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The Berenstain Bears (1979-1983)
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 Before the 1985 series of The Berenstain Bears, we had these horrible specials.
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From 1979 to 1983, five holiday-themed Berenstain Bears animated specials were produced by Perpetual Motion Inc. and The Cates Brothers Company and aired on NBC. Lawrence and Berenstain would provide music and lyrics for each the specials.
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Why These Specials Don't Feel Like A Bear
- Quantity Over Quality: No fewer than five of these specials were produced.
- The animation is quite poor, rushed, limited, Hanna Barbera-esque (50s-70s) and unremarkable as a result of Perpetual Motion Inc. and The Cates Brothers Company's low production budget; it ranges from being bland and simplistic to just plain uncanny and creepy-looking to the point where it wouldn't feel out of place in a Hanna-Barbera, Terrytoons, UPA, Warner Bros. Seven-Arts or DePatie-Freleng cartoon. Also not helping this is that the specials were completed in less than a year. In comparison, The Berenstain Bears (1985) and even The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show boast superior animation quality.
- The color scheme is very washed-out and unappealing to look at.
- There is barely any movement in some scenes and most of them look rushed.
- Certain scenes have choppy framerates and/or out-of-nowhere jump cuts that can be distracting.
- The characters have really awkward walk cycles, especially Brother Bear.
- It is also repeated way too many times... to the point where it quickly gets predictable.
- The characters have little to no exaggerated facial expressions to show their emotions, making those scenes seem rather lifeless and more often than not, bland.
- Notably slow pacing and timing, causing most of the jokes to fall flat.
- Multiple contunity errors: The worst offender is the whole "true meaning of Christmas" premise in Christmas Tree. As per usual for an animated Christmas special, it is not only clichéd both on paper and in execution, but it doesn't make any sense since everyone in Bear Country is over-indulging in mindless consumerism.
- Papa even tells Brother and Sister that Christmas is the time to be "thinking of family and friends", which also technically makes the Bear Family hypocrites.
- Papa says that Thanksgiving dinner is his favorite part about the titular holiday in Big Paw, despite it being nowhere near as important as giving thanks and Papa telling his children that "there's much more to Christmas than just presents" in the previous special.
- Nonsensical endings, such as the Boss Bunny being reformed by seeing a rainbow in the Easter Special and Sister Bear being born.
- Below-average humor and overuse of rhyming. Everyone speaks in rhyme, even the narrator, which gets annoying fast.
- Poor audio quality, with the Comic Valentine special (specifically the 2009 version included on a The Berenstain Bears - Kidness, Caring and Sharing DVD) being the worst offender of this; all of the voice actors sound like their microphones broke or they're from the end of a broken phone speaker.
- Ugly, off-model and uncanny character designs that strike a bearing resemblance to the designs of the Tom and Jerry cast from the Gene Deitch era.
- The Bear Family's personalities have been drastically changed to be the exact opposite of what they originally were:
- Papa Bear went from an over-eager, bumbling carpenter to a crazy, unlikable screwball prankster.
- Mama Bear went from a perfectionist housewife to a bland, stereotypical cartoon parent.
- Brother and Sister Bear are now bland-as-wheat, stale protagonists.
- The townsfolk are initially unlikable in the Big Paw special; they seem to fear and ridicule Big Paw just because he's real and consistently try to beat him down with random nonsense. This is an incredibly ludicrous and idiotic idea that makes no sense whatsoever, since the concept of Bear Country being afraid of Big Paw and thinking he'll destroy the town isn't complex enough to sustain a feature-length TV special.
- False Advertising: In The Berenstain Bears Meet Big Paw, Big Paw only appears halfway through the special, with loads of filler and padding throughout the first half. Even worse, he has his name in the title and appears on the VHS and DVD cases.
- Lazy editing, as there are many animation errors.
- Generic title cards and closing credits with cheaply-inserted Scanimate graphics.
- Poor voice acting.
- Unnecessary, pointless and overly sentimental musical numbers.
