@@austin_the_brimstone Have you heard about the passing of Britt Allcroft? she is the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends as well as The US Adaptation, Shining Time Station. she died on Christmas Day with her passing annouced on 27th of December.
It all makes sense! Literally named after a Mike Myers character and your Dad was a collector, you had no chance Haha. Love the pictures of goth Momstone, I was 13 in 2004 so was going through a rock music phase too. Photos like this are great to have.
@ShinyShinyIsAlwaysBeingSerious Thanks! Trust me I spent many hours inside those Hot Topic gates and gargoyles while my Mom shopped for body jewelry. I was actually kind of scared of that store as a kid. Now it’s 2025 and Hot Topic sells….Shrek merch?? Yeah it’s safe to say goth culture has changed a LOT since 2004.
Funny those were the two films I essentially skipped! I wish Forever After had better toys, those warrior ogre designs are so frickin' cool. It's like Shrek meets He-Man! I did watch Forever After as a kid and actually hated it because I thought it was too mean-spirited. Now I think it's the best Shrek film. Funny how time can be like that?
@@austin_the_brimstone Shrek Forever After is an awesome film. Shrek 2 is still my favorite, but I can’t decide whether or not Shrek 1 or 4 is my 2nd favorite.
I was about 7 or 8 when the first Shrek came out and I watched it on VHS. Shrek 2 became one of the first movies I saw in a theater. So I was around for the release of every Shrek. I even liked Shrek 3 upon its release.
@@Weezing336 It’s a great crowd pleaser film. Seeing it theatrically was better, especially when the whole audience laughs at all the jokes. I think Shrek the Third’s main issue is that it isn’t really an awful film but that it’s always going to be compared to Shrek 1-4, which are arguably some of the greatest animated films ever made. It had tough competition.
I'm a 90's kid but have very fond memories of watching Shrek on VHS hundreds of times and owning one of the macfarlane action figures. It was the perfect movie to watch on a road trip, we had a small tv that connected to the car via adapter. Shrek was also the first DVD I owned and I remember being shocked to see the high quality of it compared to VHS. Good times ✌️
@@chillfox420 Portable DVD players were awesome. I still have and use mine. Shrek was also a great transfer. That first release, the double-disc one, holds up quite beautifully.
I didn’t really grow up with Shrek as my mom thought it was too crude for us. So I don’t even remember my first time watching it, I just remember it was only at friend’s houses when I would get to see the movies and even then I wasn’t super fascinated by them as I was a big Star Wars kid. But fast forward to today and I have barely anything Star Wars anymore but instead a big Shrek collection (nothing that rivals yours though) and I watch every one of your videos to learn even more about the weird world of merchandise and promo surrounding those awesome movies. Thanks for sharing these photos!! Love your channel!
Thanks for watching! Sucks to hear that your mom banned it. My best friend's mom actually banned Adventure Time in her house, which I always thought was funny. Shrek does have a lot of adult jokes (many which over my dumb kid head.) but it's better than say Family Guy or Helluva Boss, which I know a lot kids are watching even though they shouldn't. Shrek always seemed like a perfect 'family' franchise to me. Like Animaniacs or Simpsons, yes it does have a lot of crude humor, even its fair share of straight-up sex jokes, but everything is a very clever euphemism that isn't quite obvious. It's for all audiences.
Terrific video Austin and congratulations on the 5,000 subs! Just amazing! You are doing a fantastic job with the channel. I loved all the history and pictures in this vid. Keep up the good work my friend you are on fire!!!!!!!!!!!
And the best part I love about this video all the way to the end is that all of this and everything you said despite that we're not the same as we used to be 5 to 10 years ago but however we still have many years to come for all of us😊 and those years are still going to be filled with joy comfort and peace end with the big side of Shrek on there as well add on the small side Olaf from Frozen I'm sorry but I couldn't help it, My point is we all got many years together still to enjoy Shrek and other things that we love in life!
@@jazlynlang I try my best to speak from the heart instead of just by common things that most people would think would be obvious something that means a lot to many of us something that most people probably would not understand, at least until they've walked at least a mile in our shoes, the only thing I don't like though that's difficult it's that it's really really really really difficult to find good friends out there and I mean very good friends that can relate to and have a good conversation with every now and then, And I know this may sound a little cheesy but sometimes it's good to talk about our feelings every now and then just to make it short instead of just sealing it up inside into a vault and throwing it into the ocean that is the worst thing you can do.
