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The Voice season 26 premiered on September 23 with its famous Blind Auditions, which has the judges turn their chairs only for the voices they want to mentor. This season saw two new mentors, Snoop Dog and Michael Bublé, alongside the original judges, Reba McEntire and Gwen Stephani.
Like the previous seasons, this season saw the mentors giving out gifts of appreciation to the artists they loved. Snoop Dog gave necklaces to the singers who chose him, while Michael Bublé handed out Jerseys to them.
Reba McEntire gave Funko Pop! Dolls, which was different from the food items she was known to hand the singers in the previous seasons. This made fans curious about the meaning behind her token of love and why she gave it out. Turns out the Funko Pop! Dolls are Reba McEntire herself dressed in black.
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The cute-looking dolls are actually Reba McEntire styled in an all-black ensemble, with her iconic rust-colored hair. It is something for The Voice singers to keep as a token of appreciation, contrary to her season 25 gift of Chicken Tenders or her season 24 gift of Tater Tots, which would exhaust once it went into their mouths.
Funko Pop! is a popular toy doll brand that was started in 1998. By 2000, Funko Pop! had acquired licenses for all the popular franchises, such as Marvel, DC, and Harry Potter, making it the number-one brand for toy/character collections.
This makes Reba McEntire's Funko Pop! Doll a collector's dream and a cherished souvenir. The exciting news for fans of The Voice, fans of Reba, or simply ardent collectors of Funky Pop! Dolls is that another version of the same doll is now available to pre-order, according to NBC.
In the pre-order version, Reba's doll is dressed in her iconic red dress for the 1993 CMA Awards performance. The pre-ordering started on September 24 and would go up to November 1. It can be pre-ordered on Funko.com, which cues the estimated shipping time to mid-September next year. Alongside Reba's doll, fans can also find Snoop's Funko Pop! Doll on the website.
The significance of Snoop Dog's chain necklace from The Voice season 26
Snoop Dog's chain necklace, which he hands to the artists who join his clan on The Voice season 26, holds a lot of value and meaning to him. It's a Death Row Records chain, a replica of what was given to him by Suge Knight almost 30 years ago.
It's significant because the record label was co-owned by Suge Knight, the D.O.C, and Dick Griffeth and put out several tracks by Snoop Dog, including his popular album Doggystyle. After it filed for bankruptcy around the early 2000s, the label bounced its ownership between several entities before Snoop finally brought it in 2022.
The chain necklace tells a story of loyalty and friendship with Suge Knight, which Snoop exhibited when he bought back the record almost two decades later.
For more updates on The Voice, fans of the show can follow its official Instagram account - @nbcthevoice.
