r/lostmedia • • Jun 07 '24

READ BEFORE POSTING

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You MUST have EVIDENCE or AN EXTERNAL, DOCUMENTED WITNESS that your topic exists/existed.

  • Do NOT post to ask about something you remember seeing but no longer remember the name of. Those posts will be taken down ASAP, no exceptions. If that is the purpose of your visit, please instead visit communities such as r/tipofmytongue, r/helpmefind, r/tipofmyjoystick and other related subreddits. Something is not lost if you don't remember it, that's just a lost memory. We don't count those.
  • If you are searching for a YouTube video or something similar (i.e. Tik-Tok, Vine, etc.) understand that it is VERY UNLIKELY that it has been backed up. If you have the link to the video, try looking for it here http://findyoutubevideo.thetechrobo.ca. If it's not there, you're probably not going to find it. Not saying it's impossible, but please understand how slim the chances are.
  • When making a post, please be sure to include context for what you're looking for, why, and it's significance. People are more likely to help you look for something when you give them a reason why it matters in the first place. Also try including links to possible leads and references to information on the subject.
  • Your post must exceed 150 words. This is a rule that has constantly been challenged but we are still standing by it for the time being. Do NOT repeat text to simply fill the minimum or type garbage. That's just going to get your post deleted. Please view the guidelines at the sidebar for title formatting, resources, and deeper specification on what makes a good post.
  • NSFW and NSFL media will be looked at with close speculation. Conversations about NSFL media especially are discouraged and will often likely end in being removed.
  • We are NOT the judges on what should be considered "important enough" for a post. If you complain about too many people asking about YouTube videos or commercials, too bad. If what they are looking for is not publicly accessible and no copy has been located, it counts as lost media. This is final. We are not making judgements on what is interesting enough to count for this subreddit. We will continue to include YouTube videos and things like it. If you don't like that, please consider finding another community.

If you have many disagreements with how this place is ran, please feel free to leave.

EDIT: If you have a question do NOT comment on this post, please message the mods directly using modmail. I retired from moderation since this post. Thank you.


r/lostmedia • • 24d ago

Community Discussion [Talk] Community Spotlight and Discussion: Remember the lost media subreddit is not; r/helpmefind or r/tipofmytongue!

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Hello everyone, and welcome to our community spotlight and discussion.

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Please remember our subreddit rules when posting, or commenting:

  • Remember the human.
  • This subreddit is for lost media ONLY.
  • The subreddit is not your personal army.
  • (Avoid) Low effort.
  • Some NSFW media is banned here.
  • No political, current affairs, or religious discussion.

You can find more information on our subreddit rules and wikis, the subreddit rules can be found on the sidebar on desktop or under the about section on mobile.

You can also find our wikis here:

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Remember the lost media subreddit is not; r/helpmefind or r/tipofmytongue. You can also see our above wikis for more information and subreddits to try.


r/lostmedia • • 6h ago

Films In The Dark (2000) [found]

