

Unlike real rabbits, Thumper is drawn with paw pads, a feature that most rabbits lack.ĭisney Consumer Products started a spin-off franchise, Disney Bunnies, with Thumper as the main character. The personality and visual appearance of the character was based upon Beatrix Potter's Benjamin Bunny. Thumper is Disney's adaptation of Friend Hare from Felix Salten's 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods. As voiced by the young actor, four-year-old Peter Behn, the vivacious character of Thumper was expanded from its original minor role and led to a focus upon the young animals in the story.
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The character was an important influence upon the development of the movie Bambi which started production with an adult tone which seemed too serious and uncommercial. Description: Disney Bambi 10 Thumpin Thumper Plush Hallmark Talking Thumping Foot motion Condition: Pre-owned, clean, no rips, no stains, no smells. The young adult version of Thumper also appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as a meetable character in Fantasyland and at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Thumper's arousal is an intense thumping of his foot, and again a subtle. He is known and named for his habit of thumping his left hind foot. He tells Bambi how much he loves eating blossoms, in preference to clover. Bambi finds his friend Thumper sitting under a tree sadly and learns that the young rabbit feels like he has been replaced by his baby sisters. Thumper is a fictional rabbit character from Disney's animated films Bambi and Bambi II. Thumpers Little Sisters is a book and spin-off of Bambi.
