List of Care Bears
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There is also a separate list of Care Bear Cousins.
Below is a list of Care Bear characters.
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[edit] The original ten Care Bears
- Bedtime Bear is a very sleepy bear. He helps everyone get a good night's sleep and have sweet dreams. He is blue with a sleeping crescent moon on his tummy.
- Birthday Bear wants everyone to have happy birthdays and loves birthday parties and games. He is yellow and his tummy symbol is a cupcake with a candle.
- Cheer Bear is a very happy and perky bear, who helps everyone be their happiest and cheer up those who are unhappy. She is pink with a rainbow on her tummy.
- Friend Bear is a kind and friendly bear who shows what it means to be a good friend. She is orange with two intertwined smiling flowers on her tummy.
- Funshine Bear loves to have fun and play games all the time, but sometimes forgets that there are times in life you must be serious. He is yellow with a smiling sun on his tummy. Originally Funshine was a girl bear until 2002.
- Good Luck Bear is all about spreading good luck for everyone. He is green and his tummy symbol is a four leaf clover with heart shaped petals.
- Grumpy Bear shows that while it's okay to be grumpy sometimes, it is also silly to let grumpiness go too far. He is blue and his symbol is a dark raincloud with raindrops (some of which are shaped like hearts).
- Love-A-Lot Bear is a pretty and perky bear who helps spread love and help it along wherever she goes. She is pink and her tummy symbol is two intertwined hearts.
- Tenderheart Bear is the leader of the Care Bears and helps everyone show and express their feelings and helps his fellow Care Bears be the most caring they can be. He is orange with a big red heart on his tummy. Originally he was brown.
- Wish Bear helps make wishes come true, and although they don't always come true, making wishes and working hard to help make them come true is still a lot of fun. She is sky blue and her symbol is a yellow smiling shooting star.
[edit] Additional Care Bears (1980s-1990s)
- Baby Hugs Bear: (often called Hugs), along with her brother, Baby Tugs Bear, is the youngest member of the Care Bears family and both are looked after by their grandmother, Grams Bear. Like her brother, she often gets into mischief and wants nothing more in life than to be a full-fledged Care Bear when she grows up. Sweet, curious, and loving, she can never go anywhere without being hugged by anyone. In the toy line, she is usually carrying a small pink pillow. In the series, Baby Hugs' catchphrase is "Oh, goody, goody, gosh!" She is pink with a Star Buddy inside a pink heart as her tummy symbol.
- Baby Tugs Bear: (often called Tugs), whose sister is Baby Hugs Bear, is a rough and tumble little boy cub who always gets into mischief. Like his sister, he too wants nothing more in life than to be a full-fledged Care Bear when he grows up and is raised by their grandmother, Grams Bear. In the toy line, he is usually carrying a small blue blanket. He is sky blue with a smiling Star Buddy inside a baby blue diaper cloth as his tummy symbol.
- Champ Bear loves to play sports and games; baseball is his favorite. He also teaches the value of good sportsmanship. He appeared in the Nelvana series' second season and made a cameo appearance in the beginning of the third movie, Adventure in Wonderland. In The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie, he presides over all the Care Bears' meetings. He is royal blue (formerly yellow-orange) and his tummy symbol is a gold trophy with a red star (formerly a red heart).
- Daydream Bear shows that daydreams are fun and help inspire people to do great things, but you also have to pay attention to the world around you, as her failure to do so often gets her into funny little accidents. Originally she was exclusively for the British market; she was re-released in 2004 for the United States. She is blue-violet and her tummy symbol is a heart shaped Saturn like planet with stars around it (originally two heart-shaped balloons).
- Forest Friend Bear: A joint exclusive between Tonka and the World Wildlife Fund for the '80s British and Australian franchise, Forest Friend Bear's job is to help keep forested areas safe much like Smokey the Bear.
- Grams Bear is the grandmother of all the Care Bears family, 'Grams Bear' looks after the Kingdom of Caring's two youngest members, Hugs and Tugs (see above). A seasoned "veteran," an excellent storyteller, and a valued mentor for the family, she knows just about all there is about being a Care Bear, and is ready to lend a hand or a patient ear to help anyone in need. As a later addition to the toy line, Grams Bear was featured, along with her grandchildren, in the first movie and on some of the Nelvana TV episodes. She is sky blue and her tummy symbol is a pink rose with a yellow bow.
- Harmony Bear loves peace and helps others overcome differences and show that they are something to be celebrated, not something to keep people apart. In the second movie (1986), Harmony's symbol was three joint-together hearts (the US version); in the British toys, it was three music notes. She is also one of the mascots of the Sigma Sigma Sigma college sorority in real life. She is violet and her tummy symbol today (starting in 2004) is a smiling flower with different color petals.
- Perfect & Polite Panda look after Paradise up above the skies of Care-a-lot. They always spoke in rhyme, finishing each other's sentences and complimenting one another's feelings. They only appeared in one TV episode, "The Long Lost Care Bears". Perfect has a gold star with a ribbon on his tummy, while Polite Panda has a pink rose with a ribbon on her tummy.
- Proud Heart Bear is a limited-edition Care Bear and appeared only as a toy in the '80s franchise. He is white and his tummy symbol is a heart adorned with the pattern of the United States flag.
- Sea Friend Bear is another British exclusive in the '80s between Tonka and the World Wildlife Fund, Sea Friend Bear makes sure that the world's oceans and seas are safe from harm.
