We will be sharing more updates soon on SKULLY and the revival of the SKULLY Nation.
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Here's the letter in full below: You are receiving this email because you are part of the SKULLY Nation and we are bringing back the SKULLY helmet.
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A letter sent to those who had previously subscribed to the Skully email list, and obtained by TechCrunch, says new company SKULLY Technologies is bringing back the helmet.
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Skully says it is now filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which also means customers likely won't be getting a refund on pre-orders for the $1500 AR helmet Skully was working on.
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Smart bike tool maker Fusar has offered a credit equivalent for the whole amount any Skully customer paid for their AR-1 helmet under what it is calling the Skully Owners Stimulus (SOS) program.
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We are happy to inform you that the assets of SKULLY, Inc.
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In 2016, Skully officially shut down its Silicon Valley headquarters and filed for bankruptcy.
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It's been a long, bumpy road for the Skully augmented reality motorcycle helmet brand.
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In 2013, Marcus Weller started an Indiegogo campaign for a digital helmet known as Skully.
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This comes after TechCrunch got word last September that Skully would be making a comeback.
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Others like Skully and BMW have examples but have yet to have one hit the market.
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This source also told TechCrunch Skully talent has slowly been poached without direction from the management team.
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Skully has raised $14.95 million from two investments and an Indiegogo campaign over the last two years.
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After spending $3 million of his own money, Skully is finally ready to ship the product to consumers.
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Skully FENIX AR helmet, unlike version one, is built with carbon fiber and features an anti-fog visor.
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Skully also has certification from the Department of Transportation, which sets minimum standards for all motorcycle helmets sold.
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Previous to joining Skully, Williams was CFO at a place that knows motorcycles pretty well, Ducati North America.
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Skully has sold thousands of its heads-up display helmets so far but has been troubled with shipping delays.
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That means anyone who paid $1,800 as part of the original Skully crowdfunding campaign will finally receive their helmets.
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It took more than a week for remaining Skully execs to admit to themselves it was time to shut down.
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We'd heard a lot of talk about various entities possibly purchasing the bones of what was left of Skully when it went down in flames last year, but it's not clear if the new SKULLY holds the rights to the former company's IP or how soon it may be offering the new helmets for purchase.
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Skully says it has already started shipping helmets to those early backers, as well as new customers who have placed orders.
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Ivan Contreras, President of the new company SKULLY Technologies, assembled a new leadership team and has located the headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
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"Martin and Andy are great people and an excellent addition to the leadership team," said Skully CEO Marcus Weller in a statement.
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Anonymous sources have confirmed to TechCrunch that Skully co-founders Marcus and Mitch Weller have been kicked out of the company by investors.
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Skully had recently installed a new CEO and just a few months ago was still sending out positive press releases about its product.
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Why Contreras is keeping the Skully name is beyond me, but he says it's because a vast community has grown around the brand.
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The demand for Skully, at about ten times the price of the HELLI, suggests a strong market for a digital helmet in North America.
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But under the leadership of Ivan Contreras, who acquired the assets of Skully in 2017, the helmet is finally shipping to its early backers.
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Both Marcus and Mitch are on the Skully board of directors along with Victor Westerlind from Intel Capital and Nicholas Brathwaite from Walden Riverwood Ventures.
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Given all the drama around Skully, one would think Contreras would want to make a clear distinction between the old company and his new one.
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New leadership is coming to the augmented reality startup Skully whose strikingly cool $1,499 AR-1 motorcycle helmet is continuing to ship to early backers.
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Although there have been a number of public setbacks in the IoT space (especially around crowdfunded hardware — Skully, Coin, etc.), clearly confidence in the space remains.
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BMW's concept isn't totally novel, though: startup Skully makes an augmented reality helmet that you can buy right now for $1,499 with an estimated delivery this summer.
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The photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn spotted a group of children in her own Brooklyn neighborhood playing a game of skully, flicking a bottle cap across the asphalt.
