Winnie the Pooh Honored in Hollywood

Winnie the Pooh has received the star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Winnie the Pooh has received the 2,308th star along Hollywood's Walk of Fame in a ceremony attended by Robert Iger of Walt Disney Co.

The "silly old bear" was supported at the ceremony by his old friends Tigger, Eeyore and Rabbit. The award coincides with DVD release of "Pooh's Grand Adventure."

Other Disney characters with stars along the famed walk include Snow White, Donald Duck and of course, Mickey Mouse.

Winnie-the-Pooh is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. In 1961, Walt Disney Productions bought film and other rights to Winnie the Pooh character and made a series of cartoon films about him.

Winnie the Pooh has become one of the most lucrative literary franchises in history.

Today, Pooh videos, teddy bears, and other merchandise generate $1 billion in annual revenues for Disney – as much as is earned by Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto combined.

Winnie the Pooh features include The Tigger Movie, Piglet's Big Movie, and Pooh's Heffalump Movie. The last of the movies listed introduced an elephant-like heffalump named Lumpy.

The classic characters, plus Lumpy, are expected to appear in a television series in 2007. Christopher Robin has been replaced with an as-of-yet-unnamed girl.