Build-A-Bear is listening, Animal Crossing aficionados.
When a fan tweeted the build-your-own-stuffed-companion company stating that a “build a bear x animal crossing collab would be a cultural reset”, the official Twitter account responded with: “Wow! [teddy bear emoji]. We’re taking notes…”
Wow! 🐻 We’re taking notes…
— buildabear (@buildabear) May 22, 2020
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Since then, the tweet has been liked a staggering 149,000 times, intimating it’s not an isolated request, and a Change.org petition (thanks, MXDWN) – which went live six months ago but has only recently found a little traction – has, at the time of writing, secured almost 6,500 signatures.
“I believe the Animal Crossing community would really enjoy it if Nintendo and Build-A-Bear Workshop would collaborate to make Animal Crossing plushies,” writes petition creator, Mark Gonzalez. “I think Animal Crossing fans of all ages would like to buy or even create one of their favorite characters from the game series.”