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Skully jumped into the tech scene two years ago after a highly successful Indiegogo campaign for the company's augmented reality motorcycle helmet that lets riders see traffic behind them.
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Recently news broke that one of the more successful consumer products companies to raise funds on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, smart motorcycle helmet maker Skully, was preparing to declare bankruptcy.
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Multiple sources inside Skully confirmed to TechCrunch the startup had run out of money and was trying to sell itself off to a subsidiary of Chinese conglomerate LeECo called LeSport.
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One source we spoke to told us that Skully has only shipped 20 helmets so far, which conflicts with another source who said it was more than that but under 100.
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"[Fichter's] extensive experience within the consumer electronics industry will be invaluable to SKULLY as it broadens its product portfolio and focuses on supply chain optimization," a release from the company details.
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With recent news that Skully is coming back from the dead, and with HELLI trying to build its customer base in Pakistan, both helmets may just hit the shelves around the same time.
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Note, the letter does not explicitly say it will deliver helmets to those who had purchased them from the previous Skully, and it's not clear at this time what "make this right" means.
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Many of 2013's and 2014's most hyped products are finally shipping; while it's too early to tell for most companies, we've seen a few breakout winners (Eero) and losers (Skully) emerge.
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Augmented reality motorcycle helmet startup Skully went bankrupt as the founders allegedly blew cash on personal trips to Hawaii, and spent $13,000 in three days while participating in a startup competition in Las Vegas.
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In just the past two months, we've seen Google grab Kifi, Palantir pick up Silk, Expedia take Trover, Pinterest pull in Fleksy and Highlight, and Postmates nab Famous, while Storehouse, Skully, and Flightcar shut down.
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It seems Skully, the AR helmet company that crashed and burned in July of 2016 after the former CEO Marcus Weller refused to sign a confidentiality deal with investors is trying to make a comeback.
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"The SKULLY executive team is working diligently on closing a round of funding so that we can continue to fulfill our pre-orders and delight our customers," marketing VP Carlos Rodriguez told TechCrunch late Tuesday night.
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Another previous investor, Riverwood Venture Partners, has yet to get back to us on a similar inquiry But maybe Skully can turn things around right before the lights officially go out like they say they are trying to.
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Another source familiar with the matter confirms his story that he brought in the LeSports deal but said Skully was rapidly running out of cash and it was down to the eleventh hour determining if the numbers added up.
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" Hillmann, who was not commenting on Skully specifically, said sudden riches in the business world specifically raise the stakes: "You're running a business, growing a business, responsible for what's right and what's wrong and keeping a company under control.
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While the letter stresses this new SKULLY is different from the now bankrupt company it is based on, it hints of possibly delivering the helmets to those who previously purchased them or contributed to the making of the helmets under the old company.
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Skully customers won't be able to redeem the full amount at one time, but, says Fusar in an open letter on its website, they will have an opportunity to recoup the entire value of the original order over time and the company will only charge customers when their order actually ships.
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I found a few contenders: A motorcycle helmet from Skully with a camera in back and a small peripheral display in front so riders can see what's coming up behind them; eye-tracking technology from a Swedish company called Tobii that let me aim my virtual weapon with just my eyes; an 8,000-pound bionic exoskeleton from a company called Furrion that, according to The Verge, can run up to 20 mph.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat made several paintings in 1980 to 1982 featuring the skully board, remembering playing the game as a child in 1960s Brooklyn. A 2010 PBS documentary, New York Street Games, includes skully. Skully is played by kids in Jonathan Lethem's novel The Fortress of Solitude (Random House, 2003). The Skully Board Killers, a true crime story by Pavle Stanimirovic and Burl Barer is about the New York City street killers Stanimirovic met throughout his criminal life.
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Skully is a brand of motorcycle helmet with a heads-up display and a rear- facing camera.
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Marcus Weller (born July 14, 1984), is an American entrepreneur and inventor of the Skully motorcycle helmet.
