My little sister is a big fan of the movie Despicable Me, specifically of the little Minions. The other day we were talking and she said that she was looking for a toy version of the Minions but was surprised that she could not find any. I was also surprised, the things are pretty cute looking and based on the DVD advertising they are clearly the big selling point of the film; it seemed like it would be an obvious move to make toys of the the little things. It turns out that they do make a few plush minions, but they are pretty crude claw game type of things (a few pieces of fabric with screen printed eyes, etc.).
I decided that I could to it better. The resulting polar fleece minion (about 20" tall) is shown above with more info and pics after the jump.
One of the hardest things about doing a plush project is deciding how much detail/how complex it needs to be. Its important to balance the level of detail so that it looks accurate to the original and looks like its a quality product but if its too detailed the stitches become to complex and impossible (or really time consuming) to actually construct. I decided that it was important that the eyes/goggles actually popped out from the head and that based on the size I could make a semi-realistic looking pair of overalls with actual pockets.
The whole project cost less than $20 to construct.