The closest to 'Shrek'-related merchandise I can recall having around that same period was a bathing towel I brought during my three summers at sleepaway camp, a Puss in Boots Happy Meal toy, a cookbook that drew inspiration from the initial three installments, as well as a Build-a-Bear plush of the ogre himself circa the holiday season of 2007.
Huh… Well, perhaps an entirely new ‘Shrek’ cookbook will be published once we inch closer to the release of ‘Shrek 5.’ I’d have to imagine that due to the franchise’s initial popularity waning, it may have affected sales of the original cookbook to some extent.
Fun video and cute photos! You broke my heart at Woody. I love 1950’s Woody with black eyes and tip of hair curled forward. There are a lot of great Woody cartoons, like the Bird Who Came to Dinner, any with his crocodile foil - like the one when he exclaims “Egad, the pie is I!,” the fairy tale one with Knothead and Splinter, Niagara Fools, and so many more❣️
@@SylvanianWorld I need to brush up on my Woody Woodpecker! I’m sure there’s some great classic oldies. Haha I only know him from the GameCube game, which if I recall was pretty rough…
@@austin_the_brimstone Ha, ha - I know, I feel badly for your age group regarding Woody. To be fair, I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s so a lot older than you and my nostalgia is based on the cartoon reruns I grew up with - including the excellent Woody as well as the Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1940’s through 1960’s. And I know you like yourself a sexy cat - the old Tom and Jerry cartoons have some of the sexiest female cartoon cats I’ve seen (although I don’t dig chicks . . . or cats 😂).
@ Oh trust me I watched those LOL because Boomerang used to air hours of old Tom and Jerry. I don’t know why they aired up them alongside so many 90’s cartoons, must have been cheap. But yeah there’s some real gorgeous animation in there. Toodles…that is all….Toodles. 😳🤣
Congrats on 5K Austin! Great video! It makes me really happy seeing how others grew up with Shrek. And dont worry, i also got my picture taken in front of that Shrek background in Walmart lol.
I GASPED at the troll horns and Nepeta hat, omg 😂 What a lovely video. It really warmed my heart to see how much love and effort your parents put into your birthday party!
@@FlowerOneDog That toyline was a staple of my childhood. I had a bunch of ‘em. I looked for Autopilot for YEARS and found nothing. (He does exist, just really really rare.)
And the Austin Powers and Shrek connection is even deeper when you realize that Mike Myers's Shrek accent is also the scottish accent he uses for Fat Bastard (and also Stewart from So I Made An Axe Murderer).
@@nathanforester5993 That clip from Axe Murder is a total fever dream. He just creates Shrek right then, right there. As a crazed Scottish conspiracy theorist, Shrek was born. There’s also a weird sequel to Axe Murderer called The Pentaverate, and Shrek shows up as a cameo. Yes really.
@ It was definitely his passion project. He talked about making it for years. Now that he’s did it he’s already back to being Austin Powers and Shrek again. Funny how that works out. 😅 I guess we can thank the Pentavorate.
While I was more of a casual Shrek viewer as a kid I loved Shark Tale and was OBSESSED with Madagascar. Madagascar, Boohbah, the Robosapien and the Sorry! Board game, yes you read that right, were the biggest things I was into around that time in 2004 and 05. I remember I has almost everyone in my family an assigned character from the movie. I was Marty as he was my favorite, my dad was Alex, my mom was Gloria, my grandmother was Melman, I think my grandfather was King Julien and my cousins were the penguins. It's so obsurd looking back at it but that's what entertained me as a child
I sadly skipped the Madagascar films as a kid. But as an adult I can really appreciate their comedy. Weird story but I remember Boohbah. One day in 2005, my mom wanted to buy me a Boohbah doll but I instead chose an Episode 3 Anakin figure. (The totally demented one where he's duel-wielding and gonna slice up all the Jedi.) I think I became a man that day.
I also grew up with Shrek. I remember watching the first Shrek on VHS a lot when I was very little and then watching Shrek 2 on DVD a lot when I was in preschool. I also remember my sister taking me to see Shrek the Third in the theater back when it first came out and then my parents taking me to see Shrek Forever After three years later. Unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of Shrek toys as I was more into LEGOs growing up, but if there had been any Shrek LEGO sets when I was a kid, I would've bought them.
The complete lack of Shrek LEGO or Mega Bloks will always completely baffle me. There were some fake-legos exclusive to Mexico, but the figures aren't great and frankly the sets are pretty mid. It would be insane if Shrek 5 comes and goes without any LEGOs. Heck we need a TT Lego game for Shrek. There's four solid movies that would just be perfect for that formula. Also great profile icon. I love Eric Schwartz artwork!
