Behind the Scenes: Bugs Bunny & Taz Time Busters (Patreon)

How the video came about:

This video has been in the ideas stages since I started taking my content seriously around this time last year.

And like Split Second, Dead Head Fred and Rayman 3... Bugs Bunny & Taz Time Busters has always been on the list of games I eventually wanted to talk about on my channel!

So, despite being a somewhat successful and well received video, Lost in Time was actually an afterthought!

You have no idea how close I was to skipping Bugs Bunny Lost in Time in favor of this back in January, but I'm actually quite glad I did them in chronological order in the end, as it allowed me to correct and elaborate on certain points I'd made in the other video.

The reason it's taken so long is a combination of different things. Firstly, after Bugs Bunny Lost in Time I stopped on my own work for a little while in order to do the Top 10 with Square Eyed Jak over on his channel. 

After that, other than the shorter videos like the April Fools one on "Overwatch " and the more recent one on Titanfall 2  I hadn't really done much work on these particular videos thanks to some major writers block, and I wanted to get back to them whilst also continuing where I left off, back in January!

How the video changed during production:

The main thing that changed this time around was the script. In between February and writing this blog post in May, I think this entire script has 3 complete re-writes. I'd been struggling with writers block for a while, hence the lack of bigger videos of late, and I really didn't feel good about the scripts I'd written for this.

I decided to leave it a while and do some shorter video, with this final version of the script being a mash-up of the original two, trying to keep the better parts of each intact.

The visual gag of "British Summer Time" was originally going to be "Post Brexit Britain" but yeah... I try to avoid politics jokes.

The running gag of the Genie from Aladdin popping up and doing his one man band music came about from another instance of me just being random with my editing and I quite liked doing it.

For the part where I used a clip from Anchorman, where he says "Boy, that escalated quickly" I was originally going to actually re-enact that myself, wearing a suit and lip syncing it to the sound of the clip. But in the end, I didn't... for whatever reason.

Aside from that, not much changed to be honest. This video has probably had the least amount of changes in any of my videos for a while now, and I feel it's mainly because I've had it scripted, and had the image of the final video in my mind for so long now... so it was pretty straightforward.

Music Used:

00:00 - Opening Fanfare - Donkey Kong Country (SNES)

00:11 - Stealing a brig - Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag

00:32 - Jo Ad 1 - Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (PS1)

00:57 - Main Theme - Wii Virtual Console (Wii)

01:27 - Wizards Peak - Spyro The Dragon (PS1)

03:15 - The Slider - Super Mario 64 (N64)

03:32 - Gobi's Valley - Banjo-Kazooie (N64)

04:51 - The Birds Nest - A Bug's Life (PS1)

05:46 - Matching Blocks Challenge - Bugs Bunny & Taz Time Busters (PS1)

07:15 - Ski Lift - Monsters Inc Scare Island (PS1)

07:52 - The Iceberg - Monsters Inc Scare Island (PS1)

08:35 - Main Theme - Dead Head Fred (PSP)

08:47 - Title Screen / Sparx Levels - Spyro: Year of the Dragon (PS1)

09:40 - The Shield Race - Bugs Bunny & Taz Time Busters (PS1) 

09:57 - Count Bloodcount - Bugs Bunny & Taz Time Busters (PS1)

10:02 - Bad Boss Boogie - Donkey Kong Country (SNES)

12:11 - Orientation - Monsters Inc Scare Island (PS1)

Other Trivia and Info:

The opening to this video is basically a direct reference to the Lost in Time video. I just happen to also have a Taz figure to make the same joke work a second time! (I also got my new favorite scream sound effect in there!)

I did jokingly tease this video was going to happen at one point in the Lost in Time video.

I've also been using the soundtrack from this game as backing music in in the vast majority of my videos between now and the Antz Extreme Racing video. 

I've noticed Caddicarus doing the same recently in his videos. Take a listen to his background music, there's some Time Busters in there!

I don't blame him as it's a catchy soundtrack, but I was sort of getting concerned that my video on Time Busters that's been so long in the making would fall close after him doing his own one.

I'm certain the "bootleg Caddicarus" comments would have come in an abundance!

Thanks for reading, and for your support! :)

- Pete