Diary of a Wimpy Kid (DOAWK) Iceberg Cheat Sheet

Entry Explanation
There have been 5 Wimpy KidTier 1 The three original movies that are fan favo
movies.
Movies controversial Long Haul reboot, and an upcoming (at the time of writing this) Disne
New Rodrick Hate reboot.
When The Long Haul movie was announced, one the biggest critiques was the looks o
The Parade Balloons There have been 2 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons made to promote the bo
old Baby Gibson is, because no matter how much time passes the baby never see
Baby Gibson
Greg speculating that Baby Gibson could be 32 years old. This character has beco
Jeff Kinney's Tweets Jeff Kinney has a twitter where he tweets out previews of his books, promotional mat
Jeff Kinney's son's popular Jeff Kinney's son has a tiktok that has become popular because of his collaberations w
tiktok
Capital letter hell in the later In a lot of later books, capital letters that were once only used for emphasis becam
Each book starting from
books almost every word. Luckily
the sunset gradient and thethefontusasage has lowered
on the cover has an since The Deep
ice texture. End Ball ha
Wrecking
Meltdown Have a unique In Rodrick Rules, Greg is invited to Rowley's Grandfather's birthday party, who Gre
Bampy Jefferson and the titular Wrecking Ball. Deep End has the pool, the spine as pool tiles, and t
texture in Rodrick live to next year. In Awesome Friendly Kid it's revealed the grandfather (who Rowl
Rules
did indeed pass away within aTier year.2
Jeff Kinney has several interviews full of behind the scenes info and trivia on the b
Jeff interviews
DOAWK was going to be for and DOAWK Jeff'swas
thinking process.
originally meant to be for adults, a sort of modern day "The Wonder
adults However, Jeff's publisher
Several aspects of DOAWK toldishim
basedto consider
on Jeff's making
life, fromit for
the children which
characters Jeff agre
representin
DOAWK is based on Jeff's life There are two Movie Diaries, the first version having several editions after the rela
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Movie members to several events in DOAWK also happening to him during his life.
second
There are and2 third
editionsWimpy KidDo
of the films. These Book,
it Yourself booksafeature behind the
book featuring scenes
many Wimpy infoKid
on
Books
DIY Books well as teaching the movie making process to kids.
as blank pages to write your own diary. The second edition is expanded and includ
Mrs. Jefferson had 2 In the first movie, Mrs. Jefferson is played by Robert Capron's (the actor of Rowley
activities.
actresses the thirdofshe's
nature playedit's
the comic, Bronwen
easy to Smith
guess that it's referencing the Family Circus comic
What Lil' Cutie References
Family Circus is similarly
Poptropica is a children's mmorpg sappy and formulaic
designed byas well
Jeff as having
Kinney. The the
gamesame
hasone pan
feature
Poptropica
Mumkey Jones' DOAWK based on the Wimpy Kid franchise and has also hosted many advertisments for th
Mumkey Jones was a popular youtuber who made several videos based on Wimpy Kid
Videos This popular theory states that Greg Heffley is a sociopath as he shares many of t
Greg is a sociopath
the
Thedisorder.
texture ofIt the
hascovers
inspiredwasmany memes
originally and fanfics.
a smooth texture, but starting with Old Sch
Texture change on the covers
gained a rough "snake skin" texture for unknown reasons.
Tier 3
Rowley has closed his mouth 5 times (3 officially) in the series. Twice in the webco
Closed mouth Rowley
in
In Cabin Fever,
The Third The Third
Wheel, Wheel,that
it's revealed andGreg
Hardwas
Luck.born 3 weeks prematurely and wa
Greg was born prematurely In both editions of the DIY books there are exclusive comics made by Greg and Ro
7 ounces at birth.
Exclusive DIY Book Comics some made by 3rd parties such as the other comics made for the school newspap
There's a special
official Joshie Cheese Touch Edition of the first book made for the anniversary
comic.
Cheese Touch Edition
The edition doesn't change anything except The Cheese is now colored in yellow.
Gay/Bi/Trans allegory A popular theory is the books has an unintentional allegory that Greg is gay/bi/trans
Pop culture references in The books and movies have included several pop culture references over the year
AdventureDOAWK
Time reference in games,
werewolf, ThehasHunger Games,
black hair, andHarry
plays Potter, and much
guitar. This much
character more.
can be seen as a referen
Awesome Friendly Adventure DOAWK
the vampire from Adventure Time, who also can turn into a wolf,Due