- The specials tend to have horrendously monotonous soundtracks in general, due to the awful music scores (some of which would be reused in the 1985 series) and low-quality stock sound effects that never fit in with The Berenstain Bears feel. Some find the music catchy--albeit in an aural virus way.
- Awful plots that feel as though they have no story at all.
- Unfunny and lazy humor that feels plodding and poorly-done; most of it consists of either generic slapstick or the most generic, stale, barebones, cookie-cutter gags imaginable. On top of that, the pacing is very slow and awkard, which absolutely kills the specials' potential with comedic timing.
- The supporting and minor characters are either one-offs, barely get any screen time at all or both.
- Somehow, DVD releases and subsequent prints of the specials suffer from digital destruction, especially since one of them ("The Berenstain Bears' Comic Valentine") suffers from noticable tape fuzz.
Qualities That Feel Like A Bear
- The specials have good morals.
- The specials are very faithful to the source material, despite their low-budget quality and annoying rhyming.
- The character designs, while ugly, are at least faithful to their book counterparts.
Reception
In contrast to the 1985 and 2003 television adaptations of The Berenstain Bears, these specials recieved generally mixed-to-negative reviews for their poor-quality animation and production values, poorly drawn characters, bad voice acting, bland music scores, watered-down usage of slapstick and violence and overall awkward pacing that killed any comedic timing.
Despite their negative reception and obscurity, they have high IMDb ratings for some reason.
Trivia
- The rough masters were thrown out almost as soon as the specials were finished. Since the masters were edited on videotape and both the opening and closing credits were done in Scanimate, a true restoration of these Berenstain Bears specials would be straight up impossible. The TBB DVDs that include these specials use the unrestored prints, resulting in many issues such as color bleeding, ghosting, interlacing and grainy imagery.
Videos
Kermit's Swamp Years
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Kermit's Swamp Years is a 2002 American direct-to-video buddy road adventure film directed by David Gumpel and featuring The Muppets. The plot recounts the early life of Kermit the Frog, offering a prequel to the 1979 Muppet Movie.
Kermit's Swamp Years was first broadcast on August 18, 2002 on the Starz network, with VHS and DVD releases the following month.
Although produced at Disney-MGM Studios, film rights are held by Sony Pictures rather than the Walt Disney Company.
Plot
From the Muppet world, Kermit the Frog recalls the swamp of his childhood, reminiscing on his times and adventures there. Kermit and his friends Croaker and Goggles spend their days idly in their wetland home, sometimes putting up with a gruff bullfrog. As enjoyable as Kermit's lifestyle is, he has an urge to explore and experience the world outside his little home. When his friends are kidnapped, Kermit must take that leap.
Why It Should Get Back Into the Swamp
- The humor is below average, with gross-out humor (like Goggles showing his butt) and pop culture references.
- There are cameos, but they're things that Kermit would discover what he would experience in The Muppet Movie. Kermit is set in Kermit's Swamp Years as if these things never happened.
- The plot is dull, basic, tedious, and obligatory. It lacks any real emotion or intelligence, there is too much emphasis on comedy and Dr. Krassman's plan to dissect the frogs is too disturbing for a kids' movie.
- Misleading Title: For a film titled Kermit's Swamp Years, the titular swamp has very little screen time.
- Kermit's buddies Croaker and Goggles are really annoying and bland.
- The soundtrack is lackluster and forgettable.
- Cheap-looking special effects, even for 2002 standards and especially for the fly at the beginning.
- The acting ranges from so-so (Drew Haggard) to quite bad (John Hostetter).
Redeeming Qualities
- Good puppeteering.
- Nice voice acting, especially from Cree Summer (the voice of Pilgrim and Kermit's mom).
- The framing device segments are much better than the rest of the movie.
Reception
Upon release, Kermit's Swamp Years recieved generally unfavorable reviews from critics and audiences alike. It was also covered by the Angry Video Game Nerd (via the Cinemassacre spin-off YouTube channel), who gave the film a negative review.
