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Build Your Own Wallace & Gromit Rocket scoops award

Build Your Own is celebrating an award win at the recent Gift of the Year awards after its new ecofriendly, Build Your Own Wallace & Gromit Rocket scooped the award for best Branded Gift.

Hampshire-based Build Your Own is delighted to have won this highly respected award, which recognises the best new, exciting and innovative products in the industry each year.

The team is very excited about the partnership with Aardman and bringing its first licensed product to market. They said there was a clear synergy between Build Your Own and Aardman from the beginning, and they had fantastic ideas for the kits from day one of the partnership.

The Build Your Own Rocket is from the iconic Wallace & Gromit film, A Grand Day Out. A cracking 40cms high once built, it has a clever pull-tab rocket door opening mechanism to enter the world of Wallace & Gromit. It includes Wallace and Gromit figures, the much-loved ‘cooker’ from the animation and many more internal furnishings.

Made using 100% sustainable cardboard and paper, Build Your Own’s Wallace & Gromit Rocket is not only fun and engaging to play with, but also eco-friendly.

Build Your Own was created by Paper Engine – a UK-based team of brilliant paper engineers with decades of experience engineering pop-up books, direct mail pieces, packaging and more. The company ethos is ‘Less plastic, paper fantastic!’ and the team is incredibly passionate about being environmentally responsible in all that they do and respecting the planet. The full range of kits is made using high-quality sustainable cardboard, with minimal plastics, with eco-friendly packaging that is 100% recyclable.

Commercial director Jason McKenzie commented: “We’d like to give a big thanks to everyone at The Giftware Association, the judges and the award sponsors. We’re so proud of everything that the team at Build Your Own has achieved. It has been a pleasure working and partnering with the team at Aardman – an incredible, talented bunch of people.”

Dino Ranch Season 2 premieres on Tiny Pop

Season 2 of Dino Ranch will premiere on UK Free TV, exclusively on Tiny Pop. The series began on International Dinosaur Day, Thursday, 1st June.

From Boat Rocker, Dino Ranch follows the action-packed adventures of the Cassidy family as they tackle life in a fantastical, “pre-westoric” setting where dinosaurs still roam. As the young ranchers learn the ropes, they discover the thrill of ranch life whilst navigating the great outdoors through unpredictable challenges. Season 2 brings new adventures for the young ranchers, as they take to the skies with new flying dinos in the tentpole event, Dino-Soar.

Season 2 continues the thrill-a-minute animated series that is packed with comedy and adventure, and introduces kids to problem-solving, the foundations of forging life-long friendships, strengthening family and community bonds, and taking care of animals.

Dino Ranch Season 2 is also available on-demand on the Pop Player.

Tiny Pop is available on Freeview 207, Sky 615, Virgin 737 and Freesat 605, while the Pop Player is available on Freeview Play, YouView, Freesat, Apple TV and on mobile.

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie to launch on Netflix

Miraculous Ladybug makes her feature film debut in the enchanting animated musical tale Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie, a superhero blockbuster for the whole family which will launch on Netflix on July 28th and in select countries theatrically.

In addition to the US release on July 28th, SND will release the movie in France on July 5th and Studio Canal will release it on July 6th in Germany. Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie will also be released theatrically in China, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland and the Eastern Europe region, Russia, Greece, Turkey and Israël.

Based on the Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir animated series that airs in over 120 countries around the globe and now in its fifth season, the movie follows ordinary teenager Marinette whose life in Paris goes superhuman when she becomes Ladybug. The movie takes fans on a journey of discovery, the intriguing origin story of how two normal teens – Marinette DuPain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste – embarked upon their superhero destinies. The movie is filled with action, comedy, music and magic.

Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie is directed by Jeremy Zag from an original screenplay by Jeremy Zag and Bettina López Mendoza based on a story written by Jeremy Zag. Aton Soumache, Jeremy Zag and Daisy Shang serve as producers. Executive producers are Emmanuel Jacomet, Michael Gracey (Director, The Greatest Showman, P!nk: All I know So Far; executive producer on Rocketman), Tyler Thompson, Alexis Vonarb, Jean-Bernard Marinot, Cynthia Zouari, Thierry Pasquet, and Ben Li. Harvey Mason Jr. (Dreamgirls, Sing!, Pitch Perfect) serves as executive music producer.

Cristina Vee Valenzuela reprises her role from the Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir series as the voice of Ladybug, with Bryce Papenbrook as the voice of Cat Noir and Keith Silverstein as Gabriel Agreste, aka Hawk Moth.