In 2018, Aurora World began transitioning their products into “Eco-Friendly” plush. Their products can be found in major zoos, department stores, gift shops, and at, of course! Aurora stuffed animals are incredibly well made with a focus on durability, safety, and most importantly, cuteness. is one of the world's most popular plush companies with over 25,000 retail outlets worldwide. Everything's better with a potato-shaped friend along for the ride!įor over 35 years, Aurora World has been an industry leader in helping imaginations come alive. Pongo the Plush Platypus Stuffed Animal Spudsters by Aurora loves any kind of adventure, so whether you're going for a treasure hunt in the backyard or just snuggling up for a good nights sleep, this platypus is the perfect companion. This stuffed platypus measures about 10 inches, making it the perfect sized companion for any activity you could imagine. Instead of a boring old sack of potatoes, you can make yourself a stack of Spudsters! Pongo the Plush Platypus Stuffed Animal Spudsters by Aurora has a soft, huggable body and adorable features that are sure to steal your heart. And if the cuteness factor wasn’t enough for you, the Spudsters are also stackable! So you can adopt as many as your heart desires and conveniently stack them on top of each other. Whether you love potatoes or just don’t mind them, now you can have a stuffed friend that’s shaped like one! Pongo the Plush Platypus Stuffed Animal Spudsters by Aurora is a part of the Spudsters collection by Aurora, a group of adorable plush animals that have a rounded shape that was inspired by the shape of potatoes. On balance, I suspect that (a bit like me) you sit somewhere between the two.Pongo the Plush Platypus Stuffed Animal Spudsters by Aurora Or, perhaps you are more akin to the platypus? Solitary beings who spend their lives feeding along the bottoms of rivers (or resting in burrows dug deep into the banks) and don’t seem to have the stomach (quite literally, in fact!) for lots of company.

They frequently hold ‘hands’ in groups (called a raft) whilst eating, resting, or sleeping to prevent them from drifting apart and losing each other. We know that otters are sociable creatures, for whom ‘safety in numbers’ is undeniably a watchword. So, where do you stand on the whole issue of physical contact? Are you similar to the otter, for example? One person’s sheer delight at being able to return to a more tactile form of interaction, has no doubt been met with absolute dread by a person for whom the notion of ‘social distancing’ has provided the perfect excuse to remain rather detached from others. And yet, only a matter of days ago, friends and families were celebrating the ability to embrace loved ones once more, with the ‘humble hug’ having acquired almost celebrity status following such a lengthy period of enforced abstinence!Īs with so many issues relating to the global pandemic though, views have (of course) been divided. Much discussion is currently taking place in the media, about the rapidly spreading Indian variant of Covid-19, and how this might impact the next phase of lockdown easing measures in the UK. Now, I won’t go into exactly what these benefits were, but the look on my colleague’s face was enough to indicate that (like so many discussions with young children) things had moved in a very different direction from that of the original remit! To say that she looked horrified would have been an understatement. She was busily siting a multitude of (perceived) benefits to her peers, and she certainly had the support of the room. Rather uncharacteristically, I had arrived a few minutes early – and I was instantly intrigued.Ī young lady was standing at the front of the classroom, merrily extoling the advantages of living with friends (as opposed to parents) promoting this as an enviable alternative for today’s adolescents. I recently walked in on the tail end of a class debate.

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