I think if someone is going to imagine a friend who LOVES to be athletic, he would imagine him with great strength. Is it me or does GWH sound like Wilt will hardly be in it. I mean they're finding him, we hardly saw Nemo in FN. Besides the couple of tank scenes. :(
I hope I'm wrong. I love Wilt as much as Frankie & almost as much as Bloo/Cheese.

It must just be you, no offense. I understand the analogy between this and Finding Nemo, though. Still, in the Pixar movie, the real protagonist/hero/whatever was Marlin. HE was the one who needed to change, so it was HIM who goes on this quest. IN GWH, from the previews I've read, WILT is the main one who goes off on a search, supposedly to find his creator, though I suspect it's as much to find HIMSELF as anything else, and try and come to grips with his growing emotional turmoil. The search for Wilt that the others undertake seems mostly to be for the comedic interlude to keep things from getting too serious and "heavy". Apparently, it will involve a lot of scenes of Wilt stopping in his quest to help other people, and winding up touching and changing their lives for the better. Remember that part in Forrest Gump when Forrest was trekking cross-country, and winds up inadvertantly changing meny people's lives, becoming a hero and a celebrity along the way? I'm getting more of that sort of vibe, rather than a Finding Nemo one.

pitbulllady

I guess, but it seems more like Mac, Bloo, Coco, & Ed (possibly goo) searching for Wilt. If it is like that part of "Forrest Gump". I'll be happy, I'll still like it either wat though.

I think it's safe to say GWH will have a little more drama than usual, but you do have to wonder how they are going to balance it out with the usual style of the show. Something that may come close this are movies such as Raising Arizona.

It's been a while since I last saw the movie, so bear with me here. You have:
--The calm set-up (possibly sans ultra long introduction-before-title sequence =P ) in which a massive problem is revealed.
--The build-up in which some things happen to the main characters that they have to get themselves out of.
--The characters finding themselves cornered, leading to a hilariously crazy sequence in which everyone involved goes bats**t insane trying to escape or chase each other (think the climax of RA or the car-chase-through-a-mall of Blues Brothers).
--The solving of the problem, which turns out to be very bittersweet, almost bleak.
--The last scene, in which the characters and/or the viewer realizes that maybe everything will turn out alright after all. There are still quite a few loose ends, but it's something.

Maybe it's just me, but I can see this sort of setup happening in GWH. Maybe not exactly, but close at least.

I think that in GWH perhaps at some point, we may see flashbacks or something. Like stuff with his creator or maybe a little about what happened to him only nothing to graphic if you know what i mean. Perhaps just the shadow of something upon a wall in an alley or something and then it just goes back to the present Wilt. I remember seeing a shadow of a knife in Bloo Done It when Madame Foster had supposedly just been murdered, so then you just assume things but you don't see anything.

Flashbacks would be awesome! :D

That's interesting, good theory there.

Not to be disturbing, but I had this dream the other night about Wilt getting trapped in one of those wood-cutting machines (logging factory?) trying to save someone trapped on the conveyer belt. Boy, you know you're too attached to a character when...

Wow, that would make since because he's always helping friends.

I just thought perhaps he was outisde playing his creator and his dad was doing the lawn with one of those lawn mowers that you sit on and drive like a car and he could of fallen over or something and got run over...

I've actually seen what happens when a person gets run over by one of those types of mowers. It ain't pretty, believe me, and they do NOT survive! It's pretty hard to get run over by one of those things, unless you are completely incapacitated(the individual who got killed not far from where I live was passed-out drunk). Mowers DO have brakes. The individual who got killed here was passed out in high grass, an the person on the mower couldn't see him, but it would be hard to NOT see a ten-foot-tall bright red Imaginary Friend!

I really have a feeling that Wilt's injuries occured after he'd already parted company with his creator, and that his creator(whoever that turns out to be)has no idea that he got hurt.

pitbulllady

I'm having this silly vision of Wilt playing basketball with his creator. The kid shoots and misses Wilt, who flings himself after the ball. Unfortunately it ends up in the street as a lorry is passing, and his arm ends up under the tyres.
Later a doctor tells him they have to amputate it.

I know it doesn't make sense, and I don't believe that's what happened ;D At least it's not too disturbing.

If they let us know what happened to him, I don't believe it involves lots of blood and violence, considering many viewers are children (teenagers and grown-ups would most likely be disturbed too). If we never get to know, I'm still sure the creators don't have extremely macabre ideas about it. Sad, probably, and maybe involving some violence, but as I said... you know.

