Toad Juice cocktails in hand, we all partied the night away to celebrate 5 years of success.

Huge thanks goes out to everyone who attended, and an even bigger thanks to the 80 million kids playing around the world.  It’s been an exciting journey and there’s much more to come!

Check out all our photos from the party over on our Facebook page!

Photography - © paulclarke.com

Like any good 5th birthday party there will cake, jelly, ice cream, slides, magicians, music, goodie bags and hopefully the odd tantrum.

It’s been an extraordinary journey, from the brink of bankruptcy in late 2008, to a global brand by 2012 that has generated a quarter of a billion dollars in retail sales.

First Moshi Sketch

A huge number of people have played a part in making Moshi Monsters a phenomenon and we’d like to thank them: parents, licensees, marketing partners, investors, journalists and the Mind Candy team, past and present.  Some of the key unsung heroes of the adventure include Divinia Knowles, Steve Cleverley, Vincent Bechet, Darran Garnham, Ed Relf, Rebecca Newton, Toby Moore and Tom Teichman.

The team back in the early days

…And finally, a huge thanks also to our young fans around the world who love the weird and wonderful world of Moshi Monsters and have been inspired by the characters and stories.

Michael Acton Smith (AKA Mr Moshi)

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So, we gave our friends over at Great Ormond Street Hospital a call to see if it might brighten up a corner of their activity centre to cheer the kids up and they jumped at the chance!

The shiny new mural has made a plain white wall look Moshi-tastic… and the kids love it!

Justine Trumper, Head of Account Management at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity said: “The new Moshi mural is so fun and colourful and looks fantastic in the activity centre. It’s wonderful to see the children’s faces light up when they walk through the door! A huge thank you to everyone at Mind Candy and Ltd Limited for giving us this very special treat.”

 - Victoria Tomlinson, Internal Communications

BEFORE

AFTER

Loads of people swung by to say hi and chat to us about working at Mind Candy! If you were one of those people, or are interested in jobs with us check out – www.mindcandy.com/jobs

In accordance to Mind Candy’s “work hard, play hard” rule, we worked the show floor during the day and the party circuit by night. It was a fantastic show and we look forward to cracking through the enormous pile of applications!

This trip brought together the key decision makers in the Australian entertainment and toy industry. The Moshi team hosted their 2nd Annual Party with a keynote presentation, Poppet, Katsuma some Glumps and a DJ which all added to the Moshi fun and games! We also attend the official Gala Toy Awards night to celebrate with the market winners.

Among the many meetings included a trip to Bulla Dairy Foods, the producer of more than 8,000,000 Moshi dairy and frozen products. Millions of children have enjoyed the healthy eating products in school bags over the past 12 months.

This market continues to see strong growth 3 years after we first launched with some amazing initiatives in 2013. Watch out for some cool new products in toy, publishing, food and live events allowing children to meet their heroes.

Many thanks to ALL our fans on the other side of the world!

- Darran Garnham (Chief Business Development Officer)

L to R: Darran Garnham (Mind Candy), Gail Mitchell (Fusion), Jonathan Busher (Vivid), Sam Ferguson (Mind Candy)

Our HQ is in London but we’ll soon be opening a new office in San Francisco and are very keen to expand the team in both places!

We’ll have a booth in the Career Pavillion at GDC (booth number CP 2316) so do swing by if you’re interested in learning more. Just look out for the team wearing Mind Candy t-shirts and come and say hello!  You can check out our career page here: http://mindcandy.com/jobs

To book a time to chat with us about the roles we have, email jobs@mindcandy.com

We’re also looking out for experienced & creative mobile development teams. To discuss potential projects email GDC2013@mindcandy.com. We’d love to meet you too.

Looking forward to meeting as many people out there as possible!

They opened up Flash files and demonstrated how characters are animated for the game. They charted the progression of Animation at Mind Candy, from simple Flash animations through to more complex trailers and videos. During the talk, the audience asked questions throughout and learnt how working using Agile project management has left the team happily working at a consistent rate, but still in control of their schedule. They also discussed their career paths from student, to freelancer and how to work your way into being at a company like Mind Candy (or with us in the future!)

For more on future events, check out the Animated Exeter website.

