60 Fun Facts About Angry Birds

Which Finnish company developed the original Angry Birds game?

Rovio had made 51 games for other publishers before Angry Birds became its own hit franchise.

What have the green pigs stolen from the birds in the original game?

The pigs hide inside structures of wood, glass and stone, and the birds are launched at them one at a time.

What device do players use to launch the birds?

Designers tried a swing first because the slingshot seemed too obvious, but testers understood it instantly.

In which year was the original Angry Birds released for mobile devices?

It soft-launched in Finland on December 1 and went worldwide on iOS ten days later.

Which 2009 Flash game inspired the physics-based gameplay of Angry Birds?

The visual concept came first, from a designer's sketch of angry-eyebrowed birds attacking colour-coded structures.

Which designer's sketch of stylised wingless birds gave the game its characters?

He says the pigs came from drawings he made at age ten, though a more topical explanation is widely believed.

What real-world event is widely believed to have inspired making the enemies pigs?

Rovio only realised the birds needed an enemy after building the prototype.

What was the name of the first episode in the original iOS release?

It had three chapters of 21 levels each; Mighty Hoax arrived as the first free update in February 2010.

Which special bird from 'Ham 'Em High' can clear any uncompleted level once per hour?

It became the game's first paid in-app purchase, and a Game of Thrones star later voiced the character in the movie.

What is the maximum star rating a player can earn on a level?

Stars depend on score, which rewards finishing with birds to spare, and finding golden eggs unlocks bonus stages.

Approximately how many days did Angry Birds spend at number one on the App Store's paid chart, a record?

Angry Birds Rio's 23 days at the top ranked ninth on the same list.

Rovio said the game had been downloaded how many times by its first anniversary in December 2010?

Roughly 12 million of those were on iOS and 10 million on Android.

What was the 2022 remake of the original game called at launch?

It rebuilt the 2012 version in Unity with no microtransactions, then was renamed Red's First Flight on iOS in 2023.

Under what hashtag did fans campaign for the relisting of the delisted original games?

Rovio blamed software rot and expired licences for pulling the early titles from stores in 2019.

What colour is Chuck, the fast bird?

In the movie he is voiced by Josh Gad, who lost his voice from talking so high and fast that he needed physical therapy.

What does Bomb, the black bird, do?

The film gives him intermittent explosive disorder; his first deliberate explosion stops the pig king's fleet of planes.

Which small orange bird can inflate to a massive size?

Bubbles first appeared in Angry Birds Seasons and joined the original game in the 'Birdday Party' update.

Which green bird has boomerang-like abilities?

In the movie he and the inflating orange bird are voiced by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox of the YouTube duo Smosh.

Who voices Red in The Angry Birds Movie?

Sudeikis improvised lines to make Red more sympathetic than a simple hothead.

In the 2016 film, Red is sentenced to what after snapping at a customer?

The class is run by Matilda, a reformed anger convict voiced by Maya Rudolph, and is where he meets Chuck and Bomb.

What is the name of the pig leader in the movies, known to his subjects as King Mudbeard?

Bill Hader voices him; his clumsy assistant Ross is voiced by Tony Hale.

Which Game of Thrones actor voices Bird Island's flying protector in the films?

Sean Penn is in the cast too, grunting as the enormous bird Terence.

Which country singer voices Earl, a pig musician, in the first film?

Charli XCX also has a cameo as the turquoise bird Willow.

Which studio distributed The Angry Birds Movie in 2016?

Rovio funded the film itself; the third movie moves to Paramount in December 2026.

Roughly how much did The Angry Birds Movie gross worldwide?

That made it the highest-grossing Finnish film ever and, at the time, the second-biggest video game adaptation.

Who voices Zeta, the villain of The Angry Birds Movie 2?

Zeta turns out to be the abandoned fiancee of Bird Island's flying protector, and her assistant Debbie is their daughter.

Where does Zeta launch her lava-filled ice balls from in the sequel?

The threat forces the birds and pigs into a truce, a first for the franchise.

Silver, Red's love interest in the sequel, is the sister of which bird?

Rachel Bloom voices her; she is an engineering student who first deems Red incompatible at speed dating.

Which director of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack helmed The Angry Birds Movie 2?

Critics found the sequel an improvement, and its 73% on Rotten Tomatoes was a record for a video game film at the time.

Angry Birds Space, released in 2012, was promoted with help from which organisation?

Astronaut Donald Pettit demonstrated microgravity with the characters aboard the International Space Station.

What new square-shaped character did Angry Birds Space introduce?

It freezes nearby blocks and pigs when detonated, handy for the game's planet gravity fields.

At which landmark did Rovio and T-Mobile erect a 300-foot bird launcher for the 2012 zero-gravity game?

The 300-foot contraption held a 35-foot red bird to mimic the game's launcher.

