MMBlog

Sackboy. Fo’ REAL.

We’re all totally in love with our little Sackboy character, we’ve spent a couple years watching him run, jump and slap his way though dozens of levels, and the little chap has so much personality we could almost believe he’s real.

So our collective jaws hit the floor when we saw what one of our artists MOTHERS had made, Silvia’s actually made Sackboy, for real, in all his knitted and stitched glory! It’s so good we wondered if we’d hired the right member of the family to work here! (Not really, her son is making artwork for the game that will blow you away) but we can certainly see where he gets his talent from..

Real Sackboy!

So adorable. It makes me want to hug him so tightly that his zip bursts and his button eyes pop out. But I won’t.

And here he is in the Chinese dragon costume:

sackboyknit2.jpg

sackboyknit3.jpg

Just in time to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!

Anyone else got anything to show?! ;)

143 Responses to “Sackboy. Fo’ REAL.”

  1. Amazing, I’d have one! :D
    A question: is Silvia italian? (Silvia’s a common italian name ;))

  2. Very Beatiful!!!!!

    I’ll buy one!!

  3. I want it!

  4. i’d buy one!

  5. OOOOO please where can we buy these… I will gladly lay down some money for both of these….

    Please pass on info of when and if these will become for sale…

  6. You should create these cute Sackboys, they’d fly off the shelves. You should create a Limited edition LittleBigPlanet with a Sackboy included. ;)

  7. Amazing, I like one for my car or my desk :P

  8. Awesome :D !!
    I want one so bad. I’d pay for this kinda stuff. x]

  9. that’s a Chinese *lion* actually. ;)

  10. I’ll pay for one!!

  11. Hey how can I get one of those I would pay 20 bucks for it for real!!!! Let me know!!:)

  12. I already have lbp pre-ordered. Too bad sackboy plushes arent for sale.

  13. So nice! I want one. Game PreOrder gift?

  14. This is superbly awesome. I’d order one with the dragon hat. How much is it :)

  15. I want one.
    I want one NOW!!!!!

    will it be on ebay for us to bid highly on?

    I just want it so bad

  16. That’s awesome. I think I’ll make one for myself. On second thought… I’d probably butcher it :(

  17. That is the cutest thing i have ever seen!!!!!!

    Can’t wait for LBP MM!!

  18. These are amazing!!! I would love to buy one!!! :-)

  19. You SO should make a collector’s edition with one of these little guys. It would be really awesome. This post is rockin’ at Kotaku. Congratz!

    PS: Silvia’s also a common Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian and French name! Basically, any country whose language comes from Latin.

  20. WOW! can she make me one? Littlebigplanet is the only game im looking forward to this year. Sept. is a long way off, well back to playing Okami.

  21. OMG awesome.

    Where do we buy them?

  22. MM guys.. check the feedback on http://community.eu.playstation.com/showthread.php?t=211132

    People want to buy these, including me, please market them as real products alongside LBP :o)

  23. One word: WOW! (that, and ‘cute’)

    Amazing how spot-on she was with all the looks and details!

    I’d also want one sitting on my desk! hah…

  24. Damn,

    I want one.
    Please make it happen: put it in distribution channel.

  25. That’s awesome. *cough*Collector’s Edition*cough* :P

  26. I’d love one of these! Have you got any plans to sell real sackboys or to release the plans so I can make one?

  27. good one mum. Which game is her son workin on?

  28. woah… if you do a special edition of LBP with a sackboy of that level of quality with it, I’d buy it. Fo’ sure!

  29. This is amazing. I am so jealous! This would be a perfect Valentines gift! Media Molecule… I think you should start mass production for next Valentines ?

  30. <3 Sackboy :)

  31. Simply wonderful!!! Maybe you could sell a limited edition of LBP including this fantastic Sackboy!!! Sure I’ll preorder it!

  32. wow, just wow. Do you sell those? I would really want one. If you can just mail it to Australia that is :D

  33. This should definately be mass produced and included in the retail version, or a Collectors Edition. So Silvia, get workin’!

