That SpongeBob skin looks like a horrifying bootleg costume from Brazil.
You are horrifingly not that far fetched (not being mean here)
Brazil has a lot of bootleg stuff littered across many stores, especially as you go back in time to like the early 90s-mid 2000s, so I wouldn't be surprised.
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to me the disk version of super mario 64 will always be such a downer, on one hand i love it being found especially as we have something that obviously could of never been found due to how awful the n64dd failed on the other the results for finding it was hardly anything major besides some audio differences and some bugs, it would of been a bit more interesting if this was a build that (if possible) had luigi playable in it like how he was apparently developed for this disk ver (although the way it was found will be more interesting than the game itself)
Most kid’s show stuff; Sorry! Not really my cup of tea!
For me, this depends; I do agree on stuff like the pilot for Bubble Guppies, but on the other hand we have found various episodes of Space Cats, a hilarious NBC Saturday morning cartoon from Paul Fusco, the wonderful, bizarre & unexpected Oscar's Orchestra with a DVD boxset of the 1st 2 seasons(season 3 is still at large) & 8 episodes of Creative Products' English dub of the fantastic Akazukin ChaCha. Though then again, those 3 shows don't have an educational value unlike Bubble Guppies, so it may just be because, due to them being for older kids, they are more focused on being enjoyable & entertaining, even for the adults watching at home.
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Don't forget the 1995 FOX Tuesday Night TV Movie "Divas" I've been searching for this film for years!!! Hoping somebody find it...
Think you've got the wrong thread, this is for stuff that was completely found but didn't live up to the hype and since the full version of this film isn't found yet it does not qualify for this thread.
Tbh, any lost pilot. A lot of them are cool but boring. I guess it kinda gets a pass because a lot of the shows are part of people’s childhood. But idk their hit kinda boring
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Tbh, any lost pilot. A lot of them are cool but boring. I guess it kinda gets a pass because a lot of the shows are part of people’s childhood. But idk their hit kinda boring
Some lost pilots are pretty cool but others you can kinda see why they didn't air.
That's kind of what I was saying, anime is just very well known enough here that not only several anime are mainstream here(not just those you listed, but also Sailor Moon, Speed Racer, Ghost in the Shell, Astro Boy to some extent), alongside there being a whole lot of people interested in anime that searches for obscure lost anime are bound to be a common thing. Heck, Cyber Team in Akihabara seems to at least have a cult following in English speaking anime circles judging by TVTropes. A lot of the anime 4Kids dubbed have fanbases based on the Japanese original being fansubbed(as well as fanbases based on the 4Kids dubs; I've seen a 4Kids Magical DoReMi fanbase on YouTube).
Meanwhile with animation from elsewhere... yeah, most Americans just don't care(unless it was already in English like with Bluey or Peppa Pig). The only time some people would know about them would be from either Saberspark(who covered Squirrel And Hedgehog(you PROBABLY know where it's from) Russian animated movie Animal Wars, French series Unicorn Warriors: Eternal & Bulgarian Treasure Planet) or Animat(who talked about Danish animated franchise Jungledyret Hugo). Even something as impactful as Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, a 1975 stop-motion Norwegian film, which influenced the racer scenes in Star Wars, as well as Wallace And Gromit, isn't all that well known outside of Norway & a few other Nordic countries.
Yeah, NON JAPANESE/NON AMERICAN animation gets a few Tumblr-inas/indie movie fans/animationjunkies like myself and that's about it in this country. Anime is definitely more mainstream in that respect, even if I don't personally consider it fully mainstream yet (see: Dragoncon vs. Anime Weekend Atlanta attendance numbers, 65000+ vs. 32000). You're not going to find Ernest and Celestine or The Rabbi's Cat or Waltz with Bashir merch at Hot Topic-for heavy hitter anime you can find all kinds of merch, though still limited compared to what you can find at anime stores in Japan (Looking for Gochumon wa Usagi Desu Ka merch in Hot Topic? Good luck). There's no cons for non-Japanese animation AFAIK, outside of some college screenings or small film festivals. Sheer population too. 300,000,000+ people in this country naturally means that almost any anime will at least have SOME following somewhere.