Oh that figure was SUCH a letdown as a kid. His head barely stays on because of the shooting hairball gimmick. Heck it's 2025 and we still don't have a nice Puss in Boots action figure!
I don't think I had many album photos where I had any Shrek merch or anything involving him BUT I did watch the first movie on VHS which I may still have and Shrek 2 somehow pirated in Spanish and on VHS with the Far Far Away Idol bonus (also IDK which one I still have). Out of all the Shrek movies I got to see in theaters, Shrek 2 was one I saw in the city with my family (I forgot which theater it was but it felt regal) but I also saw Spider-Man 2 in the same city a month later. I agree that Walmart used to feel cool; it was my favorite store to go to until we had a Target nearby our home in 2005. I remember the photo studio you mentioned as well as the TVs around the store and the brief time there was a McDonalds that was near the cash registers that was turned into something else (not a Subway because it was in another spot). Also hearing Long Beach, California made me realize how weird it was to not hear it in a TCAP-related video since I normally see those while working on projects and the like lmao
@@QuantumSurge64 Oh man the Walmart McDonalds was straight-up magical. There was a really good one in Anaheim with the glass “greenhouse” style windows that jutted out of the store. I strangely remember going there and getting some ugly toys of Disney’s The Wild….thats a weird memory that just popped up lol. Also Shrek 2 followed by Spider Man 2 a month later…god 2004 was a great year for movies.
In the early 2000s I used to watch the first Shrek on Dvd growing up and seeing it on Vhs at school and when I go get my stomach checked out at the hospital each time I went. and then when Shrek 2 came out when I was a kid I watched it on bootleg that my dad brought from home and eventually went the movie came out on Dvd my father bought it for me. when it came out and then my father gave me the third film and I kept watching it over and over again and then my father took me to see the four Shrek movie at a Cinema Cafe that shows movies that left the theater and Shrek forever after was one of them. Looking back I used to have an appreciation for Shrek growing up and I always loved the ogre growing up.
I think my first memory of Shrek was watching it on the TV when I was around 4. I've probably seen it more times than any other movie. I saw Shrek 2 around the same time. I never collected any Shrek items but it did get me into DreamWorks movies.
@@Eric-mf7eo Shrek 2 is one of those infinitely rewatchable films. I could watch it a hundred times and never get tired of it versus say, any other film.
I was obsessed with shrek I remember the very last shrek merch I got was the build a bear shrek with the babies. I think my mom still has them in her basement somewhere I’ll have to look!
@@kaylemjoseph8727 The McDonald’s toys were classics. I’m working on completing a set of ALL the toys so I can make a big retrospective. They are very fun toys considering they were essentially free.
Hi Austin! My husband calls you the Shrekologist 💚 youtube recommended your channel after watching someone read and talk about a sexy Shrek novel if you know you know. I’m a little old for Shrek the first Shrek came out when I was about 10-11 but my oldest daughter (19) loved Shrek 2 and was about 2 when Shrek the 3rd came out she had the McDonald’s toys. She is a big fan. Such a big fan I let her name her baby sister Fiona! My Fiona is a big fan as well she loves the My swamp song! Thank you for sharing your love for Shrek keep it up!
@@akemidelgado2932 That is AWESOME! Shrek-named kids?? Man I feel old but that is really cool. Also omg I know of that novel. I have considered reviewing it…if I ever have some free time I will read it. 🤣 Your family sounds really cool and thanks for watching! 🧅
I have that same Puss in Boots plushie! My parents got him for the family as a celebration of my childhood cat’s first birthday. One of my earliest memories is being in a theatre watching Shrek 2, and the entire theatre going “Awwwwwwww!” At a certain scene. You know the one. Did you ever play the Shrek 2 video game? I had it on the GameCube. I believe for some consoles it was released as Shrek 2: Team Action.
@@skittycecil9786 I actually never played the GCN game! But I’ve heard great things about actually. I’d love to play through the classic Shrek games someday. There’s some real gems in there.
@ I would love to see a modern take on that offline-brawler type of game. I do have the recent Dreamworks racing game for the PS4 and it’s surprisingly decent. It has a bunch of fan-service references and even Death from Last Wish as a playable character. And man would I kill for a Dreamworks smash-clone. That would be incredible!
