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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/press_release.php?aid=9519

Bochum/Germany June 14th, 2005

"The Crazy Frog" - also known as "The Annoying Thing" - is represented by Wallaroo Licensing for worldwide exclusive licensing for the electronic entertainment market. By that Wallaroo Licensing is the Crazy Frogs diving board into the interactive world of gaming.

This character has become a cultural phenomenon: Millions of mobile users worldwide, No.1 in the UK Single Charts as has beaten off competitors from two of the world's biggest bands to reach No.1 in the singles charts, a huge merchandising success and the story is just about to begin!

"This character definitely has the potential to become a striking success in the electronic entertainment market: After ruling the mobile world and becoming a pop star, (aka „The Annoying thing") the game world is the next logical step for this congenial hero.", says Stefan Heinemann, Licensing Director.

The character, created by swedish digital artist Erik Wernquist
(www.turboforce3d.com, is represented by Wallaroo Licensing
exclusively and worldwide and is ready for licensing now."

Where's that "stop the madness" Photoshop? :lol

 

[Ninja Scooter]

it stops HERE!

 

[sprsk]

what bothers me the most, is that they brand it as something annoying and that in itself is annoying. im indifferent about the frog.

 

[FortNinety]

it stops HERE!

Man that never gets old.

 

[Geek]

What? What IS this?

 

[marvelharvey]

What? What IS this?

Best if you never know

 

[olimario]

Cultural phenominom? I had never heard of the thing before GAF.

 

[Shiggy]

When will this characters get their games?

Partybiene [Party Bee]

Schnappi

Sweety

Tweety



Well, thank you Jamba [Jamster]:

 

[Thomper]

When will this characters get their games?

Schnappi

If I remember correctly, a schnappi game is already released. A (dutch) review can be found here.

 

[Borys]

When will this characters get their games?

http://www.jamba.de/storage/view/upload/logo/image_multianimscreensaver/PartybieneWischen1.gif
Partybiene [Party Bee]

http://www.backstage7.de/cd/single04/schnappi/schnappi_cover.jpg
Schnappi

http://www.ilcannocchiale.it/blogs/bloggerarchimg/effecci75/Jamba Sweety Singstar Küken.jpg
Sweety

http://publizistik-in-berlin.de/media/Tweety.jpg
Tweety

Well, thank you Jamba [Jamster]:
http://kantel.server-wg.de/images/susi_hippo.gif

Ahhh... Euro (German) trash... VIVA loves this crap.

 

[Odnetnin]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/press_release.php?aid=9519

Where's that "stop the madness" Photoshop? :lol

I remember when I frequented the CGTalk forum and the artist posted his short animation in the forum. I NEVER imagined it would take on this life that it has taken. He must be uber wealthy now.

Shit

 

[M3wThr33]

So is Europe THAT stupid that hearing that STUPID GODDAMNED FROG MILLIONS of times makes them want to be a prick, too?

This can't be right, there has to be another explanation.

 

[VNZ]

One of my closest friends talked above mentioned artist into 3D and learned him the ropes a couple of years back. How he regrets that now...

 

[spliced]

For some reason I thought that thing was a creature in Psychonauts. :lol

 

[radioheadrule83]

It's actually a cool little design. It's not how it looks that annoys me. It's that the mobile (Jamster) adverts etc are on every 5 seconds, and Crazy Frog just happens to be the most annoying sound of them all.

 

[Kiriku]

The sound was funny years ago when it trickled out on the net. It was some dude in Sweden fooling around, he imitated a motorcycle and increased the speed/pitch. Fast-forward a couple of years, and Jamba grabs the sound file from the net and turns it into a cellphone ringtone, adding that ugly 3D frog in the process. Ugh. On behalf of Sweden, I apologize. Especially when they sometimes show the Crazy Frog TV commercial two times IN A ROW.

 

[Eric P]

The hell with this.

Where's my Flat Erik game w/ music by Mr. Oizo?

-Eric P

 

[Ghost]

Some kid (About 12) was imitating the crazy frog in work today, i was THIS <-> close to punching him in his little face.


Its not even the noise that annoys me now, its the fact that people find it entertaining.


It was a real eye-opener for me to see an imitated engine noise over the top of the beverly hills cop theme tune take number 1 in the UK charts ahead of Coldplay. I blame chav culture.