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Faithauer later dropped her claims, stating "a reasonable jury [could] conclude that my claims were totally without merit." Skully Helmets Inc was also sued by supplier Flextronics for over $1 million in unpaid inventory expenses. The case was stayed during bankruptcy proceedings, and the assets were sold to Skully Technologies.
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Skully (also called skellies, skelsy, skellzies, scully, skelzy , scummy top, tops or caps but widely known as Skully) is a children's game played on the streets of New York City and other urban areas. Sketched on the street usually in chalk, a skully or skelly board allows a game for two to six players. A sidewalk is sometimes used, offering greater protection from vehicular traffic; however, the asphalt on a typical city street is smoother and provides better game play than a bumpy concrete sidewalk. Game time varies, but a match of two to three players is usually completed in 20 minutes.
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In Skully Pops (2004) Youle depicts mokomokai (ancient preserved heads), as inviting, bright coloured lollies that at the same time are an anathema to eat.
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Weller also served as Skully CEO until July 2016, and the company shut down later the same month. Weller with his brother and co-founder, Mitch Weller, were sued by Isabelle Faithauer, a former executive assistant, for fraudulently using Skully's corporate funds for personal use. The lawsuit was later dropped, and Faithauer gave the following statement: “I worked at Skully, Inc. from May 2014 to December 2015.
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Weller attended Wayne State University and studied psychology. A motorcycle accident inspired him to found Skully in 2013. Marcus now holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Psychology.
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Arvydas Sabonis even said that "My first impression of [the jerseys] was: Wow, this really is a free Lithuania". The skeleton, nicknamed "Skully", was enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame, being the only cartoon character to be enshrined in any sports Hall of Fame. New versions of the Skully jerseys were featured in the following two Olympic Games. To assume the head coach position, American Dan Peterson, then in Italy, was invited but declined.
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Bug-a-Booo has also appeared in a few of the Monica Toy episodes, with one episode under the title Penadinho Toy, starring Bug-a-Booo, Skully, and Vic Vampire.
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Typical skully board as found in New York City The skully field of play, or board, is a large square approximately six feet (2 m) a side. This board is drawn on a flat surface, such as the pavement of a street or playground. At each corner and along the edges of the board are drawn 12 smaller squares, called boxes, of about six inches (15 cm) a side each (see diagram). These boxes are labeled "1" to "12" in a pattern so that the path from one square to the next requires—as much as possible—crossing through a large center square called the skull or skully (hence the name of the game). Boxes "1" and "2" are in opposite corners of the board, as are "3" and "4".
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The assets of Skully Helmets Inc were acquired in 2017 by Ivan and Rafael Contreras, renaming the company Skully Technologies and relocating it to Atlanta, Georgia. The new owners demonstrated a new prototype at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, with plans to begin shipping that summer. The new company also promised to provide a helmet to anyone who had ordered one through the IndieGoGo campaign. The company sent confirmation emails on Friday September 21, 2018 to IndieGoGo campaign supporters that paid for the helmet in 2014.
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The game was one of the most popular street games in New York City and the surrounding areas from the 1950s through the 1980s, but is less popular today. The remnants of spray- painted skully boards may be found on some streets and school yards. At Bronx House Emanuel Summer Camp an over-sized skully board was painted on the basketball court and the game was played with shuffleboard equipment. It is said that the game has existed as long as the crown-rimmed bottle cap, which was invented in 1892.
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Skully is referenced in Notorious B.I.G.'s song titled "Things Done Changed". Skelly is referenced in U-God's verse on Raekwon's song "Knuckleheadz" from the album "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx". Skelly is referenced in Jacqueline Woodson's book Brown Girl Dreaming.
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Jake and the Never Land Pirates is a spin-off television series based on Disney's Peter Pan franchise. Further spin-offs of this show include: Playing With Skully, Jake's Never Land Pirate School, Mama Hook Knows Best!, and Jake's Buccaneer Blast.
