I can't believe we actually have people here who are gonna get all OG about Lazytown. Really it's about money, nobody gives a shit about the kids, whom I doubt care whether a video game contradicts the creator's intentions.

Yes, it is about money for the company that holds the rights.  BUT, everyone that was really involved with the show REALLY gives a shit about kids!  Magnus Scheving has dedicated his life to doing good things for kids, and it took him about 7 years to get the Lazytown show going.  Stefan Karl Stefansson (the guy that plays Robbie Rotten) runs an organization that fights bullying and he gives a lot of talks at schools.  Both of them got these things started without much of a budget to start with.  I've seen interviews with both of these dudes, and I've never seen people that give a shit as much as these guys, and so that's why it's sad to see some company decide "nah, fuck that, gotta make money".

Eric I'm pretty sure magnus scheving gives a shit about kids and that you're a homo

because honestly describing velfarre as an OG FOR LAZYTOWN is the most apt way to put anything ever. when that cake song came out...she got on webcam...

and injected the song into the pink part of her eye.

It's not OFFENSIVE I mean you'd be right in saying that most people behind any show, including childrens shows, don't give a shit and are trying to make money.  Lazytown just happens to be one where the people behind it really care.  Also I want to point out that I've not done extensive research about this stuff, I've just watched a few videos on youtube (maybe two or three interviews, seen clips of the original public TV Lazytown with about zero budget) read the Wikipedia page and maybe one other article, this is about an hours worth of content I don't hunt this shit down.  You don't have to take much time to learn a whole lot about any given thing when you have the internet, you know?  Really, you only have to watch one interview with Magnus to realize that he really cares.  I mean, if it was about money for him I doubt he would have spent all this time pushing for it and go so far as to be in the show himself, direct it, etc.

edit: Apparently it is Lazytown Entertainment itself looking into making this game, but going by the press statements it sounds like it's more someone in a marketing type department pushing for it.  After all, video games sell.  Still, it really defeats the purpose.

yeah you watched an interview sorry this is a bit of effort.

It's not like it was an hour long biography, it was a short morning TV segment.  I mean I am admitting I care about Lazytown more than most people (I am wearing a goddamn Sportacus shirt right now, mostly because it's one of my warmest shirts and it's cold out).  I'm just saying Lazytown isn't some huge part of my life like it's made out to be.  I do this with almost anything I have the vaguest interest in, I know tons of shit about Carmen Sandiego as a character that other people wouldn't, it's just because I like trivia and shit.  If I like something, I want to know things about it, and I'll take the few minutes it takes to read about it on the internet to find it out.

velfarre trivia is knowing which album biggie released while he was alive or what alfred nobel invented or even a recital of the state capitals, not buying shirts and watching interviews of actors for a children's tv show or really knowing anything beyond cursory knowledge of something that only lasted two seasons that was also clearly intended for CHILDREN face it you are one weird motherfucker.

things velfarre knows:

an absurd amount about
-doraemon (dvd set)
-lazytown
-carmen sandiego

things she does not:

-jim carrey was in a movie called Liar Liar.

Man I did not say any of these things!  What I meant is that if I like something to any degree I will learn trivial knowledge of it, not that I was doing it IN SEARCH of trivia that I would actually use.  I know it's a children's TV show and I treat it like one.  I'm not trying to make it out to be something WE SHOULD ALL BE WATCHING I'm just saying it's a really cool thing for kids and the people behind it are really cool people.  I already admitted I really like it, I was just saying that I'm not a dang weirdo about it, it's hardly a part of my daily life.  I have a shirt of it, so what?  It's rare that I even wear it in public (it's covered by a hoodie right now like I said it's really warm), I just saw it at a thrift store (hint: it was really cheap) and went "heh I like Lazytown, why not?"  Yeah, it is pretty weird, but it's not like I'm on Lazytown message boards or upload videos or some shit, it's just something I kind of like!  I have a Breakfast Club shirt, that doesn't mean I love the Breakfast Club all that much.  I know more than most people about hyenas, that doesn't mean I'm some kind of hyena furry.  It's just a mild interest that looks like a huge interest because I talk about it in a topic that has everything to do with it.  I really don't care all that much, it just really seems like I do.  I know a lot about a lot of things, this is just one of them.

Also man I don't really know shit about Doraemon, sorry!  I know the basic premise and I didn't even watch much of that DVD set. 

You say that but then you'll just end up blowing £300 on a Sportacus statue or something. I know how this works.

just bought nine dvds and an ipod with doraemon. dont really care about it.

it's okay velfarre i have original cels from disney's the black cauldron and i made custom boxes for my digimon collection just telling you you're not alone in your fanaticism I STILL HAVE TMNT UNDERWEAR

Man the Doraemon iPod wasn't much more than a regular iPod so I thought "hey why not".

Doraemon is a lot like fucking Hello Kitty dude, you don't have to know shit about it to think "hey that's cute I want that", I think Doraemon is CUTE I don't obsess over the story.  I have a Doraemon alarm clock that I used for a short time that I got at a flea market for $4.  The 9 DVDs are REALLY cheap bootleg DVDs that cost about the same as just buying any normal DVD (not some $100 set or something) and after watching the first DVD or two I realized the episodes were all kind of the same and stopped giving a shit.  I only bought the whole set because that's how it came and it was really cheap anyway (couldn't find any individual DVDs at the time).  Very little money went into all this (the ipod was expensive because it's an ipod but it was not much more money), it's not a big deal.  Also this was several years ago.  Like I said, I'm being made out to be a HUGE FAN of things I have a mild interest in!

Also man I was thinking about what I said earlier about looking into everything I vaguely liked and I realized I used to do this all the time as a kid, I would read encyclopedia entries about anything and everything.  I think the thing is that other people don't have any interest whatsoever in these things so I'm associated with them for having the interest.  If you had to talk about major interests they'd be things like COMPUTERS and DOGS and other shit that no one would associate people with because they're really common, and I think this is why people have this idea of me as spending way more time and money on these things than I really am.  It's not that big of a deal.

Don't listen to him velfarre, I think it's cute. Wanna go to the mall later? :-)

Srry I'm a girl I like cute tings sometimes

fun marcus fact: when i was 13 or something i used to stay up until like 4am to catch hello kitty on toon disney

i had the tv programmed to turn it to espn when i fell asleep so when my dad came down he was like "AHRITE FUTBAHL!!"

i think that is one of the funniest things ive ever seen you say marcus

*zing*

fun marcus fact: when i was 13 or something i used to stay up until like 4am to catch hello kitty on toon disney

i had the tv programmed to turn it to espn when i fell asleep so when my dad came down he was like "AHRITE FUTBAHL!!"

hahaha that is amazing

when i was a kid i'd make the effort to wake up at 6 am on weekends to watch mr. wizard 

I'm having serious trouble trying to remember what mr. wizard looks like, without patrick stewart getting in the way