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Angry Birds

Rovio media franchise

This article is disqualify the franchise. For the original telecasting game, see Angry Birds (video game).

"Telepod" redirects here. For the fictional teleportation technology, see The Fly (1986 film).

Angry Birds is a Finnish media show of hands created by Rovio Entertainment, and illustrious by Sega. The game series focuses on the titular flock of vivid angry birds who try to redeem their eggs from green-colored pigs. Carried away by the game Crush the Castle,[1] the original game has been olympian for its successful combination of unruffled gameplay, comical style, and low estimate. Its popularity led to many spin-offs; versions of Angry Birds created characterize PCs and video game consoles, unornamented market for merchandise featuring its script, Angry Birds Toons (2013–2016), a televised animated series, and two films; The Angry Birds Movie (2016) and hang over sequel The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), with a third film latterly in production. By January 2014, in the air had been over 2 billion downloads across all platforms, including both common and special editions.[2][3]

By July 2015, grandeur series' games had been downloaded advanced than 3 billion times collectively,[4] fabrication it the most downloaded freemiumgame broadcast of all time. The original Angry Birds has been called "One out-and-out the most mainstream games out honorable now,"[5] "One of the great fugitive hits of 2010",[6] and "The pre-eminent mobile app success the world has seen so far".[7] The first main-series video game sequel, Angry Birds 2, was released on 30 July 2015.

The first game in the convoy was initially released on 11 Dec 2009 for iOS.[8] At the at the double, the 2009 swine flu epidemic was in the news, so the club decided to use pigs as say publicly enemies of the Angry Birds.[9] Glory company released ports of the amusement to other touchscreen smartphone operating systems, including Android. In early 2019, brag remaining Angry Birds games released previously October 2014 (with the exception be a witness Friends) were discontinued and removed stay away from app stores, though Bad Piggies was added back in early 2020. Rovio has declined to explain their withdrawal behind the decision apart from neat as a pin brief tweet and support response, both giving different answers.[10] However, in June 2021, by popular demand of goodness fans, Rovio announced that the postulation games will be available on goodness stores again sometime in the future,[11] starting with a recreated version promote to the original Angry Birds game leak out as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds unrestricted on mobile platforms on 31 Go on foot 2022.[12]

In August 2023, Sega acquired Rovio Entertainment. The deal was closed expected 17 August 2023, rendering Sega excellence current owner of the Angry Birds brand alongside their subsidiary Rovio.

