Showing posts with label Merchandise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merchandise. Show all posts

Sunday, September 21, 2008

The book based on the movie based on the book

Earlier, while browsing around http://amazon.com/, I found a book for sale based on Who Bob, What Pants? Who Bob is based on a book called "For the Love of Bubbles". This means they've got...

The book...
...based on the movie...
...based on the book.

Ingenius, eh? Maybe ungenius. Or something. It's silly, though. It's like doing a novelization of the Lord of the Rings movies.

Well, maybe not; truthfully, I don't know how similar Who Bob is to For the Love of Bubbles. For all I know, they're two completely different stories, but the movie is supposedly based on it.

I found the concept of basing a book on a movie that was already based on a book funny, though. :) Ah, well. Here's hoping Who Bob, What Pants will be good!

Friday, September 19, 2008

Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition

Second post today! Woot. Oh, before I go on, there's a new comic up.

Drawn to Life was a game where you could draw your own characters, weapons, and other things with the DS stylus. The premise was that there were a bunch of bunny-like people called Raposas. One Raposa, Wilfre, has stolen the Boof of Life, which their God wrote in. Everything written in it came to life. Wilfre tried to change reality as he saw fit and rule, but his creations came out black and twisted. Now, the village the Raposas inhabit is trapped in an endless winter and near empty, because everyone has left. The mayor's daughter calls out to their God (you) and asks you to send them a hero. Thus, you draw your hero to life.
It was a cute game, though it contained a badly-written tragedy in it, the storyline was good and the ending scene---unless you're a ten-year-old boy---was a tearjerker.

What does this have to with SpongeBob, you ask? A spin-off, using the original engine, was released on the fifteenth entitled Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition. For real. Truthfully, I don't care much for games based on cartoons. But this is interesting to me because, for one thing it's based on a game I loved. For another thing, the villain happens to be the character who is the protagonist of tons of my fan fiction: DoodleBob!
It's loosely based on the episode Frankendoodle. Basically, DoodleBob uses the pencil to draw himself a badly-drawn army, and you must save his captives. Hmm...it sounds a lot like a fan fic I wrote....
Since it's based on the episode, but promises to be nothing like it, it doesn't really have a place in the SpongeBob canon. Hey, who cares? This DoodleBob fangirl wants. that. game. It's on my birthday list. ;D

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Season 5 on DVD

What with Church and volunteering to do a ton of chores, I haven't been able to post much today. I'll probably make this today's only post, but it's pretty good news:

"SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Fifth Season, Volume 2" DVD comes out November 18th in the US and Canada. One reason this is good is because there's a bit of a dispute over the episode order for season 5, and whether or not there's a twentieth episode in the season (as most seasons of SpongeBob have). Once the DVDs come out, we can get the production codes and find out if there's a "missing" episode other than Goo Goo Gas.

Yeah, Nickelodeon's pretty sloppy when it comes to what episodes they air when. Everything's shown one short at a time, in the wrong order, and now that we're in season 6, season 5 hasn't even finished airing! I think there are probably only 19 episodes in season 5, since nobody's heard anything about an unaired episode other than the aforementioned GGG. I could be wrong, though, knowing Nickelodeon.