History Main / TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment

This commonly happens in the Dutch Donald Duck magazine. An example that "In de Put", the 61st story made in 1983, as evident by it's production code, H8361, wasn't published until issue 12-2011.

** According to Creator/KevinSmith, Prince had completed over fifty fully-produced music videos with sets and costumes that have never the light of day.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' lepisode “Just The Two Of Us/Cowboy Max” was produced for season 2, but for some reason didn’t air until season 3. It’s quite obvious that it was meant to be an early episode, as Enrique doesn’t appear in either story.

* ''Buy It Now'' was originally slated to be part of ABC's summer 2006 lineup; however, Website/EBay pulled out of the series' participation before it debuted, resulting in its cancellation.

* Nick Jr. premiered season 5 of ''WesternAnimation/Franklin'' in July 2004, even though it had premiered in other networks and markets two years earlier. To make things worse, the show was completely removed from the block only a week after the season premiered, leaving many episodes from the season (as well as all of season 6) to never see the light of day on Nickelodeon.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' episode “Just The Two Of Us/Cowboy Max” was produced for season 2, but for some reason didn’t air until season 3. It’s quite obvious that it was meant to be an early episode, as Enrique doesn’t appear in either story.

* All episodes of ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyTellYourTale'' to date were produced in 2022, even those released as late as May 2023, due to the show releasing one new episode weekly, then bi-weekly (every two weeks) as of January 2023.

* The third season of MTV's ''Series/ScreamTVSeries'', a reboot with a new cast, was entirely filmed in late 2017 and was supposed to premiere in the spring of 2018, but was [[http://comicbook.com/horror/2018/03/29/scream-season-3-details-premiere-delay/ delayed]] following the disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein, whose name wound up removed from the project. It finally saw a release in July of 2019 as a MiniSeries titled ''Series/ScreamResurrection'', after a ChannelHop to Creator/VH1.

* The final episodes produced of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' have a 2019 copyright date, but wound up airing from 2020 to 2022.

** In 2002, Nelvana dubbed the first 14 episodes in Dutch, but it went unreleased for a year due to Disney Channel not existing in the Netherlands, and FOX Netherlands and the NPO showing no interest in airing ''Oddparents''. The series finally aired on September 29, 2003 on Nickelodeon Netherlands.

** Although the entirely of season 3 was produced in 2001 (except "A Leela of Her Own" which was produced in 2002), the later half of the season didn't air until 2002 (all of them bare a 2001 copyright).
** Season 4 wrapped up production in 2002 but majority of the season didn't air until 2003.

** In 2002, Nelvana dubbed the first 14 episodes in Dutch, but it went unreleased for a year due to Disney Channel not existing in the Netherlands, and FOX Netherlands and the NPO showing no interest in airing ''{{OddParents}}''. The series finally aired on September 29, 2003 on Nickelodeon Netherlands.

** In 2002, Nelvana dubbed the first 14 episodes in Dutch, but it went unreleased for a year due to Disney Channel not existing in the Netherlands, and FOX Netherlands and the NPO showing no interest in airing ''OddParents''. The series finally aired on September 29, 2003 on Nickelodeon Netherlands.

** The songs of ''Chrome Dreams'' we’re recorded from 1974 to 1977. Bootlegs of the album circulated in the 1990's. A sequel to the album was released in 2007 before the original was finally released in 2023.

** The ''VideoGame/OneTwoSwitch'' sequel ''VideoGame/EverybodyOneTwoSwitch'' was completed and ready for an early 2022 release but it play-tested so poorly with the casual audiences it was aimed at that Nintendo had no idea what to do with the game and debated cancelling it's release altogether. Eventually, they settled for unceremoniously dumping the game onto shelves over a year later in June 2023 with almost zero promotion and [[NotScreenedForCritics without sending critics review copies]](something which has never been done before for a first-party Nintendo title).

** ''Super Mario 3D All-Stars'' (a compilation rerelease of ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''), ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'', and ''VideoGame/Pikmin3'' were all rumored for rereleases on the Nintendo Switch early on in in 2020, but the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic resulted in all of them being pushed back to fill in gaps caused by the delay of original Nintendo software (such as ''VideoGame/NewPokemonSnap'') and third-party timed exclusives (namely ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise'' and ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII).

** A remake of the first two ''Advance Wars'' games, ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars 1 + 2 Re-Boot Camp]]'', was announced in 2021 for a December release. It was later pushed back to April 2022 for extra development time, before the completed game was shelved [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents due to the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war a month prior]]. A few players who pre-loaded the game had their copies accidentally unlocked in April, however, giving them temporary access to the full game. The game is currently slated to release in April 2023, one year after its (second) planned release.

* All episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTellYourTale'' to date were produced in 2022, even those released as late as May 2023, due to the show releasing one new episode weekly, then bi-weekly (every two weeks) as of January 2023.

** The ''VideoGame/OneTwoSwitch'' sequel ''VideoGame/EverybodyOneTwoSwitch'' was completed and ready for an early 2022 release but it play-tested so poorly with the casual audiences it was aimed at that Nintendo had no idea what to do with the game and debated cancelling it's release altogether eventually they settled for unceremoniously dumping the game onto shelves over a year later in June 2023 with almost zero promotion and [[NotScreenedForCritics without sending critics review copies]](something which has never been done before for a first-party Nintendo title).

** The ''VideoGame/OneTwoSwitch'' sequel ''VideoGame/EverybodyOneTwoSwitch'' was completed and ready for an early 2022 release but it play-tested so poorly with the casual audiences it was aimed at that Nintendo had no idea what to do with the game and debated cancelling it's release altogether, but they eventually settled for dumping the game over a year later in June 2023 with almost zero promotion and [[NotScreenedForCritics without sending critics review copies]](something which has never been done before for a first-party Nintendo title).