Toy House looks like such a charming show! It has that loveable clunkiness to the animation, y'know? It holds this strong nostalgic feeling for me, even if I never grew up where it aired. I hope people are able to find more episodes of it soon!
Mushroom looks positively unsettling due to the choice of attempting realistic human faces on animals, but Toy House has a charming vintage cartoony look that aged pretty well.
Unsettling? They are so goofy looking! I couldn't stop laughing whenever a new character would come into frame. When the whole series is found, I hope everyone busts their guts until their stomach aches at the sight of it.
It’s crazy that anything that came out recently can be considered lost media! An example of this is The Fairly Oddparents: Fairly Odder, which was a 2022 Live Action and Animation Hybrid, where it’s a live action setting, but Cosmo and Wanda are still animated, it was also a continuation of sorts to the original series, just without Timmy, because Cosmo and Wanda got set to a new, less animated family! It was exclusive to Paramount+, but recently got pulled from it for unknown reasons! Only one episode is completely found, while the rest are partially found!
@@funnylilfella I just wanted to see if there were any Fairly Oddparents Lost Media, so I searched the lost media wiki for it, and wouldn’t you know it, it was on there!
I'm glad that Mushroom Village has gotten coverage since I wrote the wiki article for it! I was drawn to it eleven years ago when looking at a list of Chinese cartoons (I'm from the US) and I could not stop laughing at the yellow hedgehog's poorly rendered face. The show was not shared online unlike most other Chinese cartoons. I wrote articles for other foreign language lost media, such as the unreleased 1970s Turkish animated film called Esop which has earthworm characters, and the Japanese web anime Kuwagata Tsumami.
9:50 It could be a mix of both. The poster mentions Filipino actors and shows screenshots of their faces, so it's clearly not just a dub. It reminds me of the American adaptations of Godzilla movies. Where they took the movie, dubbed it, and added extra scenes with American actors, basically adding an entire new subplot. This could be something similar and the actors on the poster might be the ones on the extra scenes.
From what I initially heard, Pulgasari was actually a North Korean film. In 1962, the North Korean leader (Kim Il Sung, I think) took interest in Japanese Kaiju films and wanted one made for North Korea. He apparently had a Japanese husband and wife director duo kidnapped and flown in, and he forced them to make the film. So, the North Korean film reel was indeed made and shown in theaters. However, it's unknown whether or not it's still in existence.
You know, I was thinking that exact same story when the name Pulgarsari came up. Some youtuber I watched a little while ago talked about it in her videos. Atrocity Guide I think her name was.
If you ever do a video about lost games, I recommend mentioning Infinity Ring! They used to be browser-based games that were meant to be played with the book series. Once Scholastic removed the games, there was almost no way to play... And even the books suffered (as they would mention events only appearing in the games). I was a die-hard fan of the series and played 6/7 games, so I'm open to questions you might need!
@@WigglePup They can still be accessed through the wayback machine, or downloaded from pirate sites using flash/tor/whatever you prefer. Sadly it is quite the lengthy process as you have to compile it yourself, but it's certainly doable. I've considered contacting Scholastic directly to upload the game on their own archive again.
Similar story with the Spirit Animals app. Connected to the books, but taken down by Scholastic unfortunately. I didn't get far before it shut down, but the app was fun as heck from what I remember and had its own plot points.
Adding onto the kaiju section with my own two cents, there's another lost film in the genre that I've been particularly interested in. It's an Indian movie called गोगोला/Gogola that was released in 1966 and is quite possibly the country's only foray into the genre. All that we really have are a few bits of promotional material... and the original soundtrack, for some reason. Considering it's been roughly 57 years, though, I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually lost to the sands of time. (Also mileage may vary, but part of why this one film holds my attention is because of the Gogola suit, which I find endearingly goofy-looking lol.)
I remember watching The Hopkins on Nick in the early 2000s. I wanted to enter that contest but my parents said no lol. The only episode I remember had something to do with a special chair everyone wanted to sit at while eating breakfast and always ended with a big fight.
Speaking of strange lost media, here's one I remember (possibly a Mandela effect) : A free trial version of Tasty Planet (2006 version) where 2 objects from a Picnic Table level are replaced by a disk and a Rubik's Cube. If anyone played Tasty Planet, you would understand that comment. I remember playing that weird version of that game in early 2010s.
