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Type Action figures Availability 1985– Director Gus Jekel Art director William J. Creber | 5/5 Vintage Shack Country United States Initial release 1985 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects Similar Rose Petal Place, Gidget's Summer Reunion, Victims for Victims: The Ther, A Death in California, The Jesse Owens Story | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The hugga bunch movie
The Hugga Bunch was a 1980s toy line from the Kenner, Parker Brothers companies and Hallmark Cards.
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Toy line
Starting in early 1985, the Kenner company and Hallmark Cards manufactured the Hugga Bunch dolls, each of which held a smaller doll called a "huglet" in their arms. During that year, the line generated over US$40 million in sales.
The title characters in the franchise lived in a place called "Huggaland".
Film
The toys inspired The Hugga Bunch, a 1985 television film produced by Filmfair Communications.
Written by David Swift and directed by Gus Jekel, it earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Visual Effects. Produced for US$1.4 million, it was the most expensive TV special ever produced at the time. Along with a making-of special, it was released on VHS, LaserDisc and Beta by Vestron Video's Children's Video Library. Whether it will be released on DVD and/or Blu-ray remains to be seen.
Plot
In the film, a girl travels through her mirror into HuggaLand to find a way to keep her grandmother—the only one who knows how to hug—young.
Cast
