“People give me a wide marina”: My weekend is the weekend of wearing the shoulder friends games
R.Here was a time when adults who had groups of stuffed games were relatively uncommon, even strange. All this may have changed recently: the high popularity of games such as the Squishmlows family and Jellycat amuseables have been linked to the growing “Kidult” market (the adults buy themselves), which represents approximately 30 % of games last year. In general, loved games are something that people keep at home, their family, or on the shelves of the width. But this also changes – luxury games like Labubus are now everywhere. Some of the “Disney adults” (the self -estimated fans of Disney who may go, for example, to the entertainment gardens without taking children with them) have gone a step forward: attach games not only with their bags, but for themselves.
“Friends of the shoulder” (known differently as “shoulder films”, “shoulder games” and “thymocyt shoulder”) are small games made in the form of Disney characters. They have magnetic rules and come with a flat metal plate designed to place it under your shirt, so the game wanders on your shoulder. From the first one, Baby Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy, in 2018, these games became a joint attachment in Disney Gardens. There are many Reddit and Tiktok videos on how to track the latest (some of them are sold in the Disney Store, but others are only available in specific locations inside the gardens). It is clear that there are 45 Disney’s official friends at the end of next year, with characters ranging from Peter Ban Tinker Bell to anxiety from within to 2. This is forbidden. PremarkOr DIY friends Some creative Tiktok users did.
What makes it very attractive? What is really like wearing them? As a novice game, the most luxurious game – the only one that I own is my beloved doll, Freddy, who was exiled to a box under the bed with Christmas decorations some time – I asked two Disney Store: a stitch from Choster in Thedland (Chokzel (Chokzel (Chokzel (Choked Mansoion, Paschel (Choster Thrdland ‘Tangled and Ratouille’s Remi, Pal, the most popular shoulder. 30 pounds sterling.
The first day
Stitch and Raven is the first to arrive, and it is cute and more soft than I expected. Although it is absurd that “wearing” a game, there is something very enjoyable about the way in which the stitches are sitting in particular on my shoulder – the crow is more difficult to balance, as it is weighed by an internal battery that produces a full -fledged sound and makes its eyes light. There is no key outside – to joy, I’m sure, anyone who bought this game for the child – but the sound effects stop after the completion of a three -CAW cycle, if left completely fixed. I appointed him on the window edge where he watches me somewhat – but at least silent. Meanwhile, she was a stitch on my wife’s shoulder – Lilo and Rutich were a preferred childhood, and she was taken with him immediately (although she was not, and she tightened, enough to leave the house with him).
The second day
After you adapted to my new friends in the safety of my house, it is time to get them out. The first station: the food store. No one goes out and walking to the local Asda – Didn’t anyone notice that I have a bright blue foreigner connected to me? My first interaction is with the store’s security guard, whose face is divided into a huge smile once I see. “How do you have a stitch on you?” He asks. Explain about the magnet. “Really amazing!” He responds. I get another courtesy and I leave the store – from a customer, like a security guard, a young man. “Lilo and a stitch!” He shouts. “This is sick.”
For a moment, I already feel a small cold. “This is only because people love a stitch as a character,” says my wife as she reduces my high spirits. And she says I was wearing the crow instead of a stitch, so people only think: “You are strange with the crow.”
The third day
The next morning, I decided to test the borders of the magnet and try to run with the amulet with the death. It is hopeless. Anything more than the jogging and the game that fly goes – a bad stitch must be hunting from a number of ponds, absent from distress in the channel. In addition, I get a lot of stars.
As for colleagues, my shoulder is much better in the office – it is recognized that strange things were seen on the Guardian Features office – as it appears to put everyone in a good mood. My colleagues enjoy their experience; Grades (which are often determined as a dee) is a special success. But when I went out to have coffee, I find that the bird also has the ability to give people fear: “Oh my God, I thought this was real!” The person screams behind me on the cafe waiting list, after CAW made it the jumping.
