Collin the Speedy Boy



Collin the Speedy Boy is an action-adventure superhero game series developed by Warner Bros. Entertainment in 1993. Sega sued Warner Bros. because they thought it was a ripoff of Sonic the Hedgehog. However, Sega later lost the suit and later teamed up to include Sonic characters in some CTSB crossover games. It's success led to new games, TV series, films, books, a comic adaption, a online game that was closed down and to be followed by its console successor and recently, a musical based on the franchise. The franchise and the characters were created by both the American WB employee Oscar Hamilton (now deceased) and a former Warner Bros. Japan employee Tarōzaemon Fujiyama, now leaving WB to move to Marvel.

The film adaption was released on Feburary 7, 2020 and was a critical and commercial success and spawned a franchise. A live action adaption, titled Collin: Speedy Kid is released on 2022, being part of the Warner Cinematic Universe.

Every CTSB games are developed by Konami (1993-1999), Eurocom (2001-2012, except for Flappy: The Protector of AnimalWorld, which was developed by Rare), Warner Bros. Games (2012-present) and Avalanche Software (2017-present).

Eight years later, Warner Bros. has spawned another game series, but has nothing to do with this franchise, titled Bailey the Face Paint Hero.

Its monster success led the franchise to receive a extended universe, where the games, animation or comics are set in the same universe, but have different characters.

In 2018, shortly after Hamilton's death, Fujiyama departed from Warner Bros. to move to Marvel, with new projects based on the franchise being now supervised by Ryan Curcwald.

Info
When a Teary eyed destroys Alabama, a teenager named Collin and his friends forms a team called The Speed of Light in order to fight the Teary Eyeds and the Elefishes with the help of the fingers and a talking opossum.

Heroes

 * Collin Brady/Collin the Speedy Boy (voiced by David Kaufman from 1993 to 2005 (Kaufman currently voices his classic counterpart), Jason Griffith from 2005 to 2018 and Matthew Mercer since 2019) - a teenaged boy gifted with the power of speed, and the main hero of the franchise.
 * Cooper Elledge (also voiced by David Kaufman from 1993 to 2005, also by Jason Griffith from 2005 to 2018 and Carlos Alazraqui since 2019) - a Brussels Griffon who is Collin's best pal/pet, also gifted with the powers of speed.
 * Tommy the Opossum (voiced by Rob Paulsen from 1995 to 2005, and Scott Menville since 2005) - a opossum who is Collin's trustworthy pal.
 * The Wesdragon (voiced by Jess Harnell from 1995 to 2005 and Phil LaMarr since 2005) - a dragon who was once a human named Wesley Ledlow.
 * Trent Wright (voiced by Joe Alaskey from 1995 to 2005 and also by Phil LaMarr since 2005) - a teenage boy who has the ability to turn into animals.
 * Alexis Doll (voiced by Russi Taylor in 2005 only and Grey Griffin since 2006) - a teenage girl who flurts with Collin.
 * VoodooFinger (voiced by TBD from 1995 to 2005 and Tom Kane since 2005]]) - a tiki witch Finger who creates potions, and served as Collin's mentor.
 * Evelynn Rogriduez (voiced by Kath Soucie) - a Argentine-American teen girl who is Collin's girlfriend.

Villains

 * Teary Eyed Bryte (voiced by Tress MacNallie from 1995 to 2005 and also by Grey Griffin since 2005) - a three eyed bird who depises Collin and wants to take over FingerTown. She is the main antagonist of the franchise.

Birth of the Franchise
After being influenced by Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. back in 1988, Warner Bros. wanted to make their own game series. Planning of what their game series should look like lasted for 3 years till 1991, after seeing SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog. After seeing it, Warner Bros. came up with a idea that is a mix of Sonic and The Flash, but they try their best not to ripoff Sonic.

Planning stages started in 1988, and designs were drawn. Collin was originally going to be a orange anthromorphic mouse named "Mousey" and was to grab and throw stuff at enemies. Next year, Mousey was scrapped and was replaced by a porcupine named Spikey, but was immediately removed to avoid lawsuits when they release it. Finally, in 1991, after seeing influcenes from Sonic the Hedgehog, they decided to create another fast character for the series. Mousey, at first, was revived, but with speedy powers. However, later, Hamilton, when he joined WB, decided to make the main character a human, which the team agreed, and Mousey was reworked to be a human and prepared to be renamed. They have several name ideas like Jordan, Blake, Brandon and Mickey, which they rejected due to Disney having Mickey Mouse. However, the next day the team need to chose a name, one came up with a name that is named after the British actor, named Collin Brady aka Collin the Speedy Boy. Therefore, Collin the Speedy Boy was born.

