Apollo’s Pad

Apollo’s Pad is a new daily puppet web series set in disco-throwback night club.

Apollo’s Pad is a new daily puppet web series that launched last week. The series is aimed at young adults and revolves around a night club run that’s home to “questionable patrons that include wannabe gangstas and ‘ladies’ with penchants for alcohol and prescription drugs,” and is produced by UK children’s entertainment and intellectual property group Galleon Holdings.

Interestingly, Apollo’s Pad started out as an animated property; the original concept behind the site was to feature animated characters in music videos to help record labels promote their back catalogs (each character in Apollo’s Pad was originally intended to represent a different musical genre), but at some point in the past few months they obviously decided to add puppets to the mix. I suspect production costs were probably a factor, but that’s just idle speculation.

Despite just launching last week, there are already twelve episodes of Apollo’s Pad available. It’s hard to imagine they’ll be able to keep up a daily pace over the long term, but the quality of the episodes so far is really, really good. The puppets seen in the series were created by The Grogs (see previous post). No word on the puppeteer cast, but presumably it’s by the Grog’s usual top-notch Canadian crew that also does Nanalan’ and Mr. Meaty.