http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/16/5th-cell-had-five-people-research-words-for-six-months-for-scrib/

In Scribblenauts, you can manifest basically anything. Whether it's a skateboarding god fighting Cthulhu, or hilarious internet memes involving cats, it seems like this game has endless potential. We're anxiously anticipating the game's arrival, with a gigantic notebook full of ideas that we can't wait to try out. As confident as we are that we'll be able to best the game, it's tough when developer 5th Cell admits to G4 that it had five people reading just about everything for six months. Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and Wikipedias are just a few of the sources these folks scoured for juicy words to add to the game's enormous lexicon.

Check out the video past the break, where 5th Cell's Jeremiah Slaczka and Matt Cox detail how much work went into building this game's robust vocabulary.

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Awesome, great to see the care that went to this title. Can't wait for this

Scribblenauts = Win

Wow, because of this game... I found out about Keyboard cat. This is awesome! I can't wait to see more stuff coming out of this.

WOW!!! this game does sound awesome.

I heard it doesn't have Obama in it... :'(

Damn, I just got interested in this game a whole lot more. 0_o

They need to do a much better job giving an idea to how deep the game really is. Use a ladder, axe, or a match? There's nothing exciting about that. Say how you can summon Kraken, a tornado, travel through time to bring back dinosaurs to kill robot zombies, etc.

The trailer has incredibly boring stuff like car and crowbar, I'm just worried this superb game won't sell well.

can not wait

5th Cell are doing the exact opposite of what Peter Molyneux did pre-Fable II.

This is one of the newer games on my must own list. It is just such a simple idea,but such a great one to.