Funbag Animation Studios, also known as Funbag Studios or Funbag, was a Canadian

animation studio An animation studio is a company producing animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals o ...

headquartered in Ottawa,

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. It was well known for working on animated television series such as ''

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'', '' Freaky Stories'', '' Toad Patrol'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Mole Sisters'', '' The Eggs'', '' For Better or For Worse'', ''Faireez'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' The Wiggles Show''. Funbag provided additional production services on projects such as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Beavis and Butt-head'', '' Rupert'', '' LazyTown'', '' The Oz Kids'', '' The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island'', ''

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'', '' Freaky Stories'', ''

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'', '' Birdz'', '' Ace Ventura: Pet Detective'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Mission Hill'', '' Rainbow Fish'' and ''

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''. On April 29, 2007, the company closed due to a decline in business, and some of the employees at the studio founded New Bike Entertainment to secure Funbag's

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. Funbag also had an office in

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Canadian animation studios Mass media companies established in 1992 Mass media companies disestablished in 2007 Companies based in Ottawa {{animation-studio-stub