It happens a lot unfortunately, especially when companies share papercrafts on their website for a certain promotional campaign.
A good example are these Sanrio Hello Kitty and friends Characters Pon Pon Jump! papercrafts, which were released one a week from October 2018 - March 2019, 25 in total!
UPDATE: The campaign is over, but I tried to find archived links so you can still download the papercrafts.
I found a lot of them by manually changing the numbers in the links according to the pattern, but that means a lot of them
I found a lot of them by manually changing the numbers in the links according to the pattern, but that means a lot of them
are direct links through the Wayback Machine...
- Hello Kitty (thanks to CoolerEx for finding the archived link for this one!)
- My Melody (My Melody alternative)
- Bonbon Ribbon
- Dear Daniel
- Hangyodon
- Cinnamoroll
- Gudetama (Gudetama alternative)
- Hello Kitty (Hello Kitty alternative)
- Pinky Lil Rose (Pinky Lil Rose alternative)
- Rio Sky Piece (Rio Sky Peace alternative)
- Pompomputrin (Pompompurin alternative)
- Tuxedo Sam
- Hello Mimi (Hello Mimmy alternative)
- Little Twin Stars Kiki
- Little Twin Stars Lala (Little Twin Stars Lala alternative)
- Monkichi (Monkichi alternative)
- Pochacco
- Wish me mell
- Bad Badtz-Maru
- Lady Kitty
- Minna no Tabo (Minna no Tabo alternative)
- Marroncream
- Hummingmint (Hummingmint alternative)
- Kuromi
- Pekkie
When the campaign was active, you could try these ways to still find the earlier papercrafts:
Option 1: First try the Wayback Machine, which saves archives copies of websites it crawls. Try captures from different dates, especially in this case because the papercrafst were changed every week:
Option 2: You might also try doing a Site:Search for it (by adding the file name "vol1.pdf" as search term and the "site:" parameter before the domain URL). If you're in luck, it was only the download link that was removed, and the file might still be available on the website, but as time goes by, you will probably have more luck using the Wayback Machine option.
Long story short: always save papercrafts you like to your computer when you find them, even if you're not planning to build them anytime soon...! 😉
I know this is old post, I got here because my daughter loves Sanrio characters and wants to make papercraft for the characters.
ReplyDeleteThe reason why first character (Hello Kitty) cannot be found in Wayback Machine, is because it is put under different folder when the first time they held the campaign. I found out that the link for vol1.pdf Hello Kitty character is under:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190405083522/https://www.sanrio-ponponjump.com/craftkit/vol1.pdf
Enjoy.
Thank you very much for letting everybody know the correct archived link to download it now, I have added it to the rest of the links for the other ones! :o)
DeleteHi Thank you very much for this ! What a kind soul 😭🫶 I've been searching for some good sanrio papercrafts for some time now. Glad that I've found this blog :))
ReplyDeleteA lot of people liked these official papercrafts by Sanrio, so I was happy that the Wayback Machine archived them before they went away. And special thanks to CoolerX that told me how to find the first Hello Kitty one because I couldn't find it myself when the campaign was over! :o)
DeleteHow are you supposed to build these? I'm having trouble with the head.
ReplyDeleteTake your time to imagine how the flat parts should go together to create the 3D shape in the finished pictures. Most of them seem to have round parts on the head. It looks like solid lines are cut lines, dashed lines are fold lines. Score the fold lines so you can make sharp folds but most of them have round heads so bend/curve them around a pencil. Cut out the part and take your time to pre-shape it to make that shape without glue first so you can change it and adjust if needed. Once it looks like the finished shape you can apply some glue. Grey triangles seem to be gluing flaps. Take your time and have fun!
DeleteThank you so much! I really needed help with this. It's a shame that your posts don't get many comments, you are very helpful!
DeleteThanks, I'm glad my explanation helped you! Papercraft is usually just a trial and error thing for me too, but the great thing with free papercrafts from the internet is that if I mess up, I can just print another page of parts so I don't have to worry too much! ;o)
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