JoJo's Circus is an American-Canadian children's show that premiered in 2003 on Playhouse Disney and ended in 2007. In 2002, a CGI pilot was made for the series but not much info has been known about it. However, a clip of it was found and also, JoJo was originally called Kiki. Therefore, the original title for the series was probably called “KiKi’s Circus”. The pilot seems to have a similar plot to the first episode “Easy as Pie’”.
See the clip here, it came from YouTuber Eli Wurtzel.
Differences[]
- The show was originally going to be animated in computer-generated animation instead of stop motion animation like in the final-cut show.
- JoJo was originally going to be named KiKi. However, the producers decided her name would be JoJo because they did not want to confuse her with the main character from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Also, her appearance in the pilot was much different from the final-cut version as she had a red collar and circular sleeves and a pink splatter pattern on her shirt as opposed to having light blue, dark blue and purple.
- A group of children's voices were saying where Goliath was hiding. They were removed in the final-cut show.
- Many of the final-cut show’s characters were absent in the pilot like Croaky Frogini, Dinky Pachyderm, Mrs. Kersplatski, Skeebo Seltzer, and Trina Tightrope.