Theories/headcanons? How does Lalaloopsy Land work?

[Kiruka]

So after seeing the first 9 episodes of the show, I've made some observations and educated guesses based on said observations.

- None of the characters eat meat. They have milk and eggs (and likely nuts) to get protein. Since they only have one cow and one chicken (or chick, I should say), it would make sense that they want to hang onto those precious resources. On the flip side, they might not even actually need to eat to survive, and only eat for pleasure.

- They seem to have an "everybody shares everything" system in lieu of an economy. Although Bea mentioned having books "for sale", and Pickles talks about her "customers", none of them are ever seen using money. Jewel can just show up at Crumbs' place and ask for cupcakes, or MORE cupcakes, and Crumbs will just do it without expecting any sort of payment. It's sort of reminiscent of early communism. Pillow is a bit of a freeloader, though. Although Jewel provides leadership and organization when needed, she only has as much power as everyone gives her.

- Lalaloopsy Land itself seems to be closed off from the rest of the world (whatever "the world" is in-universe). Although they have technology that harnesses electricity or fuel, they don't have anything associated with media/communication (TV, phones, computers etc.). Between that, the fact that Peanut was able to travel all over Lalaloopsy Land in less than a day (on stilts no less), and the lack of land-based wild animals, Lalaloopsy Land is probably an island. And, due to the nature of their community and how much they rely on each others' skills and resources, there isn't a single Loopsy who could survive on their own on a long-distance trip away from their home since they're all so specialized. There's a good chance that whoever sewed the Loopsies put them into Lalaloopsy Land in order to observe a small, isolated society, and see how they adapt to the various problems that they run into.

- Cement roads exist, and aren't naturally occurring. Someone put those there, and as far as I know, none of the Loopsies specialize in construction work (Forest or Ace come closest, maybe Sunny, but none of those three have ever been seen working with cement). It seems to be one long road connecting the main landmarks of Lalaloopsy Land, and since there's no detours, there's no way for road traffic to enter or leave. Although Marina and Patch have boats, they would be unlikely to set out sail too far away (especially Marina, since she can't swim), and there's a good chance of a natural barrier of sorts such as a large coral formation or whirlpools impeding their progress. Dot has a plane, but it can only accommodate 2 occupants and is easily thwarted by harsh weather (since it's open-topped), so she would be unlikely to try to leave either. The weather may even be artificial, controlled by whoever sewed them. The storm that brewed in the movie? Maybe it only happened because Pillow was straying too far away, and it got worse when Dot and Bea took to the sky. And Dot trying to go to the moon? Mouse (or should I say Mole) took care of that real quick. Closed space.

(More tinfoil hat claptrap to come once I get my mitts on more episodes.)

[satchmo83]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this.It literally made my day..I can always count on something cheering me up on here, but this takes the cake..

[zt]

I wonder how the aging process works. We know that there are little sisters and now there are baby dolls, so they clearly have different stages. But if they're dolls, how do they grow? Is it more of a metamorphosis? Maybe they enter some kind cocoon-like state while their creator (assuming there is one) deconstructs them and uses their materials to create new bodies.

[XANA]

Well, I really enjoyed reading this. I love these sorts of things.

Aren't they always shown using tin-can 'telephones' in most episodes to communicate long-distance?

Though the sound quality must suffer in-universe, as far as I know I'm pretty sure there's a sort of degradation on this specific tech when you try to do it over a long-distance.
Of course, going by Lalaloopsy Land being an island, there may not be that big a distance to cover. I wish they'd show that episode I keep seeing in episode guides online where they cover this in detail.

As for 'closed space', whatever that may be, in Dot's moon mission they are shown in-universe having a 'sky gate' (literally) that opens and closes, and when Bea computes the next opening it's far in the future, so their world residing closed off from all the other locations in space seems very likely especially if there is such a long wait for 'the alignment of the planets' or in this case the opening of their sky gate.

As for other technology, they may not have the resources to do it properly. I don't think I've ever seen anything plastic-based anywhere, except maybe the slide on the school bus in the movie, and plastic is a major component for a majority of products we have today.

The entire structure of their houses seem to be made up of what suits their personalities/hobbies, which points to A) there's no way that some stuff could have just been lying around without it being placed there by someone and B) there's no way they could have just built all that by themselves since it appears most of them don't seem to be of the creating-things-from-scratch persuasion.

I may be far off the mark here, since I'm only going by what I remember from seeing the episodes months ago (busy with college), but I've seen all the ones up to this point.