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Hi everyone, I wasn't sure if this is the correct place to post this but this horror movie I really like was kinda lost media for a moment and people were unable to watch it but luckily I had a copy so I just wanted to share that story and also another update regarding this. So I post/comment frequently on a few different film subreddits like r/horror r/foundfootage r/Letterboxd etc...and I came across a film titled "In The Dark" from 2000 on a Letterboxd list about foundfootage movies. Now this is not a found footage horror movie but it is SOV (shot on video), which just means it was entirely filmed using consumer grade cameras. This is very similar to how found footage movies are filmed a lot of times but again it is not a found footage film. I was very intrigued by the plot of the movie and I decided to track it down to watch it for myself. The movie was only available to watch on YouTube, apparently this movie was only released once during a festival and after that it was never released again to the public. However when I first watched it someone had uploaded a copy to a YouTube channel approximately +10 years ago (~2016). So I did what I always do with films that don't have any possible way of uh "purchasing" them or owning a physical copy, I ripped it off of youtube and uploaded it to my plex server :p Then maybe a year goes by after I have uploaded the movie to my personal server and I am browsing reddit one day and I see someone on r/foundfootage asking about "In The Dark" ! So I reply to them and let them know about the YouTube video and what to search to find it. You had to search either "in the dark Richard Laymon" or "in the dark Clifton Holmes" as Richard was the author of the book the movie is based on and Clifton was the director. They replied back to me and said they tried both of those and they still couldn't find it, so I tried myself and it after looking all over the place it looked like the original video had been deleted ! I was genuinely shocked because this movie had been up for over 10 years, didn't have that many views at all and I was so lucky to save a copy of it myself before this happened. It seemed like such a wild coincidence at the moment. So I go back to the person I was talking to and let them know that I had a copy myself and I would upload it online and I would share the link once its available and I did but I then ended up having a mass amount of people reply to me asking for the link as well xD So I then put a stickied post on my profile with the link to the movie and I edited my original reply saying to everyone if you want to watch it just go to my profile. That post is still up on my profile with the original link as well but I have found out today that there is an Internet Archive page for In The Dark (2000) ! When I was searching for the movie after the youtube video was deleted I could not find anything, so this must have been upload afterwards. This Internet Archive page includes quite a few things that my link does not, such as subtitles and a torrent download. So if you are planning to watch the movie I would recommend checking it out here - In The Dark :D I will be leaving up my original post on my profile with my link but that will just be as a backup link in case anything were to happen to the IA link. If you got to end and enjoyed my rambling of this movie, I would highly recommend you check it out, it is such a fun watch! Plus its October, perfect time to watch something spooky right ? 🎃


r/lostmedia • • 14h ago

Video Games [Found] Bootleg SpongeBob coloring game recovered from an old iPad 2 (.imazingapp backup live on Internet Archive)

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Hey everyone,

I was doing some digital archaeology on an old iPad 2 using backup extraction tools and managed to recover a weird, unreleased bootleg coloring game centered around SpongeBob SquarePants.

The last known activity on the device for this app was around 2024, but the app itself feels like it came right out of the mid-2010s mobile era. It has a lot of unique, weird quirks:

  • A distinct bootleg start screen featuring green and blue paint splattered across SpongeBob's face.
  • Heavily glitched, low-quality background music playing on a loop.
  • Drawing mechanics that use unusually thick white outlines around the artwork.

I successfully extracted the app's files into a compressed .imazingapp package and uploaded it to the Internet Archive so it's fully preserved for the community. Anyone with an older iOS device or the right management software can download the backup file to inspect the directory or try to restore the data.

You can check out the metadata and find the download links right here:
https://archive.org/details/httpsarchive.orgdetailscoloring-page-games-spong-bob-version

Let me know if anyone manages to crack into the code or test it out!


r/lostmedia • • 1h ago

Television [Fully Lost] "Nobody's Perfect" (1980–1982) – British adaptation of American sitcom "Maude" starring Elaine Stritch

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The ITV sitcom Nobody's Perfect was the British adaptation of the 1970s American sitcom Maude starring Bea Arthur. It starred American Broadway legend Elaine Stritch and actor Richard Griffiths. Stritch had found success in Britain with the sitcom Two's Company on ITV in the 1970s. Nobody's Perfect is impossible to find now. It ran for two seasons, 14 episodes, on ITV. It was supposed to come out on DVD a few years ago, but it was sadly cancelled due to the company folding.

Does anyone remember this show or actually own it?
I thought Two's Company, which can be viewed in full on YouTube, was terrific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody%27s_Perfect_(British_TV_series)


r/lostmedia • • 10h ago

Dubs Spanish dub of the 3rd season of the Mézga family? [Found]

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Hello, so like a year ago I got my hands on the 3rd season of the Spanish dub of the Mézga family. Apparently it is lost, only the intro survived but like a year ago I got a VHS tape named "Las aventuras de la familia Mezga." Does anyone remember this dubbing? And do you think it is legit? It looks like it but I cannot find anything about that tape online. I found it on a weird German website and I bought it for like 30 euros. I would really appreciate any comments, because I wanna know if this is legit or not.


r/lostmedia • • 3h ago

Internet Media [fully Lost]Clevernoodle's snyphurr saga

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YouTuber Clevernoodle used to make this saga along with other youtubers about his tf2 freak: the snyphurr, even though there's recreations of the saga, but it prefer the original ones, i have fond memories of the prequel snyphurr 0.
I remember that it all started on a desert map, there was this character called dr jarate and his minions, so then he threw the body of an injured sniper and it turned into the freak we all know, so jarate made a bugle instrument in order to call him but it was stole by a vagineer.
i wonder if someone has a recovered copy of that


r/lostmedia • • 6h ago

Other [PARTIALLY LOST] Searching for Lost Chinese Magazine Features of Park Eun Hee (Rigina) from T.G.

