Designing plush concepts:

It all started in 1998. I’d just finished my morning paper round and was heading to my Saturday job at the pet store when I noticed a queue outside a card shop.

“What are you queuing for?” I asked.

“A UK Exclusive Bear, but don’t bother, they’ll be gone before you get one,” a greedy woman snapped back.

That stuck with me. The next morning, I spotted another queue, I joined it, and bought the bear for £5.99. It was a simple brown plush with a Union Jack on its chest, but when I realised it was already worth £50, I was hooked.

It wasn’t the resale value that excited me, it was the discovery: the idea that something small and affordable could hold real value. As a child, I grew up in Farnborough, Hampshire: On the benefit system, with no outgoing telephone or cable TV, but I was happy. At 11 years old, trying to claw my way out of poverty with any job that would employee me, £50 meant three weeks of delivering nearly 900 local newspapers and this little bear had just changed everything.

From then on, I lived and breathed bean-filled plush. I would design bears for Bean Bag World magazine competitions (Claim to fame: the attached design got published), I worked weekends in an official stockist, I helped secondary dealers, and ran car boot and market stalls - always selling bean bag plush. By 13, everyone who knew me associated me with these bears, it had become the story of my life.

Almost 25 years later, living a good life whilst representing celebrities, I got an email out of the blue from the UK distributer of the very brand that changed my life. Soon, I was back in the world I loved, Whether it was writing a poem for a bear I was pushing them to release, engaging collectors on social media, pitching new designs, and my favourite... creating limited editions that went on to skyrocket in value.

And now, Troglins is my next chapter.

Troglins are mischievous, colourful plush creatures designed to reignite the thrill of the treasure hunt. They’re real limited editions, priced so anyone who grew up in a similar situation to me can afford to collect and giving people everywhere the chance to join the adventure.

Troglins isn’t just another plush brand. It’s a movement. A community. A treasure hunt for a new generation.

And this is your chance to get in at the start, own the early designs. As the stock drops and the price pops. Troglins aren't trying to perceive or deceive they're limited editions, they ARE limited editions and each is numbered - giving full transparency. You're early enough to start at the very beginning, do you really want to pass the opportunity by?