I taught for a few years and anime, while not mainstream like other movies/video games, and not even really popular, did have more of a following than any "non Japan/America" animation did. Though I must also preface that I haven't taught in a few years, so it's possible that the "yoots" of today view all anime the same way we would have Disney movies, or Star Trek or Star Wars or the Bachelor-SUPER mainstream. Anime had a cult following and was still decently "nerdy" when I taught years ago, though most youths were at least familiar with DBZ or Naruto. And things were definitely changing year by year. I was REALLY taken aback when I saw a Re-Zero laptop background on a charismatic, popular, stylish, and athletic student's computer (whether he actually watched it, no idea, but just the fact that he was OKAY with that right in the open shocked me). That would NEVER have happened when I was in school in the early 00s!
I think I kinda know why anime was able to take off as early as they did: Japan, despite being an Eastern nation, is close to the West side of the USA, they were able to get the California folk some attention(remember, California is the LEADER of the USA & more or less the state with the most amount of people & impact on the country). They could EASILY get to L.A. animation conventions to showcase what they have for licensing to some possible interested companies. Plus Japan was heavily influenced by American animation at the time, with Tezuka's works having an artstyle resembling a Silly Symphonies cartoon. Not to mention that they easily became an incredibly rich country, filled with over 100 million people, fast as heck workers & LOTS of opportunities, so they had HUGE advantages over other countries like Indonesia. Other rich Southeast Asian countries like China also had these, but they had a population so huge that it kinda becomes easy to just stay in China.
European countries meanwhile were kinda in a turmoil. Western Europe was generally in fine condition, but those countries didn't have as much people as Japan did. Some only have like 5 million people & some less than a million. Eastern Europe was generally fine as well, but broke apart after the Soviet Union got obliterated, albeit how badly it affected some countries varied. Plus European animation was generally not as influenced by American cartoons by comparison to Japanese media & as a result can come off as more alienating in comparison. They're also further away from the USA than Japan.
TLDR: Japan took every advantage they had over other countries to get the USA to love Japanese media.
Yeah, especially once the anti-Japanese sentiment of the 70s and 80s wore off, I could see American people warming up moreso to Japanese entertainment. People also don't realize just how RICH the Japanese were in the 80s, and how in that period of excessive wealth they were able to craft SO MANY memorable and creative and unique media products. Basically anything and everything could get approved then, and so you got some real landmark works that continued into the very early 90s when the economic bubble burst.
Europe is indeed smaller in many of their populations, and I think it's a running joke that Americans "hate" Europeans, so many of them aren't interested in a lot of media from them (unless it' s a redone American incarnation, like our version of the office). European stuff is more of a "cult following" here, except for maybe Doctor Who which had enough mainstream love to get multiple conventions in 2013-2015. And of course, older British entertainment like Chronicles of Narnia is loved here still. But things like Doctor Who and Narnia are exceptions, not rules. European entertainment like Asterix and Moomins and TinTin are WILDLY popular around the world, but not in America. Winx Club does have a cult following here but only a few people even KNOW that's it's an Italian series, and it's nowhere near the level of popularity of something like Naruto. Maybe European tastes in their media is (ironically) "too foreign" compared to what is enjoyed in the USA unless it is completely retooled.
I saw a video a while back that talked about why Chinese media (with the exception of web/light novels and Genshin Impact) has basically zero interest here in the West. Besides the issues of state media censorship making entertainment dull, there just isn't much "need" to export their media products. There's over a billion Chinese people in China and worldwide, and they can solely market to a Chinese language audience and do stunningly well. So that plays a factor as well.
Yeah, especially once the anti-Japanese sentiment of the 70s and 80s wore off, I could see American people warming up moreso to Japanese entertainment. People also don't realize just how RICH the Japanese were in the 80s, and how in that period of excessive wealth they were able to craft SO MANY memorable and creative and unique media products. Basically anything and everything could get approved then, and so you got some real landmark works that continued into the very early 90s when the economic bubble burst.
