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Cube

Garrett my beloved 💛💛💛✨

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Dax and Robo B from my friends silly au dimension thingy

Wip of them from said au

Stronk

Discussing valentine jj2 event in my discord and outfits Betty r Barry and Barry would wear

I love you teddy bear onesie Barry with teddy bear jetpaxk

I gotta redraw it but smol boy style

My old phones battery died and it needs replacing so rip my brushes, drawings and stuff why it looks off :((

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Ive been told a plushie of Barry is in the works early next year so... And my ass is saved up for it mehehehe

i had. an idea. a while ago (and i mean probably back in mid 2023) i drew a little concept for what a Barry Steakfries plush could hypothetically look like in one of my old sketchbooks, but never really expanded on it beyond just a simple sketch. a couple days ago though, after i fixed up some holes in a couple of my old plushies, i remembered that concept and got absolutely flooded with a ton of ideas for a plushie i could possibly make for myself in the future. i quickly sketched some stuff down yesterday and here's what i made :)

this is inspired by the awesome drawings of a makeship style Barry plush by schnabel53 and the Barry plush Daisy Parker created back in 2013, as well as the Fruit Ninja Sensei plush Halfbick produced!! i love the look of plushies that are in a more standard standing pose with floppier limbs and i wanted to revisit the old idea i had and expand on it a little bit. here's some very rough and rushed sketches of the side, back and how he would hold his jetpack:

(why tf is that side profile so red lmao)

features:

little magnets on the inside of his hands that can hold stuff

embroidered facial features

his suit jacket can be taken off and replaced with other clothes

little plastic circles on the bottom of his shoes to retain their shape and make sitting him down easier

his body would be completely made out of minky or a similar soft fabric, with clothing made out of a soft material similar to material that the Spamton plush's jacket is made out of (for lack of better comparison lol). his tie would also be made out of minky with no stuffing.

his eyebrows are a separate part that slightly protrudes from his face rather than being embroidered

his jetpack handles have a wire inside and are posable, as well as having a magnet inside that Barry's hands can stick to

accessories:

the machine gun jetpack from MD and JJ

his shotgun from MD

a coin and a spin token

a mini Craig plush

important: i have absolutely no idea if i'm ever going to actually make this or not, these are just concepts. however i have been making little tests with felt and fleece to get myself used to sewing stuff again, as it has been a very long time since i made anything comparable to a plush, and i would like to see this idea realised some day and expand my creative skills. it's just not a guarantee. also since a couple days ago i have literally been obsessed with the thought of sewing into something and have been looking in my closet for any plushies that have holes that need to be sewn up just so i can practise it on some actual material, i'm going insane about it loll

further ideas that i may or may not do (depending on if i want to do them lol):

giving Barry more accessories like a couple of the gadgets from Jetpack Joyride (i'm thinking a lucky last token, air barrys or the gravity belt), revive hearts, a gun from JJ2, his pistol from AOZ and a mini supply crate, a tiny zombie t-rex for him to hold and of course: a plate of steak and fries. maybe also a little australian flag to hold :3

making a repaired suit (with visible seams for extra detail) for Barry

making a few of the Jetpack Joyride costume pieces for him, such as the DJ Barry headphones, the Sensei outfit and maybe even the maid outfit if i'm feeling ballsy enough

making concepts for Flash, Craig and Salesman Barry plushes

Flash accessories and features: the little toy remote thing from the JJ2 anniversary art, some sort of futuristic lookin tennis ball thing, a rocket jet for him to wear (like the one he wears when Barry is operating the Lil' Stomper), a small patterned pillow to sleep on and a bone for him to hold with a magnet located near his mouth. i think it'd also be cute if i were to hypothetically give him a nose that lights up but that's crossing the line of plushmaking and into adruino coding (which i have no clue how to do nor do i have the resources) if i were to actually make that lol

Craig accessories and features: a mini Barry plush, a clipboard and pen, little emotive thingies (like a sweat bead, blush, a question and exclamation mark) to stick on his face via magnets, removable gloves,

Salesman Barry accessories and features: his nametag, removable glasses, his briefcase, a mini gramophone, a clipboard, a little business card

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Old man yaoi

Try messing the brightness and contrast and you'll see 😏

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The one time Stone wasn't there for him

when he needed him most.

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Just a few edits and a drawings meehehehe

Left scientist is my friends @raskullsfan911 character hehe

I wanted to add Betty into a scene because she deserves it - idk why she didn't appear once ://

-for @schnabel53

Silly Dax scientist and his stupid ass Christmas outfit,,,💛💛

Im so happy i nailed peter bro 🙏🙏😭😭 I saw this and freaked out

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Bap

I drew hims for my friend teehee

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Im aromantic and I approve of this message

i just had a realisation

new headcanon unlocked: aromantic brains

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Hi, I'm back with wips and doodles teehee

Lab lady grrrhrhrhrhhhhh momy

Crack,,,,,

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First day at Legitimate

Two gay men. What they gonna do.

