u/Ok_Author725

I've been heavily inspired by the "Marathon Cuts" from the Dragon Ball Z orange box sets. It reminded me of the tapes I had when I was young, where there wouldn't be opening or closing credits besides the very start and end of the tape. I took that direction with the 90s animated series for X-Men, Spider-Man, and the Incredible Hulk. Message me for more info if you're interested

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Hey everybody, I just wrapped a fairly extensive project making "marathon cuts" out of the X-Men The Animated Series seasons, plus the two X-Men '97 seasons recently released. I was inspired by the old, poorly made Dragon Ball Z orange box sets that included a marathon mode that removed all of the credit sequences besides the very first opening credit and very final closing credit for each disc.

So, I took the same approach to the animated X-Men and now Spider-Man animated series from the 90s. I had so many tapes and dvds from Spider-Man that approached the show in the same way, threading episodes along without credits. Ultimately, cutting the mid-credits saved an hour of time, since the uncut runtime of the series is 21 hours, 49 minutes versus the 19 hours, 55 minutes of the final fan edit runtime.

I have one video edit made per season. I also have a combo edit of The Incredible Hulk series from the 90s if you're so inclined to check that out. All have an added VHS filter applied to help the shows look more like we remembered them.

Send me a message if you'd like to watch!

Howdy y'all. I've been an immense X-Men fan since birth. My dad collected the comics since before he was a teenager, and I grew up with the animated series and subsequent film franchise. X-Men '97 on Disney+ has been one of the greatest gifts any fan could receive, and so I started this project and chose to hold off on releasing it until the latest season of '97 wrapped.

Ultimately, I edited each season "Marathon Cut" style, taking a page from one of the few good aspects of the Dragon Ball Z orange box DVD sets. Each edit in this collection only includes opening and closing credits. Every credit sequence or "previously on X-Men" review has been removed, substantially cutting down on the runtimes of each season. I've edited the two current seasons of X-Men '97 in the same way and was surprised to see that their final runtime fell in line with the previous seasons.

This always felt like a guilty pleasure opinion, but I always preferred this series to Batman the Animated Series. Because the show offered serialized storytelling, I found myself easily hooked into the overarching narrative that was complexly woven across so many diverse characters. The '97 revival series has more than carried the torch, exceeding in dramatic storytelling and mutant mayhem.

I hope that you enjoy this collection for binging at your leisure. I'm currently working on similar edits of the 90s Spider-Man and Hulk animated series. For Spidery I'll likely go one season at a time but since Hulk only got two seasons, I may do his as an all-in-one. Let me know if you're interested in these cuts or the X-Men series that I have finished and ready to share :)

Nothing too wild or major here - I've been excited for this spin off series and wanted to prepare a marathon cut for an upcoming watch party. I included the original Visions episode, the sequel episode released during Visions season 3, and the eight-episode spinoff series. There's a single opening credits sequence and end credits sequence - the rest have been eliminated with audio edited to allow for the best transition between chapters. In the style of the spin off episodes, I added a subtitle for the first two segments, "Prologue - Child of Hope."

The fanedit runs just over 4 hours, with 15 minutes cut from credits alone. Send me a message if you're interested!

I may have gone off the deep end a bit with this project...

First off, I need to give a shoutout to u/TheRandomApple for his incredible work on the posters. He's crafted a slew of posters, some of mine edit among and many more on top of that, and I appreciate his artistry in making such expressive, striking imagery.

After seeing the 2026 film adaptation of Backrooms, I wanted to visit director Kane Parson’s original Youtube series.  Unsure where to begin since the series itself isn’t chronological, I found u/boba627TV’s Async cut of the Backrooms series and was floored by Parson’s imagination, especially in the concepts that reached beyond what the film depicted.  Boba's edit was fun and tense, choosing to rearrange the content for dramatic effect, making the narrative truly feel like a collection of found footage.

