Samples, travels, and photo contest!

The most recent Morot samples have arrived, this is what they look like. A couple more final tweaks, and they should be ready for production.

In other news, Spok-spok is going to New York for a looong (5 day) weekend! Why? To spend time with friends and shop for toys.

Also, here's a little reminder regarding the photo contest:




Spök-spök and his friends love to travel, and to take photos of their adventures. Now they’re inviting YOU to take some pictures of them for their awesome photo contest!

Rules:

1. Take some pictures of any of the Spök-spök characters (Spök-spök, Spökelina, Toofhairy, or Baron von Kon) in a setting of your choice. Be imaginative and adventurous. Be super duper cute. Or be serious and dramatic. Anything goes.
*UPDATE: We've had questions concerning whether contest submissions can be photoshopped, and although we'd prefer photographs that have not been modified, photoshopped pictures can be submitted as well. We prefer unaltered photographs, though. :)

2. Send in no more than 5 of your best photos to contest(at)spokspok(dot)com make sure to include your name, e-mail, and where the picture is taken.

3. If your picture is chosen among the 8 winners, you will be notified via e-mail.

OK, this sounds like fun, but what do I get if I win?

We’ll chose 8 winning pictures, and these winning pictures will be featured in a fancy postcard set entitled “Spök-spök‘s Travel Adventures!” that will hit the stores a few months later.

The winning photographers will not only have their photograph featured on a postcard in the set, they will also receive a copy of the set (this way you don’t have to buy it from a store!), and the picture we chose as our favorite will win a super limited, only one in existence, exclusive… Long-haired Toofhairy!!! (Yep, it's the one in the picture at the beginning of this entry)

The contest opens now and the last day to enter your photos is June 30’th 2008.

If you have any questions, please e-mail us at contest(at)spokspok(dot)com and we’ll get right back to you with an answer!

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Oh, and keep submitting pictures for the photo contest. ;)

The contest continues!

We have started to receive pictures for the photo contest, the one above is all the way from New Zealand, and is a great example of how you can photoshop your submissions.

Keep sending in those pictures!

Spök-spök is arranging a photo contest!

Spök-spök and his friends love to travel, and to take photos of their adventures. Now they’re inviting YOU to take some pictures of them for their awesome photo contest!

Rules:

1. Take some pictures of any of the Spök-spök characters (Spök-spök, Spökelina, Toofhairy, or Baron von Kon) in a setting of your choice. Be imaginative and adventurous. Be super duper cute. Or be serious and dramatic. Anything goes.
*UPDATE: We've had questions concerning whether contest submissions can be photoshopped, and although we'd prefer photographs that have not been modified, photoshopped pictures can be submitted as well. We prefer unaltered photographs, though. :)

2. Send in no more than 5 of your best photos to contest(at)spokspok(dot)com make sure to include your name, e-mail, and where the picture is taken.

3. If your picture is chosen among the 8 winners, you will be notified via e-mail.

OK, this sounds like fun, but what do I get if I win?

We’ll chose 8 winning pictures, and these winning pictures will be featured in a fancy postcard set entitled “Spök-spök‘s Travel Adventures!” that will hit the stores a few months later.

The winning photographers will not only have their photograph featured on a postcard in the set, they will also receive a copy of the set (this way you don’t have to buy it from a store!), and the picture we chose as our favorite will win a super limited, only one in existence, exclusive… Long-haired Toofhairy!!! (Yep, it's the one in the picture at the beginning of this entry)

The contest opens now and the last day to enter your photos is August 31’th 2008.

If you have any questions, please e-mail us at contest(at)spokspok(dot)com and we’ll get right back to you with an answer!

Here are some pictures to inspire you!













By entering the contest, you are granting Spok-spok a non-exclusive license to use your photograph for a postcard to be sold in stores and online, and to be posted online at www.flickr.com, www.plasticandplush.com, www.myspace.com/catspeaker, and spokspok.blogspot.com.


Contest rules:

IMPORTANT: Winning entries to the contest will be made available for people to buy in stores. By entering the contest, you are granting Spök-spök a non-exclusive license to use your photograph for a postcard to be sold in stores and online. If you do not want to grant Spök-spök this license, you should not enter the contest.

The contest opens on April 12, 2008. Entries must be submitted to contest(at)spokspok(dot)com no later than 23:59h (11:59pm) GMT on August 31, 2008. Entries submitted after 00:00h GMT on September 1, 2008 will not be eligible for the prizes.

Winners will be announced on September 15 2008 via e-mail, and on spokspok.blogspot.com and plasticandplush.com.

The contest is open to anyone, regardless of country of residence or age. However if you are under the age of 16, you should get a parent or guardian’s permission before you enter.

You may enter a maximum of five (5) pictures to the contest. Sending more than this may result in your entries being disqualified.

If your designs feature pictures of other people, you are responsible for ensuring they are happy for their picture to be entered in to this contest, and for being featured on a postcard to be sold in stores.

We can only accept electronic entries submitted to contest(at)spokspok(dot)com .

The contest will be judged by Daniel Svanberg, Ming Xue, and Daniel Nylund of Spök-spök and Brian Slivka of plasticandplush.com.

There will be eight (8) winning photographs. Each winner will receive a free postcard set, and the honor of being featured in a great product. One of the winners will also receive a one of a kind long-haired Toofhairy.

Prizes must be taken as stated and cannot be changed.

The judges’ decisions will be final.

Winners will be contacted via e-mail on September 15 2008.

In the event that a winner does not claim their prize within 30 days of being notified Spök-spök reserves the right to withdraw the prize, or award it to another entrant.

Entrants retain all copyright to their entries, except for granting Spök-spök the license to print winning photographs on postcards, and sell these. Spök-spök may also use contest photographs in the promotion of the contest and the postcard set.
Spök-spök ‘s decision is final in every situation.

Spök-spök reserves the right to cancel the contest at any stage, if deemed necessary in their opinion, and if circumstances arise outside of their control.

Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them when entering this contest.
We will not pass on your personal details to any other organization without your permission except for the purposes of running the contest that you have entered.

Toofhairy's day of adventure and fun!

Toofhairy went for a walk today, looked at some food, and got her picture taken by a fan! It was a fun day, now it's time to go to bed.

Good night, hugs!

Every vote counts!

A poll was just added to the blog, it's right there, to your right, ->

Hugs!

Sneak peeks and news!

Plastic and Plush published some news on Morot today. It's a great site, with tons of news about toys, so remember to check it out!

Speaking of Morot, here's yet another sneak peek of him, not the most exciting picture, but that tends to be the nature of prototype pictures.


(Actually, this picture is pretty hilarious for some reason.)

Another exciting thing is that Spok-spok will arrange a photo contest with a one of a kind grand prize! We'll tell you more about it in a few days, until then, here's a sneak peek at the grand prize!


(No, it's not a Toofhairy...)

Also, remember that you can join the Spok-spok Facebook fan page!

Spok-spok on Facebook!

Spok-spok has a brand new fan page on Facebook, to become a fan of Spok-spok, just go to Spok-spok's Facebook!

Here you can connect with other fans and with the people behind Spok-spok, ask us questions, give us suggestions, etc!


And here's another pic of Morot. I'm very happy with how the attachment of the green part turned out. It wasn't as tricky as I feared.

Hugs!

Morot pic!

Here's another peek at the upcoming Spok-spok character. (This is a photoshopped pic of how he will look after some changes)

Meet Morot, he's a good friend of Spok-spok, always curious, and telling lots of jokes that no one really gets.