The Rubik's Cube is owned by Hasbro. So it's possible this free trial version had a tie-in with Hasbro somehow. I know that Hasbro used to have free web games online based on some of their toys and board games, so is it possible that they had a version of Tasty Planet on their website for some weird reason?
3:50 Sadly , it''s not that common for Chinese viewers to record contents from TV on tape at the time. (Also , there is a chance that this cartoon was broadcasted though some early days video steaming sites instead of TV......which make it less likely to be survive to today , as even if the site is still online , the content from that era are probably already gone.) And according to info I can gather (I'm from Taiwan , so I do know my way though Chinese infos) , The 10 episode that we saw today is most likely the only episodes that got released. (It's seem like the production company was planned to make 100 episodes (split into 10 batches , with 10 episodes per batch.) , but only the first 10 episodes was licensed by the National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) of China , before the business licensing of the company was suspend.....) (Here is a thing about Chinese NRTA......basically , you have to got the license of production issued , before you start the production.) Source : Baidu Baike of the production company , and some open source data base for business licensing/registration/public record.
Dude, in the Netherlands we also had this contest from Nickelodeon. A Family won, got like 5 episodes about 1 minute in length too. The family 'Maat' ultimately won, the series is called 'De Maatjes', I not even sure if there is any footage of it, but I remember it clear as day.
@@belstar1128 I vaguely remember a 'Nick op 11' campaign, but I can't remember an elf telling to do so. I thought it was just the regular Dutch Nickelodeon voice
These international/foreign language pieces of lost media are fascinating to me. I wonder how many are actually out there and are just hard for English speakers to find... (I'm sure plenty of them are actually lost, though! Lost media is a worldwide thing)
Has anyone reached out to the Hopkins themselves to ask if they have copies of the shorts? I feel like they would have likely been given something like that - or if not, would have gone out of their way to tape them considering their significance.
That’s exactly what I think, and even if they don’t have anything, it would be interesting to get their side of the story on how they got picked and what they thought of the project.
OH MY GOD!!! No way did I ever think I'd see myself in one of your videos 😭 Thank you so much for giving me credit it's very appreciated and I hope more attention on HahaNick can lead to more things being found!! I seriously respect you so much, you're one of the lost media GOATs thank you so much seriously ❤❤❤
toy house looks pretty interesting for early 90s CG... i hope all of it gets found someday. i also had no idea there was a recorded tape collecting community over there, much less a lost media community there too
On the topic of lost media, I've been trying to remember this animated series (at least i think it was an animated series) from time to time. All i can remember is being about the daily lives of this family where the dad is a gorilla and the mom is some sort of animal caretaker and their two children (one boy and one girl) being a mix of gorilla and human in a sitcom style show. I really hope it isn't some kind of fever dream or I'm remembering wrong but it's been ln the backburner all this time
@@gwendolynstata3775 hi thanks! I just looked it up and I think maybe this could be it. Though I guess I remembered it wrong with the dad having black fur
The Hopkins reminds me of another lost "Nicktoons Family" series called Meet the Moores, which was produced for Nicktoons UK. Unlike The Hopkins, there exists a full episode online of the Moores (uploaded by someone who worked on it I guess). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3BRCL3qBvH4.html
@@DenoTheSaur Haha Nick? They used racist caricatures and blackface to promote Kenan & Kel, and constantly laughed at the fact that show had 2 Black leads. Nasty stuff all round
At 5:24, there is a weed leaf and a bob marley artwork on the guys shirt in the skit. Omg funny how they either missed or allowed that. Was there a subculture in China regarding this at the time??
I am still trying to recover the TVO series, the Bod Squad. I used to watch that a lot as a kid and only a few episodes of this series have resurfaced on RU-vid but the vast majority of the series is still missing. It was on for over a decade and it existed in various incarnations. Sadly, my top two favorite incarnations (the movie parody one and the TV parody one) are still completely missing. I only found some snippets of the TV one from a video that serves as a demo reel from one of the actors that was in the show. I tried contacting some of the actors from the show but none of them have got back to me.
The Lost Media I'm currently thinking about is Saban's English version of the German puppet series "Hallo Spencer." It's somewhere in between straight up dub and reediting to change some of the context. Only about 4 episodes in really old VHS quality have surfaced, while quite a few of the original German series is available. And that's not even counting Saban's international distribution, which had several dubs of the series which seem to also be lost.
