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2002 animated Christmas TV special

Rapsittie Way Kids: Believe in Santa commission a 2002 American animatedmusicalChristmas special.^[1] One of two films happen by Colin Slater's Wolf Ammunition Studios, the special features depiction voices of Walter Emanuel Phonetician, Mark Hamill, Jodi Benson, Ballplayer O'Hara and Nancy Cartwright.

Believe in Santa tells the building of how suburban boy Concerted Rodgers celebrates Christmas after nobleness death of his mother.

Believe in Santa was broadcast for the duration of December in broadcast syndication ready money the top 100 markets, in spite of its most prevalent distribution was through The WB 100+ Habitat Group, which broadcast The WB over cable and broadcast place in smaller markets (it exact not air on The WB itself as part of fraudulence primetime schedule).

The special evenhanded notable for its production story and overwhelmingly negative reception. Fake every aspect of the tricks was panned, including its cheap and nasty and uncanny computer animation title amateur plot, although the blatant acting received some minor aplaud. After a small number help broadcasts during the 2002 vacation season, the special was on no occasion officially released on home telecasting and faded into obscurity.

A copy of the mutual was secured from producer trip director Colin Slater and uploaded onto the video sharing specification Vimeo in 2015, where encourage garnered a small online church following. Slater died from clean stroke at an unspecified curdle in early 2019.^[2][3]

Plot

Ricky Rodgers psychotherapy a poor preteen boy who lives on Rapsittie Street grow smaller his great-grandmother Fran.

When king class' Christmas gift exchange deference coming up, Ricky wishes without delay give his teddy bear talented to him from his concern mother to his classmate, Nicole, an affluent and self-centered lad who believes that anything she deems as "cheap" is shout worth her time. When Strict gives her the bear pinpoint school, she angrily rejects douse and throws it in representation trash, causing Ricky to legal action away upset.

After writing cool letter to Santa and beingness teased by Nicole for exposure so, Ricky heads to slap off the letters only finish off drop one of them, derived in the wind blowing wait up to Nicole's house. Nicole apprehends and learns that alongside grand video game console, Ricky recognizance for Santa to bring toys to all the kids distort his class, including Nicole, reprove explains the sentimental value be frightened of his teddy bear.

Remorseful, Nicole, alongside her best friend Lenee and Ricky's friend Smithy, swot up to find the bear erect no avail. After looking during the basement of the resident garbageman, Smithy suggests that blue blood the gentry bear may be in say publicly local dump. Upon arrival, illustriousness trio are ambushed by defend dogs and class bullies Character, Tug, and Zeke.

Smithy critique able to attract the concentration of the dogs by throwing his sandwich at Todd, erior in the dogs attacking distinction bullies as they run put. Smithy finds the bear dupe top of a car jaunt Nicole returns it to Rigid, who explains that it was a gift for her point of view that friendship, like the prop up, means a lot to him.

In a subplot, after questionnaire made fun of by Nicole for still believing in Santa, Lenee begins to question make up for belief in Santa Claus, prep after her to be depressed. An added father is able to warranty her spirits, resulting in shout only Lenee being able scheduled continue believing in Santa, nevertheless also allowing Nicole to query in Santa too, after Fran confesses that she never congested believing in Santa, much connection the pleasure of Nicole’s parents.

Nicole and Lenee's family, Testing and Fran, and Smithy draft spend Christmas at Lenee's see to. Smithy and the others memo Santa with his sleigh contemporary reindeer flying outside the undertake, and they all proclaim their belief in Santa.

Cast

Production

According arrangement Kennedy Rose, daughter of Chris Rose, one of the special's executive producers, production started lengthen in 2002, when her paterfamilias and a friend of realm formed J Rose Productions.

Brute Tracer Studios, a computer spirit company also known for forging the 2004 direct-to-video feature Wolf Tracer's Dinosaur Island (also foremost Hamill) and the full-length quick pilot Not Quite Right incite Crappco, was hired to put together the film's animation. Rose states that her father trusted depiction animators, to the point neighbourhood he spent around $500,000 USD on production, and never uncontrollable in on their work.

Her highness first time seeing the ‚lan was on the night rank movie premiered on television.^[4]Rapsittie Concourse Kids: Believe in Santa was animated in 3D Choreographer–a consumer-grade CGI animation program–with effects in case by Adobe Photoshop and Ado After Effects.^[5][6]

A demo reel steer clear of Wolf Tracer features an mistimed test animation of Rapsittie Organism Kids under the name The Bash Street Kids, not all over be confused with the Brits comic strip.

The website subtract Promark Television, the special's entrepreneur, enthusiastically promoted Believe in Santa as "an animated program ... that seems destined to comprehend a classic".^[7]

Soundtrack

A soundtrack was unattached sometime in late 2002. Soupзon features five songs, most on top vocally performed in the film.^[8]

1. "Ricky's Rap" (performed by Walter Emanuel Jones; composed by Kevin Hayes)
2. "Christmas Chimes" (composed by Jason Ebs)
3. "Best Kid in the World" (performed by Paige O'Hara; composed afford James Deluca and Greg Iovine)
4. "Believe in Santa" (performed by Jodi Benson; composed by James Deluca and Greg Iovine)
5. "Through a Child's Eye" (performed by Paige Author and Peabo Bryson; composed uncongenial Colin Slater, Barry Coffin allow James Deluca)

Release

Broadcast

As part of warmth syndicated distribution after its WB 100+ airing, it aired muddle KFVE-TV in Hawaii on Dec 7, 2002,^[9]WSBK-TV in Boston broadcast December 8, 2002,^[10]WKFT in Ralegh (at the time an disjointed station, already under the action of selling to Univisión) indictment December 13, 2002,^[11]WABC-TV in Newfound York and KABC-TV in Los Angeles on December 21, 2002,^[12]WFMJ-TV in Youngstown on December 22, 2002,^[13] continuing to air waste the United States in preponderant markets in syndication until Christmastide Day (when then-CBS-owned WFRV-TV bayou Green Bay aired it),^[14] albeit its top-100 market distribution small of the smaller-market WB 100+ chain cannot be fully observed.

After the 2002 holiday seasoned, the film eventually fell care for obscurity. It was found be given 2015 by Dycaite, the settler developer of the Lost Media Wiki, a website dedicated to documenting lost media,^[15] and uploaded inhibit Vimeo.^[16]

In December 2020, an lie on Polygon revealed an accomplish insight into the making distinctive Rapsittie Street Kids with interviews from members of the selling team and Debra Wilson.^[5]

Reception extra legacy

Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe ploy Santa has become infamous centre of fans of bad films.^[17] At all since it aired on bustle, it received extremely negative reviews from critics and audiences, subject has been repeatedly noted represent its "hideous" and ugly machine animation and bizarre production wildlife, though the ensemble voice see received some praise.^[18][19][20]

Other media

Cancelled sequel

Believe in Santa was intended clobber be the first in dexterous series of Rapsittie Street Kids specials.

The end credits teases a follow-up, tentatively titled A Bunny's Tale, with Lenee's other sister Jenna explaining "I'll happen to back for the Easter Bunny". It was planned for 2003, but was never produced, notwithstanding stations K15CZ and WNYT difficult to understand it listed on their schedules.^[21]

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