If you haven't read part 1 of this article, at least hit the introduction to the descriptions. There is some necessary information, such as definitions of terms, which I don't repeat here.

The purpose of this series of articles is to assist collectors in distinguishing similar or similarly named Pooh mini bean bag plushes from around the globe from those released exclusively in Asia. The first article dealt with all Poohs released in Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as Japanese Poohs taking on human roles. This month, I'll tell you about Pooh in more celebratory moods, as the Japanese dress him up to mark their favorite occasions.

As with my previous article, the specific searches are given so that you can recognize what you're looking for. I strongly urge you to go through the general searches given at the end of the first article.

Little Stars Horoscope Poohs: There were two series of Western zodiac Poohs released in Japan. There was a Western release of zodiac Poohs at the same time as the first Japanese release, but they are easily distinguishable from the two Japanese series. The Western Poohs are dressed as the zodiac creature (e.g., Cancer Pooh is dressed as a crab), with the name of the sign embroidered on the bottom of the right foot and the astrological symbol embroidered on the left. The Western Poohs are, of course, regular Poohs with an open-mouth smile.

Little Stars Horoscope (2001): These Poohs were released over the 2001 calendar year (Jan, Aquarius; Feb, Pisces; Mar, Aries; Apr, Taurus; Jun, Gemini, Cancer; July, Leo; Aug, Virgo, Libra; Oct, Scorpio; Nov, Sagittarius). Each Pooh wears an appropriate hooded jacket (for instance, the one for Aries looks like a sheep's fleece) with a metallic star on top and is holding the sign of the zodiac in his hands (to continue the example, Aries has a ram). The zodiac sign has the astrological symbol for the sign embroidered on it.

Little Stars Horoscope (2003): Again, Pooh is dressed in an appropriate hooded jacket, but this time it has white trim and a white star at the peak of the hood. Pooh has grown a pair of angel wings (although these are often not visible from the front) and the bottoms of his feet are in a contrasting color, with an embroidered patch of the zodiac sign on the bottom of his right foot. In the keychain version of these Poohs, a small, smiling, winged Pooh, wearing an appropriately colored tunic, clings to the top of a pillow (the shape of which varies with the sign). The pillow has the same embroidered patch that appears on the foot of the larger Pooh and a star is embroidered to either side of the patch.

Little Stars Birth Stone Collection (2002): These Poohs were each released in the month appropriate to the birthstone. For some reason, although this is in other respects the bear we all know and love, in this series, he has rosy cheeks. Each Pooh is wearing a hat and a jacket of the birthstone's color; the hat has the English three-letter abbreviation of the month ("Jan," "Feb," etc.). A faux birthstone is either pinned somewhere on his chest (the first six months of the year) or hanging around his neck, set in a heart-shaped charm (the last six months). Do look for the pendant on the ones that come with it--I saw some for auction that were missing it. The Poohs are known by their stones:  Garnet, Amethyst, Aquamarine, Diamond, Emerald, Pearl, Ruby, Peridot, Sapphire, Opal, Topaz, and Turquoise. There have been no Birthstone Poohs released elsewhere from which they need to be distinguished. Sega did make a line of light-up birthstone Poohs, but they weren't beans and they're readily distinguishable by their crowns, their wide grins, and their plastic light-up "stones."

All Seasons Poohs (Apr 2004-?): I'm not sure where they're getting the names, because they don't really seem season related. These are not Little Stars Poohs; their bodies are similar to regular Poohs, their heads are very like LS Poohs in shape, but all over they've got long, glossy, rather crinkly fur. Their mouths were not visible in the pictures I saw, so they certainly weren't open.

April Overall Pooh: Over a long-sleeved red shirt, Pooh wears a pair of deep blue denim overalls. He also has a straw hat with a wide brim that is tied on with a blue and green plaid ribbon. His overalls have one pocket in the middle of the chest and two pockets in the rear.

