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I've been notcing a few more of those "trinket" figurines I mentioned are popping up on eBay as of late... darn them for their new payment policies... one thing I am curious about is if this trinket set ever included Brittany, because I've seen all but her... *shrug*

Sometime in the 90s apparently, there were knickerbocker-style plushies of Jeanette and Eleanor that were exclusive to Target (I think it was Target) that had them in really girly-looking dresses as opposed to their typical attire, but the depictions were accurate.

And what a funny coincident that as I type this message at the bottom of the page there's an ad for the Build-a-Bear Chipmunks.
 
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D'Snowth said:
I've been notcing a few more of those "trinket" figurines I mentioned are popping up on eBay as of late... darn them for their new payment policies... one thing I am curious about is if this trinket set ever included Brittany, because I've seen all but her... *shrug*
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I have never even seen or heard of those. They used to have cartoon character based ones all the time... I have a LOT of Nickelodeon ones. But the Cartoon Network ones I didn't find until the Chowder/Fosters set (I got everyone but Chowder). There's apparently one with the Eds, I.R. Baboon, I.M. Weasel, Samurai Jack and Aku someone showed me a few weeks ago. There was an Arthur one I only saw once... I got a Binky pencil topper. Never heard of the Chipmunks one, though. After a while I only saw Homies, and then after that I only saw lead kid's jewelry and goo.
 
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I have never even seen or heard of those. They used to have cartoon character based ones all the time... I have a LOT of Nickelodeon ones. But the Cartoon Network ones I didn't find until the Chowder/Fosters set (I got everyone but Chowder). There's apparently one with the Eds, I.R. Baboon, I.M. Weasel, Samurai Jack and Aku someone showed me a few weeks ago. There was an Arthur one I only saw once... I got a Binky pencil topper. Never heard of the Chipmunks one, though. After a while I only saw Homies, and then after that I only saw lead kid's jewelry and goo.
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I've seen the Cartoon Network ones at the movies maybe a couple of years ago, out of the ones on display, the ones that stood out to me were Ed and Chicken.

But yeah, lke here's Jeanette and Eleanor for example...

 
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Okay, I couldn't contain myself, heh...

http://simanettefan.deviantart.com/art/MY-PRECIOUS-MY-PRECIOUS-MY-PRECIOUS-271458824
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One Mango to rule them all, One mango to find them.

Yeah... looking at those Chippette figures... why did we only get Homies and that recalled jewelry crap? Still, I wish I got more of the Dragon Ball set... I miss collecting those, I really do. All I see are stickers and goo and "hick teeth." But I am seeing more figures... unfortunately not these... and there IS a movie out.
 
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Yeah, I've never seen a dub of The Chipmunks where there's any sped up recording, they all speak in human voices... what I do find odd is that they take time to dub the songs as well, because most international dubs of any show or movie, they just keep the songs in in English.
 
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I watched a couple of minutes of the German version... I think I can vouche for that... but there's some weird distortion on the voices of the Chipmunks... like they sped them up slightly to make them sound a couple pitches higher... so I can't really tell.

Still, Japanese voice actresses are capable of exceedingly high pitched tones naturally. Kinda weird... but not as weird as the vocal range on Japanese voice actor Ryūsei Nakao.
 
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Spoof of "The Christmas Song, Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3M7IR6jkpc
(It's a sequel to "Twisted Chipmunk Song" which is a parody of "The Chipmunk song, but I can't find it youtube. Maybe grooveshark.com has it.)
 
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