#existence unconfirmed

[beepsparks]

Slowly going insane because I remember playing some kind of bootleg Kirby mobile game once in the early 2010s as a kid but every single time I’ve tried looking it up not a single hint of it comes up. To the point I’m questioning if it even existed

Maybe I’ll doodle what the protagonist looked like at some point as well as a level I recall seeing but not rn.

For now I’ll provide a description of the game (mainly visuals):

The game was a 2D platformer.

The protagonist was shaped exactly like Kirby, with a white body and blue feet (and possibly blue hands), with a Kirby-like smug face and a tiny tuft of hair on their head. They wielded a sword (the color im guessing was yellow) and they were 2D animated.

The environment was a basic grassland with an underground, one level I vaguely recall there being a platformer challenge underground where there were pits with wooden spikes in them that you had to jump over?

The UI had a D-Pad on the left, with two red and blue buttons on the right. The red button was used for the sword, and the blue button was used to jump. I think they had tiny graphics in the buttons too? Idk.

That’s all I remember idk

[cottoncandyandmilk]

Does Globi und der Schattenräuber have an English dub?

To make a long story short, Globi und der Schattenräuber (a.k.a. Globi and the Stolen Shadows) is a 2003 Swiss German animated film intended to modernize the beloved Swiss childrens' character Globi by placing him in an anime-inspired adventure helping a pair of teen musicians opposite a shadow-stealing villain. I've been interested in this movie for years because it sounded bizarre as hell, and earlier this year I was finally able to watch it. I'm super grateful, and I really enjoyed it, but the search is not over.

The film is documented on numerous cartoon and movie databases across the internet, some of which allege it is available with English audio. I know from an interview published prior to the film's release that an official English release was planned, but what I haven't been able to confirm is if that plan came to fruition.

Evidence of this supposed dub is sparse, and much of it could be interpreted as further proof that the dub was planned even if it never ended up happening. For one thing, the songs used in the film are in English, as is the text in the opening and closing credits. Plus, a piece of promotional artwork featuring the English title exists, which may have been used to market the film to potential distributors.

As well, the lip flaps just don't match the audio that well. Rather, it looks as though the animation was made to synch up with English dialogue. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of cartoon-characters-rotely-opening-and-closing-their-mouths in a way that's very common for productions of this scale from this time, but there are also multiple scenes where, when watching with the sound off, you can clearly make out what the English line would have been. Examples include when the Maestro first transforms and asks "What- What happened to me?" or when Globi rolls out the device for creating digital shadows and Benji appears to ask "Woah. What the heck is that?".

But if an English audio track for this film exists, how would it have been released? The original Swiss German version was released theatrically and then on DVD, but I can't find any evidence of the supposed English version of the film receiving this treatment. No TV broadcast that I know of either, nor any other method of distribution. Not to mention, I can't find who the cast and crew would have been on this dub, with one exception.

For whatever reason, IMDB has exactly one voice actor listed for an English version of this film: Alan Marriott in the role of Maestro. It's unclear why the rest of the English cast is missing, why the only character credited isn't even the title character but instead the villain of the piece, or for that matter where they even got this information, but I have reached out to Alan Marriott through his website to confirm the accuracy of this credit, and I'll update this post if he or his team get back to me.

In the meantime, if anybody out there has any information about this hypothetical dub, please let me know. I would love to unearth a watchable copy, or at the very least confirm whether or not the dub is real. Thank you!