May Goes Out Pooh: Pooh is dressed in a blue gingham shirt with long sleeves, a breast pocket on the left, and three large white buttons up the center. In his left paw, he holds a white bag of some sort with red straps that wrap around to the bottom of the bag.

1999 and 2000 Bunny Poohs: There are three: the 1999 one (blue) and the 2000 ones (blue and pink). They are regular Poohs wearing a bunny suit of either blue or pink and an open-mouth grin. The hood of Pooh's costume has straps that are tied beneath his chin. His hands are visible, but his feet are covered by the bunny suit and the left one has the year embroidered on it in pink (if a blue bunny) or blue (if the pink one). The insides of his ears are the other color, too. I mention them because I found some sites listing them as Japanese releases, but if so, they are only identical to the US/UK (1999 Bunny) and Australian (both 2000) releases (perhaps they come with a Japanese tag, but there's no other obvious difference). Some sites indicated that these were never released in Japan at all.

Butterfly Pooh (Apr 2000): Also known as "Chocho Pooh" ("Butterfly Pooh" in Japanese), although most sites list this bean as a multicountry release. It's a regular Pooh in his favorite red shirt but wearing over it a butterfly suit whose body was pale blue with a pale yellow tummy. (I think there are blue lines running horizontally across his tummy, like the segmented scales of a butterfly, but the picture's not clear enough for me to be sure.) Pooh's wings are of pink satin with pale blue satin insets. His antennae are dark pink and curve outward only slightly. I've seen two different versions: one had "EASTER 2000" embroidered on his foot in light blue. The writing on the foot of the other was less clear, but it was definitely not the same. What it looked like to me was a light blue "2000" with a butterfly underneath it; perhaps that was only in the Japanese ones? (That picture was from a Japanese site; the other was American.) There is a California Disneyland Bug Pooh who seems to be a butterfly, but his stomach is iridescent blue, his wings are either dark blue or black with a metallic gold pattern on them, and his black antennae appear to have wires inside them so that their position can be changed. I also saw a butterfly Pooh of unknown origin on YJ; the picture was overexposed so it was hard to be sure of much, but he was an open-mouthed Pooh with tightly curled black antennae and his major color appeared to be pink, which covered his arms and legs entirely. The UK's Dragonfly Pooh is vaguely similar, but he's mostly pink and his wings are translucent.

Easter Bunny Pooh with Egg (Feb 2001): A regular Pooh in his "POOH" shirt wears a pair of fuzzy white bunny ears on a headband over his head. He holds an Easter egg (I can't tell if it's plush or plastic). There are other Poohs wearing bunny ears, but none of them holds an egg.

LS 2001 Easter Bunny Poohs (Mar 2001): I've seen these referred to merely by their colors (e.g., "White Bunny Pooh"); I've also seen "Shiny" added to the name. Shininess is their distinguishing characteristic: all that makes the white one differ from them the LS Bunny Pooh of a year earlier is that his suit is made of iridescent, shiny white material rather than fur. The blue and pink versions are similar, just in the appropriate colors. The keychain versions were identical.

LS Chick Pooh (Mar 2001): Pooh is a fluffy yellow chick with orange feet and beak. He wears or carries nothing else, and his arms have been replaced by the chick's wings. His dangle is identical. The closest other Pooh is the US Chick Pooh, which has the wings strapped onto Pooh's arms (although Pooh's arms are covered in yellow). The American Pooh has much longer legs and has a tuft of yellow fluff at the top of his head.

LS Yellow Chick Pooh (Apr 2002): This Chick Pooh has cradled in his left wing the bottom half of an egg shell in which sits a pink chick.

LS Easter Chick Pooh (Feb 2003): This Chick Pooh has half of a broken eggshell cupping the lower half of his body; his orange chicken feet potrude from the shell. On his head, over his fluffy yellow chick hood, he has a bonnet made of the other half of the broken eggshell, with white ribbons tied under his chin to keep it on. At the end of the tails of the ribbons are pink pom-poms.

