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Cobra Kai consumer products programme expands ahead of Season 4

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In anticipation of the Cobra Kai fourth season release on December 31, Sony Pictures Consumer Products (SPCP) has announced a significant expansion to the Cobra Kai consumer products programme.

Boasting apparel, accessories, toys, collectibles, home goods, novelty, costumes, jewellery, publishing and more, the Cobra Kai consumer products line covers all licensing categories with goods for everyone to enjoy while streaming the hit show. In addition to the U.S., the brand can be found in hundreds of formats across the globe, including key markets the UK/Europe, Mexico, Brazil and Japan.

“Cobra Kai ratings have been strong throughout its run, and as the fourth season approaches, consumer demand for show-themed products has never been stronger,” says Jamie Stevens, EVP, Worldwide Consumer Products, Sony Pictures Entertainment. “With Cobra Kai, Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang, fans have the opportunity to show their support for any of their favorite dojos with the breadth of merchandise we’re offering, and just in time for the show’s debut on New Year’s Eve!”

Just released from Playmates are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Cobra Kai 2-Packs: Mikey vs. Daniel LaRusso, Donatello vs. Johnny Lawrence, Ralph vs. John Kreese and Leo vs. Miguel Diaz. The figures can be seen across several top media outlets’ holiday gift guides and general gift roundups, and are available from Amazon.

U.S. partnerships include:

  • A HERO x Cobra Kai speciality coffee collaboration with HERO Beverage Co, which can be found online at drinkhero.com or at participating retail partner locations across the U.S.
  • A limited-edition collaboration with head to toe looks inspired by each dojo, from Champion Athleticwear, launching in February 2022.
  • Sleepwear, headwear, hosiery and accessories from Bioworld at Walmart.
  • Boxerbriefs, hats, shirts, sweatshirts and tanks from Contenders Clothing at www.contendersclothing.com.
  • All-new 7-inch figures from Diamond Select Toys, available for pre-order now at  www.diamondselecttoys.com.
  • Costumes and accessories from Disguise, Party City and Spirit.
  • Diverson3’s Cobra Kai: Card Fighter mobile game for iOS and Android.
  • FunkoPop! vinyl figures, available for purchase at www.funko.com.
  • Han Cholo earrings, pendant necklaces, rings and enamel pins, found at www.hancholo.com.
  • A four-part limited edition comic book series from IDW, available at www.idwpublishing.com.
  • Ripple Junction apparel, including dojo-themed t-shirts, tanks and hoodies, socks and more, at the official Cobra Kai Amazon store.
  • Drinkware, stationery, throws and novelty items from Surreal Entertainment and apparel from Mad Engine online and at various retail locations.
  • Trends International posters, bookmarks and calendars available at www.trendsinternational.com.

Europe/UK partners include:

  • Party Delights (at www.partydelights.co.uk) and Amscan International Limited (also available in Australia) for dress-up.
  • Bioworld International, the UK and Europe day- and nightwear license holder, for apparel, currently available at retailers such as Asda, Primark and Next.
  • Cend International Limited (The Hut Group)/Zavvi for apparel, accessories, gifting and home items, available now at www.zavvi.com.
  • Ecell Global for phone and tablet cases, found at goheadcase.com.
  • Pyramid Posters for poster and gifting items, at Truffle Shuffle, HMV and The Range.
  • STOR S.L. holds a drinkware and crockery license for Europe, UK, and MENA and is set to launch early 2022.

SPCP is giving fans a one-stop-shop to snag all their favourite goods across every major product category at cobrakaistore.com for shoppers in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Australia and uk.cobrakaistore.com for European shoppers.

 

Pull&Bear debuts The Smurfs clothing collection

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Pull&Bear, the youth fashion chain belonging to the Inditex Group, has signed a direct-to-retail agreement with DeAPlaneta Entertainment for the global launch of The Smurfs men’s clothing collection, featuring the much-loved iconic blue characters.

The range includes colourful T-shirts, sweatshirts, bomber jackets and jeans along with shorts, shirts and caps. DeAPlaneta Entertainment is coordinating the brand’s licensing programme in Spain, Portugal, and Central and Eastern Europe.

The historic brand is based on the characters and universe created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo in 1958. It’s now more alive than ever thanks to its latest releases, including CGI animated and live action films, and the new CGI TV series for 5–12 -year-olds, which launched on Nickelodeon on 10 September and has already screened on TF1 in France.

The new series combines comedy, adventure and action and will soon screen on national TV stations including RAI YOYO in Italy, KIKA in Germany, and Milkshake! on Channel 5 in the UK.

The Smurfs are about to launch a new line of toys with master toy license holder Jazwares, in addition to new video games, fashion collections, health and beauty lines, audiobooks and other entertainment products and experiences.