The reception is still lukewarm and I wander around King’s Cross, this time with a shoulder friend on each arm (Remy and Cheshire Cat). I try to look indifferent and unparalleled as possible, but people still give me a wide berth – only a Donat seller (again, young!) He interacts positively and asks for one experience.
Meeting friends for lunch, I am concerned about taking games to a restaurant, but I don’t have to worry. If the employees notice, they do not seem to care, despite the crows throughout the meal. One of my friends brings someone who has not met him before, which is modest – it is difficult to coincide with him as an ordinary and normal person when you are presented as a girl with a striped cat on her shoulder – but it seems that my new acquaintances see the funny side. A friend, who works mostly in China, believes that the rise of these games is logical, given the popularity of games and accessories in Southeast Asia-mention of the shoulder friends Chinese hair clip trend 2015.
Fourth day
Pascal is finally delivered, and I try to keep it for most of the day. Although it is bright green, it does not attract much attention, thanks to my hair is partially covered. “I thought it was part of your bag,” says one of the colleagues. In the middle of the afternoon, I ended up taking off-he feels uncomfortable, and it seems more itchy than others.
After working, I go to the bar. The three of us who came there first decide to wear each of the colleagues and see the time that our other friend takes. You arrive and go to the bar without realizing – it is not even returning with her drink asking: “Why does everyone get shit on their shoulders?” Some drinks later wear one.
Fifth day
Days after wearing games about people who had never seen before, it is time to meet Disney fans in goodwill. I go to Wickford, Esex, to the 39 -year -old Catherine Putin’s house @happilykatterine) Whoever publishes Disney products and entertainment gardens for their followers 92.4K Tiktok.
Potten immediately determines the PASCAL game as “fake” when I show it my group. This explains a very itching cause. It shows me the most soft and smallest eyes to show the difference-each between its 23 shoulder is the real deal. Most of them have bought entertainment gardens – videos that “hunt” for the latest version in the gardens have proven to be very popular.
She told me about “Disneybounding”-the practice of wearing clothes in certain personal colors (not allowed to fully costumes for parks between the ages of 14 years or more, because this may cause confusion between guests and employees who wear their clothes as characters). The salin wears the shoulder that is the owner of the character you are trying to gesture-so, PASCAL, if you wear Lilac in reference to Rapunzel-“ideal to finish it,” she says.
She did not wear Potten after her shoulder friends outside the events of Disney and Gardens, but she is wonderfully agreed to put Emile from Ratatwell (to match Ruby) and walk to her local high street. Nobody cares us a lot to invite the woman to inform us that Emile has fallen on the shouldte shoulder. Coincidentally, she knows exactly what the shoulder friends are, and tells us that she has two of them at home. “They are beautiful, right?” She says. Who knew all these shoulder fans who were hiding in sight?
The sixth day
To get the most valuable reaction, there is only one place to go to: to see my family. We planned a weekend in Cotswolds, the first family trip to my daughter. “I hate that,” my brother says when I got with a Chechen cat on my shoulder. His nine -month -old daughter is more careful, as she attracts a Chef Remy chef towards her mouth. But, again, this is her reaction to most things now.
The seventh day
For my final day to wear, I am going to the Moreton-IN-Marsh Country show (when it is in Cotswolds …). I pay the carts of animals whenever it is possible to make the small mouse on my shoulder looks less in its place – and my brother, properly, accuses me of using his daughter as support for naked concealment. I feel more confident after the two young adults call for employment in the RSPB kiosk to excite Remy – even one says she will ask for one as soon as she arrives at home. “I love Ratatoy,” says one of the farmers.
I feel comfortable when I finally hide. I never felt completely comfortable while wearing a shoulder friend-partly from self-awareness, and it appears that it is worried that he might fall. But I cannot deny that the responses I had to reinforce and his friends were more positive than I thought they would be. He called on something very ridiculous and unexpected conversations with strangers, and made my friends laugh and create them, says Potten, “a little joy in a difficult world.”