- Mark Baker

We are a team of 180 people (mostly based in London) who are passionate about creating inspiring and magical children’s entertainment. It is a great industry, but with hundreds of partners on board, mistakes occasionally happen. On this occasion, our toy partner, Vivid, experienced a production issue which meant that no Snozzle Wobblesons were included in the first batch of packs. As soon as we discovered this, we have been communicating to fans about next steps. Rest assured that Vivid are doing all they possibly can to resolve the issue and get Snozzle on shelves asap (hopefully by the end of March) and we are working closely together with them to make this happen.

In the meantime, fans are invited to ‘Snozzle Saturday’ which is being held in The Entertainer stores across England and Wales on March 16th. Here you can swap any Moshling for a free Snozzle Wobbleson – please check The Entertainer website for your local store and further details nearer the time. You can also get further information from the customer services team at Vivid – support@vividstore.co.uk

I’ll be visiting some of the stores on the day to hand out signed Snozzle Wobblesons and meet Moshi fans (details of locations will go up at the Daily Growl nearer the time)
Snozzle is one of my favourite characters and so from now on March 16th will be officially known within the World of Moshi as Snozzle Wobbleson Day. We’ll celebrate the mysterious and elusive jelly headed monster with all sorts of weird and wonderful Wobbleson related activities.
We appreciate the lengths that our fans go to in support of Moshi Monsters and the passion they feel for the characters and stories. We’re lucky to have you and we’ll do our best to avoid similar mistakes in the future while striving to create extraordinary entertainment for our millions of fans around the world.

All the best
Mr Moshi
(aka Michael Acton Smith)

PS - For fans who can’t make it to the ‘Snozzle Saturday’ swap days on March 16th at any of The Entertainer stores in England & Wales, we have arranged for some extra stores in Scotland & Ireland to also hold  a ’Snozzle Saturday’.  The Snozzle swap days will all take place on 16th March at 10am. Please see the details below of all the extra stores:

• THE GRANITE HOUSE,74 – 76 High Street , Fort William , Highlands , PH33 6AD
• TOYMASTER STEVENS, The Square, Ellon, AB41 9JB
• TOYMASTER JUNNERS, 56 South Street , Elgin, Morayshire, IV30 1JZ
• LITTLE MONSTERS, Callendar Square Shopping Centre, High Street, Falkirk, FK1 1UJ
• THE TOY STATION, 90-92 Main Street, Largs, KA30 8AN
• NAPPY PIN TOYMASTER, 13/17 Commercial Street, Dundee, DD1 3DG
• A1 Toys, Unit A4 , Silverburn Shopping Centre, Barrhead Road, Glasgow, G53 6QR
• Toys Galore, 13 Comelybank Road, Edinburgh, EH4 1DR
• Stewart Miller Toymaster, 3 Conway Square, Newtownards, Co Down, BT23 4DA
• Rodgers Toymaster, 7 Bridge Street, Banbridge, Co Down, BT32 3JL
• Marys of Macroom, 2 Main Street, Macroom, Co Cork
• Ink Spot ToyMaster, Superquickprint, 23 – 31 Castle Street, Hamilton, ML3 6BU
• Banba Toymaster, 48 Mary Street, Dublin 1, Ireland

The big haul (160 iPads in total to be precise) turned out to be – not from the big man himself, but a particularly generous gift from the management team to every single employee at the company to say a big thank you for all their hard work in 2012. It also gave everyone the opportunity to immerse themselves in the tablet gaming space as we push forward into that arena in 2013.

iPad Minis had also found their way into the stockings of our American Mind Candies over the pond creating even more excitement!

Everyone was thrilled with their extra special gifts which were even engraved with a ‘Merry Twistmas 2012′ message on the back!

If you’re keen to work here, we are still looking to grow our amazing team at Mind Candy so please take a look at our recruitment pages for open positions:

http://mindcandy.com/recruitment/

Released back in April 2012, it charted ahead of Madonna and Lostprophets in the UK’s Official Album Chart and now joins the likes of Robbie Williams, Labrinth, Olly Murs and Rihanna who have all had gold UK albums this year too!

