Orrin Scott: Archiving Animation with Home Media - Cartoon Network Physical Home Media Releases

The Nickelodeon pilot creation program, Random Cartoons!, was an odd series even for pilot productions. Of the 39 segments created for the series, three full length series came into fruition; Fanboy and Chum-Chum for Nickelodeon, The Bravest Warriors for Frederator Studio’s online distribution channel, Cartoon Hangover, and Adventure Time which was picked up by Cartoon Network as opposed to Nickelodeon. It is the most prominent example of a pilot being produced by one of the big three and finding a home in another. I personally remember the pilot floating around on YouTube for a couple years before the show finally went into production. Just this month, the second episode of the spin-off series, Adventure Time: Distant Lands, premiered on HBO Max - 10 years after the show went into production, and twelve years after the pilot. Onto today’s cartoons.

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (2010) ran for three seasons and is the second sequel and third series of the Ben 10 franchise. The entire series was released on five volume episode compilations on DVD.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_10:_Ultimate_Alien

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https://cartoonnetwork.fandom.com/wiki/Ben_10:_Ultimate_Alien

Generator Rex (2010) ran for three seasons. Only a single volume episode compilation of the first nine episodes has been released on DVD. No other home media has been released.

Sources:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Generator-Rex-Volume-1-DVD/14700758

Generator Rex Logo

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Generator_Rex

Adventure Time (2010) ran for 10 seasons of 283 episodes. The show saw many episode compilations released on DVD, all 10 seasons released on individual (Seasons 1-7) and combined (8-10) season sets on DVD, as well as a single package complete series on DVD. Oddly, while BluRay releases of the entire series exist in other territories, only seasons 1-6 were released in North America.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Adventure_Time_episodes#Home_media

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086X86XR3/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_vDPWFbKHMH38M

Adventure Time Logo:

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Adventure_Time

Regular Show (2010) ran for 8 seasons of 261 episodes and a movie. The Regular Show Movie saw release on DVD. The first and second seasons were packaged together and released on BluRay. The first, second and third seasons were released on DVD. In addition, there were seven episode compilations that cover the first six seasons. Of the episodes from season four, five and six, the following have been released:

Season 4 Episode 4/5 “Terror Tales of the Park II”
Season 4 Episode 9 “Guy’s Night”
Season 4 Episode 10 "One Pull Up"
Season 4 Episode 13 "T.G.I. Tuesday"
Season 4 Episode 16 "Sandwich of Death"
Season 4 Episode 18 "Do or Diaper"
Season 4 Episode 20 “Caveman”
Season 4 Episode 22 "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese"
Season 4 Episode 23 "Fool Me Twice"
Season 4 Episode 25 "Picking Up Margaret"
Season 4 Episode 28 “Skips’ Stress”
Season 4 Episode 31 "Meteor Moves"
Season 4 Episode 32 "Family BBQ"
Season 4 Episode 34 “Country Club”
Season 4 Episode 37 “Last Meal”
Season 4 Episode 40 "Steak Me Amadeus"

Season 5 Episode 1 "Laundry Woes"
Season 5 Episode 4 "Every Meat Burritos"
Season 5 Episode 5 "Wall Buddy"
Season 5 Episode 7 "Survival Skills"
Season 5 Episode 10 "Tants"
Season 5 Episode 11 "Bank Shot"
Season 5 Episode 15 "The Heart of a Stuntman"
Season 5 Episode 16 "New Year's Kiss"
Season 5 Episode 17 "Dodge This"
Season 5 Episode 18 "Portable Toilet"
Season 5 Episode 20 "Rigby in the Sky With Burrito"
Season 5 Episode 21 "Journey to the Bottom of the Crash Pit"
Season 5 Episode 22 "Saving Time"
Season 5 Episode 26 "Return of Mordecai and the Rigbys"
Season 5 Episode 27 "Bad Portrait"
Season 5 Episode 30 "Play Date"
Season 5 Episode 34 "Paint Job"
Season 5 Episode 40 "Real Date"

Season 6 Episode 1 “Maxin’ and Relaxin’”

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_Show#Home_media

https://regularshow.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DVD_Releases

Regular Show Logo

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Regular_Show

Sym-Bionic Titan (2010) ran for a single season of 20 episodes. Unfortunately, it has never seen a home media release and ends on a cliffhanger. Though series’ creator, Genndy Tartakovsky’s other cliffhanger series, Samurai Jack, saw a fifth season finale released years after its hiatus.