Kids' WB! (partially found animated "Backlot" bumpers of children's programming block; 1997-2003)

The Kids' WB! backlot, as shown around 2001-2003, and was still commonly used for in-house produced promos and spots until 2006.

Status: Partially Found

Since the fall of 1997, Kids' WB! began airing commercial bumpers that feature a CGI rendition of the Warner Bros. studio lot, accompanied by a rubbery, CGI version of the block's logo. Ever since the 2001 packaging began, live-action kids were soon added to the CGI backlot environment. The bumpers were produced by Riverstreet Productions and Blur Studio, both of which continued the branding work for the block until its inception in 2008.

While a pretty vast selection of these bumps exists online in some form, there are still others are pretty hard to find to this day. Missing bumpers include most of the ones that aired around the 1999-2000 season, as well as a select few from 2001.

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Videos

Riverstreet's brand montage of bumps produced around 1997-2002.

2001 bumpers.

Selected bumps for the "Fraturday" block in 2000.

2001 open.

Most of the 1997-98 bumpers.

2002 bumpers.

A reel, circa 2000, by one of the animators; Jake Carvey. A few partial, selected bumps appear around 0:22, 0:49, 0:54, 1:03, and 1:42.

Another reel by Carvey in 2001, featuring more bumper snippets.

See Also

• Animaniacs (unproduced "Minerva Mink" animated shorts; early 1990s)
• Animaniacs "I'm Mad" (partially found original theatrical version of animated short; 1994)
• Animaniacs "The New Year's Party Tonight" (partially lost alternate version of animated comedy series short; 1995)
• Animaniacs "Potty Emergency" (lost deleted scenes of episode of animated comedy series; 1993)
• Brainstem (lost preview version of "Pinky and the Brain" song; 1995)
• Channel Umptee-3 (partially found Kids' WB! educational animated series; 1997)
• Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island (partially found pitch pilot of Kids' WB! animated comedy series; early-mid 2000s)
• Detention (found Kids' WB! animated series; 1999-2000)
• Earthworm Jim (partially found unaired pitch pilot of Kids' WB! animated series; 1995)
• Kids' WB! (partially found "Crazy Takes" promos of children's program block; early 2000s)
• Kids' WB! "Top 20 Pokéthon Countdown" (partially found promos and bumpers of event from children's programming block; 1999)
• Lobo (lost production material of cancelled Kids' WB! animated series based on DC character; 1990s)
• Monster Allergy (partially found Kids' WB! English dub of animated series based on comics; 2006)
• Waynehead (found Kids' WB! animated series; 1996-1997)
• Welcome Home, Animaniacs! (partially found Kids' WB Saturday morning preview; 1995)