- "BFB" redirects here. For the prize, see A BFB.
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| “ | Don't you want to battle to win a prize? | ” |
Battle for BFB and Battle for BFDI (BFB) are two segments that make up the fourth season of the Battle for Dream Island series and the successor to the third season IDFB. It premiered on November 3, 2017, with the release of "Getting Teardrop to Talk." and concluded on April 9, 2021, with the release of "Chapter Complete".
A fifth season, known as Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two, aired simultaneously. It was announced to premiere on January 9, 2021, but due to bugs with the intro[citation needed], it premiered on January 10, 2021. A sixth season is also planned to be made after BFB ends.
The prize used to be a BFDI, but in "The Escape from Four", Four upgraded it to a BFB to keep contestants competing. In "X Marks the Spot", he added the original prize (a BFDI) back to the prize pool, making BFB the first season to have two prizes.
Contents
Overview
Battle for BFDI logo
Battle For B.F.D.I (BFB) Intro HQ
The intro to the season
Unlike IDFB, Battle for BFDI goes back to the traditional format of challenges and eliminations, similar to the first and second seasons. The elimination style changed to a choice of saving rather than eliminating in BFB 17.
The art style is more simplified and animated more loosely, which in turn allowed the running time of the first episode to be nearly half an hour-long, and later episodes to be able to be made within a shorter time frame.
Many unexplained plot changes have happened to let new characters join the cast and for old characters to return. Additionally, Profily debuted as a contestant in "The Hidden Contestant".
The first episode, "Getting Teardrop to Talk", introduces the fourth season's cast as well as the new hosts, Four and X from the 2008 jacknjellify video, "X Finds Out His Value".
Although the release of IDFB confirmed the end of BFDIA, the release of BFB does not confirm the end of IDFB. Since all of the characters are present (except for Evil Leafy and Nonexisty), including the ones that were originally trapped in the Locker of Losers, this might mean that IDFB is not cancelled and BFB takes place sometime in the future. However, it is highly possible, as stated by Cary in his BFB 1 reaction video.
Episodes
Season 4a
| Overall | Number | Name | Release date |
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| 1 | 1 | "Getting Teardrop to Talk" | November 3, 2017 |
| 2 | 2 | "Lick Your Way to Freedom" | November 17, 2017 |
| 3 | 3 | "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset" | December 8, 2017 |
| 4 | 4 | "Today's Very Special Episode" | December 22, 2017 |
| 5 | 5 | "Fortunate Ben" | January 12, 2018 |
| 6 | 6 | "Four Goes Too Far" | February 2, 2018 |
| 7 | 7 | "The Liar Ball You Don't Want" | February 16, 2018 |
| 8 | 8 | "Questions Answered" | March 10, 2018 |
| 9 | 9 | "This Episode Is About Basketball" | April 6, 2018 |
| 10 | 10 | "Enter the Exit" | April 28, 2018 |
| 11 | 11 | "Get to the Top in 500 Steps" | May 27, 2018 |
| 12 | 12 | "What Do You Think of Roleplay?" | July 10, 2018 |
| 13 | 13 | "Return of the Rocket Ship" | July 11, 2019 |
| 14 | 14 | "Don't Dig Straight Down" | August 24, 2019 |
| 15 | 15 | "The Four is Lava" | December 14, 2019 |
| 16 | 16 | "The Escape from Four" | March 24, 2020 |
Season 4b
| Overall | Number | Name | Release date |
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| 17 | 1 | "X Marks the Spot" | April 17, 2020 |
| 18 | 2 | "Take the Tower" | May 4, 2020 |
| 19 | 3 | "How Loe Can You Grow?" | May 22, 2020 |
| 20 | 4 | "A Taste of Space" | June 10, 2020 |
| 21 | 5 | "Let's Raid The Warehouse" | July 3, 2020 |
| 22 | 6 | "Who Stole Donut's Diary?" | July 24, 2020 |
| 23 | 7 | "Fashion For Your Face!" | August 21, 2020 |
| 24 | 8 | "The Game Has Changed" | September 18, 2020 |
| 25 | 9 | "The Tweested Temple" | October 13, 2020 |
| 26 | 10 | "The Hidden Contestant" | November 6, 2020 |
| 27 | 11 | "Uprooting Everything" | December 11, 2020 |
| 28 | 12 | "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning" | January 15, 2021 |
| 29 | 13 | "SOS (Save Our Show)" | February 12, 2021 |
| 30 | 14 | "Chapter Complete" | April 9, 2021 |
