House of care Bears has launched yet another product to please your child and bring smile on their face. With its adorable features and cute looks, the new launch of Care Bears will definitely attract you as well as your kids towards itself. This particular product from the makers, Superstar Care Bear Plush in Flower Costumes, has already created an impact in the market. As the name suggest, the product has a superstar kind of features to please your kid.

This 8” velour Bears weigh as light as 8 ounces only. The dimension of this product is 8 x 6 x 8 inches in measurements. Basically, this superstar Care Bears Plush with Flower costume is velour Bear, which is yellow in color and wears a flowery costume. The costume is lime green in color and has orange colored petals in it. To give it an extravagant look, the tummy of the bear is embroidered with a heart in the centre. Thus, the design itself suggests how cute it must be looking.

The superstar care bears plush in flower costumes won’t cost you much. The product is designed cutely keeping your child’s imagination in mind, and will surely please them to the utmost.

Funshine Bear is one of the main characters in Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot. In this series, Funshine Bear loves to play and lives for thrills. She always makes a splash, whether she’s acing an extreme sport, driving her tricked-out ATV, or hanging with her friends at her home on Adventure Beach, Care-a-Lot’s fun zone. Her sun belly badge can find light at the darkest hour, provide solar power, or shine a spotlight on a star performer.

This plush bear comes with a DVD with a full TV episode on it. Buy it on Amazon for $42.99.

This is a delightful product from the Care Bears to give your child a complete education about a health check up and a medical examination. Though this product cannot make your child a doctor, but can certainly make them enjoy a medical examination. Care Bears Tenderheart is a product, which reflects the hard work of Care Bears behind every product they come up with.

The product consist of a tenderheart Bear, which is all ready to perform a medical checkup. The bear is also provided with toys like stethoscope, otoscope, bandage, syringe and a thermometer as his medical apparatus for conducting a medical examination. By just touching any device to the tenderheart Bear, it sings one of the verses from 25 already fed verses. The Bear thus requires 3 AA size batteries. One of those 25 verses says “thank you for taking care of me”.

The product is designed in order to provide your child with knowledge along with their play. The tenderheart bear helps them in learning about a doctor’s checkup. The bear is 11 inches tall and weighs 3 pounds.

From the land of Care–a–Lot (this is what care Bears are sometimes referred to as), prepare yourself for yet another product for your kid. They have always showed care towards the children with their products. This product does nothing less than that. The Care Bears Centerpiece is one of the finest product developed by the Care Bears for their children.

The product comprises of various Bears from the house of Care Bears in the Centerpiece. All these bears are favorites of your child. The wonderful concept of colors and beautiful graphics makes it look more attractive for the children. Each bear in 3d centerpiece is being featured in clouds and rainbows. The concept of clouds and rainbows reflects the imagination of a child and thus pleases them a lot. This innovation not only makes it look adorable, but also interesting for the kids.

The centerpiece weighs 1.8 ounces only making it very light for the kids to handle it. It has all the bears in it, which can make the kids happy, as they get their entire favorite collected in a single place.

Care Bears have tried their level best in providing your children with the best, which they could in a huge variety of product. Their products are not concentrated over a fixed area, but offer a wide range.  This new product of Care bears also aims at pleasing your child to the maximum level, which it can. The product from the care Bears, which will be trying this aim, is Care Bears Crepe Streamer 10 yards.

Each Care Bears Crepe Streamers measures 10 yards in length. The weight of this product is 1.6 ounces only, which makes it very light. The product has special specification, as it is sold by the Factory Card & Party Outlet.

Each Care Bears Crepe Streamer is designed perfectly with wonderful color combination. The product contains several tags of Care Bears in it throughout the length at regular intervals. The word Care Bears in written in clouds made graphics and has a background of rainbow, which makes it very beautiful and colorful. Thus, it pleases the kids a lot because the colors used are few, which the kids prefer the most.

The product is used by the kids widely for decorations and pleases them a lot.

