Grimm and the Tiring Winter

 So. No updates since December, what on earth was I doing during that? Well, I was hunkering down with aching joints during the massive snow storm during January and dealing with my demons as I do every winter. I've only recently gotten back into drawing consistently again, doing art trades and doodles in pencil and such, but I'm still pretty rocky on my energy levels.

Night of the Nocturne and Why Flight Rising won't let me dress Ancient Breeds

I'll admit, I'm not much of a fan of petsites, I lose interest in committing to repetitive actions for little reward while essentially doing chores for static JPEGS of animals, however there is one that I have actually been enamored with playing for upwards of 6 years now is called Flight Rising, where you can raise, breed, dress, and throw dragons into a coliseum. Despite how par for the course it sounds for a site like this I can assure you it is a lot more... Actually, I'm not here to give an entire overview of this site, I'm here to yap about its yearly event and the inability to dress a subset of dragons on the site. Unfortunately I cannot place images on this post because they keep breaking when I place them in... SO I've placed links throughout to show off what on earth I am speaking about

Night of the Nocturne was first released along with the Nocturne breed, which are these beautifully batty looking dragons; with this event, everyone and their mother (including mine) hop on daily to pet every single familiar and dredge through the coliseum they own in hopes of getting chests full of delightfully spooky goodies such as haunted mimics and haunting apparel!
I am simply not good at the coliseum, and when I see people with entire guides full of complex mathematical calculations and keybinds and wrist stretches and it confounds me just how in-depth it all is when the most I do is scratch and slash at any monster I see first. 

Ancient Breeds are a part of the site that feels very new, most likely due to them releasing a new Ancient just this year, but they've been part of the site since 2020 with the release of the Gaolers (I know their name is pronounced Jailers but c'mon... Gae-lore sounds cooler). Each breed comes with their own specific well-thought-out lore and backstories... None of which I've read with the exception of the Banescales and the haunting notes of their song being the first hint of their release on the site.
My topic of conflict with these Ancient Breeds (Aside from a few of them looking over-designed and cluttered with their genes) is that I cannot dress them, an ability which is one of the largest draws to the site for me. I understand creating an entirely new index and figuring outfits that would even be able to be worn by every ancient breed with their incredibly varied features and limbs would be a nightmare but there has also been apparel that doesn't conflict with Modern Breeds outlines, such as the halos, elemental emblems and flower petal rainfalls. IDK... I just wanna put a hat on my Mr. Lunt dragon, he deserves it... As a treat.
oh ok this image didnt break yay!

Ohuhu's Maui Series Double Tipped Journal Brush Pens (and a mouthful to say)

Welcome back!!! I had put off writing this entry due to being smited by a wizard and the clutches of the Winter Holiday Blues but now that there is a of brevity of calm between Christmas and New Years I have sparks of energy to spend on this again, splendid day! My cuticles can rest easy knowing that as I use these markers to the bone the tightness of the box and the edges of the cardboard separators will no longer dig into my flesh.

THE Staedtler Pigment Brush Pen

It all began in an A.C.Moore store back in middle school when I first laid eyes upon a pack of Triplus Fineliners from the brand Staedtler, they worked like a dream and I've been using them ever since...

 

This post isn't about those; this post is about the Pigment Brush Pens that were released last year. I had received two packs of these pens (Though they are definitely more like markers) in the Pastel and Nature themes as they and Basic were the only ones available at the time. Through rigorous coloring and numerous meltdown-fueled artwork they hold up fantastic despite worn tips and absolute draining of their ink barrels onto the page. 
Most people compliment their "light fastness" or blending with each other and watercolor paints in these professional looking environments... I am not a professional, I draw vegetables and dragons and I have an absolute blast doing it. These brushes go surprisingly well overtop the lines of Fantasia Colored Pencils (The regular kind, the watercolor pencil sets get really finicky.) I absolutely adore these brushes and use them every day. 

The barrel of the brush also has a nice texture, pleasant to scratch my fingertips against, I presume they use a specific mold for these or a 3d printer for them.

The Gentle Watchers upon my desk were gifts from a very dear friend

These brushes (Especially the green ones) have been put through rigorous and hellish conditions by me, and they hold up beautifully 

See I told you this paper would make a comeback, dear sweet Elliot made a perfect example for these brush pens, even if one of them was on the brink of death!

The Accursed Canon Pixma TS3722

 I know I had written that I was going to start with pen and markers however this recent experience has set me on a new path for this entry. 

