Rupert and the Toymaker's Party Rupert and the Toymaker's Party Rupert and the Toymaker's Party is a video game developed by Martin Walker and published by Quicksilva in 1985. It was developed for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The game is based on Rupert Bear, the British cartoon and comics strip character created in 1920 by the British artist Mary Tourtel. In this platform arcade game the player takes the role of Rupert the Bear and the mission is to get to a party in the Toymaker's castle, to meet his friends. According to the story line of this adventure, Rupert has made himself
Rupert Bear video starring Rupert called "Rupert and the Frog Song". The short film, produced by McCartney won the British Academy Award. Tourtel's home was in Canterbury in Kent, and the Rupert Bear Museum, part of the Museum of Canterbury, has collections that cover much of the history of Rupert and his friends, as well as Tourtel and other illustrators. The museum is geared toward families and those interested in the general history of Rupert. On 31 October 2005, UK Media Group Entertainment Rights (which was later bought by Boomerang Media and then DreamWorks Animation) purchased a majority interest in the Rupert