Wait...THAT piece of media was ACTUALLY released?

Thanks for sharing both! I'm surprised more people aren't talking about the CB/SS crossover, especially if it's specifically the OG style, seems that there have been a fair number of videos on both topics separately in the Youtube sphere recently but not on a crossover!

A lot of people just dismiss "mini movies" or "short TV specials," especially in the age of streaming, similar to the attitude to "cheap sequels," but those used to be kind of a big deal. Especially the holiday ones and ones that were theme park attractions. Heck, part of getting a DVD meant you got to see "extra content" like those, and they were advertised (heck, even Despicable Me 4, which released this year, advertised "mini movies" as part of the physical media). And they can be really fun and expand upon the universe of their properties, like the Toy Story ones. Shrek 3D, if I remember correctly, didn't get a proper home release until it was bundled with Shrek 2, before that, you had to either locate someone's shaky cam footage of the ride at the Universal Studios park buried online (pre-Youtube era, of course), or go there yourself. 

</div>We used to have regular semi-long commutes in our family and with the family we carpooled with, so we would definitely put on "mini movies" on those DVDs in addition to the regular movies to keep entertained. Some really good memories there. I remember us having a blast with those Dreamworks/Madagascar ones in particular. It was really a treat to get "more film!"

It is interesting when American/British products end up released abroad before their American/British release, IF they end up getting any significant release here! Everyone jokes about "David Hasselhoff and Germany," but as someone whose family lived in Europe for a bit and traveled all around, my parents will tell you that the hype was indeed MASSIVE there.

On that "foreign" note, so many animated movies get released in foreign countries that get no attention in the USA, unless they get lucky enough to make it on a major streaming platform and/or luck it out with a word-of-mouth theatrical screening.
One example that fascinated me was that the studio Klasky Csupo apparently still released products post their Nickelodeon heyday, such as a film called Immigrants (2008) and an online web series called Robosplaat! (2016-today). They also produced a preschool series called "Poppycat" (2011-2016).

Great point greatwhite,TBH the 3 films that fascinate me with their releases are:
Gnome Alone
Animal Crackers
Duck Duck Goose
All of these seem to have gone through a fair amount of development/funding hell and by the time they came out, I guess no one cared outside of animation Youtubers? Heck even people like me who follow animation fairly closely didn't even know when these things came out.

</div></div></div>From what I remember, it was because of the original distributors for both movies going bankrupt.

So, "Hamsters of Hamsterdale", a Nick Jr series that was announced back 3 years ago, recently premiered in Germany. Weird that a Canadian-produced preschool cartoon premiered outside of it's home continent. With that in mind, the series got "leaked*" with a German dub. A similar thing happened in a different way for another show that was also announced at the same time: "Zokie of Planet Ruby". The series went into some type of development hell and quietly, Amazon Prime Video of all services dumped the series right at the end of 2023 without any promotion whatsoever. Not even Nickelodeon themselves as they didn't even bother premiering the series at all before this and didn't bother premiering it now. "Zokie of Planet Ruby" did premiere in America, just not on linear television.

*Though an episode got uploaded onto Dailymotion, Nick Jr Germany's official YouTube channel uploaded the theme song for "Hamsters of Hamsterdale".