Wander Over Yonder Lost Media
For the most part, Wander Over Yonder content is well-documented, since its original run overlaps with the social media age. I've found a relative abundance of content to catalog for Wander Over Yonder Wiki.
However, this is still a fairly obscure cartoon, and one of its most notable examples of rare and lost media are the animatics at the end of every episode.
Today, I created a page about them on the Lost Media Wiki, where I wrote:
"In the US, 11-minute episodes were coupled together and filled a 22-minute time slot. At the end, an animatic related to one of the two episodes would play with end credits. Dave Thomas, supervising director and co-producer of Wander Over Yonder, described having '15 and 30 second versions of the end credits' per episode.[1] It is unclear whether that means each of the 79 animatics have a shortened and extended version, in which case many of those are lost.
In some international countries, 11-minute episodes were not coupled together and aired individually. There are 36 animatics created for stand-alone 11-minute airings that were never televised within the US. High-quality English dubs of these are rare."
Fortunately, Season 1 has all 39 of its end tags preserved across multiple platforms in decent quality. "The Day" is the exception, with only a low-quality recording available.
However, the collection of Season 2 animatics is incomplete. Out of 40 episodes, 13 end tags are only available in quality ranging from mediocre to poor. Among those, the original English dubs of "The Fremergency Fronfract", "The Black Cube", and "The Sick Day" animatics are completely lost.
Season 2 end tags in English that aren't lost, but lack a high-quality version are:
"The Search for Captain Tim"
Another example of Wander Over Yonder lost media is development art. We'll probably never know how much hasn't been documented online, but there's at least two suspected cases.
Lord Dominator has plenty of concept art for her armored form by Ben Balistreri, and some early out-of-suit concepts by Alex Kirwan. A lot of it is visible in this old photo from inside Disney TVA:
Upon closer inspection, however, I noticed a few out-of-suit concepts that I've never found anywhere online. If you compare them to the collection on WOY Wiki, none of them are an exact match.
Additionally, it's worth speculating about Wander Over Yonder's most famous lost media, its third and final season. Although it never officially entered development, Craig McCracken talked about pitching it to Disney TVA. Dave Thomas and Frank Angones had a lot to say as well, mentioning a planned opening scene, rough episode ideas, a new threat, and "possible endings for all the mains", just to name a few.
Knowing all of that, it's extremely likely Craig and the team had some early material, in the form of writings or concept art, in order to pitch Season 3 to Disney TVA. Outside of the Star Nomad illustration and a still frame of Monkey Boy, what and how much was made remains a mystery.
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