Globi Globi Globi is a Swiss cartoon character occasionally referred to as Switzerland's Mickey Mouse. He is pictured as an anthropomorphic blue parrot with a yellow beak wearing a black beret and a pair of red and black checkered trousers. He was created by the Swiss cartoonist Robert Lips, as an advertising character for the Swiss department store Globus in 1932 for the company's 25th anniversary. He was originally planned to be called "Kimbukku", but later renamed Globi after the local Basel German "(Baseldytsch)" dialect word for the department store that created him. He initially appeared in a cartoon strip called
Cartoon Orbit for Orbit until 2003, when he began working on other Cartoon Network interactive projects. Lisa Furlong Jones, Sharon Karleskint Sharp, and Robert Cass created content and wrote copy for Cartoon Orbit, while Noel Saabye and Brian Hilling provided art and animation. The site was registered in May 2000, with the beta phase ending in September of that year. The original name was to be "Cartooniverse", but this was changed because the copyright was held by someone else. This name can be seen in early Flash animation and screenshots. Cartoon Orbit was first built using parts of Communities.com's "Passport" software (not