r/TOMTcoldcase • • Mar 15 '24

[Fully lost] Some assembly required season 2

36 Upvotes

So there is this show called Some assembly required it used to have three seasons, but season two just vanished. You can't find it on any streaming platform. You can't even find it illegally. it literally just went up and vanished. If anyone can find season two of this, I'll thank you. I grew up with this show so if I can find season two, I'll pay whatever I have to for the streaming service or website. it's basically lost media but if you can find any article on it with something like that, please send it to me. I've checked everywhere and i mean it l've check Netflix Canada and so much more if anyone has any info please comment down below. This show meant so much to me as i watched it with my brother before he passed away from cancer. I honestly don't expect anyone to find it but if you do thank you <3.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Oct 16 '13

[TOMTcc] [short story] [sci-fi] Story where people take a drug to erase their unpleasant memories

19 Upvotes

I'm looking for a short story I read recently (within the past few months; unfortunately I have no idea when it was written). It's set in a time when there has been a drug developed that lets people auto-pilot their way through daily activities. Most people take it to get through work. The protagonist, who hates his job, takes the drug so the only parts of his life he experiences are the wonderful ones where he can be with his wife. One day the drugs malfunction and he wakes up during the workday; turns out the company's CEO went mad with power or something and has been farming this guy and his coworkers out as sex slaves. Our protagonist rushes home to his wife to tell her about this, but when he arrives home he's devastated to see (through a window, or maybe sneaking up on her) that she's taking this drug so she can auto-pilot through an evening with him.

(Link to original TOMT post)


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Jul 05 '16

[TOMTcc] Offering $100 (paypal) for anyone who can find a specific car commercial I've been trying to find for 6 years now

17 Upvotes

I'm sure a lot of you might remember this from TOMT. I've posted it twice there now. No one was able to find the commercial, so I thought I'd post here.

Here is the link to the first thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/3ux4vx/tomt_offering_50_paypal_for_anyone_who_can_find_a/

Here is the link to the second thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/3z2n7u/tomt_offering_100_paypal_for_anyone_who_can_find/


I've been through hundreds of youtube videos now. Literally sat there on official car company youtubes and went through commercials. I've posted on car forums and subreddits, but no one seems to know what I'm talking about. I've spent years searching, so maybe a monetary reward will add some incentive.

Somewhere around 2009 in the USA, I saw a specific car commercial. I completely forget what kind of car it was. If I knew that, this search would be simple.

What stood out though was the (most likely blonde) female model in the commercial.

At the end of the commercial, she sat in front of the car. Not the front seat. Literally sitting on the ground (grass?) in front of the car with the car in the background behind her. She had a very short white dress on.

Usually, the women in car commercials are really stick thin. This girl wasn't. With that short white dress, you could easily see she had significantly more thighs than the usual skinny women.

I remember I went online to find out who she was. I actually found a Yahoo Answers post with the same question and someone had actually responded very quickly with the woman's name.

Unfortunately, I have since forgotten it. But judging from the quick response, she must be pretty well known.

It's become a joke among my friends that I'm making up this mystery woman. Help me prove them wrong!

EDIT: I don't know the exact year. It could have been 2010. Could have been 2009. Could have been a commercial in 2010 for a 2011 car. I just don't remember exactly. But someone posted saying he and his family remember seeing it in 2009.

EDIT #2: Those of you searching keywords like "white dress car commercial" aren't going to find anything. Even the Yahoo post didn't mention that. I basically just searched "who is the model from [car name] commercial?".

And someone in the first thread gave some helpful advice. Judging from the contents of the commercial, it seems to be pointing towards a hybrid foreign luxury car. But personally, I just don't remember.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • May 04 '25

A seven year ongoing search for a disturbing video

16 Upvotes

I saw the PSA/commercial in February/March 2018 on YouTube. My sister and I were watching scary ad compilations on YouTube since we got obsessed with the channel HelloImAPizza. We finished his compilations and started clicking on the side looking for others. There was a very unsettling psa/ad/commercial/pif of a man close up with a long bar? Needle? going through his head speaking about something but neither of us can remember what was said exactly. His face is very close up and the lights are initially dim. It then zooms out to the doctor or hospital staff working and making a few comments on whatever his situation is. It felt like it went on forever because of the state of shock we were in but I’d estimate it was no less than 1 minute and no longer than 4 minutes. It’s been years of us trying to find what the hell that actually was for and I can’t find any proof of it existing anywhere.

