A Deep Dive into U.B. Funkeys
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- will "U.B" funkey?, a phrase as old as time.. (15 years). U.B Funkeys where a big part of my time on my childhood windows xp emachine, I spent hours in the game, I loved it. im not joking about the zellers thing I browned up my pants when i saw that.
but what about YOU ! did you play ub funkeys? witch was your fav? witch DO YOU HATE !? let me know in the comments. I love you. and I love rainbow sherbert ice cream. goodnight everybody.
My things - - X3
X or twitter or whatever it is now: / bjiru_
Steam: steamcommunity.com/id/bjiru/
Discord with weird images of crabs: / discord
a special secret 🤫: bjiru.com/funny_green.mp4
Link to “OpenFK” (version of the game that works on modern systems): gittymac.github.io/OpenFK/
Songs used (In Order):
UB Funkeys OST - Angus Manor: • U.B Funkeys OST - Angu...
UB Funkeys OST - Flipper Fever: • U.B Funkeys OST - Flip...
UB Funkeys OST - Fallout Game: • UB Funkeys OST - Fallo...
F1 Racing Championship PS1 - Theme of Montreal: • F1 Racing Championship...
UB Funkeys OST - Bones Game: • U.B Funkeys OST - Bone...
F1 Racing Championship PS1 - Theme of Spa: • F1 Racing Championship...
LittleBigPlanet Soundtrack - The Metropolis: • LittleBigPlanet Soundt...
F1 Racing Championship PS1 - Theme of Barcelona: • F1 Racing Championship...
(Very dope) U.B Funkey Model by OnaStickProductions: www.blendswap.com/blend/22415
Chapters (like the book store)
00:00 Intro
01:37 History
02:52 The Figures
08:18 Unreleased Funkeys
10:25 The Game
21:50 The Fall
24:03 Final Thoughts
25:20 Goodnight :3
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- hes embarresed.. he didnt think anyone would find him down here. ghatwrs tems 
Развлечения
hey so this video is INSANE and i love it, im a fucking nerd and LOVE UB FUNKEYS
but there are a few things you got wrong that i wanna correct!!!!
1. you said hidden realm was the last zone added to wrap up the lore, it was actually paradox green
2. you said that there was only gonna be one more adventure pack when there was going to be at least two, one for the dreamstates figures and one for the hidden realm figures
3. sadly i do not believe the bones skateboard made it past concept art
4. dot had 2000 made, not 700
5. in the second tajeo ebay listing, you mention that there were 3 other speed racer figures, not shown at any toy fair, the thug figure and the royalton figure are speed racer figures, and were shown at the new york toy fair 2008 i believe? but the blue teddy bear is a rare maul from paradox green. the common and rare figures for paradox green were never released.
6. you mention that the trunk and loot was added with the chat funkeys in the dream states update, this is false, it was added between hidden realm and paradox green
7. you mention familiars dont have a use in game, they do! they allow you to enter a funkeys zone and game room without owning that funkey. this was especially useful for the people who didnt get dot. Basically its a portal jammer you can use more than once but only on a specific zone and gameroom.
8. you said tajeo and tach have inaccessible gamerooms, this is false, tach has no game room, but speed racer has an unreleased variant that had a different minigame in his gameroom
9. you say dali's animation is broken, it is not! dali is a flower that burrows underground, and this animation triggers even as an npc
10. presumably they got pretty close to dc releasing, as there was an early trailer used to advertise it alongside hidden realm, then it got pushed back to paradox green, and then they were forced to scrap it all together, as they only had time to finish up paradox green and put it out as one final thank you to the fans. (this is also why there are no physical common or rare figures of paradox green funkeys)
11. there is more unused and beta footage lying around, jeff, bless his heart, shared confidential reference sheets for unreleased funkeys, and on the old ub funkeys website (only accessible via the wayback machine) has videos advertising minigames that use beta footage of said games.
