Lost Media That Might Not Exist

My dad for the longest time thought he’d imagined a movie about an American and Japanese soldier on an island, fighting to prevent a future world war. Turned out: that movie was real! It was a TV film called The Challenge.

I never expected to see anything related to the Rubbadubbers in something like this. I loved that show as a child, so it’s nice to see it getting some recognition.

so wild how seeing the rubbadubbers footage unlocked some very tightly held and locked away memories for me. never would i have remembered that show on my own, but seeing those characters unlocked something. wild. kind of hope those pilots maybe are real just to continue to pique my memory's interest lol

Wordgirl was a great show when I was a kid and it's still good rewatching it as an adult.

Pawn Stars having lost media is wild.

A detail you forgot to mention when discussing SegaSonic was that there were plans to release a localization of the actual arcade cabinet. There are unused sprites in the game of Robotnik/Eggman’s design from the SatAM and Archie comics.

Ah, Wordgirl brings back memories. I unfortunately don't have any insight about a potential lost pilot, but whenever I see anything about that series I remember that when I was doing my BA degree in Boston in 2007-2011, I was majoring in animation and the animation department took a trip to Soup 2 Nuts, a local animation studio. Soup 2 Nuts was working on Wordgirl at the time, so I saw and heard a lot about the regular creation process of the show.

What I love about SegaSonic in general is the journey it's had over the years and how it went from being forgotten content by Sega itself to making such an impact in Sonic Mania with the return of Mighty and Ray. There WERE plans on a NA/Euro release in arcades with Eggman being changed to his SatAM form which was more familiar at the time to fans outside of Japan.

I'm glad to see some Wordgirl representation But I wish you also mentioned the Lost Wordgirl Marvel comic. The first installment can be found online, but the 2nd issue has been lost for years.

paw patrol in the thumbnail reminds me of something that could be lost media, here in brasil Marshall used to have a girl voice in 2013/2014 but they not only changed to a boy voice but re-recorded all the episodes with their new voices, (they changed in 2016 i think) and now i can’t find episodes with Marshall’s original voice. edit: not only Marshall but Zuma too.

Paw Patrol and WordGirl in the same thumbnail is one of the weirdest combinations I’ve ever seen for a YouTube video…

I completely forgot about Rubbadubbers until the beginning of this video and the explosion I had in my mind was powerful enough to be heard from miles away

Believe it or not, ive actually PLAYED sega sonic before, like, with the track ball! Im not from japan or anything, I'm in the US right now. But SOMEHOW my local arcade actually had it! Ill be honest, it was fun! the track ball wasn't even that bad.

My take on the Pawn Stars thing is that if the PBS Doc's existance comes from Rick Harrison, that doesn't mean it's real. If anything, I would believe this chain of events: PBS asked to film the store for a documentary or TV show (probably just for stock footage of Vegas or something), which Rick approved. The stock footage was then barely used, not really being a documentary ABOUT the Pawn Store, and then Rick boats the use of the store in a PBS piece to build up his media cred.

Seeing word girl in the thumbnail already caught my interest brings back a lot of memories to my childhood

I found a piece of kind of obscure lost media you might want to talk about in your videos. There is this YouTube channel from the company Frederator, Cartoon Hangover, that has some lost media. Basically, Cartoon Hangover had a project called “Really Short Shorts” in 2012 that 3 animatiors would make cartoons for, and there were a lot of these animations but almost all of them are completely missing with only thumbnails found, and there is basically nothing about this online. The animatiors were Elliot Cowan, Lulinternet, and Melaphantastic. Some of the animations were called: Junk food rave (found), Grumpy acid man, Alphabet Monster, Carmen Geddit, Veggies vs fat boy, Easter bunny’s origin story, etc (not the same as “too cool cartoons”)

I still want to know if Disney did a pilot for their recent show T.O.T.S. Cause a year before its premiere, they showed off a screenshot of Pip, Freddy, and baby Mia the kitten in what looked like their earliest designs with some differences compared to their final designs in the show. Makes me wonder if there was a pilot with those designs.

I also think because of how Sega Sonic was a failure in Japan made them discourage the idea of porting the game overseas. There's sprites of english text in the game and as well as sprites for Robotnik, the one from the American Sonic cartoon.

I was into Wordgirl when it first aired and even dabbled in the online fanbase just a bit, I honestly don’t ever remember seeing a pilot episode anywhere. Not saying one doesn’t exist but if it does I don’t believe it was ever shared online

I went to college in boston for animation 2007-2010 and i had a few classmates who were animators at soup2nuts(r.ip. 😢) and I’ve been there, too. Just reach out to people who worked on word girl, i’m sure they wouldn’t mind answering any questions. However, if you asked me, I’m sure the context is that pilot stage meant preproduction.