Posted on 12/19/2005 8:23:39 AM PST by SirLinksalot
Wiggles named top Australian export
Four men in colourful T-shirts and a backup cast that includes a spotted dinosaur called Dorothy have been named Australia's Exporter of the Year.
Last year the Wiggles sold more than 17 million DVDs and videos and five million CDs around the world.
The children's entertainers beat banks, airlines and mining multinationals to take the top honour in the government-sponsored annual award ceremony.
The Wiggles' Exporter of the Year award was one of 10 business gongs presented at the 42nd Australian Export Awards.
The Wiggles' export business now includes television rights, franchises and a licence deal with Walt Disney.
Other winners at the awards included food supplier Mulwarra Export, Central Queensland University, forensic instrument company Rolfin Australia, prime lamb exporter WAMMCO, and Qantas.
Fifteen years ago, the four Wiggles members were pre-school teachers in Sydney, Australia, who played part time in rock bands, while attempting to establish a market for their homespun recordings of children's music.
All that is light years away from their current dozen gold albums and position as the highest-grossing entertainers in Australia, out-selling fellow Antipodean natives, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe.
The Doodlebops are explained very easily. They are Canadian!
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WAKE UP JEFF!!!
I've got a pic of him shaking my little guy's hand last year too.
It is too bad that what used to be standard innocence is now assumed to be nefarious unless proven otherwise.
I surprised the red-shirt is still alive after all this time.
I didn't bother reading the article, I just wanted to brag that a good friend of mine is in the film that Kidman is filming.
Also, my 3-year old granddaughter loves the Wiggles and has just about everything Wiggles. What I like is that so far, the stuff is pretty affordable, and decently educational for a 3-year old. Oh, plus I like the fact they have a surf sound in their music.
I've seen the Wiggles Live, my friend. Twice! My five year old loved them, and I wouldn't take any amount of money for the expression she had the first time we took her to a concert and the real, live Wiggles came out on the stage. My one year old is now getting into them, so I'll have to go through Wiggles-mania once more! LOL!!!
Darth Reagan is a big Wiggles fan.
The target audience is pre-schoolers and early elementary age. You are not the audience they are aimed at.
You've yet to hear Crazy Frog....
I take your point, but so what? They are definitely not advancing any aspect of the gay political agenda at all.
A lot of great performers never came out as gay, but provided great American iconic entertainment.
I don't know for sure, but my gaydar pings when I see Danny Kaye and Jack Benny, among others.
Dude, they are for 2-8 year olds -- not you. Saying that you don't like them is like a grown-man claiming that Barbie dolls are just not that interesting. Neither Barbie dolls nor the Wiggles are intended for you. I'm sure that your 4-year old doesn't find the "World Poker Tour" all that interesting to watch either.
All I know is that they are terrible and should be considered a human rights violation if we used it on terrorists.
Except my son...
My son was hooked on them for about a year and a half when he was 1-2, now he's 4 1/2 years old and is into Harry Potter, Star Wars and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
My little one loves this stuff, but I can't help but think they look a bit like what would have happened if the starship Enterprise had gone a little light in the loafers.
That Captain Feathersword freaks me out.
Regards,
My 2 year old watches the WPT with me and enjoys it. He also likes sitting in on our home games and throwing chips in the pot.
Dude, I was screening them for my 5-year-old. I didn't like what I saw, and as her parent I made the choice that this was not a show I wanted to waste her brain cells on.
Damn right!
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