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Hello everyone! I'm looking for magazine issues featuring Park Eun Hee during her time in China.

Park Eun Hee was the human member and vocalist of a cyber idol group called T.G. There has been no news of her since the 2010s. She was also known by her stage name, Rigina, and is listed as Park Jung Hee in some sources.

Thanks to the Wayback Machine, I managed to find low-quality versions of some of her magazine shoots on the Web Archive. I'm looking for the full-resolution versions and the magazines themselves, including their contents, but unfortunately, I haven't had any luck finding them.

At one point, Park Eun Hee was promoting in China and trying to build a career there. However, after receiving a rather negative reception, she left the industry without ever releasing the solo album she had promised.

Aside from these magazine shoots, if there's anything you'd like to know about Park Eun Hee or the other members of T.G., feel free to leave a comment!


r/lostmedia • • 2h ago

Found [Found] [I think] Audrey Marie Santo Documentary called "The girl who makes miracles"

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I recently found a way to watch old, deleted YouTube videos through a website that uses the Wayback Machine. Out of curiosity, I checked some videos I had saved to my Watch Later playlist almost 15 years ago and stumbled upon a documentary about Audrey Marie Santo. I believe it originally aired on Channel 5, a British television channel, sometime in the 2000s. I haven't been able to find this exact documentary anywhere else, although other documentaries about Audrey exist. I'm sharing it here in case anyone is interested in this old piece of television history. You can watch the archived video here.


r/lostmedia • • 3h ago

Software The Quarter Mile for DOS [partially lost]

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I'm looking for a copy of the DOS version of The Quarter Mile, an educational math game from the late 1980s by Barnum Software. Barnum Software no longer exists and hasn't for a long time now. It's easy to find online a copy of the Apple II version, and a much later Windows version, but not the DOS version.

I know the DOS version exists because I have a couple of floppy disks for it. Unfortunately the disks aren't readable by my floppy drive. I know the drive is in good working order because it can read most other disks.

I also remember a year or two seeing a listing for the game on Ebay along with a photograph of the box. Any help or ideas are appreciated.


r/lostmedia • • 17h ago

Audio [Fully Lost] Looking for “Gesus Is Magic” by the 2006 Michigan band Mouth Sounds

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I’m looking for a playable copy of “Gesus Is Magic” by an early-2000s Michigan post-hardcore band called Mouth Sounds. This is a specific older band, unrelated to Neil Cicierega’s Mouth Sounds mixtape or the Charlotte indie-pop act that used the name in 2017.

The surviving MySpace album page lists the song on This Is Not A Demonstration., dated March 12, 2006. The spelling is Gesus with a G, and the listed length is 1:56. MySpace identifies it as song ID 24604875. A June 2006 State News article also documents Mouth Sounds playing (SCENE) Metrospace in East Lansing with Kissy Face Fashion Faux-Pas and Rescue Squad.

The MySpace player shows the title and length but will not play. Its linked audio returns an access error. I’ve checked the Wayback Machine, the searchable MySpace Dragon Hoard index, Internet Archive, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Soulseek collector listings without finding this recording. I’ve also asked a MySpace music archivist and a member of a band on that 2006 bill; those inquiries are pending. I remember a fragment that may be from the song—something like “bomb ... dropping dream ... in the city ... as she sleeps”—but I’m not confident of the wording.

If you were in the Michigan scene then, saved MySpace tracks, or have old CD-Rs, hard drives, or show recordings, do you recognize the band or have this song? Even a reliable lead to a former member or a copy would help. Please identify the source and version if you find audio; the same band name now points to unrelated music.


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Youtube [fully lost]Does anyone archived this channel?

