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Early sketches of Happi. Can you spot what's different?
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More early sketches. She may look a bit different but you can tell it's still the same silly girl.
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Experimenting with Happi in more normal clothes...
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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.
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While the original designs for Happi were cute enough, we did try some other hairstyles, just for fun...
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Original designs fro Eclair and Angst.
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Eclair doing a bit of dancing practice for Episode 22. If it were made he might have some other moves to show too.
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Design for Ultrabot, who only appeared in the animated short. So far.
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Happi and Angst trying to untangle the mess.
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The gang's all here! You can see a new character with them - the flower girl Rosey Posey!
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Now you all know what Timidness Chan looks like without her helmet!
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Some screenshots from the first Happiness Chan website, way back from 2005!
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A small number of plush toys were made of the Happi, Eclair, Angst, rain and Peekaboo.
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A look behind the scenes at designing the plush.
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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.
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Happi plush were available in stores for a short while. Some stores had nice displays like this.
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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?
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Illustrations made for a storybook we wanted to do.
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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...
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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.
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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!
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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.
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At the top of the mountain, Happi would meet Frostbite, the vampire penguin!
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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!