For more info on Music Rox check out: http://www.moshimusic.com/

Moshi Monsters Poppet goes to Sony HQ to pickup the gold disk!
L to R: Jason Perry (Head Of Moshi Music) Nicola Tuer (EVP Sony Music) Poppet (Moshi Monster) Greg Lawton (Head of Sony Music Sales) Pete Leggatt (VP Sales Sony Music)

It took an ultra-wide lens to fit all 170 Mind Candies into this years Xmas shot. (See last years below!)

Mind Candy Last Year

Mind Candy This Year

After loading 3 double decker buses full of Mind Candies to our surprise venue, we boarded the HMS Belfast to kick off the party. We had an amazing night with our dancing shoes on and took tons of photos! Looking forward to next year already..!

It’s an exciting time for Mind Candy as we build on our film and television projects for Moshi Monsters. We’re thrilled to announce that Jocelyn Stevenson (Ex Sesame Street and Jim Henson Company) will be taking creative lead on all our film and TV projects, including our Moshi Monsters Movie and Moshi TV!

Jocelyn has a wealth of experience and an amazing background in children’s television! She began on Sesame Street and went on to work as a creator/writer/producer for the Jim Henson Company. Subsequent roles include five years as Chief Creative Officer at Hit Entertainment from 2001 and Creative Director at TT Animation with experience working on hugely successful kids brands including, Fraggle Rock, The Magic Schoolbus, Bob the Builder,The Hoobs, Barney & Friends, Pingu, Mopatop’s Shop and many more!

The Moshi Movie is currently in pre-production so keep your eyes peeled for more details in the coming months.

Moshi TV Studios is now live within MoshiMonsters.com as a member’s feature. Mind Candy is currently building on content with a combination of UGC, in-house produced content including the Moshi TV show and several animated strands. There are also plans to show third party content.

We’re delighted to have Jocelyn come on board and are looking forward to benefitting from her vast experience in the kids TV space!

An evil clown, a unibrowed hunchback, a skeleton, a ‘Crazy Cat Lady’ and more were all seen creeping around the office. With a spooky feast of treats and blood punch (complete with floating eyeballs) the Halloween music played, the pumpkin piñatas were smashed and a few people who passed the office windows were well and truly horrified. Job done!

* Guest written and photographs by Megan Kane, Operations and Creative Assistant * 

The limited edition GOSHI MOSHI tin from our Toy Partner Vivid contains an exclusive metallic blue ‘Moshling’ collection and is available now from high street retailers priced £9.99 with £3 from every tin sold being donated to the charity.

The partnership was marked with a special visit from Mr Moshi and the Monsters last week. Katsuma took a break from life in Monstro City to meet patients and families at the hospital, and was joined by Moshi creator Michael Acton Smith. The children enjoyed face painting, Moshi ‘tattoos’, drawing and baking before meeting their monster idol!

You can get a hold of the limited edition tin from 3 November from The Entertainer, Argos, Toys R Us, Smyths, Amazon, WHSmiths and The Moshi Monsters e-store (http://store.moshimonsters.com/the-goshi-moshi-collectors-tin.html)

The show wouldn’t have been complete without a Mind Candy BLE party. On Wednesday evening we danced the night away to an awesome band after eating plenty of hot dogs, candy floss, popcorn and ice cream cocktails!

Thanks to everyone that came along. Bring on next year!

After a welcome lunch and an afternoon of fantastic presentations from all areas of the business it was off to spruce up for an evening of fun! Dinner was followed by the ‘Golden Furi’ awards and dancing into the early hours.

Friday was a free day to explore the park and get caught up in the Disney magic (and meet Micky and Goofy in person!)

Who knows where next year will take us! Bring on Moshi Con 2013!

Our Moshi Con survival kit

Michael Acton Smith kicks off the Moshi Con presentations

Some of the team at the Moshi Con party!

Our publishing partner Penguin UK won ‘Best Licensed Written, Listening or Learning Range’ for their Moshi Monsters books!

Toy partner Vivid won ‘Best Licensed Toy or Games’ for the Moshi Monsters Toy Range!

….And to top it off, the ‘Best Schoolers/Tween or Teen Licensed Property’ was won by Moshi Monsters!

Congratulations to Vivid and Penguin and all our other partners nominated. Now we are pushing to top it next year too!

Only two British companies were named and Michael Acton Smith and the Mind Candies now join a group of 23 innovative tech start-ups from around the world.

