Sunny the Singing Sunflower is an animated singing sunflower made in 1997 as part of the "Hidden Nature" series. When activated, she moves her leaves back and forth and moves her mouth and eyes while singing "You Are My Sunshine".
Trivia
- Sunny made an appearance in the Baby Einstein video "Baby Bach", along with Cornelius the Chicken.
- Sunny also appeared in the Baby Einstein video "Baby Shakespeare". She appears at the "Flower" segment, where Bard the Dragon smells her, then sneezes. This was replaced by a 50 centimeter sunflower in 2004 and restored in the 2010 video "World of Words" as a post-credit scene.
- All versions of Sunny used eyes that appeared on a Douglas Fir (most commonly using the oval shaped eyes with the white dot on the bottom), some early versions used eyes that were round with a white dot in the middle of the black pupil.
- A small detail that's very easy to miss if you’re looking at Sunny through a video or photo is that she actually has black eyelashes at the end of her eyelids.
- Due to the dimensions of the box (which is quite skinny), Sunny's stem can be posed down to make it look better from taking her out of the box.
- A prototype version of Sunny appears on the retail box which has smaller eyes and a wider skinnier mouth.
- Sunny has an identical twin named "Willis the Singing Wildflower" who sings "Wild Thing".
- She also has another twin who is not so identical called "The Singing Flower" who sings "I Can See Clearly Now".
- She has a cousin named "Donnie the Daisy" who is similar to Sunny, but has a white face and no moving eyes. This model also sings "I Can See Clearly Now".
- Sunny can be powered by 3 C size batteries or by a 4.5 volt AC/DC adapter.
- Some versions of Sunny came with yellow sunglasses that were secured onto the head with an elastic band attached to the sunglasses.
- The versions that came with these sunglasses strangely never said anything about them being included anywhere on the box.
- Sunny's leaves are attached with a flexible metal wire that can be bent and shaped to a desired position.
- There is a sandbag inside Sunny's pot, probably to help weigh her down.
- Sunny's soundtrack has been used in other items by Gemmy's competitors, such as the "Sunshine Duck" by PBC International and a knockoff Winnie the Pooh toy called "Sunshine Bear".
- Sunny makes an appearance in the Gemmy 2000 Toy Fair video.
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