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Piranha Toys Figures are figurines by Piranha Studios in UK, Newcastle. They exists in 5 variations: giant bobblehead, regular figurines, musical ball, small keyrings, phone charms. Piranha products were listed on their own official shop, theannoyingthingstuff.com [1], alongside with other Crazy Frog merch. Erik Wernquist explained choise of manufactor company :
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 bobblehead
- Riding pose 'Head Nodder'
Crazy Frog as he riding invisible bike. Figure is distributed by Vivid Imaginations Ltd. This item have bobbling head and stand with button which plays edited first half of 2TAKTARE.MP3 when pressed. Parts of the helmet, arms and legs are made from ruberish pvc material so they are bendable. On the pre-release there were few differences - stand was black color and music button had 'The Annoying Thing' logo instead of white stand with 'Push Me' on released product
Regular figurines
- The Annoying Thing pose
The physical representation of one of Wernquist's original renders.
- Wheee! pose 'Desk Wobbler'
Crazy Frog with raised arms and legs as in Whee! renders. Figure attached to the metal spring
- Wheee! pose Musical 'Computer Wobbler'
Figure part is similar to previous one, except this have stand with button which plays when pressed.
Keyrings
Almost regular figures, except they have key straps
- The Annoying Thing pose
- Riding pose
- Wheee! pose 'Dancing Car Dangler'
On this version of the figure Frog's head is movable and dangling cause of sping inside, and instead of keyring on the rope there are suction cup
Musical ball
- Wheee! pose figure have straps and it's merged with soccer ball figure, activated with button on the head with spinning and playing
Phone charms
There are different phone charms. 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 another Piranha products so they are most likely prototypes:
- The Annoying Thing pose
- Riding pose
- Wheee! pose
- Curious pose
- Sitting pose
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 walking one. There are also original mold for regular The Annoying Thing pose
- Boxing - figure have red boxing gloves
- Baseball - figure have baseball bat
- Surfing - figure standing on surfing board
- Soccer - there are two almost the same figures, but with difference in a face and in a pose. Both figure have soccer ball, which is placed on different sides
- Golfing- figure with golf club and ball
- Walking - figure walking similar to 'Crazy Frog In The House' walkstyle
Rare editions
There is the rare collectable which is original retail edition of classic Crazy Hits CD album which comes with regular 'Riding pose' keyring in a special box
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