#amphibiland

[nbriggite]

Con el casco 🐸

[metroxlr]

Well, here it is folks...

After a delay last year, The Art of Amphibia was finally made available and my pre-ordered copy arrived just today right on the dot.

Obviously I haven't read it all through just yet, so don't expect this to be a proper review or anything.

Instead I will list off it's Table of Contents, and some words that I found interesting

.Forword by Brenda Song, The Voice of Anne (I actually did read this one first, and Song's words on her experience with Amphibia was short, but very beautiful. I can tell she actually loves this character and wasn't just "in it for a paycheck." Her opening quote was: "Amphibia Changed My Life!")

.The Amphibia That Never Was (AKA "Amphibiland". You better believe I looked at this chapter first!")

.100 Sprigs (OH GOD! but seriously, it's just pages showing several different designs made of Sprig. But the title alone sounds like it couldn't been a funny episode of Sprig cloning himself like something out of Dexter's Laboratory.)

.Anne Boonchuy

.The Plantars

.The Townies of Wartwood

.Sasha Waybright

.Captain Grime

.General Yunan (no joke, I keep getting her name wrong. Sometimes I refer to her as "Yuan")

.Marcy Wu

.King Andrias

.Mr & Mrs. Boonchuy

.The Core

.Darcy

.Crew Artwork (Bet this one will be fun!)

And now for an overview on the "Amphibiland" phase of the show's development.

No joke, initially Matt Braly's vision for Amphibia wouldn't ended up becoming no different from The Owl House, with a mood and look akin to "The Dark Crystal", "The Labyrinth" and "The Hobbit."

a Dark Fantasy in every sense of the world where Anne's introduction was her living in a cave surrounded by animal bones (that she presumably killed and ate).

There was no town, either. No Wartwood. Anne (whose personality wouldn't been more like Pacifica Northwest) would've been adopted by a frog family (The Plantars) living on a farm in the middle of a swamp (think Yoda on Dagobah. That is how Matt described it.)

The Toad Warriors were more dangerous, too.

There were Magic Swords, Magic Maps and "dead bodies."

If you thought The Owl House could be a Bizarre Hellscape, Amphibiland wouldn't made the Boiling Isles feel like Disneyland.

And, to quote Matt Braly on how Disney felt:

"Everybody loves the idea of a girl stuck in a frog world... they just don't like what you've done with it."

While I can kinda get where Disney is coming from, I would be lying if I said I didn't want to see "Amphiland Uncut" released at some point (even as an indie title separate from Disney.)

I'd watch a whole movie about the Amphibia that never was (even though I still like what we got instead. Both versions of merit.)

All I can say now is that...Please, Disney PLEASE release an "Art of The Owl House" next!

If any show deserves a book detailing scrapped concepts and artwork, it is THAT one.

[dashintrash]

Leif but she's built like amphibiland Sprig

[sashannarcycanon]

AKJSKANS amphibiland content

Anne and weed my beloveds

ALSO ANNE COULDVE HAD SOME SORT OF SPEAR WEAPON AW

[i-l0ve-luci]

If anyone wants to watch amphibia with me and listen to me rant about everything I remember from when I was obsessed, dm me

[anura-the-third]

( I got a lot to ramble about after reading the Amphibiland pitch bible, but I'll start with Marcy) I have not been able to stop thinking about how Marcy is described in it. SHE WAS IN A TRAVELING TROUPE OF PERFORMERS?? HSHDHJEHF

my headcannon is If she never went to Amphibia, she would have become a more joke-y person to rebel against her family's high expectations as described here (she did in canon post Amphibia by becoming a webcomic artist, maybe without Amphibia she'd have become a performer who knows) (but also that's just my tendency to always tie the concept art and the actual show together, Beta Luz is 100% older Luz if she found the Boiling isles at like 16 rather than 14 in my head)

and are you KIDDING like how interesting would it be to have a show where Sasha is desperately trying to keep their group together, while Marcy is already kind of mentally checked out of their friendship... THE DRAMA. THE GROWING APART PAINS OF IT ALL. The first thing that comes to my mind is just how cool it would be to have a scene where Marcy realizes the other girls are not at all ready to grow apart, meanwhile she's been in the process of doing that this whole time (a one sided codependency? or, 2 sided in this case) it's just so interesting, seeing as she was the one trying to keep them together in the show

[luckyshinyhunter]

🏴‍☠️🍋🐸🐛🥺That angelic voice it's just legendary! 🥺🐛🐸🍋🏴‍☠️

[impact801]

Here's the Amphibia Pilot since it got axed on Youtube.