Popples (TV Series)

Popples was a series of fantasy characters created by Those Characters From Cleveland (TCFC), a creative think tank and subsidiary company of American Greetings Susan Trentel who worked for TCFC and had created the first prototypes on Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears was the plush designer who invented the method for transforming the Popple. The idea spark came from rolling up socks. She worked with art director Thomas Schneider on the creation of the first prototypes. The plush toys were manufactured by Mattel. Produced in the 1980s, these toys resemble brightly colored teddy bears or marsupials (but with long tails with pom-poms on the tip), and have pouches on their backs that can be inverted, so they are in the pouches and resemble brightly colored balls.