-HelloImAPizza has disclosed to me that he has NO idea what this commercial is or where it’s from so he obviously does not have it in any of his compilations. I still double checked his channel anyway, but he was right.

-IT HAD NO RELATION TO THE STORY OF PHINEAS GAGE

-It’s NOT the Guinea Pig psa and it’s NOT the Joey psa and it’s NOT the asbestos guy psa

-My sister claims she remembers the man saying “it’s holding my brain together”. NOT definite or confirmed

-We strongly believe it was a true story type of commercial. It’s 99% not fictional by using makeup or actors

-Nine (updated) people have told me that they have seen it but cannot find it either. The one individual remembers seeing it on TV in America circa late 90s/early 2000s. Everyone else claims they saw it on YouTube in recent years

If you look at my post history you can see how long I’ve been looking for this so I’d really just like to find it at this point I’m desperate idc if it’s stupid.

The lost media and lost commercial foundation groups have told me it's a case of me misremembering despite other people reaching out to me and confirming they've also seen this video in a compilation before.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Feb 11 '13

[TOMT]An animated movie about a race of creatures that die if they walk into the rain

16 Upvotes

It's basically an animated movie about two alien races. One of whom is blue and the other is red. The red ones die if they step into the rain in which the blue ones can live. Towards the end of the movie, one of the red ones kisses a blue one and this lets him walk into the rain unharmed. Please help me in finding out the name of this movie so I can watch it again :) Edit: So I think I saw it in the early 2000s, it isn't an anime. It isn't Fantastic Planet, Nausicca One more detail I can add, the blue humanoid aliens looked like Abe Sapien from hellboy.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Apr 07 '16

Solved Fairly obscure 80s Children's TV theme music - Reward Offered - Failed on TOMT Twice!

15 Upvotes

UPDATE: SOLVED - http://alohavictory.com/mystery/ (SORT OF)

New info still welcome, but a very kind soul used a throwaway reddit account to get me that mp3 and I am sure it's right so the reward has been CLAIMED!

If anyone loves chaos, here's a link to listen to my hazy made-from-memory version played at the same time as the real deal. My rhythm is off but otherwise NOT SO BAD!

ORIGINAL POST

Most recent TOMT Here

I have done TOMT twice and TOMTcc once already. There are quite a few details provided in the various links, but THIS LINK contains most of the meaty details plus bonuses.

The basics: It's a piece of music I vividly remember That I think was from Pinwheel but can't nail down the specifics even after years of googling.

Things I like to reiterate:

  • It is not the Pinwheel theme song

  • It is not going to be easily answered by googling (trust me)

  • I offered a cash (well, paypal) reward and that's still good but if you'd rather have some other reward of similar value (amazon gift card, reddit gold, olive garden gift certs... I don't know) we can work it out.

  • To get the reward the result should be pretty conclusive. A video link, an audio link, even if you just hold your iphone up to the TV while some ancient betamax plays or something... rise to the challenge and GET PAID!!

Original TOMT: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/28l2dd/tomtaudioi_have_had_this_mysterious_1980s_cartoon/ TOMTcc: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOMTcoldcase/comments/2e031q/tomtccaudioi_have_had_this_mysterious_1980s/ Thanks for your time!


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Dec 03 '14

Need help finding a very obscure PC game.

14 Upvotes

At this point hunting for this game has become a casual on/off hobby well beyond any realistic return in investment, but it's an itch i'd like to scratch. What i Know:

EDIT: 1-31-2023 : This post got Necroed and I went hunting again. I think I found it. well at least evidence that it existed : https://imgur.com/KmfuXZJ https://web.archive.org/web/19961129221717/http://www8.yahoo.com/Recreation/Games/Computer_Games/Titles/

Found in the Yahoo "titles" list. The link however is broken and the Title is unfortunately very generic. At this point I'm about 90% certain that link is the game. Now if only I could find a DL link of it.

