Non-Disney animation thread
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Ok, Sponge Bob is pretty much the mickey mouse mascot level of popularity from Nickelodeon, so having him in the thumb of the promotional video is pretty logical, but some characters right there, it don't seem like younger kids won't have any idea who they are
Unless this is not targeted to children at all..
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Well you can't just have two out of four Ninja Turtles, so it seems likely that some of those casts might have more than just the first trailer rep.
But I am in no way the target audience for this one.
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I feel like we are the only ones old enough to appreciate characters like Powdered Toast Man.
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I feel like we are the only ones old enough to appreciate characters like Powdered Toast Man.
Actually, there are hardly any characters from Nicktoons that have come out in the last ten years because they're all awful and no one remembers them (except for Loud House).
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Is Avatar considered a Nicktoon?
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Actually, there are hardly any characters from Nicktoons that have come out in the last ten years because they're all awful and no one remembers them (except for Loud House).
Besides Loud House, Korra is about the only show within that time frame that I ever noticed people actually talking about.
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https://nickelodeon.fandom.com/wiki/Nicktoons
Well, there is winx club? I am certain this existed before 2011 (a long wiki crawl later) oh, the italian original was in 2004, now it fits better with my memory, I know that I didn't even check nickelodeon during the time Korra was airing (watched it all online)
If they got Danny phantom, they must be able to get the fairly oddparents and the teenage robot.
I am glad they are doing this before Garfield joins.
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Oh yeah, El Tigre was from Nickelodeon. Man, imagine bring him back just for that.
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I see it's called Nickelodeon All Stars and not Nicktoon All Stars. I expect stages for the Snick couch, the AYAOTD? campfire, OLMEC's temple, a Kablam comic book, Stick Stickly's table, and Weinerville. What do ya mean no?!
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I feel like we are the only ones old enough to appreciate characters like Powdered Toast Man.
Or the guys from Ah Monsters!, They haven't been a thing since ages.
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Oh yeah, El Tigre was from Nickelodeon. Man, imagine bring him back just for that.
I mean it's better than being brought back for reruns on Nicktoons.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Just found out about it. Man just…wow. Three decades, man.
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End of an era. Though, admittedly, I never actually watched the show. I think I was a bit too old for it when it came out. But even then my kid brother never watched it either. Guess we just weren't an Arthur household.
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My oldest niece always watched it. She was 4 when it first aired.
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Don't you usually do that in the early run of a show to kill interest not in the late stages?
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Don't you usually do that in the early run of a show to kill interest not in the late stages?
Nah. That just seems to be a thing TV stations are doing lately. Disney held onto the last several episodes of Phineas and Ferb for a few years, and Cartoon Network notoriously kept holding onto Steven Universe episodes giving it a really inconsistent release schedule.
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They didn't run those episodes in other markets while the U.S. got it them after?
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Nah, some SU episodes got leaked in Europe and other places but it wasn't intentional. I understand they doing like season part a and par b like Disney is doing with The Owl House and Amphibia, I don't understand they sitting on episodes like they did with SU, OK KO and Gravity Falls.
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Some of you guys probably aren't watching Centaurworld, which first season just dropped on Netflix.
You should remedy that.
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….. I can't tell if that's for kids or adults.
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Looks like the spiritual successor to Adventure Time.
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Looks like a fever dream after one inhales a whole rainbow. I'm intrigued and afraid at the same time.
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Hard to say what this show wants to be, but maybe that was the goal. It has the legs of Adventure Time, the torso of a Disney Movie and a faint smell of Legend of Korra.
! It's worth giving it a try, but I found it to be taxing at times. It's formulaic through and through, but trying to dance at several weddings at once is still difficult, and the transition from zany to tragic to serious and then back to zany (sometimes within a few minutes) is something that has to be… stomached.
Definitely watchable with children, though!
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Started watching Centaurworld and . . . damn if I'm not enjoying the fucker. It's not a masterpiece, but it's nothing if not imaginative and intriguing. And thankfully doesn't stay in that cheery, cartoony place past the first episode, once they go down the rainbow road it's a lot more hero's journey and darker, but not too dark (in Centaurworld, anyway, human world is dystopian). The "herd" can get on your nerves at times, but other times you just love them (I'm particularly fond of Glendale). Plus, it's a musical, and I LOVE musicals. I'm 4 episodes in, and still going.
So yeah, watch the first couple episodes, or at least until you get to the first shaman, and decide if you like it or not.
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SHow did a good job on selling me int he first three minutes on the horse and rider and their setup.
But then it goes to actual centaurworld and I kind of hate everything and just want to get back to the other place.
So I guess I'm empathizing with the horse.
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I would say to watch through the second episode minimum - that episode establishes that Centaurworld can also be serious, and have stakes (I'm talking about the Taurnado, which was…intense at least to me).