The movie currently holds a 5.3/10 on IMDb and a 50% (Rotten) rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Video
Pet Shop (1994)
NOTE: This page was copy-pasted from the now-deleted Awful Movies Wiki.
Pet Shop is a 1994 science fantasy children's film by Moonbeam Entertainment. The film's plot involves an alien couple that comes to Earth in disguise.
Plot
An alien couple comes to Earth disguised as a cowboy and cowgirl and buy a pet shop from its owner in an attempt to kidnap the children for sale. They look like normal people, aside from the fact that they have a third eye on their foreheads that their hats cover. One by one, they give some pets to random kids free of charge. At first, the pets seem normal but suddenly change into their alien forms. The kids meet when they return to the pet shop, because their pets have stopped eating and need some type of "vitamins".
Why This Pet Shop Should Be Closed
- It's a rip-off of and doesn't have the same charm as Gremlins.
- The pets' alien forms are downright horrifying, low-budget and just plain grotesque to look at, even for sci-fi movie standards. They are also awkwardly characterized.
- Very generic protagonists.
- Some content is highly inappropriate for a PG-rated film, like the scene where a fat kid is in the tub and his mother fat shames him by saying "Get your butt out of there!".
- Terrible editing and special effects.
- The plot is dull.
- Horrible soundtrack.
The Only Redeeming Quality
- Good acting.
Videos
Little People Video
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Little People Video is a 1988 animated series of six direct-to-video VHS tapes: Favorite Songs, Three Favorite Stories, A Visit to the Farm, Jokes, Riddles and Rhymes, Christmas Fun and Fun With Words. The series was produced by Marvel Entertainment and released by New World Video.
The video series centers around two children named Timmy (Victor DiMattia) and Penny (Katie Leigh), Baby Sister (Russi Taylor), their parents (Michael Bell and Meredith Baxter), Cousin Marvin (Scott Menville) and their dog lucky (Scott Menville).
Why These Videos Suck
- It is known for being not only one of the most obscure home video series, but one of the most infamous, due to Timmy and Penny's bland personalities.
- Awful and horribly stiff cel animation for 1988 standards; it even tends to suffer from a few animation errors here and there.
- Almost all of the characters in the videos are either just bland, generic or flat-out unlikable, due to the poor writing in the show.
- Timmy and Penny are a Gary Stu and Mary Sue respectively. In other words, they're bland characters.
- Baby Sister tends to be annoying and unlikable as well, especially when she cries; partly justified, as she is an infant and only under a year old.
- Mom and Dad are stereotypical cartoon parents. They are also wet blankets in the second story in Three Favorite Stories, as they don't scold Timmy and Penny for ripping Mom's pillow and lying about it.
- Speaking of Mom and Dad, they don't even look like husband and wife at all; rather, they look way more like siblings.
- Cousin Marvin is a generic cartoon friend.
- Lucky is a generic household pet.
- The plots are cliched and stale, even for that of a cartoon aimed at young children.
- Painfully slow pacing. Even just trying to watch it will still make you feel bored or, in exaggeration, go to sleep.
- The songs sound pretty overbearing, laughable, ridiculous and cringeworthy, even for preschool show standards. In addition, the rooster crowing every time the lyrics "so early in the morning" are sung during the "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" song is obnoxious and annoying.
- Extremely stale humor and "jokes". The videos tend to overuse dialogue and pun-based humor that comes off as dry, unfunny, talky and dreary as opposed to funny, mainly due to the videos' low budget forcing the directors to rely more on dialogue as opposed to full animation suited for the show's preschool demographic.
- Horrible, monotonous background music that, aside from overusing the Yamaha DX7 "E. PIANO 1" and Roland D-50 "Breathy Chiffer" presets, has no variation or style at all. Sometimes, you can barely even hear the music because of this.
- Questionable morals. In the second story in Three Favorite Stories, Timmy and Penny flat-out lie to Mom by telling her a story about how her pillow got ripped. Even worse is that the videos often rub the morals in the viewers' faces; although this is a preschool video series, that is no excuse for the morals to be repeated.
