More or less, yeah.

Fabrics and polyurethane foam used to be the only options for fursuits, but this started shifting over the last 10 years or so. Some enterprising furries started molding components like teeth, claws, and noses from soft rubber materials, which experienced a brief renaissance before hard plastic 3d-printed parts started supplanting the more labor-intensive custom molded pieces.

At the time when this was posted, hard plastic parts had become common for new fursuits, but now that 3d printers can use TPU and other flexible materials, they've become the new standard. Many fursuit makers actually use this technique to print the whole frame of the fursuit head, making them more durable while also improving airflow over the old-style carved polyurethane foam head bases;

A pic of an old-style carved polyurethane foam head base.

A pic of a new-style 3d printed TPU head base.

Could you imagine having to take your thousand dollar fursuit head to a shop for repairs after only a few outings? I’d be pissed.

Arms race between fursuit noses and camera lenses when?

Why are people booping with camera lenses?

You can remove that little tip from bus hammers and glue them to the noses in order to instantly shatter any glass like material that comes into contact with it. Allegedly.

I gained this unwanted knowledge involuntarily, but am more cultured for it.

I love the idea of someone expecting to be booped with a camera so they insert a thin glass vial filled with fake blood in their suit nose, so when someone boops them, they can grab their suit nose and go, 'Aaagh! My node! You broge by node!' as they seemingly get a bloody nose.

This would be iterative engineering design.

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Pretty sure the nose on mine might not withstand repeated boops, but depends on what they're made out of. Someone already pointed out something to the extent of how there is more choice in what material is used to make the suit. So, kinda depends on material used.

I'm pretty sure I've seen in the past at least a few suits on the more expensive side using actual hard, boop resistant, materials for the nose. Couldn't tell you the material since I'm not an expert.

Edit: more about 3D printed suit bases instead of just more materials. Whoops.

They are truly knights of the new era