WiggleWorld (partially found interactive children's website; 2000-2001)
In June of 2000, a company by the name of Spool Media signed an agreement with The Wiggles to create 'WiggleWorld', an interactive children’s website.[1] The site would launch in December of that same year and would eventually shut down in October 2001.[2] The website included games, e-cards, a screensaver (which still works)[3], colour-in pictures, two message boards and most of all, a fully interactive online 3D environment (a.k.a. the WiggleWorld viewer) that was presumably based off the Wiggles’ world from their second TV series.
The 3D environment was developed by Spool Media using b3d Studio[4], and would allow users to "choose destinations, travel in 3D cars down roads, then look around, pick things up, and learn through fun interactive participation."[4] The viewer also included things such as new characters[1], animations, songs, videos, and other interactive content.[5] Not much information is known about how the WiggleWorld viewer actually ran from a player’s perspective, in fact, only one image has been discovered of the viewer, being found in September of 2022.[6] Which just so happened to be on an old Wiggles fansite.[7]
In order to enter the WiggleWorld viewer, you would first have to get a special software called the “Big Red Car Viewer” that approximately took a few minutes to download at the time.[8][9]
Despite everything that we know about the website and its contents, not much of it ended up getting archived in the end. So as a result, certain parts of the website are now lost. Including any possible way of running the WiggleWorld viewer.
Gallery
Videos
Pictures
A photo of Greg Wiggle originally from the e-card section of the website.[10]
A photo of Murray Wiggle originally from the e-card section of the website.[10]
A photo of Jeff Wiggle originally from the e-card section of the website.[10]
A photo of Anthony Wiggle originally from the e-card section of the website.[10]
Links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20001208201000/www.newswire.com.au/apcweb/news.nsf/HTML/Category/4CDBA0B2006B1F0BCA25690A00308EF5
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20011014095730/http://www.wiggleworld.com/closed.asp
- ↑ https://youtu.be/cybMpydecaE
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20010919095301/http://dev.bde.com.au/content.asp?skin=BDE1&ID=739
- ↑ https://www.asx.com.au/asx/v2/statistics/displayAnnouncement.do?display=text&issuerId=295&announcementId=741527&documentDate=2000-07-25&documentNumber=181789
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CiGYrGrDUqR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040815234409/http://www.evanandcalumssite.homestead.com/The_Wiggles.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010508111931/http://www.netweek.com.au/cgi/search/Search?term=&cat=&sort=&group=3010&total=3364
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010210210433/http://www.wiggleworld.com/faq/faq001.asp
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 The full resolution versions of these e-card images as seen above were not archived on the WiggleWorld site itself, only the smaller thumbnail versions remained intact. These full-res versions were discovered on another fansite which, strangely enough, was also for making Wiggles e-cards.