Ben 10 has been popular enough to go through 3 different iterations (totalling 8 seasons) and 2 tv movies (with a Big screen movie in the works). and i believe Thundercats will be airing right after it.
Edit: well it comes on at 7, but its near the same time slot.
Never heard of it, but I’ll take your word on it.
I have gone to the Cartoon Network channel a little more recently, just waiting for the commercials to see if they air the ThunderCats ad and I’ve seen it a few times, so it seems the channel is doing good to advertise ThunderCats.
I think it would be worth it for them to air that commercial on other, popular channels as well since there may be fans of the old cartoon out there who, like me, don’t watch cartoon network and don’t typically watch cartoons. I wouldn’t even know about this cartoon except that one day in my boredom I decided to google ThunderCats just for the fun of it and saw the promo pics for the new cartoon series. If I hadn’t done that, I’d have no idea right now that they were coming out with this cartoon.
I just think they’d do well to advertise the show on other channels.
We don’t even get Cartoon Network here in Canada, quite surprising since we’re north of the border :mad:.
I only hope some other network here airs the new show.
I’ll be curious to see what process it takes to make Wilykit and Wilykat actual ThunderCats since we won’t see that process with Lion-O, Tygra or Cheetara since from the previews we can see that they already are ThunderCats. But I’m curious if it’s normal for children to be given that honor. I’m wondering if ThunderCats are those who actually fight and serve justice or if ThunderCats are nothing more than a title given to Thunderian nobles.
Airbender toy sales didn’t fare so well, yet the show had an amazing ending. We’re getting lucky we have such an awesome combination of a potentially amazing series and awesome toys. 
That’s been one of my biggest curiosities as well.
Well we know in the original you didn’t have to be born into the title of Thundercat because of Lynxo, Bengali, and Pumyra.
I always try not to think of it as something we know from the previous series, everything we know could be different. (Something I’ve learned from other reboots)
Yell yeah. I hardly expect everything to be the same in the new one. But I mean You have the twins, they’re poor orphans, they become part of the Thundercats, and there is precedent of Non-nobles becoming Thundercats.
More than likely it’s that simple lol. (It usually is)
I don’t consider that necessarily a bad thing…though I wish they’d stop with the live action shows like Destroy, Build, Destroy and Dude, What Would Happen?
It seems to fit in with their action block of programming, along with their other popular shows like Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Young Justice. And it’s good to see that they’re throwing 100% of their support behind it. I think that’s part of the reasons why their other shows like Sym-Bionic Titan didn’t survive (that and the show didn’t have a toy line attached to it, and Genndy Tartakovsky wanted to move on to other projects).
I’m glad to see that they’re planning out Thundercats in this way. I’ve found that some of the best shows are the ones that have been clearly thought-out from beginning to end and were designed to only run for a certain period of time. Other than Avatar: The Last Airbender, the only other show I can think of that did it was Babylon 5, which was intended to run for five seasons.
This. SO this. I wouldn’t mind as much probably if the live action shows were actually good, or at least based on cartoons, but those live action shows on CN are just so incredibly stupid it’s ridiculous.
And who is to say they plan to end the series after just 2 seasons? I took the interview responses to mean they have 1 big story arc that will cover 2 seasons.
As long as the show is popular and the figures sell, they’ll keep making more episodes and more figures. Or at least, logic would say they would…
Totally agreeing with you on all counts, Balgus82. I wouldn’t mind that either, but having live action shows on CARTOON NETWORK, nonetheless, is like having an animated news show on CNN or C-SPAN. It doesn’t work.
Additionally, if the series is a success, it could very well continue, like the Teen Titans did, and it had six or seven seasons if I recall.
The show is going to hit. If it gets cancelled I bet it’ll be because the writers won’t allow it to go the sell out plothole ridden route Ben 10 has.
While I never throughly followed that show it’s reason for cancellation infuriated me. It didn’t have a toy line? They NEVER ORDERED a toy line to be made. And when was it said Tartakovsky wanted to move on? I’m curious about this because Titan was the culmination of his love for old school mecha shows.
Indeed. It also had an anime feel to it, despite some of the characters having his signature Dexter/Powerpuff Girls meets Gerald McBoingBoing/Underdog feel to them. If anything, He and Butch Hartman are some of my biggest artistic influences because of that style.
Now, I will add that it will be successful, much like Avatar: the Last Airbender was for Nickelodeon, as stated previously. I also hope it goes in-depth, too as character development and backstories go. I like that WilyKat and WilyKit, respectively will have their story to tell because in all actuality, the original series lacked this, yet still remains to be remembered, even after 26 years of its premiere because of its presense, and its success. Even though the target audience is younger viewers, with the series’ new take on the classic 1980’s property, I can guarantee people will remember it, unlike the 2002 reboot of He-Man: Masters of the Universe.
Yeah I see this being the next Avatar TLAB. Kids flocked to that show because of the quality of the animation and the storytelling that just isn’t in a lot of American cartoons. And I think they’ll flock to this one for the same reasons.
Yeah, I thought that kind of weird. The official statement was the show failed because there wasn’t a toy line. Yet CN never asked for one to be made. So what does that mean? Were they deliberately setting up that show for failure? Did they just not have the much confidence that Tartakovsky would deliver? (despite all the great work he did for them in the past with Dexter’s Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack and his own Clone Wars microseries)
Tartakovsky went to Sony Pictures Animation in March, around the same time it was announced that Sym-Bionic Titan was cancelled. I’m sure he was disappointed, but I guess Sony promised him more creative control, more support and bigger budgets with future projects. So in light of that, the cancelling of Sym-Bionic Titan probably didn’t seem to be that big of a loss to him compared to what he was getting by going to Sony.
This and how. I’m 32 years old and even I enjoyed Avatar: the Last Airbender because you are absolutely correct: It had that quality that most American animation lacks today. I’d soon rather watch something like Avatar: the Last Airbender or Claymore because of how captivating the story is, and I can see this happening for the ThunderCats as well. I am also glad, if not overjoyed it took Warner Bros. this long to plan it out because this is proving to be much better than the fabled ThunderCats as teens in LA in some rock band. We all know that the idea is stupid, if not horrendous and terrible and wouldn’t last six episodes.
I don’t watch a lot of tv. When I turn it on, what I find are the following…
Scripted tv shows that claim to be “reality.”
An over-abundance of crime dramas.
Comedies that use a vulgar humor.
TV in the 1980’s was defintely family oriented but not so today. I find it a shame that when I turn the TV on, on a Saturday morning, the major networks are not all filled up with cartoons. As a kid, not only did the Saturday morning cartoons get me out of bed early, it helped my parents to be able to sleep in because I was very quiet in not wanting to wake them because I didn’t want them taking over the tv.
You also had a lot more sit-coms and drama shows that the whole family could sit down together and watch.
Avatar: The Last Airbender, to me, is reminscent of the quality tv programs back then. If the new ThunderCats is the same way, then yay.
I do think movies are generally better today than they were back then though. 