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For the most part, Wander Over Yonder content is well-documented, since its original run overlaps with the social media age. I've found a relative abundance of content to catalog for Wander Over Yonder Wiki.

However, this is still a fairly obscure cartoon, and one of its most notable examples of rare and lost media are the animatics at the end of every episode.

Today, I created a page about them on the Lost Media Wiki, where I wrote:

"In the US, 11-minute episodes were coupled together and filled a 22-minute time slot. At the end, an animatic related to one of the two episodes would play with end credits. Dave Thomas, supervising director and co-producer of Wander Over Yonder, described having '15 and 30 second versions of the end credits' per episode.[1] It is unclear whether that means each of the 79 animatics have a shortened and extended version, in which case many of those are lost. In some international countries, 11-minute episodes were not coupled together and aired individually. There are 36 animatics created for stand-alone 11-minute airings that were never televised within the US. High-quality English dubs of these are rare."

Fortunately, Season 1 has all 39 of its end tags preserved across multiple platforms in decent quality. "The Day" is the exception, with only a low-quality recording available.

However, the collection of Season 2 animatics is incomplete. Out of 40 episodes, 13 end tags are only available in quality ranging from mediocre to poor. Among those, the original English dubs of "The Fremergency Fronfract", "The Black Cube", and "The Sick Day" animatics are completely lost.

Season 2 end tags in English that aren't lost, but lack a high-quality version are:

"The Wanders"

"The Loose Screw"

"The Cool Guy"

"The Rager"

"The Matchmaker"

"The Secret Planet"

"The Family Reunion"

"The Legend"

"The Hot Shot"

"The Search for Captain Tim"

"The Sick Day"

Another example of Wander Over Yonder lost media is development art. We'll probably never know how much hasn't been documented online, but there's at least two suspected cases.

Lord Dominator has plenty of concept art for her armored form by Ben Balistreri, and some early out-of-suit concepts by Alex Kirwan. A lot of it is visible in this old photo from inside Disney TVA:

Upon closer inspection, however, I noticed a few out-of-suit concepts that I've never found anywhere online. If you compare them to the collection on WOY Wiki, none of them are an exact match.

Additionally, it's worth speculating about Wander Over Yonder's most famous lost media, its third and final season. Although it never officially entered development, Craig McCracken talked about pitching it to Disney TVA. Dave Thomas and Frank Angones had a lot to say as well, mentioning a planned opening scene, rough episode ideas, a new threat, and "possible endings for all the mains", just to name a few.

I tried to rank all of my Pins of Dominator, because I'm lonely and bored, just like her!!!

Obviously, my ranking isn't based on subjective tastes, it's 100% objective fact. And I am clearly trying to slander these artists and take wrongful credit for their work, too.

This is a simple thing I thought about a long time ago. Everybody knows the scene in "I'm the Bad Guy" where Dominator yanks the banjo out of Wander's hands and smashes it, right?

Have you... considered the implication, though?

After Dominator blasts some Watchdogs into a cage, you can see him carrying it as if he's prepared to play something. Meaning... he was about to start singing in the middle of her song.

Can you imagine an alternate version with extra duet lyrics? The main protagonist and the main villain? What would Wander say? You could still have Dominator destroy his banjo to shut him up. I think it would further emphasize how unnegotiable she is, too.

and this 2 minute doodle is ok I guess 🙄

then i drew a deer and i was told to put a cape on it...?

but until then, look at the shoddy sketches I drew for a friend to explain how/when Wander proposed to Dominator

Dominator was supposed to be a "big part of the Season 3 plan." That begs the question: If it had aired, would her character arc lead her to be "Wanderized" and redeemed like Hater? Or, is she doomed to be a bully forever, no matter what happens?

What's YOUR opinion? Try to vote based on what you think is most likely, not what you want to happen.

Hater and Wander appear to be drying themselves off after taking showers. Hater rips a towel on his lightning horns/antenna, and Wander...

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