LS Easter Rabbit Pooh (Mar 2003): Pooh as a woolly lop-eared bunny. The inside of his bunny ears and the bottoms of his feet are in pink cloth with dark pink spots on his left ear and right foot and white spots on his other ear and foot. He clutches a yellow Easter egg with a wavy pink line and a wavy blue line and pink and blue spots. The keychain was the same except that his feet were just woolly white.

LS Easter Pooh (Mar 2004): Pooh is a rather shaggy rabbit with white that has a pale pink pattern running through it (too pale for me to discern if there was a pattern to the pink). The insides of his ears are pink gingham, and he has a white ring of fur around his face. Clutched in his paws is a stuffed Easter egg, blue with a wavy pink line around its width and with pink and yellow spots. I haven't seen any dangle versions, but given the pattern, I'd assume that there was an identical one, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's one of Pooh clinging to an Easter egg of the same description as the MBBP holds.

LS Kintarou Pooh (Apr 2001): Kintarou is one of the central heroes of Boys' Day (now Children's Day, May 5), and this is appropriately the fifth Disney Fan Pooh. Right from infancy, Kintarou was known for feats of great strength and courage. Here Pooh appears with his trademark red bib, trimmed in black, and featuring the first character of Kintarou's name, , kin, which means "gold." (Font matching did not go well here: the character on Pooh's shirt has straighter lines on its "cap" and the middle line is no longer than the one above it.) Pooh wears a medium blue hat with yellow decoration and carries a yellow staff with a blue banner and a red banner, each with a pattern of white dots on it (if they're supposed to look like the carp windsocks traditionally hung out for this day, Disney didn't do a very good job).

Happi Poohs: So far, four Poohs have been released wearing a happi. Traditionally a workingman's livery coat with the name of his employer on the back, happi are now worn during summer festivals, especially by those carrying a shrine as part of the festivities. All of the Happi Poohs are regular Poohs, although after the first, their mouths are closed.

Happi Pooh (Jul 1999) (aka Blue Happi Pooh): Pooh wears the traditional happi coat, one with a blue background with paler blue swirls and the occasional red carp on it. He has a blue belt and his cap is white with blue polka dots.

Happi Pooh (Jul 2000) (aka Red Happi Pooh): This Pooh wears a happi coat of red with a pattern of human faces on it. Tilted on his head, as if he has just pushed it aside, is a full-face mask.

White Happi Pooh and Pink Happi Pooh (Jun 2001): Each has a happi of the appropriate color with a goldfish pattern on it. White has a lavender belt and a lavender band with white polkadots around his left ear (almost a scrunchie, but not quite tight enough). Pink's are the same but orange instead of lavender. Each of them holds a bag with a goldfish in it (there's usually a goldfish catching stand at summer fairs). I've also seen the White Happi Pooh called the 2001 Blue Happi Pooh, perhaps because the pattern on his happi includes blue where the Pink Happi has pink.

Summer Fun Pooh (Apr 2000): Pooh's not afraid to go in the deep end . . . so long as he has his trusty green inflatable horse life preserver. The horse has yellow spots and blue eyes, and Pooh has on a one-piece bathing suit that's mostly bright red but has some horizontal white stripes starting at the waist and continuing for the rest of the suit. The Pooh is a regular style one (his mouth is open, too), but there's no confusing him with other summer-theme releases. That life preserver is one of a kind.

Surfer Pooh (May 2000): Pooh's gotten over his fear of deep water rapidly! Still wearing the same bathing suit he did a month ago (Summer Fun Pooh), he's ready to dive in with his spiffy orange surf board. The board has two horizontal pale blue wavy lines about a third of the way up it and two thin dark blue lines running the entire length of it. There are other surfer Poohs, but they don't favor orange surf boards.