Although I don’t have the same breadth of understanding that others possess of the series, and I’m sure I cut out some tidbits that others would find crucial, I still had a lot of fun with this experiment, trying to make a streamlined version of the series that’s as close to chronological as possible.  I ultimately wanted to make a cut that integrates the Youtube series and the movie together, but I wanted to work in stages to better understand the series and arrange the essential elements from the series at large.

I started with BACK/v/h/ROOM/s/, a more or less chronological cut of the Youtube series with 39 minutes cut for the sake of pacing. Then I have Backrooms - The Baliscon Cut, which is a version of the 2026 film cropped to a 4:3 aspect ratio with VHS scanline texture added, along with six minutes cut to improve pacing.

Third and final is Backrooms - The Integrated Cut, an edit that combines the series and film together. I absolutely love the other corners of the Backrooms that the series explores, but because it has such a wide focus, I divided the film up by each major scene and rearranged them across segments from the Youtube series. This way, as the audience learns more about the alternate dimension through POV footage, Clark and Dr. Kline learn more alongside us.

If you choose to watch, I hope you enjoy no matter which version you pick and I hope you get as lost as I did.

01 THE BACK/v/h/ROOM/s
Fanedit Runtime: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Original Runtime: 2 hours, 54 minutes total
Time Cut/Added: Cut 39 minutes
Changelist:
20 Overflow - cut entirely
10 Prototype - trimmed the end off
03 Third Test - cut opening monologue and started with doorway test
04 First Contact - moved FBI and Async opening tags to the start of the edit
05 Faultline - trimmed a number of sections from the broadcast to streamline the sequence
23 Lighting and Tile Survey - cut the photomontage when Async crew goes up into the ceiling, cut the ending after the doctor describes how the ceiling tiles are odd lengths what wouldn't be up to standard code
13 Highway Surveillance - trimmed out the first half of the clip
06 Missing persons - cut the montage of missing children posters from the start 
08 Autopsy report - condensed the beginning and cut the TV sequence at the end 
07 Informational Video - Cut the sequence with the junk submerged in the floor, cut the bits where the tech goes into the wallpaper rooms, stopped the segment before the montage of sketches 
09 Motion Detected - trimmed the middle of the short that shows a montage of the motion detection camera looking down the backrooms
02 March 11 Archive - cut entirely
11 Pitfalls - cut the slow opening suit up sequence and the midsection of the techs searching the backrooms
12 Report - cut entirely
14 Presentation - cut interstitials of people walking down halls
19 Recording - trimmed down to the essential bits 
18 Reunion - cut the prologue, started with the cart driving down the backrooms corridor.  Cut the still frames of the plywood wall.  Trimmed sequences of the cart driving down for the sake of pacing. 
21 Damage Control - cut the recap at the start 
24 Static Dead end, cut until the end as the tech searches the  pitfalls.
01 Found Footage - cut the opening titles and trimmed the end
16 Found Footage Two - cut a mid-section of the journey into the backrooms for the sake of pacing
22 Found Footage Three - cut the section where Ravi uses the Complex's radio 
17 Home - uncut
18 I remember - reinstated with musical overtone

02 BACKROOMS - THE BALISCON CUT
Fanedit Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes
Original Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
Time Cut/Added: 6 minutes cut
Changelist:
- Removed opening credits 
- Cut Clark checking in on his home, moving Dr. Kline's dialogue up to when his store's lights turn back on and begin to flicker, moving directly to Dr. Kline's party
- Removed Clark moving back and forth between the opening.  Once he's in The Backrooms, he's in. Cut shots throughout this sequence to remove redundancy in his first investigation
- Added more VHS static whenever Clark, Bobby, and Kat cross over into The Backrooms. 
- Cut Dr. Kline's flashback to earlier the film, cut some of her sojourn into The Backrooms