Characters
- Main article: List of Battle for Dream Island characters
Contestants
- See also: Battle for BFB/Elimination table
Season 4a
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Pencil | Iance | 1st eliminated "Lick Your Way to Freedom" |
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Bracelety | Team Ice Cube | 3rd eliminated "Today's Very Special Episode" |
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Liy | Death P.A.C.T. | 4th eliminated "Fortunate Ben" |
63rd |
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Roboty | Beep | 5th eliminated "Four Goes Too Far" |
62nd |
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8-Ball | A Better Name Than That | 7th eliminated "Questions Answered" |
61st |
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Stapy | Free Food | 8th eliminated "This Episode Is About Basketball" |
60th |
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David | Beep | 9th eliminated "Enter the Exit" |
59th |
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Match | Iance | 10th eliminated "What Do You Think of Roleplay?" |
58th |
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Firey Jr. | Team Ice Cube | 11th eliminated "Return of the Rocket Ship" |
57th |
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Barf Bag | Team Ice Cube | Quit "The Escape from Four" (left to compete in TPOT) |
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Basketball | A Better Name Than That | ||
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Bell | Free Food | ||
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Black Hole | Death P.A.C.T. | ||
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Bomby | Team Ice Cube | ||
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Bottle | Death P.A.C.T. | ||
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Cake | The Losers | ||
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Clock | The Losers | ||
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Cloudy | Beep | ||
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Coiny | The Losers | ||
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Donut | Team Ice Cube | ||
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Eggy | The Losers | ||
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Eraser | Free Food | ||
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Fanny | Iance | ||
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Foldy | Free Food | ||
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Fries | Free Food | ||
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Golf Ball | A Better Name Than That | ||
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Grassy | A Better Name Than That | ||
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Lightning | Iance | ||
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Marker | Free Food | ||
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Naily | Team Ice Cube | ||
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Needle | The Losers | ||
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Nickel | Beep | ||
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Pen | Death P.A.C.T. | ||
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Pie | Death P.A.C.T. | ||
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Pillow | Death P.A.C.T. | ||
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Pin | The Losers | ||
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Puffball | Free Food | ||
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Remote | Death P.A.C.T. | ||
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Robot Flower | A Better Name Than That | ||
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Tennis Ball | A Better Name Than That | ||
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Tree | Death P.A.C.T. | ||
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TV | A Better Name Than That | ||
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Yellow Face | Free Food | ||
Season 4b
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Ruby | Iance | 16th eliminated "A Taste of Space" |
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Loser | The Losers | 6th eliminated "The Liar Ball You Don't Want" |
