HobbyKids Adventures

HobbyKids Adventures
Wow, this even makes the last two seasons of The Fairly OddParents and even Bunsen is a Beast look amazing in comparison.
Genre: Comedy Slapstick Family Running Time: 5-7 minutes Country: United States Release Date: June 22, 2019 – March 14, 2020 Network(s): YouTube Nick Jr. (app) Created by: Butch Hartman Distributed by: HobbyFamilyTV PocketWatch, Inc. Starring: Griffin Burns Cristina Milizia Johnny Rose Seasons: 2 Episodes: 27

HobbyKids Adventures is an American web series based on the children's YouTube channel HobbyKidsTV, created by Butch Hartman. It premiered on June 22, 2019, and ended on March 14, 2020.

Plot

Three brothers use fun, food and amazing inventions to avoid the Slobby Kids and make the world a better place.

HobbyBad Qualities

1. To address the elephant in the room, the flash animation is straight-up abysmal, lazy, cheap and it suffers from constant frame-rate drops. It's so terrible to the point where it makes Butch Hartman's two previous shows look like Avengers: Endgame by comparison.
   • The characters' movements are very inconsistent, as it constantly changes from being fluid to stiff in multiple scenes. Even the flash animation from the last 13 episodes of The Fairly OddParents and Bunsen is a Beast was better than this.
   • There are also many animation errors.
2. The art style and character designs are somewhat poorly drawn and unappealing, to the point that it makes the art style and character designs from Bunsen Is a Beast look good in comparison. Both of them don't even resemble a Butch Hartman show, as it looks more like a Canadian show.
3. The HobbyKids themselves are often portrayed as bad characters who often get into trouble, but rarely get disciplined for their actions. They also do lots of bad things. For example:
   • In "Burger Bandits", they turn everything into burgers, including HobbyMom's computer, the TV, the car, and the toilet paper, and pretty much don't get any real comeuppance.
   • In "Breaking Bedtime!", they set up extremely fatal traps that could kill someone in real life, just to avoid bedtime.
4. The episode "Burger Bandits" is entirely just product placement, as it is just a paid advertisement for Carl's Jr and Hardee's.
   • Thankfully though, there is a version of the episode which replaces "Carl's Jr" with the fictional "Cosmo Burger", but it's still a terrible episode.
5. Some of the characters' names, such as Oh Fish Al, are laughably bad.
6. The theme song is very generic and annoying, and doesn't do much at all.
7. False Advertising: Some of the promotional material for the show features HobbyFrog using a jetpack and HobbyBear using a skateboard, even though they never use either of these in the show itself.
8. The SlobbyKids are punching bags, even when they don't deserve it.
9. The show was even made available on the Nick Jr. app, along with some episodes being uploaded on the Nick Jr. YouTube channel. The show's humor and lack of educational value make no sense for a preschool-oriented network. Even Nicktoons would be a better fit for the show.

HobbyTastic Qualities

1. A few of the episodes' title cards, like that of "Breaking Bedtime!", are neat and well-drawn in contrast to the art style and character designs in the actual show.
2. The voice acting is alright, and is done well by a rather amateur cast.
3. While the art style is unappealing, the character designs can be tolerable to some.
4. The episodes could actually be good if they were executed the right way.
5. The soundtrack is also pretty good, despite being very repetitive.
6. The theme song and credits theme, while generic and annoying, is catchy.
7. It's so bad in fact that it's unintentionally funny, especially when it comes to the dialogue and animation.

Reception

The show holds a 3.0/10 on IMDb.

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