There is lots of hidden information that many people don’t know about Club Penguin. Here is some very cool facts about Club Penguin that most people don’t know!
- Club Penguin has close to 1,000 employees
- Screenhog was Club Penguin’s first artist
- Happy77 was Club Penguin’s first writer
- 10% of Club Penguin Membership profits are donated to charity
- The old newspaper design took over 100 hours to make
- Club Penguin launched incomplete
- Club Penguin started with around 10 employees and quickly expanded
- Club Penguin was originally scheduled to launch in 2010
- Club Penguin was redone several times
- Word about Club Penguin quickly spread. They didn’t advertise at all
- Screenhog’s last day at Club Penguin was October 29, 2010
- Rsnail’s favorite part about working at Club Penguin was going out for lunch
- Club Penguin started with a little under 10 employees, but by the end of 2006 had almost 100
- The original penguin in Experimental Penguins was created using a program named Ray Dream, a simple 3D program
- Club Penguin was designed to add and update rooms forever
- Disney loves Club Penguin – they are adding penguins to their theme parks
- Rsnail’s first game made in flash was Ballistic Biscuit, created in 1999
- Gary The Gadget Guy, also known as G, was named after James Bond’s gadget guy “Q”
- All Club Penguin staff members must login from one of the offices around the world for their penguin to work
- Rsnail and Screenhog no longer work for Club Penguin
- Rsnail created all the smilies on Club Penguin
- The Skull Emote was removed due to thousands of kids writing in asking for it to be removed
- In 2005 there was a bug on Club Penguin that allowed you to walk on walls
- When Rsnail was 12 he created a small game with his brother called Orbit Zoids. This was his first game ever
- Rsnail created Hydro Hopper, Sled Racing, Mancala, Find Four, and Puffle Roundup
- Rsnail came up with the idea for Club Penguin while watching the news in 2004
- Even though he no longer works for Club Penguin, Rsnail still keeps in touch with some of the employees
- The Club Penguin Times has a readership of over 1.7 million penguins
- Rsnail had other names for Club Penguin, but the domain names were taken
- 200 different employees respond to Club Penguin’s emails
- Club Penguin has over 150 million registered users
- Club Penguin receives 40,000 emails in a week
- Over 21,000 penguins log into Club Penguin daily
- Screenhog created the Thin Ice theme song
- Since Club Penguin released Puffle Launch for mobile devices more than 100,000 coins have been uploaded via the app
- More than half of children own a toy based on a virtual world like Moshi Monsters and Club Penguin
- Billybob is a multi-millionaire
- The Club Penguin Team must send a personal reply to every email received from a parent or child
- The guy who made the cover art for both Club Penguin Nintendo DS games also directed and storyboarded the Puffle Launch app trailer
- In 2010, more than 3.4 million kids donated more than 12 billion virtual coins to charity
- Club Penguin has more employees than Twitter does
- Club Penguin’s revenue is estimated to be over $50 Million ($50,000,000)
- Lane Merrifield (Billybob) did not excel in post-secondary school
- Lane Merrifield was a C-average student
- Puffle were originally meant to not have mouths when Screenhog designed them, but Billybob and Rsnail convinced him to include them
- When there is a silly or fun bug, Club Penguin calls it a blooper
- Club Penguin was once going to have a cooking themed stage play but it never saw the light of day
- Club Penguin’s domain name accidentally expired in 2011