The Wiggles, a wildly popular Australian children's music group, sued a small game distributor last year to prevent the board game Yikerz! from being sold in their home country. Do the Wiggles hate all board games, or just Yikerz!, a magnetic game in which players try to place their pieces on the board without attracting other pieces?
Neither, as it turns out. What got the Wiggles' attention was the pouch inside the box which held the magnetic pieces. On that pouch, the word "Wiggles" appears as part of a logo -- because the game's publisher is Wiggles 3D. According to an article in The Telegraph, the lawsuit was recently settled with the game distributor agreeing to repackage the game pieces.
Apparently, Yikerz! was sold in Australia without incident for three years -- about 7,500 copies per year -- before the Wiggles got worked up about it.
Image courtesy of Wiggles 3D
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