  34. hahaaha Awesome

  35. those are so adorable, it’s almost too much to handle:P
    i would love to have one of those^^ think silvia would be willing to make another?:D i would certainly pay for it!
    P.S. can’t wait for the game:) i already have it pre-ordered!

  36. You guys should make a special edition of LittleBigPlanet and have a real sackboy with it. i would buy it.

  37. Better get cracking if you hope to have enough give away with pre-ordered copies of the game!

  38. Outstanding work!

    I’d employ her to make merchandise with those skillful fingers!

  39. Dude… I want that put it up on ebay or mass produce them i want it sooo bad

  40. there great where can i get me some of them

  41. Brilliant :D

  42. is she taking orders? :D

  43. Niiiiice. I want one!

    That’s coming from someone that loves Metal Gear but has resisted buying Snake figurines.

  44. I don’t suppose there is a pattern to make these is there? Because if there is I would love to have it!

  45. Wow, outstanding achievement.
    It would be great to have one of these with a special version of the game !
    It also proves (if it still needs to be proven) how much the game is already inspiring.
    Keep up the good work, I admire you artists and mothers of artists.

  46. adorable

  47. Cute overload. I need to own one with the dragon costume right now!

  48. do you think she could share the pattern my grandmar wants to make them.

    please email me at kage05@gmail.com if its alright to use her pattern

  49. Massproduce it and I (and many more) shall buy it.:)

  50. I want one!! But if you do make them, please don’t make them as limited edition. Make them special edition so everyone who wants one can get one. Also, please release this in other countries as well. I’d hate not being able to get it just because I live in Australia.

  51. To keep in the theme of “create” if Sackboy is mass marketed you should make it all white and give people the option to dye it themselves. Just a suggestion.

  52. or get in with the “build-a-bear workshop company” http://www.buildabear.com/
    and pull in the parents and kiddies by allowing them to go to the stores or to the site and customize their sackboy.

  53. I want one!!!!!!!! , How much?! o_o

  54. I would totally buy one of these, its adorable! And I can’t wait for the game!

  55. add me to the list of people that would love one. AWESOME

  56. sooooo adorable, i’d buy that in a heart beat if it were for sale…still gotta get a ps3 though…hmmm should get crackin on that.

  57. ou my gosh, i want buy one my gf. (and one for myself)
    thats so sweet :)

    i love them on LBP-videos and now this little fellow is real!

  58. Wow. I’d buy one!

  59. The world needs more real sackboys. Figure out a way. Do it!

  60. Thats AWESOME!! Hope you guys are going to put these into production so that we can buy them during the game’s launch!! I WANT ONE!! Nice work!

  61. […] Geek factions unite! […]

  62. Along with everyone else i would buy one or two.

    But do you have more pics, would like to know how small/big he is..

  63. Please PLEASE think about making these. I want one very bad. special edition please!

  64. Maybe we could get the knitting pattern to make our own, PLEASE……..Pretty Please….with sugar on top.

  65. This is some really amazing work! I’m with everyone else; I think I’d actually buy one of these!

  66. i really want one of those now…its gonna be a good collection…

  67. I’d buy two! TWO!

  68. yeah, i’d buy one :P

  69. Wow, that is phenominal work. I would totally buy all of them.

  70. […] Sackboy Fo’ Real [Media Molecule Blog] [via: Joystiq] […]

  71. […] Sackboy Fo’ Real [Media Molecule Blog] [via: Joystiq] […]

  72. You guys should included a custom sackboy virtual store within the game itself. When people want a real sackboy with their finish design in the game, you guys should have an ordering process like a “Sackboy Factory” or some sort to send custom orders through the game. It will be convenient for us and you. It could also sell more LBP games by saying “The only way to get the real sackboy is owning the game” or something like that. Just my thoughts……

  73. Fantastic! My girlfriend is knitting me my own Sackboy this very minute!

  74. Adorable! Wonderful craftmanship! I bid $60 ;)

  75. […] Check the blog out here. […]

  76. WANT!

  77. They are so adorable!! PLEASE MEDIA MOLECULE you have to make official sackpeople plushies! I’d definitely buy those! Don’t waste this opportunity!

  78. I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT I WANT

  79. i’d buy it even for 50$!