Fun fact: The same studio that made Tales in Mushroom Village made another show called “Alien Visitors” Unfortunately the entire show is currently lost, the available content of this show is the trailer.
I have also heard that 1962 Bulgasari isnt even real, someone tried looking for the actors/actresses but didn't get any results for it, so there is the possibilty this is like A Day with Spongebob but for Kaiju media
Hey LSSQ I think I remember a mini bumper from SpongeBob its called Learning with sandy it was like sandy explaining stuff/etc idk the rest but I remember it
I'm wondering if the Disney series called Ultra Violet and Black Scorpion is lost media now, because just like Fairly Odder, it too was pulled from Disney Plus, I have all the episodes saved to my DVR, until they get eventually deleted, that is. But, I don't think that I have any way to save them to my computer, let alone RU-vid.
Does anyone remember an old computer kid's game that took place in a tree? It was 3D animated and I think included characters from a show (could be wrong abt that)? You would go to different levels of a tree and each level had a different character with mini games. I remember an old tortoise that read books, and a sleepy bear level where you could change the weather and time of day. I've tried searching for it on google to no avail!! It was a very old game, probably made in the early 2000s or even 90s. I can't remember if it was a website or a CD game, but I want to say website since I would play it so often, but it could def be a CD game.
Some lost media recommendation! No one is talking about this: قصص الأنبياء بالصلصال (the stories of the prophets in clay) I’m not sure if a search has been done but it’s worth a watch of the few episodes online
Still annoying to me that Adventures of Zorro's original English dub is lost. We have all the animation because of several dubs being completely saved, but only 2 episodes exist online in English. But at least it's looked for. The Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor is not on any lost media site, and only has 2 episodes in English online. (I've found something like 9 episodes on RU-vid in Tamil, though.)
Funnily enough yonggary was remade in 1999 and is also considered partially lost. The version available today (sometimes known as reptilian) is an updated cut of the movie from 2001 with "improved" visuals.
Hi lsupersonicq. Could you do a video about the song “everyone knows that”? It’s a lost song that only has 17 seconds of it available (despite the many fan extensions out there) and nobody knows who made it or where it ever was played (our theory is that it was in a tv commercial) so if you could do a video about it, it would really help the search.
Hey LSuperSonicQ can you talk about a lost live action version of an anime called the laughing salesman? Only one episode has been found so far to my knowledge.
I really want to see the lost cgi segment of the invader zim pilot!!! The full pilot is on youtube, but they also animated the food fight scene in cgi as a test and it’s become lost
Things that receive little attention in the lost media community: Lost music videos (Yes' Leave It is the most notable history). Lost foreign series (Chespirito's series are the 'Doctor Who' of Latin America). Unidentified songs (The Chapolin Polka is a long-running mystery).
Oh, on the subject of lost music videos and lost music, I remember reading about two Katy Perry things that are lost (or maybe just really hard to find on my end). One is an earlier version of (I think) a "Hot and Cold" music video where Katy is alone in a series of white rooms with no furniture. It had a much lower production budget (and obviously, distribution) than the primary music video we know. Then there's an earlier version of "Part of Me" that has a different lyric in the end of the bridge. The lyric is something like "So you can keep the bulldog(?)/ He never liked me anyway" instead of the later "So you can keep the diamond ring/ It don't mean nothing anyway." Then her whole first album was I think either self-published or from a small indie studio. It was self-titled, though under her birth name, Katy Hudson, and Christian influenced. It's hard to find.
Great to see kaiju lost media mentioned! I'd love to see more brought to people's attention because kaiju media is something that I absolutely love. The one thing I would love to see found would be the Godzilla vs Gamera stage show, which only has a few pictures and a five second clip that's been found.
I'm pretty sure Toy House was made some time after 1996, and not 1993 as some have claimed. One of the images the computer dude flashes on his screen a couple times is a demo render from the Kinetix 3D Studio Max demo suite, which was released in 1996. The only way they would have likely obtained this image is if they had it on file through the software itself, which would not have been possible until 1996. This also likely means the show was animated using this software; and I'd be surprised if they swapped animation software midway through production, as the animation is quite rough.
I'm sorry but as an artist i can't take the name of that last one seriously because "toyhouse" is also the name of a character posting/roleplay website...
