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Mecha Builders: Sesame Street’s Failed Action Spinoff

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Well, this was a long time coming. Recently, I stumbled upon a video about a rather bizarre piece of unfinished media: an action cartoon featuring characters from Barney & Friends. This potential show, pitched during Barney's heyday in the late 1990s, would've been aimed at a slightly older demographic of elementary schoolers and was in the same vein as shows popular with them at the time, such as Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (if you think this sounds so insane that you just have to hear the rest of the story, I'll leave a link to the video at the end). Back on topic, watching the video reminded me of an action spinoff to one of my favorite childhood shows that did  make it to fruition: Mecha Builders. I've actually discussed Mecha Builders in the past on other websites, but after the aforementioned video came out, I regularly began rambling to myself about the show's origins, its failure, and how to tie it back to something else I've been ...
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Sesame Street's Library is Coming to YouTube (and my Subsequent Thoughts)

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So, yesterday, Sesame Street posted an exciting announcement to their Instagram account. I’m sure you probably already know what it is if you’re reading this (or just looked at the title of this post), but just in case you don’t, here’s the picture they shared. Pretty exciting, right? But of course, there’s still a lot to unpack here, especially with the announcement being rather ambiguous about  which  episodes will be uploaded. While many are hoping for classic episodes, Shane Keating wrote in a ToughPigs article about this development that “classic” Sesame Street could refer to a more recent time frame than one might assume… Long story short, this got me thinking about what counts as “classic” Sesame Street these days, and that turned into a conversation about the evolution of online discussion about the show, which eventually caused me to go off the rails on a crazy train. And since I like to have discussions with myself as if I’m talking to an audience, I figured I might ...
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Blog Post #1!

Hello everyone! My name is Alex Harris, but online, I'm more commonly known as Harrisverse. While I'm mostly known on DeviantArt for the Masked Toon Singer (Harrisversion), this blog will serve as a place for me to post my ramblings (things I come up with whenever I hyperfixate on something too much) and other stuff I'm not comfortable sharing with that community. Be on the lookout for my next post.
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