I have a sister with special learning disabilities, and recently, she's come across Blue's Clues episode online (with Steve), and she loves to sing and dance to the songs, which she has never done with other shows before. We joke around copying Blue say "po po paw," so I thought a Blue puppet would be much more fun and set this apart from her other plush toys. She is more of a Steve fan, so she keeps asking where's Steve, so I tell her he's in college. I do wish other characters were available, but this is such great value for five characters, and they all seem high quality. On-sale on Amazon, I was able to get this for less than two dollars per character puppet! To be honest, with the quality of the puppets, I'm surprised it doesn't cost more. The original price is definitely still worth paying for these.
I think Mrs. Salt and Mr. Pepper look just like their animated counterparts. Blue looks like he had an extra piece of fabric above his nose, and I wish Josh was bigger than Blue and Magenta and actually had a separate guitar piece or take it off altogether as it's hard for his hands to "play" the guitar.