Toon2Tango & Baboon Animation Launch Bek and the Bunnies

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Toon2Tango has teamed up with Baboon Animation to launch the new animated comedy series Bek and the Bunnies.

Two 7-year-old girls created the designs for the series as part of a toy line of collectibles they developed called “the Cuties.” The series was developed by the DreamWorks alumni Mike de Seve, Joe Vitale and John Reynolds, in close cooperation with the team from Toon2Tango.

The bunnies (and the whole Cuties line) are a new spin on Mr. Potato Head, with build-your-own Cuties. The toy celebrates inventiveness, and Bek, the series’ lead character, is an inventor.

Toon2Tango’s Jo Daris said, “The girls were trying to design their own dream toys that they wished their mom and dad would buy them. So, you can’t get more on target than that.”

“It was a remarkable fit; we simply cleaned up the actual drawings done by the girls,” added de Seve, Baboon’s founder. “Then our comedy team took the bunnies from drawings to so much more: they are adorably squishy, bouncy, huggable critters that happen to have incredible robot powers.”

“But since they were built by a little girl, their programming is hilariously flawed,” commented Reynolds, Baboon’s head of development.

“We created this series for bridge preschool, with an eye (and two bunny ears) towards zany antics, madcap mayhem and an abundance of silliness,” Vitale said.