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Rainbow Launches New Collections in Milestone Year

Rainbow Designs is kicking off a momentous year, celebrating 50 years of the Home of Classic Characters, with the launch of some fantastic new collections as well as the return of some much-loved brands to the Rainbow family. 

Set to join the Rainbow Family this March BHis the wonderful We’re Going on a Bear Hunt brand with the introduction of a super soft, cuddly and not-so-grizzly 20cm Bear soft toy and a colourful Wooden Shape Puzzle featuring the animals from the much-loved children’s storybook to play along with.

There will also be some brilliant new additions to the tremendously successful Adventures of Paddington toy range for preschoolers, that launched last autumn. The range that features a super soft Deluxe Paddington Plush, 22cm soft toys of Paddington wearing his famous coat and hat and Paddington in his pyjamas, as well as collectable Paddington figures with movable arms, in outfits from the series and a super fun Play Bus, will be joined by some fun-packed playsets. These include the Paddington’s Rescue Set, Abracadabra Magic Pack and a Multi-Figure Set that feature stars of the show, Jonathon and Pigeonton. The fun-packed The Adventures of Paddington toy range is perfect to help spark imaginations and encourage preschoolers to create their own adventures with Paddington.

SYThe Home of Classic Characters are delighted to be welcoming back the iconic Peanuts brand and the coolest Beagle on the planet, Snoopy, to the Rainbow Designs’ family this January.  The ‘Everybody Loves Snoopy’ range features Charles Schulz’ much-loved iconic characters including a super soft Snoopy Soft Toy, a Cuddly lying down Snoopy and the Cuddly Snoopy and Woodstock Soft Toy. 

Arriving in January is a series of beautiful new wooden toys to join tGHhe hugely popular and much-adored Guess How Much I Love You and Fun with Spot collections.  There will be colourful new Wooden Shape Puzzles and Wooden Building Blocks as well as a playful Spot Wooden Pull along and a beautiful Guess How Much I Love You Wooden Pull along feature both Large Nutbrown Hare and Little Nutbrown Hare.  There will also be a colourful new Spot Wooden Bowling Set and an entertaining Guess How Much I Love You Balancing Toy with printed wooden pieces including the little nutbrown hare for little ones to try to stack up, creating entertainment for everyone when they all fall down.

Hitting the big screen in June 2021 is the new ‘Spirit Untamed’ movie, the new animated stand-alone sequel to the movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and the highly successful TV series.  To celebrate the release of the new Movie, Rainbow Designs will launch their Dreamworks’ Spirit collection.  The range features a collection of beautiful soft toy horses and characters including Spirit, Lucky, Boomerang and Chica Linda.