To avoid lawsuit with Collin having the ability to spin jump and spin dash (which is kinda reused later in production as roll), Warner Bros. are chosing which powers Collin can do besides having supersonic speed. Several ideas include carrying stuff and throwing it at enemies (which Mousey previously had), using his fists to punch enemies, turn enemies to balls, and shooting at enemies. Yet, they chose to give him an ability to shoot at enemies, but they needed to find him a weapon. Originally, they considered giving him a gun that shoots out laser, but they found out that it might frighten the children with the gun's realistic appearance, so they changed it into the bracelet where he can shoot. They also decided that he would have a grappling hook built in with the bracelet.

Next thing that the team would need to do is come up with a antagonist. Some ideas included a mad scientist; a Ren and Stimpy-esque bear duo, a Lex Luthor-like mole; and a alien. However, someone came up with three eyed birds with an unfitting name: "Teary Eyed" with a female leader, and they decided to stick with that, due to being more original than the others. While producing the main antagonist, they were challenged by one of the people of California to make a very stupid species for the game. Ideas had included Beabirds, Catdogs, Micoxes, Parachicks, and Humapes, but one person created hand puppet-like humanoid critters called the Fingers. The Fingers ended up getting acclaim and love by people when it was released in 1993.

Last thing before production in 1991, they needed to come up with enemies, which included the Snnizerkers, Bites, dinosaurs and the Elefishes and at the same time, The Elefish King was created. The game took a year and a half to be finished. Finally, the game was released on April 16, 1993 with widespread acclaim and spawned a successful franchise since then, thus becoming one of the most beloved franchises of all time.

Modern Designs
In 1998, while Baylee was in production, Warner Bros. felted that it's time to give a "new twist" on the characters. Not only that, they created some new characters. While Eurocom, which had signed its new deal with Warner Bros., asked them if they can revamp them. Thus, Warner Bros. gave Eurocom the opportunity to create new looks to the characters. Finally, in 2000, their new looks were complete. The first game to use the new design is Collin the Speedy Boy 3D: The FingerTown Problem.

Film Adaption
On May 11, 2017, Warner Bros. expressed interest in adapting the Collin the Speedy Boy series into an animated film adaption.

Classic Era

 * 1) Collin the Speedy Boy (1993)
 * 2) Collin the Speedy Boy 2 (1995)
 * 3) Collin's Game Gear Journey (1996, Game Gear) (rated K-A)
 * 4) Collin: The Island of The Bots (1997, Sega Saturn, PC and PlayStation, includes Collin the Speedy Boy and its sequel game, but it is emulated on PC) (rated K-A) (PC port released on 1998)
 * 5) Collin and The Swift of Light (1998, PlayStation and PC, last game to be a 2D platformer until 2017) (Rated E for Everyone for Animated Violence)
 * 6) Baylee (1999, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PC and Game Boy Color, final game under the classic era) (rated E for Everyone for Animated Violence) (Final game being developed by Konami)

Modern Era
(W.I.P.)
 * 1) Collin the Speedy Boy 3D: The FingerTown Problem (January 2001, first game under the modern era and along with Baylee's Maze Adventure, the first time that two CtSB games are released the same year. A GameCube and PlayStation 2 version were released a year later) (First game developed by Eurocom)
 * 2) Baylee's Maze Adventure (August 2001, sequel to Baylee)
 * 3) Flappy: The Protector of AnimalWorld (March 2002, only CTSB project to be produced by Rare, under Rareware during that time)
 * 4) Halie: Haunted House (Halloween 2002)
 * 5) Collin the Speedy Boy: The Tale of Shadow (June 2003, collaboration between Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Eurocom and Vivendi Universal)
 * 6) Collin: Team Up (December 2003, GameCube, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC) (Last game with old voice casts)
 * 7) Kristina: The Great Rescue (July 2005) (first game with current casts)
 * 8) Stacie the Speedy Girl (2006)
 * 9) Collin: X-Treme Sports
 * 10) Collin the Speedy Boy Legends: Legend of the Radiant Crystal (October 2011, PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS, first CTSB RPG game)
 * 11) Collin: Dragon Legacy (2012) (Final CTSB game developed by Eurocom before its closure on 2012) (later received a Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC and Nintendo Switch port on March 2018)
 * 12) Collin: Travel to the Past (June 2013)
 * 13) Collin: The Unexplored World (August 2013) (Evelynn's debut)
 * 14) Collin: X-Treme Sports Charged (2012)
 * 15) Collin: The Blood Squad (March 2016)
 * 16) Collin: X-Treme Sports Reloaded (2016)
 * 17) Untitled Kristina sequel (August 2016)
 * 18) Halie: The Lost World (December 2016)
 * 19) Collin: Forward to the Past (October 2017)
 * 20) Collin the Speedy Boy World (September 2018, successor to Collin the Speedy Boy Online)
 * 21) Collin the Speedy Boy: The World Adventure (December 2018)
 * 22) Collin: Mechanical World (May 2019)
 * 23) Collin the Speedy Boy 6 (December 2019)
 * 24) Collin: Wild Madness (2021)
 * 1) Collin: Wild Madness (2021)

