So, hey, I recently found out that King Candy was added to the game Disney Magic Kingdoms! Not only that, but he actually has an unlockable skin of his Turbo form too!
But what really gets me is that they actually created a plot related explanation for King Candy's return, revealing how he survived his fate at the end of the first movie!!
Basically, it's revealed that King Candy's code wasn't deleted when he died, but laid dormant. When Litwak installed the replacement steering wheel onto the Sugar Rush arcade cabinet (at the end of RBTI), it somehow booted up King Candy's code and restored him!
From there, after King Candy assesses his situation, he attempts to take revenge on Ralph and Vanellope. There's even a plot related reason for him going back to his old Turbo form later on, too! I won't go into all the details, but you can look it up on the Disney Magic Kingdoms wiki >>here.<<
So as I was reading all this, I just kept thinking "should any of this be considered canon??" I mean, maybe not events specific to this game, but the detail of King Candy being dormant in Sugar Rush's code and possibly being revived somehow.
I mean, it would actually make a lot of sense that King Candy didn't really die at the end of the first movie, given that RBTI revealed characters could get around the "dying outside your game" rule by being programmed into a different one. Like, that's LITERALLY what King Candy did! We saw his code box integrated into Sugar Rush!
So don't you tell me that he's not still alive, damn it! (seriously, it just tickles me to think that RBTI's sloppy writing and disregard for continuity indirectly retconned King Candy's demise. XD)
Which brings me to my next point: WHY THE HELL IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS?? lmao
i was rechecking the sugar rush race storyboard and it turns out jeff diffenderfer updated the wreck it ralph page, now it has more concepts and a small explanation of how the actual track was designed and all that thingamajin. i couldn't not post a few of the things i thought were interesting!
vanellope with racing clothes instead of her hoodie, also king candy giving a death glare at poor ol vanny for the crime of being fast and cooler than him
in one of the alternate storyboards, king candy is using a game genie cartridge what
love it when small 8bit characeters. that's not a guy who destroyed two games and took over another letting a child be bullied and ostracized for fifteen years, that's a fuckimg crecher with no thoughts in head. literally 🟥👍
uh oh
vanellope silly be carful :3
the rest of the sugar rush section is full of concepts and ideas for track design and how they worked with vanellope's glitch, i posted this one bc it seemed really cool. but of course i dont wanna repost his entire work here lol. go see it yourself its cool
i cant believe we missed sugar rush rainbow road 😭😭 like its understandable not all ideas can fit without dragging the story but i can and will cry over the fact that there where so many concepts for tracks and obstacles and yet disney is never gonna use them for anything (and by anything i mean a real and true and good sugar rush game)
also special mention to
the first person shooter's first design.
and thia bug. god he looks so stupid here lol. i need a carboard cutout of this to use one of those tiny water guns on. its like booo i scared you im gonna bite you
I got this book for .50 cents and I am obligated to share the different characterizations and dialogues from it to the movie. Spoilers: A lot of King Candy pages<3
The introduction for King Candy is basically the same up until Ralph burst in. “Heavens to unleavened bread” honestly make me cackle, Turbo could not swear in this game 💀 Also Vanollepe throwing candy in Ralph’s eyes give me Mabel attack glitter energy.
Interrogation scene.
“Tough taffy” help-
Turbo flashback was just one page and of course speedran through for the sake of the book. Pretty much the same.
King Candy’s manipulation tactics are shown a bit more, full on gaslighting💀
More talkative with threats until he was eaten by a cybug. “Game jumper” oh he’s one to talk.
The King CandyBug ‘fight’ lasted like 3 lines so not much there, but his demise definitely is different. If I’m not mistaken, wasn’t this what was planned in the story board? I’m probably remembering wrong, but yeah RIP.
- creepy/distinctive glow in the dark face. Yellow eyed freak ! I also like teeth
- I LOVE VILLAINS. His reveal scene is so dramatic and cool.
