Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Jul 30, 2016 20:06:11 GMT
Does anyone have any behind-the-scenes explanation as to why the character designs for the Wuzzles TV show from the 80s differed so much from the "corporate" versions of these characters that we saw in merchandising? The difference was starkest for Eleroo, who looked like a completely different character (the TV version looked like his "elephant" part was an Asian elephant, and the corporate version looked like he was part African elephant) but the two versions of all the main characters differed from each other to varying degrees. One subtle example: all the Wuzzles had wings, including those that had no reason to (Rhinokey, Moosel, Hoppo, Eleroo); but in the corporate versions, these wings were elaborate and different between the characters, whereas in the TV show, they all had the same bland, generic double oval type wings. I know that in most franchises there are inevitable changes when characters are adapted for television, but in the case of Wuzzles it's particularly egregious, as if the corporate versions were cutesy and the TV versions were deliberately made more pedestrian and gritty.
