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Stitch! manga to receive a new volume on October 21, 2025

The manga version of Stitch! is getting a new volume for the first time since 2017. The new volume, Stitch! Best Food Forever! (a play on the Best Friends Forever! title used for an earlier volume), will be written by an English-language writer, Tom Mason, and illustrated by Nao Kodaka, who previously did the cover for Stitch! The Manga Collection, a compilation of the first two Stitch! volumes. Its release is planned for October 21, 2025.

As seen by the above cover, there was supposed to be a Free Comic Book Day preview release. However, it has been cancelled by Tokyopop due to Diamond Comic Distributors, the comic book distribution company behind FCBD, declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year and being unable to commit to payments to the publisher. Instead, the preview will be digitally released "shortly after FCBD" according to Marc Visnick, Tokyopop's COO and publisher.

(Information above was shared to me via Discord by Stitch! fan @dbarenzu626.)

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Happy (belated) Valentine's Day! 💖

I've been busy lately, so I didn't share anything for the holiday itself here on Valentine's Day, but my Discord server held an art exchange where we gave one another Valentine's art of our OCs! Like with the Secret Santa last year, @ryuko-rose drew me for the holiday, now with their experimentsona giving me a lovely Valentine's Day card.

Of course, I don't draw art myself, so I again commissioned Meliscellaneous Art to draw my Valentine for this exchange. This time, I was the Valentine for Stitch! fan @dbarenzu626, featuring his experimentsona Grids giving Yuna Kamihara a Valentine's gift straight from the @stitchtriverse.

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啊这个tag怎么打……不管了，后一张是旧图就放一起了

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Lilo & Stitch Beach House to finally become a real Lego set in 2025

Nearly five years after a Lego Ideas product idea for the Pelekai residence to be made into a Lego set was put forward, it looks like Lilo & Stitch fans will finally get to recreate Lilo and Nani's iconic house in Lego form!

Back in 2020, a Lilo & Stitch and Lego fan known as ItsABricksLife626 put forward a product idea on Lego Ideas to have a Lilo & Stitch set based on the iconic Pelekai house from the franchise to be made, with minifigures of the main 'ohana of Lilo, Stitch, Nani, Jumba, and Pleakley along with David and Cobra Bubbles included. The idea also showed Lilo and Stitch in their hovercrafts seen at the end of the first film and Lilo having a Scrump piece.

The idea was able to garner the required 10,000 supporters in just under two years for The Lego Group to review it, and it was included in the second 2022 Lego Ideas review. However, it was decided that they would not produce a set based on the idea, disappointing many Lilo & Stitch and Lego fans who wanted more than just the Stitch minifigure from a Lego Disney Minifigures series in 2016.

Since the rejection, however, Lego and Disney did begin giving Stitch some more representation. This has so far included a four-armed Stitch minifigure as part of another Lego Disney Minifigures series in 2023, a Lego BrickHeadz model of Stitch (40674 Stitch) in February 2024, and a somewhat posable Stitch model (43249 Stitch) in March 2024. Lilo Pelekai would finally get her first minifigure through a different Disney-themed Lego Ideas set (21352 Magic of Disney) released in October 2024. Nevertheless, fans were still left waiting for a full-fledged Lilo & Stitch Lego set that truly captured the film and franchise, not just the popular alien.

But now, with a live-action adaptation on the way, it seems that fans will finally get the Lilo & Stitch Lego set they've been waiting for.

As shared by Brick Fanatics, Instagram user and Lego fan fateful_04 posted on January 2, 2025, a description sourced from a B2B website that a new Lego Disney set based on the Pelekai residence, 43268 Lilo and Stitch Beach House, will be releasing on March 1, 2025 for US$89.99. A couple days later, as shared by BrickFanz.com, German retailer Rofu posted a product listing for the set in question on their website, confirming the set's existence. The retailer has since taken down the webpage, since The Lego Group has not officially announced the set yet, but the page has already been archived on the Wayback Machine.