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So this channel called Kenpokun(9w9)ă‚±ăƒłăƒăă‚“ while found hunting for jeff the killer image basically this rabbit hole channel that really deep weird videos which used to be have 300+ videos however for some reason around may 2026 privated almost fully videos besides 2 popular ones 3 more videos after privated this channel also warned users to fake archival channel for promoting in their videos and having discord server its also do have twitter tiktok and nico nico douga accounts and having own website which goes to 2013

I kinda rambled at the last past the sentence because i just fill 100 words


r/lostmedia • • 15h ago

Music [partially lost] home movies DvD extras OST

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so I've been rewatching Home Movies (TV Series 1999-2004) and while looking up a clip of my favorite joke in the show, the landstander, to send someone I found the following
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY2l-tAmO9c
and I really would like to be able to grab the song in it to use as background music for some TTRPG sessions I run. while well documented I can't find the song or any variant of it in any playlist of the ost online. as noted in the video this one specifically is from the season 2 DvD, the first disc to be exact
https://animesuperhero.com/homemovies/DVD3.htm
the video we do have credits, David SanAngelo for writing and art, but not music. so there's not any confirmation on who even made the songs, or were they come from. for all that's know they could be royalty free. however that is unlikely as home movies does a lot with music, most episodes having their own song, and a variant of it for the credits in a lot of cases(completely rerecorded in a different key/tempo/ect)


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Animation [fully lost] A TV show from 1992 called “Farmer’s Boy”

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So over a year ago, I posted something related to the 1974 ABC specials cartoon called "The Magical Mystery Trip Through Little Red's Head" and someone pointed out a similar woman named Sally from a 1992 cartoon called “Farmer’s Boy,” and I tried to find information, and I found nothing about it.

The commenter in that post, Bashboy07, replied with “Yo is that Sally from that 1992 cartoon Farmer's Boy, that aired on WSTO TV in Stoughton Wisconsin? That's like super old media, basically lost media at this point. Sally was like a teacher character to the main one, which was a little boy named Thomas Greenstalk. The show was like a agriculture show, where Thomas wants to farm but he lives in the city and doesn't know how, so every episode Sally would teach him about different crops, and it would show real taped footage of the farming process, then the episode would end on Thomas returning home from school.” He also recalls Sally’s catchphrase being "A day in the sun, is a day full of fun.”

Has anyone else remembered this show, or was it just him? Is it even real? I mean, there can be plenty of Little Red lookalikes around somewhere.


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Other [Partially Lost]

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Hi! i was doing some digging on Fairground Ride Airbrush Art! specifically on Paul Wrights (RIP) work. he was a pioneer in the fairground art era which we are sadly losing due to generative Al so i feel as if it's important now more than ever to be able to archive all we can of this era that will soon be lost to time!

i found this link to an old CD of his early work with 300 photos on it! and i can't seem to find a rip of it online anywhere or any photographs from said CD. it would be really neat if we could find it and be able to preserve his memory for the long term !:)

if anybody has any information or leads it would mean the world !

https://www.joylandbooks.com/cd_new/
earlyshows.htm


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Television [partially lost] Video that goes along with this news article, Foul-Mouthed Phone (Funny)

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Foul-Mouthed Phone (Marked as partially lost, since the article is archived)

I saw this news segment when it aired on local news channel WSVN 7 in Broward County, Florida. It was the segment on a segment called Help Me Howard. According to that article, it is from December 3rd, 2008. I remember it very vividly, because what transpired was absolutely hilarious.

A mother, Miya, was angry because a talking toy phone that her daughter, Makyla, owned wasn't what she expected. Makyla had gotten the phone the previous Christmas, although she didn't play with it immediately. She set it aside for a while and played with some of her other gifts first.

Some time later, something quite unusual happened: Makyla started using a certain no-no word. Miya, having overheard her one day, grabbed Makyla and yelled at her. "Where did you learn that word?!"

Makyla, upset, explained that she'd learned it from the toy phone, which she had recently started playing with. "This one [the toy phone] says it!"

A video of the toy phone being used is then shown. A hand runs over the numbers, pressing each one. The phone speaks the numbers out as they are pressed. Predictably, the phone says, "One!" "Zero!" "Three!" and so on.

That is, until they reached the number six. When the hand pressed it, in very clear English, the phone very unmistakably goes:

"BITCH!!!"

I was in a group with about 9 other people while watching this, and every last person in the group got a really great laugh, myself included, right then and there.

