He is a highly-stylized, green-coloured, blue-eyed [[gelatin]]ous bear character (with belly button) who wears orange Y-front briefs and white sneakers.
He is a highly-stylized, green-coloured, blue-eyed [[gelatin]]ous bear character (with belly button) who wears orange Y-front briefs and white sneakers.
==Popularity==
=Popularity=
Gummibär’s popularity as a phenomenon is very similar to that of fellow European music phenomenon [[Crazy Frog]], characterized by repetition of lyrics and singing of catchy melodies. Variants of the character’s music have been released in various languages internationally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2285316/Gummy-Bear-set-to-take-Crazy-Frogs-mantle.html|title=Gummy Bear set to take Crazy Frog’s mantle|first=Richard|last=Alleyne|date=2008-07-11|website=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|publisher=[[Telegraph Media Group]]|access-date=2020-11-30|url-access=subscription|archive-date=2021-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308192152/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2285316/Gummy-Bear-set-to-take-Crazy-Frogs-mantle.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Gummibär’s popularity as a phenomenon is very similar to that of fellow European music phenomenon [[Crazy Frog]], characterized by repetition of lyrics and singing of catchy melodies. Variants of the character’s music have been released in various languages internationally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2285316/Gummy-Bear-set-to-take-Crazy-Frogs-mantle.html|title=Gummy Bear set to take Crazy Frog’s mantle|first=Richard|last=Alleyne|date=2008-07-11|website=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|publisher=[[Telegraph Media Group]]|access-date=2020-11-30|url-access=subscription|archive-date=2021-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308192152/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2285316/Gummy-Bear-set-to-take-Crazy-Frogs-mantle.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Video==
=Video=
The video, a 30-second [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] pop promo animated in [[Softimage XSI]], was directed, designed and [[animation|animated]] by Pete Dodd and produced through Wilfilm in [[Copenhagen]] for [[Ministry of Sound]] GmbH in [[Berlin]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dodd|first=Pete|title=GUMMY BEAR|url=https://petedodd.com/portfolio_page/gummy-bear/|url-status=live|access-date=November 22, 2021|website=Peter Dodd Director of Animation|archive-date=November 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122225045/https://petedodd.com/portfolio_page/gummy-bear/}}</ref> The original video was a 30-second version of the Hungarian version, “Itt Van A Gumimaci” which was posted on site Mojoflix.com
The video, a 30-second [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]] pop promo animated in [[Softimage XSI]], was directed, designed and [[animation|animated]] by Pete Dodd and produced through Wilfilm in [[Copenhagen]] for [[Ministry of Sound]] GmbH in [[Berlin]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dodd|first=Pete|title=GUMMY BEAR|url=https://petedodd.com/portfolio_page/gummy-bear/|url-status=live|access-date=November 22, 2021|website=Peter Dodd Director of Animation|archive-date=November 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122225045/https://petedodd.com/portfolio_page/gummy-bear/}}</ref> The original video was a 30-second version of the Hungarian version, “Itt Van A Gumimaci” which was posted on site Mojoflix.com
==DVD==
=DVD=
”Gummibär: I Am Gummy Bear – The Gummibär Video Collection” was released on April 28, 2009 in the US. The DVD contains a video collection of “I’m a Gummy Bear” in nine different languages, as well as some of the character’s other releases.<ref>{{Cite web|title=GUMMIBÄR – I Am A Gummy Bear: The Gummibär Video Collection|url=http://www.thegummybear.com/dvds/gummibar-gummy-bear-gummibar-video-collection/|url-status=live|access-date=November 22, 2021|website=Gummibär|archive-date=November 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122214023/http://www.thegummybear.com/dvds/gummibar-gummy-bear-gummibar-video-collection/}}</ref> They promote their merch by putting it in their videos at the start of the music videos.
”Gummibär: I Am Gummy Bear – The Gummibär Video Collection” was released on April 28, 2009 in the US. The DVD contains a video collection of “I’m a Gummy Bear” in nine different languages, as well as some of the character’s other releases.<ref>{{Cite web|title=GUMMIBÄR – I Am A Gummy Bear: The Gummibär Video Collection|url=http://www.thegummybear.com/dvds/gummibar-gummy-bear-gummibar-video-collection/|url-status=live|access-date=November 22, 2021|website=Gummibär|archive-date=November 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122214023/http://www.thegummybear.com/dvds/gummibar-gummy-bear-gummibar-video-collection/}}</ref> They promote their merch by putting it in their videos at the start of the music videos.