Europe is indeed smaller in many of their populations, and I think it's a running joke that Americans "hate" Europeans, so many of them aren't interested in a lot of media from them (unless it' s a redone American incarnation, like our version of the office). European stuff is more of a "cult following" here, except for maybe Doctor Who which had enough mainstream love to get multiple conventions in 2013-2015. And of course, older British entertainment like Chronicles of Narnia is loved here still. But things like Doctor Who and Narnia are exceptions, not rules. European entertainment like Asterix and Moomins and TinTin are WILDLY popular around the world, but not in America. Winx Club does have a cult following here but only a few people even KNOW that's it's an Italian series, and it's nowhere near the level of popularity of something like Naruto. Maybe European tastes in their media is (ironically) "too foreign" compared to what is enjoyed in the USA unless it is completely retooled.
I saw a video a while back that talked about why Chinese media (with the exception of web/light novels and Genshin Impact) has basically zero interest here in the West. Besides the issues of state media censorship making entertainment dull, there just isn't much "need" to export their media products. There's over a billion Chinese people in China and worldwide, and they can solely market to a Chinese language audience and do stunningly well. So that plays a factor as well.
Yeah I noticed this with the Nick UK show Genie in the House, I was surprised that it lasted for 4 seasons and that it came out in 2006 with a main character in brownface to no big controversy(if there was one I can't find any evidence of it online)whereas in the U.S. that show would get like maybe one season at the most and the notion of a character that's supposed to be non-white being played by a white dude in brown-face back then in live-action media in the US(especially fictional media aimed at kids) was absolutely unthinkable and would never even get as far as the pitch stage in a boardroom(especially considering the controversy that one-off brownface gags in shows aimed at adults like 30 Rock, Community and Scrubs got with those episodes being removed from streaming) and the funny thing is GITH was one of the few UK kids live-action shows to actually get exported to the U.S.(via the cable channel Starz Kids and Family in the 2010s)but it made no notable impact here.
Yeah, especially once the anti-Japanese sentiment of the 70s and 80s wore off, I could see American people warming up moreso to Japanese entertainment. People also don't realize just how RICH the Japanese were in the 80s, and how in that period of excessive wealth they were able to craft SO MANY memorable and creative and unique media products. Basically anything and everything could get approved then, and so you got some real landmark works that continued into the very early 90s when the economic bubble burst.
Europe is indeed smaller in many of their populations, and I think it's a running joke that Americans "hate" Europeans, so many of them aren't interested in a lot of media from them (unless it' s a redone American incarnation, like our version of the office). European stuff is more of a "cult following" here, except for maybe Doctor Who which had enough mainstream love to get multiple conventions in 2013-2015. And of course, older British entertainment like Chronicles of Narnia is loved here still. But things like Doctor Who and Narnia are exceptions, not rules. European entertainment like Asterix and Moomins and TinTin are WILDLY popular around the world, but not in America. Winx Club does have a cult following here but only a few people even KNOW that's it's an Italian series, and it's nowhere near the level of popularity of something like Naruto. Maybe European tastes in their media is (ironically) "too foreign" compared to what is enjoyed in the USA unless it is completely retooled.
I saw a video a while back that talked about why Chinese media (with the exception of web/light novels and Genshin Impact) has basically zero interest here in the West. Besides the issues of state media censorship making entertainment dull, there just isn't much "need" to export their media products. There's over a billion Chinese people in China and worldwide, and they can solely market to a Chinese language audience and do stunningly well. So that plays a factor as well.
European media being considered not of interest in America kinda has some reasons: For some, Japan kinda already fills the gap for foreign media by a margin so wide that it becomes overwhelming as heck(I mean, just LOOK at how many anime come out every season for Pete's sake!). Others, like Native Americans, may not have the interest due to how those settlers from Europe tended to treat them for the most part(particularly Christopher Columbus & crew from Spain, as well as the British settlers; the Dutch generally treated them with respect). Really, the supposed "American" race of white folk are actually foreigners in of themselves, ones who treated the Native Americans badly, so some Natives may still have hatred in Europe because of those events, even though I doubt most people in Europe really hold the same opinions about the Natives that the British had about them back in those times.
