I like what I ended up with here and I think Devan based a recent model on this art. I forget precisely what Lazlo’s role was going to be, but I kept trying over the years to get a design for him that felt in style while still feeling like Lazlo. I don’t know how much of that was just in my head and how much of that was set in stone. At least, that’s what I think the plan was. We were planning on adding them around the time of Expansion 3 and they would have had a mission where you enlist the help of the cast of Class of 3000 (who would have been organizing a benefit concert in the Park from Regular Show) to perform as their backing band. The park would feature a stage, on which Ami and Yumi would be playing. We would have redone the layout of the mall so the mall area itself would only take up half the space with the remaining half replaced by a park at ground level. Next is Ami and Yumi, who near the end of the game’s life we had decided to station at an overhauled Townsville City Center, by the Sunken Mall. We never really figured out what we wanted these characters to do, but we knew we wanted them to be involved at some point. The original game had Octus in his robot form but that didn’t seem to make sense. Lance already had art (though we only saw it once and it was largely obscured) so I tried to match their designs to that. I thought it was a neat callback and it completed the trifecta wherein the NPC would be TOM 3, the Nano would be TOM 2, and the Fusion would be TOM 1. Instead of the red goo from the original design, it would have been held together with Fusion Matter. In the next page you can see Fusion TOM, who was based on the Intruder from Toonami’s Total Immersion Events. We thought the designs would fit the style better and decided to use them for the NPCs while Steven’s nano would use his original design. The first page was me trying to translate the Steven Universe Future designs to FusionFall style. Many times I’d just have miscellaneous sketch pages where I tried to figure out multiple characters in the style at once. (To answer your question, yes I did draw some Scooby-Doo stuff but it’s old and Not Very Good) fusionfall fusionfall retro fusionfall legacy fusionfall universe I think there were a couple Scooby-Doo themed items in the second Retro Halloween update, though, at least We never really got far into thinking of what to do for them, since they weren’t exactly high priority, just something we thought would be cool to include.
I don’t know if we would have been able to work them into Retro, but one version of the Legacy map included an area called the “Happy Haunted Sunshine House,” named after the song from the Johnny Bravo/Scooby-Doo crossover episode. Scooby-Doo was a more likely inclusion, considering the original game had an unused Scooby Tail item. There was never any official planning by the team, just some musings of my own lol
I was imagining the Titans Tower could be taken over by Fuse and turned into an infected zone. Our compromise was that if we were ever to add them, they would likely be an addendum after the last expansion, Expansion 3. Yeah, I’m a big Teen Titans fan and thought they would be cool in FusionFall so I pushed for them a bit lol