Original Ardeth Bay and Jonathan Carnahan’s Pops! Revealed Exclusively in the Fast-Paced Match-3 Game, along with Evelyn Carnahan, Rick O’Connell and More Iconic Characters
AUGUST 2, 2021 - SAN FRANCISCO - N3TWORK, a games, media, and technology company at the intersection of entertainment and community, brings characters from the 1999 Universal Pictures action thriller, The Mummy, to the match-3 mobile game Funko Pop! Blitz for a limited-time crossover event. Funko funatics won’t want to miss the introduction of never-before-seen Ardeth Bay and Jonathan Carnahan Funko Pops!, both exclusively available to collect in Funko Pop! Blitz.
This week, players can find ancient Egyptian riches and mystical artifacts with the iconic cast of characters from The Mummy, both living and undead. Join characters Ardeth Bay, Jonathan Carnahan, Evelyn Carnahan and Rick O’Connell in a battle to defeat the immortal Imhotep.
During the duration of the event, players will find the game board transformed into a Treasure Room. Within lies the Key to Hamunaptra, hidden beneath the sand. Players will need to match character heads on the board to reveal and collect the Key as they unlock all The Mummy characters for their virtual Funko Pop! collections. Completing all stages unlocks the Event Exclusive Pop! - Rick O’Connell. Players can improve their chances of finding the Key to Hamunaptra by equipping The Mummy characters for an extra boost during the event.
The Mummy event will run from Wednesday, August 4 at 5 p.m. PDT until Tuesday, August 10 at 5 p.m. PDT. Funko Pop! Blitz is free to play and can be downloaded today via the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad and Google Play Store for Android devices.
Funko Pop! Blitz is the official Funko Pop! match-3 puzzle game featuring Pop! versions of lovable characters across multiple iconic franchises. Each week, Funko Pop! Blitz celebrates pop culture with a new collection of digital Funko Pops! Each character comes with its own unique Super move to blast the board and power up, earning rewards. The game is available now on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play for Android devices. For more information, follow us on Instagram @funkopopblitz, Twitter @funkpopblitz, Facebook @funkopopblitz or visit https://www.funkopopblitz.com/
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About N3TWORK
N3TWORK is a new type of games, media, and technology company at the intersection of entertainment and community. N3TWORK is backed by a variety of investors including Blue Planet Software, Eniac Ventures, Floodgate, Griffin Gaming Partners, Galaxy Digital Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Korea Investment Partners, Ocean Road and Table Management. The company’s flagship title Legendary: Game of Heroes, an innovative mobile fantasy puzzle RPG, has established new standards in live service and community engagement. N3TWORK’s Scale Platform was announced in 2019 and will provide mobile app developers an opportunity to scale their businesses by providing user acquisition technology, expertise and capital. For more information on N3TWORK visit: www.n3twork.com.
About Universal Games and Digital Platforms
Universal’s Games and Digital Platforms group leverages the vast portfolio of IP and characters from NBCUniversal. The Games and Digital Platforms group is a business unit of Universal Brand Development, which is chartered with globally expanding the company's intellectual properties, franchises, characters and stories through innovative physical and digital products, content, and consumer experiences. The company's extensive portfolio includes properties created by Universal Pictures, Illumination, DreamWorks Animation and NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. Universal Brand Development is part of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. www.universalbranddevelopment.com.
About The Mummy
Written and directed by Stephen Sommers, The Mummy is a rousing, suspenseful and horrifying epic based on Universal Pictures’ classic 1932 film.
Dashing legionnaire Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) and Beni (Kevin J. O’Connor), his weasel of a companion, stumble upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in midst of a battle in 1923—3,000 years after Imhotep has suffered a fate worse than death.
Some years later, as O’Connell languishes in prison awaiting an almost certain execution, he finds that his knowledge of the exact location of Hamunaptra becomes a bargaining tool to save his life. The legendary riches buried beneath the sands of Hamunaptra have become an obsession with both treasure-hunters and archaeologists, and O’Connell finds himself in an unlikely alliance with the beautiful, yet clumsy Egyptologist Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) and her ne’er-do-well brother, Jonathan (John Hannah). The trio leave Cairo for a journey which will take them down the Nile, across the treacherous expanse of the Sahara and to an encounter with a malevolent force with power beyond imagination….
Along the way, they discover that a group of American scavengers are on the same mission. Not even Ardeth Bay (Oded Fehr), the leader of a group of mysterious warriors sworn to protect the sacred burial grounds from the rebirth of Imhotep, can stand in their way as the scavengers’ search for hidden riches leads to the unearthing of the curse.
The Mummy is produced by James Jacks and Sean Daniel.