LS Enikki Pooh (Jul 2001): Enikki means "picture diary"--my only guess is that this Pooh is supposed to be a snapshot of Pooh on his summer vacation. Pooh wears a red and white one-piece bathing suit that has "Pooh" in gold on the white band across his chest. He wears a burlap sun hat and he has a pale blue inflatable life preserver with honeybees on it. You can't mistake him for any of the others.

Summer Fun Pooh (Apr 2002): Pooh is going surfing again! This time his red shirt has a yellow "P" on the chest, and he's got yellow cords around his neck. He's also got a pink spot on his left cheek. His surf board is white with a blue stripe down it lengthwise and a small picture of himself in a circle of the same blue at the front end.

It may only be a Hallmark holiday, but friendship is what Pooh is all about, so he could hardly let this day pass without special notice.

Friendship Pooh and Piglet (Jul 2000): A regular (but maybe closed-mouthed) Pooh appears with his best friend. Piglet is standing inside a blue and pink hunny pot that Pooh is holding. There is writing on the pot, but I couldn't get a good enough angle on it to read it. There are many other Friendship Pooh and Piglets, but none of the others has Piglet in a hunny pot. There is a Happy Birthday Pooh with Piglet from the UK in which Piglet is emerging from a hunny pot, but the pot is entirely blue and they're both wearing hats. There was a Friendship Pooh and Piglet for 1999 (the two sit next to each other holding a purple satin heart reading "Best Friends 1999"), but it was a simultaneous release in the US and the UK as well. In 2000, the US/UK release featured an identical blue and pink hunny pot, but Pooh and Roo were holding it together.

2001 Friendship Set (Jul 2001): Tigger holds Roo on his lap, and Roo holds a tiny stuffed Pooh, wearing his "Pooh" shirt. The blue tag on Pooh says "TO MY BEST FRIEND". The American edition of the same year was the same except that Roo held a generic beige bear. (Huh? What were the American designers thinking?) There's a larger plush toy (not a bean bag) that was a Japanese exclusive of Pooh holding Roo on his lap with Roo holding the Pooh toy.

Friendship Pooh and Piglet (Aug 2003): The Pooh is almost a Little Stars Pooh, but he has an embroidered nose and an open mouth. He wears his favorite red shirt with "Pooh" in yellow. His best friend, Piglet, sits beside him, and Pooh has his left arm around his friend's shoulders. In his right paw, Pooh holds the string of a pale blue balloon that reads "pooh & piglet" in metallic gold thread. On the bottom of his right foot, Pooh has a metal heart plaque that reads "POOH Friendship Day 2003". There was also a Pooh and Tigger released (a small Tigger sits on Pooh's lap with a hunny pot that Pooh has his paw in), but that was a plush and not a bean bag.

Pooh as Kangaroo (Sep 2000): Pooh trick-or-treats in a kangaroo costume. It's a regular Pooh in a costume in which his face completely replaces the animal's. The kangaroo suit is a golden brown with a pink tummy, and the costume includes a black nose that is held over Pooh's by a strap of the same material as the kangaroo's fur. Pooh holds a jack-o'-lantern treat bag. There are other kangaroo Poohs, but the nose and the treat bag are unique to this one.

Pooh as Scarecrow (Sep 2000): Maybe he figures that he's not gonna scare anyone else on Halloween, so he might as well try scaring a few crows! A regular Pooh looks right out of the Wizard of Oz, with his patched orange shirt, his faux burlap head wrapping, strands of golden brown yarn straw poking out from various places, and matching mauve hat and floppy boots. He hasn't forgotten to bring along his jack-o'-lantern treat bag.

Devil Pooh (Oct 2000): Because the horns of Pooh's costume are floppy (and maybe because he doesn't make a particularly scary devil), Western sites always want to call this "Jester Pooh" or "Devil Jester Pooh" or something of the kind, but I've never seen that on a Japanese site. Pooh's devil suit is black, with yellow pom-poms on the end of his horns and yellow claws on his feet. A jack-o'-lantern patch with a green leaf is sewn to his chest, and he carries a jack-o'-lantern bag to carry his treats in.