Genre: Space sim/trader - real time (not turn based)

Year: ~1993/1994

**OS :**PC Win 3.x - I'm bout 90% sure it was a win 3.x game and not DOS, I remember the windows not fitting on our screen totally because the dsktop resolution was too low (maybe took ~800x600 and we were probably runing 640x480 at the time) it still could be dos but the more I think about it the more it feels like it was a win 3x game

Perspective/graphics: 2D , and i remember them being kind of flat and "clean" like a win game (ex microman ) not DOSy

Developer: unknown, very likely a one man show.

Gameplay : Single Player - this is a space shooter/trader sim game. you started with a small shuttle. could land on planets, buy goods and sell them on other planets. I remember checking the news for planets that were at war, buying weapons and ferrying them to the war planets for good profit.

I forget exactly how nav worked. I know as you auto traveled to other planets you could have random encounters which brought you to a section of space. flight was overhead and 2D.

I remember it being very hard to leave this mode, you were able to leave the sections of space. going into hyper speed required speeding up very fast in a straight line until you hit a critical speed (or maybe the map edge) and hitting a stray asteroid or even a ship and blowing up was pretty common. Enough that i remember dreading even friendly random encounters.

flight looked similar to this game

What it's not:

As far as I can tell it's not in these lists

It is also not these games specifically:

  • Stars!

  • escape velocity

  • EV: Nova

  • star pilot

  • solar winds

  • star control

  • Gazillionaire

  • Starflight

  • Warpath

  • Space Rogue

  • Megatraveller

  • Strange Adventures in Infinite Space

  • Star hammer

  • Elite

  • Nomad/Project Nomad

  • Space bucks

  • Sundog: Frozen legacy

  • Command Adventures: Starship

  • Iron Seed

  • Rules of Engagement 1/2

  • Critical Mass

  • Gravity Well

  • Space Empires 1/2

  • Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace

  • Supremacy: your will be done


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Feb 08 '20

This bitch. Cannot find her anywhere. Where did she come from?! I reverse image searched & tried Google Lens. Nada.

Post image
13 Upvotes

r/TOMTcoldcase • • Jun 16 '17

Solved [TOMTcc][movie] Boy beaten with pourcupine (or echidna) - $150 bounty

13 Upvotes

I've posted in the past, increasing reward by $150. Reward can be paid by PayPal, personal check, Venmo, online Amazon gift-card, etc.

This movie was on television when I was about six - very early '90s, although I have no way of knowing if it was an old film being aired on TV or if it was recent at the time - and I've never been able to figure it out. A young boy and his sister are stranded and scared in a desert or bush-like area, another boy - perhaps aboriginal or someone else who lives in the wild - comes along and shoots a porcupine with his rifle and for no reason that I can recall, beats the stranded boy with it. The thought of it disturbs me to this day. I apologize for having posted this in the past, but I've never been able to figure it out.

Suggested films that were not the one in question:

"Walkabout" (visually similar, though) "A Far Off Place" "The Legend of Black Thunder Mountain" "Little Boy Lost"

Edit: SOLVED and bounty paid to /u/hyndmandy


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Aug 19 '14

[TOMTcc][audio]I have had this mysterious 1980s cartoon / children's show theme music stuck in my head for actual decades

13 Upvotes

TL;DR: I am looking for the animation or short from the early 80s / possibly late 70s that had this theme music.

NOW PLEASE READ THIS: I want to save you some time by telling you that this is NOT really a Google challenge. I am a competent search engine user and I've been to all the hot spots for this topic, so even though I fully understand the urge, the likelihood that you will type in "old nickelodeon themes" and solve this on your first try is pretty remote. I am hoping this music actually rings a bell like it was popular in another country or that you watched the same thing but have a better memory than me.

Here is the original thread

I made a new version of the music file since then. HERE IT IS.

It is completely from memory, but I am pretty certain the melody is accurate. The bassline might be a little off, but its in the neighborhood. The actual sounds might be wrong, but to the best of my memory, it had a synthesized gentle orchestra sound almost like a synthy Waltz of the Flowers. It may have even had a pizzicato sounding waltz triplet faintly in the background.