I was too young to both shrek 1 and 2 (i born in 2004, the year of the best shrek movie haha) and became a fan with 3 and 4 movie (and the extra content obviously). I was very crazy, my favorite movies were Shrek 3 and Meet the Robinsons 😭 i had the green Shrek 3 DVD, a donkey from a cereal box (a blank one and the gimmick was to you to paint, my painting was ass 😭) and i liked the 4ever after but i felt really sad with this one, specially because was marketed as "the final chapter" (so ominous). For this one i remember having a notebook of Shrek, Fiona and the babies and a pack of underwear (my Grandma gave to my like? 😭) The puss in boots was random cuz i don't even know it existed until i go to a dvd store and discovered. I didn't have nothing of this one but i really loved the website for the movie, i really liked the style. Was just some years ago i got the Shrek 2 dvd and i remember watching practically everyday. Other random thing i remember having was a shampoo and conditioner of Shrek's head (this was something very end 00s start of 2010s, i also had SpongeBob head too). Was a really good time, basically all my cousins loved Shrek too, it was a really hit and along with Toy Story and Ben 10 these was my favorite franchises...
@@jovic_sawyer The green DVDs are great. I know a lot of places like Canada and Australia got green cases for all the Shrek films. Granted I could just make my own with Xbox cases but there’s something cool about buying a Shrek film at the store in a *green* case. As for the donkey, you said the painting was ass…which means it should have been perfect for a donkey! Eh eh??? Try the veal I’m here all week.
I was like this with ice age when I was little and when kung Fu Panda was brand spanking new I had gotten a shirt from the movie and i got the movie as well for Christmas in 2008 and back in 06 I had gotten a Manny plush from ice age 2
@AussieSonicAndPersonaFan2007 Interesting! I think he’s also popular in Japan?? But here in the US we had a terrible live-action-cgi movie that kinda tanked his popularity.
16:50 I feel deeply insulted as someone who has dedicated hundreds of hours of his life to Woody Woodpecker. I waited five years for Universal to bring back Woody last summer and getting to meet him was glorious. I have made this character my life but Universal hardly cares for him nowadays as they just make constant garbage with the character (two live-action movies and a worse web series). It’s really a shame, his 40's cartoons were pretty great.
If fall guys had a collaborate with shrek it would be funny if the shrek costumes release the same day the monster inc costumes coming back in the item shop
childhood hyper fixations never really leave you, they come back stronger when you're an adult
@@e102gamma 100% agree!
@@austin_the_brimstone Have you heard about the passing of Britt Allcroft? she is the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends as well as The US Adaptation, Shining Time Station. she died on Christmas Day with her passing annouced on 27th of December.
It all makes sense! Literally named after a Mike Myers character and your Dad was a collector, you had no chance Haha. Love the pictures of goth Momstone, I was 13 in 2004 so was going through a rock music phase too. Photos like this are great to have.
@ShinyShinyIsAlwaysBeingSerious Thanks! Trust me I spent many hours inside those Hot Topic gates and gargoyles while my Mom shopped for body jewelry. I was actually kind of scared of that store as a kid. Now it’s 2025 and Hot Topic sells….Shrek merch?? Yeah it’s safe to say goth culture has changed a LOT since 2004.
I grew up with Shrek, however I was born in 2002, so my childhood Shrek toys were mostly from Shrek the Third and Shrek Forever After.
Funny those were the two films I essentially skipped! I wish Forever After had better toys, those warrior ogre designs are so frickin' cool. It's like Shrek meets He-Man!
I did watch Forever After as a kid and actually hated it because I thought it was too mean-spirited. Now I think it's the best Shrek film. Funny how time can be like that?
@@austin_the_brimstone Shrek Forever After is an awesome film. Shrek 2 is still my favorite, but I can’t decide whether or not Shrek 1 or 4 is my 2nd favorite.
@ Pretty much peak ranking right here!
2004 May 20 The First sequel as for the studios Successful but bring in a pot of new merchandise of the hit 2001 follow up!
“Why do you collect so much Shrek stuff?”
Why do you NOT???
Those 2000’s bed-sets were AWESOME. I remember having a Cars one, a Transformers one and I believe I had some Pirates of the Caribbean bed sheets.
I had Phantom Menace too lol. Podracers and all.
I was about 7 or 8 when the first Shrek came out and I watched it on VHS. Shrek 2 became one of the first movies I saw in a theater. So I was around for the release of every Shrek. I even liked Shrek 3 upon its release.
@@Weezing336 It’s a great crowd pleaser film. Seeing it theatrically was better, especially when the whole audience laughs at all the jokes. I think Shrek the Third’s main issue is that it isn’t really an awful film but that it’s always going to be compared to Shrek 1-4, which are arguably some of the greatest animated films ever made. It had tough competition.
