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''Littlest Pet Shop'' (often refer to by the acronym "LPS") is a [[LongRunner long-running]] toy line featuring miniature animals that children can "adopt." The toys were originally introduced in 1992 and produced by Creator/{{Kenner}}, and consisted of animal figurines with simple built-in gimmicks and accessories to keep them in. Creator/{{Hasbro}} relaunched the toy line in 2005 with cartoony-eyed and bobble-headed animals, which every refresh of the brand has retained ever since.


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''Littlest Pet Shop'' (often refer referred to by the acronym "LPS") is a [[LongRunner long-running]] toy line featuring miniature animals that children can "adopt." The toys were originally introduced in 1992 and produced by Creator/{{Kenner}}, and consisted of animal figurines with simple built-in gimmicks and accessories to keep them in. Creator/{{Hasbro}} relaunched the toy line in 2005 with cartoony-eyed and bobble-headed animals, which every refresh of the brand has retained ever since.

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* BlindBagCollectables:
** Beginning with the third generation of pets, various assortments of blind bagged pet toys were introduced for sale. These pets usually have fewer painted-on details than their counterparts that can be seen through the packaging before they're bought.
** Generation 6 has a line of pets in food costumes. Called Hungry Pets, they're sold in blind boxes shaped like cans of pet food.
** Generation 7 introduced a new twist on the formula: pet carrier-shaped blind boxes are the ''only'' way to buy single packs of pets... unless you're in a country that forwent the blind box gimmick entirely and just made the pets visible from the get-go.

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** The toyline as overseen by Basic Fun returns to the second generation's design principles with one noticeable change: the symbols representing the pets' personalities take the form of body markings instead of ExoticEyeDesigns. The few pets to still use symbols in their eyes also have body markings.



* TechnicolorEyes: A ''lot'' of early pets in the Hasbro iteration of the toyline have two nicicably different iris colors, with a common combination being purple and pink (e.g. [[https://lpsmerch.com/g1/details/lps84b/Boxer #84]], Huskies #37-39).

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* TechnicolorEyes: A ''lot'' of early pets in the Hasbro iteration of the toyline have two nicicably noticeably different iris colors, with a common combination being purple and pink (e.g. [[https://lpsmerch.com/g1/details/lps84b/Boxer #84]], Huskies #37-39).
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* ''VideoGame/LittlestPetShop2023'' (Roblox, 2023)
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** Pets released around the same time the 2012 cartoon came out have smaller and thinner limbs than their predecessors and generally have more exaggerated proportions. Additionally, the design of their eyes differs drastically from older pets; more of the eye's structure is visible (giving them a rounder appearance), shading in the irises is done via vertical marks instead of two horizontal bands of color, lines around the eyes' edges are bolder, and the centermost eye shine is in cool colors instead of being white.

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** Pets released around the same time the 2012 cartoon came out lack bobbleheads entirely and have smaller and thinner limbs than their predecessors and generally have more exaggerated proportions.predecessors. Additionally, the design of their eyes differs drastically from older pets; more of the eye's structure is visible (giving them a rounder appearance), shading in the irises is done via vertical marks instead of two horizontal bands of color, lines around the eyes' edges are bolder, and the centermost eye shine is in cool colors instead of being white.

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** Many G1 pets use two different colors for their irises (such as purple/pink and green/brown) instead of different hues of the same color, a practice which became drastically less common in later generations.



* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The late 2000s and early 2010s saw Hasbro begin to experiment with more elaborate gimmicks for the pets than magnets in their feet they could use to hold onto things. While starting fairly simple with additions such as glitter or flocking, they soon diversified with battery-operated pets that could walk, pets designed to be colored in with markers, and pet packs that came bundled with a free month-long premium subscription to a LPS MMO.

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The late 2000s and early 2010s saw Hasbro begin to experiment with more elaborate gimmicks for the pets than magnets in their feet they could use to hold onto things. While starting fairly simple with additions such as glitter or and flocking, they soon diversified with battery-operated pets that could walk, pets designed to be colored in with markers, and pet packs that came bundled with a free month-long premium subscription to a LPS MMO.MMO.
** Pets released around the same time the 2012 cartoon came out have smaller and thinner limbs than their predecessors and generally have more exaggerated proportions. Additionally, the design of their eyes differs drastically from older pets; more of the eye's structure is visible (giving them a rounder appearance), shading in the irises is done via vertical marks instead of two horizontal bands of color, lines around the eyes' edges are bolder, and the centermost eye shine is in cool colors instead of being white.



* TechnicolorEyes: A ''lot'' of early pets in G1 (or for some people, the early years of G2) had purplish-pinkish irises. (e.g. [[https://lpsmerch.com/g1/details/lps84b/Boxer #84]], Huskies #37-39)

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* TechnicolorEyes: A ''lot'' of early pets in G1 (or for some people, the early years Hasbro iteration of G2) had purplish-pinkish irises. the toyline have two nicicably different iris colors, with a common combination being purple and pink (e.g. [[https://lpsmerch.com/g1/details/lps84b/Boxer #84]], Huskies #37-39)#37-39).
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* FirehouseDalmatian: Dalmation #469 comes with a miniature playset decorated to look like a firehouse.

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