Thread:Bluecake/@comment-4084782-20200709061921/@comment-4643078-20200709122647

Yeah...I noticed that before but hadn't really decided what to do about it. The thing is, this "Jack" character has the exact same design as Hopsalot's adult design from the VHS tapes Why Did the Bus Stop and Who Left the Juice in the Caboose, and I think he was originally intended to be Hopsalot. All of the song sequences in the Paint-Along Songs activity have the same art style as the VHS tapes. But JumpStart Artist mostly uses the "Advanced" art style everywhere else. My personal speculation is the song sequences were created earlier in production, and then the team decided to use a different art style, but didn't want to scrap or redo the song sequences, so they were kept the same.

So I hesitated to make a page for "Jack" since I thought of him as "adult Hopsalot", and they gave him a different name so kids don't get confused why the Hopsalot in the Invention Tent activity doesn't look like the Hopsalot in the song. But I can understand acknowledging Jack as his own character, since the game treats him as a separate character from Hopsalot. Given how he just appears in one song, I'd recommend just mentioning him on the List of Minor Characters article, if you would like to do so. He doesn't really have enough presence in the game to warrant his own article, I think...there's just not much that can be said about him.