Eddsworld: Legacy was the era that followed the Classic era of Eddsworld.
Its name comes from the fundraiser started by Thomas Ridgewell. The money made from it was used to fund the creation of 5 Eddisodes and 7 shorts. People who donated to the fundraiser received rewards such as posters, wristbands, and original portraits. 100% of the ad revenue made from the YouTube channel during this period went directly to CLIC Sargent, the UK's leading cancer charity for children.
Videos related to Eddsworld: Legacy, such as special thanks videos and several older animations that were either never uploaded to the official YouTube channel or removed from it due to copyright infringement were uploaded on a second channel called Eddsworld Extra. Select episodes were reuploaded to Eddsworld Extra with brand new music from Marc Lovallo and Yoav Landau.
This era ended with a two-part finale named The End, it was followed by Eddsworld Beyond after a four-year hiatus.
History[]
This era began after Edd Gould died on March 25 2012. Edd's "dying request", as Thomas Ridgewell put it, was that he wanted Eddsworld to continue beyond his death. Some of Edd's online accounts were taken over by friends and family.
Ridgewell took on the roles of lead writer, director, and producer. Ideally, he would have liked to produce one episode every month, with a length of roughly five minutes.
Ridgewell had discussed with Gould what they would do if Gould died, and planned to record lots of random lines of dialogue, but they didn't manage it. Edd received a new voice actor, Tim Hautekiet. Following auditions with Tim Hautekiet were held between close friends.
All profits that weren't going towards Eddsworld would be going towards the CLIC Sargent (now known as Young Lives VS Cancer). Ridgewell stated that if they did not have the funds to start up Eddsworld, he would possibly use either Kickstarter or Indie-Fund to get it up and running.
Due to severe depression,[1] Ridgewell put Eddsworld: Legacy on hiatus for several months. The hiatus ended on November 21, 2013, and Eddie Bowley was brought on to help out.
After part two of The End was uploaded,[2][3] Control of Eddsworld, along with Tom's animated counterpart, was handed to Edd Gould's family.[4]
Donation campaign[]
Rewards[]
The Eddsworld legacy poster showing various characters.
- Anyone who donated $15/£10 would get a soundtrack of original Eddsworld music and a Behind the Scenes of making Eddsworld footage.
- Anyone who donated $25/£16 would get the prizes above plus a small donator Eddsworld poster signed by Tom, Matt and Paul.
- Anyone who donated $50/£32 would get the prizes above plus an official Eddsworld wristband.
- Anyone who donated $100/£65 would get the prizes above plus the new Eddsworld comic book; the sequel to 'Toaster Brains', featuring the latest comics, sketches, and concept art.
- Anyone who donated $200/£130 would get the prizes above plus a portrait of themselves in Eddsworld style, signed by Paul ter Voorde.
- Anyone who donated $300/£195 would get the prizes above plus an animated appearance in one episode. The donator's name would be found in the credits.
- Anyone who donated $500/£324 would get the prizes above plus a personal "thank you" video from Matt and Tom. They would upload it to a new YouTube channel or send the video to the donator.
- Anyone who donated $1000/£648 would get twice of every prize above plus an Executive Producer credit on one episode.
- Anyone who donated $2000/£1,582.99 would get the prizes above and their money would go towards the production of an official Eddsworld DVD. The money would go towards remastering old animations (with music that would not cause copyright issues), recording commentaries, filling the DVD with unreleased sketches, the behind the scenes mini-doc and a "thank you" message. The donator's name will be right there on the box and all profits will go to charity.
Results[]
The campaign was highly successful, raising $83,211 with the original goal being $50,000. This allowed Eddsworld to continue on for quite some time. The fundraiser can be seen at the end of both Space Face Part 2 and Mirror Mirror.
Animations[]
New animations[]
| # | Title | Youtube upload date | Newgrounds upload date | Deviantart upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Space Face (Part 1) | June 7, 2012 | June 7, 2012 | January 2, 2013 (Full) |
| 2 | Date Night | September 12, 2012 | September 13, 2012 | September 13, 2012 |
| 3 | Space Face (Part 2) | November 26, 2012 | N/A | January 2, 2013 (Full) |
| 4 | The Snogre | February 7, 2013 | February 7, 2013 | N/A |
| 5 | Tom's Tales of Crazy | June 14, 2013 | N/A | N/A |
| 6 | Hide and Seek | December 24, 2013 | N/A | N/A |
| 7 | Fun Dead | February 28, 2014 | N/A | N/A |
| 8 | PowerEdd | December 31, 2014 | N/A | N/A |
| 9 | Mirror Mirror | August 28, 2015 | N/A | N/A |
| 10 | Trick or Threat | October 23, 2015 | N/A | N/A |
| 11 | Christmas Eddventure | December 18, 2015 | N/A | N/A |
| 12 | Saloonatics | February 12, 2016 | N/A | N/A |
| 13 | The End (Part 1) | March 9, 2016 | March 16, 2016 (Full) | N/A |
| 14 | The End (Part 2) | March 16, 2016 | March 16, 2016 (Full) | N/A |
Operation: Reboot animations[]
These are the animations that were re-released as a part of Operation: Reboot.