5:40 reminds me of when nickelodeon came to Belgium in 2002 they had to share a channel with mtv too. mtv has been here since the early 90s or maybe even the late 80s i guess fans of mtv hated it but similar channels showed up. nick broadcasted until 18:00 then it was mtv quite disappointing since school wasn't done until 16:00 so it wasn't much better as the kids shows blocks on local tv channels unless it was weekend .in 2006 or 2007 they got there own channel but by that time i came a teenager and didn't care about nick anymore.
9:28 That user is Simon Santos of Video 48, a video rental and movie merchandise library/museum/shop, at the Ground Level, Mary Santos ARTcade Building, 48 West Avenue, West Triangle, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
There's actually one mystery. I think you should do a video on The mystery of dubious depths. If you don't know what that is. It was a scrap zone from sonic CD. We only have bits of the level. Including the present theme. Remix versions of the bad and good future scene. And information from developers. As well as animation from the ending of sonic CD.
it would depend on which one, I know there's gotta be multiple of them. I've used one that's based in a script on Tampermonkey and I used it quite a lot before
I have a really unknown piece of lost media i've been thinking about for a while now... It is a website perhaps dedicated to the cheetos mascot and it involves a shop and really "futuristic" animations. I think it is somewhat like the way "U.B. Funkeys" visual style but played with a hub menu to direct you through different modes...
And about bulgasali south korea back then was not the south korea we know today it was almost as poor as north Korea. many people left the country and it was considered on par with places like vietnam or nepal and it was also under a military junta so there was not much freedom. so its quite likely that it got lost.
4:31 "more surprising than anything Cartoon Network or Disney Channel were doing at the time" LSuperSonicQ has never heard of Disney Buzz, Studio D/Studio Disney, or Good Morning Raoul/The Raoul Show, all from The House of Mouse
Can a book count as lost media if multiple copies of said book still exist but they haven't been scanned and uploaded online? Just asking for future reference
@@HarmonyHope7534 the books can only be bought from second hand sites and even then they can be expensive are near impossible to find the whole set. It's not fully online so just asking if it counts as lost
Something I would really like to see found is Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House. It was a Saturday morning game show from 96-97 on CBS. There are a few clips and a couple episodes on RU-vid but aside from some articles and pages the show is basically lost. I made a post on Reddit that gained little traction and I have seen some discussion here and there but not much. I don't even see it mentioned on LMW which is surprising given it having a Wikipedia article.
@@genyakozlov1316 Sadly I noticed. Seems the Lost Media community is more concerned about chasing rumored alternate pilots than looking for actual tangible media most of the time. Thought we had some progress going when I reposted on Reddit where a user claimed to have a friend with them on VHS but didn't know how to transfer the medium. I explained to them how to do a straight forward copy and conversion and haven't heard anything back since. Kinda disheartening TBH.
obsessed with the one guy's bob marley shirt with a giant pot leaf on it in that chinese nick block. also if the show Toy House really is from 1993 and the episodes are longer than 10 minutes, then it might be the reigning champ as the oldest fully produced CGI show! ReBoot premiered in 1994 and has been tauted as the oldest fully produced CGI show since it's original air date.
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Just as a note, I'd specify North and South when discussing post 1947 media that pertains to Korea. If only because it makes it easier to know which part you're discussing.
Hello im looking for a mostly lost series made by David firth called jims story it ran from 1999 to 2001 only 2 epsoides have been found some clips as whell everything else is lost i know this is a extremely undocumented and obscure thing but i am on the hunt for the rest of this series
you probably already know this but his old website back in the day was hacked and deleted, again you probably know this but if it helps anyone im throwing the information out
not really lost media, but i remember playing the legend of zelda minish cap, getting to the room before the final boss (there's a time limit, you gotta defeat these enemies before the bells chime 3 times) and i managed to defeat them and get to zelda, but i guess the bell rang right before i got through the door (?), cause the camera moved to vaati and zelda, and then just... stayed there. the cutscene didnt continue or anything i musta just softlocked it, but i did think it was kinda creepy just having link stare in horror at zelda's light force being taken by vaati, it was mostly funny tho, and ofc i just shrugged it off and restarted my gba lol just a funny lil anecdote i wanted to share
Ha Ha Nick reminds me of a dream I had a while ago where an unlicensed Nickelodeon channel named "NickJogs" entered the country and became a big deal depsite an offical channel existing in said dream. The dream ended with "NickJogs" becoming popular slang for a blunder/falsery.
