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* [[Art Shift]]: The LeapFrog DVDs initially mis-portrayed Edison as a more normal yellow firefly, as he was purple in all the toys and LeapPad books. He regained his purple color since ''Let's Go To School''. Also, the character designs in the DVDs has noticeable simplifications when compared to the book. And well, there's a major crossover with [[Art Evolution]] with the major character design change between ''A Tad of Christmas Cheer'', and ''Let's Go To School!''.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Edison. Originally introduced as a minor character in a LeapPad book, he was [[Put On a Bus]] for a bit, and then brought back in time for A Tad Of Christmas Cheer, and then upgraded into a core character.

* [[Cross Dressing Voices]]: The Violet toys are voiced by the same voice actor that voices Scout (11 year old Charlie Ibsen. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udulp08nuwU See him interviewed by a San Fransisco Chronicle reporter here]). In fact, the My Pal Scout and My Pal Violet actually shared an identical voice set to cut costs (this was possible because the toys never mention their own name). The other toys only made minor tweaks to the voice set, but Scout and Violet still sound identical on these toys.

* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: The Violet toys are voiced by the same voice actor that voices Scout (11 year old Charlie Ibsen. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udulp08nuwU See him interviewed by a San Fransisco Chronicle reporter here]). In fact, the My Pal Scout and My Pal Violet actually shared an identical voice set to cut costs (this was possible because the toys never mention their own name). The other toys only made minor tweaks to the voice set, but Scout and Violet still sound identical on these toys.

** Also, in the Learning DVDs, Tad and Leap are voiced by females (Julie Maddalena and Cindy Robinson respectively).

* [[Everythings Precious With Puppies]]: Scout and Violet.

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* [[Spin-Off]]: The LeapPad was spun off into various different sub-models, and some of them are incompatible with each other. This also applies to the Leapster (although all but the Leapster Explorer are cross-compatible) and the Tag (the Tag is compatible with Tag Junior titles, but not the other way around).

* [[Suddenly Voiced]]: [[Zig Zagging Trope|Currently Zig-Zagging]] for Scout. He does not talk in his first appearance on the ClickStart educational computer, but the next toy that features him, the eponymously-titled ''My Pal Scout'', has him voiced. And then he does not talk when he made his animated DVD debut in the ''The Amazing Alphabet Amusement Park'' and ''Numbers Ahoy'' DVDs, but said DVD has extras that are not part of the story where he ''sings''.

* [[Put On a Bus]] / [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]] / [[Ret Gone]]: Everyone that is not Leap, Tad, Lily or Edison when ''Let's Go To School'' was produced. Heck, shortly before that point, it seemed that the entire ''Learning Friends'' crew was put on the bus in favor of keeping only Scout and Violet around. Thank goodness they had the sense to at least let the core kids off the bus before it moved off. But for the rest of the characters, they were just gone like that and have never been mentioned since. Although some did re-appear in LeapPad books that were republished and reworked for the Tag, they have never been seen in any newer toys and new Tag titles, and are not in the DVDs since ''A Tad Of Christmas Cheer''.

* [[Put On a Bus]] / [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]] / [[Ret-Gone]]: Everyone that is not Leap, Tad, Lily or Edison when ''Let's Go To School'' was produced. Heck, shortly before that point, it seemed that the entire ''Learning Friends'' crew was put on the bus in favor of keeping only Scout and Violet around. Thank goodness they had the sense to at least let the core kids off the bus before it moved off. But for the rest of the characters, they were just gone like that and have never been mentioned since. Although some did re-appear in LeapPad books that were republished and reworked for the Tag, they have never been seen in any newer toys and new Tag titles, and are not in the DVDs since ''A Tad Of Christmas Cheer''.

* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: The only difference between Scout and Violet? The color, and the fact that Violet has ''eyelashes''.

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