@@austin_the_brimstone I wasn't very critical back then. I was a kid who enjoyed most anything aimed at me.
This video made me smile and cry, How fast time goes. You’ll always be my little Shrek 💚 Love Mom
@@dolls_onthego Thanks mom 💚
I'm a 90's kid but have very fond memories of watching Shrek on VHS hundreds of times and owning one of the macfarlane action figures. It was the perfect movie to watch on a road trip, we had a small tv that connected to the car via adapter. Shrek was also the first DVD I owned and I remember being shocked to see the high quality of it compared to VHS. Good times ✌️
@@chillfox420 Portable DVD players were awesome. I still have and use mine. Shrek was also a great transfer. That first release, the double-disc one, holds up quite beautifully.
I didn’t really grow up with Shrek as my mom thought it was too crude for us. So I don’t even remember my first time watching it, I just remember it was only at friend’s houses when I would get to see the movies and even then I wasn’t super fascinated by them as I was a big Star Wars kid.
But fast forward to today and I have barely anything Star Wars anymore but instead a big Shrek collection (nothing that rivals yours though) and I watch every one of your videos to learn even more about the weird world of merchandise and promo surrounding those awesome movies. Thanks for sharing these photos!! Love your channel!
Thanks for watching! Sucks to hear that your mom banned it. My best friend's mom actually banned Adventure Time in her house, which I always thought was funny.
Shrek does have a lot of adult jokes (many which over my dumb kid head.) but it's better than say Family Guy or Helluva Boss, which I know a lot kids are watching even though they shouldn't. Shrek always seemed like a perfect 'family' franchise to me. Like Animaniacs or Simpsons, yes it does have a lot of crude humor, even its fair share of straight-up sex jokes, but everything is a very clever euphemism that isn't quite obvious. It's for all audiences.
Terrific video Austin and congratulations on the 5,000 subs! Just amazing! You are doing a fantastic job with the channel. I loved all the history and pictures in this vid. Keep up the good work my friend you are on fire!!!!!!!!!!!
@@DaleMcKenzie Thank you 🙏 Sending lots of love to Las Vegas! 💚
And the best part I love about this video all the way to the end is that all of this and everything you said despite that we're not the same as we used to be 5 to 10 years ago but however we still have many years to come for all of us😊 and those years are still going to be filled with joy comfort and peace end with the big side of Shrek on there as well add on the small side Olaf from Frozen I'm sorry but I couldn't help it,
My point is we all got many years together still to enjoy Shrek and other things that we love in life!
Everything you said was perfection. 👌🏻
@@jazlynlang I try my best to speak from the heart instead of just by common things that most people would think would be obvious something that means a lot to many of us something that most people probably would not understand, at least until they've walked at least a mile in our shoes, the only thing I don't like though that's difficult it's that it's really really really really difficult to find good friends out there and I mean very good friends that can relate to and have a good conversation with every now and then,
And I know this may sound a little cheesy but sometimes it's good to talk about our feelings every now and then just to make it short instead of just sealing it up inside into a vault and throwing it into the ocean that is the worst thing you can do.
The closest to 'Shrek'-related merchandise I can recall having around that same period was a bathing towel I brought during my three summers at sleepaway camp, a Puss in Boots Happy Meal toy, a cookbook that drew inspiration from the initial three installments, as well as a Build-a-Bear plush of the ogre himself circa the holiday season of 2007.
@@HD_Segal That cookbook has become surprisingly uncommon these days. Now the Build-a-Bear, that’s a great Shrek plush. Cool stuff.
Huh…
Well, perhaps an entirely new ‘Shrek’ cookbook will be published once we inch closer to the release of ‘Shrek 5.’
I’d have to imagine that due to the franchise’s initial popularity waning, it may have affected sales of the original cookbook to some extent.
@@HD_Segal Probably. I swear anything Shrek-related that was released after 2006 was essentially doomed to close-out and discounters.
