I went to them before and it had Jimmy Neutron saying had to sign in to TurboNick...or just leave and come back as it was down. admin.nick.com says this site is TEMPORAILY down.
The Jimmy Neutron Rocket Race Non-Promo version was backed up to here before it went offline: mega.nz/#F!9xx1Fb6J!htG1PEOPan3QnbSB_j3m_A
I watched a lot of TreehouseTV when I was younger, so it's great to have these found. I remember Land O'Hands, although only barely. I would've been really little at the time.
Another series of shorts I remember briefly appeared on the network was Mamemo. It's easy to find on YouTube. I bring it up since it was only on the channel for a very short time - a month at the most if I remember correctly - so maybe you completely forgot the title. It was a strange cartoon with these green cow things and a small boy in a red shirt with yellow hair. It didn't have any script but was accompanied by music which was in French. Be sure to look it up if it sounds familiar.
Another thing I remember was a show that I wasn't allowed to watch but sometimes I would try to anyway. I don't remember the title of it, but it was a cartoon about a family of penguins (no, it was not Pingu) and it took place in a city. It was bright and 2D animated. The main character, who I believe the show was named after, always wore a backpack and had a teddy bear he brought with him everywhere. The penguins looked sort of human-like: they had round heads that were mainly black coloured with white areas. My parents didn't want me watching it since according to them the main character was a brat. It left TreehouseTV for a while, then came back, then went right back away again.
TreehouseTV had a lot of instances like this of small 5 minute shorts that never showed up on the guide that appeared for a couple months before just disappearing. Most of them aren't even worth talking about though, they aren't particularly memorable. A lot of them are just cuts of longer shows, e.g. Toopy and Binoo, Dragon, and other shows that are essentially compilations of shorter parts...
Yes I've browsed through a lot of Judy and David's Boombox and it has nothing to do in relation to My Special Book
Maybe not directly, but the production studio that made Boombox might also have made My Special Book. We don't know anything about who made My Special Book. I'm checking all the leads.
I emailed YTV to ask if they might have information about in-house productions. They don't have any information about shows that have been off the air for over a year, but shows they made themselves might be a special case.
But we already know YTV Productions made it, according to the article in the post by scary8guypl.
On the preschool front, ytv productions include: Fuzzpaws, a puppet sitcom; Little Big Kid, live-action, life-lesson shorts; My Special Book, story shorts; Nanalan’, a toddler’s-eye view of life in puppet/live-action shorts; and Pet Squad, tot cult hero PJ Katie’s (of Farm fame) newest animal shorts vehicle, in which she sleuths out answers to kids’ animal queries.
I did not recognize it by name, but when I watched the clip you linked, now I remember it. It's a very old memory. I would've been in preschool at the time.
This report from 2008 suggests that there were some advertisements on Treehouse. It discusses targeting moms of preschoolers for advertising and is aimed at potential advertisers.
The advertising may have been intercut with shorts to maintain engagement.
That document seems to be about advertisements on the TreehouseTV.com website, not the TV channel. The TV channel didn't have commercials. They had at most one sponsor before a TV show, and that didn't take the form of a commercial.
I remember that Toons and Tunes player in the screenshot though. There probably were some things on there that are lost today. It had a lot of stuff, even full episodes of shows sometimes...
Last Edit: Nov 23, 2017 18:37:25 GMT by tomysshadow
It wasn't, as far as I remember. It was standalone. TreehouseTV didn't have any commercials, so they would fill that time with shorts. These five minute shorts didn't show up on a guide or schedule, they were pretty much just plucked at random from a large library. Sometimes they would be edits of a longer show e.g. Judy and David's Boombox, Dragon, Four Square (which was garbage and I knew it even as a kid by the way) so it would make sense that those would also be on a schedule but a lot of the time they were created to be five minute shorts from their inception e.g. Deko Boko Friends or Mamemo. My Special Book falls into the latter category. So I think it makes sense it wouldn't be in a list of shows at the time.
With that said, I would not be at all surprised if the set design was done by the same crew as Treetown. They look near identical in terms of style.
There's also admin.nick.com and many of the pages require a password but some will still load if you just hit Cancel to the password dialog prompt. That's how Jimmy Neutron Gotta Blast Rocket Race was partially found. Credit goes to kaj for finding this one.
BTW, you can always search on Google as well, just search for "site:turbonick.nick.com"
Last Edit: Oct 29, 2017 9:23:47 GMT by tomysshadow
Huh. For me these files give an "Macromedia Projector has stopped working" error, which should never ever happen. I don't know what could potentially be wrong with them, they definitely are the game files (DCR files are compressed and tend to be very small so I wouldn't be surprised if these are the full games) but I don't know why they cause a crashing issue.
That was it! I must have missed your reply. I forgot that there was a lot more at the beginning of the clip, but my description was still fairly good considering how long it's been.