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The interesting thing about the Disney Snackles is that they are not scaled-down versions of standard Disney plush. The characters are re-proportioned onto the Snackles build — very round, very low, almost no neck — and then given a snack. Stitch gets a coconut water. Rex gets popcorn, which is funnier than it should be because of the arms. The three-eyed Alien gets a slice of pizza.

Three characters are made at 14 inches without a snack accessory: Minnie, Sulley and the Alien. The five snack-holding characters are 8 inches. There is also a 5-inch two-pack if you want a pair of minis rather than a single full-size plush.

What is in the Disney range

The Disney range puts the Snackles round body and the sewn-in snack accessory onto eight licensed characters: Minnie, Sulley, the Alien, Stitch, Rex, Lotso and Pua. Five listings are 8-inch, three are 14-inch, and the whole range is priced more simply than the rest of the shelf — every 8-inch Disney plush is the same twelve to thirteen dollars.

What makes these different from the Disney soft toys you have met before is the snack. The Alien holds a slice of pizza, which is the only joke in the collection that is also a plot point. Stitch has a coconut water. Pua has a coconut. Rex has a popcorn box. Lotso has a strawberry smoothie. The characters keep their proportions but gain the thing they would obviously be holding.

The round-body treatment is a genuine redesign rather than a restyle. Minnie is a sphere with ears and a bow; Sulley is a sphere with horns. If you are used to the long-limbed versions of these characters, the Snackles versions read as a different idea altogether, and that is the reason Disney fans buy them in addition to rather than instead of what they already own.

The characters and their snacks

At 14 inches the range is Minnie, Sulley and the Alien. These are the three that work as display pieces, because the round body at that scale is unmistakable from across a room and the accessory is large enough to read. Minnie is the most expensive listing in the range and the most frequently bought as a gift.

At 8 inches you get the Alien with pizza, Stitch with coconut water, Pua with a coconut, Rex with a popcorn box and Lotso with a strawberry smoothie. All five are the same price, which makes the choice entirely about which character the person already loves. Rex and Stitch are the two that move fastest.

The Alien is the only character made at both sizes, and it is worth noticing that the two versions hold different accessories — the 8-inch has the pizza, the 14-inch does not. That is the only place in the whole collection where a character's snack changes with its size.

Sizes, prices and what to expect

Eight-inch Disney Snackles are the flattest-priced plush toys on the shelf: twelve to thirteen dollars each, every character, no exceptions. If you want to buy a set rather than a single toy, this is the only range where the arithmetic is simple.

The 14-inch listings run from about twenty-two to twenty-eight dollars. At that size the fill is soft enough that the character squashes properly when hugged, which matters because these are the Snackles most likely to end up in a bed rather than on a shelf.

The licensed characters do not come with the origin story comic that the named Snackles carry, for the obvious reason that Stitch already has an origin story. They do come with the same hangtag and the same sewn-in accessory construction as the rest of the collection.

14-inch Snackles plush toys in the Disney range

The 14-inch band is the one most fans collect when they want a Snackles plush toy with real weight to it. There are 3 plush toys in this size here. Prices run $21.99 to $27.49 at the moment. Each one is squeezable from nose to paws and comes with its snack partner attached. It is the first of 2 sizes on this page.

Snackles Alien is a 14-inch plush whose treasure travels in its paws, rated 4.8 by 463 reviewers. The 14-inch Snackles Minnie keeps a hangtag with a birthdate, a hobby and a star sign, and fans rate it 4.8. Snackles Sulley comes as a squeezable 14-inch plush with an origin story comic folded into the tag; it scores 4.8.

8-inch Snackles plush toys in the Disney range

The 8-inch size is where most people start. 5 Snackles plush toys sit in this band, and it is the size that makes collecting easy — a row of them reads as a set rather than as single toys. It sits at $12.99 right now. It is the second of 2 sizes on this page.

Snackles Alien carries Pizza and is squeezable all the way through — a 8-inch plush with a 5.0 rating. Pick Snackles Lotso for the Strawberry Smoothie pairing: a soft 8-inch plush that 152 reviewers rate 5.0. Snackles Pua with Coconut is the cuddly option in the 8-inch band, and it keeps a 5.0 score across 152 reviews. A 8-inch plush with a unique snack partner, Snackles Rex brings Popcorn along and rates 5.0.

Snackles Stitch and its Coconut Water accessory make a playful pair; the 8-inch plush is rated 5.0 by 152 fans.

Snackles Disney next to the rest of the line

Snackles Disney is the licensed corner of the shelf. Stitch holds coconut water, Pua a coconut, Rex a bag of popcorn, Lotso a strawberry smoothie and the Alien a slice of pizza, and the three 14-inch plushies give you Minnie, Sulley and the Alien at the larger size. The snack accessory is matched to the character rather than to a sweet brand, which is the one place where this range reads differently from Series 2 and its Hershey's pairings. Eight Snackles plush toys in total, in two sizes.

Everything else is the family pattern. The 8-inch plush is the collecting size and the 14-inch plush is the hugs size; both are super soft, both are squeezable plush, and both come with the hangtag that holds a birthdate, a hobby, a star sign and the origin story comic. ZURU designed the licensed faces onto the same round body as the animals, so a Disney character and a Series 1 character stand the same height and look right side by side on a display shelf. That consistency is why fans mix the ranges instead of keeping them apart.

If you came in through Disney, the rest of the line is worth a look. Series 1 is the origin of the whole idea and the shortest story. Series 2 is the big snack shelf, where the favorite snacks are real brands. Series 3 is the teen cast. The Super-Sized Snackle is the same design at a bigger super size, filled for hugs. The Snackles small size minis and the keychain charm are the cute pocket end, and the Disney Mini Duo lives there too. It is an adorable, playful set with a lot of room for imagination, and finding a second cuddly friend in another range is the easy part.

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