Who is Winnie the Pooh?

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We have a great selection of Winnie the Pooh figures & figurine so we thought a brief history of the character was in order.

Winnie the Pooh is a Walt Disney Company franchise, based on animated fictional characters who have been featured as part of the Disney character line-up. The Winnie the Pooh franchise is based on the book by A.A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh (note the hyphenation), is the first volume of stories about a bear called Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, from 1926, upon which the franchise is based.

In 1961, Walt Disney Productions licensed certain film and other rights to the characters, stories and trademarks from Stephen Slesinger, Inc., and The Estate of A.A. Milne and made a series of cartoon films about him. The early cartoons were based on several of the original stories and the distinctive images made popular by Stephen Slesinger, Inc. during the 1930s through 1960s.
Disney’s storytelling style and characterisation have little in common with Milne’s tales, and were greatly disliked by the Milne family. Alongside the cartoon versions, which Disney adapted from Slesinger, Slesinger’s simplified lines and pastel color adaptations of Shepard’s classical drawings are now marketed under the description “Classic Pooh”.

In 1977, Disney released the animated feature The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, introducing a new character named Gopher, which Disney acknowledged by having Gopher proclaim, “I’m not in the book, you know!” This movie features three segments that were originally released separately as featurettes: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974). This feature version featured new bridging material and a new ending, as it had been Walt Disney’s original intention to make a feature. In 1983, a fourth featurette, Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, was released

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