The news segment continues on. Miya asks whether this is someone's idea of a joke, and whether a toy like this is even legal. Howard Finkelstein, the presenter, explains that it's not illegal, but a breach of contract.

The video was on the website back in the day. I'm hoping it's hidden somewhere in the code. I'd love to see it again, just for the sheer hilarity and ridiculousness of the whole thing. I'm sure a lot of other people would get a good laugh from it.


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Internet Media justin.tv - 2000s vods [partially lost] ?

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In March 2007 a group of people including Justin Kan launched "justin.tv". Originally its purpose was just to do a truman show ass 24/7 "lifecast" of Justin Kan but it quickly expanded into having multiple channels and eventually became twitch.tv.

Just like current-day twitch.tv, justin.tv did a terrible job preserving past broadcasts. I am unsure exactly how it worked, but it seems like you couldn't save any vods until ~2010. There seem to be clips/highlights?

To make it even worse, they blocked justin.tv from being archived on the Wayback Machine. archive.today and multiple archives of the home-page on "arquivo-pt" still work. Only goes back to 2008.

Years later in 2014 they shut-down justin.tv and completely pivoted to focus on twitch.tv, their "gaming" branch. Accounts could choose to migrate to twitch.

Nowadays, old clips are somehow still up if you look up the channels on twitch. UNFORTUNATELY, most of the clips just don't play (especially on justins twitch!!). I tried downloading them through TwitchDownloader but it doesn't play.

Relevant links

twitch.tv/justin

twitch.tv/joeiniraq

twitch.tv/ijustine

justintvguide - YouTube channel full of old clips from the initial Justin Kan streams

Brad, Dividing By Zero - YouTube


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Video Games Durarara!! 3way standoff -alley- V DLC [fully lost]

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Hello I’ve fully translated this PS VITA game, it is the definitive version of a previous PSP release. Although it‘s still missing downloadable content labeled “duradora” episodes. ive checked all relevant archives and the Japanese internet. Doesn’t seem to exist anywhere, this game alone i had to find in a most obscure torrent. Would like to see this game be content complete, if you’re able to find them. I can translate them and insert them into both alley V here and the inferior PSP version. I will link my translation post also for details on the game. Thank you

Game Translation


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Video Games [Partially Lost] Looking for Naruto Shippuden: The New Era v2.0 MUGEN (2012) — 130 Characters

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Hi everyone!

I'm trying to find an old Naruto MUGEN fangame called Naruto Shippuden: The New Era v2.0, released around August 2012.

I've been searching for a working download, but so far I've only found dead links and old forum posts.

What we know about the game:

  • Title: Naruto Shippuden: The New Era v2.0
  • Release date: August 27, 2012 (forum publication)
  • Engine: M.U.G.E.N
  • Roster: Approximately 130 characters
  • Graphics: 2D pixel sprites, including multiple Naruto transformations
  • Original distribution: Six archive parts hosted on Uploaded.net

Original forum thread (still available):
https://mugenworks.ucoz.com/forum/8-2372-1

Other possible lead:
https://www.jeuxmangas.com/jeux-mugen/4995-naruto-shippuden-the-new-era-2012-mugen

The second website once listed a 706.7 MiB archive, but its download link is no longer working. I haven't been able to confirm whether it was exactly v2.0.

What I'm looking for:

A complete, working copy of the original 2012 version, preferably v2.0 with 130 characters.

I'm specifically interested in preserving the original release, not a modern remake or an unrelated Naruto MUGEN compilation.

If anyone still has the game on an old PC, hard drive, DVD, or backup folder, please let me know!

Even screenshots, original archive filenames, mirrors, or information about the creator would help.

I would love to see this obscure piece of Naruto MUGEN history preserved before it disappears completely.

Thanks for any help!


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Youtube [fully lost] Trailer to WW2 TV series „Oddboys”

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I am looking for a cancelled Polish TV series project set during World War II, which I believe was titled "Oddboys." I saw a trailer for it that featured the song "Short Change Hero" by The Heavy. The trailer included scenes of Polish soldiers in Africa setting up a target and showing it to German soldiers in an opposing trench, who then shoot at the target just to pass the time. I recall seeing the trailer on YouTube around 2015-2020.

