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August 29, 2023

Disney Animated And Cranium Big Brain Nominated For Toy Of The Year

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Funko Games slipped us a note that The Toy Foundation (TTF) has released their list of nominations for Toy Of The Year, and two of Funko’s own board games made it on that list: Disney Animated and Cranium Big Brain: Detective Game. In Disney Animated, you make movies! …Well, you pretend to make movies. You’re the producer of five of the studio’s most classic films, and the villains of those films have somehow come alive and are threatening to derail your production. Cranium Big Brain is an offshoot of the popular brainteasing franchise that was part of a reboot last June (we wrote about it here). “We’re so proud of our team at Funko Games for creating these outstanding games,” said Andrew Perlmutter, President of Funko. “It’s a testament to the Prospero Hall studio team and the quality of games they create, for earning their 6th and 7th TOTY Finalist nominations in just 4 years!” More details on each game can be found below along with a link to get

May 1, 2023

Cranium Games Get Revamped For 25th Anniversary

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In 1998 the first Cranium party game was introduced — a combination of elements that had appeared in other party games including art, trivia, language, and performance. The game took off and made its creators a mint, and also turbocharged the career of artist Curtis Baseman (who created the characters that appear on the box). Several other spinoff games were added to the market before Cranium and all that had to do with it was sold to Hasbro Games in 2008. Now Cranium is about to turn 25 (yikes) so Hasbro is introducing new versions of four Cranium games: the original that started it all, Big Brain, Hullabaloo and Hoopla. This revamped line will start appearing in stores this June (see above pic for what they’ll look like). Our one complaint: where is Baseman? The same characters appear on the box of the 25th Anniversary Edition, but they’re clearly drawn by someone else. Was Baseman not available? Did he get snubbed? Where has he been all these years anyway? Below