Go Little Hamster Go

Go Little Hamster Go (Vai Cricetino Vai) is a series of knockoff ZhuZhu Pets which was sold by Officina Comunicazione in Italy.

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Unlike the ZhuZhu Pets, these guys have a long pair of teeth, large oval eyes, and an embroidered snout and long embroidered eyelashes. They were sold in blue, yellow, purple, and brown color variations.

There's not much publicly documented info about these. The manual mentions different ways to play with it such as placing it in a ball or a hamster wheel or letting it run beneath tunnels.

Each hamster has a name, and apparently the brown one's name is "Nocciolino".

Giochi Preziosi, a company which sold ZhuZhu Pets in Italy, took legal action against Officina Comunicazione, accusing them of unfair competition and counterfeiting. On the 9th of December in 2010, the Ligurian court ordered a seizure of these knockoffs and prohibited their distribution. Later in addition, the Genoa court ordered the production of the toys to be halted. Articles briefly mentioning Giochi Preziosi taking legal action against the company which sold these knockoffs state SO.DI.P. was a distributor of the toys and that Gedis was a publisher involved with the knockoffs.

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