Shrek is KING
You just bring back to my nostalgia days thank you
Fun video and cute photos! You broke my heart at Woody. I love 1950’s Woody with black eyes and tip of hair curled forward. There are a lot of great Woody cartoons, like the Bird Who Came to Dinner, any with his crocodile foil - like the one when he exclaims “Egad, the pie is I!,” the fairy tale one with Knothead and Splinter, Niagara Fools, and so many more❣️
@@SylvanianWorld I need to brush up on my Woody Woodpecker! I’m sure there’s some great classic oldies. Haha I only know him from the GameCube game, which if I recall was pretty rough…
@@austin_the_brimstone Ha, ha - I know, I feel badly for your age group regarding Woody. To be fair, I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s so a lot older than you and my nostalgia is based on the cartoon reruns I grew up with - including the excellent Woody as well as the Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1940’s through 1960’s. And I know you like yourself a sexy cat - the old Tom and Jerry cartoons have some of the sexiest female cartoon cats I’ve seen (although I don’t dig chicks . . . or cats 😂).
@ Oh trust me I watched those LOL because Boomerang used to air hours of old Tom and Jerry. I don’t know why they aired up them alongside so many 90’s cartoons, must have been cheap. But yeah there’s some real gorgeous animation in there. Toodles…that is all….Toodles. 😳🤣
Congrats on 5K Austin! Great video! It makes me really happy seeing how others grew up with Shrek. And dont worry, i also got my picture taken in front of that Shrek background in Walmart lol.
I GASPED at the troll horns and Nepeta hat, omg 😂 What a lovely video. It really warmed my heart to see how much love and effort your parents put into your birthday party!
@@jamie_fawn Haha thank you!
21:58 Homestuck mentioned
great Nepeta hat btw!!
@nocty7356 :3
I think I used to have a photo of me holding a Take Along Lady against a Shrek background at 1:43. I don’t know where it is now…
This Christmas I got some Shrek slippers, (shlippers) truly epic.
14:32 Yes that’s the only Hasbro Shrek figure I had as a kid in 2004.
Shrek is love Shrek is life
when I was a little kid I was collecting thinkway toys WALL-E figures, only one shrek toy that I ever owned
was from happy meal
@@FlowerOneDog That toyline was a staple of my childhood. I had a bunch of ‘em.
I looked for Autopilot for YEARS and found nothing. (He does exist, just really really rare.)
@@austin_the_brimstone maybe you will make a video about that toy line
dude i didn’t expect homestuck in here wow
hey! i have a shrek walmart photo aswell! i just wanted to say that your not alone i remember the day aswell
Yes! A fellow Brogre... 🥲
24:06 I was born that year as well. I also remember how popular Shrek was in the early 2000s.
He was inescapable! It's easy to see why so many of us were quickly sucked into Shrek-dom. He was literally on every food product known to man.
Happy 5k subscribers🎉
Thank you!
And the Austin Powers and Shrek connection is even deeper when you realize that Mike Myers's Shrek accent is also the scottish accent he uses for Fat Bastard (and also Stewart from So I Made An Axe Murderer).
@@nathanforester5993 That clip from Axe Murder is a total fever dream. He just creates Shrek right then, right there. As a crazed Scottish conspiracy theorist, Shrek was born.
There’s also a weird sequel to Axe Murderer called The Pentaverate, and Shrek shows up as a cameo. Yes really.
@@austin_the_brimstone How do you know The Pentaverate is a sequel to Axe Murderer? 🤔
@@austin_the_brimstone He plays just so many characters in The Pentaverate, even more so than in Austin Powers.
@ It was definitely his passion project. He talked about making it for years. Now that he’s did it he’s already back to being Austin Powers and Shrek again. Funny how that works out. 😅 I guess we can thank the Pentavorate.
@ Well more of a spin-off. The idea of the Pentaverate comes from the film itself.
While I was more of a casual Shrek viewer as a kid I loved Shark Tale and was OBSESSED with Madagascar. Madagascar, Boohbah, the Robosapien and the Sorry! Board game, yes you read that right, were the biggest things I was into around that time in 2004 and 05. I remember I has almost everyone in my family an assigned character from the movie. I was Marty as he was my favorite, my dad was Alex, my mom was Gloria, my grandmother was Melman, I think my grandfather was King Julien and my cousins were the penguins. It's so obsurd looking back at it but that's what entertained me as a child
I sadly skipped the Madagascar films as a kid. But as an adult I can really appreciate their comedy.
Weird story but I remember Boohbah. One day in 2005, my mom wanted to buy me a Boohbah doll but I instead chose an Episode 3 Anakin figure. (The totally demented one where he's duel-wielding and gonna slice up all the Jedi.) I think I became a man that day.
Youre an inspiration Austin! ❤
I also grew up with Shrek. I remember watching the first Shrek on VHS a lot when I was very little and then watching Shrek 2 on DVD a lot when I was in preschool. I also remember my sister taking me to see Shrek the Third in the theater back when it first came out and then my parents taking me to see Shrek Forever After three years later. Unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of Shrek toys as I was more into LEGOs growing up, but if there had been any Shrek LEGO sets when I was a kid, I would've bought them.