The set, which contains 834 pieces and is recommended for ages 9 and older, will feature pieces allowing Lego builders to construct the Pelekais' house. The set will also include a miniature Red One police cruiser, two surfboard pieces, a Scrump doll piece, a record player piece, a pickle jar piece (representing Lilo's attempts at punishing her hula classmates in the original film), a ukulele piece, and five minifigures: Lilo Pelekai, Stitch, Nani Pelekai, David Kawena, and Cobra Bubbles. Unfortunately, Dr. Jumba Jookiba and Agent Wendy Pleakley are not included, likely due to their unorthodox designs (Jumba's husky frame and Pleakley's very slim body and three legs) being difficult to easily translate to minifigure form without creating new molds.

It may have taken the upcoming release of a live-action remake for this to happen, but it's welcoming to see that fans of our beloved 'ohana will soon recreate an iconic house in the form of plastic toy bricks.

One more thing, it has been rumored since December that there will be a Lego model set of Angel coming in Summer 2025 to complement the already-released Stitch model. 43249 Angel will supposedly retail for $59.99.

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Thanks to Slushy, I can enjoy some of the wintery fun I used to enjoy back home while having to live in the tropics as an alien! ❄️🛷

This was a Secret Santa gift from @ryuko-rose that I got for Christmas over on a Lilo & Stitch Discord server we're a part of. Many thanks to them for making it!

Note that I'm not an artist, but the server allowed me to commission someone else to make some art for the Secret Santa. I was the Secret Santa for @mrnifflertheshiny and I commissioned Meliscellaneous Art to make a piece of his experimentsona Mr. Niffler and Christmas-themed fan experiment Stocking with a couple familiar faces.

Mertle Edmonds may not enjoy Niffler's carols, but at least her mother does! 🎶 But Niffler needs to learn a thing or two about sharing the holiday spirit with his red-and-white cousin.

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Disney Store removes fan art-plagiarizing canvas after callout

As of yesterday, December 16, 2024, Disney Store has removed The Art of Being Friends from sale after my plagiarism callout a week ago. The canvas's web page on the Disney Store website now beings up a 404 error page.

It should be noted that while the canvas is no longer available for purchase, it had been available for at least a few months based on web crawls from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (the earliest available archive being on August 5, 2024), so it's likely that a few prints had been sold before the takedown happened. Nevertheless, the piece did receive a one-star review (which, full disclosure, I wrote) shortly before its takedown. The review is not viewable in the one archive containing it (the last one taken before the original page's takedown), however, due to the way the site's layout is set up, making reviews more difficult for the Wayback Machine to archive.

Likewise, Veggiebad, a friend of Ribera (the artist who originally made the fan art), shared to me back on Sunday via Discord that the artist behind the art-copying canvas piece, Denyse Klette, had taken down her Facebook and Instagram posts about it after he called out her tracing on the former site.

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Official Disney Store merch plagiarizes almost twenty-year-old fan art [UPDATE: Now removed]

Update (December 17, 2024): Disney Store has now removed the canvas from sale, and the artist has deleted her Facebook and Instagram posts displaying her art-copying canvas.

Original post: I recently found an art canvas being sold on Disney Store that plagiarizes a nearly two-decade old piece of fan art by artist Ribera, who was the best-known Lilo & Stitch fan artist back in the franchise's heyday.

The canvas piece is titled The Art of Being Friends and was made by Denyse Klette. It shows the human-alien duo in an art museum looking at a painting of themselves on a beach. The artwork is being sold on Disney Store as of this writing.

However, the artwork in the painting within the painting is a modified copy of Friends Forever by Ribera, which was originally published on February 25, 2005.

The similarities are uncanny; the poses are the same and the relative art style is very similar with only some slight modifications. Various details in the background and foreground have been added, changed, or removed to try to hide the fact that the canvas piece isn't original.

It's disappointing to see an artist copying someone else's fan art, and a rather old one at that, and managing to fool Disney into selling this.

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Happy Halloween, cousins! 🎃

I had @angoraram draw a comic of me beginning to discover what my experiment abilities are... thanks to Lilo's collection of horror movies.