== Other media ==
= Other media =
=== Film ===
== Film ==
==== Gummib”’är:”’ The Yummy Gummy Search For Santa ====
=== :”’ The Yummy Gummy Search For Santa ===
”Gummibär: The Yummy Gummy Search for Santa” was released in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2012,<ref>{{cite web|date=2012-10-04|title=Gummibär DVD Debuts October 8th In UK!|url=http://www.thegummybear.com/2012/10/04/gummibar-dvd-debuts-october-8th-in-uk/|access-date=2019-07-06|website=thegummybear.com|archive-date=2019-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706104408/http://www.thegummybear.com/2012/10/04/gummibar-dvd-debuts-october-8th-in-uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> and in the US on 6 November 2012 from [[Lionsgate Home Entertainment]].<ref name=”Lionsgate”>{{cite web|date=2012-10-10|title=Watch The Trailer For The Yummy Gummy Search For Santa!|url=http://www.thegummybear.com/2012/10/10/watch-the-trailer-for-the-yummy-gummy-search-for-santa/|access-date=2019-07-06|website=thegummybear.com|archive-date=2019-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706104410/http://www.thegummybear.com/2012/10/10/watch-the-trailer-for-the-yummy-gummy-search-for-santa/|url-status=live}}</ref> It is Gummibär’s first feature-length film. It was directed by Bernie Denk and Jurgen Korduletsch, and written by Robert David Stevenson and Leo St. Pierre. Aside from the titular character (Sonja Ball), it stars Harry ([[Bruce Dinsmore]]), a male chameleon, Vampiro ([[Rick Jones (voice actor)|Rick Jones]]), a male Dracula-esque vampire bat, and Kala ([[Holly Gauthier-Frankel]]), a female cat, as they embark on a search for Santa Claus, who is reported missing on Christmas Eve, but turned out to be kidnapped by a dance-crazed alien.<ref name=”Lionsgate” /> The film aired in the US on 1 December of the same year on [[The CW|The CW’s]] [[Vortexx]] Saturday morning cartoon block, which billed the airing as a “world premiere”.<ref>{{cite web|last=Zahed|first=Ramin|date=2012-11-27|title=Vortexx on The CW Announces Special Holiday Line-Up|url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/vortexx-on-the-cw-announces-special-holiday-line-up/|access-date=2019-07-06|publisher=[[Animation Magazine]]|archive-date=2019-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706120142/https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/vortexx-on-the-cw-announces-special-holiday-line-up/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=MyVortexx|url=http://www.myvortexx.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128172321/http://www.myvortexx.com/|archive-date=2012-11-28|access-date=2019-07-06|website=myvortexx.com}}</ref>
”Gummibär: The Yummy Gummy Search for Santa” was released in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2012,<ref>{{cite web|date=2012-10-04|title=Gummibär DVD Debuts October 8th In UK!|url=http://www.thegummybear.com/2012/10/04/gummibar-dvd-debuts-october-8th-in-uk/|access-date=2019-07-06|website=thegummybear.com|archive-date=2019-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706104408/http://www.thegummybear.com/2012/10/04/gummibar-dvd-debuts-october-8th-in-uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> and in the US on 6 November 2012 from [[Lionsgate Home Entertainment]].<ref name=”Lionsgate”>{{cite web|date=2012-10-10|title=Watch The Trailer For The Yummy Gummy Search For Santa!|url=http://www.thegummybear.com/2012/10/10/watch-the-trailer-for-the-yummy-gummy-search-for-santa/|access-date=2019-07-06|website=thegummybear.com|archive-date=2019-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706104410/http://www.thegummybear.com/2012/10/10/watch-the-trailer-for-the-yummy-gummy-search-for-santa/|url-status=live}}</ref> It is Gummibär’s first feature-length film. It was directed by Bernie Denk and Jurgen Korduletsch, and written by Robert David Stevenson and Leo St. Pierre. Aside from the titular character (Sonja Ball), it stars Harry ([[Bruce Dinsmore]]), a male chameleon, Vampiro ([[Rick Jones (voice actor)|Rick Jones]]), a male Dracula-esque vampire bat, and Kala ([[Holly Gauthier-Frankel]]), a female cat, as they embark on a search for Santa Claus, who is reported missing on Christmas Eve, but turned out to be kidnapped by a dance-crazed alien.<ref name=”Lionsgate” /> The film aired in the US on 1 December of the same year on [[The CW|The CW’s]] [[Vortexx]] Saturday morning cartoon block, which billed the airing as a “world premiere”.<ref>{{cite web|last=Zahed|first=Ramin|date=2012-11-27|title=Vortexx on The CW Announces Special Holiday Line-Up|url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/vortexx-on-the-cw-announces-special-holiday-line-up/|access-date=2019-07-06|publisher=[[Animation Magazine]]|archive-date=2019-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706120142/https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/vortexx-on-the-cw-announces-special-holiday-line-up/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=MyVortexx|url=http://www.myvortexx.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121128172321/http://www.myvortexx.com/|archive-date=2012-11-28|access-date=2019-07-06|website=myvortexx.com}}</ref>
