to re-glue him back on (this time with super glue rather than hot glue).
I was home sick with my kids the day we did this, so they also made their own figures. We made a video to show them off:
Here are some shots of their figures:
After Marin, and with plenty of left-over NFC stickers, I saw a cool-looking (and very expensive) figure for Luigi's Mansion 3. I decided to use that as my model to create my own Luigi amiibo, since I didn't have one of him. I even got some glow-in-the-dark clay, which turned out perfect for Luigi's ghost dog Polterpup.
At this time I hadn't started using wire frames inside of my clay figures, so Luigi's head (and lots of other things) have fallen off of him and been glued back on a few times.
You'll also notice that his nose is flat, and this is because I fired him all at once laying flat on his face. The base and Polterpup were fired separately, and I hot glued them onto the base, along with an NFC sticker in a coin case concealed within the base. Again, hot glue turns out not to be a good solution for polymer clay in the long run, but I didn't know that at the time.
Of course, my kids wanted to play too, especially with the glow-in-the-dark clay.
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| Shoshana's ghost and Abi's Polterpup |
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| Abi made an eyeball, a jack-o-lantern and a ghost |
