Native Fans Co

V2 prototypes just landed 👀🔥
Which one are you picking first… or are you grabbing BOTH? 😏

🐨 Koda
🦘 Rex

Comment your pick ↓

Seeking Indigenous Australian & Māori artists 🇦🇺🇳🇿

Native Fans is building something bigger than just plush toys.

We’re creating a collection of characters that represent culture, identity, and where you come from — and we want to do it properly.

For our First Edition release, we’re collaborating with a small number of artists to design authentic cultural jerseys.

This isn’t just about patterns —
it’s about story, meaning, and representation.

✔ Paid concept work
✔ 10% royalty on each jersey sold (based on wholesale value) if selected for production
✔ Full credit as collaborating artist

We’re only selecting a limited number of artists for this first release.

If this sounds like you (or you know someone),
DM us your work or tag an artist below 👇

Calling Tongan & Samoan artists 🇹🇴🇼🇸

Native Fans is building a collection of premium plush characters wearing culturally inspired jerseys — and we want to do it properly.

We’re currently looking to collaborate with Tongan & Samoan artists to help design authentic jersey concepts for our first release.

This isn’t just about patterns — it’s about culture, identity, and storytelling.

✔️ Paid concept work
✔️ 10% royalty (of wholesale jersey value) if selected for production
✔️ Full credit as collaborating artist

If this sounds like you (or you know someone),
DM us your work or tag an artist below

Be honest with us 👀
This is Koda — one of our first plush prototypes.

She’s close to being locked in, but small details matter.

👉 What’s your first impression?
Would you keep her as-is, or tweak anything before production?

Manu the Manumea 🐦

We have a few refinements in mind based on our internal review and the approved 3D renders, but before locking anything in we wanted to check in with the community as well.

👉 What’s your first impression?
Would you keep Manu as-is, or tweak anything before production?

Be honest with us 👀
This is Rex the Kangaroo — one of our first plush prototypes.

We’re deciding whether to lock this design in or make final tweaks before production.

👉 What’s your first impression?
Would you keep him as-is, or change anything?

1,000+ followers now ❤️

What started as a simple idea around family, sport, and culture has grown quicker than I ever expected.

Building this from the ground up, seeing people choose to follow along this early honestly means a lot.

Thank you for being part of the journey, we’re just getting started.

‼️ Poll Results Are In ‼️

Thanks to everyone who voted — the PNG community showed up big on this one 🇵🇬❤️

After thousands of reactions, hundreds of comments, and shares, here’s the final tally:

A — 75
B — 112 🏆
C — 70
D — 63

Design B received the most support and will now be prioritised as we move toward physical plush prototyping 🧸

A huge thank you to Glide Designs and Raymond R. Bakat for sharing their creativity with the Native Fans community — we genuinely appreciate the time, talent, and cultural thought behind the designs 🙏

Concept art only — final jersey may evolve during prototyping.