Pumpkin Pooh (Oct 2000): Pooh has a jack-o'-lantern for a body here, although with his own arms and legs. He has a green collar with points all around and another pumpkin on his head as a hat (the pumpkins got a bunch of leaves that look like the same material as Pooh's collar). Apparently he forgot he'd need a bag to put his treats in. The American Pumpkin Pooh (Aug 1998), in addition to being a regular Pooh, had only a half a pumpkin for a hat and you could see the sleeves of Pooh's usual red shirt on underneath the pumpkin. The British edition of September 2000 is interesting: again you can see Pooh's red shirt, but you can also see the brown straps with orange buttons holding on the jack-o'-lantern, whose features are red instead of black. Pooh's hat is the top of the pumpkin, what you get when you cut just around the stem so as to scoop the insides out. The chief distinguishing feature of the US Pumpkin Pooh of 2001 was the green and purple striped suit he was wearing under the pumpkin; it covered his legs entirely and his arms to the wrist. The British Light Up Pumpkin Pooh of the same year once again had the brown straps, but this time on the front of Pooh's pumpkin, instead of the face of a jack-o'-lantern, there is a patch in the shape of a pumpkin (the features of the jack-o'-lantern appear when they're lit up). He also has "2001" embroidered in silver on his left foot. The Australian Pumpkin Pooh of 2001 has a very shiny orange pumpkin and his red shirt sleeves come down to his wrists rather than the usual half sleeves. DLP released an imaginative Pumpkin Pooh in 2002: Pooh is clearly jumping out of the jack-o'-lantern to surprise the viewer. The jack-o'-lantern (with yellow features) only comes up to Pooh's waist, and he's wearing the usual red shirt with "Pooh" on it in yellow. Pooh holds the top of the pumpkin over his head. There was a Pumpkin Set released by DLP two years earlier, but I could get nothing more than the bare fact of its existence.

Witch Pooh (Sep 2001): Pooh goes trick-or-treating as a witch! He wears an orange and pink outfit with horizontal stripes, a purple satin cape, and a matching purple satin witch's hat with a lime green band and a black bat on the front of the band. He has the usual jack-o'-lantern treat bag in his left hand. There was an earlier Witch Pooh who wore black and was identical to a UK release and a later Japanese Witch Pooh who also wore purple satin (see below).

Batman Pooh (Sep 2001): I've also seen this as "Bat Pooh," which seems more appropriate to me, but I've seen "Batman" more often. Pooh dresses up as a bat for Halloween, and Disney took him so seriously that he has been provided with a hanger that allows him to be hung upside down! Pooh's all in black except for his red bat wings and the two jack-o'-lanterns embroidered on his tummy. The top tips of the wings can be drawn together and buttoned at his throat. Unfortunately he seems to have forgotten his treat bag. The buruburu edition is a purple bat with red wings. I don't know what happens if you pull on his stuffed jack-o'-lantern.

LF Leopard Bat (Sep 2002): This is sometimes called "Leopard Batman Pooh." An interesting concept to say the least: it looks like Pooh couldn't decide whether he wanted to dress as a leopard or as a bat, so he dressed as both! Wearing a fleecy version of the "realistic" leopard print, in back he has a pair of silvery black bat wings with brown beads handing from each point. His tail is a chocolate brown cord with a brown bead at the end. On the bottom of his left foot is a heart patch. As you might guess, there's nothing quite like this bean!

Witch Pooh (Sep 2002): Pooh's witch costume was such a screaming success last year that he decided to reprise it with some improvments. This time he wears a purple satin dress with a shirt collar and an orange pattern of stars and jack-o-lanterns. His hat is similar, but the lime green band is wider, and this time the bat is orange and under Pooh's left ear. He holds his jack-o'-lantern treat bag in his right hand.

