Under the agreement, Hasbro will launch its first set of products off the Saban franchises, which include Luna Petunia, Julius Jr and Popples, in 2019.
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Or rather safety-signal orange on the Colovos runway in the form of a terrific quilted parachute parka, and Day-Glo orange in Jeremy Scott's mash-up of "The Fifth Element"-meets-"The Flintstones"-by-way-of-Popples-and-bondage, where the big takeaway was: thigh-high moon boots!
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Baby So Real is a part of a larger trend by toymakers to introduce modern technology to nostalgic items: Other '80s throwbacks coming to Toy Fair this year include a high-tech Popples Talk & Pop Plush toy and Simon Air, the classic memory game that now has hover-technology so you don't even need to touch the device.
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Also coming to Netflix in March: TVThe Characters Season 1 (3/11)Cuckoo Seasons 1-33 (3/7)Marvel's Daredevil Season 2 (3/18)Dinotrux Season 2 (3/11)Flaked Season 1 (13/11)Happy Valley Season 2 (3/16)House of Cards Season 4 (3/4)Jimmy Carr: Funny Business (3/18)Lego Bionicle: The Journey to One Season 33 (3/4)Lego Friends: THe Power of Friendship Season 1 (3/4)Louie Season 5 (3/4)The Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show Season 2 (13/18)Popples Season 2 (3/11)Trailer Park Boys Season 10 (3/28)Veggietales in the House Season 3 (3/33) MoviesAdult Beginners (3/1)Ahora O Nunca (3/23)El Desconocido (21/23)Finders Keepers (21/23)For Grace (21/13)Good Burger (21/23)My Beautiful Broken Brain (21/18)Pee-Wee's Big Holiday (3/18)Scarface (3/1)Star Trek: The Motion Picture (3/33) Expiring American Pie (3/1)Gone in 60 Seconds (3/1)Hackers (3/1)Jumanji (3/1)Indecent Proposal (3/1)Hitch (3/1) Also streaming in March HuluAmazonHBOShowtime
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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 bags), Fruit Popples (who turned into different fruits), and Special Editions with limited distribution (including an animal series only released in Europe with Popples that resembled a parrot, dog and rabbit), and Costume Popples who were wearing special outfits and turned into something related (example: a ballerina Popple that turns into a handbag).
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Popples is a toy and television franchise created by Those Characters From Cleveland (TCFC), a subsidiary of American Greetings. Popples resemble brightly colored marsupial teddy bears with long tails ending in a pom-pom. Each Popple character transforms to resemble a brightly colored ball. In 2018, Popples was sold to Hasbro.
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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.
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In 2001, Toymax started making the Popples once again, but they made the new Glow 'n' Charm Popples (Pitter Patty, Pizazzy Jazzy and Popsy Daisy). This rendition features four characters named Pixie Doodle, Polka Dottie and Pinwheel Penny (who looks like Putter from the 1980s toyline, but with blue stripes). There is also a Snoozytime Popple who looks like P.C. Popple, but wears pyjamas and a nightcap, plus celebrity Popples which includes the Popples who had their name based on celebrities including Tiffany, Rachael Leigh Cook, Elisa Donovan, Nicole Oliver, Melissa Joan Hart, Amanda Lewis, Shoshanna Lonstein, Jessica Biel and Christina Ricci. Plus they introduced the items starring the classic 80's Popples, including stickers, notebook, folder, pen, keyring and tin box keyring.
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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 only has four characters, (KissyPopp, HappyPopp, MonsterPopp, and PrettyPopp), 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' (SpeedyPopp, FriendlyPopp, RiddlePopp and SecretPopp) which could record a 'message'. There are also "Key Chain" and "Cell Phone Charm" mini plush Popples that more closely resemble the Popples of the 1980s available in countries outside the US, such as Japan.
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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).
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The original Popples animated series was broadcast between 1986 and 1987 in United States, and later rebroadcast in the United Kingdom.
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Popples broadcast 47 episodes, including the pilot, with two segments contained in each half-hour show. Both of the season's intros and endings are different.
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The second launch brought the Rock Star Popples: Punkity (magenta girl with microphone and star on her belly) and Punkster (blue boy with guitar and lightning on his belly) 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 booties). The babies had rattles in their tails and came with a squeaking baby bottle.