started out as a webcomic on Jeff's website Funbrain. hasto this hair,
black the wean
DOAWK came from a
called the Funbrain book/edition. The webcomic includes several pages, some diff
webcomic
Webcomic exclusive There are several characters in the webcomics
characters, and many other changes not seen inthat
thehaven't been
final book introduced into th
releases
characters are even major characters that were fused into others or simply
In funbrain, Sweetie has a completely different design that makes his species written out. a litt
Sweetie Design Change
clear. Sweetie
The movies hadis several
meant to be a yorkie.
changes made,For some reason
including makinghis design
some was changed
characters more m f
Changes made to the movies story, combining elements of different books together, and various others.
In the second movie instead of watching The Muddy Hand like in the book, Greg a
The Foot
watch a cheesy horror movie called The Foot.
Joshie Says For the movies, one of Joshie's songs was made into a real song, while the song never
Greg's crush
Rodrick's popularity list
on Heather In
In the
the first
thirdmovie,
movie,first book,isand
Rodrick the awebcomic
given crush onthere are scenes
Heather that
Hills that shows
isn't Greg's
in any po
of the
Hills webcomic. This change was possibly made to progress the plot as Rodrick's band
In the movies there are several exclusive characters, most are minor roles but the
Movie Exlusive Characters wrecks Heather's party.
play major roles or are prominent in some way.
 The first movie has an exclusive character named Angie Steadman who teaches G
Angie Steadman Rowley
Ben Segaltheisins and outs
another of middle
movie school.
exclusive She isn't
character whoinisthe
themovie too often,
lead singer but is D
of Loded in
to be notable
presumably and even
Rodrick's appears in
best friend. the finale.
He gives
Ben Segal anywhere else in the movies and was most Rodrick advice
likely either for theby
forgotten band
the and talks t
writers/dir
Holly's younger sister scenes.
few cut scenes. The little sister, however is seen in the webcomic version of the bo
has a drawing by Greg. Making for 4
Tier an interesting element where one of the charac
Greg vs. Anne Frank Rap Epic Rap Battles of History is a popular Youtube channel featuring rap battles betwee
Wrecking Battle
Ball references Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball is notable to be the first book in a long time to
multiple past exclusive
Wrecking Ball's books books.
For some These
reason,includesomeThe Meltdown,
stores Cabin Fever,
carry copies of Wreckingand Awesome
Ball with aFriendly
sticker Kid.
that rea
sticker There
laughterareguaranteed".
several easter Why eggs
thishidden
is doneinisHard Luck, these were used for a contest
unknown.
Hard Luck Easter Eggs winner gets theofestimation
Plot elements of the amount
the first 8 books can be foundof eggs in right, they willwebcomic,
the Funbrain win the next bookw
which
Webcomic references in the If someone won and who they were is unknown.
all the early stories. It could be argued the reason why so many of the books after
books
Kinney's Sketchbooks turned
Jeff out badly
Kinney has postedwas because
many of his Jeffsketchbooks
ran out of elements
both online from
andthe webcomic
in the Wimpy thatKid Mocou
The webcomics and Jeff's sketchbooks include many cut or rewritten jokes. The m
Cut or rewritten jokes The
Behind the scenes pictures onesMovie
coming Diaries
from thefeature many behind
webcomic, includingtheascenes
joke about images tax from the movies,
evasion, among othersshow
were made as well as trailers and some sets. There are
The Movie Diaries and DVD/Blu Rays feature multiple cut scenes that were remov also many behind the sce
from the movies
Cut scenes from the movies found online as well.
movies. In the case of the DVD/Blue Rays a lot of the cut scenes were reworked in
the Rodrick Rules book complete with an actor for Leland. The scene was probabl
extras.
Leland movie scene
storytelling
Greg, Rowley, purposes,
and Chirag but was reworked
duking it out ininto an extra
a laser taking This
tag arena. placescene
someseems
point inbeto h
Chirag in The Long Haul All 4 of the live action Wimpy Kid movies have alternate endings with unique foota
early on as the only image given was a drawing done by Jeff and there's no known
Alternate Endings dialouge, all 4 endings are included as DVD extras. It's unknown if these alternate
cut ideas for the movies that were filmed then rewritten or if they were just made fo
Plainview is based on a real of Plainville. Due to this, a lotTier of people5 mix up the two locations and call the Plainv