- Limited stock sound effects (mostly from the Hanna-Barbera library).
Redeeming Qualities
- It does at least stay true to the toyline.
- Decent voice acting.
- Despite being bland, Lucky is the only likable character in the series.
Reception
Despite the videos having a high IMDb rating (though only 8 users rated the show), they were very short-lived and have been almost entirely forgotten due to low sales and the fact that they were trying to be a zany late 1970s/early 1980s comedy made solely to promote a toyline (despite being released in 1988).
Trivia
- On March 19th, 2019, LMW user Pokematic found and uploaded the Christmas Fun and Jokes, Riddles and Rhymes videos onto Dailymotion. On March 2nd, 2021, the episodes Favorite Songs, Fun With Words and A Visit to the Farm were found on YouTube and Three Favorite Stories was found on Dailymotion. As of now, every episode is accounted for.
Videos
The Adventures of Little Brown Bear
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The Adventures of Little Brown Bear (known in France as Les Aventures de Petit Ours brun) is a French animated children's series that was shown on France 5 in 2003; it was later dubbed into English circa 2006. It only lasted for one season.
Why It Can't Hide Behind a Tree
- Almost all of the characters in the show are either just bland, generic or flat-out unlikable, due to the poor writing in the show.
- Little Brown Bear is a spoiled, whiny little brat (just like Lil Xan, Trina Riffin from Grojband, Perfect Peter from Horrid Henry, Johnny Test in seasons 4-6 of his namesake show, Angela Anaconda from her namesake show, D.W. from Arthur, Amy Rose from Sonic X and the Sonic Riders games and especially Caillou).
- He acts like Will from Everything's Rosie as well and has been additionally rewarded for misbehaving on some occasions; for example, his mother made him apple pie after he called her horrible.
- He calls Kitty "horrible" (which is borderline animal abuse) after he unintentionally scratches his hand and even cries over a freaking boo-boo.
- Daddy Bear and Mommy Bear, while not too bad, are just wet blankets who never scold Little Brown Bear for his bratty behavior.
- Extremely stale humor and "jokes".
- The traditional animation, while decent, tends to suffer from a few animation errors here and there.
- As the series progressed, the plots got even more cliched and stale, even for that of a cartoon aimed at young children.
- The theme song, while it can be catchy for some, sounds pretty overbearing, laughable, ridiculous and, as some might say, cringeworthy.
- Pretty bland background music and soundtrack that has no variation or style at all.
- Bad voice acting, especially with Little Brown Bear when he whines, cries or throws a tantrum. The other characters sometimes even sound straight up robotic.
- Lots of bad, mediocre and generic episodes.
Qualities That Can Hide Behind a Tree
- The concept of a show about a four-year-old boy being obsessed with the world around him is pretty good for a children's show, but it's unfortunately poorly executed here.
- Decent and pretty smooth animation, despite suffering from a few animation errors here and there.
Reception and controversy
Since 2024, the once-completely obscure Little Brown Bear has received heavy bashing from older viewers (especially reaction YouTubers) and critics alike, due to the titular character's misbehavior throughout the show, as well as his troublemaking and whining. Some even consider it worse than Caillou.
Trivia
- Little Brown Bear is considered one of the most obscure cartoons of all time, as there doesn't seem to be a fanbase and only the official YouTube channel is dedicated to preserving its memory.
- The show was released in the form of four DVD compilations by Digiview Entertainment in America—Little Brown Bear Gets Up Early, Little Brown Bear Makes a Friend, Little Brown Bear Goes Fishing and Little Brown Bear Loves Picnics. The DVDs have long since gone out of print.
- Not a lot of people are aware that the show is not only based on a series of books, but also the second adaptation of the series; before the 2003 show, there was a 1988 adaptation with Limited Animation.
