Genius Brands International and Fat Red Couch Launch First Mobile App for Thomas Edison's Secret Lab

BEVERLY HILLS, CA--(Marketwired - November 18, 2015) - Genius Brands International, Inc. ("GBI") (OTCQB: GNUS), a global brand management company dedicated to providing entertaining and enriching 'content with a purpose' for toddlers to tweens, and interactive media publisher FatRedCouch are launching the first mobile app for GBI's new animated children's series, Thomas Edison's Secret Lab.

The Thomas Edison's Secret Lab app captures all of the excitement of scientific experimentation and discovery while encouraging kids to use their imaginations and creativity to investigate, explore and unlock scientific wonders. Featuring a self-contained play environment offering real experiments that can be easily performed at home, games, an interactive inventor library to learn about the greatest inventors of all times and a screening room presenting episodes from the series. The new Thomas Edison's Secret Lab mobile app is available for iOS and Android shows kids that science can be a blast!

"As kids are discovering the fun of Thomas Edison's Secret Lab on Netflix, Comcast Xfinity and public TV stations across the country and in 60 international territories, we also wanted to provide a playful way for kids to experience the series on their handheld devices," said GBI's President of Global Consumer Products Stone Newman. "FatRedCouch did a great job of combining all of the exciting elements of Thomas Edison's Secret Lab into an entertaining and playful interactive app that engages kids and involves them in the series as members of the Secret Lab Kids' Club."

"GBI's premise and development of Thomas Edison's Secret Lab unlocked the creative imaginations of our own development team," added FatRedCouch Founder and CEO Nicole Lundeen. "When you open the secret lab of Thomas Edison, there are no limits to the activities and content you can offer."

The Thomas Edison's Secret Lab mobile app kicks off when the Secret Lab Kids, led by 12-year-old prodigy Angie, crack the secret coded message left behind by genius creator Thomas Edison, opening the door to the inventor's secret laboratory as well as the discovery of a virtual version of Edison and his nearly completed robot, Von Bolt. Mobile app users venture inside the Secret Lab to play with interactive laboratory equipment and discover amazing science experiments and projects that can be conducted in their own home. Moving on to the Library, the app features an interactive animated gallery of famous Scientists and Inventors, sharing interesting factoids from their backgrounds and their work, discoveries and amazing inventions with app users. Demonstrating that science is as fun as it is exciting, the app also offers three (3) wacky games -- Honey Bee Spree which has the Secret Lab Kids help their bee friend pollinate flowers; Kafloooey Ka-Splat -- cranks up the kaloogalator to splat the Secret Lab Kids with Kafloooey!; and Von Bolt's Circuit Switch -- which has users connect the circuits to light up the light bulbs in this flip-tastic challenge!