Are there websites like clubpenguin but designed for adults?”
WonderWorld to bring online 3-D virtual community to children By Rodney H. Brown A Lawrence tech company plans to use its animated frog to take on the powerhouse animated mouse for the hearts and minds of children online. WonderWorld Entertainment LLC is about to launch a virtual community for children based on the intellectual property behind its children’s television show, “Ribert & Robert’s WonderWorld,” which features an animated frog and a live-action actor in more than 30 public television markets in the U.S. The program has been around since 2005. The virtual community is going to compete head to head with Club Penguin, the largest virtual community for kids in the world, which was bought by The Walt Disney Co. in August 2007 for up to $700 million. Club Penguin launched the same year WonderWorld launched its TV show and has a major head start with a reported 12 million users. But Jamie Norton, WonderWorld’s vice president of business development, says once its massively multipl