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However, there were significant production delays with the helmet including company insider accounts estimating no more than 20 to 100 shipped units as of July 12, 2016. Skully Helmets Inc shut down in July 2016 and was expected to declare bankruptcy shortly afterward. Despite having raised $2.5 million through the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, and an additional $11 million in venture capital from Intel and others, the company was unable to secure additional funding. Former executive assistant, Isabelle Faithauer, sued Skully Helmets Inc and the founders, Marcus and Mitchell Weller, for fraudulently using corporate funds for personal use, though Marcus Weller denied the claims of the lawsuit.
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Skully Thembeni Nxangisa is a South African politician who has been the Free State MEC (Member of the Executive Council) for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) since 28 May 2019. He was elected to the Free State Provincial Legislature in the same month. Nxangisa is a member of the African National Congress.
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After Pooh's (Later Jake's) story, Daisy learned that like Roo (Later Skully), she too has friends in high places, which are the Handy Helpers. Goofy, Donald, and Mickey appear back on stage at the clubhouse. All of them were able to accomplish their tasks. Mickey then tells everyone to yell surprise when Minnie enters the room.
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" He also spoke about the vision that Timberlake had for the album: "I remember walking into the studio, and I'm like, 'So, what's the vibe?' He just raised his hands up like, 'This is the vibe.' And what he had on was a flannel, some Adidas, some jeans. He had his beard and a skully on.
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Métisse is an Irish/African soul/electronica band, formed by former Chapter House member Skully, and Aïda Bredou, a singer/choreographer from Côte d'Ivoire. They formed in Toulouse, France. The band's name is the French word for 'mixture', and its music is a mix of African, Celtic, soul and electronic music. Song lyrics often feature a mixture of Dioula, English and French words.
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Prior to 1862, Catholics is the area near Rhinecliff had to cross the river to attend services at St. Mary's in Rondout.Hasbrouck, Frank, ed. The History of Dutchess County New York, p645, S.A. Mathieu, Poughkeepsie, NY 1909 St.Joseph's was established in 1862 by Rev. Michael J. Skully to serve Irish Catholic families who settled in Rhinecliff to work on the railroad.
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Their last show with the band was on December 29, 2008 in New York City. TJ Penzone has moved on to form "these People", and Rick Penzone is currently part of Color Film along with Glassjaw frontman Daryl Palumbo. Todd and Nick are now part of Cubic Zirconia. Skully has since married and lives in the UK and currently plays for Razorlight.
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Weller invented the Skully AR-1. The AR-1 was to be the first vertically integrated, smart, Heads-Up Display (HUD) helmet for consumers. The HUD system displays at a virtual distance of in front of the rider. The AR-1 was to feature a near 180-degree rear-view camera, turn-by-turn GPS navigation, smartphone pairing and voice control.
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A terrorist force starts an uprising (and inflicts massive damage across an unidentified country, later retconned to Skully Island which is part of the continent of Usea); efforts to defeat these terrorists through conventional means have failed and the situation turns desperate. In response, a mercenary air force is assembled to take the fight against the enemy and free the nation from the terrorist forces.
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Original owner was Lew Skully, from Youngstown, Ohio. The station has switched from talk, to oldies, to Catholic religious and back to oldies since May 27, 2005. Since 2011, WWOW has been operating as Boomer Tunes Radio, "The Music of a Generation" on 1360WOW. 1360WOW has also expanded its sports coverage significantly by carrying the Columbus Blue Jackets and Conneaut Spartans football and boys basketball.
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After her release, Harley meets up with her friend, Mike, a low-level drug dealer, and another man she met earlier named Skully. However, annoyed at Skully's harassment, Harley soon drives him away. She spends her time crashing with Mike and using him as a source for heroin. Eventually, Ilya and Mike get into a fight at a park with Harley watching, and Ilya injures Mike's hand.