Following the success of their first big franchise (Strawberry Shortcake) back in 1979, American Greetings introduced the Care Bear characters in late 1981 through a line of greeting cards. Children’s book illustrator Elena Kucharik did the original artwork for the cards. The line was a joint development by Those Characters from Cleveland, AGC’s licensing division, and MAD (Marketing and Design Service of the toy group of General Mills).

As they had done with Strawberry Shortcake back when it was called “Project I,” AGC called the Care Bears franchise “Project II” as they strove to make the character program secret until advertising was ready. At the start of the franchise, Care Bears was already established as its working title.

The 80s

In 1982, the Care Bears were announced as a toy line for production by Parker Brothers and Kenner the following spring, as well as pre-licensed characters and media stars. In 1983, they were introduced to the general public, and starred in their first television special, The Land Without Feelings, which Kenner produced and sponsored.

1984 saw the release of another special, The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine; a miniseries based on the toys was distributed by Lexington Broadcast Services Company in syndication. A spin-off line, the Care Bear Cousins, was introduced the same year.

In 1985, the Bears and Cousins starred in their first movie, The Care Bears Movie, produced by Nelvana Limited and released by The Samuel Goldwyn Company. It became the highest-grossing animated film made outside the Disney market at the time of its release. Later that autumn, a television series from DIC Entertainment which was co-produced by Nelvana and based on the characters was made, and it ran for 22 episodes in syndication.

The following year, Nelvana completely took over the animation rights for the franchise with a second movie entitled Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation. Released by Columbia Pictures, the film featured a new villain, Dark Heart, and introduced more of the Care Bears and Care Bears Cousins.

Later that fall, The Care Bears TV Series (also from Nelvana) premiered on the ABC network, lasting two seasons and consisting of over 70 episodes. The Bears’ last theatrically-released film, The Care Bears’ Adventure in Wonderland, debuted the following summer. The Care Bears Nutcracker Suite, the last ever Care Bears movie made in the decade (and was the last movie of the franchise right up until 2004), premiered on the Disney Channel in 1988. Originally planned to be a feature film, it was decided to launch the film as a direct-to-TV movie after the previous film flopped at the box office.

As with many other animated franchises of the 1980s, the Care Bears movies and TV shows were designed and created primarily to sell the pre-licensed characters and related merchandise. This has been noticed, more or less, by the franchise’s long-time aficionados, and have also been acknowledged by the writers and producers of the shows and movies. Over 40 million Care Bears were sold between 1983 and 1987, and during the decade, American Greetings printed over 70 million of their cards. In whole, the sales of their merchandise reached over $2 billion during the 1980s. This made them one of the most successful toy lines of its time, alongside “My Little Pony” and “Transformers.”

The 90s

As the 80s came to an end, the Bears’ popularity faded away. At the start of the 1990s, an attempt to relaunch the phenomenon came in the form of Environmental Care Bears. Only a few select Bears from the 1980s line were used, with some changes (for example, Proud Heart Cat was released as a bear, sporting the symbol of a heart-shaped American flag).

During the late 1990s, another two revivals were attempted, but both failed to match the success of the original toy line. In 1996, retailer ShopKo released only Tenderheart, Cheer, and Bedtime Bears, and during 1999, in an imitation of Beanie Babies, Kenner made six “beanlings” based on Tenderheart, Share, Friend, Cheer, Bedtime, and Good Luck Bears.

The same year the beanlings were made, Jay Foreman, president of current distributor and manufacturer of toys for the franchise, Play Along Toys, bought the rights to the Care Bears franchise for just under $1 million. Three years later, the Bears came out of hibernation to celebrate their 20th anniversary. A big event was planned for that year as Play Along began to roll out the new product lines; thus began a major trend as the toys became popular once again.

2002 relaunch

In 2002 American Greetings relaunched the Care Bear brand as part of the Bears’ 20th anniversary celebration with a series of dolls, toys and movies. The artwork and design of the bears were changed for relaunch. Also, Funshine Bear’s gender was changed from female to male, Champ Bear’s colours were changed from tan to true blue, with his tummy symbol changed to a winner’s cup with a star, and Share Bear’s tummy symbol was changed from a milkshake with two straws to two lollipops crossed. The change to Share Bear’s symbol stems from Play Along Toys’ suggestion of the change on the grounds that sharing a milkshake may spread germs. Apart from that, many other minor changes were made to the designs, mostly involving lightening the colors of the bears and minor redesigns to the tummy symbols.