- Secret Bear is a later addition to the Care Bears family and acts as a mime to the other members. Secret Bear (at least originally) is very untalkative; he never speaks and keeps everything a secret, although there sometimes comes a circumstance in which needs to communicate a message to the other bears, in which case he nearly kills himself doing charades and pantomime to get his message across. Of course, this rarely works, and as a result he ends up having to bite the bullet and whisper into another bear's ear what he was trying to say. With only occasional exceptions, he will only tell secrets to his partner, Friend Bear (as the first movie strongly shows). Secret Bear was recently remodeled and is now a hot-pink female bear who can speak. Her tummy symbol is a red heart-shaped padlock.
- Share Bear helps others to learn about sharing the things they have. She shows that, through her symbol, sharing is caring. Originally, Share Bear's symbol was a heart-sprinkled sundae with two straws. In 2004, it was changed to two heart-shaped lollipops, on the grounds that sharing milkshakes can spread germs, according to present-day distributors Play Along Toys. She is lavender in color.
- Surprise Bear is another rare find in the 80s franchise (originally a British exclusive), there is no one who loves good surprises so much like Surprise Bear. She is deep violet, and her tummy symbol is a colorful jack-in-the box with a star popping out.
- Take Care Bear helps her friends live in the best of health. Her only appearance in the early franchise was in a 1987 cough medicine coloring book, whose original symbol was a smiling apple. Today she is lavender and her tummy symbol is a smiling heart holding a smiling star.
- Thanks-A-Lot Bear helps teach the importance of politeness along with the "magic words" (please and thank you). She is turqouise and her symbol is a shooting star (with a red heart inside) with a rainbow tail.
- True Heart Bear is the co-founder of the Kingdom of Caring alongside Noble Heart Horse in the second movie Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation. The mother of the Care Bears and the Cousins, True Heart Bear is everything one would expect the first Bear to be: warm, perky, fun, caring and friendly. She is multi-pastel colored and her tummy symbol is a multi-coloured star radiating from a central heart.
[edit] Care Bears introduced in the 2000s (release date in ()'s)
- All My Heart Bear (2006) is a limited edition release made only for Valentine's Day. She is red with a red and white concentric heart on her tummy.
- America Cares Bear (2003) is a happy, patriotic, and energetic bear who believes that America's greatest strength is in caring and helping others. A very limited edition release, she is solid white and her tummy symbol is a red, white, and blue shooting star.
- Amigo Bear (2006) is the first bilingual Care Bear and can speak Spanish. He is orange with a smiling Aztec-style sun as his tummy symbol.
- Bashful Heart Bear (2004) is the shyest of the Care Bears. He is turqouise and his tummy symbol is a heart hiding behind a rainbow cloud.
- Best Friend Bear (2004) shows that you can always find someone to be your best friend. She is violet and her tummy symbol is a smiling heart and a smiling star linked by a rainbow.
- Do-Your-Best Bear (2004) shows the importance of perseverance and to do your very best in all things. He is yellow-green with a colorful kite as his tummy symbol. Ironically though, he's the only one in Care-A-Lot who cannot fly a kite!
- Heartsong Bear (2006) loves music and singing. She is sky blue and her tummy symbol is a rainbow-colored musical note surrounded by different colored hearts.
- Hopeful Heart Bear (2005) is pink and her tummy symbol is a heart with beams of light radiating out of it.
- Me Bear (2005) was one of three new Care Bears wished into Care-A-Lot in The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie. She is very narcissistic and cares only about herself and her appearance. She is lavender with a smiling heart-shaped hand mirror (and also constantly admires herself in her own hand mirror) as her tummy symbol.
- Messy Bear (2005) was one of three new Care Bears wished into Care-A-Lot in The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie. He often unwittingly makes a huge mess out of everything he tries to do and also loves food and cooking. He is blue with a whirlwind as his tummy symbol.
- Laugh-A-Lot Bear (2004) turns her worst mistakes into the best jokes. She is red-orange and her tummy symbol is a laughing yellow star.
- Oopsy Bear (2007) is a clumsy but very playful green bear, to be introduced when the brand-new direct-to-video movie Care Bears: Oopsy Does It! is released. He is bright green but does not yet have a tummy symbol at the start of the movie.
- Play-a-Lot Bear (2006) loves to play and have fun, similar to Funshine Bear. He is sky blue and his tummy symbol is a violet bouncing ball with a heart on it, followed by a rainbow trail.
- Shine Bright Bear (2006) is a hot pink bear and her tummy symbol is a sunrise inside a violet heart.
- Smart Heart Bear (2004) teaches that school is fun and so is learning. She is red with a red teacher's apple as her tummy symbol.
- Superstar Bear (2006) loves fashion and being a star. She is yellow and her tummy symbol is an orange star (with a red and yellow border) with a heart inside, surrounded by three smaller blue, green, and orange stars.
- Too Loud Bear (2005) was one of three new Care Bears wished into Care-A-Lot in The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie. He loves driving his friends Me Bear and Messy Bear in a huge noisy SUV-like vehicle (later a motorcycle) and talks in a very booming voice. He is bright red with a yellow megaphone (with a red heart) as his tummy symbol.
- Work of Heart Bear (2006) is an artistic Care Bear who shows that creativity and hard work can create beautiful things. She is multi-colored and her tummy symbol is an artist's palette with heart shaped paints, along with a paintbrush.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- More about the new Care Bears at American Greetings' official site for the toy line
