Extinct: The Barney We Almost Had (Video Essay)

Hi, all; happy June! While I'm sure many Barney fans may know how Barney came to be, I thought I'd try my hand at making a sort of timeline-esque essay visually bringing you through it (with some original artwork, too!)
Collated from a lot of sources, just as last time, all information can be found on either Barney Wiki or Barney History Fans. As credited, yet another huge thank you to ourfriendbarney for the clips (sans the S14 stuff, haha).
0:00 Intro
0:35 Wee Sing
1:13 Blanket & Bear
1:50 Dinosaur Dreams
2:09 What's In A Name
2:34 A Silly Sea Serpent
4:05 A Real Dino-Bite
4:47 Barney, Lean & Green
5:44 A Purple Dino Hatches
6:22 Closing Thoughts
6:37 Special Thanks
6:53 Outro

[@drevianedwardsproductions9244]

This is very interesting on what Barney is originally gonna be intended. Originally started as a blankie, and then a teddy bear, then a freaking sea serpent, and then Barney dressed in a hip 80s fashion that's insane!

[@BarneyMillennium]

Thank you! It definitely is pretty crazy, haha.

[@henrykahn]

@@BarneyMillennium, it’s a good thing they didn’t make him Cecelia the sea serpent The estate of Bob Clampett (former Looney Tunes director and creator of Cecil the Sea Serpent) could have sued the Lyons Group.

[@BarneyMillennium]

Interesting!

[@AprilTeniente-eu1mj]

He was actually a friendly T-rex

[@AprilTeniente-eu1mj]

Hi!! That’s interesting!! Barney is actually in the Backyard Show and he’s teaching children to use their imagination and nursery rhymes and shapes and colors and more!! He wasn’t a blanket or a teddy bear at all! He’s actually a dinosaur who is friendly! Much friendlier than the other dinosaurs in real life!!

[@ToonyKid]

2:34 I was wondering how Cecilia would look

[@DanielGomez-gw4kt]

At 3:39 when you were explaining of what the characteristics personality could have been for Sea-celia, that kind of reminds me of the same personality from the Disney character Sisu from Raya and the last Dragon. I wish she could have been like Sisu from Disney's Raya and the last Dragon, and one thing for sure. She could have sang the song that we all know and love and is one of the most popular Barney and Friends songs, boom boom ain't it good to be crazy. It would have been really cool if Sea-celia could have sang boom boom ain't it good to be crazy

[@eliassmeke3991]

For Barney’s final design they changed his teeth 🦷 from razor 🪒 sharp teeth 🦷 into straight white teeth 🦷, they also made his toes yellow, his tummy green and his green spots on his back and tail also green

[@preciousjones2752]

The green dinosaur at 5:18 looks like he would've been Barney's retro-looking father that loves to surf

[@BarneyMillennium]

That would be a fun idea 😁

[@DanielGomez-gw4kt]

When you were talking about a character named Sea-celia that never made it for Barney a day at the beach. I think the character could have been a side character when Barney and the kids use their imaginations to get to the beach, and one thing for sure if the costume could have been made to bring to life the character. She wouldn't look like a sea serpent to me, she would look like some kind of sea monster. And she would be like a family-friendly sea monster character of the sea monster creature from that horror movie, I forgot the name of the movie. But I remembered it comes out of the ocean walks on land and so on, I really forgot the title of that movie. Because a sea serpent is a sea creature monster that doesn't have any legs and doesn't have feet, it's whole entire body would be a reference to a snake. Just like what I used to see from the original submarine voyage that used to be at Disneyland from 1959 to 1998. I really wish Sea-celia could have made it into the episode, and I wish that both she and Barney could have been best friends

[@BarneyMillennium]

Absolutely. I'd like to see her as a side character, too.

[@BrandisTheBluesCluesExplorer]

I love this video, thank you so much for making my day today.

[@BarneyMillennium]

No problem! Thank you for the kind words!

[@BrandisTheBluesCluesExplorer]

@@BarneyMillennium you're welcome my friend.

[@user-re2ce3vf5q]

I loved barney for a long time like a very Long time

[@eliassmeke3991]

Barney was originally gonna be a teddy bear 🧸, but he was changed into a dinosaur 🦕

[@farahjaved7926]

Bring back Barney

[@aggy_m]

I was in pre-k in about 04 and I remember the teachers putting on some kind of weird old Barney VHS tape and Barney didn’t look the same at all (looked more like the old version) and it traumatized us so they turned it off

[@umaestromaster]

@BarneyMillenium: So, now we're back to square one, ... Barney: (holding a square) I don't know how that became funny to me But I started laughing🤣

[@BarneyMillennium]

Glad you thought it was funny! 💜

[@watchforever1724]

Interesting video

[@BarneyMillennium]

Thank you!

[@eliassmeke3991]

You know some concept names for Barney were Cosby, Colby and Danny. Co-creator Dennis DeShazer came up ⬆️ with the name Barney

[@BarneyMillennium]

Yep! 💜

[@The-creator-of-good-videos-15]

I think the name that they really went for is more recognizable in my opinion, I think…

[@BarneyMillennium]

I agree!

[@The-creator-of-good-videos-15]

@@BarneyMillennium Yup.

[@eliassmeke3991]

Question 🙋‍♀️ please 🙏, during the production of A Day at the Beach how was Sea-celia replaced with Barney?

[@BarneyMillennium]

Seacelia is only present in the first draft of the script. She was replaced with Barney in the subsequent re-writes, and the final was used for the actual production.

[@johnylitalo4163]

Why didn't they make new episodes for season 14 of Barney and Friends?

[@BarneyMillennium]

S14 was intended to be a "refresh" of the Barney & Friends concept, and a bigger reboot that would have focused on Barney's "land" rather than the park was planned but was ultimately cancelled along with the show.

[@charlesbazile8154]

@@BarneyMillenniumAnd what about Barney & Friends (2017) reboot when Barney is a baby tyrannosaurus rex which he will be a learner in scrapped 2017 which a turn as a spin off of Barney & The Backyard Gang and Tom Kenny as a voice actor of Barney The Dinosaur?

[@AprilTeniente-eu1mj]

@@charlesbazile8154Nah! Bob West did voice Barney in The Backyard Show and in some episodes and videos!! He’s amazing!!

[@charlesbazile8154]

@@AprilTeniente-eu1mj Yeah, I know. I kinda lost Barney & Friends (2017) reboot series for whole year.

[@Superlad9494]

​@@charlesbazile8154 i think it would be better to get someone who can immitate West or Wendt or bring them back.