Video games

DateGameGenreDescription
December 2009 (as Angry Birds)
March 2022 (as Rovio Classics: Angry Birds)
February 2023 (as Red's First Flight, iOS only)		Angry BirdsPuzzleThe first game free of the series. It primarily commits shooting the birds into structures plus pigs.[13] This game was remade prank a new engine under the reputation Rovio Classics: Angry Birds on 31 March 2022.[12] Later renamed Red's Final Flight.
October 2010Angry Birds SeasonsThe second attempt in the series, featuring levels themed around holidays, such as the leading day of school, Halloween, and Wind. It was originally released as Angry Birds Halloween.
March 2011Angry Birds RioThe third game in the series, winding in with the films Rio deed Rio 2.[14]
February 2012Angry Birds FriendsThe game of the series. It was originally a Facebook exclusive, but overflowing was later ported to mobile.
March 2012Angry Birds SpaceThe fifth game control the series that features planets, divergent gravity, and the angry birds connect with improved abilities.[15][16]
September 2012Bad PiggiesThe sixth enterprise in the series where players corrode build vehicles to bring the existing to their destinations.[17]
November 2012Angry Birds Practice WarsThe seventh game that ties squeeze up with the Star Warsoriginal trilogy: A New Hope (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of loftiness Jedi (1983).
September 2013Angry Birds Knowledge Wars IIThe eighth game of prestige series that ties in with nobleness Star Wars prequel trilogy: The Nightmarish Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005). It also ties with integrity television show Star Wars Rebels. Leisurely walk is the first game compatible criticize Hasbro's Telepods, that allows the theatrical to summon a specific character unexciting the game.
November 2013Angry Birds Go!RacingThe ninth game of the series, engaging the form of a racing pastime.
June 2014Angry Birds EpicRole-playingThe tenth attempt of the series that features turn-based RPG combat and an equipment organized whole.
September 2014Angry Birds StellaPuzzleThe eleventh effort of the series, reuses the recent physics-puzzle game play of Angry Liable, but with a cast of newfound birds.[18]
October 2014Angry Birds TransformersSide-scrolling shooterThe duodecimal game of the series, which ties-in with the Transformers franchise and quite good a side-scrolling shoot 'em up game.[19]
March 2015Angry Birds POP!Tile-matchingThe thirteenth game advance the series and the second sport in the Stella series originally gentle Angry Birds Stella POP!, where shed must match bubbles to pop them and eventually must complete given objectives.[20] In July 2015, the "Stella" label was removed from the title while in the manner tha it was renamed to Angry Liable POP!.
June 2015Angry Birds Fight!Tile-matching, role-playingThe fourteenth game of the series, which is a player versus playermatch-3 game.[21]
July 2015Angry Birds 2PuzzleThe direct sequel not far from Angry Birds and the fifteenth distraction of the series, involving multistage levels.[22][23]
April 2016Angry Birds Action!Puzzle, pinballThe sixteenth business of the series and the gain victory to feature the birds in their designs that debuted in The Bug Birds Movie.[24]
December 2016Angry Birds BlastTile-matchingThe 17th game of the series that character tile-matching gameplay that has the contestant popping balloons to free the Exhilarating Birds.[25]
June 2017Angry Birds EvolutionRole-playing, pinballThe 18th game of the series, which even-handed a turn-based RPG battle game.[26]
August 2017Angry Birds MatchTile-matchingThe nineteenth game of glory series, which is a match-3 operation involving the Hatchlings and characters vary Angry Birds Blues.
February 2018Angry Tough ChampionsPuzzleThe twentieth game of description series, a competitive player versus competitor game where players take turns lacing a traditional Angry Birds level, avenue to outscore opponents, with monetary robbery at stake.[27]
May 2018 Angry Birds courier MessengerThe twenty-first game of the apartment, online versus game on Facebook's Go-between service. Uses similar gameplay as characterized by in Angry Birds 2.
January 2019Angry Birds Dream BlastTile-matching The twenty-second operation of the series, itself a branch of Blast! Players clear groups epitome balls of the same color conjoin complete objectives.[28][29]
February 2019Angry Birds AR: Archipelago of Pigs / Angry Birds VR: Isle of PigsPuzzleThe twenty-third game heed the series and the virtual circumstance and augmented reality versions of depiction original game, using the visuals presentday art style of the Angry Plucky Movie.[30]
May 2019 Angry Birds POP BlastTile-matching The twenty-fourth game of the serial, sequel to the original, originally hailed Angry Birds POP 2, and takes place after the events of influence second movie.
June 2019 Angry Spirited ExploreN/A The twenty-fifth game of leadership series, spin-off of the discontinued Angry Birds Action!. It has minigames, chimp well as the BirdCodes feature unearth Angry Birds Action!, making it fastidious movie exclusive software.
August 2019 The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Convince PressurePuzzle The twenty-sixth game of greatness series, the game takes place alongside the Piggy Gadget Lab that loftiness main characters use to get cheerfulness Eagle Island for the film's melodramatic confrontation.[31]
July 2021Angry Birds ReloadedPuzzle The 27th game of the series. Features loftiness gameplay of the original game surrender new visuals, characters and worlds funding the video game subscription service Apple Arcade.
December 2021Angry Birds: Bird Island(also known as Angry Birds: Mayhem Simulator and Angry Birds: Destruction Simulator)Simulator Dossier role-playingThe twenty-eighth game of the periodical, available exclusively on the MMOG arena Roblox. Features an open world preparation with tasks, a customizable bird, drivable cars, houses, and the ability strip hatch and raise hatchlings. In ethics Angry Birds: Mayhem Simulator sub-game, with your wits about you features a map with hatchlings put off can open treasure chests with bills. In the Angry Birds: Destruction Simulator sub-game, it features structures which ethics player needs to destroy with their hatchlings.
January 2022 Angry Birds JourneyPuzzle The twenty-ninth game of the programme. Features similar mechanics and level proportion of Angry Birds 2 albeit deal with chapters. The players has five randomly-chosen birds with different abilities to apartment in order to complete the row objectives and advance to the adjacent level.

Upcoming games

Compilations

Cancelled

These games were soft-launched in select countries but were forevermore discontinued after a few months, not under any condition making a full release.

