Nickelodeon Licensing News For July 2012 Roundup

From Animation Insider:

Animation Licensing News 2012 (July)

The following article highlights a variety of licensing notes announced throughout July 2012. Notable inclusions comprise the revival of an animation magazine in China, a slew of updates from Nickelodeon domestically and globally, and some footwear for fans of Phineas and Ferb.

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Autumn 2012, for Winx Club, has been projected as a key season for more than a year now. New animation, doll collections, toys, and now comics/graphic novels and home video releases are on the schedule. The girls' fantasy series about magically inclined teens recently earned a debut on the graphic novel market courtesy of VIZ Media. Two 96-page volumes of VIZ's Winx Club comic are already in stores, a third volume is scheduled for release by September 2012. In the third volume, Bloom makes new friends and discovers old enemies after getting a job at a restaurant on the lakefront of Magix.

In other Winx Club news, the home video release of Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom is scheduled for release August 7, 2012 ($16.99) [in North America (region 1 (US and Canada only); NTSC format) only; to be released in the UK (region 2 (Europe); PAL format) on Monday 20th August 2012] . The two-disc release, published by Nickelodeon, contains the new CG television special as well as seven episodes of the animated series.

Autumn also bodes well for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the new Nickelodeon TV series that will premiere domestically [in North America] in September, and internationally only weeks thereafter. The UK is slated to premiere the series in October 2012. Television Espanola (Spain) will broadcast the CG series in spring 2013.

In the way of new licenses, Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products announced more than thirty new TMNT licenses for the UK segment this past month:

wheeled goods, games and arts and crafts products (Sambro); apparel (TV Mania); outerwear and nightwear (Cooneen Misirli); footwear (William Lamb); accessories and gifts (VMC, Zeon); homewares (Character World); stationary and back-to-school items (Copywrite Designs); bedroom and outdoor play (Worlds Apart); publishing/annuals (Egmont, Parragon); greeting cards, party supplies (Hallmark, Amscan); and foodstuffs (BIP, Kinnerton, and Lightbody).

In other, Nickelodeon general news, parent group Viacom has reached an extensive Latin America licensing agreement with Agosin Group. The partnership is considered a "regional deal" that covers than 15 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Venezuela, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, Colombia, and Dominican Republic. According to reports, Agosin Group will license Nickelodeon properties in these territories, like SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora, the new TMNT series, as well as MTV's Beavis and Butthead characters and Comedy Central's South Park. Meanwhile, in India, the recently restructured Viacom18 Media board has moved ahead with Nickelodeon character merchandizing for television sets, mobile phones, and personal fans. According to executives familiar with the matter, there are "huge plans" lined up over the next six months for the region.

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