Holy Krap! FOX Entertainment’s Blockchain Creative Labs and Dan Harmon Unveil NFTs for Upcoming Animated Comedy Series “KRAPOPOLIS”
Krapopolis.com will start selling utility-focused “Krap Chickens” NFTs on August 11
NFT owners will have token-secured access to exclusive content and private screenings, cast and producer meet-and-greets, merchandise, voting rights, and a first look at future drops.
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dan Harmon, the creative genius behind the hit series “Rick and Morty” and “Community,” and FOX Entertainment’s Web3 media and creative technology company, Blockchain Creative Labs, are thrilled to as KRAP to unveil krapopolis. com, featuring utility-focused, chicken-inspired NFTs ahead of the launch of FOX’s new animated comedy, KRAPOPOLIS. The program’s inaugural collection of “Krap Chickens,” a limited-edition NFT series, will be available for purchase on Thursday, August 11.
Marking the first animated comedy to be hosted on the blockchain, KRAPOPOLIS is set in mythical ancient Greece and tells the story of a dysfunctional family of humans, gods and monsters who try their hand at ruling the world’s first cities. – without trying to kill each other, that is.
Fans of Harmon and the program will have the opportunity to purchase and collect NFT “Krap Chickens” that will unlock exclusive social and utility influence, including digital and real-life experiences in the KRAPOPOLIS universe. In addition to being one of the earliest forms of currency in history, “Krap Chickens” NFTs will give collectors access to the burgeoning ancient digital civilization of KRAPOPOLIS, such as secure access to content and rooms private screenings, entry to Discord channels, invites to meet the cast and producers, KRAPOPOLIS merchandise, series voting rights, and first-look exclusivity on upcoming NFT releases.
Krapopolis.com will drop 10,420 “Krap chickens” in total. Why 10,420? Because that’s about the number of seconds it would take a chicken to run a marathon, obviously. Each NFT minted will be unique, produced and illustrated by KRAPOPOLIS animators and generated from a wide range of attributes with varying degrees of rarity. All NFT artwork will come directly from content that appears in the program.
“In addition to being one of the most groundbreaking storytellers in the business, Dan is a master at cultivating fan engagement and building community among viewers,” said Blockchain CEO Scott Greenberg. Creative Labs and co-founder and CEO of Bento Box Entertainment. “This first collection of NFT KRAPOPOLIS, and the utility they will provide, represent the first beginnings of how Dan and other creators can leverage Web3 to open the door and bring audiences closer to their content like never before.”
Slated to premiere on FOX in 2023 and created by Harmon, KRAPOPOLIS features the voices of Emmy Award winner Hannah Waddingham (“Ted Lasso”), Richard Ayoade (“The IT Crowd”), Matt Berry (“What We Do in The Shadows”), Pam Murphy (“Mapleworth Murders”) and Duncan Trussell (“The Midnight Gospel”). KRAPOPOLIS is produced by FOX Entertainment’s Emmy Award-winning animation studio, Bento Box Entertainment. The program is wholly owned by FOX Entertainment. Jordan Young serves as executive producer/showrunner, working under Harmon’s supervision and managing the day-to-day operations of the series.
ABOUT DAN HARMON
Writer, producer, creator, and actor Dan Harmon is the Emmy-winning creator/executive producer of the comedy series “Community,” co-creator/executive producer of Adult Swim’s “Rick & Morty,” and creator and executive producer of FOX’s KRAPOPOLIS. . “Rick & Morty” premiered in December 2013 and quickly became a ratings hit, breaking records as the No. 1 comedy in key demos and earning back-to-back Emmy wins for Outstanding Animated Program. . In 2018, Adult Swim renewed the series for 70 new episodes. “Community,” which ran for five seasons on NBC and a sixth on Yahoo, earned multiple Emmy nominations, Critics’ Choice Awards and other accolades. In 2014, Harmon starred in the documentary “Harmontown,” which chronicled his live podcast tour of the same name, and in 2015 he produced the Oscar-nominated animated feature “Anomalisa.” Harmon’s projects currently in various stages of production include “Little Demon” (FX), “Strange Planet” (Apple TV+), and the final season of “Rick & Morty.”
ABOUT BLOCKCHAIN CREATIVE LABORATORIES
Blockchain Creative Labs (BCL), a business and creative unit formed in 2021 by FOX Entertainment and its Emmy-winning animation studio, Bento Box Entertainment, provides content creators, intellectual property owners and advertising partners with solutions an end-to-end blockchain computing ecosystem to create, launch, manage, and sell non-fungible token (NFT) content and experiences, and fungible tokens, as well as digital goods and assets. BCL also manages a $100 million creator fund, created by FOX Entertainment and Bento Box, which identifies growth opportunities in the NFT space.
Daniel Pickett
AFi’s founder and editor, Daniel “Julius Marx” Pickett, has been around toys his entire life. The first line he ever collected was Mego’s World’s Greatest Superhero line in the 70s. He’s been surrounded by collectibles ever since. In 1999 he was baffled by a lack of information and news about some of his favorite lines of toys he collected. Since he couldn’t find the information, he decided to search for it himself, thinking that other people might also be interested in the same news. He started writing a weekly column on the toy industry and an action figure for a toy news site and within a year he tripled the site’s daily traffic with his updates, reviews and features. of products. He has established relationships with all the major toy manufacturers and many sculptors, painters and mold makers. He has turned his hobby into a global expertise that the industry has embraced. In 2004 he teamed up with his toy buddy Jason “ToyOtter” Geyer and they started their own website www.ActionFigureInsider.com. Daniel has been quoted both in the industry and in the mass media. Over the years, Daniel and AFi have been sought after as experts in the field. Daniel has been featured regularly on “Attack of the Show” on the G4 Network as a top contributor to their “Mint On Card” segment, and our homepage has been linked to USA’s “Pop Candy” blog twice. Today. Daniel’s content has also been featured on Bloomberg News, MSNBC.com, Time.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, CNN.com, AssociatedPress.com Wired.com, Fark.com, Boing-Boing, Gizmodo .com, Ain’t It Cool News, the official Star Wars blog, Geekologie, G4, CNet, and Toy Fare magazine, among many others. He has consulted on toy lines, books, documentaries and TV shows. But it all sounds really cocky and ‘tootin’ his own horn’ – basically it’s that Daniel loves toys and LOVES talking about them.
