Popples

[SpiralCoolStuff]

Anyonje remeber these? They were so cute! I think i still have my 2 up in the loft somewhere

[Bren41882]

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I loved Popples!

[Christina36]

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oh wow funny you should mention this

i dont think i had a stuffed one but i had a sleeping bag of them and i recently gave it to my cousin a few months ago

[Claire]

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Does anyone have a picture?

I recall the name but not what they were IYSWIM.

[AmethystWitch]

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I still have a Popple! lol I loved them!

Picture of Me and my Popple I just took lol (The 'fur' looks kinda weird, as I washed it in the washing machine lol)

[darren]

check this out amethyst.

was a series of fantasy characters created by Those Characters From Cleveland (TCFC), a creative think tank and subsidiary company of American Greetings. Popples resemble brightly colored teddy bears or marsupials (but with long tails with pom-poms on the tip), and have pouches on their backs that they can go into and resemble brightly colored balls. Contents

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• 1 History
• 2 Merchandise
  • 2.1 Original Line
  • 2.2 Rock Star Popples
  • 2.3 Pufflings
  • 2.4 Sports Popples
  • 2.5 Other Full-Sized Popples
  • 2.6 Pocket Popples
  • 2.7 Revival Line
  
  
• 3 Other merchandise
• 4 See also
• 5 External links

[edit] History

Susan Trentel, who worked for TCFC and had created the first prototypes on Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears, was the plush designer who invented the method for transforming the Popple. The idea spark came from rolling up socks. [citation needed] Trentel worked with art director Thomas Schneider on the creation of the first prototypes (Patent # 4614505).
[edit] Merchandise

[edit] Original Line

The Popples plush toys were manufactured by Mattel. Produced in the 1980s, these toys resemble brightly colored teddy bears or marsupials (but with long tails with pom-poms on the tip), and have pouches on their backs that can be inverted, so they go into the pouches and resemble brightly colored balls.
The first introduction included nine original Popples.

• PC (Pretty Cool) Popple is a large male Popple with blue fur, pink hair, and contrasting orange and yellow ears

• Party Popple is a large female Popple, with pink fur, hot pink hair, and contrasting lavender and pink ears

• Pancake is a large female Popple with purple fur, orange hair, and contrasting blue and gray ears

• Puzzle is a medium-sized male Popple with orange fur, green hair, and contrasting blue and red ears

• Prize is a medium-sized female Popple with dark magenta fur, white hair, and contrasting green and pink ears

• Puffball is a medium-sized female Popple with white fur, yellow hair, and contrasting blue and magenta ears.

• Pretty Bit is a small female Popple with lavender fur, hot pink hair, and contrasting pink and blue ears

• Potato Chip is a small female Popple with yellow fur, pink hair, and contrasting lavender and magenta ears

• Putter is a small male Popple with green fur, orange hair, and contrasting red and blue ears.

[edit] Rock Star Popples

The second launch brought the Rock Star Popples: Punkity (girl with microphone and star on her tummy) and Punkster (boy with guitar and lightning on his tummy) as well as the Popples Babies: Bibsy (white with purple and white hat, bib and booties with stars) and Cribsy (pink with blue and white striped hat, bib and bootises). The babies had rattles in their tails and came with a squeaking baby bottle.
[edit] Pufflings

A line extension brought about Pufflings, which looked like little Popple pets (they were basically a ball of fluff with a face and tiny paws and tail coming out, and could flip inside out to look a bit like an anemone) and carried riddles and jokes on tags inside them. There were 6 different colors of Pufflings: Red, yellow, sky blue, purple, white and magenta.
[edit] Sports Popples

The Popples also had Sports Popples who turned into balls: Big Kick (soccer ball), Dunker (basketball), Touchdown (football), PC Pitcher (baseball), Net Set (tennis ball). The Sports Popples included Cuester, who turned into an 8-ball, but no known toy has been made of him. Similarly, no toy was made of the original Pitcher but PC was dressed in a baseball outfit to replace him.
[edit] Other Full-Sized Popples

There were numerous variants: Flower Popples (who would turn into flowers when you flipped them inside out), Pillow Popples (wearing pajamas and turned into sleeping bag), Fruit Popples (who turned into different fruits), and Special Editions with limited distribution (including an animal series with Popples that transformed into parrot, dog, and a rabbit), and Costume Popples who were wearing special clothes and turned into something related (example: a ballerina Popple that turns into a handbag).
[edit] Pocket Popples

Besides the stuffed animals, another successful Popple-themed line of merchandise was Pocket Popples. Based on same characters as the larger Popples they were scaled to fit in a pocket. They had PVC faces, articulated arms and legs, and fabric features of ears, tails and pocket (where they hid).
[edit] Revival Line

A revival was attempted by Playmates Toys (who is also the current manufacturer of toys featuring another American Greetings property, Strawberry Shortcake) in 2007. This rendition currently only has four characters, (HappyPopp, PrettyPopp, KissyPopp, and MonsterPopp), marketed under the name 'Popp n Giggles Popples' which contain a sound box that makes a popping sound followed by a giggle when the popple comes out of its pouch (or when you press down on the shoulders while in its box, or sitting on a hard surface). Also released in 2007 was a version of Popples 'pufflings' called 'Popp n'mini message popples' which could record a 'message'. There are also "key Chain" and "Cell Phone Charm" mini plush Popples that more resemble the Popples of the 1980's available outside the US. (Key Chain Popples that have been spoted include those that resemble Party, Prize, Potato Chip,and P.C.) Various "Deco Packing Tape", and stickers featuring original Popples exist as well.

check this out amethyst.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzzHB-cQVO8
and this.
http://www.popples.org/

[davidthomas27]

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Here's my Putter Popple!

[AmethystWitch]

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Wow!! That's a whole lotta info on Popples! lol Thanks!

Mines a Pretty Bit Popple!! lol Never knew that

[darren]

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Wow!! That's a whole lotta info on Popples! lol Thanks!

Mines a Pretty Bit Popple!! lol Never knew that

no probs amethyst glad i could help.

as ive said before if yoou really want something there is almost al ways a place you can buy things.

[davidthomas27]

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