The LOST Gravity Falls Pilot Reel Was Found

Before Gravity Falls became a full cartoon on Disney Channel, series creator Alex Hirsch needed to convince Disney executives that it should be greenlit. After the Gravity Falls pilot, he included a special "Next Time On..." reel that teased Dipper and Mabel's supernatural adventures. After more than a decade of being lost media, this Gravity Falls pilot reel has been found in its entirety.

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[eerieeric]

Bunch of Disney pilots came out recently I wonder why

[TadanoYam]

As a Lost Media fan, i can say this is a *MASSIVE* goldmine for our community

[HexPerplex]

2024‘s been a good year for lost media recovery so far

[AntoniotheTAOAAHFmaker]

We keep discovering new pieces of lost media every day

[justanaviationguy]

Feels so different with the new intro/outro music

Also the pilot looks pretty good, it would have absolutely convinced me if I was one of the executives

[RTD_Dev]

I’d like to see a show in this particular art-style. It makes me rather curious as to what could’ve been if the style stuck the way it did in the pilot.

[GruWithDrip]

This just shows how important Gravity Falls is! Even though the show has already ended we are still getting new reveals

[TBYABALLSOSC]

2011: when we're going to get the full version?
2024: Oh Now We Got It!

[skyenight-byyh]

Honestly, I feel like this would be what Gravity Falls would look like if it focused more on the supernatural rather than the mystery aspect of it.

[NunofYerbizness]

For a bit more context, the reason the Gravity Falls pilot had a "Next time" reel was because Arrested Development also did the same thing, and Hirsch was inspired by that; Not only did the reel help with the success in getting Gravity Falls greenlit, but it's also the reason why practically every other Disney TVA pilot since then has had some form of a "Next time" reel included in of themselves; Fish Hooks, Wander Over Yonder, Very Important House, Amphibia, The Owl House, Club Sandwich, The Ghost and Molly McGee, and Billy Dilley are just a handful that include such reels (Though the latter two purely include animated segments of a selected moment from the pilot animatic itself, which is still a common practice for most modern Disney TVA pilots)

[LeighTheYumeLion]

WHY ARE SO MANY PILOTS BEING FOUND THIS YEAR?!?!?! Next is team umizoomi, right?

[FlaminLuigi-GreenDragon]

The Wonder Over yonder(WOY) Pilot also recently released

[jayjaybulldog]

From Spongebobs lost media to now Gravity falls media being found it’s like a piece of lost gold treasure for the animation industry.

[Darkshade]

YAY! you covered this awesome breakthrough, woo woo! this was amazing when everything unfolded on Friday.

[mattie]

This video CAUGHT my attention, I've been wanting this to be released for years now

[yinyangyt]

The art style looks so different. It looks much brighter. I saw the original pilot a while ago and it blew my mind how different it was

[盧璘壽로인수]

1. Nobody's Fault probably was the prototype for Mabel's Fault (the geological aftermath of Weirdmageddon)
2. @2:09 outhouse referenced in the comics (Mabel's face gets stolen)
3. the UFO was later scrapped and turned into a season 3 plot point
4. @2:53 prototype of the barn owned by that Blind Society member who goes commando underneath the robe

[ThatGFFAN]

It's awesome to finally have this out now. I'd been hoping since the Alfredo reel was found in 2022 that this day would come and here we are. Alongside it, the Pitch Bible for Gravity Falls was also leaked and in it are a ton of insane episode ideas that never ended up happening (Mabel won a Nobel prize in one, lmao). We also found out the names of the creepy twins were The Peaks Twins (100% a Twin Peaks nod). It's crazy all this happened only 2 weeks after Alex Hirsch talked about this in the interview me and Hana had with him. Lost Media really won this week.

[ArtisticHH]

I can’t believe gravity Falls did the sandwiches joke before frozen

[LtNrod]

Imagine what wierdmageddon would look like in that artsyle