12. you say adults should not try this game, this is incorrect.
im sorry im like this.
ooooh fuck. I knew I would get a few things off, My apologies for these things, some of it I could of researched better, and some like the dali animation are just me being fucking stupid XD, thank you for the correction of everything, and being so kind about it :3, Im glad to see other U.B funkeys enthusiasts :3
its rly cool to see someone so well versed and passionate abt this game and its history, ty for sharing these corrections :D
@@bjiru_ no youre not stupid im just clinically insane
@@herodoesstuff also hell yeah no prob man im your go to guy for ub funkeys facts
@@bloxyjola6040 hahaha, well I appreciate, still- Ill pay more attention to detail in my research in the future 👍
This game taught me how to read, and how to get robbed.
I was so scared to get robbed as a child that I was lowkey happy my server/world was bare. 😅
UB Funkeys will always have a special place in my heart, it is the combination of all of the inmaculate aesthetics of the 2000's, thank you for posting this video!!!
My partner is a huge collector of merch from the 2008 speed racer movie and they thought they collected everything related from the movie. That was until I found the speed racer ubfunky. I’m so proud that I found something they didn’t know existed :)
I loved these little fuckers. We weren’t so well off when I was a kid so my brother and I each had one only one or two little fellas a piece. I really enjoyed exploring the little worlds and doing that early 2000s virtual interior design.
as a kid i would lick my funkys, changing it into various funkys i didnt own. idk why it works but i would do it again and again until my big funky was out of commission. was fun
what the hell?
@@neonthunder3261 it was a fun bug lmao
Oh my god I am so happy to hear that I wasn't the only one to discover this! You'd get like a short period of time before it changed back, so you'd have to race to a minigame or explore as fast as possible
ub funkeys had lead in them. we're going to get brain damage but we will have it in in solidarity.
If you didn't do this did you even play UB funkys? I only used this to get through the doors in the hidden realm, as well as I think I got into deuce's game once
my experience with this game as a kid outside of the US/Europe was heartwrenching because I loved it so much and kept seeing youtube videos about update content that didnt release on my region and kept endlessly searching for it on my game and ultimately losing hope
Aww that is heartbreaking 😭
I feel like so many adults would play this today. I'm 20 years olds and I remember staring at the demo disk I got from Wendy's for probably literal hours looking at the characters on it and having nowhere to actually insert the disk. I feel like I missed out. It was certainly something I was interested in, just not something I was able to ever get around to. Hopefully the company who made these realizes that people my age are still playing video games more than ever.
I have some of these guys sitting in my closet. I never had the heart to get rid of them bc I love their design so much, but I barely even played with them. I very vaguely remember even playing with these, but I had such little access to the family computer and, being a kid, I never could remember my passwords and my parents were too busy to check their emails for the reset code. But this video has sparked me to go and uncover these relics of the early 2000s
go give them some love :3, I hope they are still in good condition
"Do you recognize this guy?"
No but bjiru video so uhrm i am staying
Ye
Hell ye
R.I.P the funkeys bjiru sold for ps3 money
We thank you all for your sacrifices
i feel like UB Funkeys shaped my entire personality.
Well… you must be a pretty “”FUNKEY”” person then !
Oh my GOD. You just reignited two core memories for me. The Funkies and Cube World. I LOVED both of those toys and am now going to hunt them down
Funkeys walked so Skylanders, Lego Dimensions, Amiibo could run. I only have 1 of my former vast collection left: a red Rastro
bjiru just wanted to say thanks because you recommended izzzyzzz’s channel in one of your previous videos and her videos are awesome too. ty for covering our cozy 2000s internet nostalgia!