Similarly, African Americans may hold some grudge due to the slavery times, although considering African Americans are far more common than Native Americans that grudge likely isn't AS prevalent around them.
Heck, I'd say that sometimes the reason we don't get some European media is because some folks over in European countries have a grudge against us. Like, I am SURPRISED that the USA & UK are considered "closest friends" and allies considering what I've seen on the internet. And "closest friends"? Bruh, Japan is... WAIT THE UK IS ACTUALLY CLOSER TO US THAN JAPAN!?!? WHAT TH-
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Yeah, especially once the anti-Japanese sentiment of the 70s and 80s wore off, I could see American people warming up moreso to Japanese entertainment. People also don't realize just how RICH the Japanese were in the 80s, and how in that period of excessive wealth they were able to craft SO MANY memorable and creative and unique media products. Basically anything and everything could get approved then, and so you got some real landmark works that continued into the very early 90s when the economic bubble burst.
Europe is indeed smaller in many of their populations, and I think it's a running joke that Americans "hate" Europeans, so many of them aren't interested in a lot of media from them (unless it' s a redone American incarnation, like our version of the office). European stuff is more of a "cult following" here, except for maybe Doctor Who which had enough mainstream love to get multiple conventions in 2013-2015. And of course, older British entertainment like Chronicles of Narnia is loved here still. But things like Doctor Who and Narnia are exceptions, not rules. European entertainment like Asterix and Moomins and TinTin are WILDLY popular around the world, but not in America. Winx Club does have a cult following here but only a few people even KNOW that's it's an Italian series, and it's nowhere near the level of popularity of something like Naruto. Maybe European tastes in their media is (ironically) "too foreign" compared to what is enjoyed in the USA unless it is completely retooled.
I saw a video a while back that talked about why Chinese media (with the exception of web/light novels and Genshin Impact) has basically zero interest here in the West. Besides the issues of state media censorship making entertainment dull, there just isn't much "need" to export their media products. There's over a billion Chinese people in China and worldwide, and they can solely market to a Chinese language audience and do stunningly well. So that plays a factor as well.
European media being considered not of interest in America kinda has some reasons: For some, Japan kinda already fills the gap for foreign media by a margin so wide that it becomes overwhelming as heck(I mean, just LOOK at how many anime come out every season for Pete's sake!). Others, like Native Americans, may not have the interest due to how those settlers from Europe tended to treat them for the most part(particularly Christopher Columbus & crew from Spain, as well as the British settlers; the Dutch generally treated them with respect). Really, the supposed "American" race of white folk are actually foreigners in of themselves, ones who treated the Native Americans badly, so some Natives may still have hatred in Europe because of those events, even though I doubt most people in Europe really hold the same opinions about the Natives that the British had about them back in those times.
Similarly, African Americans may hold some grudge due to the slavery times, although considering African Americans are far more common than Native Americans that grudge likely isn't AS prevalent around them.
Heck, I'd say that sometimes the reason we don't get some European media is because some folks over in European countries have a grudge against us. Like, I am SURPRISED that the USA & UK are considered "closest friends" and allies considering what I've seen on the internet. And "closest friends"? Bruh, Japan is... WAIT THE UK IS ACTUALLY CLOSER TO US THAN JAPAN!?!? WHAT TH-
not to mention UK media seemed to be a lot more cool with offensive gender and racial stereotypes in the 2000s and 2010s then American media(see Little Britain and The IT Crowd and the brownface thing I mentioned before, GITH certainly wasn't the only offender in that department)was, can't really blame non-white and LGBTQ folks for wanting nothing to do with that shit.
