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Les Toreadors
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@chiiyuen0109 I am from Malaysia as well and I teach physics to both large and small kids using Angry Birds and Bad Piggies. Also, plenty of halal jokes to pass around (within the family).

Ironically most of the enthusiasm I see now about Angry Birds are from old-ish kids and mothers, so it’s definitely not childish.

In the latest Rovio products like Angry Birds: Stella, I also point out that while the game and upcoming animated series is targeted at young children (well, girls, of course), it contains a great many references to social and even political challenges faced by adults as well.

This makes Angry Birds in effect a dual purpose franchise as what @kelani sorta points out. Yes, it’s cute and all. But like all great (future) classics they were designed by grown-ups and you can see a lot of added value by not judging the book by its cover!

Saying Angry Birds is childish is simply, a bit shallow in my opinion.

It’s like saying Transformers is unrealistic. Or Star Trek is “nonsense”.

In the former example, duh of course it is not meant to be realistic. Isn’t giant robots saving humanity and empowering the youth with the fate of humanity entertaining in an epic way?

In the latter, Star Trek is solely responsible for a great majority of consumer electronics and even next-generation spaceflight concepts today. Because of Star Trek, we have mobile phones and tablet computers. And NASA is conducting theoretical studies into an actual warp drive. #TrueStoryBro

Sometimes fiction is grounded in truth, and Angry Birds chronicles the struggle of two feuding animal species / civilizations in a quest for dominance – a very simple yet crucial story in the history of our planet’s evolution and a misguided and unnecessary squabble that… guess what, humans still partake in even today. That’s what makes Angry Birds fun. It’s fun BECAUSE it’s childish and we can blow up some pigs without guilt! :)

ps. Are you making your way to Angry Birds Activity Park JB anytime soon? I’ll be there this weekend once I gather my army of birds, pigs, cats and sheep fans :)

Umm, @kelani – as for Stella being childish… hehehe… look out for my upcoming review of Stella: The Animated Series shortly. It’s waiting for @birdleader approval and I drew a lot of parallels with current affairs and challenges faced by peoples of differing expectations and/or social needs. Definitely a grown up thing… once we look past the pink overtones. :)