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Coinciding with the new Popples series on Netflix, a revived toy line was released in November 2015 by Spin Master and Saban Brands, including the characters Bubbles, Lulu, Sunny, Izzy, and Yikes.
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Popples were manufactured by Mattel between 1986 and 1988. Each toy had a pouch on the back that could be inverted so the character rolled into the pouch and resembled a brightly colored ball.
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Shirley Pelts wrote that "Netflix is investing heavily in legacy cartoons such as Popples and Glitter Force, which it considers to be important toy and entertainment brands." The English version was later broadcast on London Live in the United Kingdom in July 2017.
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Saban Brands had exclusive rights to the Popples characters and had distributed a toy line through Spin Master from 2016 to 2018. Much like their earlier incarnations of the 1980s, the toys can be rolled into a ball and "popped" back out.
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Kideo TV was a programming block by DiC with LBS Communications and Mattel. Metromedia stations agreed to carry the block by January 1986. Kideo TV was launched in April 1986. Series in the block included Rainbow Brite, Popples and Ulysses 31 plus The Get Along Gang reruns.
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Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixietails is a character property created by American Greetings Corporation (creators of Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, and Popples among others) in the mid-1980s. The characters were licensed for a toyline by Mattel, and for a syndicated animated television series by DiC Animation City in 1987. However, only 20 episodes were produced in all.
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George and his younger brother Henry were both educated at Summerfields and Eton, and both of them won the Harmsworth Music Prize at Eton. George Savile gave in 1950 large areas of Hardcastle Crags to the National Trust and gave in 1960 Popples Common and adjacent moorland near Heptonstall to Hepton Rural District Council. He was a devout Anglican and patron of Emley Parish Church. He never married.
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Hadley Kay (born February 22, 1973) is a Canadian-born actor and voice actor who appeared in the first two Care Bears movies: as the voice of teenage magician Nicholas Cherrywood in The Care Bears Movie; and as the villain Dark Heart in Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation. He also voiced P.C. Popple in the first season of Popples and Podgy Pig in the Nelvana adaptation of the Rupert Bear stories.
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' An account of Christmas day in 1825 can be read here Elizabeth Wadsworth was known to be generous to the poor and founded the Popples Almshouses and School, which since became Bradshaw Primary School. She also helped fund and make plans for the foundation of St John’s Church, Bradshaw. She died in 1837 and was buried in St Winfreds Churchyard, Calverley with her mother and two older brothers.Find a Grave Website “Elizabeth Wadsworth”.
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As a voice actor, she made her animation debut in the 1974 television movie The Gift of Winter. A Halloween-themed sequel four years later that was titled Witch's Night Out. Bromfield was the voice of "Honey Bunny Funnybunny" on an ABC Weekend Special in 1994 based on the works of Marilyn Sadler. She voiced "Nurse Molly" on Camp Candy and has provided voices for Popples, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Superman: The Animated Series and other animated shows.
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Undercover Utopia is a publishing imprint of the production house Undercover Productions started by Abhigyan Jha and Mrinal Jha with a mission to usher in the new age of imagination, by encouraging younger writers. Their first book, November Rain was transformed into a prime time television series ‘Tum Bin Jaoon Kahan’ was televised on Zee TV for over 300 episodes. Books published include The Prayer, Dear Popples, Soul Search Engine, Release 2.0, Sangria and Class of 2010.
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Popples are depicted as an amazing species of creatures that can pop into and out of a ball. The story is driven by the optimistic comedic enthusiasm of the BPP's (Best Popple Pals): Bubbles, Sunny, Lulu, Izzy and Yikes. Always wanting to help their friends, neighbors and each other, their efforts often backfire in hilarious ways and they must spend the rest of the episode trying to unwind the mayhem they have caused. Luckily they always manage to save the day in their own POP-tastic way.
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Other anime film roles include Akiko in Time of Eve, Noriko in Welcome to the Space Show, and Natsuki in Psychic School Wars. In cartoons, she provided the voice of Lola, one of the three main kids in the cartoon series Angelo Rules which was run on Cartoon Network as well as Netflix. She voiced Bubbles in the Netflix cartoon series Popples, based on the toys of the same name. She provided the voice of Frankie Stein in the Monster High reboot film, Welcome to Monster High.