03 BACKROOMS - THE INTEGRATED CUT
Fanedit Runtime: 3 hours, 48 minutes
Original Runtime: 4 hours, 49 minutes
Time Cut/Added: Cut 1 hour, 1 minute 
Changelist:
- After 05 Faltline added Clark's electricity inspection, Dr. Kline's ad, Clark's first night at the store, and Dr. Kline's party after 05 Faultline
- Continued with 23 Lighting and Tile Survey
- Added Cap'n Clark's ad after 07 Informational ad
- Continued with 09 Motion Detected and 11 Pitfalls 
- Added the film's opening sequence after 11 Pitfalls
- Continued with 14 Presentation and 19 Recording before adding Dr. Kline's dream of her house and her first session with Clark
- Continued with 18 Reunion and 21 Damage Control before Clark's first excursion into The Backrooms
- Moved to 24 Static Dead End, followed by Clark's second session and his dive into The Backrooms with Katy and her boyfriend
- 01 Found Footage plays next, followed by Phil and his family watching Neverending Story, then Kline entering The Backrooms and finding Clark.  
- After Kline escapes through the door in the ceiling, added 16 Found Footage 2 
- Continued with Kline overcoming Cap’n Clark and getting captured by Async.
- Added 22 Found Footage 3
- Wrapped the film footage with Kline meeting Phil.
- Concluded with 17 Home  and 18 I remember

For years I've had this idea rattling around for a fourth RoboCop film, something in the vein of Blade Runner 2049, taking place 40 years after the original. In this fan fiction, the original RoboCop would be reactivated to supervise a pair of police officers who've landed themselves in hot water.

Resentful of being overshadowed by a relic, the officers betray Murphy, dumping him in a river that leads to the toxic waste ruins outside Delta City. However, they inadvertently drift into the territory of a hateful gang. They attack, leaving the officers as little more than biological scrap.

OCP retrieves the remains and initiates a new Robo-program**. RoboCop 3:** The "quiet" partner is rebuilt as the public face of OCP. While his brain is mostly destroyed, his dark subconscious influences the programming, causing the unit to commit increasingly heinous acts under the guise of "law enforcement." (He's known as RoboCop 3 because while there's an actual "RoboCop 2" in universe, preventing OCP from copyrighting this new unit as such, there was no actual "RoboCop 3.")
RoboCop 4: The headstrong partner is turned into a living tank. Unlike Murphy, he is fully conscious—trapped inside a chassis he cannot control, forced to witness the horrors OCP makes him commit.

I've customized these RoboCops along with some other characters from the fan fiction:

RoboCop - Just a repaint of the Moderoid model, which I think is the best 6-inch sculpt of the character

RoboCop 2 - Not a straight up adaptation of the character, but I tried getting its personality across with the Justice Buster by McFarlane, a Halo series head, and a number of weapons found in my odds and ends bit

RoboCop 3 - An Iron man with a removable head canon attached with a magnet

RoboCop 4 - A War Machine with a head from Star Wars' Finn and a number of magnetized weapons

RoboCop 5 - The corporate suit in charge of OCP's Robo-program, volunteering himself for the change into a more militarized unit

RoboCop 2A - envisioned as Anne Lewis, Robocop's original partner. In my story, Lewis was secretly drafted into the Robocop program at the conclusion of the first film, unable to survive the injuries she sustained. She became the first "RoboCop 2", more of a human-hybrid android than a full on cyborg like her partner.
After being gunned down in the third film, Lewis would have been brought in for further augmentation, turning her into a Swiss army knife of a cyborg. She would go on to captain Delta City's police force, appearing in her humanoid/android form and only revealing her cybernetics when absolutely necessary.

RoboCop X0 - At the very end of my RoboCop fan fiction, the corporation that's influenced and ruined the original RoboCop's life for years offers him a gift in exchange for his silence - a new organic body, indistinguishable from his original. Forty years on from the original film, OCP is capable of bioorganic cloning, and can offer Alex Murphy his original body and mind, all the while providing him with an nano-mechanical suit that can still allow him to act as RoboCop. My primary goal for this custom was to include a rendition of the RoboCop remake design within this fan fiction.

RoboCop X1 - When the original RoboCop refuses OCP's offer of a hybrid organic/cybernetic body, he grants that gift to RoboCop 4. Now with an identical copy of his original body, augmented with a cybernetic suit, this new RoboCop protects Detla City without having to sacrifice his former life.