Yeah, I can't say I'm a fan of the Wasp Mummies franchise. 😨

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Mediatonic has teased that Lilo & Stitch is coming to Fall Guys! Players will be tumbling around in new Stitch costumes soon!

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Happy Leroy Day! 😡🔴👽

The one-film wonder red Stitch doppelganger experiment still remains the last of Jumba's experiments to this day (the Chinese series's experiments notwithstanding), so of course this guy got some fan art!

629 Leroy by Harara (X/Twitter) – Even though he is aiming his plasma blasters right at you, his "friendly smile" has gotten a lot better!

Happy Leroy Day by soar072_cartoon (X/Twitter) – Ain't he just the cutest little red alien devil?

Cowboy Leroy by Dkyoken_0425 (X/Twitter) – Wanted for assisting in treason and kidnapping!

629 by Kinowan (X/Twitter) – Sneaky, sneaky, I see that faded line in that number!

Day 27, Werewolfy Leroy by @vulchak (Tumblr) – Very fitting for him!

Leroy drawing by @grassyeggroll (Tumblr) – That smirk... He's up to something very naughty!

Leroy Day by kurage0404 (X/Twitter) – Hey! He's running off with the finish line tape!

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Happy Experiment 628 Day! 🔵

We are still waiting to this very day on what this experiment looks like, so here's some more drawings of a blue experiment pod!

628 by Harara (X/Twitter) – ❓

628 Day by kurage0404 (X/Twitter) – That's the medal given out to participants of Stitch's Ohana Challenge runDisney event at Walt Disney World earlier this year, hence the theming from this artist during the past week. (They ran in the event themselves!)

628 Day by ZUNDAMOTI2002 (X/Twitter) – 🎵Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely...🎵

628 by Kinowan (X/Twitter) – Jumba's very proud of this experiment, but again, I wish we got to see it!

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Happy 627 Day! 😈🤣👽

It's for this evil boy to have plenty of evil laughs with some evil fan art from today and the past year.

627 by Harara (X/Twitter) – Oh, look, he's laughing already!

Happy 627 Day by soar072_cartoon (X/Twitter) – Not the jester we expected, but hey!

Cowboy 627 by Dkyoken_0425 (X/Twitter) – Wanted for... many crimes.

627 Day by kurage0404 (X/Twitter) – Sorry, Stitch, but 627 would win all the gold medals! 🥇

627 drawing by @grassyeggroll (Tumblr) – Look at that evil grin!

6/27 627 Day by ZUNDAMOTI2002 (X/Twitter) – Pancakes are more delicious when you can telepathically stuff them in your mouth!

627 by Kinowan (X/Twitter) – Even when you're completely evil and have six arms, you can still be oddly cute and fluffy!

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Happy Stitch Day! 🌺🔵👽

Alas, the annual celebration of the little mischief-making cute and fluffy blue alien mutant koala is upon us. He still gets a lot of love from his 'ohana of fans to this day and he has the fan art to prove it!

626 Stitch by Harara (X/Twitter) – Aw, Stitch! Those comic panel backgrounds were nice!

Happy 626 Day by soar072_cartoon (X/Twitter) – Our little brave knight!

Happy 626 Day! by shioto_soda20 (X/Twitter) – He's ready to perform just for you!

Cowboy Stitch by Dykoken_0425 (X/Twitter) – Wanted for vandalism and theft (of left shoes)!

stitch fanart by Isac Miranda (DeviantArt) – 🥥🥛

Happy 626 Day by mayoooon_626 (X/Twitter) – All hail King Stitch!

626 by Kinowan (X/Twitter) – 🤙

626 Day by kurage0404 (X/Twitter) – He must've eaten his Wheaties this morning! 🏆🏃‍♂️

Stitch by Kipaki (Fur Affinity) – A nice way to spend time at the beach when you cannot swim! (Drawing was originally made as a commission for someone on X/Twitter.)

Blue alien by Omnimonia (Fur Affinity) – Even though it's his day, he's willing to put his gluttony aside to give his best friend some delicious shave ice!

空から626 (626 from the Sky) by Uranus (X/Twitter) – This one's actually based on this photo of a corgi.