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Following the failure of one of these firms, she decided to start her own, and founded LMGPR in 2002. Among others, she helped improve the visibility of FireEye, Inc., Divergent 3D, Bastille Networks, Skully Helmets, Telebit, Concentric, NetManage, Exodus Communications, and NetScaler. LMGPR has also introduced several startups that have been acquired by notable companies, including Filtrbox (Jive Software), Nokenna (Juniper Networks), VivuTV (Polycom), and Rhomobilie (Motorola).
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Lines connect the corners of the central square with the 10 in a middle circle. There were no numbered squares in the corners of the board and the box labeled "1" is below the main area, with an attached "start" oval. The game board described in this paragraph and shown below was in use in New Rochelle, NY circa 1963. Skully Game Board From New Rochelle, NY circa 1963.
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A young woman decides she no longer wants to work as a street walker in Chicago, now she wants to follow her dreams as an actress in Hollywood. The main cast members are Clara/Carla Brown – Juanita Brown, Brisco – Eric Mason, Ben – Rockne Tarkington, Skully – Damu King, Joyce – Diane Holden, Phil – Noah Keen, and Sam – Al Lewis. The writers are Daniel Cady and Howard Ostroff. The movie was filmed in Hollywood.
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Named after a fictional DC Comics supervillain, Chemo first started as a producer and DJ for London Hip Hop group 'Frontline'. He helped found legendary Hip Hop night ‘Speakers Corner’ in Brixton. Off the back of Speakers Corner, Chemo worked on albums for Verb T, Kyza, Kashmere, Manage, Jehst, Triple Darkness and others. In 2007, Chemo produced a compilation album titled Squirrelz With Gunz, alongside World DMC champion DJ Skully.
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27 Originally the intent was to build on the northwest corner of Livingston and Mulberry Streets in Rhinebeck, but the lot was sold when the residents of Rhinecliff objected. In 1863 George Rogers of Tivoli bought six acres in Rhincliff from Charles H. Russell and deeded them to Father Skully for a church and cemetery. The church, built in 1864, was designed by local architect George Veitch, with John Bird as master mason.Smith, James Hadden.
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Kaplan started his career in the Long Island-based The Reunion Show, which split in 2004. He briefly was a member of Action Action before later joining six-man dance-rock ensemble Men, Women & Children. When Andy Burrows left Razorlight, “Skully” took over the drums. Initially it was reported he would be in the band as a touring member until the end of 2009; since then he has become an official member.
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The skeleton dunking a flaming basketball, nicknamed "Skully", was the artist's interpretation of how the Lithuanian team rose from the ashes to victory.Lithuania Tie-Die Basketball Jersey Review The artist's profits would be passed onto the Lithuania national basketball team and a fund for Lithuanian children. The Lithuanians were favourable to the garish shirts because, according to Nelson, it was a great contrast to "all those years of those Soviet colors, nothing but blues and grays".
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Styles of Beyond is an underground hip hop group from the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. The group consists of MCs Ryan Patrick Maginn (Ryu) and Takbir Bashir (Tak), Colton Raisin Fisher (DJ Cheapshot), and producer Jason Rabinowitz (Vin Skully). They have released two LPs, one mixtape and were heavily featured on Mike Shinoda's Fort Minor project in 2005. At one point they were also signed to Shinoda's Machine Shop Recordings label, although they left the label in late 2008.
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U.S. Chaos wrote songs and rehearsed in a basement for months before they played their first concert. In 1981, when their singer English Ron quit, Jack Gibson recruited Alan "Skully" Skolski. In the winter of 1982/1983, U.S. Chaos rehearsed and wrote several songs. In March 1983, they performed for the first time at a party at Aldo's Hideaway in Lyndhurst, New Jersey and many times at CBGB, as well as at City Gardens notably with T.S.O.L, in Trenton, New Jersey.
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The dimensions of the skully board can vary depending upon physical restrictions and neighborhood game play practices. Earlier versions of the board had only 9 boxes, and boards used in the similar games like deadbox (played mainly in Philadelphia) have upwards of 15 boxes. In some layouts, the central area is labeled "MUD"; if your bottle- cap lands in the MUD you lose 3 turns. The game board goes up to 10 which is in a small circle in the middle of the MUD.
