Studio notes from Plushie Planet and dispatches from the wider toy world.
The art toy market is on an 11.6% CAGR, plush is outgrowing blind boxes, and AI companions are compounding at 31% a year — while holiday toy growth is forecast to slow and buyers get more selective. Our read of the October 2026 numbers, including the parts that argue against us.
For the quarter running 16 June to 16 September 2026, order volume across our AI technology, 3D-printing and adjacent industrial lines surpassed US$16 million — a figure that excludes our designer-plush business entirely. A large part of it came from the promotion and referrals of our global member community.
The round was backed by an institutional investment firm whose identity is not being disclosed at its request. Proceeds will fund AI-companion R&D, smart-manufacturing capacity, global market expansion and original-IP ecosystem building across the STAR BABY, The Pulsing Cosmos and Big Dream universes.
A fixed 8% of annual profits goes to global mental-health, lonely-elderly and disadvantaged-children programs — while the STAR BABY series carries real-world causes like forest, ocean and animal protection from the shelf into community volunteering and tree-planting drives.
July 29, 2026 — Plushie Planet is expanding its 3D-printing and blind-box production capacity across its Denver HQ and Shenzhen operations to speed up releases and restocks, with s
July 24, 2026 — As home 3D printers churn out fifty-cent Labubu look-alikes, Pop Mart is suing Bambu Lab over shared design files (trial set for April 2, 2026). Inside the collisio
July 21, 2026 — AI-powered plush toys from Curio, Mattel-OpenAI and Casio are going mainstream across the US, Japan and Europe, promising real-time companions for children — while
July 19, 2026 — Designer toys and blind-box collectibles have grown into a multibillion-dollar global market. Inside Pop Mart's record year, Labubu's rise, and the 2026 shift towar
On July 18, 2026, Planet Plushie confirmed its molecular-grade, multi-material 3D printing platform has exited pilot testing and entered full commercial production. Voxel-based fab
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