Wilt is like, my FAVORITE charater! Sometimes, I act just like him!:D And Vampyre, remember when you said about adding a part when Frankie searches for Wilt, and Wilt giving Frankie a little peck on the cheek while she's sleeping (I don't know how you guys put the past posts to the post you're chatting on:-[ ), well, great minds think alike! I'm a Wilt/Frankie fan, too!:D :frankiesmile:

Hope that ain't to long:P

I agree. I believe if it IS going to describe what happened to him, it has to be set to the appropriate audience. Children don't want to see a beloved character being sliced and diced, so if anything, I can see it maybe alluding to something rather than actually making things go splat on the screen.

Besides, I'm an 18 year-old horror movie fanatic, and as much as I want to know what happened, I'd still be a little disturbed if I actually saw blood and gore. The blood alone wouldn't bother me, but WHO the blood was coming from would bother me... you know? It'd make me incredibly sad.

Yeah, that's me-I can watch a "slice-n-dice" movie with the best(or is that "worst"?) of 'em, since I could care less about the people it's happening to, but if it were WILT...well, that would be a whole different box of rocks! I know that they aren't gonna show any gore on the show, and probably the only blood we'll be seeing was that little bit on Goo's Band-aid in "Go Goo Go", but like you said, they could very well ALLUDE to what happened to Wilt, in such a way that the youngest audience members won't really "get it" and won't be disturbed, but the older ones will be able to figure out from context what happened to him. Either that, or there'll be one of those flash-back scenes that either cuts quickly to a commercial or fades-to-black right before something awful happens, but gives us enough to let us know what came next.

pitbulllady

It would hurt me a lot to see Wilt bleeding. I was hurt enough when Bloo got the hair gel in his eyes and he started crying...

:( Wilt wouldn't always think so. I wouldn't always think so either. Inside that stitched up Imaginary Friend, I think, would be milkweed fluff, and I think he's nothing but a basketball team jersey, a walking/talking basketball team jersey. Anyway, why would other's think that there's blood inside of Wilt? If Wilt had a boo-boo or anything, some of the fluff would come out, and he'd be stitched up more if that'd happen.

No, imaginarys do have blood, just as we do. You might want to prepare for Pittbulllady's words. :D

*rolls* Indeed. 8D

Imaginary Friends are NOT walking, talking, stuffed animals! Every bit of evidence on the show indicates that they are living, biological beings like we are! They have to eat, and if they don't eat, they get weak, and THAT comes from your BLOOD sugar levels dropping! They have to go to the bathroom, because like us, they have kidneys that filter impurities from their BLOOD, from cellular activity in their bodies, and their bodies have to get rid of these impurities. Bloo got leeches on his face in "Camp Keep a Good Mac Down" and ticks on him in "Land of the Flea". Know what ticks and leeches feed on? We have also seen Imaginary Friends breathe, which means that they have lungs, and what do lungs do? Remove CO2 from the BLOOD and replenish the BLOOD with Oxygen, that's what! In the Adopt-an-Imaginary Friend game that once was online, Antgirl1 noticed that Wilt can actually blush when he's embarrassed, which means that BLOOD rushes to his face. Some Imaginary Friends can reproduce, sexually, as we saw with the fleas in "Land of the Flea", and possibly with all those monster babies in the Foster's nursury. Ever heard of stuffed toys "gettin' bizzay' and making babies? Some parents of little girls might think that they do, but they don't.

pitbulllady

LOL You TELL 'em, PBL. I was gonna make a statement over it, but you took care of it. 8D

Also in 'Land of the flea' (which is really starting to bug me because it's on ALL the time these days) when Bloo DOES have his ticks Mac says: "Bloo, those are ticks they suck out your BLOOD." I think parts the funniest part of the episode that plus Wilt announcing at the top of his lungs that he walks around nacked 8D

Thank you; it's still difficult for me to understand how anyone could think that the Imaginary Friends in the Foster's Universe are anything BUT alive in the same sense that we are! Failure to notice that they have all the biological processes and requirements that humans do reminds me of what one of my Cajun friends down in Louisiana always says when someone fails to notice the very, very obvious-"Dey could be standin' on top o' a 30-feet hot-pink 'gatuh, and still say, "ain't no 'gatuhs in DIS pond, no?"