I’m so glad, love izzzyzzz
these things remind me of gogos crazy bones!!! i like them ive never seen these before :-]
i still remember walking into a store as a kid and seeing an ultra rare blue panda funkey... what a rush
I remember the little Wendy's demo CD and Funky with the branded "W" but I thought it was just some strange fever dream because I totally forgot what it was and hadn't seen it again, until now lol
20:50 **pushes button** "oh i'm gay now"
DUDE MY BROTHER LOVED THESE LITTLE GUYS!!! He had basically everyone’s common variants and the rare packs containing the pineapple king and Dr. Lox. weirdly enough he doesn’t have the main port anymore though.
I think i still have an entire big box of them somewhere too!
your passion for nostalgia is very relatable for me , these videos are great love taking memory lane back to these memories frfr
This video made me buy some Funkeys, love the art direction of these little guys
YESS ! INFLUENCE! thats my fav part too, they are akin to like bearBricks or vinyls like that, there so cool
This was the first video I've watched from you, where I have no previous knowledge about the topic. I assume U.B Funkeys never reached my country.
But it made it even more enjoyable, as I am used to your top tier video standards (which this was of course no exception), but actually learning about a whole new topic along with it was so much fun!
Great stuff as always!
Oh wow that’s interesting to hear! Thanks as always for watching :3, always love to see your comment :3
Killer video--love your delivery and editing! I never seen these little guys before, they were a bit before my time I think, but I love their 2000s vinyl art-toy-esque look. So fun!
Also I love the speed racer tie-in lol.. that era of 2000s remakes of 60s properties like that movie and Charlie's Angels was so strange looking back but I loved em all.
Floating
How did he get it to float
@@Candyrock15that’s just what the docks did. The cords were made to hold them up in a “floating” position. I’m honestly surprised he didn’t mention the function of the cord in the video.
@@Candyrock15 dark magic
This game was my childhood
This is my favourite video ever I love your video style and genuine enthusiasm for funkeys, they're such cool little dudes
You made an entire video about U.B. Funkeys? on my watch list. It's funny how I watched the one on the virtual worlds while refactoring FunkeySelectorGUI.
hello mai broda
I really really wish companies would make toys like this again. It's so fun and unique to have these crazy online worlds with their own line of little guys
I never played the game, I just played with the toys. I did that for years after the game shut down even
You have unlocked childhood TV advertisement for me I appreciate it good sir
I remember begging my parents to buy this after getting a Wendy’s toy, struggling to get it to run, and then getting so so scared of my Funkey getting dirty I had to stop playing
Thanks for making this video i felt like a lot of people need to know about these little guys they played such a big part in my childhood :)
This video dug up a relic in my mind. When I was a kid my mom never let me get one and I thought they were so cool. I completely forgot what they were and this video reminded me. Thanks
so happy I found your channel, love your content.
just said the title out loud right now and im amazed ive been waiting this video for what feels like my whole life
ur editing style is so funky! (in a good way)
Thank you so much YOU ARE FUNKEY ! ( I’m also a good way :3)
Had so many nostalgic memories with this game, I remember wandering around different maps (especially the nightmare one), Decorating my crib, And getting absolutely terrified every time I saw a henchman
I vividly remember having at least 3 of these lil guys. Specifically the speedometer for some reason? Thank u for the blast from the past😭
can already tell this is gonna be a banger
i forgot they existed but this just unlocked a deep childhood memory
Bro I felt like such an idiot when I had these as a kid. They were such cool little ideas but my kid ass could not figure out how to do more than like 2 minigames and just never played it again
I ❤ U.B. FUNKEYS
I remember UB Funkeys, my starter had the Purple Hub with the tribal tattoos. I also had the 2nd limited edition adventure native pack, funny enough I actually had trouble logging in that I never played the game at all and just had the funkeys lying around
insane that this is one of ur first youtube vids! excited to see more
ive been lookingfor this for so long thank you
i love this game as a child but it also scared me so much for the henchmen, i feared going outside the house for them, losing my hard earned coins as kid was a nightmare come true
God I’m such a huge fan of U.B. Funkeys so this video was an amazing watch! Here in Australia, it definitely wasn’t the most popular thing in the world (legit have never met anyone (other than my cousins) who knew about the game in Aus). Only certain stores had figures, in which most of the time it was just the pack with the Hub in it, but occasionally we’d get cool stuff (because of this, my Mum often bought packs from eBay when new expansions came out). I remember being devastated that it was getting shut down, so I was very excited when I found out people had made a playable version a few years back. Since you asked in the description, I think my favourite Funkeys were Flurry, the snowflake one, and Lucky, the white one with the rainbow on it, though I owned the rare version which was black instead of white :)
p.s. I noticed the Waddle Dee, Grub, and Rowlet plushies throughout the video and I just wanna say you have a good taste in games :D
ah! your the first person to actually answer that! very good choices, I think flurry is my fav aswell, except the red one instead of the blue, I love it so much
Thank you for noticing my plushie friends as well :3
I have a weird nostalgic collection of these things, because I never played the game, I never owned any of these, I just saw them at Walmart and wanted but could never afford the one that looked like a fish, I didn't even know there was a game attached to them until late last year, yet I remember them vividly
aw im sorry to hear that, its time to play it now then ! !