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| 17th eliminated "Let's Raid the Warehouse" | ||||
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Bubble | Iance | 19th eliminated "Fashion For Your Face!" |
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Blocky | A Better Name Than That | 20th eliminated "The Game Has Changed" |
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Firey | The Losers | 21st eliminated "The Tweested Temple" |
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Woody | Beep | 22nd eliminated "The Hidden Contestant" |
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Profily | No team | Debuted "The Hidden Contestant" |
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Leafy | Beep | 2nd eliminated "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset" |
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Gelatin | Team Ice Cube | Runner-up "Chapter Complete" (28240 votes) | |
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Flower | Iance | Winner "Chapter Complete" (48891 votes) | |
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Hosts
- Four (BFB 1-BFB 6, BFB 10-BFB 27)
- Donut (BFB 6-BFB 9)
- X (BFB 9-BFB 10)
- Announcer (BFB 28-BFB 30)
- Purple Face (BFB 29)
Eliminated contestants
Season 4a
- Pencil ("Lick Your Way to Freedom": 4,595 downvotes)
- Bracelety ("Today's Very Special Episode": 9,168 downvotes)
- Liy ("Fortunate Ben": 7,553 downvotes)
- Roboty ("Four Goes Too Far": 8,254 downvotes)
- 8-Ball ("Questions Answered": 4,814 downvotes)
- Stapy ("This Episode Is About Basketball": 9,028 downvotes)
- David ("Enter the Exit": 11,292 downvotes)
- Match ("What Do You Think of Roleplay?": 12,758 downvotes)
- Firey Jr. ("Return of the Rocket Ship": 10,000 downvotes)
- Dora ("The Four is Lava": 11,109 downvotes)
- Barf Bag, Basketball, Bell, Black Hole, Bomby, Book, Bottle, Cake, Clock, Cloudy, Coiny, Donut, Eggy, Eraser, Fanny, Foldy, Fries, Gaty, Golf Ball, Ice Cube, Lightning, Marker, Naily, Needle, Nickel, Pen, Pie, Pillow, Pin, Puffball, Remote, Robot Flower, Rocky, Saw, Snowball, Tennis Ball, TV, Tree, and Yellow Face ("The Escape from Four": Left to join The Power of Two)
Season 4b
- Balloony ("Take the Tower": 3,516 upvotes)
- Spongy ("How Loe Can You Grow?": 3,283 upvotes)
- Ruby ("A Taste of Space": 7,573 upvotes)
- Loser ("Let's Raid the Warehouse": 5,600 upvotes)
- Taco ("Who Stole Donut's Diary?": 10,565 upvotes)
- Bubble ("Fashion For Your Face!": 6,374 upvotes)
- Blocky ("The Game Has Changed": 11,229 upvotes)
- Firey ("The Tweested Temple": 12,705 upvotes)
- Woody ("The Hidden Contestant": 9,843 upvotes)
- Profily ("The Hidden Contestant": Disqualified)
- Lollipop ("Uprooting Everything": 9,684 upvotes)
- Leafy ("B.F.B. = Back From Beginning": 12,113 upvotes)
- Teardrop ("SOS (Save Our Show)": 28,906 upvotes)
- Gelatin ("Chapter Complete": 28,240 upvotes)
Contestants that rejoined
- Leafy (eliminated in "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset": 6,926 votes; rejoined in "Get to the Top in 500 Steps": 13,835 votes; later eliminated in "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning")
- Loser (eliminated in "The Liar Ball You Don't Want": 12,062 votes; rejoined in "The Escape from Four", later eliminated in "Let's Raid The Warehouse")
- Spongy (eliminated in "The Escape from Four": 22,845 votes; rejoined in the same episode, later eliminated in "How Loe Can You Grow?")
Teams
The 64 contestants are divided into 8 teams of 8.
Pencil is eliminated.
Leafy is eliminated.
Bracelety is eliminated.
Liy is eliminated.
Roboty is eliminated.
Loser is eliminated.
8-Ball is eliminated.
Stapy is eliminated.
David is eliminated.
Leafy rejoins.
Match is eliminated.
Firey Jr. is eliminated.
Dora is eliminated.
Spongy is eliminated.
Spongy and Loser escape from the EXIT, and join the show. Barf Bag, Basketball, Bell, Black Hole, Bomby, Book, Bottle, Cake, Clock, Cloudy, Coiny, Donut, Eggy, Eraser, Fanny, Foldy, Fries, Gaty, Golf Ball, Grassy, Ice Cube, Lightning, Marker, Naily, Needle, Nickel, Pen, Pie, Pillow, Pin, Puffball, Remote, Robot Flower, Rocky, Saw, Snowball, Tennis Ball, Tree, TV, and Yellow Face all join TPOT instead, thus leaving BFB. The teams were disbanded and new teams were formed in the next episode.
