#prefandom

It’s… pretty weird. Like, for one, pre-movie Frozen is already 6 years ago (wtf is time…) and second, it’s still different in a way.

Pre-movie Frozen we had so little information about the movie, and basically no one outside of our small fandom really cared about it. And the hate… Oh lord, I don’t think I’ll ever get over “Tangled On Ice“.

Now, we already have a full trailer with the movie still 5 months away (with Frozen we didn’t get a proper trailer until 2 months before the movie), and now everyone is talking about it, because it’s already popular.

But the feeling that’s still the same, is slowly piecing the plot together with every little bit of footage and info that’s released. That’s what I’m most excited for. All the trailers and TV ads which will be released in the following months. And the storybooks that will be released in October.

Oh, boy... I can’t remember everything, since it is 6.5 years ago after all. But I definitely still remember the poptarts...

It started so innocent. Someone just posted a headcanon that they like to think Hiro enjoys poptarts and legit, no joke, for at least a week straight the BH6 tags were like 90% poptart memes. I believe some of those memes are still floating around on the internet. Like this one.

But to be fair, this was back when we didn’t have much canon content to work with yet, so we just did whatever. The poptart meme was early August 2014, when most of the marketing was just Hiro and Baymax being idiots and we hadn’t seen a whole lot of the other characters yet.

Thinking about it... most memes revolved around food. There was this one Tadashi RPer who, well... loved sticking food up people’s butts. I especially remember the day (late August) when Tadashi stuck a carrot up Yokai’s butt, because that’s the day my parents made hutspot (Dutch dish with carrots as a main ingredient) for dinner.

Also side note, this was back when we didn’t know yet for sure who Yokai was. Though, Callaghan was definitely our main suspect. If I remember correctly, we knew for sure late September, because that’s when the tie-in books started releasing.

This isn’t really meme related, but I also remember back when we didn’t know yet what Tadashi looked like. Our first look at Tadashi, was early July and came from a leaked Japanese trailer. And people legit thought he had a bowl-cut, because of the weird angle, lol. I remember we laughed about that until the full Japanese trailer got uploaded and we realized what his hair actually looked like.

I mean... can you blame us, when this is all we had?

I also suddenly remembered the “Rapunzel face” memes. One of the biggest complaints about Big Hero 6, was how much Honey Lemon had “Rapunzel face” (I’d say they look different enough, but whatever). So people started photoshoping Rapunzel’s face on EVERY Big Hero 6 character, as a way to make fun of that complaint.

He has Rapunzel face! You have Rapunzel face! I have Rapunzel face!! Are there any more Rapunzel faces I should know about!?

This one’s probably the most cursed....

Just rewatched this old video I made BEFORE the movie came out.

Trying to puzzle together the movie with all footage and information we had at the time. It’s kinda scary watching it back, because aside from a few errors, some of them pretty minor… it’s basically spot on.

Yet they are the people complaing BH6 doesn’t get enough love... Because you chased off half the fandom, you dingus.

Like I mentioned before, the Netherlands doesn’t sell poptarts, but there’s a candy store near where I live that imports them from America. They usually only have like 5 flavours at most to choose from, but this time they had cookies and cream, which is exactly the one I bought 3 years ago!

Poptarts will always make me think of Big Hero 6, because of that Hiro poptart headcanon that got out of control and because the Big Hero 6 pre-fandom was literally the reason I tried poptarts in the first place.

They’re pretty expensive here (5.50 euros per box), but I figured I could allow it for this “special occasion.” To try and relive the good old days.

I’m also still planning to eat something with chicken when watching Baymax Returns, because of the new Hiro chicken headcanon.