Bat Pooh (Sep 2002): I'm not so sure this is an improvement on Pooh's previous bat outfit. The red insides to his bat ears are OK, but what's with the purple beads on the tips of his wings and what are those red satin spheres on his toes? This suit has a single large jack-o'-lantern on the chest that's supposed to look sewn on with orange thread. As before, his suit is mostly black, his red satin wings can be buttoned under his chin, he has no treat bag, and he can be hung upside down. The buruburu version was the same except he had purple wings with red beads hanging off them and a large stuffed pumpkin, which, if you pulled it, would make him wave his wings. There was a cute pumpkin bag you could get that when you zipped it open had Bat Pooh and Witch Pooh (the 2002 versions) at a Halloween party, but it wasn't a MBBP.

Ghost Pooh (Aug 2003): Pooh goes trick-or-treating as one of the classic's: a ghost. His sheet, however, is a shiny white velour and has a pocket sewn in the front so he can carry a small ghost friend in it like a kangaroo carries her baby. He's got a shiny red something in his right hand (maybe it's supposed to be a piece of hard sugar candy?) and carries a jack-o'-lantern treat bag in his left. The keychain version is a small ghost Pooh clinging to a jack-o'-lantern.

Black Cat Pooh: I can't believe it's bad luck to have this black cat cross your path! Pooh is dressed as an adorable black cat with white claws, a patch of long white fur on his chest, and a fluffy black tail. He has an orange satin ribbon with purple jack-o'-lanterns on it around his neck. He has in his hands the same things Ghost Pooh has in his: a small red shiny object in his right and the same jack-o'-lantern treat bag in his left. The dangle is the same except that his orange ribbon is plain. There was a UK Black Cat Pooh, but it was not very similar: Pooh's hands and feet are uncovered, his tummy and his ribbon are a very pale green, and his own ears stick out through his black hood.

There are many Christmas releases all over the world, making distinguishing specific ones quite difficult. Here's my best attempts below.

Christmas Tree Sweater Pooh (Dec 1999): Some sources called this "Christmas Sweater Pooh." A regular Pooh wears a read long-sleeved sweater with a Christmas tree on front of it. A thin layer of snow lies under the tree, a thick cap of it lies on top of the tree, and more snow falls through the air.

LS Blue Reindeer Pooh (Nov 2000): Pooh dressed as an adorable woolly, light blue reindeer. He has a patch of white fluff on his chest and white horns. At his throat hangs a round gold pendant of some kind, but I've never seen a picture that shows it well. It could be a jingle bell. The keychain version is the same minus the gold pendant.

Dream Pooh (Nov 2000): I am not sure why this was a Christmas release, but it's clearly marked so. A regular Pooh, in his usual "POOH" shirt, has sprouted a pair of very fluffy white wings. A British release for the previous Christmas, also Dream Pooh, looks very similar. First, it looks like the same basic Pooh and he also has very fluffy white wings. The UK Pooh, however, wears a burgundy shirt (looks like it could be velour) without any writing on it and the white straps holding on his wings are clearly visible around his arms.

Light Up Musical Christmas Tree Pooh (Nov 2000): This is a regular Pooh in a Santa suit and iridescent white elf shoes. He holds a small Christmas tree. The lights on the tree light up (I can't vouch for the music, and not every site included "Musical" in the name).

Nightwear Pooh (Nov 2000): This Pooh only came as a part of a special set: Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, Roo, and Pooh are apparently staying up to try to see Santa. They're all in Christmasy night things, with nightcaps on, and some of them are holding Christmas items; for instance, Piglet has a Christmas tree. Pooh is in a dark red nightcap with a dark pattern (maybe holly?) on it; he's got red slippers and he's holding a book with a green, white and gold cover. His mouth is open. The set came in a special green stocking with red handles and all of them pictured on the outside.

LS Snowman Pooh (Nov 2001): Pooh has the body of a snowman, but all his own limbs. He has two red buttons on his front, a blue scarf, and a Santa hat. The American Snowman Pooh has black buttons, a red and green plaid scarf, and a black top hat, and his limbs are of snow, too. The UK Snowman Pooh has his own limbs, but a red and green striped scarf and a black top hat.

