Post by kleefilm on Sept 5, 2022 2:09:14 GMT
Some of you guys may have heard of a Stikbot before. A toy/figure that was made to help kids learn how to make stop motions. The figure came out in 2015 but because it was aimed at kids the history has been not documented well. So back currently some of the community has been
looking for a very rare stikbot for a while now. Little to any information has been lost and I have tried to reach out but its quite hard to find anything so with that said let me give some backstory.
Back in around 2015-2016 when stikbots had first come out very small YouTube channels made videos about stikbot and such and through out the small community images spread of an a stikbot that had not come out to the public. But after these channels/community's/videos disappeared off the face of the earth and people pretty much forgot about it. Until one of my friends gave me his custom stikbot iceberg to make a video on in around early 2021, late 2020. When making said video I thought about more stuff I could add to the list when a blurry memory of the white translucent stikbot went through my head so because of this mention in the video this made people who would later return to the community very interested in this figure.
The only other mention I had heard from it was on a video asking about another very rare stikbot. In the comments someone asked about the rare stikbot from the video. The official stikbot/zing (the company that owns stikbot) said that there was also a white one.
So later on this year people like The Dark Side 0f Youtube and RealShowa1 started work on helping archive every stikbot ever made through a slideshow. But in this search they found many things including more information about another extremely rare stikbot named, the black translucent stikbot which was a promotional stikbot given away to people to people who collaborated with stikbot Latin (the Latin version of stikbot). Eventually when looking through an archived version of ebay on the wayback machine The Dark Side 0f Youtube was able to find an archived ebay listing for the white translucent stikbot. Something also that's interesting that im gonna quote The Dark Side 0f Youtube on is "So when this person uploaded the photo {to the wayback machine}, they put it in the October 22 2015 section, instead of the august section, so my theory is that when the way back machine admins found out that it was at the wrong date, they probably converted it back to its original date."
But anyway we were unable to find the seller but we did find the buyer. We were unable to find any accounts online except for an Instagram account which MAY be them but they have not been active sense 2021 so we don't know. Due to the fact that the site was broken (the ebay archive) and the only image we have from the listing is a screenshot from The Dark Side 0f Youtube. The ebay post had 6-7 pictures with 3-4 being lost. And currently the search as slowed down due to the lack of stuff we can find about it.
Now when you search up a white translucent stikbot you may come across a translucent stikbot that has an orange, yellow, or blue string (this one also can have some glitter on it). But it is none of those but rather the same plastic (from what we understand), but with a white string. Also if you do help us with this search first thank you! And second make sure to keep an eye out for fake stikbots while searching and
If you wanted to see the stikbot along with almost all the information we have found so far check out the the slide show here: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O78L1tqUelzfDLLy3zowlawwW16POiG-azPZtgJqgH0/edit?usp=sharing (Page 8 for the white translucent stikbot and page 2 for contact info)
Thank you for reading!
looking for a very rare stikbot for a while now. Little to any information has been lost and I have tried to reach out but its quite hard to find anything so with that said let me give some backstory.
Back in around 2015-2016 when stikbots had first come out very small YouTube channels made videos about stikbot and such and through out the small community images spread of an a stikbot that had not come out to the public. But after these channels/community's/videos disappeared off the face of the earth and people pretty much forgot about it. Until one of my friends gave me his custom stikbot iceberg to make a video on in around early 2021, late 2020. When making said video I thought about more stuff I could add to the list when a blurry memory of the white translucent stikbot went through my head so because of this mention in the video this made people who would later return to the community very interested in this figure.
The only other mention I had heard from it was on a video asking about another very rare stikbot. In the comments someone asked about the rare stikbot from the video. The official stikbot/zing (the company that owns stikbot) said that there was also a white one.
So later on this year people like The Dark Side 0f Youtube and RealShowa1 started work on helping archive every stikbot ever made through a slideshow. But in this search they found many things including more information about another extremely rare stikbot named, the black translucent stikbot which was a promotional stikbot given away to people to people who collaborated with stikbot Latin (the Latin version of stikbot). Eventually when looking through an archived version of ebay on the wayback machine The Dark Side 0f Youtube was able to find an archived ebay listing for the white translucent stikbot. Something also that's interesting that im gonna quote The Dark Side 0f Youtube on is "So when this person uploaded the photo {to the wayback machine}, they put it in the October 22 2015 section, instead of the august section, so my theory is that when the way back machine admins found out that it was at the wrong date, they probably converted it back to its original date."
But anyway we were unable to find the seller but we did find the buyer. We were unable to find any accounts online except for an Instagram account which MAY be them but they have not been active sense 2021 so we don't know. Due to the fact that the site was broken (the ebay archive) and the only image we have from the listing is a screenshot from The Dark Side 0f Youtube. The ebay post had 6-7 pictures with 3-4 being lost. And currently the search as slowed down due to the lack of stuff we can find about it.
Now when you search up a white translucent stikbot you may come across a translucent stikbot that has an orange, yellow, or blue string (this one also can have some glitter on it). But it is none of those but rather the same plastic (from what we understand), but with a white string. Also if you do help us with this search first thank you! And second make sure to keep an eye out for fake stikbots while searching and
If you wanted to see the stikbot along with almost all the information we have found so far check out the the slide show here: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O78L1tqUelzfDLLy3zowlawwW16POiG-azPZtgJqgH0/edit?usp=sharing (Page 8 for the white translucent stikbot and page 2 for contact info)
Thank you for reading!
