Arrival Date: 12/21/24
Size: 14"
Year: 2024
Designer: Isabelle Lee
Purchased From: BAMS
Cost: $133
Thoughts: I was not 100% on Rhys. I saw a really cute one from another stockist, but then my stockist had this one, so I picked him. He's super soft, thick Tyber, so he's very cuddly in person, and it didn't take me long to love him as much as I loved the other one's face. He's got a smooshy fat tummy and he slumps a little bit, so there's something about him you just want to cuddle.
Arrival Date: 12/21/24
Size: 13.5"
Year: 2024
Designer: Alison Mills
Purchased From: BAMS
Cost: $133
Thoughts: Beetle was my second most wanted from the year after Bodmin. She does not disappoint! Her longer fur is silky soft and I love her beetley tummy. The antennae are soft and very poseable, so if you want to hug her, you can simply smooth them down and they won't poke you in the face. She sits like the gargoyles do, so I think that's who she's going to go hang out with on display.
Arrival Date: 12/18/24
Size: 17"
Year: 2024 Secret Collection
Designer: Isabelle Lee
Purchased From: QVC
Cost: $161
Thoughts: Wonderland is basically Neverland in slightly different colors. If I'd known Wonderland was coming, I likely wouldn't have purchased Neverland, because I prefer Wonderland by a lot. He actually has Neverland's brighter colors on his back, but I love the green, blue and purple on the front.
Arrival Date: 10/31/24
Size: 13.5"
Year: 2024
Designer: Isabelle Lee
Features: Plumo
Purchased From: BAMS
Cost: $133
Thoughts: Rummy is a bear I almost was going to cancel. There's something about his set of bears from this year's collection that doesn't translate as well into physical form. Like a lot of them look goofy. He's got crooked ears, which doesn't really bother me, but a lot of them have misshapen, wrinkled or badly cut eye whites. But I did end up liking this particular one and he's burgundy tyber, which I'm a bit of a sucker for. I didn't take a photo of it, but he's got a weirdly long neck. He needs that bow there just to look normal. He's cute and I don't regret getting him, but definitely be picky if you want a bear from his set.
Arrival Date: 10/31/24
Size: 15.5"
Year: 2023
Designer: Isabelle Lee
Purchased From: BAMS
Cost: $126
Thoughts: Atlas is from the prehistoric Bearhouse collection of 2023. He's enormous! I was definitely not expecting him to be as big as he is. He's got unusual fur, which I like. He's supposed to be an Atlas bear, but that basically looked like a regular brown bear. This Atlas to me looks like a megatherium, a type of extinct giant ground sloth.
One thing that bears don't have are long, thick tails. Atlas has a huge tail.
He's very cute with his smiling face and teeny tiny ears. I love him and I've always liked megatherium, so that's what he is to me.
Arrival Date: 10/25/24
Size: 13"
Year: 2024 Secret Collection
Designer: Isabelle Lee
Purchased From: CB Direct
Cost: $119
Thoughts: I have some bright CBs, including Neverland who was my most recent entry before this, but Astro outshines them all. She's an incredibly vibrant pink! She pairs with Sirius, who was a bright yet darker blue. They're both tyber so they're small but extremely cuddly.
Arrival Date: 10/20/24
Size: 17"
Year: 2024 Secret Collection
Designer: Isabelle Lee
Purchased From: CB Direct
Cost: $161
Thoughts: I loved bright Neverland when they first got her in the UK, so of course I had to order her when she came available here. Mine is a little bit off. Her eyes are wide, which I favor, and a teense crooked. Her nose is a little lopsided. But her colors are stunning, she's incredibly tyber soft, and I just love her. Sometimes the flawed ones are meant for you.
Arrival Date: 10/20/24
Size: 13"
Year: 2024 Secret Collection
Designer: Isabelle Lee
Purchased From: CB Direct
Cost: $131
Thoughts: I was obsessed with this guy right before the hurricane, but I couldn't afford him. I was certainly right to be obsessed. He's my favorite of my new arrivals. After Helene, I saw that he and Neverland were now on the CB Direct site and I learned that I could buy them using my Affirm card. Heh heh. Probably something I would have been better off not knowing! But work was kicking my butt and I earned a treat or two. Gisburn is super soft, though not tyber, and he's small but not too small. I swear he's plumo, though the site doesn't say and I'm too lazy to go look at his tag. He's wonderful though.
Arrival Date: 10/16/24
Size: 14"
Year: 2024
Designer: Isabelle Lee
Purchased From: Artisanal Bears by Old Griz
Cost: $154
Thoughts: I wanted just the right Dibbinsdale. In other words, the crankiest one I could find. Waiting paid off and this guy arrived home about a week ago. He's smaller than I expected (the high price comes from the tyber fur), but what a grouch. I love him.
