The Princess and the Marbles (RARE 2001 VHS Prototype Version)

This is the RARE unreleased original 2001 Word VHS of The Princess and the Marbles, style and designed similarly to the other 1997 episodes' VHS covers. There's several video and audio differences from the final print aside from using the rare The Star of Christmas teaser, and Kipper: Playtime trailer that plays before the teaser. Despite the trailers, there's even a bizarre animation error when Ruby is taking a bath, the Word, Inc. and Everland Entertainment logos had made it into the final release, and the original 1994-1997 logo and theme song that didn't make it into the final VHS release. The cover art looks a little different and the character designs on it look similar to that of "Madame Blueberry". As this episode was originally scheduled to be released in March 24, 2001 (the same day Lyle the Kindly Viking was released), Word, Inc. was gonna use THIS version of both the video and cover, but due to said animation error after they overlooked it, they had to fix the episode, redesign the cover, and replaced the theme song and logo with the 2001 versions in the final VHS release on June 24, 2001. This version for the episode was lost forever until I found the tape on eBay where a former Big Idea employee sold it. Enjoy! :)

100% fake! (FUN FACT: When I was seeing VeggieTales in the nursery at my church when I was little, I thought I saw a VHS cassette of "The Princess and the Marbles" with the pink oval VT logo sticker label when looking in the VHS vault beneath the TV! Also, that cover depicted in the thumbnail is a 3D edit of a REAL 2D sketching of the prototype cover found in Joe Sapulich's concept art portfolio book. PixarFan8695 helped design the sticker label and prep the pieces of the non-existent spines and back cover while I designed the spines and back myself. I recreated the episode's title logo in HD myself.)