I am so bad at keeping up with my blog! It's been 19 days since ScoobyMuseum.com went live and I am just posting about it now. I guess better late than never!
On September 7, 2021 ScoobyMuseum.com was launched for all of the Scooby-Doo community to use! The website allows collectors to keep track of their collections and the items that they are looking to add to their collections. It's also a great place to see what Scooby merchandise is out there, from vintage to new pieces.
We started working on this website 5 years ago, and it was initially supposed to launch on Scooby's 50th Anniversary. However, life got in the way and we kept finding it difficult to make the time to work on the site. Covid didn't make it much easier as I went from working 30 hours a week to working 60 hours a week and my husband was working completely from home, which meant he was also working longer hours. Plus we moved mid Covid and we had a lot of work to do to the house.
Somehow, we managed to get Scooby Museum to a point where we could finally launch it and I thought the 52nd Anniversary of Scooby-Doo would be the best day to do that, but then I realized that everyone in the community would be making posts that day and the museum posts would get lost in the shuffle. So we launched on September 7th. We had 1969 items added to the museum on the day of launch, which was the year that Scooby-Doo first aired.
With the Scooby-Doo community growing so much over the past few years, it seemed like the perfect time to launch! If you want to know more about the history of the Scooby-Doo Fandom, check out ScoobySnax blog post A History of the Online Scooby-Doo Fandom.
I am super excited to say that as of yesterday, 1,000 items have been added to the website since launch on the 7th. That is so amazing!! It means that the community is benefiting from the site and working on using it to track their collections. That makes me so happy!!
There have even been some suggestions to the site made by users!!!!
Bradford N Smith suggested keeping track of the number of times an item has been added to someone's collection or favorite lists. The numbers you see next to the icons do just that.
Alexa Lawlor from the Unmasked History of Scooby-Doo Podcast suggested that we create reports on the most popular and rarest collectibles. As the site grows, it will be interesting to see how much these change.
I love that people are using the site! Speaking of which, I have a bunch of people to thank for helping to make this site happen! Thank you to:
Mike Burns - My husband! This site never would have existed without him! He coded the whole site from scratch. He took my vision and he made it a reality. I definitely couldn't have done this without him! Plus, he really supports my Scooby obsession!
Bradford N Smith - Bradford is a writer and his goal is to write a Scooby cartoon for WB. I don't know why they haven't hired him yet! He does write Scripts and pitches that you can check out on his Instagram page! I have to thank Bradford for helping to test the Scooby Museum. He added over 1,000 items to the museum, let us know when he encountered errors, made a list of items that needed to be updated and lists of items in a group that were missing. He also wrote the script for the promo video and he suggested keeping track of the items added to everyones favorites and collections.
Danii Meger - Danii is the Guinness World Record Holder for the most Scooby-Doo items in her collection. She is also a voice actress. Danii did the voiceover for the Scooby Museum promo video.
Jeffrey G. Flegler - Jeffrey is an artist and musician. He created the logo for the Scooby Museum by incorporating the haunted mansion, what looks like a Mystery Machine and a magnifying glass.
Wendy Brydge - Wendy is an artist, blogger, Scooby collector and co-host on the Scooby Panel. Wendy created the amazing artwork that is the background of the mobile version of the website. Her piece is called Scooby's Clues and it is available as a print. Just contact Wendy for more info on the print or other commissioned pieces.
Trevor Hawkins - Trevor is a pop artist. He created the artwork that is the background of the PC version of the site. I purchased that piece from him a few years ago and I knew it would make the perfect background for the website. Contact Trevor for commissioned pieces.
Derek Queen - Derek is a graphic designer, co-host of That Groovy Scoobcast and Scooby-Doo collector. Derek added the first item to the museum after it went live and he has added over 500 items to the museum since.
I also want to thank everyone who has signed up to become a member and everyone who has added items to the museum. I'm excited to see more items added and what everyone has in their collections. I'm also excited to come up with new enhancements to the site!
Now to get my collection tracked on the site so I know what I have! Happy collecting!!
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