place books and movies Plainville.
Poptropica's
Rowley isexclusive page One
Jeff's fave of the
In a few collectible
interviews, items
Jeff statedin the Wimpy
Rowley was Kidhis
islands
favorite featured
characterin Poptropica
which was isone oneo
Jeff still character
owns the ladybug reasons
inspection whyand hecomparison
made the Awesomefrom the MovieFriendly Kid series.
Diary, the phone itself is actually a prop
phone movie and still is in mint condition.
Rodrick writes "of a Wimpy When you compare Rodrick's handwriting to the "of a Wimpy Kid" on the cover, it's
Kid" on
Voice every
acted Deepcover
End Rodrick wrote that on the covers. This has also been confirmed by a few interview
commercial On youtube and twitter a commercial for The Deep End was posted featuring full v
Greg's height Jeff Kinney tweeted that a library in Iceland had a height chart featuring Greg on it
Wimpy Kid Parodies There
There have
have beenbeen several
several Wimpy
pieces of Kidofficial
parodiesWimpy overKidthemerch,
years,including
includingstickers,
ones made m
Wimpy Kid Merch planners, and shirts.
DOAWK board games Some interesting pieces of DOAWK merch include board games, such as a chees
Mcdonald's Advertising Therethan
other havethey been are 2 Mcdonald's
shorter thanpromotions
the actual ones,for Wimpy
however Kid.reports
One forshowthe UKthatinthey
2016in
Exclusive Mcdonald's Books scenes from the officially released books tied together
Old School was meant to be a However the status of this is unknown as Meltdown seemingly undoes a lot of the to make a theme (for exam
series reboot during the in
continuity OldtheSchool
seriesera withbooks.
returning characters, references to past books, and De
Meltdown is the series reboot following up from the events
canon and how they are connected. of Wrecking Ball.
This is an easy way to streamline the reboots
Multiple Timelines of the continuity without keeping it all in one timeline.
continuous with each other. This Tieridea
6 was scrapped beginning with The Meltdown
Scrapped non
Potential continous
scrapped Theplan possibly
Howeverdue duetotopoor criticism
the critical of the
failure ofchoice.
The Long Haul movie, this potentially planned
Getaway movie adaptation adaptation of The Getaway's story
In several of the books Greg mentions his was scrapped.
large family, using all the members he m
Greg's family tree could make multiple family trees for Greg's family.
The Pig's name is Junior Jeff tweeted
Manny's toysout a "Diary ofball,
in Wrecking a Wimpy
runningKid
in mystery"
the Noah's where he revealed
Ark scene that
in Deep in the
End, andS
Easter eggs of The Pig exclusive Deep End Poster.
Greg appears in 2 PSAs There
thoughhave
it canbeen 2 PSAs featuring
be considered that theGreg
peopleHeffley. The first
who were ableistoa break
radio PSA for Lifelo
into Google P
Wrecking Ball leaks
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The gone from the community, thus the lack of leaks.
Breakout After the release of Wrecking Ball's simplistic teaser of a Ball and Chain with Greg
Newspaper exclusive DOAWK
art Some newspaper interviews or writings include exclusive art by Jeff including art o
DOAWK Flash Games DOAWK
Ben became has her
hadboyfriend.
several flash
Forgames
some over thethis
reason years, including
storyline was ones made cut
completely for the
fro
Ben Fielders giving Holly a bit of a lesser role in the story.
Considering that Angie is missing from this movie and Dog Days, it's safe to assum
Angie moved out the one
Since in who movedBrandi
the books out and Holly
is a boy moved into her
character, her name
old home.
could be considered non c
Beardo Kids' names
Long Haul Movie Diary's books.
of movies. The comic stars a character named Bob who has to save his house fro
exclusive comic eating worms. Interestingly the comic is done in Rowley's style and not Greg's.
Musical In 2016, a musical production began based on the books with some elements from
number of how many books he Tier
has7planned to make before, this number has stay
20 books
Cabin is Jeff's
Fever limit
Christmas far.
Production seems to be troubled as it started with him saying it was a movie, then
Meltdown era books take short
Special place for TV,summer.
in the before becoming
While notsilent on during
out yet the project, most
the time of likely
writing, dueit'stosafe
cancellation.
to assum
place
First character to be shown The first character to be shown with blood in the series is Chad Middleton in books
in one of the 4 seasons will take place in fall and then the cycle could potentially repeat for all future Hard