European media being considered not of interest in America kinda has some reasons: For some, Japan kinda already fills the gap for foreign media by a margin so wide that it becomes overwhelming as heck(I mean, just LOOK at how many anime come out every season for Pete's sake!). Others, like Native Americans, may not have the interest due to how those settlers from Europe tended to treat them for the most part(particularly Christopher Columbus & crew from Spain, as well as the British settlers; the Dutch generally treated them with respect). Really, the supposed "American" race of white folk are actually foreigners in of themselves, ones who treated the Native Americans badly, so some Natives may still have hatred in Europe because of those events, even though I doubt most people in Europe really hold the same opinions about the Natives that the British had about them back in those times.
Similarly, African Americans may hold some grudge due to the slavery times, although considering African Americans are far more common than Native Americans that grudge likely isn't AS prevalent around them.
Heck, I'd say that sometimes the reason we don't get some European media is because some folks over in European countries have a grudge against us. Like, I am SURPRISED that the USA & UK are considered "closest friends" and allies considering what I've seen on the internet. And "closest friends"? Bruh, Japan is... WAIT THE UK IS ACTUALLY CLOSER TO US THAN JAPAN!?!? WHAT TH-
not to mention UK media seemed to be a lot more cool with offensive gender and racial stereotypes in the 2000s and 2010s then American media(see Little Britain and The IT Crowd and the brownface thing I mentioned before, GITH certainly wasn't the only offender in that department)was, can't really blame non-white and LGBTQ folks for wanting nothing to do with that shit.
Not sure on what race issues are like over there, but LGBT+ people are FAR more accepted in the Netherlands, the UK's Southeastern neighbor, than really any other country that has ever existed(say what you could about LGBT+ folks in America having job opportunities all you want, the USA could never even come CLOSE to the level of acceptance that the Netherlands has reached. Not even Canada), so they would definitely be peeved. Not to mention Little Britain: The Video Game for PS2, which took the same offensive stereotypes & shoved them into an already abysmal minigame compilation from shovelware game publisher Blast! Entertainment.
I mean, do people REALLY think that the UK would be very acceptable of LGBT+ people when kids' shows like Horrid Henry, a show about a neurodivergent trans boy who gets bullied & emotionally tortured by everyone around him, thus turning him into a meanie because no one wants to show any semblance of care for him & Henry is portrayed in the wrong for standing up for himself were made there(this is about the TV show, the books apparently have him actually be horrid, but the animated adaptation decided to make him more sympathetic & likeable... yet still portrayed in the wrong)? Outside of a few communities here & there, certainly not.
EDIT: Actually, this STILL doesn't begin to describe how absurdly regressive this show is. This show is more or less Seahorse Seashell Party: The Series, or the closest thing to an animated adaptation of Dysfunctional Family Circus. It's to the point that it makes me wonder how the heck they decided that THIS show would be perfectly acceptable as a KIDS' SHOW. I don't think this would be acceptable here in the US as an ADULT SHOW.
not to mention UK media seemed to be a lot more cool with offensive gender and racial stereotypes in the 2000s and 2010s then American media(see Little Britain and The IT Crowd and the brownface thing I mentioned before, GITH certainly wasn't the only offender in that department)was, can't really blame non-white and LGBTQ folks for wanting nothing to do with that shit.
Not sure on what race issues are like over there, but LGBT+ people are FAR more accepted in the Netherlands, the UK's Southeastern neighbor, than really any other country that has ever existed(say what you could about LGBT+ folks in America having job opportunities all you want, the USA could never even come CLOSE to the level of acceptance that the Netherlands has reached. Not even Canada), so they would definitely be peeved. Not to mention Little Britain: The Video Game for PS2, which took the same offensive stereotypes & shoved them into an already abysmal minigame compilation from shovelware game publisher Blast! Entertainment.
I mean, do people REALLY think that the UK would be very acceptable of LGBT+ people when shows like Horrid Henry, a show about a neurodivergent trans boy who gets bullied by everyone around him, thus turning him into a meanie because no one wants to show any semblance of care for him, not even his brother & Henry is portrayed in the wrong for standing up for himself were made there(this is about the TV show, the books apparently have him actually be horrid, but the animated adaptation decided to make him more sympathetic & likeable... yet still portrayed in the wrong)? Outside of a few communities here & there, certainly not.