Remakes

 * Collin the Speedy Boy 3D (March 2017) (Nintendo Switch and Xbox One, remake to the original game) (First game to be developed by Avalanche Software)
 * Collin the Speedy Boy: Respeed Collection (May 2018) (DLC to CTSB 3D)
 * Collin the Speedy Boy 3D: The FingerTown Problem: New & Awesomer (May 2018) (Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PlayStation 4) (remake to the 2001 game)
 * Baylee Plus (April 2019) (Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC) (remake to both the 1998 game and its 2001 sequel)

Crossover games
CTSB characters are playable in crossover games like Super Smash Bros. Maximum, Warner Bros. Infinity and its sequels. In addition, CTSB would be also one of the franchises representing in Warner Bros. VS. Sega with Collin and Stacie being playable.

Collin, Bryte, Goof, Flappy, Lagan and Stacie are one of the playable characters on the Sonic Riders-styled racing game, Warner Bros. Racers. In addition to those, there is a mash-up pack of CTSB for Minecraft Bedrock Edition and Legacy Console Editions. More games soon..
 * Kids' WB All-Star Kart Racing
 * Collin All-Stars Speedy Racing (November 2013, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Wii U, Microsoft Windows, Mac, 3DS and Vita, first CTSB Racing game) (Crossover with various Warner Bros. video game franchises)
 * Collin All-Stars X-treme Speedy Racing
 * Collin + Rayman: Battle at Space (December 2019) (Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC)
 * Collin and Sonic: Speedsters Unite

Online Game
In 2012, opened servers to Collin the Speedy Boy Online. In 2017, servers for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 were closed, with the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC and Mobile servers currently running. On Febuary 5, 2018, Warner Bros. and Daybreak confirmed that the servers for the game will close down by originally July 31, 2018, but now August 10, 2018 and will receive a successor for the consoles. Servers shut down on August 10, 2018.

Animated

 * 1) Collin the Speedy Boy (1995-1999)
 * 2) Collin the Speedy Boy Chronicles (2003-2007)
 * 3) The Chronicles of Collin the Speedy Boy (2017-2021)
 * 4) Collin: Light-Speed-Fueled Adventures (2020-2022)
 * 5) Collin the Speedy Boy: At All Speed (2021-present)

Live-Action

 * 1) The Speedy Boy (2019-present)

Web-Series

 * 1) Mattie's Dinosaur Journal (2017-present)
 * 2) Team Solvers: On The Case! (2018-present)

Direct to video/made for TV

 * Collin: Looney and Tuney
 * Collin: The Three Musketeers

Theaterical

 * Collin the Speedy Boy
 * Collin the Speedy Boy: The Speedy Discovery (sequel)

Specials

 * The Collin the Speedy Boy Holiday (2021; made for )

Comics
Link: Collin the Speedy Boy (comic book series)

Archie Comics had the rights to adapt CTSB to a comic series. The comics ended on June 2005, but was revived on May 2017 under the Archtive Partners banner.

Musical
In 2016, Warner Bros. announced a rock musical based on the franchise. The musical was titled Collin the Speedy Boy: The Musical.

Cancelled projects
/Cancelled projects

Possible projects

 * Warner Bros. expressed interest in doing a video game with Kerigan Mardis herself.

Designs
See CTSB character doodles.

