The new friend added to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was Gopher. The whistling, dynamite-loving animal is the only character not included in the original books. According to Ranker ...

Disney first began licensing Pooh in 1961, dropping the original hyphens and introducing new characters, like Gopher, who first appeared in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. In 2001 ...

9. The character of Samuel Gopher is only found in the movies. There’s even a sly reference to this in Winnie Pooh and the Honey Tree, when Gopher says, “[I’m] not in the book, y’know.” ...