Wow! Wow! Wubbzy is produced by Bolder Media, which itself is a subsidiary of Frederator Studios. That fact gets to the heart of why a Wubbzy DVD is so late in coming, in my estimate (the show’s been on the air since August 2006): because Frederator is so intensely committed to putting material on the web. In this case, we have the Wubbcast, billed as the first video podcast for preschoolers. It’s free to download and features short independent animations along with occasional Wubbzy episodes. It updates weekly, so they’re now in their seventy-sixth episode. I’ve watched about ten episodes, primarily flying with Loretta a couple weeks ago, and the films were superb. It’s a shrewd move on the part of the Frederator people, because it places Wubbzy within a larger context of cutting-edge preschool animation (and the occasional live-action film, like one Loretta really loved about cats). The site also has links to other online Frederator content; I love their blogs.
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Hi Randy,
Thanks for the kind words about Wubbzy and about our studio. For whatever it's worth, the W!W!W! DVDs are coming out on a pretty normal schedule for preschooler's shows, and has pretty independent of our interest in internet video. Our DVD distributor/partner, Starz, has felt all along that the market for these videos would take a couple of years to percolate. And from what we can tell from our retailers, the timing's been about right.
I'm glad you've been enjoying the Wubbcast and Wubbzy.
Thanks again.
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