The companies were each elected for their visionary leadership and proven technology in the areas of information technology, telecommunications and new media, life sciences and health, and energy and environment. Technology Pioneers are chosen based on their innovation, potential impact, growth and sustainability, proof of concept and leadership and have previously included the likes of Google, Twitter, Dropbox and Mozilla.

For more info, check out the World Economic Forum’s website!

The magazine, which launched in February 2011, has reached a circulation of 227,958, an increase of over 100% in the last year and a 34% growth since February 2012. The magazine also ranks at number 26 in the ABC Top 100 Magazines – Newstrade and Single Copy Sales (UK/ROI), ahead of Grazia, Weightwatchers Magazine and Men’s Health.

Huge congrats to the Moshi Mag team who continue to do an incredible job :)

* Source – ABC Consumer Magazines Report January to June 2012, released 16^th August 2012

The Honourable Artillery Company grounds in Shoreditch played host to the inaugural Moshlympics as the Mind Candies showed their mettle in an afternoon of competitive races, rounders, footie and Frisbie.

Family and friends joined the fun as the afternoon was topped off with face painting, an exclusive performance from up and coming artists Beatie Wolfe and a delicious BBQ.

After an amazing day the party continued on in to the early hours with cocktails on the Golden Bee roof terrace (and many more sporting feats on the dance floor).

Mind Candies, we salute you.

Last night, hundreds of games industry execs came together to celebrate the Develop Industry Excellence Awards in Brighton.

We were incredibly excited to win the special Grand Prix award which recognised “a blistering period of growth for the children’s online game firm which has broken through as a true mainstream property in the last 18 months.”

We’re really chuffed. Well done Mind Candies and to all the other Develop Award winners!

We’re hugely excited to announce that we’ve acquired games studio Origami Blue to launch our new innovation centre ‘Candy Labs’ down in Brighton.

Origami Blue was set up by ex-Disney Blackrock studios creatives Edd Smith, Mark Knowles-Lee and James Ovnik, who will come on board as full-time Mind Candy employees.

Candy Labs will be a research and development studio that experiments with new ideas to spin up the next wave of ground-breaking entertainment for children. The ideas will be a mix of digital and non-digital entertaiment. Some of the concepts will be acquired from third parties, but most will originate in-house.

Michael and the team have lots of new ideas bubbling away and can’t wait to see them come to life!

Edd Smith

Mark Knowles-Lee

James Ovnik

There we united with some of our LA based Moshi fans to learn HTML and CSS programming. Inspired by Mozilla’s “Summer of Code Party”, this event was hosted by Tara Brown, co-manager of Transmedia L.A, and featured tech professionals to help kids understand programming software. In addition to Moshi Monsters, other sponsors of this event included Microsoft Kodu, Mozilla and many more.

We were blown away by the incredible talent of these kids – Who knows, the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg could have been in the room. This event concluded with a raffled prize ceremony, where some lucky Moshi fans got the chance to win Moshi Monsters goodie bags! The event was a huge success, and we are looking forward to attending again next year.

Photos by – Kent Nichols.

Some teams worked straight through the night while others balanced the experience out with board games, video games and even a little bit of sleep. The event was a massive success producing a total of eighteen minigames built from scratch using Unity3D. The collection of minigames will be released for both iOS and Android devices. If you’d like to take a closer look or follow the on going developments, head over to the Best of British Facebook page

- Guest written by Moo Yu

Japan is home to our new mobile partner GREE so the trip wouldn’t be complete without a stop to say hello and check out their HQ.

The team squeezed in some time for sight seeing and inspiration with a visit to The Sensoji temple (the oldest temple in Japan) arcades, toy shops and a stop at the Pokemon Centre! Darran met with ToysRUs while the others stopped at fellow game developer, Nexon and creative advertiser, Dentsu. (Their HQ is an enormous 48 floors making it the 11th tallest building in Tokyo!)

L to R: Toby Moore (CTO), Ed Relf (CCO/CMO), Divinia Knowles (CFO/COO), Michael Acton Smith (CEO), Darran Garnham (CBDO) outside Sensoji Temple

The Pokemon Centre

Dentsu's building with 48 floors!

