TV-Loonland Scores with Pat & Stan

MUNICH/LONDON: TV-Loonland has secured a pan-European deal with Bandai Europe for capsule vending-machine toys for its comedy series Pat & Stan, which landed the Jury’s Special Prize for Best TV Series at the Annecy Animation Festival last week.

A further licensing agreement has been secured with German plush outfit Schmidt Spiele. Plush figures of both Pat and Stan will be launched at Nuremberg Toy Fair in February 2010, with products to roll out at retail shortly after. The 39×7-minute series is produced by MacGuff and is now fully delivered and lined up to launch in more than 170 territories worldwide this fall.

In addition to the deal for Pat & Stan, Bandai Europe’s vending division also picked up the same capsule toy rights to TV-Loonland’s The Owl.