In my memory, the music was NOT constant like Mixometric or any of those interstitial claymation things. I think it was actual intro/outro theme music and faded out as the next segment faded in.

This is definitely from my childhood and the Pinwheel era so that's like late-1970s to very early-1980s. It is not anything that was popular on its own, it was definitely a short segment in a larger show and very likely one of the imported shorts/animations that were heavily in use back then to fill time on cheap kid's shows.

Unfortunately, I can't remember a single thing about it other than the music!

To reiterate, I have been through all the major stuff... Bod, Bunny in a Suitcase, Chapi Chapo... it is definitely not any of the well known Pinwheel stuff and there is a small chance it's actually not even Pinwheel, but it's definitely from a similar budget kid's show of that era.

BIZARRE ENRICHMENT:

I made my original midi file ages and ages ago but in 2005-2006 I started posting it around to a few places on the internet then abandoned the search til my original TOMT post.

After making that post, I randomly clicked around on some Pinwheel related links in YouTube and found this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smuxE1v4CSk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhDwjtkQ_FU

He has multiple accounts with multiple videos seeking the same song!!!

He is DEFINITELY humming the exact same music and I have no connection to him whatsoever. He also adds a few little flourishes that were never in my original file, so I believe that this is a genuine occurrence and it's EXTREMELY STRANGE.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Dec 10 '23

Potential lost media of a creepy dora video on youtube

12 Upvotes

When I was a kid, my brother showed me this creepy evil Dora video on youtube. I don't remember much, just the general feeling of being scared of Dora. She had those cheesy red eyes, though my brother can't remember if they were just red or some sort of laser eyes. I recall her stabbing boots at one point. My brother also said that she has the voice of a man, like in those old GoAnimate videos, but it wasn't an actual GoAnimate video. A few years later, my brother tried looking for it, and found it was taken down. It was most likely too graphic for youtube, despite it being made when youtube was more chill on the rules. I found a similar post here talking about a video where Dora went to boots funeral, but I don't think that's it.

Later, we found something that's VERY similar to it here! The only problem is that it's too recent, only being 7 years ago, when I remember seeing it 8-10 years ago. I also remember it being more gory, and there are no evil red eyes, but we both remember that. It's also on a GoAnimate channel, but he claims it wasnt GoAnimate, and the voice wasn't deep (at least I think? my laptops audio is messed up so i couldnt hear much). He also didn't recognize that part at the end with her parents. My brother also said that the art style was much closer to official dora, which I can confirm.

I researched a bit, and I found something with similar vibes (Dora the Goth Explorer) but that still isn't it. It's probably long gone, but maybe an archive somewhere exists? This has been driving me insane since I remembered it.

UPDATE: Somebody else remembers it! I won't be putting their user here to not bother them, but they stated that they saw it around the same time I did, but a little earlier. Anon also claimed that there were multiple videos, which means I could've seen a later one. They confirmed that she had red laser eyes and a deep voice, and that her face was peeling off in a super gory way, which after discussing with my brother, we both now remember. Another user also said that they found it in a "creepiest things found on the internet" youtube video. This confirms the existence of the videos! If anybody has any clips or other stories about it, PLEASE let me know.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Apr 25 '18

[TOMTcc] [music video] I've been looking for this artist for about a year now, I'm slowly going mad

12 Upvotes

r/tipofmytongue has failed me twice already, I've been looking for this artist for almost a year now.

The gist of the two posts:

I'm looking for two music videos from the late 2000s-2010s from (most likely) the same artist, an african american (or similar ethnicity) woman.

The first video features a closeup shot of her for the entire duration, while she has makeup applied by hands that do not belong to her. The makeup is applied badly, her hair gets messed up, and lipstick gets smeared all over her mouth.

The second video features a young woman driving a car with the singer in the trunk, dead. She drives her to a remote location, next to a forest, where she plans to dump her body, but then the body disappears. As far as I remember, this song featured a famous male singer, but obviously I can't remember whom. (My initial guess was Bastille, but that did not lead me to the video.)