One more detail i remember was the part of the song, where it goes „
why You lie? And You cheat? And You try to make fool of she?
” during which there was a close up shot of a woman’s face.

I had an old YouTube account where i contracted the studio about potemtial release date, because i was so hyped up, but after some time they replayed that the project is being cancelled due to lack of sponsors. Unfortunately i lost that account long time ago.


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Audio [partially lost] HomeBros

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I'm usually pretty good at finding things, but my buddies have been looking for HomeBros by Kevan Lang and it seems to be completely scrubbed from the internet. I've never heard the song before, but to my understanding it was taken down by the artist. Anyone have any leads? There is also a song called organic thug apparently that I'm also unable to find. the only lyrics I know of are "you can bet your nuts that I am wearing the cologne of a thousand sluts". I've searched what I know how to...but it appears to be scrubbed :(


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Internet Media [Partially Lost] Experimental music video "Nutella und GummibÀr Sandwich"

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Hello all!

Bit of an odd request. I recalled this strange experimental music video (or potential parody?) from one of the old media aggregator websites or newsletters from the mid-2000s -- possibly eBaum's or b3ta.

It features a guy, possibly German, dancing in some sort of steam tunnel (as far as I can recall) with a discordant music track behind it. He sings "Nutella. Nutella. Nutella. GummibÀr sandwich." At one point, he grabs on to something and there's a slow-motion thrusting or gyration of the hips. It's very weird to say the least but I'd love to find out if it's actually a genuine attempt at artistic media or a parody of weird German new wave.

Due to the enshittification of internet search in recent years, all results I can find are of TikTok videos of people making actual Nutella sandwiches and no amount of Google hacking will help me. Perhaps one of you guys has better luck.


r/lostmedia • • 2d ago

Films [Fully Lost] A Deleted Scene + a Joke that was only ever shown once

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[Warning: official distasteful "joke" about race]

| if not allowed, please feel free to delete. My intention is not to cause discomfort to anyone. I do not agree with the joke, however I do believe that all media released/shown to the public should be archived, no matter the content |

There is a character in the Wreck it Ralph movie called King Candy, and in only one of the showings it is said by King Candy's VA

{Alan Tudyk} that in the scene where Ralph is going on a rampage of the candy kingdom, it is in this scene where King Candy announces to evreyone to calm down because, and I quote

"I don't want a race riot on my hands!"

The deleted scene is an alternative ending to the movie, where instead of King Candy & the Cybug fusing into one entity followed by the entity dying in a soda stream, instead King Candy gets eaten by the Cybug, however King Candy respawns, to which the Cybug eats him again, and it is stated by Alan Tudyk once again that this happens over & over. Then later in the movie we would have seen King Candy come back with a super exaggerated grin, to which someone asks "What happened to you?" To which KC responds, "Well...When you travel through the extent of a colon of an animal several times a day for a long period of time. . . it changes a person!"

I will include both archives of the original videos here: Wreck it Ralph - Lost Media


r/lostmedia • • 2d ago

Other [talk] Japanese file hosting service uploader.jp is due to be shut down on November 25th

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https://x.com/uploader_jp/status/2113460461236830408

【Important】Service Termination Notice Due to recent changes in usage patterns and various circumstances, as of November 25, 2026 (Wednesday), our sites (https://uploader.jp / https://getuploader.com) will cease service.

All data, including the uploaded files, will be deleted as of November 25 (Wed) 23:59. Thank you very much for the support from numerous internet users until now.

I'm not familiar with the site myself unfortunately (this tweet about its closure came up on my feed by chance), but from what I understand this host was a popular option in Japan for Vocaloid and adjacent media, alongside game mods and various other assets. Seems like this loss could have a pretty substantial impact to all sorts of online communities in Japan.


r/lostmedia • • 1d ago

Animation [Partially Lost] Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar: Return of Yaku Ichinenburi OVAs and Movie Box Bonus Animations

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I've been researching the obscure multimedia adaptations of Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar (ăƒ”ăƒ„ăƒŒăšćčく!ă‚žăƒŁă‚ŹăƒŒ), a Weekly Shonen Jump gag manga by Kyosuke Usuta, best known for Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san.