In the midst of this revival, Play Along released brand-new toys based on the newly-redesigned Bears, sold at stores such as Wal-Mart, KMart, Toys “R” Us, Target, K•B Toys, and Mervyns. The new merchandise included the Bears doing aerobics; Tenderheart Bear as a patient (casting the child that is playing with the toy as the doctor); Champ Bear as a fireman; and the Care Bears themselves as Cubs. Over 70 million 13-inch plush Bears have been sold since the re-launch. In addition, Lionsgate Home Entertainment and subsidiary FHE Pictures, in association with Nelvana, have made two direct-to-DVD computer-animated films, Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-lot in 2004 and The Care Bears’ Big Wish Movie. in 2005. Also worth noting is that the role of unofficial leader was apparently temporarily transferred from Tenderheart Bear to Champ Bear shortly before the 2005 movie, and it is unknown if the role was returned to Tenderheart after the movie. Various other music CDs featuring the bears and video games were also produced. No Care Bears movie was produced in 2006, but hints of the second revival and the upcoming movie, Oopsy Does It!, started circulating among fans in the Internet towards the end of 2006.

It is also interesting to note that an attempt to relaunch the Care Bear Cousins was made a little later after the 2002 relaunch of the bears. New versions of the various cousins were produced (with Proud Heart being changed back into a cat, albeit in a different color and with a different tummy symbol). However the revival of the line was not as successful as that of the bears’ revival. The cousins were not relaunched in the 2007 relaunch of the franchise.

2007 relaunch

In 2007, American Greetings relaunched Care Bears again, first with a series of dolls, then a new movie (Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!) and immediately after with a new TV series (Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot). The animation and artwork is completely different than the originals giving the Care Bears have smaller body structures and redesigned tummy symbols (now called belly badges). Also, instead of Nelvana, the film and the animated series are once again produced by DiC.

As part of the franchise’s 25th anniversary celebrations, the Bears have been redesigned by the AG Properties illustration team, and the logo of the franchise was redesigned to provide a more whimsical feeling. The new line consists of fifteen of the thirty-nine bears (as seen in the recent film). Five of the bears were chosen to be the focus of the franchise: Oopsy (a brand new bear who debuted in Oopsy Does It!), Cheer, Funshine, Grumpy, and Share Bear. The other bears include Amigo Bear, Wish Bear, True Heart Bear, Bedtime Bear, Surprise Bear, Love-a-Lot Bear, Harmony Bear, Superstar Bear, Heartsong Bear and Hopeful Heart Bear, although the remaining 24 of the bears are also stated to have a release in the near future according to Play Along Toys.

The role of unofficial leader was re-transferred, this time permanently, to Cheer Bear. Their brand-new theme song is performed by former Letters to Cleo member, Kay Hanley, and the music video premiered on FOX and Nickelodeon. In August 2007, they appeared in 20th Century Fox’s theatrical release of Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!. This was followed by the television series from DiC Entertainment, Adventures in Care-a-Lot. The series premiered on CBS’ KEWLopolis block on September 15, 2007.

The Care Bears universe was rebooted upon the 2007 relaunch. Prior plot devices like the Cloudmobiles, Caring Meter, the Cloud Keeper and even Care-a-lot castle were not referred to or mentioned as of the new series (indeed, Care-a-lot castle doesn’t even appear to exist after the relaunch, as seen in the aerial shots of Care-a-lot shown at various points in various episodes of Adventures in Care-a-lot). In its place is the gathering tree, which is where the Care Bears now gather to meet or hold festivities. Also, the Care Bears have never made contact with humans (although this is set to change with the upcoming DVD release Grizz-ly Adventures, which will introduce the first human to enter the new Care-a-Lot), and a new villain named Grizzle (who seeks to conquer Care-a-lot and nothing else) was introduced. The February 2007 issue of the Wall Street Journal states that in the new version, “they live in a village, centered on a big tree—with no castle in sight.”

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