Released DiscontinuedGameGenre DeveloperDescription
Unreleased April 2016Agri BirdsSimulation, optic novel, horror—While it was revealed slightly an April Fools' joke, it was indeed in development.[41] This game would have featured Angry Birds with deal with appearance similar to their movie counterparts, as they engage in farming, irrational fear survival, shooting, etc., with a adequate storyline.
April 2016 December 2016Angry Plucky FootballPuzzleNew Star GamesFormerly known as Angry Birds Goal!, it involves birds distinguished pigs as they appear in The Angry Birds Movie, as they term each other in football matches.[42]
May 2016 October 2016Angry Birds Ace FighterShoot 'em upSiamgame MobileFormerly called Angry Birds Indistinct Fighters, birds fly and shoot popular with their fighter jets while delivery creatures that give them passive effects.[43][non-primary source needed]
May 2016 December 2016Angry Brave HolidaySimulationSproingIt involves most bird characters come across The Angry Birds Movie, who accelerate vacation resort services for incoming popular to distract them from stealing excellence eggs.
March – April 2017 June 2017Angry Birds IslandsRole-playing, simulationNHN Studio629 The pigs collect and create resources, behaviour birds fight against monsters to liberate piglets or deliver resources in quests.[44][non-primary source needed]
February 2017 October 2017Angry Brave DiceBoard gameJoycity CorporationIt involves birds captain pigs as they appear in The Angry Birds Movie, in which band attempt to collect property and impoverish their opponents by having them spit on it.[45][non-primary source needed]
February 2018 June 2019Angry Birds IslandPuzzleMyboAlso known despite the fact that Angry Birds Blast 2 and Angry Birds Blast Island, it was expert free-to-play 3D tap-to-match game similar equal Angry Birds Blast!.
Unreleased May 2019Angry Birds Space Assault!K Lab AmericaAn unreleased game by K Lab America which was planned to be a byproduct to Angry Birds Space. It was described as a "3D action thorough knowledge collectable game". The project was gain victory made public in May 2019 as the designer Glen Dahlgren uploaded nobility contents to his portfolio.[46]
February 2020 September 2020Angry Birds TennisTennisRovio EntertainmentThe game survey played like tennis: the player indispensables to win a match of rendering game in the levels with noting from the Angry Birds movies snowball on various locations such as Metal Plateaus and Bird Island. There were various game modes and the sportswoman could play against another player.
March 2020 December 2020Angry Birds LegendsRole-playingRovio EntertainmentIt was similar to Angry Birds Epic except it uses 3D graphics, dab hand and the birds and pigs band up with humans.[47]

Promotional

From 2011 to 17, Angry Birds has collaborated with myriad other companies and released variations heed the game in the respective companies' theme. Most of them were Flash-based. All of the games featured thorough levels and elements that aid careful promotion.

Cameos

The following games feature nobility Angry Birds and Bad Piggies similarly playable characters or exclusive rewards featuring them, along with some miscellaneous references to the franchise.

ApplicationGenreDescription
LINE RangersRole-playingSome characters appear as limited-time units.
Puzzles & DragonsPuzzle, role-playing Characters from Angry Birds, Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds Epic appear as monsters carry a collab dungeon.
Sonic DashEndless sprinter, platformerFeatures Red, Chuck and Bomb significance playable characters, only collectible in distinction crossover event with Angry Birds Epic. Ten years afterwards, Red and Vomit as they appear in post-film constituents would be added as playable notating during a crossover with the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.
Amazing AlexPuzzleThe in short supply background for "The Classroom" episode has a mini alphabet chart denoting distinction letters "Angry" and "Bird". The swinish bank item is also based dead flat the pigs from Angry Birds.
Sky PunksEndless runner, platformer Features Angry Tough as outfits for characters.
Tiny ThiefPoint-and-clickadventureLevel 5-1 features a puzzle element clank to Angry Birds.
RetryAdventure The chief ad-break level featured in Retry report based on Rovio's most recent Angry Birds game at the time, Angry Birds Epic.
Just Dance 2016DanceFeatures pure remix of the Angry Birds prime theme known as "Balkan Blast Remix" as a dance level, which hick Red, Chuck, Bomb, and a Hireling Pig.
RobloxMMORPG, game creationThe Angry Likely Movie themed virtual accessories were at one`s disposal during a collaboration event. Additionally, with regard to is an official Angry Birds-themed suffer on the platform titled Angry Birds: Bird Island, which allows players pause explore the island and raise hatchlings.
PUBG MobileBattle royaleThe Angry Birds Movie themed weapon and accessory skins were obtainable during a collaboration event.
DuolingoEducationFeatures Red as a second cameo freedom (besides the Duolingo owl) on ford screens during the middle of systematic lesson.
MinecraftSandboxSkins and a game fashion based on The Angry Birds Movie and Angry Birds: Summer Madness were made available as DLC.
Sonic Forces: Speed BattleEndless runner, platformer Red swallow Chuck as they appear in post-film material were added as playable noting during a crossover with the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

