Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Today

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 This is a picture of Marlee, the rasta penguin I was talking about last time.

Mr. Feuer says one of the stars of the new line of stuffed toys is Frank Weinerman. Frank Weinerman is an anthropomorphic hot dog with a cape and a face. He is the "frankfurter superhero". Mr. Feuer and his partner used to be the only ones who came up with names for the animals, but now the designer comes up with the names. Then he runs the names by Mr. Feuer and his partner, who have veto power and can reject or change any of the names. I'll talk about some of my favorite names now. Crusty is a red crab, a thinly veiled reference to the boss of Spongebob on the Spongebob Squarepants tv show, who is a red crab, and owns the "Krusty Krab".Edge is a bald eagle with a sinister countenance. One might call him an "angry bird" on "edge". Mr. Feuer tried to make an imitation of the Angry Bird, called the Noggin Bird but in turn legal action was taken against him, in similar way to the Rasta Banana incident. Rovio, the Finnish company behind Angry Birds, had already made an agreement with another toy company to make licensed angry birds stuffed animals. When Mr. Feuer made his angry bird imitation, he was a served a cease and desist order. After discussing with his lawyer, Mr. Feuer decided not to go forward with producing his Noggin Birds.

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