Few more things-in "Eddie Monster", Bloo mentions getting a sample of Eduardo's DNA in order to clone him so Mr. Herriman and Frankie won't notice he's missing. Stuffed toys do NOT have DNA; that is one of the basic traits of living things. Also, in "Bloooooo", Eduardo and Wilt are afraid that the "cannonball ghost" will "kill them dead and eat their ghosts(souls)", which means that Imaginary Friends CAN be killed and DO believe in an Afterlife. Now, you can't kill something that is not biologically alive, can you? We have also seen Wilt, and some of the other IFs, perspire in times of stress. Why does he do that? Perspiration is a warm-BLOODED organism's means of cooling down; stress causes the body's temperature to rise, which makes the BLOOD too hot, so the brain triggers the sweat glands to crank up the volumn, and the liquid sweat evaporates from the skin, lowering the skin's temperature, and the BLOOD vessels near the skin's surface are cooled as well, circulating the cooled BLOOD throughout the body to cool it down before organ failure can occur due to the temperature inside the body being too high.

Bottom line-Wilt is a living, breathing, biological being. He can be hurt, he can bleed, he can die or be killed, just like we can.

pitbulllady

*dies of laughter* Oh god! I'm so glad that went unignored. It's he doesn't go red in the face, it went MAGENTA! Oh how I wished I could of screenshotted that part. 8D

That's one of the strange things about him, yet it makes sence. Even though Wilt *is* red, doesn't mean his blushing doesn't go unnoticed. :D

But here's a question...when humans blush their faces go RED, because their blood is RED. I wonder why Wilt would turn MAGENTA if he's naturally red. Is HIS blood actually magenta? :D

Blood rushing to the surface of the skin just makes the skin appear darker. In a light-skinned person, the face appears red, since there's a pinkish tone there, anyway. Our blood is only red when it's carrying oxygen, by the way; veinous blood loaded with CO2 is a brownish-purple color, so when this is seen underneath a skin covering that's already red, you'd get that magenta shade.

pitbulllady

Yay science!... wow those are two words I'd never thought I'd say in the same sentence.
I really wish I'd of seen Wilt blushing. Boy would it of made me smile.
So, what was everybodies first thing that got them into Wilt? I think mine was his height, when I first saw him on an advertisment for when Foster's first aired over here in England. I also rmemeber it took me ages to get is name right. First I thought it was Will, then I though it was Wilf (wtf?) then I thought it was then Will again and then I finally saw the pilot. Yay!

Hmm... I don't remember, really, I just remember seeing commercials with random characters from the show before it aired (Kinda like the ones of Bloo walking through the CN streets), and I remember seeing Wilt and thinking "Oh wow... that red one looks interesting!" It was so weird, because I was immediately drawn to him even before I actually saw the show - I could tell that he was going to be my favorite character regardless of whether I'd seen him or not.

I'm not clairvoyant or anything, so I'm guessing it was just a weird coincidence. I like his character design just as much as I like his personality.

Maybe what made me like his design so much in the first place, though, was his height and his perfect smile.

I was never a Cartoon Network fan at the time Foster's first aired. I can recall seeing ads in the newspaper TV section for it, but never really paid much attention, since I basically associated Cartoon Network with Anime, and I am just not a fan of that genre(no offense, many Anime fans out there). I was really introduced to the show, and to Wilt in particular, by some of the members of the Boggs Board, who also had some Foster's fanart on Deviant Art. I kept seeing posts mentioning Foster's, especially regarding the similarities to a certain Pixar movie, and I kept seeing fanart featuring this tall, lanky red thing with this huge grin on its face, which reminded me of Randall's equally large grin. It was only upon taking a closer look at the art work that I noticed that this tall red thing was missing his left arm, and had suture scars there from an obvious amputation, and that one eye looked "funny'. I also found out that the owner of that stubby arm and huge grin was called "Wilt", and he was supposed to be a really likeable character, so I got intrigued enough to start watching the show. The first episode I ever saw was "Partying is Such Sweet Soiree", and I got hooked, not just on the show, but on the Wilt-Man! Everything about him-the grin, the infectious good nature, the helpfulness, the walk, the silky-smooth voice-just grabbed me. I guess, as I've explained, Wilt appeals to some deep, primal female instinct in that personality-wise, talent-wise, athletic-wise etc., he represents the Perfect Male, in spite of not even being human! In a sense he IS human, though, since he was created by a human child, and no doubt there has to be human DNA incorporated in there somewhere, and he certainly has a very human soul, complete with weaknesses. The fact that he's almost the exact opposite of me, in terms of personality, and that there's so much about him we don't know, makes him even more intriguing, a mystery to be figured out. What more could a gal want?

pitbulllady

ok,
this is really random, but still wilt-related!
-ahem-
I GOT TO GO AS WILT TO SCHOOL!
costume day rocked this year!
woot!