Third episode is a bit of a dip, emphasizing the goofyness, but then it picks up again.Having watched the whole thing, its a bit like Adventure Time meets Over the Garden Wall, with the core of Crazy Ex Girlfriend- every episode dabbles with at least a few different genres of music, with a general Musical Backbone. Some members of The Herd can be annoying sometimes, especially Durpleton (but never Zulius), but they can also be absolutely hilarious (even Durpleton) and I ended up caring about them. The worldbuilding can be a bit wobbly
! considering whats trapped in the rift, the shamans seem really careless about giving up their keysand the tone can osciallate wildly, but I just loved the flavor of the thing. A lot of the songs are really friggin good, theres some absolutely killer comedy (Wammawinks relationship to Merpeople slayed me) and the animation is absolutely top notch.
! Though One thing I wasn't keen on was leaving Horse with her new design - I understand the thematic nature of it, but the original design was a stronger contrast to the rest of Centaurworld, and made her more distinct as a more hardened warrior. The new design…not so much
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SHow did a good job on selling me int he first three minutes on the horse and rider and their setup.
But then it goes to actual centaurworld and I kind of hate everything and just want to get back to the other place.
So I guess I'm empathizing with the horse.
If that's your feeling you'll probably like episode 4 and the Tree Shamans.
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Starting to really love Sony productions.
Netflix just realeased Vivo, a musical with songs written by and starring Lin Manuel Miranda playing a kinkajou from Cuba who finds himself in various adventures in Florida.
One of the writers is Peter Barsocchini, known for his writing for High School Musical films.
Also, it was directed by Kirk DeMicco, writer and director of the Croods.Trailer gives a early story plot away, so I’d recommend not watching it if you can. Though I guess that’s what drives the story so…
I another cool thing about the film is that it has brief moments where the movie plays with animation styles like 2D and slightly different 3D models that differ from the Pixar model it uses normally for the movie.
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@Daz:
especially Durpleton
Yeah, I just finished the first episode. I can tell Durpleton will be my least favorite but-not-necessarily-hated character and Glendale would be my favorite.
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Got through the rest of Centaurworld.
Well, I guess they have me for season 2.
The bad comedy for 5 year olds did nothing for me, but its not for me. The character stuff when they wanted to do it was decent. The end of the season felt very like the end of Adventure time's bgger arcs, particularly the Lich King stuff.
A name I kept seeing pop up in the end credits was Meghan McCarthy, who was one of the executive producers and story editors on MLP FIM from season 2 onward.
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The fart and butt jokes didn't do much for me either.
But then again, I've seen so many cartoons that will settle for a fart and JUST a fart. Having Durpleton see his farts as an allegory for his disapproving dad and wishing thoose crowd-clearers of his could be more supportive and encouraging is… unique. I'm always willing to give points for something unique, no matter how stupid it is.
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Well, I didn't expect that revealed was going to happened today on the new episode of Miraculous.
! Man, I feel so bad for Luka now, that he now knows Marinette and Adrien are Ladybug and Cat Noir. It's going to make the next several episodes interesting.
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YOU! Yes you, stop what you are doing and watch Centaurworld now on Neflix. Do it.
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An interesting look at Ralph Bakshi's career, with a particular emphasis on his incomplete version of LotR.
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So, Toy Galaxy did this video the other day, about the Prince Valiant cartoon.
And that got me REAL interested.
[hide]Now, I knew OF Prince Valiant, as it ran in the Sunday newspaper comics all my life. It was that boring all words story I never read as a child, and as teen I was aware that it was an ongoing story and there was no real jumping in point. So I mostly ignored it as that old comic thats been running for 60 years. (Somewhere along the way learning that the creator did the work their entire life and it was one long ongoing tale. Super impressive.)
But, I never paid it attention. I was vaugely, vaugely aware that there was a cartoon in the 90's. But it was on the Family Channel, so I wrote it off as likely religious or preachy moralizing and never ever watched it. (Or any of the Defenders of the Earth stuff.)
But after that video I tracked it down and watched the first episode. And then another. And now 10 of the 65 and I plan to do the rest.
Set in the time of King Arthur.
The animation is pretty solid for the early 90s, great backgrounds, all star cast (from the early 90's) actual ongoing story, love triangles, death!, (And characters allowed to SAY "death" and "die" and "Kill"!) and it's not just a toy commercial! They in fact didn't make ANY toys for the show. (For the franchise yes, not the show specifically.)
Its nothing thats going to blow you away in this day and age, and you can see some of the spots where the family channel clearly had a say, like "no blood" (even though there were definitely dead folks) and no magic or dragons! but…This allowed the writers to get more creative, not less. Like Merlin is an alchemist, and the dragons are canons. Neat! If I ever do a King Arthur story I'm certainly borrowing that.
I'm too old now and its too dated for me to be wowed by it, but If I'd caught this back in 91 I think I'd be a big fan. It certainly feels like certainly feels like it deserves the curiosity watch way more than say, Skeleton Warriors, or Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, or Bravestarr, or King Arthur and the Knights of Justice did. (ALl shows I remembered that I rewatched at some point for nostalgia mostly.)
91 means it would have been pre X-Men, Reboot, Beast Wars, Mighty Max, Exo-Squad and Conan, (The good shows with continuity squad) around the same time as the mid run Disney Afternoon stuff.