| # | Title | Original Upload date | YouTube Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eddsworld Christmas Special | December 15, 2004 | March 2, 2016 |
| 2 | Edd Again | April 28, 2004 | March 4, 2016 |
| 3 | Eddsworld Halloween Short | October 24, 2005 | March 4, 2016 |
| 4 | Snobody | December 18, 2005 | March 4, 2016 |
| 5 | Eddsworld Halloween Special 2007 | October 21, 2007 | March 4, 2016 |
| 6 | Behind the Scenes of Eddsworld | October 8, 2005 | March 10, 2016 |
| 7 | Zombeh Attack | October 4, 2005 | March 16, 2016 |
| 8 | Eddsworld Christmas Special '05 | December 2, 2005 | March 16, 2016 |
Comics[]
 No. 180: "Half" (2012)  No. 181: "Bill" (2012)  No. 182: "Blast" (2012)  No. 183: "Flag" (2012)  No. 184: "Boxing" (2012)  No. 185: "Buttery" (2012-2013?, Deleted)  No. 186: "Salesman" (2015)  No. 187: "High five" (2015)  No. 188: "Time Travel" (2015)  No. 189: "Red-Handed" (2015)  No. 190: "Apples" (2015)  No. 191: "Dreams"  No. 192: "Haircut"  No. 193: "Swatted" (2015)  No. 194: "Glasses" (2015)  No. 195: "Ex-Girlfriend" (2015)  No. 196: "Stolen" (2015)  No. 197: "Origin Story" (2015)  No. 198: "Moustache" (2015)  No. 199: "Book" (2016)  No. 200: "Transmission" (2016) |
Scrapped/Unknown Projects[]
Unknown Competition[]
On October 28, 2013, Tom stated on the Eddsworld Twitter account that there would be an upcoming competition.[5]
Film adaptation[]
An Eddsworld film was promised to be made if the Eddsworld: Legacy fundraiser made more than $150,000, but the movie never got made.[6]
Criticism[]
Director Thomas Ridgewell came under fire from some of the Legacy donators for the amount of time it took for them to get their perks, although Eddie Bowley has since corrected this issue[7]. Tom had to hand-write apology letters to over 200 donators who received their Eddsworld comic books over a year late. On November 21, 2013, Tom confirmed via the Eddsworld Tumblr that there were still donators who had yet to receive their perks, well over a year and a half later. Tom also stated in the same blog that if he could go back in time, he would have never done the fundraiser and instead run the show off of its own profits. On July 1, 2015, Tom announced that the Eddsworld DVD had been cancelled and that the donations would be put towards the show instead.
Tom has expressed his dislike of people calling Eddsworld: Legacy "Tomsworld".
Tom also was put into 2 forms of controversy when Eddsworld Legacy ended in March 2016. First of all, Tom brought Tord back in The End without the original voice actor's consolation. At the time, he was unable to find the original voice actor for Tord from before "25ft under the seat". Second of all, Tom created a blog post about the end, he stated 'Its actually a metaphor for the unexpected return of Edd's illness." This has since been proven as false, but many seemed to believe that Tom created The End as a way of saying that Tord was actually Cancer. He has since corrected the post as being false and just a load of rubbish he made up because he thought it sounded clever at the time.[8]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Tumblr Post
- ↑ Tumblr Post
- ↑ "Goodbye Old Friend"
- ↑ "The Beginning"
- ↑ "Update video, competition and new eddisodes coming really soon, everyone
- Tom" - ↑ "What happens if we get WAY too much money?"
"$150,000 - SERIOUSLY!? After the year of Eddsworld that we promised, we'll get to work on an Eddsworld movie!" - ↑ "I've responded to EVERY email sent to me re. @eddsworld legacy missing perks. If you're still missing yours email me at eddie@turbopunch.com" (2015)
- ↑ The Eddsworld Fan Movie - Interview with Tom Ridgewell: "'...UGH! Tom's made it Tomsworld!' I hate that. I hate it when people say 'Tomsworld'." (2016)
Links[]
| Animations | Space Face (2012) • Date Night (2012) • The Snogre (2013) • Tom's Tales of Crazy (2013) • Hide and Seek (2013) • Fun Dead (2014) • PowerEdd (2014) • Mirror Mirror (2015) • Trick or Threat (2015) • Christmas Eddventure (2015) • Saloonatics (2016) • The End (Part 1) (2016) • The End (Part 2) (2016) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other videos | Eddsworld Documentary (2016) • Super Average (unproduced) | |||
| Animations | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animators | Thomas Ridgewell • Paul ter Voorde • Jesse Zhang • Kati Knitt • Anthony "Kreid" Price • Sandra Rivas • Jamie Spicer-Lewis • Billy Crinion • Ben Smallman | |||
| Writers | Thomas Ridgewell • Eddie Bowley | |||
| Voice actors | Thomas Ridgewell • Matt Hargreaves • Alex Labbe • Paul ter Voorde • Eddie Bowley • Jamie Spicer-Lewis • Tim Hautekiet • Todd Bryanton • Brock Baker • Vicky Gould • Alice Ann Stacey | |||
| Musicians | Thomas Ridgewell • Yoav Landau • Todd Bryanton | |||
| Comics | ||||
| Artists | Paul ter Voorde • Billy Crinion • Anthony Rees • Kati Knitt | |||
| Writers | Thomas Ridgewell | |||