Post by crunchygrape on Jan 12, 2023 1:32:28 GMT
So there was this show I loved growing up on HBO Family called Crashbox. A lot of you have probably heard of it given this community's relationship with obscure kids shows. It started in 1999 and ended in 2000 and continues to air in reruns to this day and is available on streaming. It was full of brainteasers and games for the audience to play with a really cool look to it involving different mediums of animation and live action. While the show itself is not lost, there are pieces of media relating to it that have gone missing over the years. What I'm most interested in is a behind the scenes video that was on the HBO Family website that I loved watching as a kid. The video itself was behind the scenes footage of the worlds they created for the show. I distinctly remember seeing footage of the Walla Walla Washington Zoo from the Eddie Bull segments. It was accessed by clicking on the show from their programming lineup to see the show's page with a description, schedule and games based on the ones from the show. Then clicking on some text would get you to a video with whatever media player you chose. After looking on the Wayback Machine, these links were on the Crashbox section of the website since at least 2002 and continued to stay on the website in changing forms until at least 2014. I believe it was played using Flash, which is of course no longer supported. The videos never appeared to have been uploaded outside of the official website. I made a post on r/lostmedia from around a year ago talking about this but nothing came of it. My Reddit post with some screenshots of the old website: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/spl2fc/behind_the_scenes_of_hbos_crashbox/I decided to continue the search recently and found the only other post I can find about the video online. Here's the full post: https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/lq3dp5/crashboxs_lost_media/It also talks about other pieces of content relating to Crashbox that have since become lost, which I am not familiar with but would love to see found regardless. The part that sticks out to me is a mention of someone speaking of what I'm guessing is the same video on a Discord server. Here's the message (whether this is a direct copy-paste or recreation, I cannot say for certain): "Like I said there was a whole behind the scenes video with the producers. From what I loosely remembered it featured short interviews with the creative team and showed one of the stop motion artists moving around the “Captain Bob” figure which is interesting considering his season 2 & 1 counterpart are pretty much identical. On another note it features the Revolting Slob in his season 1 setting. The puppet is smaller than you’d imagine. I also remember learning that the Revolting Slob puppet was reused for Crashbox as it’s original purpose was for some commercial. Which I think might of been french, so it was probably from Quebec (the show is a Canadian production)". The OP of this Reddit post has contacted people and companies who worked on the show and got virtually nothing. I also went on the websites for CuppaCoffee and Planet Grande (companies who collaborated together on the show). I found a video on CuppaCoffee's website talking about the show, but it's just a voiceover over clips of the show itself with no new footage. I could be wrong about certain info or omitting important details, so please let me know if there's anything I screwed up or missed. I think we would all love to take a peek behind the curtain of this completely bonkers show. Give the show a watch yourself and play along, it's all on YouTube.