Littlest Pet Shop Cat #490 Persian
Brand: ALH
One look at these cute little guys and gals with their "puppy dog eyes" will melt even a Grinch-like heart! Littlest Pet Shop Pets (and their accessories) are great fun to play with and/or collect. With over 3,000 LPS pets available, many children and adults alike find collecting, trading, and playing with the bobble-headed figures great fun (especially with the myriad accessories available). Collectors and sellers/traders have found a market for the rare/limited edition/limited in production pets, so many of the older, rare pets (and even the newer ones!) have great after-market value as a "collectible." What’s unique to Littlest Pet Shop figurines is that in this day of automation, each LPS pet remains hand-painted (after more than fifteen years in production!), so much of the fun when receiving a new pet is identifying any very slight difference(s) between your pet and your friends’ pets. Today, over 3,000 Littlest Pet Shops are available--though Hasbro retires/discontinues one generation as the company begins a new generation (the discontinuance of one generation often renders specific pets from previous generations quite valuable--hence the large market for "collectible" pets--many of which are only available through platforms such as Amazon). After purchasing the line of toys from Kenner, Hasbro re-designed and re-introduced Littlest Pet Shop bobble-headed figurine animals, accessories, houses, playsets, etc. in various "generations" beginning in 2005. Many (if not all) of the first generation pets included a red magnet on its foot, then a gray-ish blue magnet or a hexagon-shaped hole in the foot, a hole in the shape of a hexagon and today merely a very small hole.
Littlest Pet Shop (often referred to as LPS) toys are produced by the Hasbro Toy Company and have a great following from collectors, children, and adults alike.
LPS figurines' large "puppy-dog-eyes" are hallmarks of the Hasbro collectible pets.
n addition to the bobble-headed figurine animals, the Littlest Pet Shop line includes myriad houses, play sets, accessories, and even a human doll (named Blythe).
Littlest Pet Shop animals range from anteaters to zebras and everything in-between (and fairies too!).
A number of websites (including Hasbro's website) assist collectors in cataloging pet collections as well as identifying imitation vs. real LPS pets and accessories.