The complete lack of Shrek LEGO or Mega Bloks will always completely baffle me. There were some fake-legos exclusive to Mexico, but the figures aren't great and frankly the sets are pretty mid. It would be insane if Shrek 5 comes and goes without any LEGOs. Heck we need a TT Lego game for Shrek. There's four solid movies that would just be perfect for that formula.
Also great profile icon. I love Eric Schwartz artwork!
Great vid! I remember picking out the Hasbro Puss in Boots figure for my birthday in 2004!
Oh that figure was SUCH a letdown as a kid. His head barely stays on because of the shooting hairball gimmick. Heck it's 2025 and we still don't have a nice Puss in Boots action figure!
16:45 bro offended the entirety of Brazil
I can't believe Shrek is 24 years old 💚💀
Don't make me feel so old! 🤣
I don't think I had many album photos where I had any Shrek merch or anything involving him BUT I did watch the first movie on VHS which I may still have and Shrek 2 somehow pirated in Spanish and on VHS with the Far Far Away Idol bonus (also IDK which one I still have). Out of all the Shrek movies I got to see in theaters, Shrek 2 was one I saw in the city with my family (I forgot which theater it was but it felt regal) but I also saw Spider-Man 2 in the same city a month later.
I agree that Walmart used to feel cool; it was my favorite store to go to until we had a Target nearby our home in 2005. I remember the photo studio you mentioned as well as the TVs around the store and the brief time there was a McDonalds that was near the cash registers that was turned into something else (not a Subway because it was in another spot).
Also hearing Long Beach, California made me realize how weird it was to not hear it in a TCAP-related video since I normally see those while working on projects and the like lmao
@@QuantumSurge64 Oh man the Walmart McDonalds was straight-up magical. There was a really good one in Anaheim with the glass “greenhouse” style windows that jutted out of the store. I strangely remember going there and getting some ugly toys of Disney’s The Wild….thats a weird memory that just popped up lol. Also Shrek 2 followed by Spider Man 2 a month later…god 2004 was a great year for movies.
In the early 2000s I used to watch the first Shrek on Dvd growing up and seeing it on Vhs at school and when I go get my stomach checked out at the hospital each time I went. and then when Shrek 2 came out when I was a kid I watched it on bootleg that my dad brought from home and eventually went the movie came out on Dvd my father bought it for me. when it came out and then my father gave me the third film and I kept watching it over and over again and then my father took me to see the four Shrek movie at a Cinema Cafe that shows movies that left the theater and Shrek forever after was one of them. Looking back I used to have an appreciation for Shrek growing up and I always loved the ogre growing up.
@@RattlesnakeJake101 I had a bootleg of Forever After. No 2000s childhood was complete without bootleg movies lol.
I think my first memory of Shrek was watching it on the TV when I was around 4. I've probably seen it more times than any other movie. I saw Shrek 2 around the same time. I never collected any Shrek items but it did get me into DreamWorks movies.
@@Eric-mf7eo Shrek 2 is one of those infinitely rewatchable films. I could watch it a hundred times and never get tired of it versus say, any other film.
I was obsessed with shrek I remember the very last shrek merch I got was the build a bear shrek with the babies. I think my mom still has them in her basement somewhere I’ll have to look!
@@abeolivares7875 That’s a really nice set of plush. One of my favorite Build-A-Bears ever released was that Shrek.
Grew up with Shrek and back when the first 2 came out they had such good toys from just McDonald’s 😄
@@kaylemjoseph8727 The McDonald’s toys were classics. I’m working on completing a set of ALL the toys so I can make a big retrospective. They are very fun toys considering they were essentially free.
Hi Austin! My husband calls you the Shrekologist 💚 youtube recommended your channel after watching someone read and talk about a sexy Shrek novel if you know you know. I’m a little old for Shrek the first Shrek came out when I was about 10-11 but my oldest daughter (19) loved Shrek 2 and was about 2 when Shrek the 3rd came out she had the McDonald’s toys. She is a big fan. Such a big fan I let her name her baby sister Fiona! My Fiona is a big fan as well she loves the My swamp song! Thank you for sharing your love for Shrek keep it up!
@@akemidelgado2932 That is AWESOME! Shrek-named kids?? Man I feel old but that is really cool. Also omg I know of that novel. I have considered reviewing it…if I ever have some free time I will read it. 🤣 Your family sounds really cool and thanks for watching! 🧅
16:48 the entire country of brazil is gonna come after you now
@@wallowlight Imao
You look so cute with the Puss plush and your Shrek Jersey
Love your videos man keep up the work!
