Data Design Interactive/Trivia

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Trivia about Data Design Interactive includes:

  • Screwed by the Lawyers: Billy the Wizard: Rocket Broomstick Racing was originally titled as Barry Hatter: The Sorcerer's Broomstick, but fears of legal action from Warner Bros. and J. K. Rowling's legal team forced DDI to retitle their Harry Potter clone to something less blatant.
  • What Could Have Been: A Wii game based on Connie Talbot's Over The Rainbow album was scheduled to be released in 2009, but no further information was given apart from an announcement from the then-young Talbot to appear in E3 2009 and promote the game.
    • If there's any consolation, what appears to be Full Motion Video snippets of the game did surface on a fan-run channel, a few years after the game was supposed to be released and shortly before Data Design Interactive went bankrupt. Though given how DDI has been viewed as a third-rate Shovelware house of dubious merit, it wasn't such a bad idea after all for the game to be quietly canned, perhaps much to Connie's benefit who was initially being criticised for being an infantile novelty act with "no nuance or depth" by the time the game was announced. A final pre-release build of the game did eventually surface on eBay and was subsequently purchased by video game preservationist Forest of Illusion who uploaded pictures of the disc on Twitter. This was in addition to two videos taken by a DDI employee which showed Talbot herself demonstrating the game at their E3 2009 booth. A disc image of the game was later released on the 22nd of December, 2020. Forest of Illusion also stated on Twitter that the game, while essentially complete, was indeed cancelled due to DDI being unable to secure all the licences for the songs used in the game.
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