==== Gummibär & Friends: Operation Cotton Candy ====
=== Gummibär & Friends: Operation Cotton Candy ===
{{Main | Gummibär & Friends: Operation Cotton Candy}}
{{Main | Gummibär & Friends: Operation Cotton Candy}}
”Gummibär & Friends: Operation Cotton Candy” is scheduled to be theatrically released in 2026 by Toonz Media Group, Gummybear International, Telegae, and Space Age Films. <ref name=”Toonz Media Group AFM 2024″>”[https://toonz.co/feature-film/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/booklet_afm_2024.pdf Toonz Media Group AFM 2024]” (November 1, 2024). Retrieved January 11, 2025.</ref><ref name=”Variety”>”[https://variety.com/2025/film/news/gummybear-toonz-gummibar-and-friends-operation-cotton-candy-efm-1236306179/ Gummybear International, Toonz Unveil ‘Gummibär and Friends, Operation Cotton Candy’ at EFM (EXCLUSIVE)]” ”Variety” (February 13, 2025). Retrieved February 13, 2025.</ref> Directed by Pete Dodd, written by Dan Berlinka, and produced by P. Jayakumar and Paul Cummins, the film marks the second feature length film featuring the ”Gummibär” character.
”Gummibär & Friends: Operation Cotton Candy” is scheduled to be theatrically released in 2026 by Toonz Media Group, Gummybear International, Telegae, and Space Age Films. <ref name=”Toonz Media Group AFM 2024″>”[https://toonz.co/feature-film/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/booklet_afm_2024.pdf Toonz Media Group AFM 2024]” (November 1, 2024). Retrieved January 11, 2025.</ref><ref name=”Variety”>”[https://variety.com/2025/film/news/gummybear-toonz-gummibar-and-friends-operation-cotton-candy-efm-1236306179/ Gummybear International, Toonz Unveil ‘Gummibär and Friends, Operation Cotton Candy’ at EFM (EXCLUSIVE)]” ”Variety” (February 13, 2025). Retrieved February 13, 2025.</ref> Directed by Pete Dodd, written by Dan Berlinka, and produced by P. Jayakumar and Paul Cummins, the film marks the second feature length film featuring the ”Gummibär” character.
=== Web series ===
== Web series ==
{{Main|Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show}}
{{Main|Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show}}
In 2016, a YouTube animated web series titled ”[[Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show|Gummibär and Friends]]” was released online on the official Gummibär YouTube channel, consisting of one season of 39 episodes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gummibär And Friends “Spooktacular” The Gummy Bear Show Episode 1|website = [[YouTube]]| date=24 June 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q5w7B03zns&list=PLQpyrMU5mb00wWBHRq0uB0X51rh7zWn1K&index=1 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/8q5w7B03zns |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Those international versions were released on a channel titled “Gummy Bear Show International” beginning on 1 April, 2020.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gummy Bear Show International|website=[[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCibQdwxyRmFkZSlo39j_DaA|access-date=2020-04-20|archive-date=2020-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929124831/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCibQdwxyRmFkZSlo39j_DaA|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2016, a YouTube animated web series titled ”[[Gummibär & Friends: The Gummy Bear Show|Gummibär and Friends]]” was released online on the official Gummibär YouTube channel, consisting of one season of 39 episodes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gummibär And Friends “Spooktacular” The Gummy Bear Show Episode 1|website = [[YouTube]]| date=24 June 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q5w7B03zns&list=PLQpyrMU5mb00wWBHRq0uB0X51rh7zWn1K&index=1 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/8q5w7B03zns |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Those international versions were released on a channel titled “Gummy Bear Show International” beginning on 1 April, 2020.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gummy Bear Show International|website=[[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCibQdwxyRmFkZSlo39j_DaA|access-date=2020-04-20|archive-date=2020-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929124831/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCibQdwxyRmFkZSlo39j_DaA|url-status=live}}</ref>
German virtual musician
Musical artist
Gummibär (pronounced [ˈɡʊmibɛːɐ̯] ⓘ; German for “gummy bear”) or Gummy Bear is a German Eurodance multilingual character and virtual musician that performs gummy bear-related songs on various albums, including I Am Your Gummy Bear (2007) and La La Love to Dance (2010). The video for the song “I’m a Gummy Bear” and its Spanish version has 3.7 billion and 1.3 billion views on YouTube respectively.