Trivia

 * The saga will be incapable of breaking the fourth wall.
 * Sometime back in 1998, Sega sued Warner Bros. when they thought Warner Bros ripped off Sonic, however, that company lost the suit, and as a result, WB continued producing Collin games.
 * On 2014, There was a joke made by one of the CTSB directors of an M-rated Conker or Rockstar Games-styled CTSB game. (Don't worry, there will be no M-rated CTSB game.)
 * Aside from that, the company Rockstar Games stated if they were to make a CTSB, they have to keep it cartoony instead of realistic like their own games and make it more family-friendly, like other CTSB games through they're planning to add their own features from their own games, as they are gonna try to differentiate their games from this, including certain problems like Uncanny valley. Later, as they were dared to make a family-frendly game in order to distinguish from their own properties, the company chose to collab with WB to make a CTSB game.
 * However, three years later, Ruegger stated that he would love a see a darker and edgier CTSB franchise.
 * Although the modern designs were introduced in 2000, those weren't used until 2001. However, 2000 was the final year to feature the classic designs as default designs as they were still used in the comics in the 2000 year.
 * Also, the items' new designs weren't used until 2008 despite the characters' design change in 2001.
 * Despite being a family-friendly franchise, this game does have adult jokes.
 * There were rumors that Time Warner might sell the franchise in case if the AT&T and Time Warner deal failed, this would've make the first franchise, along with DC Comics, to leave the Warner Bros. family. However, due to the deal proven to be successful, CTSB now remains with Warner Bros.
 * AT&T may consider making a special CTSB-themed phone for its 25th anniversary.
 * There are hints that this might take place in the alternative universe where humans, mythical creatures and dinosaurs are in the same world.
 * Collin the Speedy Boy wasn't introduced in China until 2013 despite the video game ban being unlifted on 2015.
 * Believe it or not, Collin the Speedy Boy was actually greenlit via a Japanese worker at Warner Bros. in Japan.
 * It was confirmed that the game series, the comic series and the film series are set in different continuities.
 * On November 2, 2018, Jason Griffith confirmed that he is quitting his role as Collin the Speedy Boy after 13 years.
 * Despite that, Griffith did confirm that he is doing voicing for both the CTSB 3D remaster and Collin: Mechanical World.
 * The replacement actor is revealed to be Matthew Mercer.
 * On November 19, 2018, WB announced that after 10 years of the logo, they are having a new CTSB logo that is set in effect with Collin the Speedy Boy 3D: The FingerTown Problem: Resped.

Anniversaries

 * Collin the Speedy Boy: Celebrating 10 Years (2003)
 * Collin the Speedy Boy: Celebrating 15 Years (2008)
 * Collin: 20th Anniversary (2013)
 * Collin: 25th Anniversary (2018)
 * Happy 30 Years: Collin the Speedy Boy (2023)

Merchandise
/Merchandise

Controversies
Despite being most beloved by fans and critics alike, the franchise did face some controversies, including:

Collin's New Voice Actor
On 2018, after Matthew Mercer was announced as the new actor of Collin, there were tons of controversies, and even one of them sued him for "making Griffith quitting". However, after a Collin All-Stars X-treme Speedy Racing clip, the outraged CTSB fans calmed down, liking his new actor.

Legacy
The Collin the Speedy Boy appeared on the Warner Bros: Among the Family Franchises poster and there were Collin the Speedy Boy shirts being produced, one famous one was the SoL symbol being made back in 2003.

Collin the Speedy Boy has made several cameos in FOX's adult animated sitcoms The Simpsons, Futurama and Bob's Burgers, Cartoon Network/Williams Street's Robot Chicken and Comedy Central's Drawn Together, but not in FOX's Family Guy, Comedy Central's South Park and other adult shows.

Collin the Speedy Boy was parodied on MAD, Robot Chicken, YouTube-A-Rama and others.

The Collin the Speedy Boy characters appeared in the Paramount feature film, In the Game.

LEGO Theme
Main Article: LEGO Collin the Speedy Boy\

Reception
So far, every Collin the Speedy Boy games has either a positive reception or a mixed reception. However, both the 1999 Baylee and the 2006 game Stacie the Speedy Girl, although having mixed reviews, is considered the worst-reviewed CTSB game of all time, although Stacie had some better reviews. Most of the CTSB games has been a commerical success, but there are vastly some CTSB games that were commerical failures.

Tropes
/Tropes

Names in other languages

 * Japanese: コリン迅速な少年
 * Chinese: 科林迅速的男孩
 * Korean: 콜린 빠른 소년
 * German: Der schnelle junge Collin (titled Fingers in films)
 * Spanish: Collin el Nino Veloz
 * French: Collin Boy Speedy

Spin-off franchises

 * Speedy Blue Dog and
 * Kristina (spin-off series)
 * Collin: X-Treme Sports
 * Collin Universe (franchise that features video games being set in the Collin the Speedy Boy universe)
 * Mattie Gargis

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