Plush Pigs

Sandra Boynton designed plush animals for three companies that I know about - Carousel by Guy, Recycled Paper Products, and Gund. Carousel was the very first, and the bears still have the original beady eyes. Other later ones had her famous trademark wide eyes. Recycled Paper Products produced her "Zoominary" line next, then Gund produced a large number of animals in several sizes, including some beanies. I've broken up this page to keep the load time down.

If you have pictures of any animal here that I don't have, please send it to me and I'll include it here, with a credit to you! I'm always interested in finding out about critters I don't have (or don't know about)!

Some pictures show up as missing or "broken". They're not mistakes - I just don't have pictures of those (yet).

ZOOMINARIES (RECYCLED PAPER PRODUCTS)
Sandra Boynton's line of plush animals for Recycled Paper Products was called "Zoominaries" (luminaries), and their names were all puns on famous people.
Albert (Einswein)
10" tall
Gertrude (Swein)
10" tall


GUND
Sandra Boynton did several lines for Gund over a few years, beginning in 1992. She did the regular-sized animals, a line of small boxed beanies called "Minimals", a line of Christmas animals and beanies, and a series of dinosaurs - the Boyntosaurs. If you have any of these and can give me text from the tags, please do so! Also, I'm looking for the names of ones that I don't have the names for. I would greatly appreciate it!

REGULAR ANIMALS

"Peeg" the pig
Tag reads: A sensitive soul.
and inside: Share your secrets with me and your chocolate.

MINIMALS

The Minimals were a line of "greeting" plush, in boxes with messages on them. There may have been several different versions of one animal, in different boxes with different messages (and different names). Boxes were about 5" tall; the animals were about 4" tall.

Peeg (boy pig) also came in girl pig
To/From:
Box says:
Contents:
Peeg (girl pig) also known as Peegy
To/From: Pour Vous
Box says:
Contents: A rose pink velour pig with a lavender satin hair ribbon. Dramatic, captivating, and impulsive. Will steal your heart. And put a good dent in your chocolate supply.
Peegy (girl pig)
To/From:
Box says:
Contents:
Snap Pigs.
To/From: ????
Box says: ????
Contents: A pair of rose pink velour pigs (one female, one male) that snap together at the snout. Highly compatible. Mutually attached.


GUND VALENTINES

A series of stuffed animals for Valentine's Day. Wouldn't one of these make the best Valentine's Day ever?

Cupig
Tag reads: Cupig: Love's True Agent
and inside: CAUTION! This pig may inspire intense love and longing towards objects of desire (doughnuts, potato chips, chocolates...)

VALENTINE MINIMALS

The Minimals were a line of "greeting" plush, in boxes with messages on them. There may have been several different versions of one animal, in different boxes with different messages (and different names). Boxes were about 5" tall; the animals were about 4" tall.

Cupig
To/From: Just say yes.
Box says: Cupig - True Love's agent.
Contents: One passion-pink velour pig. Inspires intense love and longing towards objects of desire (doughnuts, potato chips, chocolates...)



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