Angry Birds Toons | |
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Created by | Mikael Hed Lauri Konttori Mikko Pöllä |
Based on | Angry Birds by Rovio Entertainment |
Developed by | Søren Fleng |
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Opening theme | "Angry Birds Toons" |
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Country of origin | Finland |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 104 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 2 minutes, 45 seconds |
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Network | Toons.TV Teletoon MTV3 |
Release | 17 March 2013 – 13 May 2016 |
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Angry Birds Stella Piggy Tales Angry Birds Blues Angry Birds: Summer Madness |
Angry Birds Toons is a Finnish short-form animated television series based on Rovio's Angry Birds . This animated series follows the adventures of the young birds as they guard their eggs against the piggies who want to steal them for their king to eat, as well as adventures from within each group, with episodes having been released weekly.
Rovio announced a TV series based on the Angry Birds video game series with 52 short episodes. 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. [14] The series was made available worldwide on Angry Birds apps, selected video-on-demand services, and selected smart TVs.[ citation needed ]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (who coincidentally later released The Angry Birds Movie through Columbia Pictures) 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.
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; [21] later in the same year, Nickelodeon showed Angry Birds: Wreck the Halls, a Christmas special that aired on 17 December 2011, [22] [23] 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; [24] and Angry Birds Space , an animated prequel to the video game of the same name in March 2012. [25] [26]
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. [27] 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. [28]
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". [29] 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 .
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. [30]
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. [31] It premiered on 10 March 2017 on Toons.TV. [32]
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. [33]
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. [34]
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