thnx for making this video - i had that same figure pack too haha
Fantastic video. I love your personality
I remember my grandparents having a collection of these for selling them on ebay
it’s funny how you are the best yotiuber. out of All of them
great vid, never heard about UB funkeyes, really interesting
Bro, I literally saw the thumbnail for this, and I did know what they were called until now. With the thumbnail alone, you've unlocked a core memory of when I was 5. Thank you do fucking much.
This video was amazing, UB Funkeys will forever be a staple of my childhood 🫡🙏
Yoooo, I remember these! Always wanted one but never got to own one or play the game. I kinda want to get one of the figures now just to display.
I remember having these as a kid and playing with them all the time!
since the updates never made it to my country and I didn't have money for extra funkeys I ended up spending a lot of my time poking at the game's files to access some of the other minigames lol
I also found out pretty early into my file poking how to make my funkey look like those evil camera guys... they were a bit glitchy but I didn't mind... it was cool and that's all that mattered...
that is so cool. kind of good how it happend, made you learn a lot about the inner workings of games and flash n such I bet, thanks for sharing :3
OH MY GOD I THOUGHT THAT THESE THINGS WERE A DREAM I HAD ONCE. Thank you so much for documenting this phenomenon.
ooo ive been waitin for this one
I never played this game as a kid unfortunately, but I found out about these guys last year and I love their designs. I have a small collection that I got via thrifting. So far I only have one funkey and 2 hubs (the basic one and the one with the purple design). I actually saw a car at the thrift store that had a wendy’s funkey keychain hanging from its exhaust???
I didn't live in this era but I would have loved too, seeing what there was. I've played Club Penguin fan servers so I'm not completely out of the know with these things, but man, those must have been different times.
Also the description of this video has a lot of little nuggets, the dancing Android logo was a huge surprise.
Ive been waiting for this.
I wanted to play this game so bad so I had something in common with my classmates at school, but my mom wouldn’t buy any of the figurines for me so I couldn’t play. In my little kid brain it would be the thing to make them stop picking on me. These guys are still pretty interesting to me for their design.
im so sorry friend, I hope you got some friends eventually that love you for you. screw those kids, Hope you are well these days
@@bjiru_ I have! Thank you for checking on me :) it wasn’t all bad, I do have fond memories of making hair for the figurines out of silly putty when I went to a friend’s house who had a couple. I wonder why Webkinz was so much more successful than UB Funkeys considering they’re pretty similar in concept.