Awesomewith bloodKid in DIY similar
Friendly Greg took a photo
drawings of writing
and him having
to the a books
bloodythat
nose.
came years later, suggesting Jeff wa
Mini Awesome Book making itJefferson
Friendly Kid Rowley a series was
sincegiven
at least
out 2011.
to Scholastic Book Club members or teacher advi
Book for World Book Day.
Awesome Friendly Kid made In an interview Jeff confirmed he started the Awesome Friendly Kid stories so he c
soCharacter
Jeff can write
designother stories stories
changes featuresfeaturing
rougher the characters
drawings donewithout worrying about
on a sketchpad, thefew
the first lineraity
booksofhavethe Wimpy
smoothe K
Canonover thecharacters
ethnic years in digitally,
and latinoand newer books
characters. Usinghave
lastsimilar
namesdrawings
from the with
bookslonger limbs guess
one could for the what
characte
ethn
DOAWK characters could potentially be.
A common theory is that Mr. Jefferson is black, however all Wimpy Kid media whe
Mr. Jefferson is black
Alternate country book colored
Differentincountries
show thehavecharacter being
their own white skinned.
adaptations This hasn't
of Wimpy Kid, somestopped the belief
featuring differt
covers the covers
indicator ofand differentthat
something front page drawings.
happens in the story. The picture on the iceburg is one
Japanese covers featuring Wrecking Ball's cover in Japan.
Latin translation cover The Latin cover has another totally unique design, with Greg in a Latin robe, with l
Angie's hinted relationship the director was planning a deeper Tier 8friendship with the two or even a relationship th
with Rowley itthe
past the first
Igdoof movie.from a college student to a high schooler, then finally a middle
character
Igdoof the comic became Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Rowley's Revenge Jeff
There Kinney tweeted
are several that he cameos
potential once considered calling The
in The Getaway, Ugly Truth
including Larry"Rowley's Rev
Larkin, Chirag
Cameos
All theinHeffleys
The Getaway
are Patty.
can mimic fonts, and remembers all the way up to when he was in the womb. Fina
unknowing geniuses learn perfect
There's a theorySpanish just from
that Greg listening due
has Autisim, to a to
CDhisduring
dislikea of
road trip and
looking intocan build ae
people's
DOAWK's Autisim
cover Allegory talking,inhis
uses an early found poor of
a page social skills, and where
the webcomic his dislike
Gregofiscertain
waiting textures.
for the bus stop, suggestin
design for Greg might have been planned at one point for the first
In an interview with Jeff Kinney he stated he loved the musical book but wasandcut may
out ateven
the last
prefe
Jeff's opinon on the musical works.
DOAWK easter egg in The tell which book it is. Though the end cover is orange, meaning it's any book releas
COVID was Avengers
included in Deep Double Down. Jeff confirmed that he was inspired by the COVID lockdown to writ
In an interview,
SportsEnd's
bookplot
has been where Greg's family
In an interview, are stuck
Jeff stated in his grandma's
he always wanted tobasement.
write a book about sports, but cou
planned for a while out how to do it until recently.
Greg is still thinking about Even though Holly broke Greg's heart, Greg still draws her in several scenes inclu
Holly chart
Despite and his idea
Holly's of how he
popularity withwould
fans grow
and her up being a major character in the movies,
Hard Holly
Luckhas
was only 1 line
meant to be one
One spoken
theory is line
thatin Hard
the books.
Luck was meant to be the final book as it wraps up elemen
Greg was going to move in 2 different neighborhoods.and
the final book school life, his home life, Butused alllast
at the thatminute,
was leftJeff
of the webcomics.
changed his mind and wrote
Wrecking Ball ending of Wrecking Ball.
Tier 9
Big Nate
Hard Luckreferences Igdoof
was written by a In a 1993goes
A theory comic,
thatNate
Hardholds
Luckup a notebook
was written bywith 3 stickers
a ghost writer,on it, is
this one of to
due which being
the book
ghost writer place with the rest of the series both tonally and storytelling wise.
Greg bootlegs The r/LodedDiper community has had 3 different sightings of bootleg merchandise
DroptheChair stopped capital about the criticism and was looking into decreasing the amount. This exchange ca
letter
Chirag hasn't hell up since inside
shown books joke
sincethatCabinDrop helped
Fever, withor the
caused
cameotheinstop
TheofGetaway
"capital letter hell". considered a
only being
Cabin
The amount ofFever
times Greg's cameo.