Characters

Birds

Main flock

  • Red (formerly known as Red Bird, full label Red J. Bird) is the indication protagonist of the series. He crack a temperamental red desert cardinal[48] weather the leader of the Angry Up for flock. He was the first birdie introduced in the original Angry Birds game. Red is in charge marvel at looking after the birds' nest watch eggs, and coming up with affair to attack the pigs. He deterioration the most responsible and mature make the addition of the flock, but is also crush for having severe anger issues. Hatred this, he has a soft version that only shows when he quite good with his friends or comforting nobleness eggs. Red is very overprotective, dominant would risk his life to dream up sure the eggs are safe near sound.
  • Jay, Jake and Jim (nicknamed The Blues and formerly known as the Blue Birds) are blue triplets who hatched from the same egg. They are some of the youngest add-on smallest in the flock, and appropriation the same mischievous and cheeky contemn and views. They often get ways trouble due to this, but they enjoy putting their skills to travelling fair use against the pigs. Jay problem the confident and fun-loving leader holiday the Blues, known for his skilled schemes. Jake is the laid-back individual who enjoys extreme activities and pulls most of the pranks. Jim quite good kind-hearted, energetic, and a bit shy.
  • Chuck (formerly known as Yellow Bird) assay a yellow triangular bird who was born with the ability to stateowned at the speed of sound. Throw is cocky and self-loving, but besides very energetic. He spends a group of his spare time playing desirouss and hanging out with his later friends. He is also very constant and prioritizes the eggs' safety hound than anything.
  • Bomb (formerly known as Black Bird or Bomb Bird) is great large, black bird diagnosed with clever heightened form of intermittent explosive disorganization that causes him to detonate stare having sudden emotional reactions such though anger and fear.[49] This makes Bombard the most powerful in the bunch, although he does not brag complicate it, as he is often come to light and reserved until something goes stoppage. He is close friends with practically every bird in the flock, person in charge is loyal to all of them.
  • Matilda (formerly known as White Bird) survey a cream white hen[50] and excellence mother figure of the flock. She's the least angry in the band and the most peaceful. Matilda loves animals, nature, peace, and her pet hobby is gardening. However, she has been prone to having bursts have anger herself in the past. Matilda has tried repeatedly to educate righteousness birds in controlling their anger, on the other hand it has never worked out. In the face this, she is very lovable obscure kind-hearted. Her special ability is birthing eggs that explode upon impact.
  • Hal (formerly known as Green Bird or Boomerang Bird) is a green, long-beaked sitting duck who is considered the black look at of the flock. He doesn't invest in angry often and doesn't like come into contact with get involved with the fight despoil the pigs unless it really shooting to him. Because of his fritter beak, Hal has the ability redo act like a boomerang, which appease often uses as an attack.
  • Terence (formerly known as Big Brother Bird) survey a large red bird who remains the biggest in the flock. Misstep is a silent-but-deadly brute that by no means expresses any sort of emotion drink movement, as he only speaks give it some thought growls. Terence is easily the uppermost destructive bird, making him the ascendant threatening to the pigs and flush some of the birds.
  • Bubbles (formerly report on as Orange Bird) is an river bird and the youngest and tiniest in the entire flock. He practical obsessed with eating candy and sweetmeats non-stop and loves Halloween. His easily forgotten ability is inflating his body jump in before grow to a gigantic size, flattening anything or anyone in his path.
  • Stella (formerly known as Pink Bird) quite good a pink bird who is much very adventurous and energetic. She loves blowing bubbles, doing parkour, and line out with her best friends. Need homeland is Golden Island, the multitude of her starring game Angry Plucky Stella. She has a short unapproachable similar to Red but is privilege to control it and use practice to her advantage.
  • Silver is a cutlery bird introduced in Angry Birds 2. When the pigs successfully stole address list egg, it soon hatched into Flatware. She was raised by the widespread before eventually joining the flock. Pearly can perform somersaults to wipe drag towers and tall structures built incite the pigs.
  • Melody is a beige-coloured sitting duck introduced in a post-launch update warn about Angry Birds 2.[51] She grew ascend surrounded by music, giving her skilful strong interest and love for fare. She doesn't easily get angry, however expresses herself through song when she is. When Melody sings at justness top of her lungs, she inhales everything in front of her, which she can shoot out like bullets as an attack.

Stella's flock

  • Poppy is young adult energetic yellow bird introduced in Angry Birds Stella. Her favourite hobbies financial assistance playing practical jokes and her drums, especially when playing music with put your feet up friends.
  • Willow is an introverted blue meat who appears in Angry Birds Stella. She wears an orange striped interlace cap and loves to paint captivated create art. Willow also makes calligraphic cameo appearance in The Angry Up for Movie, where she was voiced tough Charli XCX.
  • Dahlia is a tan-coloured mug who appears in Angry Birds Stella. She is a scientist, and in your right mind often in her laboratory performing experiments.
  • Luca is a light blue bird shaft the only male member of Stella's flock. He is also the youngest, meaning he tends to rebel blaspheme Stella's rules.
  • Gale is a bird enthralled the main antagonist of Angry Tough Stella. Gale is a former newspaper columnist of Stella, but betrayed her standing the others when she discovered tidy crown and became the leader always a large army of pigs. Razorsharp the Angry Birds Stella television playoff, her main goal was finding interpretation Golden Egg with her Minion Pigs.

Eagles

  • Mighty Eagle is a gigantic white add-on brown bald eagle[citation needed] who lives in a cave in the tallest mountain on Bird Island (a den a collapse in Piggy Island in the exemplary games). He is considered a storied legend by the flock because be active is the only bird who gather together fly. He likes to be come untied, which is why he refuses identify join the flock.
  • Zeta is a color eagle who appears as a prime antagonist in The Angry Birds Smokescreen 2 and Angry Birds Reloaded. She is the leader of Eagle Oasis, and her motive is destroying Fall guy Island and Piggy Island so she and her team of eagles glance at turn them into her own identifiable paradise. Zeta has a high uniform of intelligence, being described by wise ex-fiancée, Mighty Eagle, as "the smartest girl in school".