As for the style of the songs, I mostly listen to electronic or pop songs, this must have belonged to these categories as well.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Mar 24 '11

[TOMTcc] YA Sci-Fi book about a living planet

12 Upvotes

TOMTcc, you're my only hope...

People crash-land on a planet. It is covered in something that looks like sunflowers. They cut one of the sunflowers off with a pen-knife and realize they can use the flower to power a flashlight. They eventually realize that the whole planet is interconnected, and the flowers use the sun as a power source for the entire planet, which is alive and intelligent because they figure out how to talk to it somehow.

But oh no! People want to blow it up, or something, because... I honestly don't remember why. And no one else is convinced it's alive. But the crash landing people realize they must save it!

It's probably from the 70's or 80's, I remember the cover being a bit of that sort of cheese. This has been driving me crazy for years.

Please help save the little bit of sanity I have left.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Jan 25 '15

[TOMTcc] Movie where couples car breaks down, are approached by stranger who turns out to be the devil.

11 Upvotes

The movie starts off with a couples car breaking down. They are they approached by a stranger who offers to help them, they go with him. I don't remember too much of the middle, I think the guy tries to kill them. Then it ends with him getting killed and the camera pans over a desert full of crosses. I think it is insinuated in there that the guy who came to help is the devil.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Nov 09 '12

[TOMTcc][Book] Alternate dimension and an odor concert

11 Upvotes

This is a sci-fi novel I read as a kid back in the late 1980s. I remember it starts off with a guy sitting in his living room and suddenly a hole appears in thin air, right in the middle of the room. It turns out that another guy in another dimension was hanging a picture and the nail went through the fabric between the dimensions. The two men tear at the edges of the hole until it's big enough to walk through and they become friends.

The only other thing I remember is that in the other dimension, the two men go to a concert, but instead of sound, music in the other dimension is composed of smells. There's a band on stage playing various instruments that emit different smells that all come together to make a smell-song for the audience to enjoy.

That's all I've got. I'm not sure if the book was meant for kids or for adults. I remember checking it out of the library and I'm pretty sure I found it on a paperback rack in the adult section, but it read like a book that a 12-year-old would enjoy. It was pretty light and comedic.

Original post here


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Jul 05 '12

[TOMTcc][GAME] Windows 95 computer game, Magic Wand Icon...

11 Upvotes

Here's some pictures I made to give you guys a better idea: Link (This was not the exact shape of the map, which happens to look a bit like Africa. This is just coincidence.)

It was sort of like a board game against 1 computer opponent. You rolled the dice, which dictated the number of tiles you could move to, in any direction, and alternating directions (like back and forth between 2 tiles). Some or all (I can't remember) tiles had a chest, that either had a Gold Bar, a Silver Bar, a Key, or some robber with a gun that shot you and took your gold/silver.

I think gold and silver was used to cross water, and I think you could steal gold and silver (or the key) off of your opponent by landing on their space or passing them, (not sure which).

Once you had the key, you had to get to the right-side of the map to get to the next map. If your opponent did first, you lost.

This game seems to be based off an old game called Afrikan tähti (Or Star of Africa). Thanks to PinkieThingie for this.

Also, if anyone know where there is a place with a good list of Win95 games with pictures, I could look through there myself.

(Original post here: Link)


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Jul 15 '11

Scene from a movie/show that references The Cranberries (the band, not the fruit). Not Clueless or Click.

11 Upvotes

Trying to remember a movie or TV Show which had a scene where a kid was ridiculed for not knowing who The Cranberries were. It is probably from the late 80s or early 90s (when they were popular) and I think it took place in a classroom. I am pretty sure it was not Clueless. Also it wasn't played for laughs, back then they were cool. :) link to original post Crap I forgot to put [TOMTc] in header. Sorry!


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Aug 22 '18

[TOMTCC] The Hunt For The Ghost Actress

10 Upvotes

https://i.imgur.com/0HHijLd.jpg

Hey peeps. I've posted this on r/tipofmytongue and still no luck but I've been trying for ages to look for this actress I only know three things about.

-She was in a music video for Alien Ant Farm: Movies where she was a punk rock Violet Beauregarde.