If one counts the amount of times Greg has been in detention, he has been in ther
been in detention times.
In the credits of the movies, each band member in Loded Diper is named. They ar
Loded Diper Bandmate names (movieIn a kidsexclusive
magazine, singer character),
Fregley is givenChris (the
the full bassist),
name Alan and Bill. Whether this nam
Fregley.
Alan Fregley
Holly's name is intentionally Jeff
In anorinterview,
not is unknown.
Jeff confirmed that Holly's name is an illeteration to help show how
an alliteration rich she is.
and he always called girls stinky poos. Greg also never mentions Bryce liking girls
Bryce is gay mentioning
popular as he thatis he's popular
because with
of his the ladies.
relation to Joshie and the reason why Greg hates
Bryce is related to Joshie include his association with Bryce and
same name. Book 16 (final title not yet revealed visa versa.as of the writing of this) was going
Early names for the books Field Day.
subtitle has been around since day 1 and is so small and easy to miss that most p
Greg Heffley's Journal know
Before thefirst
the bookofeven
reveal Hardhas a subtitle.
Luck's title, many rumored names appeared, including L
Hard Luck's rumored names Flipped Out, Spring Bummer,
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: My Last during the time period that there would and SchoolonlyDillema
be 5 books in the series. Funnily enou
Day cover rumor predates Old School by many years.
Jeff knows about fanfiction In an interview, Jeff is asked if he knows about his fan's fanfics about Greg's future
DOAWK meme signed by Ben Tier 10
Shaprio signed up
Lucas Cruikshank A member of the r/LodedDiper community was able to get Ben Shaprio to sign a W
for the movies Lucas Cruikshank is the actor who played the once popular Fred character on You
Chirag's trail of tears Chirag's
Diary O atrail of tears
Wimpy Wean is aisshort video
a series of made
Scots to promote the
translations formovies. It features
the books. excl
These trans
Diary
The O a behind
reason Wimpy Manny's
Wean notably hard to
super macho find,
and but increadibly
manly. funny be
Jeff felt it would duefunny
to theforstrange
a threetranslation.
year old to be walkin
name Poochie
What Precious such a macho name.
reference to the Fred Basset comic strip. A now obscure, long running comic strip
references dog.
The cover designer's blog The designer for the covers has had two blogs that share increadible behind the sc
Early cover
resemble concepts
early cover In the designer's blogs, he shared his process of making the Wimpy Kid cover, inc
concepts Both Japan's and France's cover resemble early cover concepts. France shares th
Coveredition
Special color theories
exclusive There have been many out there cover color theories. The first is that the spine co
items
Special leather edition of Special editions of the books come with special items with the book. For example
DOAWK There has been a special leather release of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, why these have
10 year goal In
In aanReddit AMA,Jeff
interview, Jeff stated
stated he
he had a 10 year
planned goal for
the book writing
to be thewebcomic,
like the series and when
wherethos
it's
DOAWK was going to be just
with over 1000 pages. His publisher told him to consider splitting it into seperate b
1 book
The other cancelled special agreed to.publically announced the Cabin Fever Christmas Special, another animated
While Jeff
Purple equation On the cover designer's blog, he posted a trip behind the scenes on how the cover for
Wimpy Kid meets the pope The first copy of the Latin translation of Diary of a Wimpy Kid was handed to the p
Why Greg will never grow up In a newspaper interview written during the production of The Ugly Truth, Jeff told
Greg's depressing future In an interview, Jeff stated that he believed that Greg's adult life would be depress
heat Sheet
on
nal movies that are fan favorites, the
he time of writing this) Disney animated
gest critiques was the looks of the new Rodrick actor not looking anything like the old actor or as good. Ironically the new Rodrick ac
oons made to promote the books and movies (footage of the first and second).
e passes the baby never seems to age, with
old. This character has become somewhat
f his books, promotional material, interviews, and tours of his bookstore and his trips.
ecause of his collaberations with his father.
ly used for emphasis became used for
nce The Deep
e texture. End Ball has bolts, cracks,
Wrecking
her's birthday party, who
he spine as pool tiles, Greg
and the doubts will
letters as
d the grandfather (who Rowley calls Bampy)

