Candy Land Adventure

Candy Land Adventure is a study in why it's a terrible idea to hire Lani Minella to voice half your characters. (Jon St. John, on the other hand...)

Graphics#

Mr. Pop's Shop#

It seems that early in development, Mr. Pop's Shop was intended to be a much more full-featured area than it wound up being. In the final game, the shop is only seen in the opening and ending cutscenes, but there are a substantial number of unused graphics and dialogue files indicating the area was supposed to be fully interactive, complete with its own minigame.

Graphics	Notes
	King Kandy's disembodied head was intended to appear in the gumball machine during the intro and plead for help (see Audio). Judging by the leftover "reference" image, the idea was abandoned before the graphics were finished.
	The shop has a save/load preview, but it's impossible to save the game there.
	This icon is similar to the unused save/load icon, but stored in a different graphics chunk.
	The Dutch door at the back of the shop was originally meant to work as, well, a Dutch door, allowing Mr. Pop to chat with the Candy Kid(s).
	These would have been overlayed onto the door graphics above.

Money Changing Minigame#

An entire minigame, based around using the cash register to equate various denominations of money, was cut from Mr. Pop's Shop. A handful of graphics are all that remain of it.

These two backgrounds appear to be dummy placeholders, since the answers shown are baked into the image.

As seen above, these flashing icons would have been placed on the register.

Candy Coaster#

Players were originally supposed to be able to freely travel between Mr. Pop's Shop and Candy Land, with neat little animations playing in between.

Graphics	Notes
	The basic animation, used when traveling from Mr. Pop's Shop to Candy Land.
	Overlaying these alternate sign graphics onto the above would produce the animation for the return trip.
	There are also looping versions of the animation. Perhaps a scrapped loading sequence?

Gingerbread Orchard#

There is an unfinished version of the animation of the ants carrying in the pie tin, which for some reason is duplicated many, many times throughout the graphics data.

Graphics	Notes
	The ants carry in the tin (yes, the one in the back appears from nowhere)...
	...stand at attention and turn around...
	...and then march off.

There are also several unfinished versions of Plumpy's graphics:

Early	Final

Early	Final

Early	Final

Early	Final

Early	Final

Peppermint Forest#

Mr. Mint's minigame was severely cut down from its original design. Not only were several of the hidden animals excised, the entire second half of the game was removed!

Found	Hiding

Originally, a bear, a frog, and a snake were slated to appear among the missing animals. Despite having complete graphics for both hiding and being found, they never appear, and there's no corresponding Captain Cookie dialogue for finding them.

As evidenced by a large amount of unused dialogue, there was originally a second part to this minigame, like all the others: After finding the missing animals, Mr. Mint would realize his special Royal Minted Peppermint Candy Cane had been hidden in some hard-to-reach location, and players would have to select a suitable animal from among those found in the first part in order to retrieve it. The graphics for getting the candy cane still exist, though there are none for the animals that would have picked it up (and given the quality of the game's animation, they were quite possibly never intended to exist).

Lollipop Woods#

Apparently, Princess Lolly was supposed to give advice during the lollipop reconstruction minigame instead of Captain Cookie. Possibly scrapped because this doesn't make much sense, since at that point she's stuck on top of a lollipop and all. No corresponding dialogue exists. The icon is probably miscolored due to changes in palette assignment during development.

Early	Final

There's a single uncolored frame of the joke-telling lollipop.

Gumdrop Mountains#

Same deal as with Princess Lolly above: Captain Cookie gives out advice for the letter matching minigame, not Jolly, despite the fact that Jolly's already been rescued by that point.

Licorice Palace#

Originally, Gloppy was supposed to throw a glob of molasses at Lord Licorice, knocking him into the Molasses Swamp. For whatever reason, this animation goes unused, and Lord Licorice just stumbles over on his own with no apparent cause.

Licorice Palace Dungeon#

Graphics	Notes
	Roughly-colored versions of some of the candy prison bars. There are no finished graphics using these colors.
	A finished bar, but with an odd yellow block in the corner.

Early	Final

An early graphic of the gumball machine, quite different from the finished version.

Treasury#

The Treasury has its own save/load preview, but the game can't be saved in that area.

World Map#

Used	Unused

There is a complete background for the "good" version of the palace. Though the restored parts of the palace do show up during gameplay, they are shown using a set of graphics overlaid piece-by-piece on the regular background, and it's impossible to go back to the main map after the palace is fully restored. The rightmost 8 pixels of the unused background are also totally black for some reason.

Early	Final

A self-identified "dummy" version of one of Lord Licorice's graphics.

Credits#

A set of placeholder credits bubbles.

Captain Cookie#

Several unfinished versions of Captain Cookie's graphics are scattered throughout the game's data.

Graphics	Notes
	Basic standing pose.
	Idling in the Candy Coaster.
	Leaping out of the Candy Coaster after arriving at a destination.
	A couple of different talking animations.
	Some "dummy" graphics.

Menus#

A confirmation button, with both flashing and non-flashing variations. Every prompt in the game uses a yes/no confirmation instead.

Early	Final

An early version of the main menu background. The most noticeable difference is the wider track, but some pieces of background decoration are also missing in the earlier version.

Early	Final

An old version of the save overwrite prompt is leftover in the data files. Presumably changed because no kid would say "yes" to the original question.

Music#

Dialogue#

Captain Cookie#

Mr. Pop's Shop#

Other#

King Kandy#

Mr. Pop#

Mr. Mint#

Princess Lolly#

Queen Frostine#

Jolly#

Gumdrop Mountains Miners#

Miscellaneous#

Programmer Easter Egg#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Any way to trigger this?

This... odd Easter egg is stored with the graphics for the credits. The labels correspond to programmers Julie Ton, Mona Elzankaly, Brian Schwab, Tim Winnegar, Julie Hoshizaki, and Zac Parsons.