Scooby Addicts Turns 18

 

ScoobyAddicts.com was launched on February 1, 2007…18 years ago today! I can’t believe that the website is an adult now! I have nurtured it since it was little and it has grown into a wonderful resource for Scooby fans.

Scooby Addicts was not my first Scooby-Doo website. My original website was
created on May 28, 1998. I had a main page that featured a lot of panthers. Yes, I
like panthers a lot, and even have a tattoo of a panther on my shoulder, which was the first tattoo I ever got. The About Me page literally had nothing on it but a
sentence that there was nothing to tell about me and a bear at the top of the page. When you moused over the image of the bear, his eyes would turn red. My original Scooby-Doo page was super basic. It had a text episode guide, a few pictures of the gang and an anti-Scrappy page. Yep, that’s right … I didn’t like Scrappy then either! I had one of those backgrounds on the page that was just a whole lot of Scoobys. There was no family tree, or villain info or anything like that.

The only other links on the page were the ‘email me’ button and a guestbook that
you could either sign or view. It’s seems kind of silly now to have that, but at the time, that’s how people would leave you messages if they stopped by to look at your website. You were cool if people signed the guestbook!

This site was hosted on geocities, which closed down on October 26, 2009, and was created at a time when HTML was all we really had and websites were pretty simple. I created the banner and the buttons and I was super proud of myself at the time that I could do a color fade or add a chiseled effect.

The original Scooby Addicts page in 2007 was blue with orange headings, white text and green links with a picture of the gang, a picture of Scooby and Shaggy and a banner picturing a graveyard on the top. ScoobyAddicts.com was in a green fade color. I’m not even sure why I chose blue for the background. The site was difficult to read because of it and so blue! The site stayed that way until January 3, 2017.

At that point, I changed the site to a green background, keeping the orange headings and white text. I removed the graveyard banner and added a silhouette of the gang to the top. I changed the website name to purple. I also added the blog, which was at blogger at the time, so people could leave comments.

The green color for the site did not grow on me. It was actually kind of hideous and boring. Now there was too much green instead of too much blue! By January 5, 2017, 2 days after making the green design live, I changed the design to what it is today – the purple graveyard top with the silhouette of the gang, ScoobyAddicts.com in orange, a beige background with purple headings and black font. I really like the design of the site the way it is now, but I did realize in writing this blog post that I don’t have my logo on the website at all! I need to fix that!

Scooby Addicts started off pretty basic but I’ve added a lot to it over the years,
including a family tree, villains, series and movie releases and amazing interviews
that we have done through Scooby Panel (also available on YouTube). I also have images of Scooby tattoos that fans have had, license plates and Mystery Machines (email me to submit a photo) and Scooby recipes! I think adding the daily history to the page on January 1, 2022 was one of my best features. It took me a long time to compile a database of Scooby history, which is sadly not complete, but it is packed with series, movie and DVD release dates, merchandise release dates, birthdays, deaths and more.

Just a quick shout-out to Wendy Brydge for this amazing Christmas gift from last year! I love this sign so much!

My main goal of ScoobyAddicts.com was to have as much Scooby-Doo information in one place. I have so many ideas of ways to make the website better and information I want to add to it. I am hoping that in 2025, I’ll be able to add more fun content and I won’t forget to add that logo!

18 years is a long time to do anything! I truly love Scooby-Doo and I enjoy sharing that with other people. So many people have said they found Scooby Addicts when they were younger and have followed the website or my social media for years. I’ve met some great people and made some amazing friendships through Scooby.

Scooby-Doo has been a very big part of my life. He represents happiness and safety for me. I am honored to have been able to maintain the site for 18 years and thankful to everyone that has visited the site and enjoyed the information. I look forward to some fun additions and continuing to update the series, movies, villains, family and history. I hope you will continue to check out the website and if there is anything you want to see added, let me know!

SCOOBYMUSEUM.COM - Scooby Museum Is A New Website For Scooby-Doo Collectors

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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New Logos and Artwork for Scooby Addicts

I just have to say that I am speechless when it comes to this new artwork for Scooby Addicts! It has exceeded my expectations a million times! 

