RobnJake (partially found videos from LEGO stop-motion YouTuber; 2007-2009)

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Status: Partially Found

RobnJake were a Canadian father-son duo who created some of the earliest LEGO stop motion animations on YouTube. Starting in January of 2007, their videos were almost exclusively centered around SpongeBob SquarePants and would frequently get hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of views, with their two most popular videos, Bikini Bottom Buildings V, Plankton and W.I.F.E. III, currently sitting at 10 million views, and their third most popular video, Get Ready For This Jellyfish Jam, having 3.3 million.

Their videos were distinct from other online LEGO brickfilms at the time, as they had a more mellow tone, a slower pace, and featured original MIDI compositions. Their earliest videos are also believed to have been among the first amateur stop motion LEGO films to have digital mouth and eye movement on the characters, which was done through photoshop.

As the years went by the amount of videos they produced would decrease, and they would frequently take long hiatuses between videos. The first of these being from March until December 2009, and the longest lasting from June 2010 until November 2011. They would eventually stop producing videos altogether in April 2013, with their last three videos being LEGO Star Wars related.

Together they produced a total of 89 videos, although only 72 remain on the channel today. The entirety of the missing content comes from their early days on the platform; about half of their 'classic' videos from January 2007 to March 2009 are either deleted or privated. The reasons for this remain unclear, although it could be surmised that they were simply not pleased with some of their videos years after their release.

Many if not most of the videos had hundreds of thousands of views prior to their privating/deletion; Although its video page wasn't archived, in the suggested videos section we can see that Rocket-Sponge had 406,834 views around a year before it was privated; Get Well, Bill. had around 520,000; Sponge-Keeper Five had over a million; and so on and so forth.

Videos

A blue highlight indicates a video is still on their channel, a green highlight indicates a video has been deleted from their channel but has been archived and/or reuploaded. A red highlight means a video is totally lost. The videos (with the exception of the first and last three) unfortunately can't be properly numbered, as release dates are missing.

For the sake of not making this page unnecessarily cluttered, only their first video up until their last deleted video will be listed, from Plankton and W.I.F.E. until Random Weirdness, as everything else from that point onward is still up on their channel.

#	Title	Upload date	Series	Length	Notes	Status	Original link	Archive link
1	Plankton and W.I.F.E.	January 31, 2007	Lego SpongeBob	1:11	Plankton creates a device to make himself large.	Available	Link
2	Plankton and W.I.F.E. II	February 15, 2007	Lego SpongeBob	3:00	Plankton in his large form attacks Mr. Krabs. Using a machine, Krabs makes SpongeBob large in order to defeat Plankton.	Available	Link
3	Get Well, Bill.	February 28, 2007	Lego SpongeBob	1:18	Characters wish 'Bill' a speedy recovery from his knee injury.	Archived	Link	Link
?	Rocket-Sponge	March? 2007	Lego SpongeBob	6:23	SpongeBob sings Billy Joel's Rocket Man while Patrick plays the piano. Video ends at 5:30 but due to an editing error continues until the background track finishes at 6:23.	Archived	Link	Link
?	Rocket-Sponge II	2007	Lego SpongeBob	4:20		Lost	Link	None
?	Rocket-Sponge III	2007	Lego SpongeBob	3:30		Lost	Link	None
?	Plankton and W.I.F.E. III	March 11, 2007	Lego SpongeBob	3:05	While on his way back home, Squidward is killed by Plankton. SpongeBob and Plankton have a duel where both of them grow back to their normal sizes, and Plankton is defeated.	Available	Link
?	Lego SpongeBob and Patrick pwn MJSunRun	April? 2007	Lego SpongeBob	0:42	Originally titled MJ Gets Owned by Lego SpongeBob and Patrick. A half-hearted response video to the YouTube user MJSunRun, made in good fun.	Lost	Link	None
?	Sponge Like Hell	April 28, 2007	Lego SpongeBob	4:20	SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs play Pink Floyd's Run Like Hell.	Available	Link
?	Plankton and W.I.F.E. Full	November 26, 2007	Lego SpongeBob	5:30	Plankton and W.I.F.E. parts one through three packed into one.	Available	Link
?	The Ash of Stellar Alchemy Emerges into Consciousness	2007	Misc.	5:25		Lost	Link	None
?	Re: Venomfangx Apologizes to the Internets	2008	Misc.	4:01	Rumored to involve LEGO SpongeBob, though this is unconfirmed.	Lost	Link	None
?	Bikini Bottom Buildings	June 20, 2008	Bikini Bottom Buildings	3:00	SpongeBob's Pineapple, the Krusty Krab, and the Chum Bucket are speed-built.	Available	Link
?	Lunar Sponge	June 29, 2008	Lego SpongeBob	6:00	With the help of Mr. Krabs and Plankton, SpongeBob and Patrick go to space.	Available	Link
?	Making Mouths Move	June/July 2008	Misc.	1:26	A basic lip-sync tutorial.	Lost	Link	None
?	Bikini Bottom Buildings II	July 6, 2008	Bikini Bottom Buildings	2:00	The Boating School and Sandy's Rocket are speed-built.	Available	Link
?	F.U.N. Hide and Seek Song	September 2008	Lego SpongeBob	2:26	Part of the video involves Karen singing Imogen Heap's Hide and Seek, aka the 'Mmm watcha say' song. The rest of the plot is unknown.	Lost	Link	None
?	Lunar Sponge II	September 2, 2008	Lego SpongeBob	2:44	SpongeBob and Patrick crash-land on the moon.	Available	Link
?	Get Ready For This Jellyfish Jam	September 24, 2008	Lego SpongeBob	1:31	SpongeBob and a jellyfish dance to a Get Ready for This and Stadium Rave remix.	Available	Link
?	Bikini Bottom Buildings III	October 4, 2008	Bikini Bottom Buildings	1:21	The Bikini Bottom express and Build-A-Bob are speed-built.	Available	Link
?	Sponge-Keeper Five	October 31, 2008	Lego SpongeBob	1:11	Plankton sings the Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers. Copyright struck due to the song featured.	Archived	Link	Link
?	Re:Who's your daddy now?(READ desc.)	November? 2008	Misc./Lego SpongeBob	1:51		Lost	Link	None
?	Widescreen Channel Video	December 4, 2008	Lego SpongeBob	1:31		Lost	Link	None
?	SpongeBike SpeederPants	December 9, 2008	Lego SpongeBob	1:46	Squidward, Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob, and Patrick are on Star Wars speeder bikes and have to fight off stormtroopers.	Available	Link
?	SpongeBike SpeederPants HQ	December 10, 2008	Lego SpongeBob	1:46	A 4:3 480p letterboxed reupload of SpongeBike SpeederPants, for users who had issues playing the 16:9 720p version, a resolution which was new to YouTube at the time.	Available	Link	See above
?	Widescreen Channel Video II	December 2008	Lego SpongeBob	2:11		Lost	Link	None
27	Christmas Channel Video	December 24, 2008	Lego SpongeBob	1:03		Lost	Link	None
28	Cube and Stack Cookies	January 18, 2009	Misc.	1:31	Original description: We made chocolate chip cookies one morning with Jake's "Cube 'n' Stack WALL-E" toy that he got for Christmas.	Lost	Link	None
29	Random Weirdness	March 6, 2009	Misc.	1:12	Random weirdness featuring an origami frog, WALL-E and EVE, and Lego RobnJake.	Archived	Link	Link