Talk:Lost media

Unreleased isn't lost

This is a great topic, thanks for putting it together! To your question, I don't think purely internal preproduction material like Secret of Cybertron, Dark Glass, or the binder count as "lost." --Thylacine 2000 (talk) 08:10, 30 January 2025 (EST)

Hey, thank you very much! And I guess that the internal / external distinction is a pretty solid idea, it could filter out a lot of stuff that was never really meant to be seen by the public in the first place while still allowing space for media that media that was announced but never released (e.g., Reactivated). I think the latter type is worth preserving on the page still because a lot of lost media circles do discuss cancelled media, but it is true that something like The Secret of Cybertron or the binder aren't on quite the same league: seems counter-intuitive to say that something that was never intended to be released was lost, I guess. (FortressMaxxing (talk) 09:21, 30 January 2025 (EST))

As an extension of this, I do think the meaning of the term "lost media" has gotten muddled in previous years, and there needs to be more clear delineation between lost media and stuff that was straight up cancelled or never finished, like I said. Like, at least to me, there's a big difference between the MMOs like Universe and Online that were actually playable by the public for an extended period before going offline, and Reactivate, which was never finished enough to reach that state at all. I think there needs to be a level of completion (e.g. fully produced but unreleased, like the Animated shorts, or released but taken down, like the MMOs) to really qualify as lost media. -- Cyberlink420 (talk)