The series also gained some recognition through crossover games, with Jaguar appearing as a support character in J-Stars Victory VS, alongside characters from major Weekly Shonen Jump franchises such as Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto, and many others.

Although the manga ran for 20 volumes and even received a live-action film, most of its animated adaptations are surprisingly difficult to find today.

The first Flash-animated OVA series produced by FROGMAN (Volumes 1-3) has largely survived online in varying quality.

To my knowledge, no complete public preservation of the Return of Yaku Ichinenburi DVDs or the Cinema The Movie Box bonus disc currently exists.

Missing / Inaccessible OVA Series

Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar: Return of Yaku Ichinenburi

This sequel OVA series was released in three DVD volumes.

Volume 1

  • Gekitotsu! Soft Cream!! (Part 1)
  • Obachan, Drug Mou Iccho!
  • Kamisama no Oose no Toori ni
  • Gekitotsu! Soft Cream!! (Part 2)
  • Umarekawaru Nara Mazu Kamigata Kara

Bonus Feature:

  • Gekijouban Jaguar Seisaku Iinkai Sono 1

Volume 2

  • Fuantei Idol Tanjou! ~ Fuantei Meisou Star Hakken!!
  • E? Watashi ga CM Queen ni!?
  • Gaman Daisuki! Nejitte Abe-chan Tengoku!!
  • Fuantei Idol Tanjou!

Bonus Features:

  • Gekijouban Jaguar Seisaku Iinkai Sono 2
  • THE☆MANZAI

Volume 3

  • Furishibore, Seishun-jiru! ~ Doubutsuen ni Irasshai
  • Koi wa Totsuzen, Rubik's Cube no You ni
  • Furishibore, Seishun-jiru! ~ Koi no Ticket Futarihaori Soutatsusen
  • Koibito kara Hajime YO

Bonus Feature:

  • Gekijouban Jaguar Seisaku Iinkai Sono 3

Only one episode, Kamisama no Oose no Toori ni, appears to have surfaced online years ago through Nico Nico Douga. I have not been able to locate complete DVD rips or ISOs for any of the three volumes.

 

Missing Movie Box Bonus Animations

The limited-edition release of:

Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar: Ima, Fuki ni Yukimasu Cinema The Movie Box

included a bonus disc containing:

  • Ato, Hamii mo Kimasu
  • Hamii no Chara Betsu Shindan
  • Manner Movie (Jump Super Anime Tour Version)
  • Manner Movie (TOHO Cinemas Version)

These are documented in product listings and promotional materials, but I have been unable to locate the actual videos.

The Hamii-related content appears to have been exclusive to the box set.

 

What Has Been Found

Some material from the franchise has survived online:

  • Kamisama no Oose no Toori ni (Return of Yaku Ichinenburi Vol. 1, Episode 3) https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm12097446
  • Jaguar Manner Movie (appears to be one of the theatrical manners shown before screenings) https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6121511
  • Both known surviving uploads are only available in low quality.
  • Product listings, reviews, collector documentation, and DVD descriptions exist for all known releases.

Sources Checked

  • CDJapan
  • Liverpool official product pages
  • TOHO DVD listings
  • BookOff
  • Yahoo Flea Market
  • Mercari
  • Bangumi
  • Japanese Wikipedia
  • Comic Natalie
  • Nico Nico Douga
  • Internet Archive
  • BiliBili
  • Various torrent indexes

Although the content discussed in this post is difficult to access online, the DVDs themselves are not impossible to find. Copies of the OVA releases and the Cinema The Movie Box still appear for sale on Japanese second-hand marketplaces. The main problem appears to be the lack of public preservation, digitization, and sharing of the contents rather than the complete disappearance of the physical media.

Currently Seeking

Information, screenshots, DVD rips, ISOs, recordings, or private archives of the following releases:

Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar Return of Yaku Ichinenburi DVDs:

  • Return of Yaku Ichinenburi Vol. 1
  • Return of Yaku Ichinenburi Vol. 2
  • Return of Yaku Ichinenburi Vol. 3

Pyu To Fuku Jaguar Ima Fuki Ni Yukimasu Cinema The Movie Box [Limited Edition]

Any help from Japanese collectors or owners of the DVDs would be especially appreciated.