God I hope they just finish the series. Idc about the bad plot-line at this point I just need some closure :((

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You just explained everything people hated about the new shorts perfectly. Thanks for this. And also as someone who watched the og JJ shorts when they FIRST aired. I wasn't waiting for only a year or two I WAITED FOR FOUR WHOLE YEARS. Begging for a continuation. And I agree! I was so excited seeing the teaser trailer and all the parts with the villains and CRAIG AND BARRY CONTENT YES PLEASE - then it didn't come for 2 years .......... I remember sending the teaser to my old JJfriends and freaking the fuck out only to get disappointed with this fucking stupid ass jj2 shorts series. Like GTFO what is this bullharkey. Obviously they still have the shorts somewhere but I've been talking with people in my discord server about it and we're thinking there might have been a fallout between joho studios and HB due to budget... But who knows really. Everything is in the dark and from the lack of quality lately... I think that's it - the budget. Hell, even brains mentions if budget permits! And that was YEARS ago. Something is definitely fucky behind the scenes and that's why we're getting all this low quality content and HB+ to get their money back... But man. Idk why they just had to ditch jj shorts fully for some fuckin bullshittery story that makes no sense. I'd rather get what we could have had in JJ shorts even if it ended abruptly or have nothing. At least we'd have more content and actual like story. And content for us artists to draw and be content with. But no. We waited ALL these years and for what? Some low budget fuckin cut of some random ass story with no plot or relevant to the characters. Especially Craig. They did my boy dirty. He does not ACT or PORTRAY as old in the slightest. At this point the fans should just ignore jj2 shorts and just forget it ever existed. Lost media.

new jetpack joyride animated series now coming never

this is a shitpost but i also just wanna rant about this for a bit. listen, i get that making games and animations and managing all this Halfbrick+ stuff at the same time is going to take a while. i get it. everyone working at Halfbrick are humans, and you can't demand and expect perfection. but also, i can't help but be disappointed and concerned about the stuff from Halfbrick Beyond that i was looking forwards to either not arriving or not being very high quality. like,, only three out of the seven promised things we were going to get in 2023 came out that year (those being rereleases of Age of Zombies, Fish Out of Water and the release of Fruit Ninja VR 2), and the ones that did come out later this year, like season 3 of Dan the Man and Thrill of the Fight 2 didn't really live up to expectations. i'm gonna start this with a bit of a preamble ranting about DtM season 3 to kinda illustrate the problems i also have with the new Jetpack Joyride stuff because they actually share a pretty similar problem, and i was pretty disappointed with how DtM season 3 came along because i was looking forward to that.

when the Halfbrick Beyond thing first dropped and they showed the new animated DtM stuff, it was quite interesting! Dan and Josie had gone on all these wild adventures and survived all these fucked up things, so it's exciting to see new little nuggets of what they're going to do next. i wondered just what was in that chest and what Dan was going to discover, what new characters and plot points and themes would be explored in this new stuff. now of course, with most of the stuff Halfbrick promising being delayed, we would have to wait a while before anything surrounding the new series would come out, but earlier this year, we finally got a closer sneak peak at what the new season would actually be about. Dan getting cursed??? that's super interesting! i'm so excited to see what kind of challenges Dan will face, how this little curse reaper guy will affect him on his adventures, how he would deal with it and maybe even use it to his advantage, what kind of character arc he would go throug-

... it... it was golf. it was just golf. that's it? that's Dan the Man season 3?? that was just a bunch of GOLF!!!

like okay yeah the storyline was cute and all, but like... really? that's it? nothing about Marcus, no real continuation from the story that was explored in the first and second seasons, no real adventure or action, barely any focus on other characters, it was just a golf story with little to no development beyond the little curse reaper guy moving on from unfinished business, and it didn't even last that long. needless to say it was very disappointing.

