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Seafarer Bart has been reunited with his long lost sardine friends and a mermaid he became besotted with along his travels!

… we suspect he may be quite nearsighted… 😆But Maffles really is a beautiful manatee.🥹

For those of you still unsure about texture: she sort of feels like if you combined the sort of ‘woolly’ nature of a Splootie (elephant/puppy/hippo) with the short softness of a new Bart. That’s the best way I can think of to describe her. I was uncertain until I met her in person. But she’s lovely to me!

I saw a small beige bashful at a shop recently and couldn’t resist finding a cousin for my very first Jellycat! Here they are reunited after many, many years!

My original I got back at Eden in Edinburgh (which has since turned into a Jellycat hub, it seems!!) in 2009. She’s got smaller eyes, whiskers, stitching on her paws and feet, but still a fairly noticeable smile under there if you look closely.

They’ve increased the size a fair bit as well as their eyes, and they’re a little bit less of a teardrop shape, but still definitely related!

Are there any other designs out there that have been reimagined throughout the years? I can only think of Fergus and Lollie…