Early sketches of Happi. Can you spot what's different?

More early sketches. She may look a bit different but you can tell it's still the same silly girl.

Experimenting with Happi in more normal clothes...

Happiness Chan began as a short Flash film that was made as a hobby. Eclair and Angst are in it too, as is a mysterious robot. Together, they try and learn to dance.
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Happi's design slowly evolves into the way we see her today. The biggest change were the buttons and pockets to make her look like she's in a little dress.

While the original designs for Happi were cute enough, we did try some other hairstyles, just for fun...

Original designs fro Eclair and Angst.

Eclair doing a bit of dancing practice for Episode 22. If it were made he might have some other moves to show too.

Design for Ultrabot, who only appeared in the animated short. So far.

Happi and Angst trying to untangle the mess.

The gang's all here! You can see a new character with them - the flower girl Rosey Posey!

Now you all know what Timidness Chan looks like without her helmet!

Some screenshots from the first Happiness Chan website, way back from 2005!

A small number of plush toys were made of the Happi, Eclair, Angst, rain and Peekaboo.

A look behind the scenes at designing the plush.

The very first Happi plush ever made! These prototypes were done to get an idea of how she will look like, before starting mass production.

Happi plush were available in stores for a short while. Some stores had nice displays like this.

A tiny number of plush were dressed up specially for Christmas and Chinese New Year, and were given away as lucky draw items. Do any of you have these?

Illustrations made for a storybook we wanted to do.

At the end of Episode 21, Captain Snap gives Happi a map! This is what it looks like. The path would hav taken Happi through the forests, into Rockfoot City and up the mountain. And maybe even to outer space...

Rosey Posey is the Princess of the Petali Kingdom, and Episodes 22-24 would have been her story. Here are some of the characters from Petali, including the Queen Rose, and Rosey's nanny.

The Petali Kingdom has cactus looking soldiers, who ride around in giant flower-horses. Somewhere in the story, Eclair gets to wear a knight's armour!

Happiness would have made more friends when she visits the forest around Seashell Bay. From left - Pampam and Popo the fruit siblings, Baby Jo, who has wandered away from his mother, and Bruno the bear who thinks he's a duck.

At the top of the mountain, Happi would meet Frostbite, the vampire penguin!

If Happi made it to space, she would have had a grand adventure among the stars with her new friends Starriness Chan, U.F.Ro, Ultrabot (He's baaack!) and a baby alien. And she would have returned to Earth with an ability that she did not have before... but that is a story yet to be told!