Chika wrote:
> In article , Warewolf
> wrote:
>
>>If you haven't heard yet, WB is planning to remake 'Thundercats' as a
>>rock band/team of superheroes.
>
>
>>(Don't blame me, I found out about it through another forum)
>
> It's just accountant-driven "baby toon" syndrome all over again, just
> using Teen Titan formula to try to create something that might (only
> might) sell to the networks.
>
> No, seriously. We went through a maountain of baby remakes, from two
> different versions of Looney Tunes to Scooby Doo and beyond. WB have
> finally decided that this isn't making them money anymore, so they have
> looked at what else might make them money with the minimum of effort given
> that they are a little short of good new concepts for animation right now.
Also, like the 90's He-Man, the 80's action figures can be recycled back
to shelves with little additional packaging, so long as the visual
characters retain their original design...
As to where the "rock band" thing came in, I'm passing that off as a bit
of AICN mutation, but there had been a souped-up teen-audience T-Cats
remake floating around development heck since the same late 90's.
Derek Janssen (the fact that we hadn't had a good action toon before the
WB also made an entire generation nostalgic)
ejanss@
comcast.net
