Peter Tagg

### Roles

Created and voiced the majority of characters in the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe

**Peter James Tagg**, better known by his online alias **Kirby Bulborb**, is an English citizen and filmmaker. A superfan of the Pikmin series since his youth, Peter is best known as the creator of all the shows within the Kirby Bulborb Cinematic Universe.

Peter became a fan of Elton John as a young age, whose music led to Peter becoming a fan of other classic rock artists, including the Beatles. He has a close friendship with his mother Philippa, as well as the other members of his immediate family. Peter became a huge fan of the Pikmin and Mario video game franchises after he was introduced to them by Philippa in the early 2000s, and began watching Pikmin content after Philippa brought him his own Pikmin plushies in 2009.

Peter began his career in 2012 with the 13 episodes in the two seasons of Steve The Trooper. In 2013, Peter made several Pikmin plush videos which were eventually released in the Classic Kirby anthology series. In 2015, he began his ongoing series and main series Trooper Village Stories, and began its spin-off The Kirby Bulborb Miniseries a year prior in 2014.

Aside from his own plush shows, Peter collaborated with Jakob Dawson in several projects on both their channels from 2014 to 2021, and has also collaborated with several other Pikmin content creators. Aside from his Pikmin content, Peter is also known for his Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance compilation videos featuring Senator Armstrong, with the first one receiving 1 million views and contributing to Armstrong's online popularity.

## History

### Early life

Peter Tagg was born on August 30th 2000, the second son of Philippa Tagg. His middle name was named after his uncle Russell. Like his older brother Tom Smith, Peter's first name also has Biblical origins. As a member of the Tagg family, Peter has Scottish ancestry. He received his first plush, Sleepy Bear, not long after he was born. When he was young, Peter was famous for being 10 and a half pounds, beating the record of heaviest baby in the family which was previously held by his grandmother Hazel, who was 10 pounds at the time of her birth in 1949. Not long after Peter was born, Tom, who was born 10 years prior to Peter in 1990, dedicated a homemade book of Pokèmon drawings to him. Peter grew up with his immediate family; the Taggs.

During his childhood, Peter was a massive fan of Elton John. He got into his music in 2002 through a copy of The Very Best of Elton John CD and its VHS tape, which Hazel and Peter's stepgrandfather Clive hid in a room of their house for Peter to find (which he managed to find every time). After becoming a fan of Elton's music, Peter brought several copies of the majority of his studio albums and compilation, with Elton becoming the artist that begun Peter's love and appreciation of music from the 20th century. This love of music was continued by Philippa, Andrew, Hazel, and Clive, who introduced Peter to a variety of different artists, including The Beatles.

The first video game Peter played was Super Mario Sunshine, which introduced him to the Mario series, which Peter became a huge fan of thereafter. Not long afterwards, Peter and Philippa started playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and they have re-played it countless times since then. They also became a fan of classical music around this time. In 2007, Peter became a massive fan of the Pikmin series, constantly re-playing Pikmin 1 and Pikmin 2. He was introduced to the series by Philippa, who had brought the first game alongside Super Mario Sunshine. Unaware of the existence of Pikmin plushies at the time, Peter coloured in toilet rolls to make them look like Pikmin and Olimar. He also became a massive fan of Chuggaaconroy around this time, who soon became one of his favourite YouTubers. He also became a fan of Christmas and playing in the snow.

### Adolescence

From 2006 to 2015, Peter accompanied Philippa on their yearly holidays to Wisbech to see Hazel and Clive, who were living in Cambridge at the time, and were also assisted by Tom in the first few of these holidays. He also went on the three-year Dorset holidays with Andrew, Philippa and Tom from 2007 to 2009. Although Tom had become too busy to go on the Wisbech holidays, Peter and Philippa would continue to go on the holidays without him, going on several more until Hazel and Clive moved back to Staffordshire in 2015 (they would later return to Wisbech for another holiday in 2021). Peter, Philippa, and Tom did not have a computer with internet connection until 2009.

In 2009, Peter, with the help of his mother, got his own Pikmin plushies. He also got two Red Bulborb plushies, along with plushies of both Olimar and Louie, the latter was brought by Andrew as a Christmas present that year. Not long afterwards, Peter began watching a large amount of Pikmin content, including Patrol Pikmin Adventures and Chuggaaconroy's Let's Plays of the first two Pikmin games. He also began watching other Nintendo-themed content, such as Chuggaaconroy's Let's Plays of various Mario games. Around this time, Peter became a fan of Plants vs Zombies and the Kirby series after being introduced to both by his mother. Around this time Peter also became a fan of several Pikmin plush shows, and began planning ideas for his own Pikmin plush series. When Pikmin 3 was confirmed to be in development by Shigeru Miyamoto, Peter was one of several Pikmin fans to make their own ideas for Pikmin 3. Peter came up with hundreds of custom enemy ideas, one of which was the Acidic Candypop Bulbearorb alongside four other Candypop Bulbearorb variants.

In the early 2010s, Philippa was introduced to Breaking Bad during a conversation she was having with Tom and Bob Calvert, a family friend who later passed away in 2016. This led to Philippa, and later on Peter as well, becoming a fan of the series, with Philippa and Peter also becoming fans of Better Call Saul a few years later. Through Philippa, Peter had also became a fan of Star Trek: The Original Series and Twin Peaks around this time. He later became a fan of the Haruhi Suzumiya anime series.

## Career

### Steve the Trooper

In 2011, Peter made the MS Paint drawings of what would later become the episodes of Steve The Trooper. He then started to create several characters which would appear in his first plush videos, such as Steve (inspired by the Chuggaaconroy meme of the same name) and Doc Kermit Frogglegg.