My previous logos were pretty simple. I had created them myself in 2007 when I started my website and I'm not an artist, so I just did what I thought would work. I wouldn't say they were horrible, but they weren't anything special. Just black and white images of the gang silhouettes. 

When I first contacted Will Davenport to do some new artwork, I sent him the following ideas:

"I was thinking a full body picture of me wearing the ScoobyAddicts shirt and holding the stuffed Scooby"

"I'm wondering if there is something cool that can be done with my ScoobyAddicts logo. I have attached the 2 logos that I have used. Is there something cool you can do to make it look better?"

He literally had nothing to work with, especially where the logos were concerned. I had a slight idea of what I wanted for cartoon me, but even that was not a clear vision in my head. Surprisingly, he went with what I told him and he sent me some rough sketches.

 One of the things that stood out when I first saw the rough sketches was that there was a 6th member of the gang. I looked at it and was like...Wait...What?...THAT'S ME! I couldn't even believe my eyes. I had never even thought of having me in the logo. I only ever thought of Scooby or the gang. So Cool!!!

Then I looked at cartoon me, mostly focusing on the Scooby in my hand because I don't usually like pictures of me, though seeing myself in cartoon form was extremely cool! That Scooby is beyond adorable! He's the Scooby I take all my pics with, only more life-like. His cuteness had me smiling from ear to ear. My expectations have already been long surpassed and these were just the rough sketches. 

I had asked Will to change the cheeks on cartoon me to make them not stand out as much and I chose the Mystery Machine type writing for the logo as I thought it looked more fun. Will also thought that having the entire gang in the logo was overcrowded, and I agreed, so we went with just me and Scooby.

Removing the gang, Will sent me the rough designs for the logo. It was really hard to pick just 1, so I chose 2 haha. I liked #3 for the logo for social media, but I also liked #1 for a banner. Looking at these, I was just in total awe. I never thought of me being in my logo with Scooby and I was just so excited with the idea of it. 

Moving on to Cartoon me, Will sent me 2 new sketches, with the original sketch next to them. I knew instantly that I wanted to go with #1. I thought it looked more fun and I really liked the changes he made. It's an image of me that I can actually look at and be happy with, and that little Scooby is just the most adorable thing I have ever seen! I sent him the ok to go with #1 and asked him if he could add the Scooby Addicts logo to the shirt.

He sent me these logos in color, which blew me away! The color really added a whole new level to the logo and seeing my silhouette standing next to Scooby was unbelievable. 

Then came the first image of cartoon me in color. I opened the image and couldn't believe my eyes. It was amazing! It was spectacular! It was ME holding a little Scooby in my hand and the gang was watching me. Never in a million years would I have ever expected a cartoon version of me to be this awesome! I just stared at the picture for a while, in complete shock and awe!

There was just 1 change I felt needed to be made to the image. I wanted the logo on cartoon me's shirt to be the colors of the Mystery Machine to make it stand out more and give it a more Scooby vibe.

 The change of the shirt really made a huge difference. It screams Scooby-Doo now! And the shirt turned out better than I thought it would be. I just had 1 more change. 

I wanted my shoes to be purple. Purple is my favorite color, so I wanted to add that one little touch of purple to me and then it was perfect! Even the shadow behind me and Scooby is perfect! I just can't even comprehend how my very non-descriptive ideas of what I wanted turned into this! Will is like a magician! He truly is a super talented artist! He basically took nothing and turned it into everything I could have ever wanted and then some. 

The black and white logos are amazing! The flowers add so much character to them. And I still can't believe I'm in the logo! 

Here is a closer look at me and Scooby. I love us both! Still, Scooby is just too adorable!! I love that I am a cartoon character and in the Scooby style. 

Will did an awesome job with the logos and cartoon me. He more than exceeded my expectations and he created these images with barely any direction from me. He was so easy to work with and he did all of this in 3 days. I highly recommend Will if you are looking for artwork. You can find him at the following links:

Instagram - @davenportwilldraw

Facebook - @davenportwilldraw

Twitter - @davenportwilld1

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