LS White Reindeer and Dark Blue Reindeer Pooh (Nov 2001): These are exactly like the Blue Reindeer of a year previous, but one has silky dark blue fur with metallic threads in it and the other silky white fur. They have the same white fluff on their chests and the same white horns as the earlier edition. They have regular bells around their necks, and their dangles are the same, including the bells.

The Christmas Set (Nov 2001): This is a set of four beans: Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore. They appear as themselves, nothing extra, although Piglet's scarf is green. They came in a transparent bag with red trim that had "Merry Christmas" across it in red, over a line of holly and holly berries.

Angel Pooh (Nov 2001): Pooh wears his usual "POOH" shirt but also a pair of iridescent white wings. He's holding an iridescent white star in his left hand.

Holiday Party Pooh (Dec 2001): This one is also called "Holiday Cake Pooh," for obvious reasons: Pooh is dressed as a chocolate cake. In fact, he looks like he's trying to be the cake he was holding the previous April. He's got a white ribbon trimmed with lace and pink polka dots around his middle, and his cap is of white icing with multicolored round sprinkles on it. He has a scalloped pink collar around his neck--doubtless more icing. The buruburu version of this is quite cute: Pooh in his favorite shirt and wearing a chef's hat looks to be pushing a white cupcake that has cylindrical sprinkles and a cherry on top. When you pull Pooh and his cupcake apart, he hustles right back to it.

LS Santa Pooh (Nov 2002): Pooh wears a red Santa jacket with white trim at the cuffs and the hem and two big white pom-poms on the front. The Santa hat he has cocked over his left ear also has white trim and a white pom-pom ball at its peak, along with a couple of holly berries and a holly leaf. Around his neck is a red and green plaid scarf (looks to be the Royal Stewart tartan). There was a frame MBBP that was the Santa minus the scarf, plus a frame made in the style of a cloth holly wreath and a bow of the plaid. The Christmas buruburu isn't a Santa; he wears a coat of the red and green plaid and carries a white bag with a holly decoration and "Merry X'mas!" on it. If you pull the bag, he rings the bell he has in his other hand.

LS Reindeer Pooh (Nov 2002): This reindeer is such a pale brown that I think you could also call him off-white. He's in the same style as the earlier Reindeer Poohs, having the same white fluffy patch on his chest. His horns, however, are metallic gold and he wears the same plaid scarf that his coreleased Santa does.

LS Gingerbread Pooh (Nov 2003): Pooh looks good enough to eat when he's dressed as a gingerbread man! Also known as "Cookie Pooh," this toy has Pooh in a suit of very deep brown with pink icing anklets, cream icing bracelets, pale blue icing "x" buttons and white icing mouth and nose. He wears a red and white striped scarf and hat, making them look rather like candy cane accompaniments. The hat has a red tassle. The dangle lacks the hat and scarf but has a red and white ribbon tied in a bow around his neck, blue icing bracelets and round yellow buttons (candies, I guess). There was an American Pooh dressed as a gingerbread man, but his suit was a light brown, he had a swirl of white icing down his middle, a swirl of dark green icing down either side of the white one, red buttons beneath the white swirl, and a red bowtie. His ears stuck out of his hood, and he was, of course, not a Little Stars style bear.

LS Christmas Tree Pooh (Nov 2003): Pooh is a heartbreaker as a Christmas tree. He wears a fuzzy green suit that ends in a skirt at his waist. Then he's got a pair of brown fuzzy shorts (not visible from the front) and his feet and most of his legs are in red. On his hood is a pink, a blue, and a red ornament and he has a yellow star tree topper. Around his neck is a red and white striped ribbon with a bell hanging from it.

Next time are Pooh's favorites: the food Poohs! (Oh, yeah, and flower ones and some others as well.)

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