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Allegra's Window
Allegra's Window is an American musical children's television series that aired on Nickelodeon during its Nick Jr. block from October 24, 1994, to December 8, 1996, with reruns being shown until February 5, 1999; it was later shown on Noggin from February 2, 1999, to April 6, 2003. The series deals with the daily life of a precocious, imaginative puppet character named Allegra, and featured live actors, puppets and animation, that was the similar to Sesame Street. The show was created by Jan Fleming, John Hoffman and Jim Jinkins, the latter of whom is also the creator of Doug. Two of the puppeteers, Kathryn Mullen and Anthony Asbury, would later work together on the PBS series Between the Lions as the performers of Lionel and Leona Lion.
The series also spawned a series of music videos aired during interstitials that aired on Nick Jr.
In the 2010s, the first season was released on iTunes and Prime Video. On March 5, 2015, the whole series was released for viewing on Noggin's paid-subscription service from its initial launch. The show was also added to Parmount+ in January 2021, only to be removed along with multiple other shows two years later.
Synopsis
The series follows Allegra through the daily triumphs, trials, and tribulations of being a little girl. She and her big brother Rondo, along with her best friend Lindi (a yellow dog), a pesky blue neighborhood cat named Riff and a green boy named Poco all try to learn about the world around them with the help of their neighborhood friends. At the end of each episode, Allegra sits at her window and reflects on all the lessons she has learned. The series was music-based and included musically inspired characters named Lindi, Rondo, Riff, Poco, Reed, Miss Melody, Ellington, Encora, Sonata, Clef, Woofer, Aria, Tweeter, Flugie, Vi, and of course, Allegra the title character's name herself. There are also segments that feature talking musical instruments that live on the wall of Reed's Music shop.
Over 100 original songs were created for the series, under the oversight of musical director Don Sebesky.
The original decision to use the name Allegra for the show's lead occurred after creator/executive producer Jan Fleming attended a dinner party at the house of London-based academics and was introduced to their youngest daughter, Allegra. That evening, she remarked that it would be a great name for the little girl at the center of the project she was working on.
Why It's Not a Wonderful Day
- The main characters (with Allegra being the worst offender) are unlikable in almost every episode; they sometimes don't care about their friends (especially in season 1), which makes them quite narcissistic and attention-seeking. Allegra also suffers from the same problems as Caillou, Cindy Struction and Horrid Henry.
- Allegra is quite childish with her self-pitying and angst. While she does feel angry or sad at times, the show's audience might feel bad as well, but her friends and family do nothing to make them relate to her character strongly. This is very evident by the responses that she gets when she has a problem.
- For unknown reasons other than that she is a three-year-old, she enjoys starting drama an claiming that her problems are real. Even the entire show fails to realize that life isn't about what this show clearly idolizes.
- She is occasionally seen crying on-screen, while in most episodes she tends to get angry/worked up over the pettiest reasons, especially in season 1 (with Lindi sometimes joining her).
- Allegra is quite childish with her self-pitying and angst. While she does feel angry or sad at times, the show's audience might feel bad as well, but her friends and family do nothing to make them relate to her character strongly. This is very evident by the responses that she gets when she has a problem.
- The harsh rooster crow and dramatic rendition of "What a Wonderful Day" (which is replaced in some episodes by a lower-pitched dramatic stinger) in the Jumbo Pictures logo at the end could scare more than a handful of first-time viewers, as well as the preceding Topstone Pictures logo, thanks to its flute theme.
- Unlike shows such as Bluey, Blue's Clues, Bear in the Big Blue House, Sesame Street, Between the Lions, Gullah Gullah Island, Arthur or Pingu (which portray the main characters as positively as they can or in more realistic situations if there's a lot of angst, though not every situation is realistic), this show is filled with so much dishonest angst—absolutely none of it being sincere—and its characterization feels negative, unrealistic and clichéd. None of the characters have any depth whatsoever and they're very underdeveloped.
- The aformentioned things are a bad contrast to how the puppets act in almost every episode. The show's overall tone—which, when compared to previous and future Nick Jr. shows—rivals that of Caillou and Angelina Ballerina, is somewhat more dramatic and includes several mean-spirited moments that are incredibly jarring.
