Found a transcript of this quarter's earnings call that wasn't paywalled :3c

Found a transcript of this quarter's earnings call that wasn't paywalled :3c

I also still think Build-A-Bear should bring back the photo booths that apparently the first store had. Nostalgia bait me to microtransact for a shitty little strip of photos, come on! I'd bite!

New product idea for Build-A-Bear: calendars

Out of the wash and drying! No noticeable red bleed which I am SO pleased about!! The tag is a little worse for wear, which is to be expected - it will disintegrate over time with cuddles. The logo on the foot is also not doing super hot but I'll just acetone it off if it starts to bother me.

Bunny soup. Garlo actually just got chucked straight in the washer because he doesn't have any delicate parts to risk damaging, but I wanted to heat treat Hass to see if I could restore her fur a little more so she got the full handwash soup.

Pre soup for Garlo. You can't necessarily tell JUST from looking at him that he's been cuddled for a straight year, but his brand tag is starting to disintegrate and his hands are juuust noticeably a different colour from his protected arms, so it's worth a wash. Hoping his red fabric doesn't bleed.

My daily cuddle bear (my Demogorgon) and my nightly cuddle bear (my 2013 Pawlette) by sheer coincidence happen to share the same birthdate (November 6) so I'm going to give them both a nice spa day this weekend and get them restuffed at BAB 🐻

Cowshi's coming with me to get a piercing today :)

A new little guy!! I want to try and collect all these little mother's/father's day minis. I'm doing pretty well on the mother's day side, I think I mostly just need Curly Bear in terms of the really rare old ones!

Garlo is gar-bsmacked at the view from my parents' new house.

Omg I just the SWEETEST comment on Reddit about my work on the wiki, totally unsolicited, made my whole night and filled my shriveled sleepy heart to the brim 🥹

Questions I would ask Maxine Clark if I ever got to: - What's the relationship between the early days bears and similar looking plush from other brands? e.g. Floppy Cow vs Zany Brainy Cow, Chubby Cubby vs Fancy Zoo potbelly bear, etc - Why were the international WWFs produced by Anna Club Plush?

There's a little bit in Maxine Clark's book where she talks about how Walt Disney is her idol and one of the specific things she notes that she followed his example on is the preservation of company history for archival purposes, which made me foam at the mouth a little. Let me at it!! 👀

Man I gotta get more fun things to post about. Maybe I'll do some fun things with my bears this weekend :)

I'm not saying Build A Bear SHOULD restuff and stitch other-brand items but boy is it a bummer to see the company no longer do things Maxine Clark used to be so proud of.

Now I'm emailing Archive.org I guess. We'll see how this goes.

:(

What I *THINK* is that Republic of Tea collaborated with BAB once in 1999 to produce the Teddy's Tea Set, once in 2002 (or maybe super-late 2001) to make Traveler Teddy, the be-hatted Curly Bear that came with a traveler's tin of Straw-Cherry Cha Cha tea, and once in 2003 to make Bamboo the Panda, -

I'm very pleased with how much being forced to take over emails for my job has boosted my confidence in email writing. I'll email anyone now, who cares.

Sent another email to a Build-A-Bear corporate collaborator from the early 2000s because the Wayback Machine has decided a page which was previously successfully archived is, uh, not now. Hopefully this one actually has some info for me! 🤞

Quarterly earnings call transcript day! Scanning for key takeaways.

We're no urban explorers but sometimes a sufficiently undercaretaken garden can give the same vibes. #chutneysdayout

Begging on my hands and knees for Build-A-Bear to stop doing drops of *counts* 12 bears at once. My poor brain turned to mush trying to archive all the Halloween bears (and Muffin from Bluey) that dropped today.

Day out with miss Max! She'll get her skateboard someday.

Recently I've been wondering about the possibility of starting a Patreon (or equivalent) for my bearchiving. I was thinking it would be a sort of nominal subscription fee, like $1/£1/mo, and I would spend the money earned from it on research items (bears, newsletters, etc).

I gotta come up with a new way to show the countries BAB is in on the wiki homepage because 30 is way too many for the format it's using now. Maybe just take it down to icons?

Hello, you 👀 (BABW Q1 2025 earnings call transcript)

in the worked shop. straight up 'archiving it'. and by 'it', haha, well. let's justr say. Build-A-Bearts.

I mean I'm complaining about it now but to be fair at least all the full-sized zoo/dino exclusives for 2006 are listed in the Furry Friends Hall of Fame, so I don't have to creep on/squint at people's vacation photos to suss out release windows (yet). That's gonna be a real pain.

2006 is when Build-A-Bear opened the Build-A-Dino store AND the Saint Louis Zoo store, both launching with a ton of exclusives in both full-size (easy to find, eminently archivable) and matching mini (oh no). It's going to be a big year to get through.

FINALLY managed to finish reformatting my Floppy Pony research for the wiki and using it to split out the ponies as they are actually split and actually released. Now I'm sufficiently finished with 1997-2005 to finally move on to *gulp* 2006. buildabearwiki.info/wiki/User:Wh...

Finally achieved the full Floppy Pony collection! 💖

I'd love to get paid for bearchiving (it certainly takes up enough of my time to be a job) but I also don't want to lose my independence as an archivist, which is an annoying situation to be in.

Just stumbled across BAB's 2023 ESG report! The filename is Build-A-Bear_ESGReport_Final_12-11-24.pdf so I'm expecting the content and context to not strictly end at December 2023.

Ough, new 10-K dropped 👀 Time to see if there's anything interesting!

Update: I got his little vest made!!!

The custom zip is here!!! I can finally get his little vest made!!

Garlo came with me to a doctor's appointment again today. Unfortunately our bus just ?? didn't show up ?? So we had to get the next bus, which rendered us 10 minutes late to my appointment, which means we have to wait an extra hour to get the last bus home.

We're SO close to bringing this little man to life. 🥰

I took a BAB button down into a fabric store today to try and find a good option for Will Byears's vest, and while they didn't have anything suitable they did give me some pointers for what I could look for, so I've ordered some fresh swatches off eBay and hopefully one is good! 🤞

‼️ALERT: CHUTNEY ON THE TRAIN‼️

The Digital Birth Cert database seems to be loading again (yay!), but I stand by my claim that it's been abandoned since it's missing every release more recent than Giant Snoopy. I'd love to be proven wrong. 🤞

Fourth time lucky!! 💪 No more unsightly armscye gap in the back!

Looking good from the front but the armscye is still way too loose in the back so ooooooone more fit draft. Just one more 🤞 (knock on wood)

Finally finished up this adorable shirt! I’d like to play around with different clothing pieces, so please feel free to suggest any patterns you like! #crochet | #buildabear | #stuffedanimal | #springfashion

Anyways I've been working on a custom Will Byers vest for Will Byears because I've finally decided that none of BAB's official offerings are sufficiently close as to be editable, and we're in the early stages but it's going really well!

Ugh. I saw a Jackalope with a completely unacceptable bald patch this morning and then saw the digital birth cert database seems to have been wiped. I'm mad, I'm disappointed, I hate the inevitable enshittification of publicly traded companies.

Pro tip for Build-A-Bear: your brand does have power, but if you fail to put any effort into maintaining the trust that gave it that power, it's all going away.

I had a dream last night that BAB released like a star wars spaceship. Full sized, plushified but notably NOT bearified version of a spaceship. Just a make-your-own plush spaceship with the seal of pawthenticity.