-She was in the music video called Adrienne by The Calling

-Her first name is apparently "Jazmin."

Where that first name comes from is beyond me, but this has been driving me, and a few other people nuts. She couldn't have just disappeared. She's been in two music videos at least 6+ years apart. Someone's gotta know her name.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Aug 05 '18

[TOMT][Password] I didn't know where to post this so, I'm posting here.

10 Upvotes
  • I installed one of those apps that you stash photos under the cover of a calculator.

  • I remember the 4-digit password, but the password that comes after that escapes me.

  • It is an alphanumeric password.

  • The hint i left for myself is: god (damn-nation)

  • For those who don't know DAMN. is an album by Kendrick Lamar and NATION. is the deluxe edition of that album.

  • NATION is in reverse track listing order from DAMN.

  • And GOD is the 13th track of the album in the correct order.

I've been thinking for two weeks on this riddle I've built myself.

Any help would be so much appreciated.

(Please let me know if this isn't the right place to post)


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Feb 09 '17

[TOMTcc][movie] Boy beaten with pourcupine - $100 reward

10 Upvotes

Note: I have posted this once before, but have since increased the bounty from $50 to $100 in the title, so I have made a new post. Hope that's OK.

I have been searching this movie out every few months for years now - the earliest post I can find having made on Reddit is 2012 - responses are always good, but never correct. Reward can be paid by PayPal, personal check, or online Amazon gift-card.

This movie was on television when I was about six - very early '90s, although I have no way of knowing if it was an old film being aired on TV or if it was recent at the time - and I've never been able to figure it out. A young boy and his sister are stranded and scared in a desert or bush-like area, another boy - perhaps aboriginal or someone else who lives in the wild - comes along and shoots a porcupine with his rifle and for no reason that I can recall, beats the stranded boy with it. The thought of it disturbs me to this day. I apologize for having posted this in the past, but I've never been able to figure it out. The movie is NOT "Walkabout," although the setting is very similar.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • May 09 '16

[TOMTcc] [music video]

10 Upvotes

It's by some indie rock group that's not really that well known. I don't even know the song title or the band name. I honestly don't even have any recollection of how the song melody goes. But the music video is so memorable and hilarious. It starts off with a couple getting into the apartment where it's obvious they're about to get hot and heavy. As the song is playing, it shows them start to make out and then intermittently switches between the couple and the band playing inside a huge paper maché vagina. The scene switches back to the couple, and the guy slips his hand towards the girl's crotch. It then switches back to the band, and as they are playing, two huge paper maché fingers are thrusting and hitting them. It switches back to the couple, and the guy moves his head down towards her crotch, obviously preparing to give her fellatio. It then switches back to the band, and a huge paper maché tongue begins to pummel the band and makes it increasingly difficult for them to play their instruments. It then switches back to the couple, and it shows the guy unzip and prepare for intercourse. Again, it switches back to the band inside the paper maché vagina, and a huge paper maché penis is now thrusting and hitting the band members as they play their instruments. The music video ends showing the guy as he orgasms and then switches to the band as they are covered by a white liquid. Basically it's like the band members were shrunk and inside the girl's vagina, and as the couple engaged in sexual activities, the band members are shown enduring what goes inside the girl. Please help me as I have been searching for this for ages.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Mar 26 '13

[TOMTcc] Book - Fiction - SciFi - Detective/Mystery Novel

10 Upvotes

Original TOMT Link

I have been looking for this book for almost 3 years now. I read this when I was deployed to Iraq back in 2010. The book was there in a box of multiple copies so I'm guessing it was published around 2010 or 2009 and they sent multiple copies out to the troops to read. I read it, liked it, and would like to read it again. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it's called or who wrote it. I don't think it was written by anyone famous.

Some basic details of what I remember from the book:

  • Starts off with a murder scene

  • Set in the future; many generations from now

  • There are two types of people

  • People like there are today w/emotions

  • Emotionless people; more logical

  • Protagonist is a male (emotional type) who is trying to solve the murder; of possibly his friend

  • His partner is a Female (logical type) who belittles him often but I think eventually may develop feelings? (maybe not)

  • People all live in this massive high-rise buildings

  • Buildings house everything from rooms, schools, cafe, shopping, etc.

