What is this world coming to when haters can't see a groundbreaking original concept like Huckapoo without wanting to make a cheap imitation to pass off as their own? I'm not even talking about EverGirls. I'm talking about Trollz, the reinvention of the Troll Dolls that you may have read about a few weeks ago in the Times.
Savvy tween watchers (tween culture watchers, I should say), have already noticed the similarities -- hell, just compare the theme song-enhanced Trollz web site with the Huckapoo one. Who the huck are they kidding, right?
But for the full story, you have to come right here to Radosh.net, because only the Internet's number one Huckapoo fan site (suck it, Harmony!) has the exclusive document I'm about to reveal. First off, you're all familiar with the hott mangapoo drawings that adorn Huckapoo merchandise and bedroom walls everywhere. But before the actual Huckapets were even cast for those drawings to be made, the Dark Prince of Huckapoo, Brian J. Lukow, commissioned an illustrator to realize the Platonic form of Huckapoo as it then existed in his head. That's right, Huckapoo were cartoons before they were made flesh. And they looked like this (click to enlarge).
I know, I know, poor Groovy! Anyway, my jaw dropped -- dropped, I tell you! -- when I saw this illustration of the new Trollz.
Coincidence? I think not.
