A Disney Villains Retrospective, Part 19: Heffalumps & Woozles (Winnie the Pooh)



Chapter 19: In Which We Discuss the Honey Thieves Lurking in the Hundred Acre Wood

0:00 Original Books
2:55 Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
5:53 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:59 Other Heffalumps and Woozles
11:16 Theme Parks and Video Games
13:30 Other Unfriendly Creatures

SOURCES:
TIGGER’S HONEY HUNT
https://youtu.be/TUnBNN8ncoc

PIGLET’S BIG GAME
https://youtu.be/T4jVf6iiG1w
https://youtu.be/MGbuSjXlrU8

WINNIE THE POOH’S RUMBLY TUMBLY ADVENTURE
https://youtu.be/w_AF1QQjnM8

KINGDOM HEARTS 3
https://youtu.be/3ZVYrccchwA

THE MANY ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH DARK RIDE (SHANGHAI)
https://youtu.be/338iWj670N4

THE MANY ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH DARK RIDE (WDW)
https://youtu.be/o-UW4yncrYc

POOH’S HUNNY HUNT
https://youtu.be/5UK30QpDLiY
https://youtu.be/R5bfFgpMl24

FLIGHTS OF FANTASY PARADE (DISNEYLAND)
https://youtu.be/uBOWezA1qH0

FLIGHTS OF FANTASY PARADE (HONG KONG)
https://youtu.be/MmnAOIcdqBk
https://youtu.be/dNzbS3zab7g

HAPPINESS IS HERE PARADE
https://youtu.be/8ysPw1ef9aQ

DREAMING UP PARADE
https://youtu.be/UrJdV9lGyTo

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41 thoughts on “A Disney Villains Retrospective, Part 19: Heffalumps & Woozles (Winnie the Pooh)”

  1. Colin I absolutely love your videos! But in regards to Winnie the Pooh I think the true villain of the Disney version at least is the imagination. I’d love to see dive deeper into that, because it’s not just Pooh it’s also in things like FANTASMIC!

    Anyway please keep doing these videos, I love them!

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  2. Since Winnie the Pooh is now in the public domain, I was thinking of creating a street gang that would dress up as Heffalumps and Woozles who are enemies of my version of Spiderman. Kinda the Jokerz from Batman Beyond.

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  3. Jagulars also were part of at least one 2007 series episode. The New Adventures also had an episode with mobster-like evil counterparts to Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger (they reform of course).

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  4. I want to see a story heffalump and a woozle (probably Stan and Heff) kidnap Christopher Robbin so they can have Poohs honey. Also the franchise needs to introduce a Jagular. Maybe call him Jag. Why not have a Jagular be the leader to a bunch of heffalimps and woozles.

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  5. Fun fact!

    The bear Pooh was based on, Winnipeg, was actually orphaned and sold by a hunter to the Canadian Army Veterinary Corp on their way to serve in World War 1. There, she served as the unit’s mascot under the name Winnipeg Bear, or Winnie (after Winnipeg, Manitoba), before being sent to the London Zoo in December, 1914.

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  6. Huh, never knew either of them appeared in the books. In the translation I'm used to they are referred to just as elephants and weasels – and, honestly, that doesn't hurt the stories at all!

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  7. I didn't realise Disney changed their minds and made Heffalumps & Woozles real creatures that actually visit the Hundred-Acre Wood. Something about that rubs me up the wrong way – like the whole point is that these creatures don't exist and are just part of Pooh's imagination.

    It's like when the Scooby-Doo movies dumped the whole "let's see who's under the mask" concept and had actual monsters in the films. It's just a gratuitous betrayal of the series' own rules.

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  8. I always wanted to know when they were first originally drawn by Disney before 1968 and was Walt Disney still alive when the concept art and storyboard were made of the Heffalumps and Woozles before his death in December 1966, and who was the guy who did the original drawings and concept art and prototypes before the record came out a year before the short film came out. And who were the people who did the animation for all the Heffalumps and Woozles. All I know was that Wolfgang Rytherman was a part of it since his nickname Wollie was shown on a model sheet of them. And what would have Walt Disney thought if he did see them.

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  9. Part of me kind of wishes that there were NO Heffalumps or Woozles appearing in any Pooh media, because I kind of like the concept of them being a tall tail of Tigger's (no pun intended) and a fantasy racist boogieman for Pooh. They never appear in that short, they never figure in past that nightmare segment, they're never mentioned again in the shorts series. As for the New Adventures villains, that's what makes that show so fascinating to me. Does Christopher Robin spend the day where he's away from his toys fantasizing about what they do when he's away? Does he make up these intricate adventures out of boredom or worry? Isn't the series supposed to take place at the turn of the 19th-20th century, but he's going to a modern movie theater in one episode? It's a really weird series if you look at it, and yet it's probably the biggest exposure to the character I've had, given there were only those 4 shorts you had to buy on video. Also, Winnie the Pooh 2011 is horrendously underrated. Love that they worry themselves into a musical number hysteria over the Bakson, only for him to show up as an end of credits stinger where he steals the entire movie in that one after film scene.

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  10. thanka colin for talking about the villans of pooh bear i know you did great but i hope you will get a chance to talk about some more disney villains we know and i hope you will

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  11. God I remember watching the flood episode on loop CONSTANTLY. That and tge one where pooh gets stick in Rabbit's house entrance.

    I miss my childhood… i miss vhs, and I miss just carelessly lounging around my house in my pajamas as my mother went about…

    ….

    I'm gonna be thinking about this for a long time now…

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  12. 9:44

    You’d be surprised at how big plushies can get sometimes. Tera Jumbo Nesoberis for instance are easily the size of a small child.

    There are also life size Pokémon plushies, like this one Furret plush that is FIVE FEET LONG.

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