Why not a Frog Instead of a Mouse?

While searching the internet for any topic which featured a frog... (no kidding!)... we stumbled across old cartoons of "Flip the Frog" drawn by U.B. Iwerks. Anyone who knows animation history knows of U.B. Iwerks, the man responsible for the distinctive style of the earliest Disney cartoons. U.B Iwerks was also responsible for creating Mickey Mouse.

U.B. Iwerks drawing Mickey

Flip the Frog was Iwerks second most famous cartoon character. He appeared in the time when Iwerks started his own cartoon production company after a falling out between him & Walt Disney.

Despite a contract deal with MGM to produce cartoon comedy shorts, Flip the Frog never made a huge splash (pun intended), as Disney's Mickey Mouse, despite having the Iwerks animation magic and comedy so much a signature of early Walt Disney cartoons.

Guess lightning doesn't strike twice, and Flip the Frog has been relegated to the ash heap of animation history, a footnote in the life of a legendary pioneer of cartooning.

Still, check out Flip the Frog, in a early cinemacolor MGM short from 1930, which features Flip in a piano/violin duet, with a vaguely familiar Mouse.

Relax to Frog Sounds

Those of us living in the South sometimes take this stuff for granted. We're sure it's the same elsewhere too. However, the sounds of nature holds a special mesmerizing attraction to everyone, and especially to those too often deprived of it. City dwellers mostly, those who have lived around the sounds of industry & car traffic so much, that when they do come hear nature sounds, it's something totally foreign & exotic. For us "country folk', it can't be the other way around, I doubt I'd ever relax to the sounds of rush hour traffic... just no way! But listening to a chorus of frogs in the night, it'll send me off to sleep in no time.
There's quite a growing industry for "Relaxation Sounds". Youtube is full of long playlists of the sounds of nature, hours of it. And checking out the hit counters of a number of them, the popularity is huge.
So we thought that leading into the weekend, we offer this Hour of "Frog Song" to help everyone depressurize & relax. We hope you enjoy the sounds of Nature.

Time to grow...

Its been just over a year since we went online at the wildcreations.com website and on-line catalog. Thanks to the great response we've received we are expanding! At this minute, we are working on our new website and expanded catalog and expect to see it come online early next year. Keep an eye out for a whole new website with whole new features coming soon! Meanwhile, do your holiday shopping from the website today!

Award winning EcoAquarium: A low maintenance, educational pet for children

It's often a treasure hunt to go searching for articles, especially since word is starting to spread about our EcoAquariums. Originally posted in October, Karen Plumley at Manchester Parenting Examiner wrote a great article. A great big "Ribet" to her and the fine folks at examiner.com

Award winning EcoAquarium: A low maintenance, educational pet for children

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Toy Industry Association nominates Wild Creations for Toy of the Year

Nominations for the Toy Industry Association's Toy of the Year were announced today with the EcoAquarium(tm) as a nominee in the Speciality Toy category.

Wild Creations has grown from a small company, delivering its EcoAquariums to local specality stores, to an industry leader represented in over 900 stores nation-wide. Todays announcement reflects the growing popularity of it's line of family-friendly balanced eco-system habitats, called the EcoAquarium.

The TIA Toy of the Year, considered the "Oscar" of the toy industry has in the past been awarded to toys like Tickle Me Elmo, Leap Frog Learning Centers, and Hanna Montana.

This years balloting has a significant new twist with it's introduction of public input in the award process. For the first time, the general public will have the opprotunity to vote for their favorite toys at a on-line ballot available for everyone to participate. As an added incentive to vote, after balloting, each visitor will have the chance to win all the nominated toys in the category of their choice.

Of course, most Toy of the Year nominees are backed by large corporations with intimidating marketing budgets, so we are asking that all of our Wild Creations fans to visit the site and vote for our EcoAquarium under the “Specialty Toy” category at the bottom. Your support is greatly appreciated!

Further information about the Toy Industry Association(TIA)can be found here.

A New Blog On The Block!

Welcome! We're the original manufacturer and distributor of Wild Creations EcoAquariums(TM), miniature ecosystem aquariums that require no filter, chemicals, and very little maintenance! Of course, many know our aquariums as the "Mini Frog Aquariums", which is alright by us, since we love our African dwarf frogs as much as all of our loyal customers do!

Count on The Frog Blog to bring you all kinds of news & information about us, our EcoAquariums, as well as things we find on the net that may be of interest to frog lovers everywhere!

Our frog manager is fond of saying, "everyone needs a frog in their life". We couldn’t agree more and we hope you take one home today. We hope you enjoy our blog!