Why is it Club PENGUIN?

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by chinsetakout

Chinsetakout here!!

I have some very cool news about how Club Penguin was started! Click more for all the info:

This is what rsnail had to say about why he picked penguins:

Why penguins? The answer usually surprises people. I needed a simple character that I could animate for an experimental project. Looking around my desk, I saw an old Far Side comic that I clipped from a newspaper. This comic showed a penguin slipping on a banana peel. The idea for a waddling penguin with a white background was born.

Here is the newspaper comic that pretty much started Club Penguin:

cpb1 Why is it Club PENGUIN?

Sweet right?

-Chinsetakout

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8 Responses to “Why is it Club PENGUIN?”

  1. chinsetakout, on May 11th, 2009 at 3:07 pm Said:

    Imagine if that newspaper comic was never made! 8O There might not have been Club Penguin! It might have been Club Hippo or some other animal 8O
    -Chinsetakout

  2. Penguitt, on May 11th, 2009 at 3:14 pm Said:

    I wouldnt like Club Hippo! :( Club Penguin is what started my idea of making penguins my favorite animal!! Thats newspaper article came a LOOOOONG way from what CP is like today!
    (CPC MOD)

  3. zoozach, on May 11th, 2009 at 4:21 pm Said:

    hi penguitt email me when u get the chance my phone broke
    anyway this is pretty cool (cpc super mod)

  4. Slippey50833, on May 11th, 2009 at 4:47 pm Said:

    Thats cool how it started, im gad it wasnt Club Hippo!

  5. Penguitt, on May 12th, 2009 at 10:07 am Said:

    Me too! What if it was elephant and hippo!!!! Thats wouldnt be pretty! LOL :D
    (CPC MOD)

  6. Cca/Jett, on May 12th, 2009 at 10:53 pm Said:

    or Club Puffin

  7. hockeysocks, on May 14th, 2009 at 9:27 am Said:

    i think im going to cry! lol

  8. Gumdropgirl2, on May 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm Said:

    OMG who would like club hippo? Club Dog! Nah Um Club Fruit!

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