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I was trying to buy my God daughter some Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends toys for her birthday and every Target I've been to has been completely cleaned out. I'm assuming this is probably do to the success of No Way Home because on Amazon all the prices seem to have doubled.
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Combine that with the supply chain clusterfucks and I'm not surprised.
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D34THROW posted:Though I find old-school Thomas creepy at times, it is endearing. All of our kids have gone through an insanely passionate phase about Thomas, and #2 still has a Thomas stuffie on his bed. Something about the series that sticks with me is absolutely dumb, but it's how at some point Henry needed special coal (in the original model series) and then decades later Gordon made a reference to it. "Don't tell me Henry needs special coal again!" That's why (apart from growing up) I stopped watching after the first season with Alec Baldwin narrating. They ran out of Awdry stories to adapt and didn't do anything interesting with their TV stories so they just began recycling stuff despite the overall solid continuity from season 1-5. Besides Henry is the best engine on the line. He's got the best theme song, the best shape, and the best episodes.
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JT Smiley posted:I was trying to buy my God daughter some Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends toys for her birthday and every Target I've been to has been completely cleaned out. I'm assuming this is probably do to the success of No Way Home because on Amazon all the prices seem to have doubled.   
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The United States posted:You know what you must do now: buy her only the finest bootleg spider merch This is clearly based on Toei's Spiderman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTAOPON4jmM
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Arc Hammer posted:That's why (apart from growing up) I stopped watching after the first season with Alec Baldwin narrating. They ran out of Awdry stories to adapt and didn't do anything interesting with their TV stories so they just began recycling stuff despite the overall solid continuity from season 1-5. And such a magnificent coat of paint as well! He should really stay somewhere to keep it intact.
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Pyroi posted:And such a magnificent coat of paint as well! He should really stay somewhere to keep it intact. For the love of God,
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Sir Topham Hat is a significantly better name than The Fat Controller.
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He also gets a lot of good lines from Ringo and Carlin. My doctor has forbidden me to push.
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i never saw thomas the tank or barney as a kid muppet babies, little bear, the busy world of richard scarry were more my jams 
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Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot came up earlier, and I remember where I'd heard about that earlier. Rusty as mentioned is a little bit in a mental Uncanny Valley, acting not quite sentient, but his prototype 'Earl' is actually even worse. For some reason they put him in a fully armed body (and in some ways he's better in a fight than Rusty) before working out the kinks of the AI, and it turns out he's basically near-unusable because he's dangerously literal; once given an order, his first and only priority will be to carry it out to the letter, usually in a literal interpretation, and it takes priority over subsequent orders, leading to him being incapable of adapting to an evolving situation, and won't stop trying to carry out orders until he completes them or is shut down. My Life As A Teenage Robot does something a bit similar, with Jenny's immediate prototype 'sister' being actually larger and stronger than she is, but having a dangerously black-and-white view of the world and inability to see things from a human perspective- dangerous flaws for being a robot superhero, since she thinks children breaking a pinata are vandals who need to be stopped. I do like the idea that things like free will, empathy and sentience in general are safety features. See also the paperclip maximiser scenario.
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Oh I remember Earl, Rusty had to team up with him in an episode and accidentally factor resetted him with the paradox order "hide in a corner" in a round room. (surely where the wall meets the floor or ceiling counts as a corner)
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You'd think they'd have figured that out way earlier in testing, but I bet having some nepotism job suit and/or general breathing down your neck and demanding RESULTS will do that.
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My dad didn't let me watch Sesame Street because of Bert and Ernie  So I was a Barney/Gumby/Frank Cappelli kid for a good portion of my younger years. Eventually got into Nick Jr. back when Allegra's Window was still on (I still remember the blue zutabagas), Big Comfy Couch was my loving jam for a while.I really, really love the streaming services that let me at least introduce my kids to the shows I used to love. We've watched Out of the Box all the way through three or four times. I just wish they had Lazy Town somewhere so my kids could experience an acid trip without being on acid.
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D34THROW posted:
Just show them the pink elephants scene from Dumbo
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So apparently SWAT Kats is getting a reboot: https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/swat-kats-reboot-in-the-works/
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Larryb posted:So apparently SWAT Kats is getting a reboot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdyJoJz4iI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IQBWWabuU Not sure why giving a SWAT team an F-35 is a solution to anything, but it can't be worse than Paw Patrol
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Jesus Christ I know Hollywood is creatively bankrupt and has been for a long time but motherfucking Swat Kats? They've dug too greedily and too deep in the Mines of Nostalgia.
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The United States posted:Yeah sure why not, next up they can bring back Road Rovers or some poo poo In spite of the name they aren't actually a SWAT team or even part of the police at all, they're vigilantes, the name is presumably just because it sounds cool Also SWAT KATS is honestly one of the better choices among 90's cartoons to revive, as the original holds up rather well
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Larryb posted:So apparently SWAT Kats is getting a reboot: About ten years past the right moment for this but sure, why not.