  80. WOW i so want one of those when you release them.

    gimme 1 now. lol :)

  81. so what came first? the perfectly scaled exact shaped star-spring-things? or the in game assets? also… the dragon’s eyes and pattern are a little too like the in game version for me to believe that this was made by a hobbyist. Either existed before the art assets (in which case kudos on basing your art on a really cool cuddly toy) or this has been manufactured. Either way, I think the consensus is that they’d be very popular. Maybe a little something to entice people to spend a little extra on the boxed version rather than the PSN download?

    Oh and if I’m very wrong and Silvia did actually hand-make sackboy and all his bits and bobs, I apologise. Nice work… I have a sweater that needs darning, any chance I could send it? ;D

  82. Awesome, just awesome.
    So… when will we be able to buy one? ;)

  83. I just had to add my voice to this. Sackboy looks amazing! ‘Course, he also looks the sort of fellow not to be trusted in the office alone late at night.. just keep him away from the paper and glue if you value your walls!

  84. WE WANT SACKBOY!!!!!
    Even those who don’t know the game would buy a sackboy. Every kid in the world want a sackboy. Customizable sackboy would sell like hotcake.

  85. aawww man i want one!!! i want it to be possible to buy, please !

  86. Increíble!!!, Si salen a la venta me compro uno seguro :D

  87. […] Sackboy Fo’ Real [Media Molecule Blog] […]

  88. IS THERE A PATTEREN OR CAN ANYONE PROVIDE ONE??

    PLEASE MAIL ONE TO chadeden AT yahoo.ca
    i can get my sister to make them if i had the patteren to give her

  89. […] Was surfing around when I found this site with toy stuffed sackboy! Check it out. […]

  90. Bid them for charity, it would be nice.

    Nice Job Silvia (Portuguese? era fantástico)

  91. […] Sackboy Fo’ Real [Media Molecule Blog] […]

  92. I know its been said, but you real ought to have your artist’s mother talk with Sony about putting this into mass production (not all by hand, of course, but using her pattern.)

    These would sell like crazy, based on the internet response to this.

  93. Omg, i love them! Please sell them alongside the game somehow, they are AWESOME!

  94. Yes please

  95. great work!!! I tryed to make one but could not make the legs. ow well but I would definatly buy a lbp special adition if there was one!!

  96. Darnit! She beat me to it! D: I’ve been planning on making on for about a year now. Oh well. Awesome job! :D

  97. OK guys – you seriously have to pursue this. It looks like LBP has already surpassed what even you guys, and especially Sony could have envisioned. This could push it into cultural phenomenon territory. I am 35 (today actually – Happy Birthday to me!), married and even I want one of these – badly.

    You must strike some sort of deal with a toy manufacturer to market these things. I hope Silvia has registered these toys as a trademark – or is about to – because she deserves to be a very rich woman.

    You have to start selling these things. Make it happen.

  98. I have to have these!!! Please put these out for sale!! I don’t care how, I will buy both of these adorable sackboys.

  99. “Anyone else got anything to show?!”

    Wow, I think Sylvia’s work sets the bar pretty high. I’d be embarrassed to put forth any of my little projects in the same forum.

  100. Comeback around 16th.

  101. Please PLEASE make these available for purchase :)

  102. I would buy one of these in a heart beat and I am not one for plushies.

  103. ahhhhhhh i wan’t one too!!!!! these look so cool it’s a must for a preorder gift or seperatly as i woudl buy one

  104. Wow, very nice.

    Hey I don’t know if someone has suggested this, but can’t you guys make a collector’s edition of LittleBigPlanet and include one of these dolls with it? I am sure many people like me would pay extra for the collector edition! this is one game I just cannot wait to get my hands on, I swear I will camp if I must to get this game day one! ><

  105. […] Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments […]

  106. Wow, what responses. But then this is being “marketed” to people who already want LBP so bad that they’re looking at the Media Molecule blog.

    Oh also, the Sackboy’s excellent.