完全無欠のエイリアン (Perfect Alien) by Nexusthelife (Pixiv, X/Twitter) – Carrying the torch for 'ohana!

6/26 Stitch Day by ZUNDAMOTI2002 (X/Twitter) – Of course, we can't have Stitch Day without some coconut cake!

June 26th Stitch Day by umi_2603 (X/Twitter) – 🤘

'Ohana by miru (X/Twitter) – A group hug for Stitch from his loving family! 🫂

Stitch day 2024 by @angoraram (DeviantArt) – Finally, a party with all the main experiments! 🥳

626 Day 2024 by @ryuko-rose (DeviantArt) – Wait, make that with all the known 6-series experiments! (And Tickle-Tummy even though she's officially not of the 6-series.)

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Happy Reuben Day 2024! 🥪👽😎

Everyone's favorite Sandwich Boy has stacked up fan art from today and the past year like a Dagwood!

625 Reuben by Harara (X/Twitter) – Seeing him running across the panels is... not like him.

625 Day by kurage0404 (X/Twitter) – Oh, there we go! That's more like him.

625 Day drawing by Kinowan (X/Twitter) – Good thing he always has a Dagwood sandwich on hand to refuel!

Happy 625 Day! by boreuben (X/Twitter) – While Angel would likely have a plush of Stitch to cuddle, Reuben would rather enjoy eating a sandwich with a plush of himself!

Happy 625 Day!! by soar072_cartoon (X/Twitter) – All hail the king of sandwiches! (But shouldn't it be the Earl of Sandwich?)

Reuben with big sandwich drawing by kurokuma824 (X/Twitter) – Little Reuben, big sandwich!

Cowboy Reuben by Dkyoken_0425 (X/Twitter) – Wanted for the robbery of millions of dollars worth of the world's most valuable sandwiches!

Reuben drawing by @psychedelic-lemur (Tumblr) – He may not get the attention from Disney that his immediate predecessor and immediate successor get, but he's just as cute and fluffy as both of them!

アンタも食ウ?? (Are You Eating, Too??) by Nexusthelife (Pixiv, X/Twitter) – Looks like you caught him making yet another sandwich!

Gantu and Reuben drawing by @lordwiggyton (Tumblr) – Finally, it wouldn't be Reuben Day with his buddy Gantu by his side!

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Happy Angel Day 2024! 🎶👽😉

As with before, the popular pink alien siren has received plenty of fan art in the past year and for Angel Day today!

624 Angel by Harara (X/Twitter) – Harara's going with comic panel backgrounds this year for Stitch Week!

Happy 624 Day by mayoooon_626 (X/Twitter) – She is the Experiment Princess!

Happy 624 Day by soar072_cartoon (X/Twitter) – Like I said, she's the Experiment Princess!

Cowgirl Angel by Dkyoken_0425 (X/Twitter) – Wanted for criminal cuteness!

624 by Kinowan (X/Twitter) – 🤙

Angel drawing by @psychedelic-lemur (Tumblr) – Just being as cute and fluffy as her boyfriend!

Angel by Renabu (Furry Network, Itaku, SoFurry, Weasyl) – And showing a little sass, of course!

Gremlins by @ryuko-rose (DeviantArt) – Considering they all worked for Gantu before they disappointed him, she can relate to them!

Happy Valentines Boojiboo! by @angoraram (DeviantArt) – I bet Angel would own one of Build-A-Bear's plushes of her boojiboo!

Inktober 2023 #16: Angel by nin0318 (X/Twitter) – Getting all the hugs from the titular duo!

624 Day by kurage0404 (X/Twitter) – (This was not on the initial upload back on June 24, 2024.) She's going the distance and running for her 'ohana!

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Happy 22nd Anniversary, Lilo & Stitch!

I'm quite late as the day is almost over and I sadly have nothing special to share today because I've been quite busy lately, but nevertheless happy anniversary to the Lilo & Stitch film and franchise!

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The utter disbelief right there. 😆

Behold!! A Lilo and Stitch meme (from Mean Girls)! Took way too long drawing this... 😅😂