MainFrame Re-Launches 'Dot's Bots'
AndrAIaSprite
new animated series, 'Dot's Bots'
Press Release -- Vancouver, B.C., May 10, 2002
Mainframe Entertainment, Inc. (MFE:TSE), a leading creator of computer
animation for television, will be leading the Girl Power charge at
this year's Licensing Show 2002 with its introduction of Dorothy Dill,
a spunky, dauntless 12 year-old girl with a super-charged scientific
mind. Dorothy is the star of Mainframe's new animated property, Dot's
Bots, which transports audiences to the futuristic 'Turbo City', where
Dot's imagination and mechanical genius set the stage for electrifying
and hilarious adventures.
The announcement was made today by Joy Tashjian, President of Joy
Tashjian Marketing Group, Mainframe's agency of record for property
representation. Tashjian will be meeting with Licensing Show
participants interested in developing unique and inventive products in
association with this intriguing new property.
"Dot's Bots is an imaginative and original new property that lends
itself to unique licensing campaign opportunities targeted towards the
tween girl audience," said Tashjian. "We feel that licensees will be
intrigued by the subject matter, which is not the norm for the teenage
female demographic. Hidden behind her welding mask, in her
grandfather's junkyard, Dot weaves 'techno-magic' creating a zany
assortment of Robots, proving that girls can do anything boys can do!"
Dot's Bots tells the story of Dorothy Dill (Dot to her friends), a
fearless and determined 12 year old mechanical genius who creates a
zany collection of robots assembled from scraps found in her
grandfather's junkyard that come to life. Her robots are a secret and
she only shares it with her younger brother Arnie, who is always
finding ways to cause Dot problems.
Girls around the world will relate to Dot as she tries to protect her
mechanical friends from the exploitive outside world in a series
currently being developed by Mainframe Entertainment.
Mainframe Entertainment Inc. is one of the world's most prolific
producers of computer animation for television and direct to videos
and is expanding into long-form CGI for feature films, commercials and
interactive entertainment. The company is best known as the pioneer of
computer animated television series for the groundbreaking "ReBoot".
Mainframe has produced over 230 hours of computer animation since its
inception in 1993. In addition to its award-winning "Barbie in the
Nutcracker" direct to video feature, the company's recent projects
include two original "ReBoot" TV movies and 40 half- hours of the
"HeavyGear" television series. Founded in 1993, the company employs
over 250 artists, animators, technicians and production personnel, and
has won many prestigious awards for its creative and technical
innovations, including an induction into the Smithsonian Institute.
This press release may contain forward looking statements that are
based on management assumptions and existing information and involve
certain risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to
differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such
forward looking statements.
For further information: Chelsey Ellsbury, Pryor & Associates - Los
Angeles, Ph.- (818) 382-2233, Che...@pryorpr.com
Wayne C. Morris
> fearless and determined 12 year old mechanical genius who creates a
> zany collection of robots assembled from scraps found in her
> grandfather's junkyard that come to life. Her robots are a secret and
> she only shares it with her younger brother Arnie, who is always
> finding ways to cause Dot problems.
Sounds suspiciously like "Dexter's Lab" with a bit of "Jimmy Neutron",
and switching the roles so that the older sister is the genius.
Malcolm Cleveland
<wayne....@this.is.invalid> wrote:
>> Dot's Bots tells the story of Dorothy Dill (Dot to her friends), a
>> fearless and determined 12 year old mechanical genius who creates a
>> zany collection of robots assembled from scraps
>
>and switching the roles so that the older sister is the genius.
Another piece of proof: There is nothing new in Hollywood. Still, I'm looking
forward to see what they're going to do with the details (sight gags, homages,
etc.)
Malcolm, calling in from Lansing, MI
http://userdata.acd.net/malcolm/
Silv
Well if Arnie goes "Oooh, What does THIS button do?"...
It sounds sweet though, and the bit of animation I caught of it looked
neat. And "Boy genius" has been done so many times it's not
derivative of Dexter's Lab or JN anymore, it's more of its own genre.
Silv