Greenwood Forest

Greenwood Forest, known as The Adventures of Fyp in certain countries, is a Kuboian Kantasy television series, and the second animated series to be produced by Kubokartoonz (now known as GeneBox Animation).

Premiering in 1993 on Bumper's Block, a total of three series and 28 episodes were produced, with new episodes running until 1995. The show was ran on television for over fifteen years, with reruns running on KT until 2008.

Premise
Taking place in the titular area, a village located in a bright and colourful forest, the show mostly focuses on Fyp, the son of Greenwood Forest's mayor, and his younger twin sister Billie. Each episode of the show focuses on the twins' day-to-day life and what they get up to. Several episodes on the show focus on social issues or teaching moral lessons.

When the show originally aired, every episode ended with a two-minute segment which would teach a moral lesson which would be tied to the episode's premise. These segments were omitted when the show aired in reruns on KT, cutting the show's runtime down from nineteen to seventeen minutes. However, these were left intact in most international airings.

Main characters

 * Fyp - an imaginative and adventurous nine year-old boy, and the high-profile son of Greenwood Forest's mayor. Fyp is always looking for something new to do each day, whether it is going on an expedition or learning something new. He typically acts as the voice of reason if one of his friends misbehaves or does something they shouldn't. Although Fyp is mature and sensible, he isn't very physically strong, and is prone to getting kidnapped.
 * Billie - Fyp's shy twin sister, who accompanies her brother a majority of the time. Despite being introverted, she is quick at acting when her brother is in trouble, and is usually the one to save him.
 * Edward - the mayor of Greenwood Forest, and Billie and Fyp's father.
 * Butler - a servant employed by Edward to do chores in Fyp's house. Despite his name, he is frequently seen out and about with Billie and Fyp. His real name is never revealed on the show.

Recurring characters

 * Spider - a large friendly spider who lives in a cardboard box in Greenwood Forest's local supermarket. Although it cannot talk, it can understand human language.
 * Whitney - Fyp's best friend who has a one-sided crush on him. She is shown to be quite mischievous, and her curiosity sometimes gets her in trouble. Whitney doesn't put a lot of effort into hiding her crush on Fyp, but he doesn't seem to notice it.
 * Rosie - a friend of Fyp who is extremely self-important and greedy, and is disliked by most of the other characters. Like Whitney, Rosie has a crush on Fyp, but is more interested in trying to date him just to show off and boost her ego. She typically only does good things for people if she gets a reward out of doing so.
 * Peter - Rosie's uncle who is the same age as her, and the only person she treats with proper respect. Although he is fairly snobby, he is not as rude or selfish as his niece.
 * Marty - a round rock creature who lives in a cave next to the park in Greenwood Forest. He often likes to spend time alone in the dark, and can be very loud and grumpy. However, he will occasionally show his face, typically for special events.

Production
Development on Greenwood Forest began in 1989. Whilst Kubokartoonz were working on The Incredible World of Riddles, Harlow Maynard organised a studio meeting to come up with a new show which they could work on after production on The Incredible World of Riddles was completed. Most of the episodes were written by Kubokartoonz co-founder Lake Caters and screenwriter Marty Rockfield, though two episodes were written by Geri Johnstone.

According to Caters, most episodes were finished roughly a year before they were actually aired, and that there was only going to be one series consisting of roughly eighteen episodes. However, the show was broken into three different series in order to let the team work on the show without feeling rushed.

Like their other shows, Greenwood Forest was animated in-house by Kubokartoonz, with Ashley Maverick drawing the character cels. For the first series, the background were created by AKOM, with Tokyo Movie Shinsua working on polishing the character cels. From the second series, however, Ashley Maverick also drew the backgrounds on her own.

Greenwood Forest was the last television series by Kubokartoonz to use traditional ink, as the next series produced by the company, The New Adventures of The Sweet Treets, used digital ink.

Home media
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, several VHS tapes consisting of around four or five episodes (in their original format) were released in Europe.

A DVD consisting of all twenty eight episodes was released worldwide in 2003.

Kuboia

 * Bumper's Block (1993-1997)
 * Nick Jr. Kuboia (1996-2005)
 * KT (2000-2008)

Brazil

 * Rede Horizonte (1994-1998)
 * Discovery Kids (2001-2006)
 * RH Kids (2004-2006)
 * PBS Kids (2007-2014)

Canada

 * CTV (1994-1996)
 * Teletoon (1998-2002)

Circlia

 * Setora TV (2000-2010)

France

 * M6 (1995-2001)
 * France 5 (2002-2011)

Germany

 * Super RTL (1995-2008)

Italy

 * Italia 1 (1995-2002)
 * K2 (2004-2010)

Jetania

 * JT1 (1993-?)

Netherlands

 * Kindernet (1995-2003)

Philippines

 * RPN (1994-2003)

United Kingdom

 * CBBC (1994-2002)
 * CBeebies (2002-2004)
 * POP! (2004-2010)

United States

 * First-run syndication (from 1994)
 * Toon Disney (1998-2004)
 * PBS Kids Sprout (2005-2010)

Film
A feature-length film based on the show, titled Greenwood Forest: The Golden Key, was released on 1st February, 2002. It grossed €21 million on a €12 million budget.