- The episodes are extremely repetitive, as they're all structured the same and follow the same beat:
- The show goes something like this: Allegra and/or Lindi will have a problem, said characters hang out in Hummingbird Alley while figuring out how to solve it with their friends (sometimes even testing their ideas to solve the problem) and then they find a solution. The problem is solved and Allegra sits at her window to reflect on the lessons she's learned before going to bed in most episodes.
- Though not always, it's mostly sunshine, lollipops, flowers, happiness and joy—and the show makes it flat-out seem like every kid would be happy.
- Not helping matters is that everyone in Hummingbird Alley is sickly sweet and views the entire place as a bed of roses. Though not always, it's mostly sunshine, lollipops, dragons, flowers, happiness and joy—and the show makes it flat-out seem like every kid would be happy.
Redeeming Qualities
- The concept is at least decent, despite the poor execution.
- While Allegra has a toxic friendship with Lindi, it is shown that they truly love each other.
- The visuals are creative.
- Decent puppet designs and great voice acting.
- Even though the intro and songs are awful, the rest of the music can be pretty easy on the ears.
Reception
Despite the show's obscurity (even in Mexico and South America, where the show was completely forgotten once it was taken off Tr3s, a Hispanic-oriented network owned by MTV, in 2008) and high IMDB ratings, it has a strong hatedom among the GoAnimate/Vyond community. This is certainly not helped by the fact that preschool shows in general have gained a poor reputation, whether among parents who believe that certain ones like Caillou teach kids that bad behavior is tolerated or among said online community.
Trivia
- The series premiered the same day as Gullah Gullah Island, which quickly became Nick Jr.'s most popular show for a few years. Allegra's Window did moderately well, if not to Gullah Gullah Island's levels, but it was forced to end after an abbreviated third season as a result of Jumbo Pictures (later known as Cartoon Pizza) being purchased by Disney. To further complicate things, Blue's Clues premiered during said third season, causing the show to be overshadowed further—while also causing Gullah Gullah Island to be overshadowed itself in the process. In the end, while Blue's Clues became one of Nickelodeon's biggest franchises and Gullah Gullah Island remains a staple among '90s kids, Allegra's Window remains completely obscure (and unlike the other two, the show hasn't had a release on DVD and has been on-and-off streaming services), despite having a very small following of fans who watched it as children in the mid-1990s.
Jakks Pacific Plug & Play
Plug It In & Play TV Games are a series of video game consoles published by Jakks Pacific. The first TV game controllers were released between 2002 and 2003, shortly after Jakks bought out Toymax.
- Namco Pac-Man
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Namco Ms. Pac-Man
- Atari Paddle
- Spider-Man
- Classic Arcade Pinball
- World Poker Tour
- EA Sports 95
- Mortal Kombat
- Cars 2
- The Batman
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
- SpongeBob SquarePants Dilly Dabbler
- Tele-Doodle
- Super Silly Makeover
- Blue's Room: Coloring with Blue
- Justice League
- SpongeBob SquarePants: The Fry Cook Games
- Bass Angler Championship
- Disney Friends
- Scooby-Doo and the mystery of the castle
- Fantastic Four
- Wheel of Fortune
- Dora the Explorer
- WWE
- Dragon Ball Z
- Disney Princess
- Wireless Namco Ms. Pac-Man
- Capcom
- Dreamworks Animation
- Superman
- Winnie the Pooh: Piglet's Special Day
- Star Wars Original Trilogy
- Bob the Builder: Project: Build It
- Jeopardy!
- Telestory
- VMigo
- Power Rangers S.P.D.
- Deal or No Deal
- Thomas & Friends: Right on Time
- Nicktoons Summer Camp
- Spider-Man and the Villian Round-Up
- Avatar: Book One Challenges
- Marvel Heroes
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Islands Of Fortune
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Jellyfish Dodge
- Disney Pixar Classics
- Spider-Man 3
- Go! Deigo! Go!