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On May 8 Onyx participated in a 4-way match for the NSPW Heavyweight title against champion Kevin Skully, Michael Style and Mathieu St- Jacques. The match was won by St-Jacques. In July the Soa Amin character returned, teaming up with Giovanni to face the team of veteran Sunny War Cloud and Pee-Wee in a losing effort. On August 6, Onyx got another shot at the NSPW Heavyweight title again St-Jacques, once again coming up short in his bid for the championship.
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The term gothabilly was not popularized until the release of a series of international gothabilly compilation albums released by Skully Records in the mid-1990s.Valarie Thorpe: Interview with Ghoultown's Count Lyle, reallyscary.com. Retrieved on April 14, 2009 Occasionally, the Cramps have been associated with gothic rock, primarily because of their use of fetish clothing and outlandish makeup, including heavy, dark eyeliner on both male and female members of the band, which is also popular in the gothic subculture. The Cramps are considered to be equally influential to the psychobilly genre.
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In developing the company, Marcus Weller and Mitchell Weller came up with a great concept for the business and it was a good place to work. After I was let go by the company, I was upset and hired an attorney who filed a lawsuit against Skully, Inc., Marcus Weller, and Mitchell Weller based on my understanding of the facts and circumstances at that time. However, through discovery, I learned that there were many facts, documents, and information that could lead a reasonable jury to conclude that my claims were totally without merit.
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New York artist Greg Speirs wearing the Grateful Dead-inspired "Skully" tie-dyed T-shirt which he designed and became a symbol of Lithuanian basketball Lithuanian basketball players, notably Arvydas Sabonis and Šarūnas Marčiulionis, played for the Soviet Union national basketball team in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. There were four starters from Lithuania who were on the Soviet team. The players were promised that they would be permitted to play on western teams if they won gold, which they did with a 76-63 victory over Yugoslavia. Marčiulionis became the first Soviet player to join the NBA.
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They also headlined their own shows with supporting acts like We Are The Fury. On June 13, 2007, according to a blog posted on their Myspace page, the band separated itself from Warner/Reprise Records citing a lack of distribution of their first album as the major reason they wanted to leave. On November 19, 2008, according to a blog posted by Todd and Nick on Myspace, three had left the band, including Todd, Nick, and David "Skully" Sullivan-Kaplan. The primary reason for the departures was a lack of communication caused by the distance between band members.
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Styles of Beyond has collaborated with SpyTech artists: Lexicon, Sandman, 4-Zone, and Divine Styler. They have also collaborated with: Awol One, The Crystal Method, and Ryu and Tak performed "Points of Authority" live with Linkin Park in 2001 at the House of Blues. On December 17, 2007, it was revealed that DJ Cheapshot and Vin Skully had been chosen and hired to complete the entire score for the upcoming A&E; original series L.A. Gang Unit, which was slated for an April 2008 release, but has yet to be released. DJ Cheapshot opened his own bar called Cheapshot's, which is located in Long Beach, California.
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In 2010, Onyx wrestled mostly for NSPW, starting the year by losing the NWA British Commonwealth Heavyweight title to Adam Pearce on January 23 a title he had defended against Kevin Steen. In late February during the Weekend of Excellence, Onyx wrestled as Soa Amin against Darkko in a match that ended with a double countout, and on the night after Amin won a match against Pauly Platinum. For his next three NSPW appearances, he reverted to his Dru Onyx persona, winning a match against Michael Style on March 20. The month after he teamed up with Kevin Skully to take on James Stone and Michael Style on April 24 (a loss).
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LMGPR, The Loughlin/Michaels Group, is a strategic public relations agency founded in 2002 and based in San Jose, CA. LMGPR provides public relations and communications services to technology-based companies both consumer and business to business, and uses a strategic approach to improve client sales, business development and marketing results. The agency is based in the Silicon Valley and has clients worldwide. The agency's founder and president, Donna Loughlin Michaels, is best known for her successful PR campaigns for companies such as FireEye, KnightScope, Divergent 3D and NetScaler, acquired by Cisco and Citrix, Exodus Communications respectively. Consumer clients have included Triller, Damon Motorcycles, Skully Helmets, Nuviz, Deep Sentinel, AirSelfie and UBITECH.