The amazing trip concluded with a team retreat by bullet train to Mount Fuji. Decked out in kimonos, they had an inspiring and productive chat about Mind Candy’s on going strategy and also experienced a small earthquake…

The Team Retreat in Mount Fuji

- Guest written by Megan Kane

The new Spanish version is fully supported by native Spanish speaking staff who understand the unique cultural references of the audience and can provide timely and responsive moderations and player support as well as local currency payment options.

We have thousands of Spanish speaking fans around the world so we’re incredibly excited to launch this for them!

….Happy Monstering!

We caught the promo playing on ITV a few times already… check it out!

GREE will be developing two games using the Moshi Monsters brand that will launch later this year and will be available in several languages including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin.

Mobile is a big focus for us, and this GREE deal represents one part of a much larger mobile strategy for Mind Candy. We have an in-house team developing other standalone apps and a mobile version of our desktop game.

We know kids love mobile – our fans ask us about it all the time and we want to create a wide variety of experiences for kids on mobile, not just games but educational apps, music, video and much more.

The Mind Candy Team with GREE

GREE CEO, Yoshikazu Tanaka and Michael Acton Smith colour in our famous wall inside our HQ!

...And then have a game of Street Fighter on our arcade machine

The event brought together CEO’s from the UK’s 100 fastest growing companies including Joseph Joseph (Household Goods), Jack Wills (Fashion Retailer), Wiggle (Online Sports Goods), Low Cost Travel Group (Travel Operator) and Shortlist Media (Magazine/Digital Publisher) among many others.

Following the three inspiring speeches Dominic O’Connell, Business Editor of The Sunday Times led a panel discussion with Richard, Nick and Michael prior to Sir Richard Branson taking to the stage.

It was a fantastic event filled with inspirational people doing what they love. Congratulations to all involved and thanks for having us!

Last Thursday we hosted our Mind Candy bi-weekly invention… a little something we call GAME JAM!

Participants were divided into three teams that used a brilliant and hilarious online service called, ‘Video Game Name Generator’ to select their game name at random.

Selecting the names of the games...

Thus was born: Wondrous Lawn Mower Rider, Future Sewer Studio, and Super Skydiving Showdown - These names haven’t developed into massively popular games in the past  (…hard to believe – I know!)

Luckily we came across them and game magic began. Teams had one hour to bring their game concept to life with or without their computers. (Craft supplies were also welcome for those that are more hands on.)

Working on creating 'Super Skydiving Showdown..'

Craft supplies come out for 'Wonderous Lawn Mower Rider'

Research for 'Future Sewer Studio' begins...

The game results were shared with everyone in our Friday ‘Show and Tell’ session. What bizarre games will we come up with next!?

Super Skydiving Showdown

Wonderous Lawn Mower Rider

Future Sewer Studio

-  Guest written and photography by Megan Kane

It had been over 25 years since Michael had stepped foot inside Danesfield Primary School, the place that inspired him in his early years.

The kids were super excited about the visit – many of them screaming and cheering as Mr Moshi made an appearance in the school playground.

Michael gave an inspirational speech to all of the kids, encouraging them to go for their dreams and do something they loved. He then spent time with the year 6 pupils explaining his journey as an Entrepreneur and answering their many questions. The day ended with the opening of the schools new ICT suite, where they are encouraging kids to be both PC and MAC literate and have facilities including ipads and smart phones.

It was fascinating to see how interested the kids were in business and creating their own ideas – and encouraging to see forward thinking staff opening up these opportunities for the pupils of Danesfield.

Michael hosts the school assembly

Mr Moshi receives a rock star welcome!

Katsuma made a special guest appearance

The year 6 pupils were intrigued by tales of life as an Entrepreneur…

 Michael isn’t the only celebrity in the office though as a few other Mind Candies got to star in the shoot too! In the far, far background yes…but we’re still there! 

The debut album stormed the official UK album charts coming in at number 4 – ahead of iconic music artists including Madonna and Lost Prophets! Achieving a top 5 for a debut album with no radio or TV play is some feat so we’re really proud of our little musical monsters!