I've dealt with older printers my whole life, ones with wires and heavy tops and easily breakable scanners and such; and they always came with a manual that had most every nuisance that you'd have to deal with when working a printer written down in them. When my family's beloathed Epson kicked the bucket we figured a new printer would be a welcome replacement... We were wrong, and it all began with a slip of paper in the place of a manual that told me "Download our app and we'll give you the instructions there!". I detest having to download apps for machines that can be operated very simply by cables, and even moreso when I have to agree to redundant clauses and long-winded terms that the printer would essentially stalk whatever I would print or scan along with sending me notifications for.. Whatever the hell advertisement Canon wants to shove into my Email (Or text messages I assume.) My only positive experience with this laboratory animal of plastic and metal is that replacing the ink cartridges had been exceedingly simple, and it had printed clearly. Aside from that, it was a nightmare to set up, a nightmare to figure out how it worked, and a nightmare to be sitting at the foot of my desk.

Here is a visual of how my escapades with this wretched thing had gone:

Saga 1: Useless Agreements

Saga 2: Working the Beast

Saga 3: The Final Result

New Purpose

 Since I'm temporarily giving up my search for the third season's english audio for Oscar's Orchestra, I've decided to keep this blog as a sort of "Show off the art supplies I've gathered over the years" or a "Unhinged rambling about whatever my mind has set its intense focus on" type blog. I'll still look for any remnant of that third season, but for now... This is what I'm planning (In no particular order)

1. Review of the Ohuhu Maui Series Journal Dual Brush Pens (I had been given a 120 pack for my birthday by a dear dear friend

2. Review of the Staedtler Triplus Fineliners (I've been using these since my school days, unbearably sturdy even when bent in the grip of an absolutely distress stricken person)

3. Review of the Staedtler Pigment Brush Pens (I started using these only in the last year, they're super durable and long-lasting, and they work absolutely fantastic with Fantasia Colored Pencils!; The regular kind, the watercolor kind can be... Iffy with them)

4. Sakura Pigma Micron Pens (.005 - .08 and Graphic Pen) (These things can draw the same thing for over 2 years and not run out of ink, though the tips of the .005 and .01 do get pushed in quite easily. My favorites the .05)

5. The oddly connected timelines in the Veggietales Classic Universe (WGWIS to BATB) and how the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything we're stuck in Jonah's time for weeks before he showed up (Including Jonah's reincarnation into Twippo to atone for his sins of Wrath and Pride & Khalil's horrific immortality and hatred of the Irish)

This is just a few of the posts i'm planning on making in the future, there might be photos included if I figure out how to do that again.

Dead Ends

 Aside from a few promos and clips from various TCC broadcasts people uploaded to youtube,  I have found nothing new regarding Oscar. Nothing of season 3, no newly discovered foreign clips, nothing.

EDIT [7/30/25]: I have nothing new. I will never have anything new. The third season of this show, the french dub, anything else is not in my cards to be able to find.

ONE MONTH LATER

 Apologies for my absence, it's been a rough month for me. I've updated the Lost Media Forums thread I made about the show two years ago with my newest leads and a rundown about the show. Next time I post it'll hopefully be a more productive update.

Products about a flying Piano

Over the time that i've been searching for anything about Oscar's Orchestra, I located mentions of products and perhaps even toys of characters from the show, from a magazine that recently sold on Ebay to a camera being sold in Korea (Although i've lost the link to the listing, the seller had owned the camera since 1997)

There are bits and pieces about Oscar scattered about on Animation World Network, including this bit about ToyFair being interested in it, specifically for products to be shown at the 1997 American International Toy Fair being brought up, I can find no other information or photos for this. I would absolutely go wild to see an Eric or even an Oscar plush, that'd be neat!

There exists a shirt that was made to promote the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's attempt to beat the world record for World's Largest Orchestra... I'll get into that next time.

The Image

 There's an image related to the show that has had my mind in a grip for 2 years, undeniably from before the show itself was made.

This image, as far as I know, originates from this post , I do not know where Kasa got the image nor have I ever found out if this image was simply promotional material or if it came from a pitch bible or even a pilot animation. I know that the image IS official, those are the same designs from a tile presumably from a background artist on the show that went up for auction.

I desperately want to know just where this image is from, where Kasa even got it, and if I could ever be able to see anything more from this show's production. If you know anything about it, please get in contact.