  • Many buildings make up what is left of the human race

  • People can't go outside because of some kind of contamination or environment problem

  • Protagonist likes to go out of the buildings and venture around to see what he can find

  • I think he wears some kind of breathing mask that lasts for a few hours

  • He collects things that he finds in abandoned houses

Edit 27MAR2013: I think at the end of the novel the protagonist may travel back in time in order to prevent whatever happened to make the environment so harsh to live in. I don't think that part of the story was revealed, but I think that was where it ended.

Please help!


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Aug 02 '12

[TOMTcc][animated short] (it may be hopeless but...) 80s/90s half hour animation about a guy and girl escaping a deserted sci fi city

10 Upvotes

I've been looking for this animation for a long while since I saw it in my childhood and felt moved by it. Every so often I have an urge to identify it, and maybe see it again, but every time I post it, even in places with huge animation followings, absolutely no one replies with anything relevant. Not a hide nor hair nor trace of it has been seen by me of it for all these years. It's like it briefly popped into existence for one brief moment in the 90s for no apparent reason, and then just vanished. Even though I regularly watched the channel it was on, I heard not a mention of it before or after that one moment where I serendipitously caught it on TV. I remember seeing the name of the show (two words) displayed in a way that seemed vaguely 80s animation, but can't remember what it said.

The animation seemed "serious" with realistically proportioned humans (Like Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, or Titan AE). I saw this once on TCC (British TV station, defunct since 1998) and never again. It's half an hour long and is NOT Aeon Flux. It felt far more like a film compressed to half an hour (setup, styling, atmosphere, plot) than an episode of a TV series.

It starts with a wordless prologue where people, who go to worship this faceless dictator, suddenly have the city's robots turn on them at the push of a button by the dictator.

We get some peaceful shots of the city, now devoid of people, and come across a guy salvaging a (surprisingly fresh looking) sub (sandwich) from a fridge (reminded me of the guy in FernGully at the time). After taking a bite, a woman suddenly comes across them, and after they both say they thought they were the only ones left, decide to try to work together. It seems like an electric fence/barricade surrounds the city preventing escape, not to mention robots, but their travel takes them to interesting places in the city as they learn more. There's a bit of sudden hesitation from the woman after she sees that the guy has a robotic arm, but he quickly explains he's not a robot, and just lost his arm after an explosion at a lab his parents were at after a robot went erratic.

The rest is spoiler territory.

It turns out the "dictator" is just a kid who made the robots attack out of a bout of immaturity. When the duo see this, the guy improvises a catapult with some boxer elastic and uses it to shoot the robot controlling device from the kid's hand. The kid is now in the same situation they are in. upon noticing a bird come down from the sky, the woman suddenly jumps to the conclusion that there is no electric shield, it's just a illusion, and that they aren't the only ones that remain of the city's population, they are just the last ones to leave the city. In realisation of this, all three of them end up in a vehicle that they drive straight into the shield at the outskirts of the city chanting to themselves "it's not really there, it's not really there." They hit the edge, they then seem to tumble through the air in slow motion as the guy and girl flashback to their meeting and montage their adventures since then. This is sort of funny since this happened less then 20 mins ago in real time. Then the trio wake up on a desolate plain with the city in the background, which for some reasonis far away, and what looks like electric sparks shooting in the sky, yet in front of them lies this rich land lush with vegetation and natural beauty. "Do you think there's people down there" "I bet there are" is said, and about then, it ends.

I'd really appreciate any help with this. I just really want to know where it's from, who made it, why it was made. It doesn't feel like pilot episode yet it left a lot to the imagination. Also the tone and feel of it just didn't seem that usual among animation at the time.

Thanks for any help with this.


r/TOMTcoldcase • • Mar 24 '12

[TOMT] [anime character] Does anybody know the name of the character in this anime cel or the show it is from?

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r/TOMTcoldcase • • Mar 18 '12

TOMT Movie that deals with a guy that looses his secret powers when he sees something red.......trying to find this out for 20 years

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sorry, i meant super not secret