We’ve had a few frames already, we’ve seen Luz’s fanart for Amity and we knew they went to school together in the original version, but how did that happen?
Well, now it’s time to find out! 21 minutes and 34 seconds of storyboard animation, fully voiced with music and sound effects
Thanks “Derps” for somehow finding and uploading this, and @[email protected] for initially sharing the link on Masto and for reuploading a backup because the original YT version might not be long for this world
EDIT: The original link has now fallen. I put up fenarinarsa’s PeerTube backup as the main link of the post. There’s other reuploads on YT, too, but I wont keep updating that
This is amazing! I never thought we would get to see the pilot in all its glory. It looks like Disney already got to it on YouTube, but the backup link is still working! (For now, at least.)
Discussion
Watching this is so strange; it’s like déjà vu. It’s interesting seeing what ideas were and weren’t thrown out, such as some of the gags being nearly identical to the final episode, meanwhile many of the recurring characters have entirely different designs. It makes me wonder where this falls on the scale from the first beta pitch to the final product. The tone of the whole pilot feels a lot closer to Amphibia/Gravity Falls s1a, it gives me the impression that the show overall would be a more light-hearted and goofy show filled with silly jokes for kids, but I might be reading into it too much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also, King wearing his “Burger Queen” crown is absolutely beautiful!