enes info and trivia on the books, movies,

f modern day "The Wonder Years".
mt for
the children which
characters Jeff agreed
representing histo.family
everal editions after the
to him during his life. relases of the
efeaturing
behind the scenes info on the
many Wimpy Kid activitiesmoviesas as
well
dition is expanded and includes more
apron's (the actor of Rowley) mom, while in
ing the Family Circus comic strip. The
as
nney.having
The the
gamesame
hasone panel2format
featured islands as Lil'
d many advertisments for the series.
al videos based on Wimpy Kid, the most famous being one that introduces the Greg is a sociopath theory.
path as he shares many of the symptoms of
ure, but starting with Old School the covers
ons.
e series. Twice in the webcomic, and once
weeks prematurely and was only 5 pounds
omics made by Greg and Rowley and even
ade for the school newspaper and an
ok made for the anniversary of it's release.
se is now colored in yellow.
ory that Greg is gay/bi/trans due to his hate on things untraditionally masculine, Greg's dislike of Rowley's open feminine attitude, a
ure references over the years, from video
much more.
ter can be seen as a reference to Marceline
Funbrain.
nto a wolf,Due
hasto this hair,
black the webcomic
and playsisthe
often
es several pages, some different jokes and
ven't
nal been
book introduced into the books, some
releases
or simply written out. a little bit more
that makes his species
on
inghis design
some was changed
characters more for theinbooks.
major the
and various others.
and like in the book, Greg and Rowley
al song, while the song never seems to play in the movie it can be found easily on Jeff's website and youtube. It was possibly cut as th
scenes that
Hills that shows
isn't Greg's
in any popularity
of the books orlist
theand the order of who's on it. You can take the time to recreate the list if you paused the mov
s the plot as Rodrick's band accidently
most are minor roles but there are a few that
ie Steadman who teaches Greg and
he
themovie too often,
lead singer but is Diper
of Loded in enough
and scenes
vice for theby
r forgotten band
the and talks to him or
writers/director in had
a lotaof
webcomic version of the books and even
ent where one of the characters that was
featuring rap battles between 2 characters, sometimes fictional and sometimes real people. A parody of the videos featuring a rap b
he first book in a long time to reference older
d
ngAwesome
Ball with aFriendly
sticker Kid.
that reads "Lots of
ese were used for a contest where if the
they willwebcomic,
Funbrain win the next bookwas
which signed by Jeff.of
the source
so many of the books after Hard Luck
from
ne andthe webcomic
in the Wimpy that could be
Kid Movie reused.
Diaries. His sketchbooks are full of early drawings and concepts for the stories/books. However his
cut or rewritten jokes. The most infamous
ages
ut tax from the movies,
evasion, showing how scenes
among others.
e also many behind the
cut scenes that were removed scenesfrom
photos
the
cut scenes were reworked into movie
and. The scene was probably cut for
aking placescene
rena. This someseems
point inbetween the first
to have been cut
e endings with unique footage and
by Jeff and there's no known records of a
s unknown if these alternate endings were
n or if they were just made for fun.
locations and call the Plainview of the

eatured in Poptropica
character which was isoneoneofofthe
Greg's
main journal pages. Reading it shows a page not seen in any of the books, showcasing a story
s.
phone itself is actually a prop from the third
Wimpy Kid" on the cover, it's clear that
onfirmed by a few interviews.
d was posted featuring full voice acting for several characters including Greg, Rodrick, Manny, Susan, and Frank.
ht chart featuring Greg on it so kids could compare their own height to their favorite characters. The height chart places Greg a
years,including
merch, includingstickers,
ones made by sticker
magnents, companies, MAD magazine, and more.
school

ard games, such as a cheese touch game and some Wimpy Kid editions of Mad Libs. There's even been a life size version of th
Kid. One forshow
ver reports the UK
thatinthey
2016include
and one for Australia in 2019. Both had a unique advertisment made featuring new animations of G
some
to make a theme (for example house pets).
emingly undoes a lot of the decisions made
ences to past books, and Deep End
ay to streamline the reboots or make sense

eginning with The Meltdown era books,

ovie, this potentially planned sequel
using all the members he mentioned one

re scene
rk he revealed that
in Deep in the
End, andSpanish translation, The Pig is given the name Junior. However some comments say the name is on
on a Target