 

Pull&Bear debuts The Smurfs clothing collection

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Pull&Bear, the youth fashion chain belonging to the Inditex Group, has signed a direct-to-retail agreement with DeAPlaneta Entertainment for the global launch of The Smurfs men’s clothing collection, featuring the much-loved iconic blue characters.

The range includes colourful T-shirts, sweatshirts, bomber jackets and jeans along with shorts, shirts and caps. DeAPlaneta Entertainment is coordinating the brand’s licensing programme in Spain, Portugal, and Central and Eastern Europe.

The historic brand is based on the characters and universe created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo in 1958. It’s now more alive than ever thanks to its latest releases, including CGI animated and live action films, and the new CGI TV series for 5–12 -year-olds, which launched on Nickelodeon on 10 September and has already screened on TF1 in France.

The new series combines comedy, adventure and action and will soon screen on national TV stations including RAI YOYO in Italy, KIKA in Germany, and Milkshake! on Channel 5 in the UK.

The Smurfs are about to launch a new line of toys with master toy license holder Jazwares, in addition to new video games, fashion collections, health and beauty lines, audiobooks and other entertainment products and experiences.

 

Alton Towers reveals new CBeebies Land attractions for spring 2022

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Three new attractions are coming to CBeebies Land at Alton Towers Resort in spring 2022: Hey Duggee Big Adventure Badge, Andy’s Adventures Dinosaur Dig and JoJo & Gran Gran At Home.

Guests will be able to climb, slide and bounce their way through the Hey Duggee Big Adventure Badge, and collect their very own Big Adventure Badge. In addition, a brand new Hey Duggee live show, “The Map Badge”, will be coming to the Land for fans to enjoy.

Youngsters can also let their curiosity run wild in JoJo & Gran Gran At Home, exploring Gran Gran’s house from the hit TV animation show.

Meanwhile, Dinosaur fans can immerse themselves in prehistoric sights and sounds as they dig and discover in the new live interactive show attraction Andy’s Adventures Dinosaur Dig.

The arrival of the attractions is part of a wider re-imagining of the UK’s only CBeebies Land at the UK’s largest theme park, which will also include a new CBeebies Bug interactive trail.

CBeebies fans will enjoy a new live show with Bing and Flop in Big Fun Showtime, with a full schedule of events where children can meet and interact with some of CBeebies’ biggest stars. Furthermore, Bingsters will also be able to enjoy the ultimate sleepover in Bing-themed bedrooms coming to CBeebies Land Hotel at the Resort.

Larry Roles, Marketing Director for Alton Towers Resort, says: “We are really excited to grow the fun-packed programme of entertainment and attractions in CBeebies Land, bringing to life even more TV favourites for families to enjoy together. We know that, like our existing line-up, these new additions will provide a truly immersive experience for young fans and really captivate their imaginations. We’re sure both parents and children will love experiencing these fun additions and we cannot wait to see them being enjoyed by our guests.”

Natasha Spence, Head of Attractions, Live Entertainment, BBC Studios, adds: “CBeebies Land offers a brilliant and unique opportunity for young children and their families to experience some of their favourite CBeebies shows and friends as they are brought to life. The additions of the brand-new Hey Duggee play and adventure land and live show, plus Jojo & Gran Gran and Andy’s Adventures attractions, as well as the new Bing live show and themed hotel rooms are incredibly exciting and add to what is already a rich portfolio of children’s brands in this dedicated Land.”

For more information, visit www.altontowers.com/cbeebiesland

Alton Towers reveals new CBeebies Land attractions for spring 2022

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Three new attractions are coming to CBeebies Land at Alton Towers Resort in spring 2022: Hey Duggee Big Adventure Badge, Andy’s Adventures Dinosaur Dig and JoJo & Gran Gran At Home.

Guests will be able to climb, slide and bounce their way through the Hey Duggee Big Adventure Badge, and collect their very own Big Adventure Badge. In addition, a brand new Hey Duggee live show, “The Map Badge”, will be coming to the Land for fans to enjoy.

Youngsters can also let their curiosity run wild in JoJo & Gran Gran At Home, exploring Gran Gran’s house from the hit TV animation show.

Meanwhile, Dinosaur fans can immerse themselves in prehistoric sights and sounds as they dig and discover in the new live interactive show attraction Andy’s Adventures Dinosaur Dig.

The arrival of the attractions is part of a wider re-imagining of the UK’s only CBeebies Land at the UK’s largest theme park, which will also include a new CBeebies Bug interactive trail.

