"I am Baymax...."

(I think there was a gag somewhere, a while back, about a conversation between Groot and Baymax, which consisted entirely of them introducing themselves to each other. You could also add in "Hello, this is Dog" for a hat-trick in that area)

Anyway. I finished the Baymax stuffie last night:



The one change I really made was to sew a little heart thingie (I thought it was a button but it turns out they are stamped out of felt) over his "heart piece" (This is where, in the movie, the cards containing his instructions - the health-care ones or the fighting ones - go).

I also used a new-to-me stuffing for this. Mountain Mist now calls "Heritage Line" - this one has 95% polyester and 5% silk. (It IS normally more expensive than plain old polyester, but JoAnn's was doing a BOGO sale, so it was a good deal). It's heavier than regular stuffing and more....squishy, I guess is the right word. It will mold to a shape and hold that shape more than the springier standard Mountain Mist stuffing does. (I can't imagine the 5% silk is enough to cause that change; it may be a differently-spun polyester). If you poke Baymax, the indent stays, and with regular stuffing it would pop back out.

(Speaking of funny squishy Baymax, there's a funny gag in this gag reel - one of the "animators are silly" gags - that plays on the squishyness:



(I also admit to liking the cat substitution one)

I rewatched the movie again this afternoon after mowing the lawn and I maintain that it's a good movie - it's enjoyable, the "solution" to the big problem of the movie is a pretty family-friendly one (in that no one really gets killed). And Baymax is just so adorable - I think part of the reason I like him is he starts off very literal-minded (I tend to be somewhat that way) but gradually learns ("It is only....an expression.") And that his entire purpose (well, until Hiro modifies him) is solely to help people....and that purpose really comes out during the denoument. (And yeah. I cried a little bit again even though I knew the story).

And there are some really funny moments. A lot of the ones early on center around the trope that when Baymax is running out of battery power, he acts drunk. (Clever way to put "drunk humor" into a family friendly movie, but also - it works. I've had electronic devices that behaved goofily when they ran down in power, and as for myself, when I'm REALLY tired, stuff is a lot funnier to me and I might do or say slightly silly things.)

Like "Hairy Baby!" (Baymax' reaction to the cat)

Hairy Baby!



(It's hard to create with the stuffie because (a) I didn't have a toy cat quite the right size and (b) Baymax doesn't bend like the partially-deflated Baymax in the movie.

Here's a better photo, taken with flash:



I think it's interesting how something that is essentially an expressionless robot is able to generate such sympathy in the movie. (I think that is partly the skill of the voice actor).

I especially like that the pattern puts such emphasis on having the fingers right, because of "Balalalala!":