First Look, ThunderCats Reboot
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Posted on: 2011-01-25 18:31 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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Thinking about that... I want Tygra to have a fedora now.
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Originally Posted by ObiWan
If a gun and a whip is good enough for Indy it's good enough for Tygra.
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Lion-O...I like the new look. In fact I think it's an improvement.
Panthro...meh.
Cheetara...Love the new look. I won't say it's an improvement over the original like I did for Lion-O, but I love it. Could use a few more spots though. She's a cheetah girl after all!
Tygra...he has a pistol and a whip! And his look is an improvement!
Now, if they keep Cheetara the badass of the team I remember her to be (<_< No need to correct me if I'm wrong >_>) all will be well!
Just hope they still have Kitt and Katt.
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Don't have a problem with the new looks, interested on seeing on this series goes. I agree with Tymers Realm post on Jelenic wanting to simplify the Thundercats mythos.
It's a very simple one to begin with, and there really isn't much that needs to be done on it. Only thing I can think of is that Jelenic was maybe watching only the last season or so, that's were I thought the series got convoluted.
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Some interesting stuff in there. Like,
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MTV: Lots of people are asking about Tygra... SPAULDING: [Laughs] Everyone wants to know about Tygra, but that's sort of story-specific. I can't reveal too much. Basically, we wanted to make him cooler than he was. The consensus was that he was the boring guy of the old show, so we wanted to make him more interesting and gave him another dimension. But don't worry he still has the whip. People were wondering where the whip was at one point, but it's on his belt. |
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MTV: And Panthro's looking a little more grizzled with that scar on his eye and such... SPAULDING: Yeah, we're making him the older veteran. He's been out there on Third Earth exploring. He's the elder of the group, once they get together. |
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MTV: Everyone's asking about the anime vibe in the image. Will the series have an anime feel to it? Does the anime vibe extend beyond the character designs? SPAULDING: [It will extend to] the visual storytelling as well. The original show was done in Japan, and many people probably don't know that. A lot of the artists went on to be in Studio Ghibli, and worked on [Hayao] Miyazaki's first film. So "ThunderCats" does have a footprint in Japanese animation. We're kind of going back and honoring that in the new series. I was always a huge fan of the original show and I love the Japanese animation and what they can do, so we're really going back to the roots. |
Is Miyazaki's first film being mentioned here Princess Mononoke or Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind?
Sorta related, the Lightship battle at the end of the new Tron reminded me of the Valley of he Wind.
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no, not at all. a while a go i watched a few of the older cartoons that i absolutely loved as a kid(he man, gi joe, galaxy rangers, silverhawks, thundercats, and godzilla), the art, animation and stories were painfully bad. nostalgia had me thinking they were a lot better than they were, watching a "fight" scene in g.i. joe where nobody actually hit each other(the dreadnaughts fight over breath mints and candy mints) drove home how bad the old cartoons really were, they were so much worse than we remember.
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Originally Posted by Ice_Wall
Is anyone else bothered by how "anime" inspired all the cartoons are these days?
I really miss older style animation and seems any time I see a new remake of those old 80s cartoons there redone in some anime-ish fashion and I just don't like it as much. I prefer the older style animation, though Lion-O did look like a clown. |
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Pretty sure Mononoke came out decades after Miyazaki began making movies. Just sayin'...
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Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
Is Miyazaki's first film being mentioned here Princess Mononoke or Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind?
Sorta related, the Lightship battle at the end of the new Tron reminded me of the Valley of he Wind. |
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Did the artists working on Thundercats work on Monokee or Four Winds?
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Pretty sure Mononoke came out decades after Miyazaki began making movies. Just sayin'...
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I think the point being that Mononoke was his first 'big' film here in the US. Of course it still wasn't his first film released in the US, but it's likely that it's the first one many people had heard of.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Pretty sure Mononoke came out decades after Miyazaki began making movies. Just sayin'...
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
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Box shows the film's original release as 1984. So I would guess the producer ment Nausicaä. I'll have to look at my copy of the 1st season to look at who did the animation. I know it was a asian company, just don't recall who at the moment.
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It's bugged me for a while, but as I tend not to care for the...sensibilities(?) of anime or the emotionless ravages of time itself, I just kinda chalked it up to my natural curmudgeoninity.
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Originally Posted by Ice_Wall
Is anyone else bothered by how "anime" inspired all the cartoons are these days?
I really miss older style animation and seems any time I see a new remake of those old 80s cartoons there redone in some anime-ish fashion and I just don't like it as much. I prefer the older style animation, though Lion-O did look like a clown. |
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Definitely looking forward to this. What I wanna know is...
...where's Snarf?
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Six feet under, if we're lucky. Or taxidermied and sitting on Lion-O's coffee table.
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Originally Posted by Xzero45
Definitely looking forward to this. What I wanna know is...
...where's Snarf? |
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Originally Posted by Xzero45
Definitely looking forward to this. What I wanna know is...
...where's Snarf? |
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Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
Six feet under, if we're lucky. Or taxidermied and sitting on Lion-O's coffee table.
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Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
no, not at all. a while a go i watched a few of the older cartoons that i absolutely loved as a kid(he man, gi joe, galaxy rangers, silverhawks, thundercats, and godzilla), the art, animation and stories were painfully bad. nostalgia had me thinking they were a lot better than they were, watching a "fight" scene in g.i. joe where nobody actually hit each other(the dreadnaughts fight over breath mints and candy mints) drove home how bad the old cartoons really were, they were so much worse than we remember.
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But I can relate when I look back at Speed Racer cartoons.
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GI Joe's premium rates were sky high though w/ losing all those vehicles...
Best thing about most of those old cartoons...the openings were awesome...but then we get to the actual show... 
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Orco was in the rebooted Masters of the Universe series, y'know.
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Originally Posted by Tyger
Hopefully buried in the back garden with Orco and Scrappy Doo
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It doesn't make him less hated!
You know who always reminded me of Snarf? Neelix.
Anyway, I was never a big fan of the original ThunderCats, but watched it periodically. The new one doesn't look bad from what I've seen here, but I also have to agree with Ice_Wall. I'm getting a bit sick of the anime-style art as well.
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Yep first thing I thought when I saw the Panthro picture too.|
Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
just occurred to me about Panthro...
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Sadly they are bringing back Snarf New Thundercats Details.
I hated Snarf.
As for Lion-O Younger. Those that remember the series, he was a little kid but when the ship crashed he aged in his hibernation chamber becoming an adult and the sword of Omens was suppose to have helped him mature mentally. Which I always thought was a little too weird.
Hey if this generation of kids only way they can get good cartoons is redesigns of our old ones. Awesome.
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Originally Posted by UltraTroll
Yep first thing I thought when I saw the Panthro picture too.
Sadly they are bringing back Snarf New Thundercats Details. I hated Snarf. As for Lion-O Younger. Those that remember the series, he was a little kid but when the ship crashed he aged in his hibernation chamber becoming an adult and the sword of Omens was suppose to have helped him mature mentally. Which I always thought was a little too weird. Hey if this generation of kids only way they can get good cartoons is redesigns of our old ones. Awesome. |
As to new Thundercats - if I see it and like it, I'll watch it. If not, then not.
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Originally Posted by Smersh
Hey, now. Avatar:TLA is way better than everything I had cartoon-wise when I was a kid. Well, not everything, but a lot of it.
As to new Thundercats - if I see it and like it, I'll watch it. If not, then not. |
The designs look a hell of a lot better than the Bruce Timm-esque crap that's been popular for a while now.
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If a gun and a whip is good enough for Indy it's good enough for Tygra.