A Croatian toymaker creates individual toys based on children’s drawings and accepts payment via PayPal or in bitcoin. The prices are reasonable and the toys can be shipped to almost any country worldwide.

An elephant, cowboy, beautiful blonde, train, ghost, dinosaur, creature from outer space – all these and many other plush toys are made by Dalibor Pupavac from Croatia over the last eleven months. Some creatures are so strange and unlike anything in real life that the artist hesitates what to call them. But what makes them so unique?

The toys are made after children’s own designs. As Pupavac puts it himself, “Children’s drawings are unique and theirs mind has no limits to imagination.” Any parent who wishes to give his child a personalised plush pet based on child’s drawings can send the image to Pupavac. Typically, a 15-inch handmade toy would cost around $50 and would come in two weeks. The only countries where the toymaker does not send his products are those in the state of war. He accepts payment either in fiat via PayPal or in bitcoin.

A Redditor posted a link to Pupavac’s website naming it “Toys for Bitcoin”. At first, other Reddit users were reluctant to check the link assuming it was some dodgy sex toys vendor. However, many were relieved to find out the truth, saying sites like this would “really help with the public image of btc.”

Bitcoins are often accepted by merchants offering unique and personalised items. Another example is individual bespoke jewellery sold by the Singapore-based startup Polychemy.

Alexey Tereshchenko