1) Throughout the series, we used 800 costumes many different
two) In the initial idea of the creators Cao Hamburger and Flávio de Souza, the castle would be just one of the scenarios. There would still be a village and a school. The plan was scrapped because it was too expensive.
3) the name would be Doctor Victor’s Castleor enchanted castle. Changed as required by Fiesp (Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo), which had achieved a huge institutional return by sponsoring Rá-Tim-Bum and, therefore, wanted to keep the brand
4) The castle’s budget was $2.5 million, split fifty-fifty by Fiesp and TV Cultura
5) Nino was inspired by Nina, character from the first show Ra-Tim-Bum who lived with the Bald doll in a room with giant furniture
6) For a year and a half, a car from TV Cultura I was looking for Luciano Amaral (Pedro), Cynthia Rachel (Biba) and Fredy Allan (Zequinha) at school and took them to the station, where they recorded from 2 pm to 8 pm, with breaks for lunch and homework
7) Originally, TV Cultura wanted to createRa-Tim-Bum 2, a “sequel” to the hugely successful show that aired between 1990 and 1992
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8) The little blue mouse that taught you how to bathe and brush your teeth should star 16 skits. But, due to lack of money, only four were shot – each at a cost of US$ 3,000.
9) A pillow fight in one of the episodes sent the Celeste snake puppet handler, Alvaro Petersen Jr., to the hospital. Feathers ended up inside the tree, causing a allergy that left him hospitalized for three days
10) The 90 episodes required the direct work of 250 people and about 5 thousand hours of recording
11) Tap and Flap were the only ones puppets with “doubles”: simpler versions, without electronic components, were used in scenes where they suffered falls or blows.
12) Make-up like the twins Tíbio and Perônio, actors Flávio de Souza and Henrique Stroeter looked so much alike that, on recordings, they had to move to get identify who was who on the monitors
13) the indoor scene was built in 360 degrees, something rare on TV. The camera could walk or rotate at will inside, without ever revealing the backstage of the production.
14) Nino’s room had not been planned in the original plan for the castle. Cao Hamburger only had the idea later, when there was no more space in the studio. the way was fit it under the stairs – that’s why he was so tight
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15) Castlewas so successful in Portugal that the RTP channel proposed to TV Cultura the acquisition of all scenarios. They wanted to take him by boat to the “home” and record new episodes.
16) All of Telekid’s frames (“Because yes, that’s not an answer!”) were recorded at once, in a single month – and always in the early hours of the morning. It was the only time in which the chroma-key (the green screen replaced by a digital background) from TV Cultura was available
17) Mau was the most remodeled doll: before defining his final look, there were nine versions, in five different materials
18) The physical traits of the watch were inspired by the presenter get-together. Notice the top hat, glasses and tie!
19) The look of the castle had several influences: the architecture of the big houses in the Bixiga neighborhood, in São Paulo, the works of Catalan Antoni Gaudí, the aesthetics of the art nouveau movement and even the color palette of Tim Burton’s films
20) More than licensed 1,200 products with the mark
SOURCES Book Lightning and Thunder: Almanac do Castelo Rá-Tim-Bumjournalism course completion work by André Cid and Victor Bianchin