To support the album we hosted an exclusive media launch party at the Hard Rock Cafe in London, which was well attended by media, competition winners and celebs including McFly, Sophie Ellis-Bexter, James Bourne and Matt Willis from Busted and Javine Hylton. Zack BinSpin performed a world exclusive and there was lots of fun with more performances, Moshi tattoos, sweeties, candyfloss, a photobooth, the real McNulty pup walking the red carpet and Mr Moshi arriving in this Moshified Mini!

Mr Moshi arrives at The Hard Rock Cafe in the Moshi Mini!

McFly and Mr Moshi at the album launch party

On the day of launch we ran an event at HMV’s flagship store on London’s Oxford street for fans to see Zack perform his single and meet Mr Moshi to get their albums signed. The first 50 fans received goody bags and everyone received sweets and a Moshi mag. Hundreds of fans turned up with some queueing from as early as 5am – now that’s Moshi dedication :)

The big queue of fans outside HMV in Oxford Street, London!

Zack Binspin performing his single

Check out all the music action in this video!

The trip kicked off in San Francisco where management and some Mind Candy staff attended the GDC conference. This bought together gaming pros from all over the world to attend talks, conferences and to do some networking!

Whilst out in the US, the team took an inspiring trip to the Pixar Headquarters…

The Mind Candy Team inside Pixar's Headquarters!

Woody from Toy Story

This was followed by meetings, interviews with some potential new Mind Candies and a little sightseeing around San Francisco!
Michael also gave a talk at Stanford University and had a brilliant tour of the Facebook campus…

Inside Facebook's Headquarters

Next up was LA (aka MoshAngeles) to meet up with the Mind Candy US team in the Santa Monica office. Meetings here, interviews there and an addiction to the DrawSomething app later… it was back to Moshi HQ in London to share the stories!

Mind Candy in LA! (R to L: Brad Schultz, H/O Moshi TV - Divinia Knowles, CFO - Michael Acton Smith, CEO - Katie Gerber, Director, PR North America)

There’s an exciting buzz at Moshi HQ today as word of our partnership with ‘Sony Music Records’ is spreading! We launched our new record label, ‘Moshi Monsters Music’ a while back and are now ready to rock the music scene with our debut album ‘Music Rox!’

The album is available for pre-order online as of today from Amazon.co.uk, Play.com and HMV.co.uk. Physical copies will hit shelves in the UK from April 2^nd and it will be available to download globally on iTunes!

Our music is produced in house by our brilliant Music team, headed up by Jason Perry (Head of Music) alongside Steve Cleverley and Sanj Sen (Writers/Producers). Jason is our resident rock star, having experienced huge international success fronting rock band ‘A’ and producing many number one records for McFly and Busted’s Matt Willis. We’re sure he’ll bring some of his magic from past projects to our very own MonStars! He’ll be working closely with Sony Music who will handle our UK distribution for our forthcoming music releases.

(Left to right: Jason Perry, Head Of Music Mind Candy; Nicola Tuer, EVP Sony Music; Katsuma – Moshi Monster; Nick Gatfield, Chairman and CEO Sony Music; Pete Leggatt, VP Sales Sony Music)

‘Music Rox’ features twelve tracks from our favourite Moshi characters including Dr Strangeglove, Popstar Poppet, Zommer, Big Bad Bill and Sweet Tooth. We’ve also developed some awesome new music characters including, Bobbi SingSong and Zack Binspin! We experimented a lot with the sound of our album and covered all genres from rock to Bollywood, combining catchy tunes and witty lyrics that we hope will appeal to both kids and adults.

We’re hosting an exclusive album launch party at the Hard Rock Café in London at the end of March prior to the album being released on April 2^nd. This will give our musical Monsters their first taste of gooperstardom!

Check out our new lid on the block – Zack BinSpin featuring Blingo The Fox. He’s a Moptop Tweenybop and his hair’s too long!

You can check out all of our other new artists at www.moshimusic.com

 Mini art in the form of monsters, cities, birds, cars, swirls, and rocket ships were to name a few of the fantastic specimens of our handy work. We raised cash for Epilepsy Action too, and a snazzy time lapse video was created from the hours of doodling we put in!

 - Guest written by Megan Kane

- Photography by Megan Kane

Mind Candy came 25th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2012! This prestigious award puts companies through their paces, checking their workplace performance and success based on staff well-being, benefits and management leadership to name a few. Michael and the team were thrilled and partied the night away.