CBeebies fans will enjoy a new live show with Bing and Flop in Big Fun Showtime, with a full schedule of events where children can meet and interact with some of CBeebies’ biggest stars. Furthermore, Bingsters will also be able to enjoy the ultimate sleepover in Bing-themed bedrooms coming to CBeebies Land Hotel at the Resort.

Larry Roles, Marketing Director for Alton Towers Resort, says: “We are really excited to grow the fun-packed programme of entertainment and attractions in CBeebies Land, bringing to life even more TV favourites for families to enjoy together. We know that, like our existing line-up, these new additions will provide a truly immersive experience for young fans and really captivate their imaginations. We’re sure both parents and children will love experiencing these fun additions and we cannot wait to see them being enjoyed by our guests.”

Natasha Spence, Head of Attractions, Live Entertainment, BBC Studios, adds: “CBeebies Land offers a brilliant and unique opportunity for young children and their families to experience some of their favourite CBeebies shows and friends as they are brought to life. The additions of the brand-new Hey Duggee play and adventure land and live show, plus Jojo & Gran Gran and Andy’s Adventures attractions, as well as the new Bing live show and themed hotel rooms are incredibly exciting and add to what is already a rich portfolio of children’s brands in this dedicated Land.”

For more information, visit www.altontowers.com/cbeebiesland

Minecraft supports Great Ormond Street Hospital with virtual winter wonderland

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The world’s largest winter festival has opened its virtual doors to the public to experience Christmas festivities – all in a Minecraft world.

Covering an area with a representative size of over 155,000 square metres or 38 acres, the virtual wonderland is four times the size of the biggest real-world seasonal event in Austria and took specialist artist Ushio Tokura over 300 hours and more than 30 million individual blocks to complete.

Commissioned by NVIDIA, the NVIDIA RTX Winter World will give families across the globe a free festive immersive experience to explore, which exceeds its real-world counterparts in scale, that visitors can enjoy from the comfort of their own homes. It will also offer an opportunity to raise funds for NVIDIA’s charity partner, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity).

Utilising NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX GPU’s (Graphics Processing Unit), real-time ray tracing stunningly simulates the physical behaviour of light, enabling reflections, shadows and other realistic lighting effects, as visitors are transported to a world offering a full winter wonderland and Santa’s grotto experience.

The world includes roller coasters, a Christmas village, frozen ice-skating lake, penguin postal service and petting zoo tent, with playable storylines and quests. Christmas film aficionados should also keep a lookout for Easter Egg homages to famous festive flicks such as Elf, It’s A Wonderful Life and The Polar Express.

The world also features a full recreation of the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) building and visitors will be able to donate via an in-game QR code to contribute to the charity’s ‘Home for Christmas’ fundraising campaign, which seeks to bring seriously ill children one step closer to home by funding state-of-the-art medical technology, pioneering research programmes into treatments and cures for rare conditions and patient and family support services.

Money raised will also help bring Christmas to the hospital for children from across the UK whose treatment needs to continue over the festive season, as well as funding important services for GOSH staff working to care for patients and their families.  Visitors can also donate directly via this link.

An NVIDIA spokesperson said: “With the power utilised from our RTX GPU, we are thrilled to bring families across the globe a truly unique, virtual Christmas experience. We wanted to bring an accessible and free event for all families this Christmas, whatever their circumstances, while supporting the vital work our friends at Great Ormond Street do. We hope to raise as much as possible to help their efforts this Christmas.”

Families can download the NVIDIA RTX Winter World in Minecraft today at planetminecraft.com.

Minecraft supports Great Ormond Street Hospital with virtual winter wonderland

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The world’s largest winter festival has opened its virtual doors to the public to experience Christmas festivities – all in a Minecraft world.

Covering an area with a representative size of over 155,000 square metres or 38 acres, the virtual wonderland is four times the size of the biggest real-world seasonal event in Austria and took specialist artist Ushio Tokura over 300 hours and more than 30 million individual blocks to complete.

Commissioned by NVIDIA, the NVIDIA RTX Winter World will give families across the globe a free festive immersive experience to explore, which exceeds its real-world counterparts in scale, that visitors can enjoy from the comfort of their own homes. It will also offer an opportunity to raise funds for NVIDIA’s charity partner, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity).

Utilising NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX GPU’s (Graphics Processing Unit), real-time ray tracing stunningly simulates the physical behaviour of light, enabling reflections, shadows and other realistic lighting effects, as visitors are transported to a world offering a full winter wonderland and Santa’s grotto experience.

The world includes roller coasters, a Christmas village, frozen ice-skating lake, penguin postal service and petting zoo tent, with playable storylines and quests. Christmas film aficionados should also keep a lookout for Easter Egg homages to famous festive flicks such as Elf, It’s A Wonderful Life and The Polar Express.