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The group was later added to the lineup of Linkin Park's 2007 Projekt Revolution tour. After years of touring and releasing records, the members of Styles of Beyond took an extended hiatus to pursue their own ventures. Cheapshot and producer Vin Skully teamed up to form a songwriting duo known as The Math Club, creating music for film and television under the guidance of legendary music supervisor Dave Jordan. Through The Math Club, Cheapshot has participated in creating original songs, beats, and cues for a multitude of movies and television shows, including The Lego Batman Movie, Shazam, Spider- Man: Far From Home, Big Mouth, Always Be My Maybe, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, and Euphoria.
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New York artist Greg Speirs wearing the "Skully" tie-dyed T-shirt which he designed and became a symbol of Lithuanian basketball After Lithuania gained its independence from the USSR, the country announced its withdrawal from the 1992 Olympics due to the lack of any money to sponsor participants. But NBA star Šarūnas Marčiulionis, a native Lithuanian basketball star, wanted to help his native team to compete. His efforts resulted in a call from representatives of the Grateful Dead who set up a meeting with the band members. The band agreed to fund transportation costs for the team (about five thousand dollars) along with Grateful Dead design for the basketball jerseys and shorts for the team to wear in the competition.
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The title character Jake was previously voiced by Colin Ford, and then later by Cameron Boyce, while Izzy was voiced for the first three seasons by Madison Pettis and Cubby was voiced by Jonathan Morgan Heit. The series was created by Disney veteran Bobs Gannaway, whose works include another Disney Junior series, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and films such as Secret of the Wings, The Pirate Fairy, and Planes: Fire & Rescue. The series focuses on a band of young pirates consisting of Jake, Izzy, Cubby, and their parrot Skully, who continuously spend their days competing against Captain Hook and his pirate crew (consisting of Mr. Smee, Sharky and Bones) for treasure. But Jake and his crew beat Hook and his crew, and throw them to the sea.
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Michael Land, who provided much of the music for the first two games, composed the score. The Curse of Monkey Island was the first game in the series to feature voice acting. The primary voice cast consisted of Dominic Armato as Guybrush Threepwood; Alexandra Boyd as Elaine Marley and Son Pirate; Earl Boen as LeChuck; Denny Delk as Murray, Skully, and Father Pirate; Neil Ross as Wally B. Feed; Alan Young as Haggis McMutton; Michael Sorich as Edward Van Helgen and Charles DeGoulash (Ghost Groom); Gregg Berger as Cutthroat Bill; and Leilani Jones Wilmore as the Voodoo Lady. Other voice actors included Kay E. Kuter as Griswold Goodsoup, Tom Kane as Captain René Rottingham and the Flying Welshman, Patrick Pinney as Stan, and Victor Raider-Wexler as Slappy Cromwell and the Snowcone Guy.
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New York artist Greg Speirs wearing the "Skully" tie- dyed T-shirt which he designed and became a symbol of Lithuanian basketball Afterwards, the country celebrated 70 years of Lithuanian basketball, and among the events was a competition featuring two Lithuanian teams, Latvia, Belarus, Finland, and Illinois State University basketball team. The superiority of the Lithuanians, now counting with Sabonis and Marčiulionis, made them handily beat the opponents. Following it, Lithuania national team was invited to compete in the prestigious annual Acropolis Tournament hosted by Greece, along with Italy and France. Lithuanians began the competition shockingly, immediately crushing the EuroBasket 1991 silver medalists Italians 116–94 (at one point leading by 87–49). Though, then they narrowly lost to the host Greece squad 81–83 and after easily defeating the French squad 109–78, took the 2nd place.
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