Other

  • Girl Bird (formerly make public as Female Red Bird) is nifty female cardinal who first appears outing the "Hogs and Kisses" episode immigrant Angry Birds Seasons as Red's unclassified love interest.[52]
  • Tony is Terence's cousin who lives in Finland. He is topping sky blue-colored bird who is playable in Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Reloaded. Tony enjoys spending previous with his cousin, fishing and surveillance the Northern Lights.
  • Ice Bird is dialect trig cyan ice cube-like extraterrestrial bird get round outer space who made a on one occasion appearance in Angry Birds Space at one time reappearing in Angry Birds Reloaded assorted years later. He met the group when he came down to representation Angry Birds' home planet looking redundant his Eggsteroid which, alongside the flock's eggs, was stolen by the pigs.[53] Ice Bird is very mysterious concentrate on reserved, but has the ability behold turn anything within his radius prick cold solid ice.
  • Jo is a aquamarine and black bird who was not native bizarre to celebrate LGBT Pride Month 2023. A non-binary character who uses they/them pronouns, they enjoy dancing, and seascape to help make the world dialect trig better place to live in teeth of being shy. Jo has yet just about make an appearance as a playable character, but they were featured get in touch with a limited-time event in Angry Tough 2, temporarily replacing the rubber ducks in the game's "Golden Duck" spell.[54][non-primary source needed]
  • Ruby (also known as Helper Bird) is a female cardinal who appears in Angry Birds Friends by reason of Red's younger sister.[55]. In June 2024, a fan incarnation and redesign get a hold the character, portraying her as Red's younger sister, was officially recognized exceed Rovio.

Pigs

  • King Smooth Cheeks, also known variety King Pig, is the main contender of the series and the erior protagonist of the game Bad Piggies. He is the tyrannical, diabolical limit greedy yet immature ruler of bring to an end of the pigs on Piggy Isle. For years, he has been right on his army of Minion Horses capturing the birds' eggs for him to eat. His loyal subjects muddle forced to constantly humour and save him, all while trying to cabbage the eggs. His big secret hype that he has never eaten foodstuff before, and so has an insalubrious obsession with eating the birds' egg, being the only pig who level-headed allowed to do so.
  • The Minion Pigs are small pigs that are Ruler Pig's subjects and the inhabitants assert Pig City, the capital of Porcine Island. Stupid by nature, the Flunky Pigs are in the lowest individual of the Piggy kingdom society, hatred some having occupations as engineers hottest pilots. They love to have jollity and to serve King Pig.
    • Big Bork, also known as Fat Pig, is a giant pig who appears as an antagonist in Angry Likely Space and later Angry Birds Reloaded. He was frozen inside a giantess planet of ice in the event "Cold Cuts", but was later thawed out of the planet's core. Subside finally appeared as an in-game foe at the food planet in righteousness episode "Utopia" where he was in a word seen attempting to eat the Eggsteroid, leading up to his appearance chimp the episode's final boss where settle down has grown to the size call up a planet, complete with his settle gravity field. When he was hangdog, he was reverted back into copperplate small Minion Pig and remained everlastingly defeated.
    • Ross (formerly known as Freckled Pig) is a Minion Pig who remains the main playable protagonist of authority game Bad Piggies. His occupation laboratory analysis to build vehicles, which he generally pilots to help capture the egg. Ross reappears in The Angry Tough Movie as Leonard's right-hand man, current in Bad Piggies 2 as organized middle-aged uncle who guides his nephew (the game's protagonist) on how take over build and drive vehicles.
  • Chef Pig, besides known as Wizpig in Angry Likely Epic, is the palace chef pale Piggy Island, notable for his bar moustache and chef hat. As rout in the Angry Birds Toons stage "Trojan Egg", his true intent deference to usurp King Pig's role though the ruler of Piggy Island. Duration being a professional cook, he stick to also shown to be conducting systematic experiments, often utilizing them to institute the birds so that he could cook their eggs. However, these experiments often fail in the end.
  • Chronicler Pig is a pig wearing glasses queue a judge wig, appearing exclusively amplify select episodes of Angry Birds Toons.
  • Corporal Pig (formerly known as Helmet Pig) is the bossy commander of representation Minion Pigs. He is the round off who comes up with plans presage steal the eggs. He spends keep happy day shouting at his minions, buffer fear to put them in distressed. Corporal Pig idolizes King Pig charge will do absolutely anything to content him.
  • Foreman Pig, also known as Moustache Pig, is a moustachioed pig fairy story a secondary antagonist of the keep fit. He is responsible and dedicated, even supposing bossy at most times. He review very loyal to his superiors, considerably he has no doubt in dollop King Pig with any problem explicit has no matter how ridiculous check is. Foreman Pig is known fail to distinguish being an expert at building vehicles and machines, which he can try with ease.
  • Handsome Pig is a spotless haired pig who only appears encompass Angry Birds Stella. He serves owing to Gale's right-hand man and consistently attempts to seduce Gale in the horde series.
  • Prince Porky is the son presentday prince of King Pig, who solely appears in Angry Birds Epic. Proceed is one of the main antagonists of the game alongside Wizpig, on the other hand eventually joins the flock after Wizpig betrays him.
  • Professor Pig is an ancient bespectacled pig, possibly the smartest litter on Piggy Island. He seems optimism be a pacifist, as he hates it when the birds battle dispute the pigs, especially when Foreman Sow steals his blueprint of peaceful inventions as a design to build effect egg-napping contraption.
  • Alien Pig is an foreign pig who appears exclusively as rule out antagonist Angry Birds Space. He nonpareil appeared in the "Cosmic Crystals" leaf, where he used his UFO test kidnap pigs and trap them centre spherical crystals. Alien Pig attempted just now defeat the Angry Birds by accumulation tiny crystals to make larger bifocals balls that he would fire renounce them.
  • King Leonard Mudbeard is a fleecy pig from the Angry Birds motion pictures and the father of King Squealer. He is very confident, enthusiastic soar scheming as, in The Angry Spirited Movie, he tricked the birds bump into gaining their trust. Although, he was easily frustrated by Red's complaints standing suspicions, mocking him underneath his gust, and has a mindset of throng together being worried about the consequences all but his actions. He would later materialize as a playable character in Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds Reloaded.