Different languages that the shows been in

 THIS LIST IS INCOMPLETE, AND MISSING DATA IN AREAS

Language: Title (Translated Title) Years that I think they Aired [Channel] STATUS

ENGLISH: Oscar's Orchestra 1995-1996 [BBC One] [BBC Two] [CBBC] [TCC] [Nickelodeon UK] [ABC 4 kids] [RTÉ2] MOSTLY FOUND/MISSING SEASON 3

KOREAN: 오스카-음악대 (Oscar's Music Corps) 2001 [EBS] 오스카 오케스트라 (Oscar's Orchestra) 1994-1996 [Tooniverse] ONLY THE THEME AND LOW QUALITY CLIPS FOUND

GERMAN: Oskar, der fliegende Flügel (Oscar the Flying Piano) 1995-2000 [ARD] [ORF 1] [WDR Fernsehen] [Kika] [N3] [Das Erste] [ORB] [B1] ONE EPISODE FOUND

ITALIAN: Oscar e le Sette Note Perdute (Oscar and the Seven Notes) 1999-2000 [Italia1] VARIOUS EPISODES FOUND

FRENCH: 1996 [France 2] [Télétoon] NO EPISODES FOUND NO PROMOS FOUND

RUSSIAN: Оркестр Оскара (Oscar's Orchestra) 2009 [Gulli] MOST EPISODES FOUND, MISSING 3 EPISODES

POLISH: Orkiestra Oskara (Oscar's Orchestra) Zakazane Instrumenty (Illegal Instruments) 1994-1996 [RTL7]  NO EPISODES FOUND, ONLY PROMOS FOR THE SHOW FOUND.

HEBREW: התזמורת של אוסקר[Channel 23] [Israeli Educational Television] 4 EPISODES FOUND I AM NOT SEARCHING FOR THIS DUB.

SPANISH: 1997[CANAL+] [Canal Sur] NO EPISODES FOUND

SINHALA: කාබාසිනියා තුමා / Kabasiniya Thuma [Rūpavāhinī] ALL EPISODES FOUND

GREEK: Η Ορχήστρα του Οσκαρ [K-TV] [ERT] NO EPISODES FOUND, ONE PROMO FOR THE SHOW FOUND

FINNISH: Oskarin Orkesteri [Yle TV2] TWO EPISODES AND A YOUTUBE POOP FOUND

PORTUGUESE: A Orquestra do Óscar (The Oscar Orchestra) 1999 [SIC] NO EPISODES FOUND

CATALAN: L'ORQUESTRA DE L'ÒSCAR [SUPER3] [Televisió de Catalunya] [K3] NO EPISODES FOUND

CHINESE: 奥斯卡的管弦乐队 [Dragon Club] NO EPISODES FOUND, ONE PROMO FOUND

HUNGARIAN: Oszkár Zenekara [TV2 Animáció] NO EPISODES FOUND

I'm honestly surprised how many more promos that i've found in other languages compared to how many i've found in english and that there has never been a japanese dub (to my knowledge). I'm also still looking for video evidence that the show aired here in the states(Various newspapers state it aired in syndication on the east coast)

Do not get me started on the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Orchestra's attempt at the Guinness world record for world's largest orchestra, i've only found a shirt and two newspapers mentioning it and Oscar's involvement in it so i've hit a complete dead end with that.

There's a lot more to this show than I first realized, and I want to find all of it.

HOW DID THIS START??

Apologies if this post is very messy, I've never used this site before. I am Grimm, and for the last almost 3 years I've been searching far and wide for any information pertaining to a little known CBBC show that starred Dudley Moore called Oscar's Orchestra!

After my dad passed away in 2021, I was in a trench of depression and desperately trying to find anything to kill time in the sluggish, slow, grieving gray days. I had been searching up a different show named TUGS and one of it's voice actors named Sean Barrett's filmography, seeing that he voiced something called a "soothsayer" on Oscar piqued my interest and ever since then I've been tracking down episodes and cast members and animators and all sorts who worked on the show and people who watched it as it aired back in the 90's!

I uploaded most of the show's English, Arabic and Russian dubs to my Youtube in the past year, and I recently located a playlist of the Italian dub just sitting out in the open on the site! The Sinhala dub was posted by the dubbing company that did it last year too!

I'm currently on the desperate search for season 3 in english and a possible pilot episode, which I only theorize exists based on a single image I had found.