Post by Groovy Jake/Jacob Berkley on Aug 5, 2022 5:48:17 GMT
This is something I found while randomly searching Deviantart one day. A piece of Adventure Time fanart done by VanillyCake entitled "Before the Great Mushroom War". In the picture, an elderly scientist, who is supposed to be Bubblegum's father, injects her with some formula which turns her from a human to the Bubblegum girl we know, in order for her to survive The Great Mushroom war.
While I assumed this was simply a fanfic idea, the description says it's actually based on an origin story for Princess Bubblegum that was present on the CN website:
"Bubblegum and her father before the great mushroom war. The cartoonnetwork website said that she was created by a mad scientist (it's gone now) so I figured why not make it her dad? Maybe her dad knew what was going to happen and made it so Bubblegum could live long after the war."
The origin apparently was only on the Cartoon Network website during the first incarnation of the Adventure Time section on the site, and was gone by the time of the fanart's upload, June 4, 2011. I've tried to find the mention of this origin on the earliest archives or the AT section of the CN website on archive.org, but it refuses to load properly, and the earliest revision of the site that worked seemed to have the "created by a mad scientist" origin removed.
Did anyone back up what was on the site? Or save any of the information on it, including this early version of the origin? I haven't found any mention of it aside from this fanart, and I really wanna see the original blurb on the site about the mad scientist origin story.
The Deviantart page: www.deviantart.com/vanillycake/art/Before-the-Great-Mushroom-War-211638651
The earliest archive of the Adventure Time section on CN's website, refuses to load: web.archive.org/web/20100304061015/http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/adventuretime / web.archive.org/web/20100528215432/http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/adventuretime/
While I assumed this was simply a fanfic idea, the description says it's actually based on an origin story for Princess Bubblegum that was present on the CN website:
"Bubblegum and her father before the great mushroom war. The cartoonnetwork website said that she was created by a mad scientist (it's gone now) so I figured why not make it her dad? Maybe her dad knew what was going to happen and made it so Bubblegum could live long after the war."
The origin apparently was only on the Cartoon Network website during the first incarnation of the Adventure Time section on the site, and was gone by the time of the fanart's upload, June 4, 2011. I've tried to find the mention of this origin on the earliest archives or the AT section of the CN website on archive.org, but it refuses to load properly, and the earliest revision of the site that worked seemed to have the "created by a mad scientist" origin removed.
Did anyone back up what was on the site? Or save any of the information on it, including this early version of the origin? I haven't found any mention of it aside from this fanart, and I really wanna see the original blurb on the site about the mad scientist origin story.
The Deviantart page: www.deviantart.com/vanillycake/art/Before-the-Great-Mushroom-War-211638651
The earliest archive of the Adventure Time section on CN's website, refuses to load: web.archive.org/web/20100304061015/http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/adventuretime / web.archive.org/web/20100528215432/http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/adventuretime/
