Shoulder Plush- Upgrade and Accessorize

Shoulder Plush- Upgrade and Accessorize

A few years ago I bought my Figment shoulder sitter. You’ve seen them in the parks, they have Groot, Grogu, Remy with a magnet in their bottom and a metal plate that you put under the fabric of your shirt.

Shoulder, hat, what’s the difference?!

I had problems with him falling off as the strap to my park bag would bump him. So I tried two things.

  1. I moved the lil guy to my hat. It doesn’t matter if I’m wearing a bucket hat or a fedora, he was in a more convenient spot for me to move around and get in and out of my park bag.
  2. I upgraded the magnets. I bought these off of Amazon, and opened the seam on Figment’s derrière to insert one. After closing him up, I found that I was best off using a second one magnetically attached to the plate.

After the upgrade, Figment was much more secure and could take some pretty heavy wobbles as I danced and moved through the parks.

Another fun upgrade I did with the lil guy was to make some park totems for him to carry. Each day he would carry the totem for the park we were visiting.

I found that people were gaga over this lil thing sitting on my head and would receive comment after comment each day. The exchange usually went a few different ways.

“I love your Figment/hat!” to which I would reply “Thank you!”

“There’s a Figment on your head!” I was obliged to mess with them. “Hmm?” “There’s a Figment on your head.” (this is when I knew I had set the hook, now to reel ’em in) “I’m sorry, it must be a Figment of your Imagination” (insert groan, laugh, or “waaa waaaa”

“Oh my gosh! What is that on your hat?!” and this would lead into a fun conversation.

The real delight came from the cast members recognizing the totem and appreciating that little touch.

It definitely made the trip more magical!

UPDATE: How about getting “featured” on Allears.net’s video?!?! – https://www.instagram.com/p/CfhBdu9jesv/

Or view the original here: https://youtu.be/EDAQk5dCi0I