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Flanimals is a children's and adults' book series written by comedian Ricky Gervais. The book, illustrated by Rob Steen, features 35 different characters described as species of animal which form an imaginary world.
Some of the most famous Flanimals are the Honk, the Grundit, the Puddloflaj, and the Mernimbler (both adult and child versions). The cover Flanimal is the Grundit. The book is published by Faber and Faber, which has also published the sequels More Flanimals, Flanimals of the Deep and Flanimals: The Day of the Bletchling. Flanimals: Pop Up was published October 2009 by Walker Books in the Uk and March 2010 by Candlewick Press in the US.
Originally ITV had commissioned a television series based on the books, which had a predicted air date of 2009. This has now been scrapped, and a feature film is being made, scheduled for completion in 2011/12.
Several models of different Flanimals are available on the official site.
List of Flanimals
- Blimble Sprent – a fast-moving Flanimal without arms that sprints around everywhere to avoid its destination and dies of exhaustion.
- Blunging – a hadrosaurid-like Flanimal that lives in big family groups.
- Clunge Ambler – an ape-like Flanimal that hugs everything it sees.
- Coddleflop – a mushy puddle which protects itself by flipping on to its head.
- Flemping Bunt-Himmler – a mimic of the Mernimbler, only wider and flatter.
- Frappled Humpdumbler – an octopus-like Flanimal who scrundles along the other.
- Glonk – a reptilian humanoid Flanimal who does absolutely nothing and dies.
- Gum Spudlet – a Flanimal resembling the Coddleflop and is food for the Grundit.
- Grundit – a dopey heavily-built Flanimal with a bump on its head.
- Hemel Sprot – a fast Flanimal that always looks where it's been. It is shown as a green blob, which moves using its two legs/feet. It looks backwards while moving forwards and is the prey of the Sprot Guzzlor.
- Honk – a small Flanimal that sleeps most of the time, waking randomly to emit a loud honk.
- Mernimbler – a furry small Flanimal but if you say it's cute and stroke it will transform into its adult stage
- Adult Mernimbler – an aggressive goblin-like adult stage of the Mernimbler.
- Molf - A flanimal that looks like it is a T rex mixed with a shark it is red and kills sleeb a lot.
- Munge Fuddler – a crab-like Flanimal that 'fuddles' everything it sees.
- Munty Flumple – a dopey optimist that falls in love with anything.
- Offledermis – a Flanimal born inside-out to avoid its own smell and has its heart above its inside-out eyeballs to avoid its own smell.
- Plamglotis – an ape-like Flanimal that swallows its hands to walk.
- Plumboid Doppler – a Flanimal with green eyestalks and a lumpy squint-sack.
- Print – a humanoid Flanimal that dives off things and always lands on its head.
- Puddloflaj – a large water balloon-like Flanimal who is often ridden by the Grundit.
- Sprine Bloat-Trunker – a Flanimal that is created by a splunge pipe in the Sprog and Hemel Sprot recycling factory where it also is recycled.
- Sprog – an aggressive beetroot Flanimal.
- Sprot Guzzlor – a large Flanimal that preys on Hemel Sprots.
- Underblenge – a Flanimal that cannot move because of supposedly irresistible suction on its underside.
- Wobboid Mump – a blind eye in jelly looking for the reason of its existence.
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