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- ↑ The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 14, no. 3 (typo in magazine: should be "no. 2"), April/May 1996: pp. 5, 28, 39.
- ↑ The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 10, no. 5, October/November 1992: pp. 31, 32, 34, 42–43.
- ↑ The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 14, no. 4, August/September 1996: p. 28.
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- ↑ The Disney Channel Magazine, Vol. 8, no. 4 (typo in magazine: should be "no. 5"), September/October 1990: pp. 48, 50–51, 56.
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