Nickelodeon Secrets Revealed - Lost Animation Yearbook (1998)

For the first time, we get to take a look at behind the scenes content from Nickelodeon Animation Studios! Crew photos, original art, and upcoming shows are all compiled into this official book.

[vicarious]

I didnt even know a such a yearbook exist, yet here we are

[gokaiorange]

That crow cartoon at 25:12 is Curbside, a 1999 pilot attempting to revamp classic Terrytoons characters like Mighty Mouse, Tom Terrific and Deputy Dawg. Those crows are Heckle and Jeckle, who were meant to be talk show hosts that acted as a framing device for the cartoon shorts themselves.

[littleMAHER]

It's super interesting seeing how they talk about these genre defying shows before they became genre defying

What a neat piece of Nick history

[guyk]

Great the 1998 Nickelodeon Animation Studio employee yearbook has been found.
I loved this era of Nickelodeon animation back then.

[Nono-hkis]

It's weird that they had a yearbook consistently solely of lost employees, but it's really unsettling how many lost employees there were.

[TheDanishGuyReviews]

From Wikipedia, on Hank the Cowdog: "There was a previous attempt at a TV series adaptation in the late 1990s. It was going to be produced by Nickelodeon, WildBrain and 501 Productions. The series would have blended 2D animation with live-action backgrounds. A test reel was uploaded onto Vimeo in 2015." I checked said reel, and very interestingly, I didn't spot the yearbook image in it. The lady's name is Sally, the rancher's wife, according to the voiceover, that much I do know.

[CrownedCryptid]

This is so cool!! I love that Zim was included, that's some rare content for sure! I love behind the scenes content like this, really helps humanize all these shows and the era. I think people get lost thinking too much about the shows themselves or the money-making business side of things, and forget that these were made by funny people just doing their job. There is certainly a ton of content like this from Nick and other studios that we will never get to see...but I'd love for the fans to get their hands on any production content that we can.

[Poyostar]

Man, this is some rare stuff. It's great that you managed to get yourself a physical copy so you could share it to us. Indeed, this is another win for lost media findings!

[TheLazyShell]

Oh wow, the newsletter actually mentions an unproduced Angry Beavers episode that I had never heard of until now. ("Magnum Opus, " a musical rock opera-themed ep.) It's surreal to see a window into another era when, if things hadn't turned out the way they eventually did, the beaver brothers could've had even more animated adventures.

[pablocasas]

It's incredible to discover how many Nickelodeon-related projects never went anywhere

[dizzykiske]

I wonder if these exist for other years as well? If so, it’d be interesting to find them one day.

[Willowposting]

Definitely take this to a print shop of some kind and get these pages scanned!

[redwhiteandvibranium]

Late 90s/Early 00s were easily the golden years of Nick. It was trult something special...I mean look at that 3D cover! I wish the 90s never ended...

[ruler_of_everything]

This is what I'd consider a "holy grail" of lost media.

Not SpongeBob pornography

[jocelynecupcake]

CatDog and Oswald the Octopus were so UNDERRATED! Like, can we just talk about how they deserve so much better?

[soulslvr]

I love how in the table of contents spongebob is just t posing in his underwear

[Slenderquil]

I read a lot of the Hank the Cowdog books as a kid, definitely never knew it might've been planned as a show at one point

[DavidDoom]

Spongebob was almost finished development by the time, when the book was published in late 1998, and glad the book referenced Rocko, Rugrats, Fairly Oddparents, Ren and Stimpy, and others too.

[SLSmith_]

For covering the year 1998, I'm honestly surprised and shocked that there isn't any "Rugrats" presence at all in this yearbook. Especially since "The Rugrats Movie" released that year, and how successful it was.

Absolutely amazing find either way!

[mafeuk]

Interesting reading about the Hey Arnold stuff and how what eventually became the first Arnold movie for theaters was originally going to be a TV movie while what eventually became the jungle movie was still in early developement. Also the Patakis, very interesting.