Officially Licensed Building Sets by K’NEX Will Allow Fans to Build Their Favorite “Family Guy” Characters
Hatfield, PA (PRWEB) May 08, 2013
K’NEX Brands, the only US construction toy company focused on Building
Worlds Kids Love ®, is pleased to announce its partnership with
Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products to create an exciting new line
of building toys inspired by the popular animated comedy series, Family
Guy!
The partnership combines the award-winning K’NEX building system with
the most iconic characters and elements from Family Guy, including
Peter, Stewie, Brian, the Griffin Family station wagon, Stewie’s time
machine and more, bringing them from the television screen to the
construction aisle for the first time.
“Family Guy has a multi-generational appeal,” said Michael Araten,
President & CEO of K’NEX Brands. “Our partnership with Twentieth
Century Fox Consumer Products will allow building fans of all ages to
bring the fictional world of Quahog, Rhode Island to life in a new and
exciting way.”
K’NEX is pleased to welcome Family Guy to its stable of well-known
household name brands including Nintendo®, Angry Birds™, Tinkertoy®,
Lincoln Logs® and the ever popular K’NEX Thrill Rides building sets
line.
Family Guy, currently in its eleventh season, has dominated
television ratings and garnered enormous support amongst its fans with
over fifty-two million followers on Facebook. The K’NEX Family Guy
building sets will feature the quality and attention to detail for which
K’NEX is known, assuring that the Family Guy buildable figures and
accessories will be instantly recognizable to fans.
The new K’NEX Family Guy building sets will be available at major retailers in the Spring of 2014.
About K’NEX Brands:
Founded in 1992, K’NEX Brands, the world’s most innovative
construction toy company, was established to make and sell what has
become one of the world’s leading integrated construction systems for
children. Winner of over 250 international awards and recognitions,
K’NEX is America’s building toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids
Love, and encourages youngsters to “imagine, build and play.” From the
living room to the classroom, K’NEX has building toys specially designed
for every age group and skill level. The K’NEX family of brands
includes K’NEX Building Sets, K’NEX Thrill Rides, K’NEX Education:
America’s STEM building solution, Lincoln Logs®, Tinkertoy®, NASCAR®,
Angry Birds™, Mario Kart Wii™, Mario Kart 7™, Super Mario™, PacMan™ and
more. Since 1992, The Rodon Group, a subsidiary of K'NEX Brands, L.P.,
has manufactured over 31 billion parts for the K'NEX building toy
system. Join us as we help build the leaders of tomorrow. For more
information, please visit
http://www.knex.com or
http://www.rodongroup.com.
About Family Guy
FAMILY GUY follows the adventures of an endearingly ignorant dad,
PETER GRIFFIN (Seth MacFarlane), and his hilariously odd family of
middle-class New Englanders in Quahog, RI. LOIS (Alex Borstein) is
Peter’s wife, a stay-at-home mom with no patience for her family’s
antics. Then there are their kids: 18-year-old MEG (Mila Kunis) is an
outcast at school and the Griffin family punching bag; 13-year-old CHRIS
(Seth Green) is a socially awkward teen who doesn’t have a clue about
the opposite sex; and one-year-old STEWIE (MacFarlane) is a diabolically
clever baby whose burgeoning sexuality is very much a work in progress.
Rounding out the Griffin household is BRIAN (MacFarlane), the family
dog and a ladies man who is one step away from AA.
FAMILY GUY is a 20th Century Fox Television production. Seth
MacFarlane is creator/executive producer. Rich Appel serves as executive
producer/showrunner, while Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan, Danny
Smith, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild are executive producers.
About Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products
A recognized industry leader, Twentieth Century Fox Consumer
Products licenses and markets properties worldwide on behalf of
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Twentieth Television and Fox
Broadcasting Company, as well as third party lines. The division is
aligned with Twentieth Century Fox Television, one of the top suppliers
of primetime entertainment programming to the broadcast networks.
