CUTE OVERLOAD There are so many innocent-looking plush objects for sale at the convention it's funny to see what excites Boom, our resident expert on cuteness. Looking back at video from 2019, he didn't care about the Thimblestump Hollow creatures, but lost his mind when he saw "bah-cats" in the middle of the shopping scene with an array of chubby cats I wanted him to see. "They look like baguettes!" His heart will always belong to Tentacle Kitty. I thought Boom would be more excited about Cat Guru because he has been listening to Kal talk about Cthulhu for so many years, but the connection just wasn't there for them between Terraria's Eye of Cthulhu and a green cat. —MV
Betty was obsessed in Miraculous Lady Bug in 2018. If we had seen books and dolls for her back then, we would have snatched up some of these
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