Post by maniac4bricks on Feb 11, 2024 9:22:20 GMT
Hello everyone, first-time post, long-time fan. And despite literal years of searching the web, I have yet to find a single mention of the Media I've been searching for:
When I was young, somewhere between the late 90's and early 2000's, I recall seeing a stop-motion animated short on Nickelodeon which featured a series of random toys and small objects playing around on a game board. As far as I know, the board game was fictitious, so this wasn't an ad for a real product. The board game would also come to life affecting the player pieces. And the lighting of the scene made it appear in a dark room or black void, nothing surrounding the board game itself. It felt like longer than a standard television bumper, but wasn't a full episode of a show, I'd say at most maybe 2 minutes in length.
Now before some comments, I wanna clear some speculation that would come up with this information and validity:
- 1) How am I sure it was on Nickelodeon and not Cartoon Network, Kids WB, or another network? - Because it had a Nickelodeon flair to it; the stop-motion nature of the short reminded me of other stop-motion productions from Nickelodeon, from bumpers to Kablam segments.
- 2) Could it be the Nick Jr board game bumper? - While I was young, it was not. I watched that bumper recently and it was too bright and too short to match.
- 3) Could it be the Johnny Quest from Cartoon Network/Boomerang? - No; I asked RebelTaxi about this media above on a livestream recently, and he didn't seem to recognize it, but referred me to the Johnny Quest short. I watched it, and I wasn't entirely familiar with it. Seemed less zany than the above short I described. But the vibe is similar, maybe the same crew who developed this short also worked on the Nickelodeon one?
- 4) How do you know this isn't a false memory? - This was buried in my memory from when I watched it until about the mid-2010's, when I came across a board game at my extended family's house called This Game is Bonkers. While the game released in 1978, this version was from 1989 with a board laid out with a clay-molded aesthetic, from the spaces to the points system to the character heads around the box. When I first saw this game board, it brought back memories of that Nickelodeon short.
I appreciate any leads and questions, I can't wait to see what others recall or discover about this board game stop-motion animation.
P.S. I should also mention that I live in NJ, USA, so this played on American airwaves. And I've poured through dozens of commercial breaks on YouTube during the 90s and 2000s and still couldn't find a trace of it. But then again, if it was a short and not a bumper, perhaps that's why it didn't appear?
When I was young, somewhere between the late 90's and early 2000's, I recall seeing a stop-motion animated short on Nickelodeon which featured a series of random toys and small objects playing around on a game board. As far as I know, the board game was fictitious, so this wasn't an ad for a real product. The board game would also come to life affecting the player pieces. And the lighting of the scene made it appear in a dark room or black void, nothing surrounding the board game itself. It felt like longer than a standard television bumper, but wasn't a full episode of a show, I'd say at most maybe 2 minutes in length.
Now before some comments, I wanna clear some speculation that would come up with this information and validity:
- 1) How am I sure it was on Nickelodeon and not Cartoon Network, Kids WB, or another network? - Because it had a Nickelodeon flair to it; the stop-motion nature of the short reminded me of other stop-motion productions from Nickelodeon, from bumpers to Kablam segments.
- 2) Could it be the Nick Jr board game bumper? - While I was young, it was not. I watched that bumper recently and it was too bright and too short to match.
- 3) Could it be the Johnny Quest from Cartoon Network/Boomerang? - No; I asked RebelTaxi about this media above on a livestream recently, and he didn't seem to recognize it, but referred me to the Johnny Quest short. I watched it, and I wasn't entirely familiar with it. Seemed less zany than the above short I described. But the vibe is similar, maybe the same crew who developed this short also worked on the Nickelodeon one?
- 4) How do you know this isn't a false memory? - This was buried in my memory from when I watched it until about the mid-2010's, when I came across a board game at my extended family's house called This Game is Bonkers. While the game released in 1978, this version was from 1989 with a board laid out with a clay-molded aesthetic, from the spaces to the points system to the character heads around the box. When I first saw this game board, it brought back memories of that Nickelodeon short.
I appreciate any leads and questions, I can't wait to see what others recall or discover about this board game stop-motion animation.
P.S. I should also mention that I live in NJ, USA, so this played on American airwaves. And I've poured through dozens of commercial breaks on YouTube during the 90s and 2000s and still couldn't find a trace of it. But then again, if it was a short and not a bumper, perhaps that's why it didn't appear?
