Talk:JumpStart All-Stars/@comment-11573350-20181031223343/@comment-4643078-20181101002244

I remember I brought that up to StoryMaker a couple years back, here:. Back then we didn't really know what to make of that, but I actually found out more about that recently, now I've learned a bit more about the 3D Virtual World games.

The thing is, the character design in that image actually belongs to a character called Coach Bailey, who appears in the JumpStart 3D Virtual World games. We don't have a page for him yet - I'll get started on that now - but here's a picture of him, for comparison:



That's definitely him, the appearance is exactly alike. So as for that weird image - some of the last boxed set releases in the Advanced series were sort of setting up a transition to the new '3D World' based series. As an example, some Advanced series boxed sets that were being released around 2005-2006 contained discs with demos for the then-newly released JumpStart World games. So that image is like, a mashup of the Advanced series and the 3D World series that was created solely for boxart, to draw a connection between the two series. At least, that's what I think- I'm definitely sure that image was only ever used on boxart and didn't appear in any actual games, because for one thing, the whole "Learning Styles" thing was already phased out by the time the 3D World games came along.

So they took this character they had, Coach Bailey, who is similar enough to Casey in some ways (both are orange cats who are athletic in some sense) and slapped him on the boxart where Casey used to be. I don't think they were ever intended to be the same character though, since the similarities stop there.

Sorry if that got really long, I just wanted to explain as best I could (especially because I remember asking myself this same question a couple years back and having no satisfactory answer for it at the time)