Angry Birds Toons

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Angry Birds Toons
Angry Birds Toons logo.png
Genre
Created byMikael Hed
Lauri Konttori
Mikko Pöllä
Based on Angry Birds
by Rovio Entertainment
Developed bySøren Fleng
Voices of
  • Antti Pääkkönen
  • Antti LJ Pääkkönen
  • Pasi Ruohonen
  • Lynne Guaglione
  • Heljä Heikkinen
  • Rauno Ahonen
  • Chris Sadler
Opening theme"Angry Birds Toons"
Composers
  • Mike Reagan
  • David Schweitzer
  • Benny Oschmann
  • Alexander Röder
  • Douglas Black Heaton
  • Salla Hakkola
Country of originFinland
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes104 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Mikael Hed
  • Nick Dorra
  • Mikko Pöllä
  • Steve Pegram
  • Olivier Dumont
Producers
  • Søren Fleng (season 1) (52 eps)
  • Pablo Jordi (seasons 2–3) (52 eps)
Running time2 minutes, 45 seconds
Production companies
Original release
Network Toons.TV
Kabillion
MTV3
Nickelodeon [1]
Release17 March 2013 (2013-03-17) 
13 May 2016 (2016-05-13)
Related

Angry Birds Toons is a short-form animated television series based on Rovio's Angry Birds franchise. The series follows the adventures of the birds as they guard their eggs against the pigs, who want to steal them for their king to eat, as well as adventures from within each group. Episodes were released weekly from 2013 to 2016.

Contents

Episodes

SeriesEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast released
1 5217 March 2013 (2013-03-17)8 March 2014 (2014-03-08)
2 2619 October 2014 (2014-10-19)12 April 2015 (2015-04-12)
3 261 October 2015 (2015-10-01)13 May 2016 (2016-05-13)

Characters

Birds

Pigs

Production

Rovio announced a television series based on the Angry Birds video game series with 52 short episodes.[ when? ] The series was produced by the Finnish animation studio Kombo, which Rovio bought in June 2011. "I am happy to say we are going to roll out a weekly animation series this year of short format content," said Nick Dorra, head of the animation at Rovio. [16] Animation services were predominately provided by Manila-based studio Toon City, while the British animation studio Karrot Animation and the Danish studio Copenhagen Bombay provided animation for select episodes. [17] [18]

The series was made available worldwide on Angry Birds apps via Toons.TV, selected video-on-demand services, and select smart TVs.[ citation needed ]

Reception

Angry Birds Toons received positive reviews from critics and audiences. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave a show four stars out of five, saying "this gem of a series that doesn't overextend itself beyond the limits of the games themselves." [19] In his review of volumes 1 and 2 of season 1 DVD release, Michael Zupan of DVD Talk praised the series' characters, animation, and humor. He also described as "witty, hilarious and highly reminiscent of the days when we used to watch Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry ." [20] [21]

Home media

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the DVD/Blu-ray distributor for the series. While the first season got a Blu-ray release, later releases starting with season two were only available on DVD.

Specials

On 21 October 2011, before the series started, Rovio made a Halloween special as the trailer for the Angry Birds Seasons episode of Ham'o'ween, and as the backstory of how the bird Bubbles joined the flock of birds; [28] later in the same year, Nickelodeon showed Angry Birds: Wreck the Halls, a Christmas special that aired on 17 December 2011, [29] [30] and which was included as a bonus feature on the Season 1, Volume 1 DVD; on 20 January of the next year, Nickelodeon showed Angry Birds: Year of the Dragon, a special celebrating the Chinese Year Of The Dragon, and the Angry Birds Seasons episode of the same name; [31] and Angry Birds Space , an animated prequel to the video game of the same name in March 2012. [32] [33]

Book adaptation

On January 1, 2016, Rovio and Kaiken Entertainment Ltd (Now Ferly Ltd) published a series of 4 books written by Les Spink called Angry Birds Toons Tales. [34] The books contained more in-depth written versions of the first twelve episodes of the series, although the visuals shown in the books are the same as the visuals which appear in the animated versions of the episodes. [35]

Spin-offs

Piggy Tales

On 11 April 2014, Rovio released a series titled Piggy Tales on their multi-platform broadcasting channel, Toons.TV, with the first episode called "Trampoline". [36] The series show the minion pigs' life, with other exclusive characters to appear in various episodes, but no other pigs or birds were featured.

The first two seasons used claymation-style CGI to depict the pigs as they appeared in most Angry Birds games, with the latter two seasons shifting to complete computer-generated imagery and focusing on the pigs as they appeared as in The Angry Birds Movie .

Angry Birds Stella

Based on the puzzle video game spin-off of the same name, the series is based around Stella, the pink bird, along with her friends Luca, Willow, Poppy, and Dahlia as they work their way against Gale, the former friend of Stella, that currently is the queen of the pigs in Golden Island. [37]

Angry Birds Blues

Another spin-off series, titled Angry Birds Blues. The series shows The Blues' life, along with the Hatchlings, and is set between the events of The Angry Birds Movie and its sequel. [38] It premiered on 10 March 2017 on Toons.TV. [39]

Angry Birds BirLd Cup

In the summer of 2018, on the eve of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, Rovio announced a new series, titled Angry Birds BirLd Cup, which leverages a partnership with the UK soccer/association football team Everton FC, in which Premier League stars hold a special contest between two teams of children, representing Red and Chuck. The teams compete in special challenges to win the titular "Birld Cup", with the pigs keeping score. [40]

Angry Birds on the Run

In the fall of 2018, Rovio announced a new series, titled Angry Birds on the Run, which leverages a partnership with Blink Industries, to create the first live-action Angry Birds series. The series shows that Red, Chuck, and Bomb fall out of a girl's phone, and they try to find the kid to get home before Rovio replaces them. The show was released on 17 November 2018 on YouTube. In the spring of 2020, Rovio Entertainment announced the second season of the series, with the first episode released on 13 June 2020. [41]

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