The name “Gummibär” is taken from a German brand of bear-shaped gummy candies from Haribo introduced in 1920.[1]
He is a highly-stylized, green-coloured, blue-eyed gelatinous bear character (with belly button) who wears orange Y-front briefs and white sneakers.
Gummibär’s popularity as a phenomenon is very similar to that of fellow European music phenomenon Crazy Frog, characterized by repetition of lyrics and singing of catchy melodies. Variants of the character’s music have been released in various languages internationally.[2]
The video, a 30-second CGI pop promo animated in Softimage XSI, was directed, designed and animated by Pete Dodd and produced through Wilfilm in Copenhagen for Ministry of Sound GmbH in Berlin.[3] The original video was a 30-second version of the Hungarian version, “Itt Van A Gumimaci” which was posted on site Mojoflix.com
Gummibär: I Am Gummy Bear – The Gummibär Video Collection was released on April 28, 2009 in the US. The DVD contains a video collection of “I’m a Gummy Bear” in nine different languages, as well as some of the character’s other releases.[4] They promote their merch by putting it in their videos at the start of the music videos.
Gummibär: The Yummy Gummy Search For Santa
[edit]
Gummibär: The Yummy Gummy Search for Santa was released in the United Kingdom on 8 October 2012,[5] and in the US on 6 November 2012 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.[6] It is Gummibär’s first feature-length film. It was directed by Bernie Denk and Jurgen Korduletsch, and written by Robert David Stevenson and Leo St. Pierre. Aside from the titular character (Sonja Ball), it stars Harry (Bruce Dinsmore), a male chameleon, Vampiro (Rick Jones), a male Dracula-esque vampire bat, and Kala (Holly Gauthier-Frankel), a female cat, as they embark on a search for Santa Claus, who is reported missing on Christmas Eve, but turned out to be kidnapped by a dance-crazed alien.[6] The film aired in the US on 1 December of the same year on The CW’s Vortexx Saturday morning cartoon block, which billed the airing as a “world premiere”.[7][8]
Gummibär & Friends: Operation Cotton Candy
[edit]
Gummibär & Friends: Operation Cotton Candy is scheduled to be theatrically released in 2026 by Toonz Media Group, Gummybear International, Telegae, and Space Age Films. [9][10] Directed by Pete Dodd, written by Dan Berlinka, and produced by P. Jayakumar and Paul Cummins, the film marks the second feature length film featuring the Gummibär character.
In 2016, a YouTube animated web series titled Gummibär and Friends was released online on the official Gummibär YouTube channel, consisting of one season of 39 episodes.[11] Those international versions were released on a channel titled “Gummy Bear Show International” beginning on 1 April, 2020.[12]
- ^ “Gummibär biography, discography, songs, lyrics, remixes and more!”. Bubblegum Dancer. Archived from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
- ^ Alleyne, Richard (2008-07-11). “Gummy Bear set to take Crazy Frog’s mantle”. The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2020-11-30.
- ^ Dodd, Pete. “GUMMY BEAR”. Peter Dodd Director of Animation. Archived from the original on November 22, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
- ^ “GUMMIBÄR – I Am A Gummy Bear: The Gummibär Video Collection”. Gummibär. Archived from the original on November 22, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
- ^ “Gummibär DVD Debuts October 8th In UK!”. thegummybear.com. 2012-10-04. Archived from the original on 2019-07-06. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- ^ a b “Watch The Trailer For The Yummy Gummy Search For Santa!”. thegummybear.com. 2012-10-10. Archived from the original on 2019-07-06. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- ^ Zahed, Ramin (2012-11-27). “Vortexx on The CW Announces Special Holiday Line-Up”. Animation Magazine. Archived from the original on 2019-07-06. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- ^ “MyVortexx”. myvortexx.com. Archived from the original on 2012-11-28. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
- ^ “Toonz Media Group AFM 2024” (November 1, 2024). Retrieved January 11, 2025.
- ^ “Gummybear International, Toonz Unveil ‘Gummibär and Friends, Operation Cotton Candy’ at EFM (EXCLUSIVE)” Variety (February 13, 2025). Retrieved February 13, 2025.
- ^ “Gummibär And Friends “Spooktacular” The Gummy Bear Show Episode 1″. YouTube. 24 June 2016. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20.
- ^ “Gummy Bear Show International”. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2020-09-29. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