Heh, I thought they were calling him Will at first too. XD

When I watched an episode of Foster's for the first time and saw Wilt I was like, "WOAH, this guy looks COOL." (I've always been attracted to tall, skinny guy characters...o.O) Then I watched more, loved his personality, attitude and CATCHPHRASE. "I'm sorry!" Then I looked up Foster's on the internet, and there was no going back after that. 8D

You guys saw Wilt blush? NO FAIR!!>:( I ALWAYS WANTED TO SEE WILT BLUSH!!! Do you know how to get the screen cap of it if possible?? And he blushed magtena? I've always thought he blushed pink.

Nothing more. :D

To me, Wilt is like...a father to the imaginaries, like Frankie is like the big sister. He (at least I think) knows right from wrong, what he should/shouldn't do, is mature, (VERY good thing to have) has common sence, y'know, that sort of stuff.

Although he has these traits, he also has this fun-loving side that most children possess. This could cause him to play sports as a hobby (or possibly more), hang out with his friends, stay in touch with the good side of things, etc.

Basicly, I think Wilt's mind is split in half - one side is adult, and the other kid-like.

You know, I always held onto that "his name is Wilt" thing, since AS SOON AS I SAW THE WILT AD, I went where? The website! 8D And his name was Wilt. But the way I pronounce it, it sounds like this: Wilt. Mostly in words I don't say the "T" sound as loud as the others. I wonder if that sound is known as "weak T"...XDDD

Nope, he blushes magenta. You would've known that if you played the adoption game in Cartoon Network La in 2004. XD And no, I didn't screencap it. I regret not doing that. :(

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I saw Foster's the first time it aired (me already ebing a CN fan), I fell in love with Bloo & Wilt. Some of the others took the next episode to fall in love with. (Coco, Mac, Ed, Frankie). Bloo & wilt are lucky!

Oh, so *that's* what it's for! Boy, do I feel silly! Thanks!:D Oh, and greetings, Wilt-fan!

Slightly OT here, but what does that look like? Anyone got a screenshot? I mean, he's already red...

That pretty much describes MOST adult human males, LOL! Most guys I know, even those with kids of their own, can be really silly and immature at times, and then again, when the situation calls for acting grown-up and in-charge, they're there. Then again, who am I to talk, when I watch animated tv shows and collect spiders? Wilt really isn't that atypical of an adult human male, other than his tendency to say "the 'S' Word", which for some reason, many human males have issues with.

pitbulllady

Aw, man!:P Well, can you try to find a way to get a chance to make him it again, so you can sceencap it? Oh, and how did he blush? I'm eggering to know! *Flaps arms like a humming bird and begins to fly like one hoping to know how Wilt blushed* I REALLY want to know!

This was part of an on-line interactive game, which was held only for a limited time, and is no longer available. It was similar to "Neopets", in that you got to adopt one of the Imaginary Friends, and had to keep him/her happy. You had to find out what he/she liked to eat, what kind of music he/she liked, etc. If I'm not mistaken(and I got this from Antgirl1's Deviant Art journal), she adopted Wilt, and after eating on one occasion, he burped! Of course, knowing Wilt, THAT was an embarrassing thing to do, so that's why he blushed, LOL!

pitbulllady

LOL, indeed! Still, I wonder how come the creators of Foster's haven't make him blush in the actual show? When are they ever gonna do that?! Oh, and I already know what that website is about, so no need to tell me about it. Thanks for the info, though!:)

But it was still CUUUUUTE! XD

It's probably beause no one's complemented on him in the show yet. XD

And if *I* remember correctly, there were two responces when he ate food that was positive:

1. Licking lips with a smile.

2. Burps, then blushes while smiling with his teeth, teeth on top of the other, with a slight "sad" look on his good eye. (yes i'm too descriptive)

That or it might be hard to blush when your skin's already beet red. Plus he doesn't seem the type to blush easily.