Back in June, I introduced you to Happy Feet—a slipper company known for their unique and innovative designs for kids and families (you may remember them from Shark Tank if you follow that show). One of their coolest products is what they call "Zlipperz", the first zip on, zip off interchangeable slipper. Four tops and two bottoms are included in a set, which gives you up to three potential design combos by mixing and matching the four tops. Such a fun and creative idea! There are a bunch of Toy Story 4 designs; this just happens to be the set that was gifted to me during the Toy Story 4 press event I attended in Walt Disney World. A huge thanks to Happy Feet for sponsoring this post!
The tops in this set are adorable and I love the stylized designs. The ones seen above are so fun because they include SO many of the film's main characters in such a vibrant way! If you look closely, you can spot Woody, Buzz, Bullseye, Bo Peep, Bo Peep's sheep, Forky, Duke Caboom, Dolly, Aliens, Jessie, Gabby Gabby, Ducky, Bunny, Combat Carl, Buttercup, Peas-in-a-Pod (even though they didn't appear in TS4) and even tiny slivers (along the edges) of Rex, Hamm, Giggle McDimples and Mr. Potato Head.
The most interesting thing to me is that the above design appears to include a deleted character (seen in the Art of Toy Story 4 book below) from the film— what seems to be, a dog friend of Giggle McDimples? A fellow Pet Patrol officer, perhaps? This change to the film must have happened late into production for the character to end up on an official licensed piece of merch. Do you have any insights? UPDATE: The director of the film has answered me! This was a deleted character named Officer Rib Tickles—Giggle's beat partner. Learn more in this USA Today article HERE.
Anyway, onto the next tops; a much more straight forward, yet awesome, design of Buzz Lightyear!
Here you can see a little bit more about how these work. It's really quite simple though...the tops just literally zipper on and off the bottoms! They are very easy to change whenever you're feeling like mixing it up.
The base of the slippers are soft, squishy and totally comfortable (made from a foam material that really is like walking on pillows). Underneath you'll notice that they have convenient rubber/non-skid bottoms as well.
Here's a little demonstration video showing how easy these are to use!
What are your thoughts? Have you picked up any slippers (or Zlipperz) from Happy Feet?
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