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Rebuild Radical Rick
Status: Archived
Campaign period: March 12–28, 2025
Campaign: #RebuildRadicalRick
Produced by: Lititz BMX
Archive display version: 1.1
Campaign Overview
In March 2025, Lititz BMX launched a multi-part social-media campaign documenting the reconstruction of a 40th Anniversary Radical Rick figure.
What began as a collection of unidentified figure components became a serialized story connecting BMX history, comic culture, preservation, community participation, and the work of Radical Rick creator Damian Fulton.
The campaign followed the figure piece by piece, explored the history surrounding Radical Rick, incorporated related interviews and archival material, and concluded with a completed figure, a community giveaway, and a final retrospective video.
Visual Campaign Record
Opening Post
Final Public Archive Page
The individual episode records present all surviving source screenshots and full public-page captures beside the preserved campaign text.
Campaign Goals
The campaign was created to:
- document the reconstruction of the 40th Anniversary Radical Rick figure;
- introduce audiences to Radical Rick and BMX comic history;
- connect physical artifacts with interviews, publications, and historical sources;
- encourage participation through serialized reveals and questions;
- promote the preservation of BMX history through storytelling;
- direct audiences to related Lititz BMX interviews and educational material;
- preserve the completed campaign as a permanent archival record.
Campaign Scope
The campaign contains 19 officially numbered episode positions.
- 18 distinct episodes have been verified
- Episode 15 remains unverified and is preserved as “The Lost Episode”
- The official numbering does not always follow publication-date order
- Both the numbered sequence and chronological sequence are preserved in the campaign ledger
No missing material has been reconstructed through assumption.
Episode Archive
Individual archival records are available for all 19 officially numbered campaign positions.
The archive contains 18 verified episode records and one unverified placeholder preserving Episode 15 as The Lost Episode. Missing material has not been reconstructed through assumption.
Featured Subjects
The campaign connects the reconstructed figure with:
- Radical Rick;
- Damian X. Fulton;
- BMX Plus! Magazine;
- Greg Hill;
- Takeo “Taco” Tsuhara;
- BMX comic history;
- the 40th Anniversary Radical Rick figure;
- Radical Rick: The Complete Episodes;
- Fireside BMX Chat;
- BMX preservation and community storytelling.
Campaign Ledger
The definitive campaign ledger records each episode’s:
- official episode number;
- official title;
- publication date;
- chronological position;
- narrative purpose;
- source status;
- public page URL;
- known archival issues;
- required follow-up actions.
Available Formats
Visual Evidence and Fixity
- Image manifest
- SHA-256 fixity manifest
- Preserved public-page captures
- Preserved social-media source images
The image layer contains 19 full public-page captures and 19 associated social-media screenshots. Eighteen episode pairs are verified source records. Episode 15’s pair is deliberately classified as contaminated duplicate evidence.
Publication Chronology
The verified publication-date sequence is:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 11, 17, 14, 18, 16, 19
Episode 15 is not included in the chronological sequence because its original publication date and source post have not been recovered.
Episode 15 — The Lost Episode
The current Episode 15 public page duplicates the image and text used for Episode 12.
The original Episode 15 title, “Was There More?”, has been retained. However, its original publication date, image, post text, and narrative purpose remain unverified.
The numbering gap has intentionally been preserved. Episode 15 will not be rewritten, replaced, or reconstructed without supporting source evidence.
Public Campaign
The original public campaign remains available through the Lititz BMX Archive:
View the #RebuildRadicalRick campaign
The public pages preserve the original episode presentation, images, campaign text, and navigation.
Archival Method
This repository separates:
- Original campaign language — preserved from the published posts and pages.
- Normalized archival summaries — written to explain each episode clearly without silently changing the original record.
- Verification notes — used to document duplicates, missing sources, chronology differences, and unresolved questions.
- Structured data — supplied through Markdown, CSV, and Excel ledger formats.
Unverified information is identified openly rather than completed through assumption.
Open Verification Items
The following items remain open:
- recovery of the original Episode 15 source;
- verification of the Episode 19 giveaway winner through the final video;
- verification of whether “final shadow” in the finale text was intentional or meant to read “final reveal”;
- collection of direct Facebook-post URLs where still available;
Preservation Statement
The #RebuildRadicalRick campaign demonstrates how a single artifact can serve as an entry point into a much larger history.
The reconstructed figure connects physical preservation with BMX publications, comic art, creator history, rider memories, interviews, community participation, and public education.
Lititz BMX preserves the campaign not only as a record of the finished object, but as documentation of the story, research, and community engagement surrounding it.