- 1 vs. 100
- Wheel of Fortune Second Editon
- Super Pac-Man
- Arcade Gold Featuring Pac-Man
- Sleeping Beauty: Tale Of Enchantment
- Power Rangers To The Rescue
- Wall-E
- Hannah Montana: One in a Million
- High School Musical: All Together Now
- Hannah Montana: Best Of Both Worlds
- Hannah Montana Pop Tour
- Camp Rock
- The Cheetah Girls
- Ultimotion Swing Zone Sports
- Ultimotion Playhouse Disney
- Ultimotion Disney Fairies/Sleeping Beauty
- SpongeBob SquarePants Bikini Bottom 500
- Star Wars Repubic Squadron
- Toy Story: Toys On The Move
- Triple Header Sports
- Phineas and Ferb: Best Game Ever
- Power Rangers: Force in Time
- Spider-Man Web Master
- Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
- Big Buck Hunter Pro
- Toy Story Mania
- Golden Tee Golf (2011)
- Big Buck Safari
- Retro Arcade Featuring Space Invaders
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Half Shell
- Dora the Explorer: Race to Play Park
Why It Flopped
- Much like the Tiger Electronics handheld games, the consoles have aged worse than milk. Rather than making one functional game at the time, Jakks Pacific mass-produced a lot of single-game consoles, basically oversaturating the handheld market.
- Every console feels more like a bootleg rather than an officially approved console by Jakks Pacific.
- There's almost no grasp of the source material that each game is based on, mainly because of how each game doesn't follow the concepts of any media they're based on; in fact, these consoles were so basic, they couldn't do something you'd see on the Game Boy, PlayStation Portable, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube or Nintendo DS.
- In Hannah Montana: One in a Million, Miley Stewart is only portrayed as a fourteen-year-old middle school student in the Mall Mayhem game; by Mannequin's World (which is actually listed in the menu before Mall Mayhem), she has already transformed into Hannah Montana with zero explanation, as if she didn't even have a secret identity. Her father Robby Ray and all of her schoolmates are absent as well, which means she is never tempted to reveal her secret or assume a celebrity status at school.
- In the Jeopardy! game, each contestant somehow has to make a wager for the Final Jeopardy! category, in opposition to the category being given to them at the start.
- The base in Wheel of Fortune lacks any podiums, scoreboards or visible contestants. Pat Sajak, Charlie O'Donnell (the announcer from 1975 to 1979, then again from 1988 to his death in 2010) and Vanna White are also not in the game at all.
- Elmo's World does not have the titular character's room, Mr. Noodle, any other Sesame Street Muppets, the Joey Ahlbum-produced cartoons or the CGI objects. Like in most merchandise, Dorothy is also depicted as a Muppet character rather than a live goldfish.
- Dora the Explorer: Race to Play Park is a generic board game instead of a point-and-click adventure game, which the TV show is modeled after, thus straying as far away from the source material as possible. You play Memory Match (a memory game) before each built-in minigame.
- Because of how simplistic these consoles are, there is no backlight feature; this makes playing difficult at night or in dark places.
- The packaging for the games is always hard to open.
- The Price Is Right is based on the Drew Carey era rather than the Bob Barker era. There are also very few pricing games, unlike in the TV show, which has over 75 as of this writing.
- Non-arcade consoles like Dora the Explorer: Race to Play Park barely show any gameplay, mainly because of the sheer simplicity these devices have. This is carried to the point where the replay value is almost non-existent.
- The graphics are horribly equal to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis, resulting in crude 16-bit graphics.
- The characters look like lifeless paintings made in Microsoft Paint and there's nothing interesting about them at all.
- Due to technical limitations, when starting the Jeopardy! game, it only shows the 2004-2005 Jeopardy! logo in the top left-corner and the contestant podiums from 2002 to 2006 on the right (from top to bottom). This is a major contrast to the show's intro, the logo of which has a different animation per season (e.g. colored squares floating over a light/dark blue background with animating circles on the floor and each square passing to reveal a different close-up of the Jeopardy! logo in season 27) and segues into the full set with the contestants at their podiums in the studio; in seasons 1-19, they walk into the studio instead.
- The game has to resort to using a text box just to even introduce the contestants.