and now that brings me back to the Jetpack Joyride animated stuff that was originally promised to come out in late 2023. god this still makes me so sad. i get that animation and storycrafting takes a LOT of time and effort, but the fact that it's been over a year and we still haven't seen anything new, let alone heard anything of this series, only for a new one to suddenly start being created is very worrying and disappointing. likei'm not even kidding, i would gladly wait another year for the series that was originally teased to be fully fleshed out and developed if it meant we would finally get to see something better than what was released this year. the original pieces of animation that were shown in the series' trailer as well as the little short Halfbrick uploaded looked fantastic. they were all in the original animated style, they looked considerably higher budget than the original shorts with better animation and new environments, they directly involved the Really Bad Corp crew, they seemed to follow a cohesive plot and teased an action-filled adventure story, it had everything going for it and i couldn't wait for it to release. it was SO excited dude, the idea of taking the original shorts and fleshing them out into a full-blown adventure with my two favourite little blorbos and adding more characterisation to the rest of the cast sounded incredible in my mind. but of course, things don't just come instantly, so i waited. and then i waited. and then i waited. and then waited more. and then more.

it's December 2024 now, and i don't think i need to say that those episodes didn't end up coming out in either 2023 or 2024, and instead, these weird little new shorts started slowly being released, and i am,,, pretty displeased and even confused with how Jetpack Joyride's story is going according to these shorts. they don't continue on from the jumping off point that was established in the Rainbow Barry episode, but instead are their own separate things that just kinda,,, tell this random story with no real build up. like it's so sudden and goes along so quickly that it feels incomplete. the episodes are so short and there are so many bits that just don't get explained that it feels kinda,, unfinished??? and the plot itself is just... there are elements that i really like, but the way it's strung together feels like a rough first draft, and i of course very much dislike the direction that was taken with Craig's character. Craig possibly being related to Barry in some way by being a Peter Simpkins clone just doesn't have the buildup, foreshadowing or anything else to really justify it suddenly happening in these shorts, and it feels like a cop out, as though a rug were suddenly being pulled out from under your legs and you're just confused about why that happened when you fall down. i feel really bad typing this out but like,, that's how i feel about it. i'm disappointed, honestly.

i've been kinda coping about it for a while, thinking "they just need more time" with every month that passed in 2023 until the next year. i've been picking everything i like from the new shorts and desperately trying to get any sort of enjoyment out of them. and yeah, maybe they do need more time! but that doesn't really explain wtf these newer shorts with newer assets are, and i can't say i really enjoy the new ones because they're just... i ultimately just don't think they're very good, especially compared to what Halfbrick made a few years back.

i don't expect Halfbrick to bend backwards for their fans and do everything we want them to. i do not want that. at the end of the day, it's their games and they can do whatever they want with them. but at the same time, when you set and expectation you don't meet, it shouldn't come as a surprise when people are disappointed and even angry about it. i often dunk on people who constantly beg for DtM2 on anything Halfbrick related, but honestly, i get it. i don't think anything has really been said much since that delay notice and the discord QnA and that silence can leave people who are expecting something out of it to feel impatient, worried and angry. it's kinda worse for those who were expecting the new Jetpack Joyride series to come out, as literally nothing has been said about it since that trailer and the short video became unlisted a while ago. it's just been silence ever since until these new random shorts started coming out. i can't help but feel a longing sadness every time i watch them or go back to watch the original trailer for the series Halfbrick originally intended to release. it's like looking into another reality of things that could have been and it makes me so sad. i don't know if they've cancelled it yet. not a word has been said about it and it wasn't really that well marketed to begin with. but with how things are going right now, i'm not so sure that Halfbrick's ever gonna release it, especially with this new storyline they're crafting. if there's one silver lining to this, it's the fact that i'll always have my own imagination and write something i would have loved to see.

now if you'll excuse me i'll be rewatching the trailer and the short over and over and rest my hand longingly on the screen as though it were a lost lover

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Then when you realize when dtm2 comes out they're just gonna go on to beg about "when season 4 of DTM" etc like

PLEASE. DIE. 💛

every damn time

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REAL GRR

Brians and Fat Cat

I like this but i have a problem with framing which is why it might look weird :((

BEST CHARACTER FAT CAT FRFR

This relationship is underrated. Give me more of brains and his cat

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I know what you are.

Peter in Jetpack Joyride 2

i had a lot of fun with this

I adore my old mens 🥺🥺

Also if anyone has BlueSky - here's my link 💛

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Peter in Jetpack Joyride 2

i had a lot of fun with this

I adore my old mens 🥺🥺

Also if anyone has BlueSky - here's my link 💛

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i should have put this with the edit but whatever

Idiot got stuck in the vent cause he's a cakey boy(how did Craig not get stuck-,,)

Also anime robo Barry

I hate how he looks - I need to redraw or do something it's not fitting with me 😔

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The new event for jj2 which was very into anime made me wonder how I'd draw them as anime characters in my own style

I love this AAA imma do or try to do most of the characters

I'm honestly really proud of the Peter aaaa I love him hot dad LDNDKAH

Anyways wip

Fucking dumbass 💔💔