- virus/corruption adjacent entity. Parasitizes others… He’s pulling the strings … Glitching is awesome btw it’s like one of my favorite audiovisual effects ever
- 2012 video game creepypasta energy. He’s like Polybius but stupid. TurboTime is haunted. He is Cabinet Man
- Retro arcade cabinets are just such Awesome Machines. It’s such a unique aesthetic, buzzy CRTs and flashing colorful lights, the little chiptune sound effects… the only thing that comes close to the ‘character’ embodied by arcade cabinets is maybe themed roller coasters, or real life animatronics. He definitely has that kind of appeal. The Machine
- HAVE YOU SEEN HIS CYBUG FORM ITS COOL AS FUCK HE LITERALLY TRANSFORMS INTO A GIANT ROBOTIC INSECTOID MALWARE ABOMINATION INFUSED WITH CANDY WHAT THE FUCK??????
- wreck it ralph is an amazing film and king candy is a really clever villain and I love the twist and how he relates to king candy (most normal answer)
- THE HORROR APPEAL. His Symbolism…. He’s the Creepy Ghostly Skull man . The bringer of death even. Also the fact “haunts the narrative” because he’s so rarely seen but everyone is terrified of him, and he underlies so much of the conflict. (Like: DONT BECOME LIKE HIM.) It’s like he’s become a paranormal entity, only seen in glimpses, or dismissed as nothing but a terrible memory. His presence has become intangible, but it’s dark and all encompassing. Maybe they tried to forget. For 25 years they thought he was dead. But he was lurking in the depths of game central station hearing everything. (Don’t even get me started on the horror implications of his cybug form because Oh My God)
- but most importantly I have a personal vendetta against him because he gave me nightmares at age 14 and I also kin him slightly
Hey, remember the Ralph Breaks the Internet craze of 2018? What a time to be alive! Disney's film about What If The eBay Was A Place was an instant hit, due to the fact that everyone knows the Internet, and everyone wants to see a movie about it! You couldn't stop hearing about it! No wonder it won the Academy Award for best animated film! I think it beat out some movie about spiders, or something...?
Kids today might not remember, because 2018 was so long ago. They're too obsessed with their new age sexymen, like Raymond and the big balls Dwarf. But this movie wouldnt've been the cultural phenomenon it was without one character taking the world by storm: a certain J.P. Spamley!
The Internet fell in love with Spamley at first sight, flooding social media with memes and fan art about the loveable green prick. He rose to the highest ranks of the Tumblr Sex Man for a good while! You couldn't scroll for a few minutes without seeing his catchphrase, "Now's your chance to get rich playing video games!"
What kind of a megacorporation would Gisnep be if it didn't capitalize on Spamley's popularity? So they held a special Spamley Sweepstakes event on November 2019, allowing fans to donate money in honor of Spankley himself! All proceeds would go to Bob Iger and Baby Yoda, and if that's not wholesome, I don't know what is. Those who entered even had a chance of winning WILD prizes, like:
That's it that was the only prize
See him in theatres! This is what Disney told us all to do, and we listened! Little did we know they were doing this to hide a dark secret! If you buy the Blu-ray version of the movie, you can actually manipulate the Scene Select to watch the movie out of order and make some... strange things happen. You can look up a walkthrough online, but the gist of it is making Vanelope kill all the Disney Princesses. Especially Merida. And when you do, you unlock a weird alternate ending...
Spamley NEO is the secret true main antagonist of the film, and he wants to take over Oh My Disney to spread spam and advertisements! No! Not Oh My Disney! Please, for the love of God, NOT OH MY DISNEY!! You have to kill him. You have to destroy your Blu-ray copy of Ralph Breaks the Internet now. I hope you're proud of yourself.
Turbo is genuinely one of the best Disney villains ever likeee…… also HAPPY INKTOBER here’s some traditional marker/pencil sketches of my all time fave movie ever
This is my second randomized animation practice! By randomized, I mean I shuffled my playlist of over 5,000 songs used a random number generator to pick a point in the song, recorded 5 seconds with my headphones off, and worked with whatever I got. It SOMEHOW ended up with an RBTI song?? OF 5,000!!
Song is "The Big Idea" by Henry Jackman!
With this I practiced: timing with music, squishing, and fading on multiple layers (background, bug, glow, and shadow).
I had the awesome opportunity to do a big Wreck-It Ralph illustration for a comm! 🎮
I hope to take more illustration commissions soon! They're always a ton of fun.