Ludorum has sold its pre-school train-based animation "Chuggington" to Disney Channel for its Playhouse Disney programming block in the U.S. The 52-episode series will launch in spring 2010."Chuggington" has been sold to 145 territories worldwide including the U.K. (BBC's CBeebies), Germany (Super-RTL), France (TF1), Australia (ABC) and Canada (Treehouse), where it is already aired. An all-rights agreement with Fuji Television in Japan sees the series launch in the summer.
Learning Curve Brands, a subsidiary of RC2 Corp., holds the global master toy license and will launch product lines worldwide in 2010.
Ludorum has started production on the second season of "Chuggington," which has already been acquired by the BBC for the U.K.
