PBS Kids brings Super Why to Apple’s iPad
Apple’s latest tech crazy device, the iPad, has been out for a few months now, selling like hot cakes and driving everyone into an app-happy frenzy! Joining up on the downloadable band wagon, PBS Kids hopes to launch a number of new applications on the platform, giving kids a reason to sign up and play. First up in the new batch is the Super Why! app in iTunes. Developed as part of the PBS Kids Raising Readers initiative, the $3 app is based on the Out of the Blue Enterprises series, with a number of interactive games using art from the CG animated toon. (more… )
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SpongeBob SquarePants app, SpongeBob’s Krusty Komics
Got an iPad? iTouch? iPhone? iAnswer to this question? Well, if you do, and you’re a SpongeBob fan, you’re in luck! Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products recently released a new SpongeBob SquarePants app called SpongeBob’s Krusty Komics. The application features digitized comics and even a few games, all featuring your favorite yellow and porous under-sea friend. Immediately upon grabbing the app from iTunes, you get a game and a comic, with access to others, and promise of even more to come in the future. (more… )
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Disney app
The iPhone and iPod Touch are receiving some Mouse power! Disney is launching a brand new application for the portable devices that will include a range of content from the Magical World of Disney. This includes news, character bios, a live stream of Radio Disney, new and original videos, as well as games. The app will be regularly updated, providing a constant stream of Disney features, even going so far as to manage other Disney and Disney-related apps the user might have on the same device.
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Scooby-Doo Yourself
Cartoon Network’s online marketing team has been hard at work! They’ve recently created a new application called “Scooby-Doo Yourself” where you can make a picture of yourself look like Scooby-Doo! The app is being used to promote the upcoming Scooby-Doo movie, Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins. The flick, a live-action and CG-animation hybrid, will be a prequel to all the Scooby-Doo movies, telling the story of how the gang met. The special will premiere on Sunday, September 13th.
[Source: Scooby-Doo Yourself]
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VeggieTales app
It might sound like a delicious pre-meal platter (vegetable appetizers??) but we’re not talking about food! Big Idea and Personalized Products are working together on the first ever iPhone / iTouch app for VeggeTales, called VeggieTales Just For Me. Amongst other uses, the application allows users to spin Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber into a number of different costumes, select from hundreds of different background images featuring the world of VeggieTales characters, and play the Tuba Game. Sure, you can’t eat it, but… seems just as fun! 
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Little Pim iPhone game
Animax Entertainment has signed up with Little Pim, producer of the animated DVD series Fun With Languages, to create an interactive foreign language game for Apple’s iPhone. The hope is to have the game launched and ready for downloads from the iTunes store this August, starting with a series of learning activities in French and Spanish using vocabulary and animation from the Little Pim DVDs. Later installments of the app will feature additional languages, such as Mandarin, Japanese, and Hebrew.
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The SpongeBob Tickler
The SpongeBob Tickler, an application made available to iPhone and iTouch owners by Nickelodeon, has already cracked the top 10 best-selling applications! Even though it only launched on Jan. 20, the iTunes-accessible app gets purchased more than 3,000 downloads per day. That’s almost 3 applications every minute!
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