-When Chesters started, back when he was named "Mouser" (Around 1958-1960), it was relatively a big hit. Yet for a company made by a toy factory, it lacked a lot of merchandise in the 50's-90's. Some small merch released were small, crude felt finger puppets which were very inaccurate to Chester at its time. It was said that there were so many produced that they had hundreds of boxes and had to trash and burn most of them. -Until the 80's, when Chesters started to form into what it was (more location like, and not special animatronic shows-like), their was a plan to make merchandise to release in "81", but that didnt to towards tuition as they had to fight a law-suit against chuck e cheese (They settled for an undisclosed amount). The plushies were then halted until 1986, were the first plushie was on an ad labeled "Say cheese" which showed a clip of a kid hugging a 9" Chester plush, which its eyes jiggled around with the movement it would face, this plushie was then released, but lacked the googly eye feature and being 13", only having some shiny plastic eyes. Though, a smaller 9" like in the ad was released later on, with the googly eye feature. Plushies made at this time were: Chester, doug, and redbear
-The plushies were regarded as alright, their were fine but could have been better. But this all changed in 1992, when they made limited edition versions of chester cheddar plushies. The plushies were more lively, softer expressions, and 2 of the most important things for this "series". Their were in retail and their alternate designs.
-The retail stores had boxes, and were commonly found in your local "Walmart supercenter" and the more rarer find at "Target". The first wave consisted of:
-Home 'runnin chester (Baseball fit)
-Weaping redbear (Night time fit)
-Sports Scarlet (Soccer fit)
-Wacky Witch Francine (Witch)
-The pushies also marked a very important milestone in the playware toys industry, that being "First female toys playware created". relativly theese were a hit, and would go around 25-50, depending on the rarity. RARITYS:
Baseball chester: Common
Sleeping chester: Common
Soccer chester: Uncommon
Wizard chester: Rare
Sleeping redbear: Uncommon
Baseball redbear: Rare
Soccer redbear: Rare, almost impossible to find
Wizard redbear: Rare
Soccer scarlet: Uncommon
Baseball scarlet: Uncommon
Sleeping scarlet: Rare
Witch scarlet: Uncommon
Witch francine: Rare
Baseball francine: Uncommon
Soccer francine: Uncommon
Sleeping francine: Common
Doug was planned but was sadly cut-out, god dosent like us in life ig (though, 2 prototypes exist, one with a testing, orange skin tone)
-(GENERAL LORE ABOUT THE PLUSHIES MADE FOR CHESTERS)
The core "5" had more plushies (Doug, Chester, Redbear, Scarlet, Francine), rarer plushies were usually guest stars (Creamsicle bear and sweetie shortcake) or prop animatronics (Birthday bird).
Also, their are super rare plushies (sells in the 100's just if it dosent work), which were interactive and worked like a teddy ruxpin, as you could put in a special vhs, but if you didn't, they talked, reacted to motion, asked scripted questions, and could move its eyes, ears, mouth and nose (Only doug, chester, scarlet were produced), scarlet is rarer than the other 2, and they were only sold in retail.
BTW: (IN STORY: His name was changed from mouser, as the owner of Chesters, thought once he got later into development of the more "modern Chester's", that the name was stupid, unoriginal, and all around a lazy name, it was just a place holder after all though).
(This has also been the 2nd mouser mouse reference, scratch cat one soon)
1 comment