Cake appoint licensing agents for Bottersnikes and Gumbles
Leading kids entertainment specialist CAKE and Australian production outfit Cheeky Little Media have announced the appointment of licensing and merchandising agents to represent their brand new animated production Bottersnikes and Gumbles.
Lisle International in the UK & Eire (The Zelfs, Masha & The Bear, Temple Run, Tetris)
and The Fusion Agency in Australia (Trolls, Dinotrux, Noddy, Kung Fu Panda, Where’s
Wally, In the Night Garden, Driftwood Bay, Dr Seuss) will be responsible for seeking out
partner licensees in all core categories. They will introduce the property to companies at the London & Nuremburg Toy Fairs at the end of this month.
Bottersnikes and Gumbles is a 52 x 11’ CGI comedy series aimed at 6 to 9 year olds. It
follows the adventures of three Gumble heroes, Tink, Bounce and Willi, who can squash and
stretch into any imaginable shape without being hurt. They love nothing better than to
‘gumble’ all day long, which means crazy, stretchy capers around their junk valley while
carefully avoiding getting tin-canned by their stinky, grumpy, lazy neighbours, the
Bottersnikes.
Produced by CAKE, Cheeky Little Media and Mighty Nice Productions, Bottersnikes
and Gumbles is a NETFLIX original title co-produced with CBBC in the UK and Seven
Network in Australia who have already begun airing the series, while CBBC are set to
broadcast in July 2016. NETFLIX will premiere the series globally across all markets in
2016 except for Australia and the UK, which will join NETFLIX in 2016 and 2017
respectively.
Based on the successful and much loved books by S.A. Wakefield, with illustrations by
Desmond Digby, Bottersnikes and Gumbles was published in the UK and Australia
between 1967 and 1989 and became widely known for its humour, absurdity, playful
language and sense of the ridiculous – a combination which immediately captured the hearts
and minds of children everywhere.
David Webster, Creative Director, Cheeky Little Media said: “This property is really dear to our hearts and has been since we read the books as kids. We now look forward to seeing it take flight as a brand.”
