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The Piranha Toys Figures are figurines by Piranha Studios in Newcastle, UK. They created five different types of toys of Crazy Frog. The Piranha Toys products were listed on the official store page, theannoyingthingstuff.com[1], alongside with other Crazy Frog merchandise. Erik Wernquist explained his choice of manufacturer in this quote:
"Piranha Studios are the obvious choice for designing and manufacturing the product line. The creativity and success of the company continues to go from strength to strength"[2]
Giant Bobbleheads
Riding Pose "Head Nodder"
Crazy Frog as he rides his invisible bike. The figure was distributed by Vivid Imaginations, Ltd. This figure has a bobbling head and a stand with a button which plays edited first half of 2TAKTARE.MP3 when pressed. Parts of the helmet, arms and legs are made from a rubbery PVC material, so they are bendable. There are a few differences with the pre-release version: the stand was black color and the music button had a "The Annoying Thing" logo instead of the white stand saying "Push Me" on the released product.
Regular figurines
There are words molded on every box says:
"A Ring Ding Ding D-D Ding Ding Ding Baaam Baaam Baaam Wheeeee!..."
Wheee! Pose "Desk Wobbler"
Crazy Frog with raised arms and legs as in Wheee! renders. The figure is attached to the metal spring
Wheee! Pose Musical "Computer Wobbler"/ "Air freshener"
This figure is similar to previous one, except it has a stand with button which plays sounds and freshes air when pressed.
Keyrings
Similar to the regular figurines, except they have straps to be attached to a keyring. They came in three variants:
- The Annoying Thing Pose
The physical representation of one of Wernquist's original renders.
- Riding Pose
- Wheee! Pose "Dancing Car Dangler"
- On this version of the figure, the head and the body made as separate pieces, and the toy is dangling because of little metal chain between them; and instead of a keyring on the rope, there are suction cup to mount to a car dashboard.
- There is a description at the back of the box says:
"Annoy 'ALL YOUR FELLOW MOTORISTS' with this totally crazy ANNOYING THING CAR DANGLER."
Musical Ball
There are two variants of this toy, or one of them is prototype. It is of the Wheee! pose but with slightly different head and with straps, but it's merged with a soccer ball figure. It is activated with a button on the head, and starts spinning and playing sounds.
The difference is color of the ball - it's blue or black; and also different straps - black have detailed one with "We Are The Champions" phrase and national flags.
Phone Charms
There are a few different phone charms:
- Riding pose "Flashing Phone Dangler"
- The Annoying Thing pose
- Wheee! pose
Some of them weren't listed in official shop, but their overall look share exact same style and their paint job are very similar to other Piranha Toys products, so they are most likely prototypes:
- Bring It Pose
- Curious and Sitting pose
- Sitting pose
- Curious pose
Some of unofficial Phone Charms prototypes probably have moveble arms. Those figures, like on the photo on the left comes with a straps in most likely bootleg "Crazy Frog Racer" box. Some of them were made as pencil toppers
Other Prototypes
There were couple of unreleased types of regular figures. All of the figures have biker clothing and almost all have green grass as a stand except for the walking one. There is also an original mold for the regular The Annoying Thing pose.
- Boxing - Wears red boxing gloves.
- Baseball - Holds a baseball bat.
- Surfing - Stands on a surfing board.
- Soccer - There are two nearly identical figures, but different in the face and pose. Both figures have a soccer ball, which is placed on different sides.
- Golfing - Holds a golf club and has a ball
- Skating - he's on a skateboard
Rare Versions
There is a rare collectable which is original retail edition of the classic Crazy Hits CD album, which comes with a regular 'Riding Pose' keyring in a special box.
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Trivia
- At the back of every box CRAZYFROGSTUFF.COM was listed as official website instead of real website ANNOYINGTHINGSTUFF.COM. This error was made probably due to the copyright, but boxes were already printed.