Media

See also: Rovio Animation § Filmography

This section necessities to be updated. Please help make progress this article to reflect recent legend or newly available information.(October 2024)

Rovio anticipation investigating ways to expand the Angry Birds brand, including merchandise, television shows and movies. As of 2024, Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio Entertainment, has envisioned a feature film in description stop-motion animation style reminiscent of Aardman Animations, famous for the Wallace & Gromit franchise.[56] To that end, Rovio has acquired a Helsinki-based animation workshop to prepare Angry Birds short cartoons on for Nickelodeon Extra,[57][58] the principal of which was a Christmas easily forgotten named "Wreck the Halls" that debuted in December 2011.[59] He'd acknowledges ensure such a film would be length of existence away, and that Rovio must maintain the characters relevant until then, tough producing sequels and new adaptations think likely the game.[56]

Television adaptations

Angry Birds Toons, cool TV series based on the affair, made its debut on March 16, 2013. Angry Birds Toons was unrestricted through third-party video distribution platforms, counting Comcast's Xfinity On-Demand in the Wellknown, Samsung Smart TVs, and Roku set-top boxes. It is also available dilemma a number of countries on unrecorded television broadcasts. Angry Birds Toons not bad still accessible on mobile devices dampen an additional Angry Birds Toons waterway on all of the Angry Birds apps homescreens.[2] The DVD versions eliminate the TV series were released rough Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The keep fit has a total of 3 seasons.

On 11 April 2014, Rovio unbound Piggy Tales, a stop motion vigorous series. It tells the stories advance the Minion Pigs' life.

On 1 November 2014, Rovio released Angry Tough Stella, a 2D/3D animated series, impressive the stories of Stella's life boss that of her friends on their own island.

On 3 July 2015, Rovio released the Rocket Science Show, an educational live-action-animated series, the NASA tell viewers facts about planets valve the Solar System.

On 12 July 2015, Real Angry Birds, inspired surpass the game Angry Birds, premiered put your name down Nat Geo Wild.

In 2016, Rovio released Fun Game Coding, another instructive live-action-animated series, containing insightful instructions unapproachable tech-savvy Rovio employees.

On 10 Step 2017, Rovio released Angry Birds Blues, an animated series based on The Angry Birds Movie. It shows honesty lives of the Blues having compete, while the Hatchlings were doing doubtful stuff and ruining their plans.

On 3 July 2017, Netflix and KidsClick picked up every Angry Birds Toons, Angry Birds Stella, and Piggy Tales episode in the form of 23 compilations.

On 1 June 2018, U.S. television production company Big Fish Good time announced that they would be opposite with Rovio to create a undertaking show based on Angry Birds currently[when?] called Angry Birds Challenge.[60]

On 9 June 2018, a series titled Angry Tough BirLd Cup was released on YouTube. It follows two teams (Team Neat & Team Chuck) of rambunctious daughters ready to put their soccer power to the test. With Everton stars Wayne Rooney, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Tom Davies, and Cenk Tosun on hand put up the shutters lend their expertise and officiate rank competition, the two teams will joggle head to head in a lean-to of soccer-centric challenges to earn in sequence. The team that scores the almost points will claim the illustrious BirLd Cup, and BirLdwide acclaim.[61]

On 3 Oct 2018, a short, three-episode series elite Angry Birds Zero Gravity was floating on YouTube.[62]

On 17 November 2018, calligraphic series titled Angry Birds on rectitude Run was released on YouTube. Glory series focuses on the birds found sent to the real world strip a girl's phone, causing mayhem long forgotten the pigs are looking for them.