The world also features a full recreation of the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) building and visitors will be able to donate via an in-game QR code to contribute to the charity’s ‘Home for Christmas’ fundraising campaign, which seeks to bring seriously ill children one step closer to home by funding state-of-the-art medical technology, pioneering research programmes into treatments and cures for rare conditions and patient and family support services.

Money raised will also help bring Christmas to the hospital for children from across the UK whose treatment needs to continue over the festive season, as well as funding important services for GOSH staff working to care for patients and their families.  Visitors can also donate directly via this link.

An NVIDIA spokesperson said: “With the power utilised from our RTX GPU, we are thrilled to bring families across the globe a truly unique, virtual Christmas experience. We wanted to bring an accessible and free event for all families this Christmas, whatever their circumstances, while supporting the vital work our friends at Great Ormond Street do. We hope to raise as much as possible to help their efforts this Christmas.”

Families can download the NVIDIA RTX Winter World in Minecraft today at planetminecraft.com.

Very Neko launches exclusive collection to celebrate season 2 of Emily in Paris

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To celebrate the new season of Emily in Paris, Very Neko – “the home of all things cute and retro” – has launched an exclusive homeware and clothing range inspired by the hit show.
The Paris-set comedy-drama follows main character Emily Cooper through her love and professional life; the first season was watched by 58 million people in the first 28 days after its launch last year.
To celebrate the new season of the hit show, Very Neko has created a range inspired by the cast and the romance of Paris. The collection is the perfect way to embody the fashion and style of the series, and includes everything from t-shirts to hoodies and wash bags to wall art.
The new range is available from Very Neko’s UK and US sites. Prices range from £9.99 to £89.99.

 

 

 

 

Very Neko launches exclusive collection to celebrate season 2 of Emily in Paris

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To celebrate the new season of Emily in Paris, Very Neko – “the home of all things cute and retro” – has launched an exclusive homeware and clothing range inspired by the hit show.
The Paris-set comedy-drama follows main character Emily Cooper through her love and professional life; the first season was watched by 58 million people in the first 28 days after its launch last year.
To celebrate the new season of the hit show, Very Neko has created a range inspired by the cast and the romance of Paris. The collection is the perfect way to embody the fashion and style of the series, and includes everything from t-shirts to hoodies and wash bags to wall art.
The new range is available from Very Neko’s UK and US sites. Prices range from £9.99 to £89.99.

 

 

 

 

Most popular kids’ videos on YouTube revealed

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Website hosting platform hosting.co.uk has been looking into the kid-friendly YouTube videos with the most views.

According to its research, YouTube’s most popular children’s video – with 9.8B views – was ‘Baby Shark’ on the South Korean Pinkfong channel. Not only is this the most-watched kids’ video, it’s also the most-watched video of all time on YouTube.

Aside from Baby Shark, ‘Johny Johny Yes Papa ’, on the channel LooLoo Kids, was the most watched video, with 6 billion views. The video is of a popular nursery rhyme that encourages children to be honest after Johny gets caught eating sugar by his father.

Next up was ‘Bath Song’ on ‘Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes’. Despite being third on the most-watched list, ‘Cocomelon’ was the most subscribed-to kids YouTube channel with 122M subscribers.

The top 10 most-watched YouTube videos from the most subscribed-to kids’ channels were:

  • Pinkfong Baby Shark – Kids’ Songs & Stories, Baby Shark Dance: 9.8B
  • LooLoo Kids – Nursery Rhymes and Children’s Songs – Johny Johny Yes Papa: 6B
  • Cocomelon – Bath Song: 4.7B
  • Masha and the Bear – Recipe for Disaster: 4.4B
  • ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs – Phonics Song with TWO Words – A For Apple – ABC Alphabet Songs with Sounds for Children: 4.3B
  • Little Baby Bum – Wheels On The Bus: 2.4B
  • Infobells – Hindi – Chal Chal Gurram: 2.1B
  • Super Simple Songs – This Is The Way: 2B
  • Kids Diana Show – LIKE IT: 1.6B
  • El Reino Infantil – El Gallo y la Pata: 1.5B

In 2019, Ofcom found that children between the ages of 5 and 15 were more likely to choose YouTube over other services such as Netflix. They also discovered that children between the ages of 3 and 4 using Youtube had more than doubled between 2015 and 2019.

CEO of hosting.co.uk Frederick Schiwek says: “YouTube is host to some of the most popular and watched videos in the world.

“Children often have their own devices and they know exactly how to navigate their way around and find their favourite videos. Children-themed channels are some of the most subscribed-to on the platform and we expect to see this continue to increase in coming years.”

Read hosting.co.uk’s full report here.