Has anyone attempted to find the costumes themselves?
I can't remember if I mentioned this in my somewhat recent video about the search, but the person who showed us pictures of the final pilot and the rehearsals VHS tapes claims to have the costumes as well. We never got pictures of those though.
I also can't remember if I mentioned this in the video, but there was someone else we talked to that said they had the script too. Unfortunately they wouldn't share it with us or take any pictures of it, in fact they saw my message asking about it and never responded.
If you haven't seen the video I would recommend giving it a watch to catch yourself up on what we've tried so far. I know a lot of searching has taken place on private Discord servers lately, but honestly it might take some new ideas to get it going again. I think the contacts we had been working with are dead ends now so the whole search would probably have to be restarted.
Has anyone attempted to find the costumes themselves?
I can't remember if I mentioned this in my somewhat recent video about the search, but the person who showed us pictures of the final pilot and the rehearsals VHS tapes claims to have the costumes as well. We never got pictures of those though.
I also can't remember if I mentioned this in the video, but there was someone else we talked to that said they had the script too. Unfortunately they wouldn't share it with us or take any pictures of it, in fact they saw my message asking about it and never responded.
If you haven't seen the video I would recommend giving it a watch to catch yourself up on what we've tried so far. I know a lot of searching has taken place on private Discord servers lately, but honestly it might take some new ideas to get it going again. I think the contacts we had been working with are dead ends now so the whole search would probably have to be restarted.
I have seen the video, but I mean someone try to BUY the costumes. Money is a way to get things. (also LSSQ responding to me? Yooooo)
The guy with the costumes also has tapes, and together we asked to buy the tapes for quite a lot of money but that's when we got ghosted. I don't think he's interested in getting any deeper with the topic, so the best we can hope for is some day he's looking for money and contacts us again or decides to just put the tapes on eBay.
I've seen some official Nickelodeon costumes props before so I suppose the Me and My Friends costumes could get listed as well, but we never saw pictures of those so who knows if he actually does have them.
I really don't like speculating on price because it can get controversial when it comes to buying lost media, but unless someone went out of their way to purposely bid up the tape (and they had a lot of money to waste purposely for the sake of trolling the search) I don't think it would get even close to those amounts.
Collectively between the entire search group I think we offered the guy $1,000 for his tape. And while I feel like even that's too high, the point was to get his attention with a huge price, but unfortunately that didn't work. However I don't think you'd find anyone else willing to go higher, collectively or not.
Aside from paintings or other high value collectibles, I can't even think of any piece of lost media that would go for tens of thousands of dollars. I don't even think a copy of London After Midnight would reach that high.
The Mario RPG Mallow plush which was thought to be lost for decades, sold for $21k in its first modern listing, but that was only because someone with money in the collecting community bid it up (and they ended up selling it at more than a 50% loss). Recently it has settled at around $9k but I've seen some for a few thousand cheaper, so value can be really dependent on intention.
The guy with the costumes also has tapes, and together we asked to buy the tapes for quite a lot of money but that's when we got ghosted. I don't think he's interested in getting any deeper with the topic, so the best we can hope for is some day he's looking for money and contacts us again or decides to just put the tapes on eBay.
I've seen some official Nickelodeon costumes props before so I suppose the Me and My Friends costumes could get listed as well, but we never saw pictures of those so who knows if he actually does have them.
Tbh if somebody wanted to sell the tapes the price would be around 10k+ or even 1 million depending on if its a big piece of lost media, my guess would be if it was posted onto ebay it would cost around 600k+...or 30-40k
Where are these numbers coming from? This pilot is not worth anywhere near those prices.
Last Edit: Aug 15, 2024 18:02:55 GMT by YoshiKiller2S
Currently there is almost no progress being made with the search, and the video I released a few months ago is basically still up to date. We have literally contacted just about everyone we can think of, including editors, and the responses either led nowhere or we never got responses at all.
Specifically with editors, there was one main Nick Studios Florida editor that we've reached out to many times before but he never answered us, and we can even see he read the message. He either isn't interested in helping or other people got to him first and it's ruined the lead, which is a theory we had long since believed was true.
The only new piece of information I can add, which deepens the entire mystery even more, is something we found when looking back at the earliest edits of the page on The Backyardigans Wiki. In late December 2011 I believe, an edit was made which added crew names and more details about its production online for the first time ever. And what's stranger, is that the user who added that info only had their IP address as their username, which led back to a location within the New York Viacom building.
So basically, way before anyone knew or cared about this topic, someone in 2011 working on a Viacom computer added never before seen crew names and details to The Backyardigans Wiki article, which shocked us. Unfortunately there's nothing we can do with this information and it's impossible to know who exactly added it, though it could have been someone we already contacted for all we know.
Anyway, I do think this search is going to have to get some kind of reboot if we want to make new progress. If the topic hadn't already been so plagued and controversial, we could get new searchers to help, but we can't open up the doors publicly because of everything that's already happened.
If you've been following Slamfest '99, this search is basically in the same state, except we know at least one copy of it exists.