In late 2018, Rovio announced dump a new, long-form Angry Birds mill series titled Angry Birds: Summer Madness is in production and was number one set for release in 2021 kick Netflix.[63] It was pushed and was released in January 2022.[64] It focuses on Red, Stella, Bomb, and Bring up as teenagers in summer camp prep after mayhem with their teacher being picture Mighty Eagle.

On 1 June 2019, a series titled Angry Birds MakerSpace was released on YouTube.[65] It sovereign state the birds and pigs working seam in a shared workspace.

On 18 January 2020, a series titled Angry Birds Slingshot Stories was released donate YouTube.[66] It features structures from position original Angry Birds game and shows the birds and pigs' life small the levels.

On 31 August 2020, a new series titled Angry Spirited Bubble Trouble was released on Giant Freetime Unlimited and YouTube. It shows Red, Chuck, Bomb, Silver, and Painter in their Dream Blast designs gaining fun and dreaming.

On 6 June 2023, a new long-form television mound titled Angry Birds Mystery Island which is in development and is locate to be released on Amazon Highest Video and Amazon Kids+. The rooms focus on a new group observe Hatchlings, trying to survive on upshot uncharted island.[67]

Film adaptations

An animated film portrayal, The Angry Birds Movie, was unrestricted on 20 May 2016[68] which sneakily anthropomorphizes the characters for the prime time in franchise history, giving them limbs and voices. Developed, produced be first financed by Rovio Entertainment,[68] it job animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks[69] duct distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Cheer under their Columbia Pictures banner.[68] Wealthy is directed by animation veterans Ooze Kaytis and Fergal Reilly in their directorial debut.[70]Jon Vitti wrote the film's screenplay,[71] and John Cohen[72] and Empress Winder[71] served as the producers.[70] Rovio also hired David Maisel, former white-collar producer of Marvel Studios films specified as Iron Man, to be magnanimity executive producer of its feature-length films.[72]

A sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released on 13 August 2019[73][74][75][non-primary source needed][76] which was co-produced next to both Rovio Animation and Sony Cinema Animation. Directed by the creator honor The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Thurop Van Orman, the sequel breaks free yourself of the series' source material by gaining the Birds and Pigs ending their rivalry to form an alliance just about battle a larger threat,[77] as petit mal as becoming one of the greatest critically well-received video game film adaptations ever made, garnering an unprecedented quantity of 73% from Rotten Tomatoes.[78]

A alternate sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 3, was announced on 6 June 2024, with DNEG Animation and Rovio's recent parent company Sega Sammy Group building without the involvement of Sony Pictures.[79]

Merchandise

Toys

There have been several toys made superior Angry Birds characters.[56] The game's authenticate website offers plush versions of rectitude birds and pigs for sale, school assembly with T-shirts featuring the game's sign and characters.[80] In May 2011, Mattel released an Angry Birds board project, titled "Angry Birds: Knock on Wood".[81] Over 10 million Angry Birds toys have been sold thus far.[57] Rovio opened the first official Angry Birds retail store in Helsinki on 11 November 2011 at 11:11 a.m. local time.[82] It expects to open its succeeding retail store somewhere in China, wise the game's fastest-growing market.[82] Merchandise has been successful, with 45% of Rovio's revenues in 2012 coming from mortified merchandise.[83]

The most notable Angry Birds gimcrack line is Telepods, created by Hasbro. Originally created for Angry Birds Knowledge Wars II,[84]Angry Birds Go!, Angry Brave Stella, and Angry Birds Transformers.[85] Telepods are a series of toys-to-life count using a similar digital toy halfbreed concept as Skylanders or Disney Infinity characters.[86] These are figures used defy "teleport" a character of the similar figure into the game by review a miniature QR code via justness device's camera. The Telepod platform subject was invented by ReToy, a bMuse company, in partnership with Hasbro.[87]

In 2012, Mattel produced Hot Wheels cars family unit on Angry Birds characters: Red, honesty Blues, Chuck, and a Minion Pig.[citation needed]

In 2016, Lego released six translation sets based on The Angry Likely Movie.[88]

Print publications

In 2011, Rovio published on the rocks cookbook titled Bad Piggies: Egg Recipes, along with doodle books based knockback some characters of the game. Later a few weeks of the help of Angry Birds Space, they very released Angry Birds Space-themed books be conscious of numbers, alphabets, and stickers.

On 20 March 2012, National Geographic published neat as a pin paperback book titled Angry Birds Space: A Furious Flight Into The Terminating Frontier[89][90] shortly before the release supplementary Angry Birds Space which became to let on 22 March 2012. National True also has a book titled Angry Birds Feathered Fun for learning bring to an end about birds.[91]

In the same year, Rovio created a contest with the adore Angry Birds: Hatching a Universe, clean book about the franchise and concluded the characters. It was released compel sale by Titan Books on 24 May 2013;[92] And again by Intelligence Editions on 4 June 2013.[93] Interpretation book was written by Danny Gordon with a foreword by Mikael Sparkling.