@@dessyboon6637 aww thats so cool, glad to hear it wasnt all bad
a friend of mine had a couple of these and i've seen him play once or twice. i didnt remember anything at all about the game but those amiibo ahh dolls are a core memory of mine. i still remember the way that plastic felt in my hands.
all i remember about this game was catching an army of VICIOUS tapeworms to fill my house with
good video dude, and NO, I DON'T EAT PIZZA WITH KNIFE AND FORK THAT SHOULD BE AN ATTACK AGAINST HUMANITY AND FOOD
I been looking for this game for a while and I forgot what it was called. Thank you.
very frightened by the floating ub funkey. spooky!!! ahhh!!!!
a ghost from tha 👻past 👻👻
took me over half the video to realize it's attached to a string and thought it was a cgi effect (weary face emoji)
YEEEOUCH!!!!!@@bjiru_
this takes me BACK
Ive been waiting for someone to talk about these things they were crucial to my childhood and no one knows about them
DUDE I also found the pineapple king pack at a zellers/ that brief time where target bought zellars in Canada before they abandoned it. I was so excited to have them, the pineapple king was my favorite. I sometimes still think about why my brain decided the pineapple kings backstory was something to be remembered.
I found out about UB Funkeys through the Wendy's promotion. I happened to be at Wendy's with some of my cousins and two of us got demo discs. I ended up getting the full game later, my hub being the one with the purple designs, and I got a few characters: Bones, Drift, both common and rare Ptep (don't remember why), and Scratch. I don't remember how much of the game I played but I do remember being cut off from some areas due to not having enough Funkeys.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
nice video bro!
I love these and I need one immediately
These are those things form my child hood that I remember playing, but couldn’t for the life of me remember what they were called and drove me crazy
My sister and I got UB Funkey as a gift from a family friend from overseas (I'm from the Philippines). Lil me was so mad they bought us the exact same design. 😅 The huge dock has bamboo and dragon tattoo, and the little one is iirc army green something. I still have it in one of my drawers.
Edit: I think that one you have at 12:12 but in army green!
thats funny, My default UB funkey has been sitting in my room since I had it and its never left
Ah, I had a few of these lil guys. Only half of mine worked, and I never actually got new ones at any point after I first received them all.
I used to play this all the time !!! And I had so many I miss those days
woah ur talking about my culture!! with videos about flash animations and UB funkeys!!! I have 14 funkeys AND I animate in flash!! ur like so awesum sauce!!
>_< ‧͙* thx u s0 much ‧͙⁺˚*･༓ X3 X3
Im so happy so many people also love this old internet culture, thats why I make these to connect and be with my people thanks for being here :3 ;3 :3
cheeeeeeese.
The nostalgia this activated in me...
I loved UB Funkeys when I was younger but my house didn’t have internet in the early 2000’s so the games features were super limited to me. I was unable to use all the characters I had because for some reason you needed an internet connection to be able to use more than 1 character.
really dope video!
I can’t believe you just reminded me of cube world toys.
I forgot about these. Its almost like a fever dream seeing them again.
God Damn! My First Video game 😍😍😍 Didn't think about it for 15 years so so.. That was simply amazing 😊
BRO I still have all of my UB’s. I remember getting the Elder and the reaper looking main Villain as playable figures it was insane.
I feel so much shame that I forgot about UB
great video!
What is this nostalgic bomb of channel
Oh my god cube world… please make a cube world video i was obsessed with those things as a kid lol
The only reason I know about these things is because I found one in a geocache when I was a kid and decided to keep it
Me too!
Core memory unlocked
Congrats on making your bed!!!
I was about to record. No bed made, and I thought y,know what. So thank you for noticing XD
As a Canadian, that Zellers line hit really hard.
Mines are LITERALLY in my bedroom in a box :)
Growing up in Norway, I didn't speak English, as I was too young to have learnt it in school yet, so... I NEVER KNEW UNTIL NOW THAT THERE WAS LORE
my mom got me one of these so long ago and i have been tryna figure out what these were called for years, then this video pops up in my feed years after i gave up searching
one of the kids who couldn't get one of these but definitely saw commercials for them in the 2000s they where definitely pretty based.