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  • Celebrity Voice Actor: LeAnn Rimes as Kelly Deegan in Christmas Wishes.
  • Franchise Killer: The series had an interesting case of this when the producers of the show decided to change several aspects of the franchise from the fifth DVD on. Said DVD, Fabulous Fashion Show, was so badly reviewed across the board, with an overall 1.3/5 on Amazon with 18 reviews, compared to 4+ star averages for the others, that it all but killed the franchise. The subsequent DVD, Marvelous Makeover, rebounded to 3.3 stars, but the various changes that had been made to the series, such as moving to 22 minute stories and replacing most of the voices with Canadian talent, were still generally poorly regarded. Making things worse was the shoddy voice replacement job - the new cast sounds nothing like the old one, and while they opted to use a Non-Singing Voice for the titular character, the singing voice and speaking voice weren't even matched either. Aside from that, the characterizations were all botched and the characters were passing the Idiot Ball around. The show's final picture book release was seen a bit later in 2008, and afterwards, production on all media was discontinued entirely until 2017, where the franchise was rebooted into a live-action series.
  • No Export for You: There are no records of the direct-to-DVD shows being aired or released outside of North America and Australia, and the toys are pretty much this trope straight. The only thing that got exported are the books.
    • The same can be said about the 2018 reboot. It only airs in the US, Canada, UK and Australia.
  • Non-Singing Voice: From Fabulous Fashion Show onwards, Holly's talking and singing voices are helmed by two different VAs.
  • The Other Darrin: Widely noted for most if not all of the key voices being replaced in Fabulous Fashion Show with Vancouver-based actors.

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