The media echo was bigger than usual this year, yet very positive overall. Even the most notorious German tabloid "BILD" wrote a fairly harmless and balanced article below the lurid headline "Monster-Alarm in Magdeburg".
Minor correction: No matter what FNP and other papers write, I'm not specialising in building "small plush creatures". They probably confused me with the two pawpeteers standing next to me during the interview. So don't even try commissioning me for custom plushies ;-)