I'm trying to imagine the alternate timeline where young me gave this thing on the Family Channel a chance and became obsessed with it and hunted down the many (many) comics. If I'd gone through a Prince Valiant phase instead of a Conan one.
So I dunno, maybe this one is an open secret that everyone knows about, but maybe its a lost gem that basically everyone has overlooked for years. I never hear it talked about.[/hide]
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I've never got around to watching the show but have quite a few of the books; being able to read a bunch of them in a row without week-long gaps and at original size makes for a much better experience.
If nothing else, you can see why it had such a massive impact on comics as a medium.
Plus you get to see things like
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I knew. I KNEW that Ubiq would be the one to have something to add.
But I am in very short order interested in looking deeper. Its neat.
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So, does anyone actually like CatDog? I don't mean 'doesn't hate it, thinks it's a C+ effort' like it, but 'loves it' like it. I've never heard anyone talk about the show or have memories of watching it or have a favorite episode or have strong feelings or praise anything other than the admittedly-catching opening. Didn't hear anyone talk about it ten days ago, didn't hear anyone talk about it ten years ago. It always seemed like a footnote in the Nickelodeon history book. But when Nick embraced 90s nostalgia, it seems they arbitrarily placed CatDog into the same nostalgic-echelon as Rugrats and All That. I think I missed something. It's like if Warner Bros tried to push Channel Umptee-3 as being just as beloved as Animaniacs and Freakazoid.
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I liked Catdog fine. It wasn't one of my absolute favorites, and I don't think I really have any favorite episodes, but I thought it was good for what it was (though it did have a bit of a mean streak). Of course, I haven't seen it in forever, so I'm not sure how well it would hold up.
I think that is kind of the general consensus, but if you look hard enough, of course you'll find someone who "loves" just about any show.
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of course you'll find someone who "loves" just about any show.
That's true, but with it having more airtime on Nick rewind years ago than Rugrats ever did, having official DVDs from Shout, and the duo getting an announcement trailer for them being in Nick All-Stars, the series has clearly gotten more love from Nick higher-ups than the fans ever gave it, and I don't know why. My point wasn't "is there LITERALLY anyone who likes this?" and more "Has anyone realized the higher-ups at Nick love this show more than their viewers do?"
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Cat-Dog was very "meh" for me. Never watched more than a couple episodes.
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@Mr.:
That's true, but with it having more airtime on Nick rewind years ago than Rugrats ever did, having official DVDs from Shout, and the duo getting an announcement trailer for them being in Nick All-Stars, the series has clearly gotten more love from Nick higher-ups than the fans ever gave it, and I don't know why. My point wasn't "is there LITERALLY anyone who likes this?" and more "Has anyone realized the higher-ups at Nick love this show more than their viewers do?"
Hmm, interesting observation, though I can't say I've really noticed that myself. But yes, I'm sure stuff like that does and has happened.
Off the top of my head, Elmyra from Tiny Toons. Like, I don't think anyone liked her, but it felt like they kept putting her in a ton of things back in the 90's, even giving her a crossover show with Pinky and the Brain.
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In catdog's case, they have a VERY distinct look, and that by iteself might be a reason to include them in things, regardless of actual popularity..
Off the top of my head, Elmyra from Tiny Toons. Like, I don't think anyone liked her, but it felt like they kept putting her in a ton of things back in the 90's, even giving her a crossover show with Pinky and the Brain.
Elmyra was added at the request of Spielberg himself, one of his kids liked her or something.
The writers didn't like the idea at all, which is why they did the "Pinky and the Brain and Larry" episode, because they knew a third character was going to wreck it. Heck, the actual OPENING THEME to PE&B shows how much contempt they had for the idea.
"Now Pinky and the Brain share a new domain,
It's what the network wants, Why bother to complain?"And at the end of the song, Brain notes "I deeply resent this."
To no one's surprise, the fans agreed with the writers. Only five episodes of P,E &B aired before they pulled the plug. The rest got burned off eventually in a compilation show.
I think the new 2020 revival officially declared all of that non-canon.
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To no one's surprise, the fans agreed with the writers. Only five episodes of P,E &B aired before they pulled the plug. The rest got burned off eventually in a compilation show.
WHAT?! I have dreadful recollection of seeing more than five episodes of this.
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Elmyra was added at the request of Spielberg himself, one of his kids liked her or something.
Between Elmyra and Buttons and Mindy, I think this is a lesson that show creators should never let their stupid kids decide what to put in a show.
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WHAT?! I have dreadful recollection of seeing more than five episodes of this.
Because they then packaged into a compilation show. The Cat&Birdy Warneroonie PinkyBrainy Big Cartoonie Show or something like that.
The episodes were already made and paid for, so they were going to burn them off somehow.
They put the pieces into an hourlong format mixed with other stuff, like the Sylvester and Tweetie Mysteries, and classic Looney Tunes, but they stopped promoting it as its own thing very quickly.
Notably they never aired more than three episodes of Calamity Jane, even though that had 13 episodes finished. I don't know what went wrong there.