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most probably made history by releasing the world's first official Angry
Birds stamps, featuring six of the popular game characters - five
birds and one pig on 9th September, 2013. The designer of the stamps
is Toni Kysenius, Art Director at Rovio Entertainment, who also
designed the HockeyBird character and related stamp issue for last year's IIHF
Ice Hockey World Championships.
In order to ensure authenticity, the Angry Birds
stamps feature a pattern which is only visible under UV light. In addition, an
irregular perforation follows the shape of the characters. The sheet of six 1st class
stamps also includes Priority labels fitting the appearance of the stamps.
Angry Birds is a video game franchise created by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Entertainment. Inspired
primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the first game was first
released for Apple's iOS in December 2009. Over
12 million copies of the game have been purchased from Apple's App Store, which has prompted the company to
design versions for other touchscreen-based smartphones,
including the Android, Symbian and Windows
Phone operating systems. It has
since expanded to video game
consoles and for PCs.
Angry Birds has been praised for its successful combination of addictive gameplay, comical style, and low
price. Its popularity led to versions of Angry
Birds being created for
personal computers and gaming consoles,
a market for merchandise featuring its characters and even long-term plans for
a feature film or television series. With nearly 2 billion downloads across all
platforms and including both regular and special editions, the game has been called "one of the most mainstream games out right
now", "one of the great runaway hits of 2010", and "the largest mobile app success the world has seen so far".
Thank you Ella for this lovely Angry Birds maxi card.
