Gummibär And Friends is an animated trailer that would tease the cancelled television series of the same name based on the Gummibär series, which was scheduled to release in January 2012. It was originally uploaded by The Official Gummibär Channel on YouTube until it was eventually removed after its cancellation. Some of the scenes from this trailer would later be re-used in other videos of the channel, such as a introduction trailer for the YouTube channel and the music video of It's A Great Summer. The concept of an animated series would be taken up again in 2015, which would end up being Gummibär & Friends.
The trailer featured a 2-minute short pilot episode introducing the main characters, including Gummibär, Kala, Harry and Vampiro. Despite the original upload of the video being removed, re-uploads from other channels remain available.
Plot[]
The trailer starts with a intro sequence referencing to James Bond's gun barrel sequences in his films, along with Gummibär in formal attire resembling the character's recurring attire. The camera zooms out showing a microphone away from Gummy, where he starts hopping as he gets closer to it until he is suddenly hit by a transparent wall. Confused, he tries to figure out what is going on, until a button appears next to him that after pressing it allows the wall to be breached, leaving his formal attire behind. Gummy starts singing and dancing along with the song I Am A Gummy Bear being played in the background, until he is suddenly caught by Kala.
Gummy starts talking to Kala about what she is doing, and responds to him that she wants to make sure to everyone that the show is an ensemble. Afterwards, they are accidentally hit with some coconuts from a palm tree, causing them to fall towards the ground. Harry also appears falling from the sky, only to also end up being hit by coconuts falling on him. Gummy, in helping to lift Harry, asks to others if they have seen Vampiro. Vampiro appears flying in the sky while the others watch him. Upon landing, he settles into a seat while drinking a box of red juice. As soon as they turn on the television, the main title of the trailer appears, followed by the four main characters being narrated by a voice narrator and Vampiro announces the animated series are coming near you. At the end, it transitions to the main characters posing in front of the camera, while Harry stretches out his tongue to eat a fly that was flying near them, and then Gummy winks, closing the trailer.
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Trivia[]
- Unlike the animated series Gummibär & Friends released in 2016, Vampiro would actually star as part of the main characters. His absence in the 2016 series may be related to how he drinks from a red juice box that resembles blood in a children’s series, but there is not an official statement revealed regarding his absence.
- This would be the first official debut appearances of Kala, Harry and Vampiro. Their involvement as Gummy's partners were almost nil, until in The Yummy Gummy Search for Santa film they would play a more promitent role and would begin to appear more often in other Gummibär-related media.
- In this short, Kala would have a slightly different appearance with pink ears, these would be recolored to blue in his later appearances.