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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrTykC4G-xE

Rare look at the making of the film with some concept art included and a really neat Astro Statue.

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Various 2003 Astro Boy concepts art part 5 and final part

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Various 2003 Astro Boy concept arts part 4

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Various 2003 astro boy concept arts part 3

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Various 2003 Astro Boy concept arts part two

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Various 2003 Astro Boy concept arts part one

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Astro boy (2009) concept art by Samuel Michlap

Thanks to him uploading these to his art station (https://www.artstation.com/sjmdesign) we now have them in high quality.

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So it's confirmed that Bowers doesn't have the film.

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I thought I posted this here but apparently I didn't? Here's a clip of that lost Astro Boy pilot. It's the only clip we have. I already contacted the animator (Fung Wan Fung) asking if he had any more footage, but he only kept the part he had animated.

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These figures are truly a mystery. These are prototypes for the 2009 movie. These sculpts (the ones of Astro himself at least) are COMPLETELY different from the ones that were actually put on store shelves. Why did they toss these designs? These designs are so much better than what we got!

I just don’t understand what happened. I can barely find anything for these on the internet. I found these by searching Astro Boy’s Chinese name with “toy” added to it. These were all on the same site and I reverse image searched them and nothing came up. It’s also very odd because the one Astro has “4in vehicles” instead of his name. That would make me question that these were bootlegs, but it’s obvious they can’t be. It would also make me question if there was meant to be vehicles released with the Astro Boy set of toys.

There’s also the site that’s on these. I’m going to search it up to see if it still exists and whether or not it’s safe to see if I can find anything else on these.

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Astro's skeleton model before texture was added

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From the same press release.

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From a press release on imagi's website

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Not to break character on this blog but I'm tearing up because I love him so much look at how small he is

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More pictures from the lost Astro Boy pilot for the animated film.

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Didn't post the first time.

Concept for junkyard pirates

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Early robots in the ring