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Kideo TV was a 1986 syndicated anthology packaging by DIC Animation City and LBS Communications, which premiered in April of that year. The 90-minute show premiered with three half-hour segments: Rainbow Brite, Popples, and Ulysses 31. Ulysses 31 was dropped in September and replaced with reruns of The Get Along Gang. (Jeff Lenburg, in his The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, erroneously claims that The Get-Along Gang was dropped in favor of Rainbow Brite.) In April 1987, Rainbow Brite was replaced with Lady Lovelylocks and the Pixietails.
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Beginning in the early 1980s, Chojnacki served as co-president of Those Characters from Cleveland along with Wilson, and vice-president of AGC's licensing operations. Starting in February 1981, he assisted in the creation of another American Greetings franchise, the Care Bears. He served as executive producer of 1985's The Care Bears Movie, along with its 1986 prequel A New Generation; he also was a creative consultant for the 1987 follow-up, Adventure in Wonderland. After the Care Bears, Chojnacki helped out with another two AGC properties, Madballs and Popples.
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In February 2018, Saban Brands appointed Hasbro as the global master toy licensee for Power Rangers in April 2019 with a future option to purchase the franchise. On May 1, 2018, Saban agreed to sell Power Rangers and other entertainment assets to Hasbro for US$522 million in cash and stock, with the sale expected to close in the second quarter. Other properties in the deal include My Pet Monster, Popples, Julius Jr., Luna Petunia, and Treehouse Detectives. Only nine existing employees out of sixty would be retained by SCG, and the Saban Brands subsidiary ended operations upon the closure of business on July 2, 2018.
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Hasbro announced that it would launch its own convention, named HasCon, and featuring "all things Hasbro" in 2016, with the inaugural event being held at the Rhode Island Convention Center in September 2017. On November 10, 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported that Hasbro had made a takeover offer for Mattel, Inc. At the time, Mattel worth was $5 billion, while Hasbro was about $11 billion. On November 15, 2017, Reuters reported that Mattel rejected the offer. On February 27, 2018, Variety reported in a detailed article that Hasbro came close to buying Lionsgate last year, but the deal fell through. In February 2018, Saban Brands appointed Hasbro as the global master toy licensee for Power Rangers with a future option to purchase the franchise. On May 1, 2018, Hasbro agreed to purchase Power Rangers and other entertainment assets from Saban Brands for US$522 million in cash and stock with the licensing fee already paid with credit. The sale, which also included My Pet Monster, Popples, Julius Jr., Luna Petunia, Treehouse Detectives and additional properties, was expected to close in the second quarter. In October 2018, the company announced plans to cut jobs amounting to less than 10% of its 5,000-plus global workforce in response to changes in how consumers buy toys.
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On June 15, 2012, 4Kids filed a notice outlining a proposed deal in which its assets would be divided between Kidsco and 4K Acquisition which was finalized on June 26, 2012. The deal saw 4K Acquisition acquire the US rights to the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and Kidsco acquire 4Kids' other assets including the agreements for Dragon Ball Z Kai, Cubix: Robots for Everyone, Sonic X and The CW Network's Saturday morning programming block. On July 2, 2012, it was announced that Saban Brands, via Kidsco Media Ventures, would begin programming the block in the fall, and on July 12, 2012, it announced that the block would be named Vortexx, which launched on August 25, 2012 and ended on September 27, 2014. On June 12, 2012, it was announced that Saban Brands plans to reintroduce the Popples franchise with new merchandise in fall 2013. On August 3, 2012, it was announced that Saban Brands acquired The Playforge, the development team behind App Store success stories Zombie Farm and Zombie Life. On September 19, 2012, Saban Brands announced that they acquired Zui provider of Kid-Safe Online content. On September 25, 2012, Saban Brands announced that they re- acquired the Digimon franchise and its most recent season, Digimon Fusion with Toei Animation handling Asian licensing & distribution and MarVista Entertainment handling all other global licensing & distribution.
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