In Angry Birds Star Wars, which character does Red portray?

Chuck is Han Solo with a blaster and Bomb is Obi-Wan using the Force.

Which company published the console ports of Angry Birds Star Wars in 2013?

Pricing the console versions at $49.99 against $2.99 on mobile caused a backlash.

Bad Piggies, the 2012 spin-off, has players doing what?

It was Rovio's first spin-off, built in Unity, and reached 100 million downloads.

Angry Birds Rio was a tie-in with an animated film from which studio?

Instead of pigs, players rescue caged exotic birds and fight the cockatoo Nigel and his marmosets.

What innovation did Angry Birds Rio bring to the series?

Players fight the villainous cockatoo Nigel and Mauro, leader of the marmosets.

The 2015 sequel was soft-launched in Canada with what working title?

The full release added spells and randomly dealt bird cards, plus a competitive Arena mode.

The Seasons game was originally released in October 2010 under what name?

It grew to 29 themed episodes, from Trick or Treat to the Viking-themed Ragnahog in 2016.

Which Japanese company acquired Rovio in 2023?

The deal was worth about $776 million and led to Angry Birds characters appearing in Sonic Dash.

Rovio was founded in 2003 under what original name?

Its three founders won a Nokia-sponsored mobile game contest with 'King of the Cabbage World'.

In which Finnish city is Rovio headquartered?

It moved there from Helsinki in 2016; the first official Angry Birds shop opened in Helsinki on 11 November 2011 at 11:11 a.m.

Where did the first official Angry Birds Land theme area open in 2012?

An unlicensed launch-the-plush attraction had already opened at Window of the World in Changsha, China, in 2011.

What was the franchise's first animated series, which premiered in 2013?

Its 52-episode first season began with 'Chuck Time' and was distributed through a channel inside the games.

Which Premier League club put the Angry Birds logo on its shirt sleeve from 2017?

Everton stars including Wayne Rooney also appeared in the YouTube series Angry Birds BirLd Cup.

Which Finnish Formula One driver raced with an Angry Birds-themed helmet in 2012?

Rovio also sponsored the Lotus F1 Team that year, and Räikkönen wore an Angry Birds Space cap.

A puck-wielding character designed with Rovio was the official mascot of which 2012 sporting event?

Finland and Sweden co-hosted that tournament, and the mascot was designed with Rovio.

Leaks in 2014 showed which agencies used Angry Birds as a 'leaky app' to gather user data?

Hackers responded by defacing Rovio's site as 'Spying Birds' via a DNS hijack.

How much did Sega pay to acquire Rovio in 2023?

A 2024 crossover put the birds into Sonic Dash and Sonic Forces: Speed Battle, and Sonic elements into Angry Birds 2 and Dream Blast.

Under what new name did the 2022 remake of the original game survive on the App Store after being renamed in 2023?

Rovio Classics: Angry Birds was pulled from Google Play because it was outranking the studio's newer games in search results.

Which studio was announced as distributor of The Angry Birds Movie 3, slated for December 2026?

DNEG Animation and Sega Sammy are producing without Sony, which distributed the first two films.

Piggy Tales, released in 2014, told the pigs' stories in which animation style?

Angry Birds Stella followed later that year, and Netflix picked up all three shows as 23 compilations in 2017.

Which channel premiered Real Angry Birds, a nature show inspired by the game, in 2015?

The same month Rovio launched the Rocket Science Show with NASA explaining the planets.

In Angry Birds: Summer Madness (2022), who is the teenage birds' summer-camp teacher?

The Netflix series follows Red, Stella, Bomb and Chuck; it was originally due in 2021.

Angry Birds Mystery Island premiered in 2024 on which streaming platform?

It follows a new group of Hatchlings trying to survive on an uncharted island.

Which comics publisher launched Angry Birds Comics in June 2014, written by Paul Tobin?

Rovio's print output also included a 2011 cookbook, Bad Piggies: Egg Recipes, and a National Geographic tie-in for Angry Birds Space.

Which Finnish drinks company launched Angry Birds soft drinks in flavours like Tropic and Paradise in 2012?

Later additions were Lagoon (pear-apple) and Space Comet (orange-cola).

Rovio and NASA opened an Angry Birds attraction in June 2013 at which Florida site?

A second Space Encounter later opened at Space Center Houston, and Angry Birds World opened in Doha in 2019.

Rovio built its Angry Birds Playground preschool programme with which academic partner?

It followed the Finnish national curriculum; a spin-off, Fun Academy, was co-founded in 2015 by Rovio's former 'Mighty Eagle' Peter Vesterbacka.

'Angry Birds Yoga', a five-part essay using the game to explain Vaishnava yoga, came from which movement?

Written by Giridhari Dasa in Brazil, it earned a delighted tweet from Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka.