i found a fandango page via the old regal website about little nemo. it's pretty hard to see, but if you look closely the biggs' adventure logo can be seen on the poster.
I wonder if that could potentially be DVD box art, if it is, is it possible "Biggs Adventure" was reduced to a special feature added to some retail releases of DVD? kind of like how "Out of the Box" had "Trick or Treat" released as a special feature on a Rolie Polie Olie DVD aswell as it's original VHS.
Below the picture, it says you can buy the poster at allposters.com. Obviously, the link doesn’t do anything now, but you could buy that poster back then. So, I don’t think it’s DVD box art.
One way to find footage is to see if there's any trailer reels for The Incredibles or reels for any of the three Kidtoons films on eBay and such. It is kinda common for cinema reels of stuff to be sold there, but I definitely don't think anything related to Biggs' Adventure would turn up. It's worth a try, though.
Maybe also contact someone from Kidtoon Films, since that's a separate company? Also, presumably some animation studio made the Biggs' Adventure ads, though IDK how we'd find them.
"I have to say I kind of loved the Riverdancing Sheep, but I may be in a minority there. If you went to a Regal, at least you missed the "is it a movie or is it a gimmick?" ads for "Bigg's Adventure". THAT was odd."
This makes me wonder if the ambiguity on whether or not Biggs' Adventure was a movie was intentional. I'm still in the camp of it never having been a movie, with Biggs and his friends having been intended to have been the hosts of the matinee event.
Another quote, from gwonchang.blogspot.com/2005/02/: "Then they had these CG (computer generated) shorts that had some Sasquatch or something stomping around. Bigg's Adventure, they called it. As I watched it, I got the weird feeling that it was slightly preachy. This Sasquatch, Bigg, was invisible. But, if you wanted to see him, you could see him. And when it showed the stupid CG kids seeing him, their eyes lit up like candles and then it was, "Oh my gosh! I can see him! (or maybe Him?)" I thought I was at church."
This actually reveals some important information. This blog post is from a screening of Pooh's Heffalump Movie in February 2005, proving that Regal never abandoned the Biggs campaign even after the negative reception of the ads on The Incredibles.
I grew up watching Kidtoons films in theaters, but by the time I was seeing them, these segments appear to have been dropped. I do remember that the Kidtoons screenings did not utilize reels and instead were digitally projected, making reels nonexistant for these movies. So it might be difficult to find these segments, unless we're able to track down a Regal reel of trailers before certain kids' movies during this period.
This blog post is from a screening of Pooh's Heffalump Movie in February 2005, proving that Regal never abandoned the Biggs campaign even after the negative reception of the ads on The Incredibles.
In any form, that is. Regal likely already abandoned the idea of it being a feature film at that time due to the many trailers that ran during The Incredibles in favour of it being a matinee event.
If the fact that Biggs' Adventure was a matinee event is anything to go by, I'd imagine the trailers from February 2005 would've stated it being a matinee event (especially since the Candy Land film was to be shown as part of the matinee that month), since the trailers that ran during The Incredibles make it sound more like a feature film. But we won't know it all until we eventually find them, and that's going to be tough...
I do remember that the Kidtoons screenings did not utilize reels and instead were digitally projected, making reels nonexistant for these movies. So it might be difficult to find these segments, unless we're able to track down a Regal reel of trailers before certain kids' movies during this period.
That's true. But considering that most cinemas for non-Kidtoons films (possibly including Regal's screening of The Incredibles) still used physical reels at the time, the trailers that ran during said screening (the Biggs' Adventure trailers included) may surface in that form.
I found this document which may have clues about Biggs' Adventure. investor.ncm.com/static-files/6542c673-b43d-4891-9e9c-0235bf72b38b. It's a press release about the Biggs' Adventure release of Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure. It doesn't tell us much we don't know, but it does mention "new animated shorts before the feature film." This suggests to me that even if Biggs' Adventure was never a movie, there were likely animated shorts starring Biggs and his friends which told some sort of story that aired before Biggs' Adventure matinees.
This blog post is from a screening of Pooh's Heffalump Movie in February 2005, proving that Regal never abandoned the Biggs campaign even after the negative reception of the ads on The Incredibles.
In any form, that is. Regal likely already abandoned the idea of it being a feature film at that time due to the many trailers that ran during The Incredibles in favour of it being a matinee event.
If the fact that Biggs' Adventure was a matinee event is anything to go by, I'd imagine the trailers from February 2005 would've stated it being a matinee event (especially since the Candy Land film was to be shown as part of the matinee that month), since the trailers that ran during The Incredibles make it sound more like a feature film. But we won't know it all until we eventually find them, and that's going to be tough...
Interesting to hear that they continued to show the ads. It’s too bad the February 2005 ones aren’t described in more detail. So far all we know about specifically are the ads shown during The Incredibles. I suppose they could have rerun some of those, but apparently these ones made it clearer that it wasn’t a movie, and they would have had to show new stuff for the Kidtoons films anyways, so the Pooh’s Heffalump Movie screening probably included something new.
I wonder if anyone who worked on Biggs Adventure might be able to explain why it was cancelled and if it was planned to be a film.
I wonder if anyone who worked on Biggs Adventure might be able to explain why it was cancelled and if it was planned to be a film.
That's a good idea.
In the meantime, another way to find those trailers is to look for theatre-recorded-bootlegs of The Incredibles and Pooh's Heffalump Movie. While there aren't any TRBs of those movies that I know of, hopefully there might be some with the Biggs' Adventure trailers. I know that Robots just had the brief bumper which is already found (with three announcer versions), so nothing too special there.
I wonder if anyone who worked on Biggs Adventure might be able to explain why it was cancelled and if it was planned to be a film.
That's a good idea.
In the meantime, another way to find those trailers is to look for theatre-recorded-bootlegs of The Incredibles and Pooh's Heffalump Movie. While there aren't any TRBs of those movies that I know of, hopefully there might be some with the Biggs' Adventure trailers. I know that Robots just had the brief bumper which is already found (with three announcer versions), so nothing too special there.
Would theater recorded bootlegs even contain the opening ads and previews?
Would theater recorded bootlegs even contain the opening ads and previews?
Well, there do exist some of those. One in particular is for the 2003 adaptation of The Cat in the Hat, which contains a brief portion of a mystery bumper, which I made a whole thread about.
Post by generalironbeak on Mar 30, 2021 0:05:40 GMT
But it doesn’t seem to have most of the ads that are shown before the main previews, which is where it seems the Biggs’ Adventure ads were shown. If I recall correctly, we arrived at the theater before anything was shown when we went to see The Incredibles, and the first ad shown was the one of the kids calling out for Bigg. I remember thinking it was an actual trailer and being confused when the next thing shown was some sports related ad. It took a while to get to the actual trailers, what with all the Biggs’ Adventure stuff playing throughout. I remember seeing fairly early on a trailer for The Polar Express, (which I had seen earlier that week at a different theater, and with no Biggs’ Adventure ads that I saw, although it might just have been because we arrived later), but I think it might have just been an ad because it was fairly short and didn’t show much, from what I remember.
Another factor complicating the chances of finding Biggs' Adventure shorts on a bootleg recording is that the Biggs clips were only shown at Regal theaters.