@@Shrek-c2c Thank you for supporting the channel! 💚
Would be hilarious if you actually were the only kid that got the Shrek package at Walmart lol.
I was like 9 1/2 when Shrek came out, and I was very into it. I had most of the figures at the time, and I'd say Fionna was my favorite.
Your mom is so beautiful
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i second this 😢
I have that same Puss in Boots plushie! My parents got him for the family as a celebration of my childhood cat’s first birthday. One of my earliest memories is being in a theatre watching Shrek 2, and the entire theatre going “Awwwwwwww!” At a certain scene. You know the one.
Did you ever play the Shrek 2 video game? I had it on the GameCube. I believe for some consoles it was released as Shrek 2: Team Action.
@@skittycecil9786 I actually never played the GCN game! But I’ve heard great things about actually. I’d love to play through the classic Shrek games someday. There’s some real gems in there.
@ Yeah, it was one of my favorite games as a child! Went back a few years ago to actually finish it, and it holds up surprisingly well.
@ I would love to see a modern take on that offline-brawler type of game. I do have the recent Dreamworks racing game for the PS4 and it’s surprisingly decent. It has a bunch of fan-service references and even Death from Last Wish as a playable character.
And man would I kill for a Dreamworks smash-clone. That would be incredible!
I was too young to both shrek 1 and 2 (i born in 2004, the year of the best shrek movie haha) and became a fan with 3 and 4 movie (and the extra content obviously). I was very crazy, my favorite movies were Shrek 3 and Meet the Robinsons 😭 i had the green Shrek 3 DVD, a donkey from a cereal box (a blank one and the gimmick was to you to paint, my painting was ass 😭) and i liked the 4ever after but i felt really sad with this one, specially because was marketed as "the final chapter" (so ominous). For this one i remember having a notebook of Shrek, Fiona and the babies and a pack of underwear (my Grandma gave to my like? 😭)
The puss in boots was random cuz i don't even know it existed until i go to a dvd store and discovered. I didn't have nothing of this one but i really loved the website for the movie, i really liked the style.
Was just some years ago i got the Shrek 2 dvd and i remember watching practically everyday. Other random thing i remember having was a shampoo and conditioner of Shrek's head (this was something very end 00s start of 2010s, i also had SpongeBob head too).
Was a really good time, basically all my cousins loved Shrek too, it was a really hit and along with Toy Story and Ben 10 these was my favorite franchises...
@@jovic_sawyer The green DVDs are great. I know a lot of places like Canada and Australia got green cases for all the Shrek films. Granted I could just make my own with Xbox cases but there’s something cool about buying a Shrek film at the store in a *green* case.
As for the donkey, you said the painting was ass…which means it should have been perfect for a donkey! Eh eh??? Try the veal I’m here all week.
oh my god what!???! your austin powers!??! what tf!
this video is great
New goal: find the guy in the background of that Toys R Us photo
@@sebastiannienow6981 Bwhaha. Just watch he probably grew up to the director of Shrek 6 or something.
I was like this with ice age when I was little and when kung Fu Panda was brand spanking new I had gotten a shirt from the movie and i got the movie as well for Christmas in 2008 and back in 06 I had gotten a Manny plush from ice age 2
Woody Woodpecker Does Have A Lot Of Fans In Brazil Where He Is Extremely Popular
@AussieSonicAndPersonaFan2007 Interesting! I think he’s also popular in Japan?? But here in the US we had a terrible live-action-cgi movie that kinda tanked his popularity.
@@austin_the_brimstone I Know Felix The Cat Is Also Super Popular In Japan And South Korea
16:50 I feel deeply insulted as someone who has dedicated hundreds of hours of his life to Woody Woodpecker. I waited five years for Universal to bring back Woody last summer and getting to meet him was glorious. I have made this character my life but Universal hardly cares for him nowadays as they just make constant garbage with the character (two live-action movies and a worse web series). It’s really a shame, his 40's cartoons were pretty great.
If fall guys had a collaborate with shrek it would be funny if the shrek costumes release the same day the monster inc costumes coming back in the item shop
What state you live in? Rhode Island
Autism I have
bro i love woody woodpecker why are you so mean to him you meet him
I have artisum
Bro work on that lisp its really bad you pronounce the word "parents" as "pawents"😂😂😂😂
Why do you talk like that