B-BONUS DRAWING!

Also, I honestly didn’t know this until later, but rest in peace George Lowe. You will always be Space Ghost to me. And Captain Beefy.

i know it's not much ki fandom but please accept this very polite boy

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Gotta love it when my Tumblr gets some of the weirdest and grossest ads imaginable. No I don’t want a “MAN MY APPLE WATCH CAUSES ALL THAT PESKY BLOOD AND PUS AND POOP AND MAGGOTS TO EXPEL FROM MY BODY I FEEL LIKE A DOLLAR AND THIRTY-EIGHT CENTS”

And don’t forget “OH NO MY APPLES AND ORANGES ARE FULL OF MOLD AND WASPS GOTTA CUT THEM SATISFYINGLY UNTIL I FIND A NICE PIECE TO FEED TO LITTLE TIMMY WITHOUT HIM GETTING FOOD POISONING”

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Damn! I gotta break this down a bit.

First, I was not expecting concept art and storyboards! I liked the storyboard involving the Amoeba Boys bumbling about and torching an entire library, that was fairly amusing. I’m not surprised that it didn’t make it that far into production, given how a lot of dev studios I believe at the time were pitching video games based on cartoons and many of them not sticking. Ah, such is a volatile industry…

Second, I also didn’t know this was meant to be a GameCube title either. I can only hypothesize: I guess when I discovered it, Shock of Ages was also meant to be released on the PS2 much like Relish Rampage? Or be a proper multiplatform title like other cartoon video games (PS2, OG Xbox, GameCube, PC/Mac, GBA…you get the idea)?

Now, if it was a GameCube exclusive judging by how it was presented on Kieth Erickson’s portfolio, had it been released it’d probably would’ve been a collectors item by now. A GameCube exclusive based on a popular cartoon show? Way too many hardcore fans and retro game collectors would’ve ate that up!

As for publisher, the GameFAQs page mentioned THQ, which is a bit weird considering how they had the exclusive rights to Nicktoons games. Bam Entertainment had the Cartoon Network license and published most of the Powerpuff Girls games. Then they lost it, and the rights for other CN shows went to a ton of other studios like Midway, Sega, Crave, D3 and even Capcom (well, namely for that Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law game).

I wouldn’t be surprised if Bam lost the CN exclusivity at some point it caused the game to be scrapped or switched publishers, then scrapped. Hell, there was a Dexter’s Lab game - a mech fighting game akin to MechAssault that was being made at the same time and that was further in development also. Maybe that explains why that got cancelled too.

This is such a cool find. It’s a shame that there wasn’t design docs, if any, or whatever else behind it. One can dream.

Hey! Seeing that you’re the resident rare PPG merch blog, I need your perspective. I know that the PPG video games aren’t very good but this one intrigued me because of how…mysterious it is. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/917583-powerpuff-girls-shock-of-ages

I have no idea if it was a real game that got cancelled or somebody made it up. I couldn’t find any prerelease info on it, or an archived announcement from any site - let alone GaneFAQs. Seriously, what is this game?

super sorry for the super late answer!

first of all, "resident rare ppg merch blog"?! you flatter me!

as for your question, it seems this really was a cancelled game! ive found the portfolio of Keith Erickson, an animator who worked on the game as well as the gba game mojo-jojo a go-go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050219234557/http://raccoonlad.topcities.com/portfolio/port00.html

prop/location concepts

plus some storyboards!

not a clue on what this game would've entailed though! i don't think this game got far enough in production to warrant to have a public announcement on news articles which is why it's so mysterious! thanks for the ask!

Welp, I’m slightly older now.

Crazy it’s been 30 years since this short debuted.

Hot take - I actually liked the art direction and animation in this short compared to the series proper. Don’t get me wrong, the show has excellent art direction but there’s some genuinely fantastic backgrounds and oodles upon oodles of sight gags in the short that are really clever. Really something that needed to be rewatched over and over just to see how much was put in it.

I also kindof adored the Mayor’s initial design here and his personality, a bit more neurotic compared to how childish he was later on. And yeah, Fuzzy was great here.

And how did pissed Bubs not become a meme exploitable at this point?! I made an edit if anyone wants to use it for shitposting purposes, one with a caption box one without it.

30 years ago today, "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins", the very first What-A-Cartoon short, premiered on Cartoon Network! It was the first of 2 (technically 3, if you count "Whoopass Stew") pilots for the PPG series.

It might be a hot take here, but I always liked how Fuzzy was portrayed in this short: He was a villain here, but in this pilot, he was a little more smarter in planning his scheme, going as far as to create a literal meat gun. In the series proper, he was dumbed down a bit and flipped out at even the smallest of slights.

And of course, I can't forget my favorite moment of this episode:

Isn't she cute when she's angry, folks?