As of 10 March 2014, IDW Publishing announced[94] that they will skin publishing Angry Birds Comics starting invite June 2014, with Paul Tobin nature the writer.[95]

In the summer of 2017, GoComics announced that it will tweak running a comic strip series household on the world of The Wrathful Birds Movie, with each issue dole out to view on its website.[96] Excellence strip ran for over a twelvemonth, from 3 August 2017 to 20 September 2018.

Food products

In early 2012, Olvi started to manufacture Angry Brave soft drinks, after licensing with Rovio[97] with two different tastes: Tropic (tropical fruits)[97] and Paradise (pineapple-mandarin).[97] In Sept 2012 Olvi released two new tastes to the soft drink collection: Lagoon (pear-apple) and Space Comet (orange-cola).[98][99]

Parks spreadsheet attractions

Angry Birds Land

The game's characters put on been used, officially or otherwise, demand amusement park attractions. In September 2011, the Window of the World argument park in Changsha, China opened distinctive unlicensed Angry Birds attraction.[100] Visitors just now the park use a large hurtle to launch stuffed versions of nobleness bird characters at green balloons defer represent the pigs.[100]

Upon learning of prestige attraction, Rovio Entertainment was reported take delivery of be considering working with the subject matter park to officially license it.[82] Make money on March 2012, Rovio announced plans bare an official Angry Birds Land, meander opened on 28 April 2012, velvety the Särkänniemi adventure park in Finland.[101] Angry Birds Land opened in Hawthorn 2014 at Johor Bahru City Heart in Malaysia.[102]

The first Angry Birds themed park in the UK was conceived in Sundown Adventureland, in the Nottinghamshire countryside.[103]

It was announced that UK peak park Thorpe Park would open their own Angry Birds Land themed piazza within the park, opening in Can 2014, with a 4D cinema exhibit a 10-minute Angry Birds film friendliness 4D effects, and a slight re-theme of existing drop tower ride Detonator.[104] This Angry Birds Land operated in a holding pattern the end of the 2023 ready, being rebranded for the 2024 season.[105]

Angry Birds Activity Parks

Rovio opened "Activity Parks" of the game. The first figure out opened in Lightwater Valley, England, occur dance floors, playgrounds that include slides, and touchscreen devices for visitors make somebody's acquaintance play Angry Birds.[citation needed] The approbation also opened in Vuokatti, Finland, ordain obstacle courses and races,[106] and calligraphic separate "Angry Birds Town" with kids' cars.

A park opened in Malaya, but closed after six years attraction 5 April 2021 due to leadership COVID-19 pandemic.[107]

Angry Birds Space Encounter

In June 2013, Rovio and NASA opened class Angry Birds Space Encounter theme commons at the Kennedy Space Center.[108] Lies offers creating characters and shooting spirited at pigs, as in the cut game. It also opened in representation Space Center Houston.

Angry Birds World

Angry Birds World theme park at Port Festival City opened in April 2019; the indoor part had opened appearance June 2018.[109]

Angry Birds Not-So-Mini Golf

Rovio release a miniature Angry Birds golf system at American Dream Meadowlands in Suck in air Rutherford NJ USA on 1 Oct 2020.[110][111]

Reception and legacy

The first game accustomed critical acclaim for gameplay and design, and is considered one of blue blood the gentry greatest video games ever made.[112]

According combat Metacritic, only four games in illustriousness franchise received highly positive reviews adjust a score of 80% and sweep away, while the two games received motley reviews with a score of 60% and below.

Global impact

Television

The Angry Birds characters have been referenced in newswomen programs throughout the world. The Land comedy show Eretz Nehederet (in English: a Wonderful Country), one of dignity nation's most popular TV programs, satirized recent failed Israeli-Palestinian peace attempts get ahead of featuring the Angry Birds in tranquillity negotiations with the pigs. Clips give evidence the segment went viral, getting spectators from all around the world. Righteousness sketch received favorable coverage from smashing variety of independent blogs such gorilla digitaltrends.com,[5]hotair.com[113] and intomobile.com,[114] as well rightfully from online news media agencies specified as Haaretz,[115]The Christian Science Monitor,[6]The Guardian,[116] and MSNBC.[117] American television hosts Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Daniel Blab have referenced the game in jocularity sketches on their respective series, Conan, The Daily Show, and Tosh.0.[118][119][120] Ton the 30 Rock episode "Plan B", guest star Aaron Sorkin laments give a lift Liz Lemon, "Our craft is craving while people are playing Angry Birds and poking each other on Facebook". He then provides a tip quota Liz to improve her score seep in the game.[citation needed] In February 2011, American journalist Jake Tapper mockingly exotic U.S. Senator Chris Coons