During the last two months of the year, Peter discovered Twig & Pik-pik and created the character Noah, who was named after one of Twig's lines from the Season 2 finale. In 2012, he became friends with Jakob and Olivia Dawson, the creators of Twig & Pik-pik. Peter later made a fanfiction about the series, and it was one of several plush shows that inspired him to want to make his own plush series (also taking inspiration from Cute Mario Bros, Patrol Pikmin Adventures, and several other Pikmin plush shows and Pikmin content creators).

Not long afterwards, Peter made his first two plush videos, the two seasons of Steve the Trooper, consisting of a total of 13 episodes. These episodes featured the majority of the characters he created at the time, along with several Twig & Pik-pik characters. The videos were filmed in July 2012, but Peter did not release them until 2016 and 2018 respectively due to his great-grandmother Vera passing away in August 2012. They were later released together with music and episode titles for the first time in September 2022.

### Classic Kirby

In 2013, Peter briefly began making plush videos for a few months, which were the first plush videos he made that he released publicly. At the time they were not part of an official series, but were later grouped together as "Classic Kirbys" in 2015, which were Peter's first plush videos to be officially released. The most famous of these was the episode "Mayor R Bulborb", which introduced Mayor Reginald Bulborb as a main character.

After a while, Peter decided to go on hiatus and stop making plush videos for a year. During his hiatus, he ended the Steve the Trooper series due to feeling having a Red Pikmin and White Pikmin as the show's main characters would be too similar to Twig & Pik-pik, and began planning a more original idea for a plush series.

### The Kirby Bulborb Miniseries

In 2014, Peter began using the online alias "Kirby Bulborb" (named after the character of the same name) after his return to plush videos, an alias which Peter has continued to use since then. Previously, Peter had gone by several other online aliases, including "Kirby3431255", "PuniesAreAwsome", "PlantsVZombiesLover7575", and "avfc211697", the latter of which came from a YouTube channel Tom had created for Peter to use.

In 2014, Jakob made the third episode of the Steve Saga, which featured Kirby Bulborb (who was based on Peter). Thinking the Kirby Bulborb character was funny, Peter agreed to collaborate with Jakob in the fourth episode, voicing Kirby in it. He went on to voice Kirby in every single one of his appearances, and the character ended up becoming the titular main protagonist on his own channel. That May, Peter created a Twitter account for one of his new characters; Cyber Captain Olimar, a cyborg version of Captain Olimar created by Brittany. The only tweet posted on the account was "I'm coming", which Peter intended as meaning "coming to invade". Initially only intended to be a character on that account, Cyber Captain Olimar gained fame after Jakob decided to use Cyber Captain Olimar for the Steve Saga, and he soon became one of Peter's biggest characters to date, to his surprise.

Inspired by the success of the characters Kirby Bulborb and Cyber Captain Olimar, along with encouragement from Jakob, Peter returned to making plush videos and decided to start work on a plush series of his own. The first of these was The Kirby Bulborb Miniseries, which featured Kirby discussing various topics (such as the new year and reading comments sent to him). For his next series, Peter created over a thousand episode ideas for his plush series, many of which were unused. After deciding to call his new series Trooper Village Stories, Peter narrowed the list down to 161 episodes, and later narrowed it down further to 31 episodes.

### Trooper Village Stories

For Trooper Village Stories, Peter created the characters Blue, Yellow, and Red. He also planned to bring back some of his older characters, including ones that didn't appear in the Classic Kirbys or unreleased Steve movies. Trooper Village Stories was officially announced by Peter on July 5th 2015, alongside the cancelled series Star Trek: The Pikmin Capers. He created two pilot episodes of Trooper Village Stories, the first in December 2014, and the second in July 2015. Peter then released the first 7 episodes in 2015, with the remaining episodes of the first three seasons being released from 2016 to 2018. A major arc in the first season is The Noah Arc, which featured three episodes of Season 1 and one episode of Season 2 all focusing on the character Noah, and also featured Twig, Thorn, and Egde. Noah went on to become a reoccurring character in the second and third seasons.

In August 2015, Peter uploaded the video The Best Of Senator Armstrong, which became his most popular video, reaching over 10,000 views in 2015, 100,000 views in 2018 and 1,000,000 views in 2022. Due to the video's popularity, Peter made a second compilation of Armstrong clips the following year and a third and fourth compilation of Armstrong clips in 2022, and has also featured and referenced Armstrong in other videos. He also referenced the Bolbert meme in the video "The greatest thing you will ever see", and later used Bolbert as a running gag throughout his plush videos.

In late 2015, Peter brought a Minako Aino plush and frequently used her in his videos. In September 2016, Peter stopped referencing Minako in videos, and became a fan of Asuka Langley Soryu that December, whom he began to reference and feature in videos instead. Peter decided to have Kirby Bulborb get married to her, which they did in the episode "Blast From The Past 3". In 2018, Peter took a three-year long break from making plush videos, only releasing the video "Twig & Pik-pik: Da Random Adventure!" for Jakob's 2019 Twig & Pik-pik episode contest during this time.

Peter officially returned to making plush content in 2021. In June 2022, Peter began releasing updated versions of Trooper Village Stories episodes, which replaced the original episodes in the show's canon. Also that month, after The Best Of Senator Armstrong reached 1,000,000 views, Peter said that he's honoured to have contributed to Armstrong's popularity in meme culture, and made a third compilation of Armstrong clips, and later made a fourth and final compilation in August 2022.