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Battle for B.F.D.I. - Season 4a (All Episodes)
- Main article: Battle for B.F.D.I. - Season 4a (All Episodes)
On February 27, 2021, after the release of "SOS (Save Our Show)", the jacknjellify channel uploaded an official, three-hour-and-43-minute video compiling every episode of the first part of the fourth season, with black title cards marked after the intro.
Trivia
- This is the second season of BFDI to be completed, with Battle for Dream Island being the first.
- This season features the most contestants out of BFDI, with 65 of them.
- This season had the most hosts out of any season. Those being Four, X, Donut(BFB 6-9), Announcer (BFB 28-BFB 30) and Purple Face (BFB 27)
- BFB's unabbreviated name is Battle for Battle for Battle for Dream Island.
- Strangely, Evil Leafy and Nonexisty are the only 2 contestants not to appear in this season. This is most likely due to Evil Leafy being the antagonist and Nonexisty being more of a joke. (However, this doesn't mean that they will not appear later.)
- Nonexisty was considered for the show, but at the time, the crew agreed he would be a waste of a slot.
- Nonexisty would have been mentioned in a scrapped storyboard of BFB 3.
- Evil Leafy was seen as a recommended character by Diamondcup67 in BFB 6.
- There is an equal ratio of male to female contestants with 32 of each gender.
- This is also the case for the show after the split with 7 of each gender.
- Interestingly, the EXIT, after the split, has 5 of each gender, making the gender ratio for BFB overall still equal even if one ignores the TPOT contestants.
- This is also the case for the show after the split with 7 of each gender.
- Prior to "The Escape from Four", it's possible that Battle for BFDI takes place in Yoyleland, as the tower on top of the Yoyle Mountain can be seen in multiple scenes, like seen in the picture on the right.
- However, it is more likely that the season's location is nearby Yoyleland because the grass isn't purple, if the nearby land wasn't terraformed off camera.[1]
- After the events of "The Escape from Four", BFB now takes place at The Pillary Ruins; TPOT will be held at BFB's original location.
- As of "The Hidden Contestant", the game is moving to a new location.
- In "Uprooting Everything", it is shown the new location is The Desert from "Getting Teardrop to Talk".
- Ever since "X Marks the Spot", TPOT contestants can only make cameo appearances.
- As a result of the split:
- There are 7 members of the Squishy Cherries and only 3 original Squashy Grapes.
- Spongy, Roboty, and 8-Ball are the only armless contestants.
- Roboty and 8-Ball are also legless. Stapy is the other legless contestant.
- Dora, Gelatin, and Ruby are the only BFDIA newbies.
- Liy and Stapy are the only members of their respective teams.
- 8-Ball is the only ball contestant.
- Roboty is the only mechanical mind.
- The intro is always started by a character using their limb to resemble Four.
- The intro's song is called "MUSIC OF FOUR'S 3D HAND".
- Before the second half starts, a faint voice clip of the objects saying "Switch" over and over can be heard, which is taken from "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know".[2]
- The hosts, Four and X, previously appeared in a 2008 jacknjellify animation called "X Finds Out His Value".
- This is the first season not to have past episode release dates.
- However, the creators sometimes announce the release date for the future episode(s) after the voting. For example, Satomi Hinatsu has announced the release time of BFB 12 on July 10, 2018.[3]
- As of BFB 17, episode release dates are announced from non-canon videos directly preceding the main episodes.
- The original BFDI assets for facial features and limbs aren't used in BFB (except in the air fluttering, most walking and running, other rare occasions, and sometimes even as a joke).
- Since BFDI, BFDIA, and IDFB use the same animation style, BFB decided to use a new animation style where the mouth, arms, and legs are hand-drawn, and the animation is mostly done frame-by-frame.
- Although before BFB a similar animation style was also used in "BFDI is Back" and "Paper Towel".
- This is the first season in which previously eliminated contestants aren't held in the TLC. Instead, the first 12 contestants are held inside the EXIT and the rest are held in the BRB.