We’ve also won the ‘Highly Commended’ award in the technology category at The Marketing Excellence Awards 2012! We were up against the likes of Microsoft, Siemens and TalkTalk so this a testament to the fantastic Edward Relf – our Chief Marketing Officer and all of his hard work alongside a great team!

Our Head of Moshi Live, Clare Wiggins tells us: “The atmosphere was electric with thousands of amazing Moshi fans bringing along their Moshi collections & favourite toys each day to Bradford.  Each one was greeted by the happy and passionate staff at the Museum, who also shared the Moshi love with their customised t-shirts and bags!  There wasn’t a sad face in the house by the end of each day. So many happy fans from all the free activities and also lots of tired Moshlings for Mum and Dad to tuck up in bed after so much Moshi excitement!”

Here’s some pictures from the event and a brilliant video of Katsuma shaking his hips and tail to show the crowd his best dance moves!

This gave us all fond memories of the treasured items we collected as kids so – we sent James a box of trading cards to help him restore his collection! We were excited to hear that many kids from the town had got involved – The Argus had printed it on their front page and one girl even gave away her own cards to help James! 

Mr Moshi invited James and his brother George along to Moshi HQ so they could see how the game is created and the people behind the monsters….

- Guest written and photography by Megan Kane

…Moshi Monsters won the ‘Toy License of the Year’ award and our Moshlings by Vivid won ‘Collectable Toy Of the Year’ too!

Michael and the team celebrate our win alongside some partners!

In the photos are Innovation First’s CEO Tony Norman, Chief Marketing Officer Joel Carter, Jason and Brad from Moshi TV.

Keen Moshi fans and parents, armed with their favourite Moshi cards/figures/toys had been queuing up for about an hour before we started!

The Moshi Bus crew kept some of the kids occupied by doing some ‘Mash Up’ card trading in the queue.  The highlight of my day was meeting a family visiting from Spain who changed their holiday schedule & made a special detour just so they could get on the Moshi Bus!

Keep your eyes peeled in the next few months for the tour….!

- Written by Akira Cheng

- Written by & photo’s by Megan Kane.

On board, kids will have the chance to draw and colour monsters at the art and craft sessions, enjoy clay buddy modelling and trade Moshi toys and cards. There will also be Moshi giveaways, quizzes and competitions to win Moshi merchandise, including a special “Busling” Topps trading card. You can even browse and buy your favourite Moshi merchandise in the Mobile Moshi Monsters Store at the top of the bus. And if that’s not enough…there’s a slide so that kids can have as much fun getting out as they did going in!

The bus will stay there till December 23^rd with Mr Moshi making a guest appearance on the 18^th for a meet and greet between midday and 3pm.

It will then move on to Manchester’s Trafford Centre where it will park up at The Great Hall entrance car park from Wednesday 28th December until Monday 2nd January.

Keep an eye out as next year it will be touring shopping centre’s and festivals all across the UK! Check out www.moshibus.com for the latest news from the Moshi bus.

The two final contestants Zara and James had to create an online game with the help of Mind Candy. The winner, Zara went for ‘Piggy Panic’ whilst runner up James went for ‘Crazy Cabinet.’

The Mind Candy team put in a lot of hard work and turned the games around in just 2 days.  Some of our favourite screen shots are below!

It was a fantastic turn out with a lot of excitement in the air. The first people in the queue had been there since 9:30am even though the event started at 2pm. Two children in the queue had even been up till midnight the evening before drawing pictures especially for the event!

Thanks to all those who came along.

Want a job? visit our recruitment page or follow @mindcandyjobs on twitter.

The pair made quite the cheeky duo as David grilled Michael on the trials, tribulations and darker moments of becoming a Tech Entrepreneur. They also discussed future plans and Michael’s vision for making Mind Candy one of the first billion dollar businesses to emerge out of London’s Tech scene.

The event proved very popular, pulling in hundreds of people who were keen to hear the Mind Candy story.

Thanks to the team at Glasshouse for hosting a fantastic event and to all those that came along.

Pictures by @paul_clarke

The popular and well respected Glasshouse events are hosted by Judith Clegg (@judithclegg)

Michael and David take to the stage

Deep in chat…

That tequila moment!

The event drew a great crowd