Piggy Tales Explained

Genre:Comedy
Creator:Eric Guaglione
Ville Lepisto
Voices:Antti Pääkkönen
Antti L. J. Pääkkönen
Opentheme:"Piggy Tales"
Composer:Douglas Black Heaton
Num Seasons:4
Num Episodes:121
Country:Finland
Producer:Ville Lepisto
Ulla Junell
Joonas Rissanen
Runtime:1–2 minutes
Company:Rovio Animation
Network:Toons.TV
Related:Angry Birds Stella
Angry Birds Toons
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Piggy Tales is a Finnish animated television series based on Bad Piggies, a spin-off of Angry Birds. Animated in a style resembling clay animation before transitioning into computer-generated imagery after the release of The Angry Birds Movie, the series focuses on the life of the minion pigs and it has no dialogue. It was produced by Rovio Entertainment and distributed by Sony Pictures Television, with the French studio Cube Creative providing some of the animation.[1]

Piggy Tales premiered in 2014 on the Toons.TV channel through the Angry Birds applications and on the Toons.TV website. The series continued by the second season, subtitled Pigs at Work in 2015; the third season, subtitled Third Act in 2016; and the fourth and final season, subtitled 4th Street in 2018, making it the longest running Angry Birds television series.

Episodes

Season 2: Piggy Tales: Pigs at Work (2015–2017)

The second season focuses on pigs as they do "pigstruction" work.A special episode based on the Goosebumps film was released after the series' end on 10 February 2016 in the Angry Birds' official YouTube channel.

Season 3: Piggy Tales: Third Act (2016–17)

The third season of Piggy Tales is subtitled "Third Act". Consisting of a total of 34 1-minute episodes, the season's main themes are: "Summer Sports", "Back to School", "Halloween", and "Happy Holidays". All episodes are set in a theatre in downtown Pig City (as seen in The Angry Birds Movie), showing pigs as they "rehearse and horse around on-stage." The first episode premiered on 3 June 2016 on the iOS and Android app of Toons.TV, followed by the release on the Toons.TV YouTube channel on 5 June 2016. The last episode was released on 5 February 2017. The pigs' design is based on that of their design in The Angry Birds Movie. With the introduction of this new season came a shift in the art style from claymation to computer-generated imagery.

Piggy Tales: 4th Street (2018–2019; 2017 for the season's DVD & iTunes early releases)

A fourth and final season, titled 4th Street, and consisting of 30 episodes, will take place "on a street corner in Pig City where the loveable pigs put a comical spin on everyday situations."[2] [3] Despite plans to release it sometime in 2017, this season was delayed to 2018.[4]

Despite this delay, Rovio later released a special Halloween-themed sneak-peek episode of the season, titled "Scary Fog", on 21 October 2017, as part of the Angry Birds' 2017 Halloween celebration, on the Angry Birds YouTube channel.[5] A later one, called Holiday Heist, was released on 16 December 2017,[6] as the franchise celebrated Christmas. Around that time, however, the complete season of Piggy Tales: 4th Street and all of its episodes were released early during December 2017 on iTunes in Piggy Tales Vol. 7 & Piggy Tales Vol. 8[7] [8] and on DVD in Piggy Tales: The Complete 4th Season.[9] These early releases on DVD & iTunes happened even before the beginning of 2018, as well as the planned schedule for all of the series' episodes to be uploaded in the Angry Birds YouTube channel in 2018. The official release for the series was 10 February 2018, starting with Pig City Valentine.[10]

Home media

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the DVD distributor for the series.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Dale. Martin. France Builds as European Animation/VFX Hub. 23 December 2020. Variety. https://web.archive.org/web/20190530112900/https://variety.com/2016/film/global/french-animationvfx-expects-major-boost-trip-rebate-hike-1201694064/. 30 May 2019. 2 February 2016. live.
  2. News: Milligan. Mercedes. CAKE Presenting New Angry Birds Toons at MIP. 15 January 2017. Animation Magazine. 10 October 2016. 16 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170116170450/http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/cake-presenting-new-angry-birds-toons-at-mip/. live.
  3. Web site: Piggy Tales: 4th Street. Cake Entertainment. 8 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170808033214/http://www.cakeentertainment.com/Home/ProductPage/55144. 8 August 2017. dead.
  4. Web site: Risdale. Jack. Meet the Flockers: Rovio talks Angry Birds and Battle Bay (Video Games Month). Licensing.biz. 11 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170811055343/http://www.licensing.biz/big-interviews/read/meet-the-flockers-rovio-talks-angry-birds-and-battle-bay-video-games-month/046259. 11 August 2017. dead.
  5. Web site: Piggy Tales: 4th Street - Scary Fog (Halloween Special). YouTube. Rovio Animation. 22 October 2017. 28 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190328205605/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Bo8EzDN-A. live.
  6. Web site: Piggy Tales - 4th Street (Christmas Special) - Holiday Heist. YouTube. Rovio Animation. 29 December 2017. 28 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190328205602/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ln6nakOda0. live.
  7. Web site: Piggy Tales, Vol. 7. iTunes. 11 April 2014 . Rovio Animation. 26 December 2017. 27 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171227001549/https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/piggy-tales-vol-7/id1296379994. live.
  8. Web site: Piggy Tales, Vol. 8. iTunes. 11 April 2014 . Rovio Animation. 26 December 2017. 27 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171227061737/https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/piggy-tales-vol-8/id1296428146. live.
  9. Web site: Piggy Tales - Complete 4th Season. Oldies. Rovio Animation. 26 December 2017. 27 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171227123519/https://www.oldies.com/product-view/60659P.html?c=gbase&gclid=Cj0KCQiAg4jSBRCsARIsAB9ooau6tRJEO2aons-RvN4CuiVAiHKITcHJt8dmyaqfg7XDhX0J00H6ByUaAj6qEALw_wcB. live.
  10. Web site: Piggy Tales 4th Street - Pig City Valentine. YouTube. Orange9098. 10 February 2017. 16 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200516053128/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnvogZjWdmY&gl=US&hl=en. live.
  11. Web site: Wolfe. Jennifer. 'Angry Birds' Blast Off on DVD December 1. Animation World Network. 21 August 2016. 19 October 2015. 21 October 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151021140959/http://www.awn.com/news/angry-birds-blast-dvd-december-1. live.
  12. Web site: VideoETA - Piggy Tales: Third Act (2017) DVD and Blu-ray . 2017-02-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170216131204/http://videoeta.com/movie/191958/piggy-tales-third-act// . 16 February 2017 . dmy-all .

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