<p>Carnival Cruise Lines has launched the new &ldquo;Funville&rdquo; Web experience at <a href="http://www.carnival.com/funville">www.carnival.com/funville</a> which is designed to evoke the line&rsquo;s unique brand of &ldquo;fun,&rdquo; with images and video from recent Guinness World Record achievements for the world&rsquo;s largest beach ball and pi&ntilde;ata, on-line games and a series of videos featuring the line&rsquo;s signature towel animals.</p><p>&ldquo;Towel Animal Theatre&rdquo; serves as the centerpiece to the interactive Web destination and features nine different vignettes depicting towel animals engaged in amusing conversations with each other while the stateroom&rsquo;s occupants are away. In the whimsical videos, towel animals such as swans and monkeys interact using offbeat, light-hearted dialogue that conveys the spirit of fun on a Carnival cruise. &ldquo;Towel Animal Theatre&rdquo; has become quite popular with several million views on various on-line channels and social networking sites. The <a href="http://www.carnival.com/funville">www.carnival.com/funville</a> site also includes instructions for visitors to make their own towel animals at home.&nbsp; </p><p>Also featured within the site are photos and video footage from Carnival&rsquo;s &ldquo;Fun Crowd&rdquo; events during which the line broke records for the world&rsquo;s largest beach ball &ndash; a massive sphere dropped from a building in downtown Dallas &ndash; and the world&rsquo;s largest pi&ntilde;ata, which was filled with eight tons of candy in Philadelphia. Footage from the events is being used to create two television commercials that will soon begin airing nationally.</p><p>In addition, there is an online game tied to the beach ball theme, as well as a &ldquo;hollerback&rdquo; function that enables users to submit suggestions for Carnival&rsquo;s next fun event.&nbsp; Over the next several weeks, &ldquo;Funville&rdquo; will evolve to include additional &ldquo;Fun Crowd&rdquo; event videos, Carnival&rsquo;s new TV spots, additional on-line games and other unscripted surprises for visitors to the site.&nbsp; Links to various features of a Carnival cruise vacation, including on-board activities, dining and youth programs, also are included. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>