Animal Crossing Fan Makes Adorable Celeste Plush

A talented Animal Crossing fan has flexed their skills by showing off a professional-looking plush toy they made to look like Celeste, the red-feathered owl from Nintendo's cozy life sim franchise. It's these sorts of impressive accomplishments that display just how dedicated and creative the Animal Crossing fanbase truly is, even during periods of lax updates regarding the future of the series.

Ever since the explosive launch of the franchise's latest installment, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the social simulation series has garnered a wide swath of new fans. The newest entry in the franchise not only shattered the sales records of all prior Animal Crossing titles, it also became one of the top 10 best-selling Switch games of all time, nearly reaching the milestone of 45 million units sold. Because of this, theAnimal Crossing community has been more active than ever before, with fans making all kinds of things to celebrate their love for Nintendo's popular franchise, from crochet dolls and dioramas to smartwatch faces and mosaics. This latest fan creation, however, is especially notable, as it's so impressive that it blurs the line between professional and fan-made.

A Redditor by the name of AnnushkaToys posted some photos on the r/AnimalCrossing subreddit of an adorable-looking Celeste plushie that they crafted themselves. The bright-red owl, perhaps best known for being the younger sister of Blathers in the Animal Crossing games, has a charming appearance that is especially accentuated in this plush. AnnushkaToys remained so faithful to Celeste's distinct character design when creating the stuffed animal, in fact, that it's easy to pass it off as official Nintendo merchandise, as Reddit commenter not-the-swedish-chef pointed out.

Other Reddit users had nothing but positive things to say about the awesome Animal Crossing plush, too. User SchnozTheWise, for instance, expressed that the Celeste toy looked so impressive that they'd be willing to buy one. Meanwhile,