Coconut and Bamboo’s Nightmare (Franchise)

*This article is about the horror cult classic series, **Coconut & Bamboo's Nightmare**. Perhaps you were looking for it's sister series or another series entirely.*

The official **Coconut and Bamboo's Nightmare** Logo,
developed in May of 2023 by Penguin Picture Productions.

**Coconut and Bamboo’s Nightmare**, commonly abbreviated as CaBN, was a popular and award winning series featuring two fairly well known people, Coconut and Bamboo. Throughout the series, we follow our two protagonists through a terrifying nightmare with demons and death around every corner. The series became fairly well known by many and led the series to win several BB themed awards for being the first of its kind. Later films would attempt to capture their audience using similar horror tactics that the series initially used to capture its audience. This series, along with the ever popular Super Safari Franchise, dominated the box office when they first released alongside one another.

## Coconut and Bamboo’s Nightmare 1

The first entry of the series is Coconut and Bamboo’s Nightmare, a horror themed movie in which our protagonists Coconut and Bamboo explore a nightmare-ish, deserted version of their vacation house, fighting off demons to save their friends Toad and Maddie from becoming full statues forever. This movie became an instant classic, recommended for any new and old beanie boos. This movie become so popular that it changed the film industry forever. However, with this fame comes disaster. After it’s only premiere at the BB movie theatre, Bamboos side of the nightmare was lost in time to never return, disappointing many individuals.

## Coconut and Bamboo’s Nightmare 2: Another Nightmare

After the box office success of the first movie a second movie was in the works and, shortly after, on January 20th, 2016 the second movie made its debut in theatres across the districts. In this movie Coconut, Bamboo, Slick and Tundra go to an arcade that is open 24/7 and fall into a new nightmare. In which they have to fight the demons that have trapped them there to escape back to the real world. This movie did slightly worse than the first but nonetheless, it became an instant classic as well. Once again Bamboo’s side of the story was lost to never be found again.

## Coconut and Bamboo's Nightmare 3

After the second film's release and high praise from audiences, work on Coconut and Bamboo’s Nightmare 3 shortly followed. Some time in early 2016, a small trailer was shown to a group of business executives, showing a brief glimpse into what the movie would be about. The trailer was soon slated for public release and everyone was talking about it. The movie was slated to be a prequal to the first movie, further diving into how Coconut and Bamboo got their demons. A release date wasn’t officially given, however, everyone assumed that the movie would release almost a month later, like what happened with the second movie. But it did not release in February, or in the month after that, or in the month after that. Super Safari episode 2 was released in June, but nothing of CaBN3 came up. Not until late September of 2017, in which a video was posted stating when Super Safari 3 and CaBN3 were planned to release. The movie was going to be released in late October or early November. However, when those months came, nothing was released and no new news came up until late January of 2018.

## Coconut and Bamboo's Nightmare Cancellation

On January 28th, 2018 a small video from Coconut came out explaining what would be happening with the movie. In the video, he explains that he's now out of the movie industry and wants to spend time with his son. He then gives a rough estimate on when the movie would come out, and states it would be after the state testing in March. Coconut then tells the audience that he can't give anything away about the movie, as he had signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). He then states that the movie is cancelled and that he can only say so much about it. The overall presentation of the video is quite strange as Coconut appears to be "on the run" and hiding from the people involved in the movie industry.

Soon after Coconut's video, another video was posted on February 18th by a producer in the movie industry named Wise. In the video, Wise explains that Super Safari 3 isn't dead and that it will be coming out in March, a new TV series will be launching in spring, another episode of Fun with Mike the Knight would be releasing some time in the following two weeks, and he unconfidently states that CaBN is cancelled.

**“***...you can kind-of say it’s cancelled, but it’s a sacrifice us movie makers have to make.***”**
— **Wise 2-18-18.**

## Coconut and Bamboo's Nightmare Future

### Smaller Projects

Following the series' soft cancellation, a small call back called "Bamboo's Nightmare Adventure" was released on November 4th, 2018. The Google Slides presentation was a point and click style adventure which would take players through a few different locations entirely new to the series. However, Bamboo's Nightmare Adventure still remains incomplete to this very day, only featuring three total slides. In 2019, there were talks of a potential remake of the first two movies featuring Coconut with a new male partner fighting off Dreamons, rather than the original dream demons. These two movies would be referred to as CaBN: Redux and CaBN2: Redux. Along with this, Bamboo briefly mentioned in short interview that she appeared in, that she might take on the horror of a new type of nightmare like scenario herself however, this is still yet to be seen.

### The Glass Cabin

During the Beanie Boo News Future panel, on November 20th, 2019, a brief teaser was shown for a Coconut and Bamboo's Nightmare inspired film called "The Glass Cabin". The teaser showed off various locations, with Waddles exploring said locations. Not much else is shown in the trailer but a release date of December 29, 2019 was promised. The movie would be produced by the movie production company Penguin Picture Productions, as this project would be their film debut.

Later in December, the film was released on the promised date and, as many predicted, the film featured Waddles as the protagonist as he explored many different dream spaces whist being silently stalked by a Demon Dream baby. The film had a more artistic feel to it, featuring more psychological horror elements, rather than a darkened environment, faulty flashlights, and a few cheap scares. The film itself received a fair amount of positive reception and demonstrated the competence of the studio that produced it, thus jumpstarting Penguin Picture Productions' career.

### April Fools Videos

On April 1st, 2020, or April Fools Day as its called, a nine minute video was created by the members of Fort Beanie Boo. The video claimed itself to be the official third instalment of the Coconut and Bamboo's Nightmare franchise, however the video devolved into pure chaos. The video was closer to that of a Random Short, a separate video series that focused on the chaos caused by the members of Fort Beanie Boo, rather than an official piece of CaBN media. The video, however, did use two official surviving pieces of Coconut and Bamboo's Nightmare media, those being the closing monologue and the intro audio. This video marked a tradition to make an April Fools Video for Coconut and Bamboo's Nightmare every single year.