# 👾 Special Digitoys x Quirkies LIMITED LAUNCH

**Host:** Papii (@RealPapii) · **Date:** Wed, 26 Aug 2026 · **Duration:** 1:32:39 · **Speakers:** ~8 (plus a hype track on loop)

## TL;DR
- Quirkies launched **Chapter One** of its digital collectible stickers on the **Digitoys** platform — a 1,200-piece first-edition drop, single packs starting at **$4.99**. [11:41] [25:36]
- Digitoys CEO **Will Weinraub** walked through the platform, its Disney/Star Wars IP pedigree, and why the team is betting on stickers as a collectible format. [26:31] [30:11]
- Quirkies, Quirklings and Inks holders get a **free, holder-exclusive sticker** by entering a code in the Discord — no purchase required. [21:10] [22:12]
- The drop moved fast: **gold and silver packs sold out within minutes**, and roughly three-quarters of supply was gone during the Space. [33:28] [1:09:18]
- Art by in-house Quirkies artist **Molly** was the runaway favorite, praised by Will as a "showcase piece." [39:20] [51:37]
- Papii and Will confirmed **Chapter Two is already in the works**, with hints at future collabs and physical drops via Blockies. [11:41] [1:20:24]

## Highlights

**[9:47] Papii sets the stage — and reveals Will is now a Quirkies OG.** Papii opened warmly (with a shout to his son's third birthday party forcing a hard cut at noon) and noted Will picked up a Quirkies OG from the museum in a buy-and-swap the day before.

**[15:26] How the partnership started.** Papii told the origin story: he spotted Digitoys' Disney/Star Wars-on-Abstract announcement a year ago, then met Will in person at a founders' meetup at Luca's Pod G headquarters in Miami. Mutual respect, a handshake, and they were "cooking within that next week." [16:57]

**[22:04] The free holder sticker explained.** Will confirmed the code entered in Discord unlocks a holder-exclusive sticker that can't be pulled from a purchased gachapon, airdropped a few days after mint.

**[26:31] The Digitoys backstory.** Will shared that the company began in 2018 as a father-daughter project sparked by his then-six-year-old's love of blind-box toys (LOL Surprise, Hatchimals). He framed digital collecting as obvious to the next generation and detailed the seamless email-to-wallet onboarding. [23:28]

**[30:11] Why stickers.** Will made the case that collectible stickers are a huge physical-market format (vintage Star Wars, Michael Jordan, Ninja Turtle stickers) and a native digital-communication one — the goal being a "grand central station" bridging both.

**[33:28] Sold out already.** Mid-explanation, Papii went to buy a gold pack and found them gone: "the gold pack already sold out." Will's reaction — "That is insane" — set the tone as silvers followed minutes later.

**[47:37] The gachapon shake.** A running bit as Papii wrestled the desktop unboxing ("How hard do I have to shake this gacha, dude? I think my hand's broken"), with Will coaching him to build "enough kinetic energy" to burst the storm cloud. [47:50]

**[51:03] Molly speaks.** The artist joined ("Sorry, I was eating my lunch"), calling the work everything she'd worked for. Will and Sam both credited her as central to the drop's reception. [51:37]

**[1:19:18] The collector flywheel.** Papii laid out the long-term vision: ~4-5 chapters a year, low supply driving secondary demand for older chapters as new fans arrive, all in a consistent Molly art style — plus parallel physical Blockies drops (Kirk first, capped at 100, then Bones).

## Notable quotes

> "If we're quiet, we're cooking. If we're loud, we're cooking." — Papii [13:52]

> "You ask the next generation, and they're like, what do you mean, is it gonna be a thing? It is already a thing." — Will Weinraub [26:31]

> "Sealed wax is the alpha." — Will Weinraub [49:52]

> "No, this isn't about fun for me. This is just about torturing myself." — Sam, on refusing to open his packs [1:05:36]

> "It's like Pringles, man. Once you pop, you can't stop." — Will Weinraub [56:00]

> "This is one of the highest energy, most positive communities in all of NFTs." — Will Weinraub [1:30:37]

## Who said what

- **Papii (@RealPapii)** — host; drove the narrative, onboarded live on-mic, live-ripped ~40 stickers, and framed the long-term collector and collab vision.
- **Will Weinraub (@willweinraub)** — Digitoys CEO; explained the platform, pack tiers, rarities, secondary market (the Rarible-powered Digital Toy Exchange), and the stickers thesis; fielded holder questions throughout.
- **Molly** — Quirkies in-house artist; the art behind the drop, warmly received by the room.
- **Kaito dan (@kaitodan)\*** — Digitoys team; jumped in with practical help (lock/unlock NFTs via control center to trade).
- **Sam\*** — Quirkies cohost; grabbed a gold and bronze packs but refused to open them, playing the sealed-wax purist.
- **QuirkyQuirk (@quirk_quirky / "Matty")\*** — holder; pulled quads of one sticker, and asked how this relates to Disney Pinnacle (it doesn't — separate platform).
- **Speaker 5** — enthusiastic holder; recalled the Mickey and Friends drop and celebrated a gold "good vibes" pull.
- **Speaker 9** — holder; asked about multi-pack purchases and best ways to export/share stickers.

## Worth a full listen

- **[26:31–32:29]** Will's uninterrupted Digitoys origin story and the full stickers thesis — the clearest articulation of what the platform is and why it exists.
- **[33:28–41:22]** The live sellout unfolding in real time, with Papii scrambling to buy as gold then silver packs vanished — the room's energy peak.
- **[1:19:18–1:22:41]** Papii's business-case monologue on chapters, secondary demand, uniformity, and physical Blockies drops — the strategic "why" behind the whole collaboration.

\* Some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.