I think there are four major types of Candyland fans, as far as I've witnessed over the years:
Horror fans making horror interpretations of the game's setting
Lord Licorice simps
Mr. Mint simps like me lol
People who ship Lord Licorice with Mr. Mint (which may or may not intersect with the above two in some way, depending on the fan)
This is not counting the arguably casual fans who are just nostalgic for any iteration of the board game and make the odd non-fanwork related post about it once or twice (or on rare occasions otherwise).
Had some free time so I decided to work on something I've always wanted to do, making the classic 80s-90s version of the Candy Land Board Game characters in my style. This was a lot of fun.
I am in LOVE with all of them, especially Mr.Mint. they are all so special to me and I just,, I WANNA CRY because I've been super nostalgic lately specifically for these guys and seeing them all again makes my heart warm!! I hope you guys don't mind the self indulgent post!!
Some designs/proof-of-concept doodles I did bc I wanna get the ideas out there but a full refsheet takes 2 hours. The sources are in the tags, but you get a point for every character you recognize without reading them
concept is by @sexymandescendants , designs are all by me :]