irst istoa break

able radio PSA for Lifelong
into Google Play Literacy features Greg narrating an event about his life then advertising to read The Last Straw i
Books were

a Ball and Chain with Greg's hair, a fake leak was posted of the then upcoming book. The book's stylistic cover and inside pag
 ve art by Jeff including art of himself in the Wimpy Kid artstyle and Greg graduating.
including
yline was ones made cut
completely for the
frommovies. A few of these games are saved on Flashpoint for those wanting to play, but sadly the gam
the books,
Dog Days, it's safe to assume that she was
home.
e could be considered non canon to the
o has to save his house from giant man
y's style and not Greg's.
ks with some elements from the movies. The musical featured exclusive songs, chracters, and even some exclusive plot chang
efore, this number has stayed consistent so
saying it was a movie, then an animated
st
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writing,dueit'stosafe
cancellation.
to assume the next book
s is Chad Middleton in books.
y repeat for all future Hard Luck, which
ars later, suggesting Jeff was thinking about
ub members or teacher advisors in the UK
Friendly Kid stories so he can write other
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s hasn't
py Kid, somestopped the belief
featuring though.
different colors for
icture on the iceburg is one example,

h Greg in a Latin robe, with leaves on his head, and he is holding a scroll. The drawings on the cover and the back are also on s
two or even a relationship that never made
chooler, then finally a middle schooler and

he Ugly Truth
ncluding Larry"Rowley's Revenge"
Larkin, Chirag, and and
Corny's, would have featured Rowley stomping on the manhole cover Greg pops out of for the bo
n he was in the womb. Finally, Manny can
gke
a of
road trip and
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people's small house.
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for the bus stop, suggesting that scene
kmusical
but wasandcut may
out ateven
the last minute.
prefer it to his own
meaning it's any book released before
the COVID lockdown to write the scenes
ent.
a book about sports, but could never figure
her in several scenes including his love
ajor character in the movies, she only has
book as it wraps up elements of Greg's
he webcomics.
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elling wise.
ngs of bootleg merchandise featuring strange Greg designs.
e amount. This exchange caused a small
pital
way letter hell". considered a potential
only being
tention, he has been in there at least 16
ed Diper is named. They are Rodrick, Ben
and Bill. Whether this name is official from
Fregley.
lleteration to help show how popular and
r mentions Bryce liking girls back, only
he reason why Greg hates Joshie could
he writing of this) was going to be called
nd easy to miss that most people don't even
ames appeared, including Life Stress,
s in the series. Funnily enough, the black

s fanfics about Greg's future and he answered that he hadn't read many but was interested in checking them out. This was ask

get Ben Shaprio to sign a Wimpy Kid meme after a class speech.
pular Fred character on Youtube. In a video he explained that he signed up for both the original movies and The Long Haul mo
sthe
formovies. It features
the books. exclusive scenes
These translations are of Chirag's advice for dealing with bullies, including hiding and crossdressing.
range
a threetranslation.
year old to be walking around with
re, long running comic strip that also stars a

are increadible behind the scenes pictures with both the books, movies, and even the making of the parade balloon.
ng the Wimpy Kid cover, including photos of early cover concepts and the mindset behind the cover's design.
concepts. France shares the blue pen ink of the near final book cover (which was briefly used for the webcomic). Japan share
The first is that the spine color and cover color of two books ends up eventually making another book's cover, as seen here. An
with the book. For example Hard Luck and Wrecking Ball, came with a door hanger, Ugly Truth came with a CD and a Zoo We
Wimpy Kid, why these have been made is unknown.
ting thewebcomic,
ike the series and when
wherethose 10 years
it's just 1 bookare up he will consider retiring. This AMA took place in 2016, so it's unknown if Jeff has chan
er splitting it into seperate books which Jeff
as Special, another animated special he was working on stayed mostly hidden except for a brief mention in a Reddit AMA. What the
scenes on how the cover for The Ugly Truth was manufactured. On a whiteboard in the factory is an equation of how to get the right
py Kid was handed to the pope by the translator of the story.
of The Ugly Truth, Jeff told his struggle on choosing whether Greg was a cartoon character who should stay the same age or a
adult life would be depressing, which he further elaborates in a Reddit AMA where he states he always imagined Rowley woul