I have to say, thank you for this whole thread. I had volumes 1-3 as a young child and watched them nearly every day. My dad was stationed in a japan at the time and got them for me, my grandma used to say she never saw them anywhere in the US. My favorite was the Scarborough Fair part. I remember these videos clearly, but never knew the actual name and now as an adult, I was determined to go on a nostalgia trip and try if I could find somewhere to watch them. When I got older and didn’t go to my grandmas house that often (where these VHS were) , they became one of those things that you had deep down in your memory, but forgot for a long time. They are one of the most obscure things from my childhood that I always had memories of, I can’t beleive I finally figured out the name! Cause when I was a kid I didn’t pay attention, I just popped them into the VHS player and enjoyed haha! All my old VHS are at my grandmothers house, I’ll pay her a visit and try and convert these to DVD.
Wow, how did you found the obscure series, JANESSA!
JANESSA mentioned that her father got the volumes somewhere in Japan.
The original 1994 VHS release came with a cute sheep stuffed animal of "Simon" the titular protagonist of the film.
The original VHS tape was colored white.
The film also featured notable voice actors most notable being Kath Soucie, and Elizabeth Daily (aka EG Daily). Kath Soucie and EG Daily both started to do more voice work during this period. Especially since Nickelodeon's The Rugrats was at the peak of it's popularity at the time of the film's release. Kath Soucie voices a female lamb who has a crush on Simon while EG Daily voiced a lamb who really dislikes Simon.
Some screenshots from Precious Moment's website on the film.
This screenshot shows Kath Soucie's character the lamb with the red ribbons. If I remember correctly, EG Daily's character is the lamb with the green hat.
This screenshot shows more scenes from the film.
The film later got a DVD release a couple years ago.
For those that grew up in the early to mid 1990s as young children. You might remember an era when video stores we're still a thing. I remember renting a direct to video animated film of "The Little Engine The Could" as a young kid. The film came out in 1991 and is notable for being one of Kath Soucie's earliest voice acting roles.
But another film that caught my interest is "Simon the Lamb" by Precious Moments. For those that never heard of the company. Precious Moments is best known for creating merchandise sometimes being related to biblical stories to various collaborations. But for a brief period in the early to mid 1990s, ''Precious Moments" decided to work on animated films that was exclusive to the direct to video market.
One of these films was a cute animated film from 1994 called "Simon The Lamb".
The film is about a little lamb named "Simon" who's entire body is colored blue from his sky to his wool. As a result, the other lambs ostracize him from the group. With the only lamb actually liking him is a female lamb.
Here's the only videos I can find on Youtube which came in three separate parts.
I decided to create this thread for those that actually remember this movie along with the other animated films Precious Moments movie during that period.
Apparently Hello Kitty is not the only character to appear in this game. Other Sanrio characters such as My Melody, Pochacco, Badtz-Maru and Minna No Tabo also appeared in the game as seen in a few screenshots from SanrioTown.
When I finally found them on YouTube, I was nearly brought to tears because it was so nostalgic!! The channel in the original post had uploaded all the volumes I had as a kid, but it’s nit very good quality. There are some good quality in YouTube, but not all of the songs. I hope someone uploads better quality videos in case I can’t find my VHS’s
Speaking of which, I stumbled upon Japanese Youtube channel called "takato 2320" which contained better quality footage of the Nursery Rhymes and Songs in a single part contained an English dub.
I have to say, thank you for this whole thread. I had volumes 1-3 as a young child and watched them nearly every day. My dad was stationed in a japan at the time and got them for me, my grandma used to say she never saw them anywhere in the US. My favorite was the Scarborough Fair part. I remember these videos clearly, but never knew the actual name and now as an adult, I was determined to go on a nostalgia trip and try if I could find somewhere to watch them. When I got older and didn’t go to my grandmas house that often (where these VHS were) , they became one of those things that you had deep down in your memory, but forgot for a long time. They are one of the most obscure things from my childhood that I always had memories of, I can’t beleive I finally figured out the name! Cause when I was a kid I didn’t pay attention, I just popped them into the VHS player and enjoyed haha! All my old VHS are at my grandmothers house, I’ll pay her a visit and try and convert these to DVD.
Your welcome for rediscovering a forgotten memory of your childhood.
Speaking of which, I found another Youtube channel that has the entire 3 volumes. But once again recordered from a video camera. Thankfully the quality is much better.
Update: I finally found a good quality video of one of the episodes of "The Smurfs" (1961) from a random German YouTube channel. The video is titled "Aus dem Leben der Schlümpfe von 1960 Folge 02 Das Ei. sehr rar".
I somehow stumbled upon this video randomly and was uploaded in March 12th 2018 by "Battis Nostalgie Channel".
The German dub was broadcasted in West Germany in 1969.
Reading this thread reminded me of another website based on Cereal Brands. General Mills made a kid's website in the early 2000's that featured the mascots of Lucky Charms, Honeynut Cheerios, Trix, and Coco Puffs. But I will never forget the game where you had to chase Lucky.
I also remember one YTPMV (Youtube Poop Music Video) called "Two great things robotnik" that was one of the oldest known YTPMVs. Sadly the video and the channel got deleted a year ago. But luckily I still have a screenshot of the video thumbnail. This was back when Youtube Poop videos we're at it's best between 2009 till sometime in 2010 or 2011. I think the video was made sometime in 2007 or 2008.
I remember a certain Youtube channel that I remember seeing during the very early days of let's play channels (Back when they were a small community). I forgot the name of it but it was a let's play of the SNES Game "The Great Circus Mystery Starring Micky and Minnie". The only thing I remember about the channel was having the name "Chunky" or "123Chunky". One of the three guys hosting the let's play was heard singing the "Numa Numa Song" from The Muppet Show during the ending of the video game and another guy saying "I love Ginger ale". That channel has since been gone for over a decade but I remember it was one of the first let's play channels that I discovered along with Hellfire Commentaries.
I also remember during the early days of Youtube their used to be a Youtube channel called nicknoway! who made Mario Plush videos similar to Cute Mario Bros by MarioMario8989. It featured Mario and Sonic characters and eventually a female villager from Animal Crossing. Apparently the channel got deleted around 2012. Doesn't help that the channel had very views.
when i looked at this picture more closely there might be chance that it was banned because of papa smurf's.... interesting color scheme, that might be the reason why its lost, i think contacting the voice actors or anyone involved with the series would be our best bet, heres the imdb page if you need some people to contact
Not sure if the reason is true, I think the reason Papa Smurf's color scheme looked weird in the screenshots might be due to the age of the drawings. Mainly due to some of the episodes/film was originally painted in color and a few episodes aired in color before sticking with black and white. Then again it could be speculation since I never grew up in Belgium.
Maybe longtime Belgians who grew up in the 1960's might remember the shorts and the 1969 TV Special.