- This is the first season where a female is in last place. (Note that Woody was last place in BFDI as Flower rejoined late and finished 4th/21, and Donut was 22nd/22.)
- This is the second season where a female contestant got eliminated first (Pencil) chronologically, the first being Flower in Season 1.
- This is the first season to not have a member of the Squashy Grapes be the first original contestant eliminated.
- This is the first season that David and Dora appeared together, however they are in different teams, as David is on Beep and Dora is on
. - The BFB intro was the first intro to feature the host, unlike the intros of BFDI, BFDIA, and IDFB.
- The show is animated with Animate CC and saved on this folder.
- This is the first season of BFDI in 6 years to get past five episodes.
- This is due to BFDI reaching 6 episodes on June 1, 2010, BFDIA 6 being canceled, and IDFB going on its "best hiatus ever."
- IDFB 2 is having an intentional hiatus[citation needed], thus getting the name, "BFDI's best hiatus ever!"
- This is due to BFDI reaching 6 episodes on June 1, 2010, BFDIA 6 being canceled, and IDFB going on its "best hiatus ever."
- Match, Spongy, Blocky & Teardrop all reach their third elimination.
- Because of his elimination in "How Loe Can You Grow?", Spongy has become the first contestant to be eliminated four times.
- Blocky, Flower, Teardrop, and Woody all made it farther than they did in BFDI.
- The scene backgrounds used in this series are from Paper Towel.
- Just like the previous seasons, BFB stingers always take place at night.
- This season marks the first time where Leafy, Bubble, and Firey were eliminated.
- This means Gelatin is currently the only contestant to not be eliminated yet, as of BFB 29.
- The average number of limbs of a BFB contestant is 2.98.
- This is the first season to have contestants both join and rejoin without viewer votes or a contest.
- This is the first season to feature a double elimination, as seen in "The Hidden Contestant".
- The logo with X and Four spell out "bfb", X's feet being the b's and Four in the middle being an f, all in lowercase.
- However, in the "Battle for Nothing" intro shown in "Enter the Exit", X appears to be frowning. His other foot now forms an "n", and Four is just an outline. The logo spells out "bfn".
- When someone is walking or running, the running animation for BFDI is used.
- BFB episodes were expected to come out every two weeks despite no official schedule for them ever being made, but many episodes were released in three weeks or more, and one of them was released barely over a year after the one preceding it.
- During the Q&A of the 2019 BFDI + II Meetup, Cary stated that the host of BFB was originally going to be a giant spider.
- This is the first season in which the first word was spoken by Michael (as Pen) instead of Cary.
- The first episode was released the same day as the iPhone X, which is coincidental as X is the co-host.
- BFB was originally going to be called Sloppy BFDI.
- This is the first season to have teams selected by the host, as seen in "X Marks the Spot".
- Leafy is the only contestant to be on three teams. She started on Beep, rejoined on The Losers!, then joined the Have Cots after the split.
- Firey and Rocky are the only other characters to be on three teams in one season. They were on all three teams in Season 1.
- The contestants not in the Final 14 of BFB were originally going to be killed off, and The Power of Two was not considered early on.[4]
- This is the second season to reach the merge phase, with the first being BFDI.
- This is the first season to surpass the number of BFDI episodes.
- This is the first season to have a team form in the middle of the merge.
- This is the second season to have a proper ending, the first being Battle for Dream Island.
- All the original contestants that were sent to the BRB after the split were original members of the Squishy Cherries.
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References
External links
| Seasons of Battle for Dream Island (template) |
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| Main series: Battle for Dream Island • Battle for Dream Island Again • IDFB • Battle for BFB • Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two • Season 6
Pre-BFDI: Total Firey Island • Total Firey Points • Total Firey Switch Spinoffs: ABCDEFG • BAGUETTE • BFDI Mini-Season - "Marbles" • Ten Words of Wisdom BFDI Mini: BFDI Mini • BFDI Mini Again • BFDI Mini Deluxe • BFDI Mini, Seriously! |
