Trivia / Animal Jam

• Cash-Cow Franchise: Animal Jam, despite being more than a decade old, is WildWorks' most famous video game, which resulted in them focusing on the game the most, rewarding it with ads with Detail Hogging Covers, The Merch, and a huge load of regular updates and community stuff, and hiding their other games in a dark corner. They even don't mention their non-Animal Jam games on their official website.^note Well, perhaps Justified, since their previous games were Licensed Games and they might have wanted to be original
• Cowboy Be Bop At His Computer: Sometimes, people who have little knowledge about Animal Jam think that the game was created by National Geographic. Actually, WildWorks created the game with National Geographic supporting.
• Fan Community Nickname: Players of Animal Jam are known as "jammers". WildWorks coined this nickname.
• Follow the Leader: Some mini-games are pretty much following the style of very well-known games:
  • Hedge Hog - Pac-Man
  • Swoopy Eagle - Flappy Bird
  • Fast Foodies - Diner Dash^note Well, the format is different, as you sit behind the counter and serve food to customers who come up in Fast Foodies, but the objective is pretty much the same.
  • Eat 'Em Up' - Feeding Frenzy
  • Sky High - Doodle Jump
  • Fruit Slinger - Angry Birds
  • Gem Breaker - Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move
  • Block Break - Breakout
  • On the topic of mobile games, Animal Jam Jump is styled after Doodle Jump and Dash Tag is styled after Subway Surfers
• The Merch: Animal Jam has a Mount-Everest-sized pile of various merchandise, including school supplies, T-shirts, and jewelry, plush, certificates for membership and online currency, figurines, playsets, Blind Bag Collectables, a licensed guidebook, pajamas, stationary set, costumes, Novelization, Comic-Book Adaptation, and a magazine.
  • There's also an "Animal Jam Box", a subscription box system in a box filled with themed merchandise are sent to people's homes on a monthly basis.
• Short Run in Peru: Animal Jam Play Wild was launched in Canada, Australia and New Zealand months before they made a world-wide release. During that time, people outside those areas got access early by setting their Apple ID locations to those countries.
• Similarly Named Works: Animal Jam is also a name of a song from Cats Don't Dance and a The Jim Henson Company puppet TV show. In fact, the latter only gained notice because of the players of the video game stumbling upon it.
• Unisex Series, Gendered Merchandise: Animal Jam is for both genders, but most of the merchandise are aimed to animal-loving girls, often with Pink Product Ploy.
• Urban Legend of Zelda:
  • There used to be a rumor that if enough animals jumped on the ice patch in the middle of Mt. Shiveer, it would break and everyone who participated would go to a secret room and win something glorious, such as free membership and a mountain of gems, similar to the iceberg tipping rumor in Club Penguin. It wasn't until the Alphas determined in Animal Jam Play Wild that it's nothing more than frozen caverns that have been taken over by phantoms as the result of gaining power from use of dark stones and sludgestones for a very long time. Liza warns the jammers to stay off of the ice and not to jump on it anymore, and used the timer as a warning, but rebellious jammers ignored the situation and continued jumping on it, causing the ice to break quicker than expected.
  Greely: You just couldn't help yourselves, could you...?
  • There was also a similar rumor for the bridge in Coral Canyons. Unlike the ice-breaking rumor, which turned out to be somewhat true, despite the fact the bridge looks more and more broken the more players jump on it to the point where eagles fly away, the bridge doesn't actually break entirely.
  • Now for some Paranoia Fuel. A rumor spread that a player, fman122, hacked naive players by sending "gifts" by Jam-a-grams to random victims. It's likely this is false.
  • When the Diamond Shop opened and diamonds were introduced, a rumor spread that anyone who turns all white and jumps on one of the diamonds on the floor of the Diamond Shop, they'll win 100 diamonds. This phased out, as many players tried and failed.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: In early March of 2022, Spiked Collars have been removed from not only Lucky Clovers and Tiki Trouble seasonal adventures, but also the ever-popular Forgotten Desert adventure in Animal Jam Classic due to the sheer amount of hackers instantly getting the Spiked Collars from hacking the treasure key on the last chest, which caused the economy to break in the first place.