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Magenta's lack of glasses
Magenta doesn't have glasses anymore due to either getting contact lenses or getting a surgery to correct her vision problems.

The reason for "remake" episodes
Every episode of Season 1 is a remake of one from the original series because Josh has no memory of the events that happened in them. The other characters know this and decide to take advantage by doing everything over again with a new person around because they're so nostalgic for it.
  • Plausible, though this seems kind of unfair to Magenta, having to deal with awful vision every time Josh is around until she gets her glasses.
    • Maybe she wore contact lenses?

The show takes place in an Alternate Continuity to the original
Most of the events from the original took place the same way (i.e. Paprika and Cinnamon being born, Steve and Joe's tenures, etc.) but others didn't until Josh took over. That's why Magenta didn't wear glasses in her first few episodes and why Periwinkle is treated as being new to the neighborhood because from their perspective, these are new occurrences. Also, Blue's Room never happened, hence why it's never brought up.
  • Sprinkles and Frederica were referenced in Big City Adventure via review and a puppet theater name, respectively. So, the Blue's Room part at least might be jossed. Also, Magenta could have just lost her old glasses, gotten used to not having them, and needed to readjust to having them again. Periwinkle also could have just moved back to his old home and then moved back to Blue's neighborhood again later on.

Blue's Classmates are not the same as the original series, they just have the same name based on colors

In Storybook World it's just more common for members of the same family of anthropomorphic animals to have similar names based on color. Some evidence of this is.

  • The fact that there are at least 3 purple kangaroos and 3 orange kitten with the same name based on colors according to "The Mystery of the Missing Thinking Chair"
  • Periwinkle has joined the neighborhood twice with two similar but different stories although the original series events that include him are still canon, he doesn't recognize Blue or the members of the neighborhood. The house probably belongs to his family.
  • In the original series it is an important point that Animal Gender-Bender is avoided with Purple Kangaroo, causing him not to have a pocket , while in the reboot Purple Kangaroo is a girl with a pocket. Also her magenta kangaroo sister is nowhere to be seen.
  • Duck, the giraffe and the kangaroos and cats of other colors have no counterparts in the reboot.
The reason they are "replaced" while Magenta and Blue remain is because they are The Ageless (or age slower) because they come from their own alternate dimension (demonstrated in Reboot with them being animated in 3D, while puppies native to the Storybook world are animated in 2D) while Storybook World's anthropomorphic animals can age "normally" so they are no longer in kindergarten. This would also explain why Miss Marigold is so different in Reboot, the original presumably retired and was replaced by the pink hippo one.

Miss Marigold is the same one as the original.
She's a werehippo and can change at will, she just got more comfortable with her powers.

     Meta 
The show will have crossover with PAW Patrol
Come on, both are Nick (Jr.) shows about puppies! it practically writes itself.

The most likely option for how it could work is that Josh and Blue skidoo into the world of PP, and something happens to their portal that prevents them from returning home (Humdinger steals it, perhaps?), so they call the Paw Patrol to help solve the problem. Hijinks ensue as Blue uses Blue's Clues to help save the day.

Steve (Steve Burns) and Joe (Donovan Patton) will make a guest appearance on Blue's Clues & You!
It would be the perfect tribute for older fans.

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Josh isn't related to Steve and Joe
They or their respective families were very close so with Steve and Joe already being brothers, the three of them decided to have Josh be an honorary cousin instead.

Legend of the Blue Puppy will be given an update/sequel that follows the recent seasons trend of sharing the base skeleton concept of older episodes.
It would still be a mystery surrounding the Playroom, but rather than Blue finding it out (especially so thanks to both the original series and Blue's Room being on Paramount+ thus easy to see and connect to & You for viewers), it would be about Steve and Josh figuring out that Blue wants to show them the Playroom via, what else, a game of Blue’s Clues.

Blue and the Playroom would all be animated, not puppets, and her ability to actually talk would still be limited to the Playroom itself. Steve and Josh would also get to meet Sprinkles!

As for why they can't just use the Playroom to effectively put the kibosh on the language barrier? Simple: going to and from the room like that just for doing that would be both exasperating after a while and ruin the sentimental value the room has for Blue. It would also effectively kill the potential to play the really great game that is Blue's Clues.

Mama Bear from Reboot is the Baby Bear from the original series
They share the same color palette while Reboot's Baby Bear is noticeably darker than her original counterpart.

Rainbow Puppy is a mixed breed puppy

It was established in the original series that Blue and the other puppies were not native to Storybook World, but from a place called puppyville, located in the same skidoo world where Blue’s Room is, and that they were only able to speak if they were in that skidoo world, and not in the others, that is, until Rainbow Puppy was introduced. She is apparently a native of New York, can talk, and is bipedal most of the time. What's different about her from other puppies?

She is a mix of dog breeds!

The puppies from Puppyville are spotted, they are normally quadrupedal, they are animated differently from the other characters (Fully articulated in the original series, 3D in the Reboot), they have a shiny pawprint on one of their paws (which they use to spread clues)

Meanwhile in Periwinkle's old neighborhood, the puppies have the same animation as the other characters (2D), are bipedal, have striped fur instead of spotted and apparently they can talk. These are the native dogs of Storybook World.

Rainbow Puppy mixes the characteristics of both types of dogs, she is 3D, but with striped fur, she has a shiny pawprint, but she can walk on two legs and talk on any skidoo world. She was born from a mix between the two types of puppy.


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