

As Toy Story has forcibly taught us by ripping tears out of our eye holes, toys are basically immortal unless they’re trashed. He’s so old that decorations suddenly appear in his store window and he just shrugs it off as his failing memory. Not to mention the even more depressing aspect of this whole situation. Winkle as their family, and it’s great that he doesn’t care about their flaws and loves them as-is, but from an ‘overthinking it’ standpoint, holy hell this guy is lonely as shit if all he has for family are his dog and broken toys in his store.
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He does sell items throughout the movie, but he’s offered $300, that he really needs, for items that he just leaves in the window….because they’re his family? (By the way, he leaves them there for so long that Tangie’s fur bleaches out because of it.) Okay, from a movie standpoint, this is really sweet because the toys also see Mr.

He leaves repair work on items undone for way, way, way longer than they should when he literally does nothing all day besides hang around his store and eat at the local diner, which is a bad habit because you shouldn’t eat out constantly if you’re struggling to pay rent (he lives in the apartment above the shop.) The only reason he starts making decent sales is because the toys decide to decorate and spruce themselves up. He’s lucky he manages to make rent every month because no one ever really shops in his store. Winkle thing, so if this next part depresses any fans of this movie, I am so sorry. Winkle who refuses 200 and even 300 dollars for these toys because they’re his family. Jack’s situation makes even less sense because he’s just a broken run-of-the-mill Jack-in-the-Box with broken bells and an unwillingness to go back in his box.īut not as delusional and, quite frankly, sad as Mr. How is that so rare and amazing it’s worth 200 bucks? Winkle 200 bucks for Tangie and Jack, claiming he collects rare and unique items like them…….Tangie is from a teddy bear line that was mass produced, but he had his mouth sewn on upside down and got his fur bleached out in the sun. On Christmas Eve some guy walks in and offers Mr. The story is really cute, although the ending is questionable to say the least. After Tangie and the others save his life, he becomes a very good boy and friend of the toys, and he’s about as sweet as Tangie. He’s very serious about his job as a guard dog, which includes keeping the toys from wandering around and causing trouble. Virgil also isn’t unlikable before he gets an attitude change. Jack is a great guy and a great friend, and Bird fits right in as the straight man, though not to the point where he’s an annoyance or a grump. He has every right to be, and I really wouldn’t bring it up if they didn’t make a point that he’s supposed to be a really happy little bear on the inside, but you just can’t notice due to his upside down mouth. Tangie is a sweetheart despite his perpetual frown, though he does frequently complain and get down in the dumps. It has a great message of recognizing that you’re special and can find love and family just the way you are, even if you’re different. Winkle’s (originally) grumpy pet guard dog, Virgil. The Tangerine Bear: Home in Time for Christmas! is an adorable and heartwarming tale of a sweet teddy bear who wants nothing more than to find a family until he realizes that he has already found a family right there in that store with the other things that are a little off like Jack, the Jack-in-the-Box whose bells don’t work and is afraid of going into his box, Bird the bird of a coo-coo clock who has a busted beak and is afraid of coming out of his house without ensuring the coast is clear so he won’t run into anything, and Mr. All Tangie wants is to be sold to a nice family for Christmas, but no one wants a tangerine bear with a frowning mouth.īreakdown: This is another one of those Christmas movies I definitely remember watching as a kid and was glad to rediscover.

Over time, the little bear’s fur became bleached out from the sun, giving him such a bright orange coloring that he became known as the tangerine bear or Tangie for short. He bounced from the discount bin of a big department store to a little secondhand shop called Winkle’s on a street with little traffic. Plot: A little teddy bear accidentally had his mouth sewn on upside down, giving him a frown instead of that signature teddy bear smile.