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drrockso20 posted:In spite of the name they aren't actually a SWAT team or even part of the police at all, they're vigilantes, the name is presumably just because it sounds cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6QD-VU-Rw4 "Vigilante Military Violence" is a hilarious term and I am learning so much Ah they used to be SWAT(?) and got fired but they love flying and blowing people up so much they started doing it for free lol Wait why do the cops have an air force? Why would you have an air strip on top of a building? WHY WOULD YOU HAVE ARMED FIGHTER PLANES REGULARLY FLYING SORTIES AROUND A CITY? THAT'S JUST BEGGING FOR A 9/11 EVERY WEEK! readingatwork posted:About ten years past the right moment for this but sure, why not. Assepoester fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Look it was cool at the time okay
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Electric Phantasm posted:Look it was cool at the time okay
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Because it was an action cartoon for children.
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There was a Kickstarter for a continuation of the original, iirc, and it failed.
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Argue posted:There was a Kickstarter for a continuation of the original, iirc, and it failed. The upcoming reboot is apparently by the same people, guess they finally managed to get this off the ground somehow
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Yeah the Toy Galaxy video covers it, I assume this is just the result of their Kickstarter getting attention and them scraping up enough cash outside of Kickstarter to begin production Still, you know what 1993-1994 toy commercial with a rockin' theme song should get a revival? That's riiiiiiiight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__m8Q-zRdEA
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God drat Kid Cosmic stuck the hell out of that landing. Go watch it!
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Having a drat good theme song was the reason why Muteking got a revival, why the hell not?
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The United States posted:Yeah the Toy Galaxy video covers it, I assume this is just the result of their Kickstarter getting attention and them scraping up enough cash outside of Kickstarter to begin production I mind that being not too bad, all in.
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I wonder why he thought no one would greenlight it. Like, sure networks have never been big on serialization in general over the years but '09 is only a few years after Avatar was a huge hit at Nick and CN was still running a lot of serialized stuff... granted, most were anime like Naruto and One Piece, but you still had the various Ben 10s in there. My point is serialized wasn't just some death sentence. And it's not like he was some upstart trying to get his foot in the door, he made the freakin' Powerpuff Girls! ...Now if he'd drawn that just a little later in 2010, and he'd just saw Sym-Bionic Titan fall flat on its rear end then yeah, I suppose he could've fairly taken that as a sign that serialization was dead. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Feb 5, 2022 |
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Cartoon Network was running a lot of weird and different, maybe even experimental stuff in 2009, but not particularly serialized. That was also around the time when they went on their whole weird obsession with live action. They didn't really open the floodgates until after the runaway success of Adventure Time and Regular Show. Nickelodeon had just finished Avatar, but it had a weird relation with it. They really didn't seem to get how to deal with serialized content. They really didn't seem to want to rerun any of the later seasons of Avatar, and this was before the rise of (legal) streaming, so there wasn't really a good way to catch up if you missed the original airtime. This was also the long period where Nickelodeon seemed like it really wanted to ditch 2D animation and go entirely with CGI, but eventually their CGI studio went bust, and I'm not really sure what Nickelodeon's strategy as a channel has been from then to now other than keeping Spongebob going indefinitely. The Disney Channel I guess was also still in a fairly unambitious mood around that time, and it wouldn't really start pushing boundaries until Gravity Falls hit, and I think that was still riding off some residual influence from the success of Adventure Time. I dunno what other individual channels were doing much animation-wise. YggiDee posted:From what I've seen of Animation Twitter, the one thing execs love more than anything else is Not Greenlighting Things. To be fair, there's a whole lot of ideas for shows out there, and only limited funds for greenlighting. At least it's good that there are lots of ideas at least being seen and considered.
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I just watched Kid Cosmic Season 2 and 3. I don't know what opinion to have but I will say the first season was the best.
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Like, I enjoyed a lot of it but some of it could have used a second draft. I expect a lot of water cooler moments to come to me but I had fun.
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Sockser posted:I didn't expect Kid Cosmic season 3 this soon, feels like the last one was only a few months ago It wouldn't shock me if the whole show was made at the same time as one big block and was then split up into "seasons" after the fact. Netflix likes to do that with it's animated properties a lot since an episode of a cartoon takes like 2 years to make. Covok posted:I just watched Kid Cosmic Season 2 and 3. I don't know what opinion to have but I will say the first season was the best. I'm not sure which season was best for me. S3 really did a good job wrapping up the story (which is pretty rare for a TV show regardless of the medium or target demographics) and had some of the strongest emotional beats of the whole show. It's been a while since I watched S1 though so I'm probably due for a rewatch.
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