- The set, Alex Trebek and the contestants do not even appear in the game; only the podiums and scoreboard are shown.
- The iconic Jeopardy! theme song and Johnny Gilbert (the announcer) are not used in the intro at all, leaving the player with complete silence, save for static noises.
- Most consoles play nearly the same, no matter how different they are.
- The iconic Bankrupt and Lose A Turn animations are absent in the Wheel of Fortune game, as the consoles lack any FMV support.
- Horrible, compressed audio quality due to weak hardware, resulting in poor music and sound effects.
- The remixed music from the source material is terrible, as it sounds more like a series of horrible 8-bit files. The 16-bit soundtracks in the games that use them feel more like they belong in an old Java mobile phone game from the 2000s, are incredibly muffled and always have the wrong instruments playing.
- The puzzle reveal sound in Wheel of Fortune is incredibly off-key and cartoonish, coming across as feeling more like a generic anime sound effect.
- While a few consoles like the Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, My Little Pony Grand PuzzleVenture and Blue's Room ones do support voice clips and/or 3D graphics, most of them do not.
- Speaking of which, the voice acting in said games is monotonous.
- The remixed music from the source material is terrible, as it sounds more like a series of horrible 8-bit files. The 16-bit soundtracks in the games that use them feel more like they belong in an old Java mobile phone game from the 2000s, are incredibly muffled and always have the wrong instruments playing.
- The levels are very repetitive.
- The games have very paper-thin, simplistic, shallow and generic stories, if any whatsoever. They are also ridden with plot holes.
- Disney Friends has Minnie making cakes for Mickey's party, Scrooge McDuck falling into his money bin and trying to bounce out before the security laser catches him, Mowgli from The Jungle Book making fruit juice, Goofy screwing up his farm by having difficulty planting the crops and Donald moving his spinning top around an obstacle course 20 different levels.
- The first SpongeBob SquarePants console involves SpongeBob bursting mysterious bubbles around Bikini Bottom (and to add insult to injury, the minigame can take up to two hours to finish), a giant bullworm and its henchmen terrorizing Bikini Bottom and Sandy attacking them at the expense of SpongeBob's wishes, eventually defeating them, SpongeBob resucing his friends in a level where a bunch of hooks invade Bikini Bottom and kidnap them, Patrick finding his friends in a maze and Plankton and his remote control robots capturing Sandy because he wants to bribe SpongeBob into giving him the Krabby Patty recipe.
- The Blue's Room console (which was produced when Tim Lagasse still puppeteered Polka Dots, as his voice clips can be heard in the game) nearly plays out like an episode of the show with little to no changes whatsoever. This includes doodling and guessing with Doodle Board and collecting puzzle pieces from Polka Dots... and that's pretty much it. The only other thing you can do is color pre-drawn images based on the show.
- The Elmo's World console, in addition to not having Kevin Clash reprise his role as the eponymous character and not having the Elmo's World theme (which can be a good or bad thing, depending on one's view), involves the player joining Elmo in various minigames... all of which are terrible.
- My Little Pony Grand PuzzleVenture is about Puzzlemint obsessing over puzzles and adventures, thus prompting her to go on what she considers "PuzzleVentures" in Ponyville. She runs into Pinkie Pie, who helps her begin a giant puzzle that will soon be solved with the help of everypony in Ponyville.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: The Fry Cook Games is about SpongeBob and Patrick joing the Fry Cook Games and competiting in them, much like in the episode the console is based on.
- Jakks Pacific, the publisher of these consoles, actually decided to release them (despite knowing they were bad and the licensers not wanting them to), which is nothing but corporate greed.
- They tend to feel and play like computer games where the space bar (A button) jumps and the key arrows (joystick) move the character around.
- You have to go through more games/rounds in SpongeBob SquarePants: The Fry Cook Games than there actually are in the episode, thus indicating some poor grasp of the source material.
- Some consoles like Bob the Builder: Project Build-It have no instructions on how to do things.
- The infamous Splatter motion sensor from Fisher Price.
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