  107. […]   […]

  108. AWESOME! i need one!!!!!!!!

  109. Hi,

    I´ve done a forum signature with one of those images for a friend of mine… Hope you guys like it!

    http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/2290/littus0.jpg

  110. Awsome

  111. Please say this will be marketed too. I guarantee many purchases of Sackboy, and it’s many costumes. Not just my wife but for me and my whole family and friends. Limited edition or collector’s? I’ll take it!

  112. Please, please please please, hire someone making these as merchandise! And with the same love and passion your artist’s mother put into that little one above! :)

  113. You have to start selling these in Sweden as well… maybe if you buy the limited edition of LBP you’d get one or two in the box.

  114. Come on, do not tease like that. Give us a little dude with a cool costume…or maybe the artist’s mom could make us all one

  115. Oh that is perfectly done.
    You guys should deff put these on sale.
    I’d love to have one, those Sackboys are amazing.
    No need for any other friends.
    This is so much better then the “Companion Cube”

    I love it, and the costume to.
    Very nicely done.

  116. Wow nice job

  117. I want one ¡¡¡¡¡ Please,release the game with one of those…

  118. Awesome!! I want it! :)

  119. I have to have it! I would buy this thing instantly if it was for sale!

  120. […] Sackboy, the star of the upcoming PS3 game, Little Bit Planet, has been brought to life in the form of the above knitted plush doll figure.  Just as endearing as the craft itself is the fact that it was handmade by the mother of one of the artists that worked on the game! From the Media Molecule blog: […]

  121. :O

    I’m just shocked at how good those look….
    If you guys harass Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe enough so you can ship the games with one of these sackboys inside it you’d make a lot of money.

    I know I’d pay up to $80 for it.

    Or make it LM Edition :3

  122. […] Oh who am I kidding? I can’t stay mad with this adorable little guy on my computer screen. Damn it, now I’m getting hyped for Little Big Planet…  Check out this amazing custom doll over at mediamolecule. […]

  123. I NEED one of those for my desk! I think we all know that this sort of thing will be available when the game launches, i know i’ll be powerless to resist!

  124. Me buys! They are funny :)

  125. CUTEST LIVING THING !! I WANT IT!! i wish i could make one of them but i dont have sewing skills.. preorder gift?? !!

  126. wow so cool i want 1 cant w8 for lbp i wish i could be a part of the mm team

  127. CUTE i want it wish my mam would make one do speacal edition with them

  128. Looks great.

  129. I would just LOVE the pattern for Sackboy…do you think she could write it out and email it to me? My cousins keep bugging me to make it for them but I don’t want to waste thousands of hours trying to figure out the pattern! PLEASE?

  130. Hi MM,

    My misses cant wait to get her hands on a copy of LBP but when I showed her this she went mad!! She really wants one!! You have got to produce a collectors addition (as the guy above said!) this is awesome!!

    Let me know HOW/WHERE/HOW MUCH/WHAT I need to do to get her one!!

    Keep up the good work!

  131. To me it is necessary to find

  132. Really cool. If they release a collector’s edition with something like this included I’d instantly buy it

  133. […] Media Molecule milují své “sackboye”, a tak si udělali skutečné […]

  134. pure skill

  135. I’ll buy one

  136. Oh my goodness - that is so adorable. I would love to buy one if she starts making them. Hopefully international shipping isn’t too much, though!

  137. OMG! I so want that dragon Sackboy! It looks so cool!

  138. Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
    and wish to assit as far as possible.

  139. i bet if u produced these they would make alot of money -wink-

    please make them buyable i want one!

  140. oOooohhh i want a cute sackboy puppet tooo!!!
    should be nice idea for a Limited edition or something
    or for the first 10.000 sales or something

    well, guess im just gonna
    make one myself till then ^^

    one last thing to say;
    Releaseeee!!! (L) LBP

  141. Fantastic! We want this!!! I’ll buy every model you’d have!

  142. Damm this is a real piece of art, they are really amazing made, what a talent!

    Woulden’t mind to Buy one of these if they become avaible someday 8-)

    Kind Regards Kenneth From Denmark

    Can’t wait for September!

  143. this is amazing!
    any chance we’ll be seeing more of these? i agree with someone above, you should do a limited edition lbp pack!
    in the mean time, could we get our hands on a template to make our own? :D

Leave a Reply