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Skippy McPants posted:Oof, if any show would need a major update to work in a modern context it's Exo-Squad. Plucky soldiers fighting to suppress a slave uprising ain't gonna fly in TYOL 2020. It would! A remake could turn out great or terrible.
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Gay Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors would be extremely my poo poo and I'm not even gay. I loved that show and those toys as a kid and it's awesome to see that anyone else remembers that show. Give it the She-Ra treatment and represent the gently caress out of every community.
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Skippy McPants posted:Yeah, I feel like we're running out of really popular 80s cartoons to remake. What's even left at this point that hasn't seen some kind of update, sendup, or revival? The Jetsons, Captain Planet, Denver the Last Dinosaur? Paging Tranzor Z to the thread. Tranzor Z, to the thread.
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Skippy McPants posted:Yeah, I feel like we're running out of really popular 80s cartoons to remake. What's even left at this point that hasn't seen some kind of update, sendup, or revival? The Jetsons, Captain Planet, Denver the Last Dinosaur? I hate to break it to you... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjIVs1EUPDg
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Skippy McPants posted:Yeah, I feel like we're running out of really popular 80s cartoons to remake. What's even left at this point that hasn't seen some kind of update, sendup, or revival? The Jetsons, Captain Planet, So that's the one of these I want to see most. 
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Haifisch posted:I feel like a modern Captain Planet would have to work really hard not to be super grimdark and depressing. Post-Apocalyptic Captain Planet where the ending has them sending the Eco Cruiser and its tech to the past along with the rings to Gaia.
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Haifisch posted:I feel like a modern Captain Planet would have to work really hard not to be super grimdark and depressing. Just have all the evil villain plots be real things that really happened. complete with citations at the end of the episodes.. It would get incredibly dark fast. https://www.somethingawful.com/comedy-goldmine/most-evil-companies/1/
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The real villain of captain planet are the planeteers for not sharing the tech powering their plane with everyone.
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Avalerion posted:The real villain of captain planet are the planeteers for not sharing the tech powering their plane with everyone. It's powered by the heart of a forsaken child.
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There's definitely some stuff in Captain Planet that we still deal with like poaching, deforestation, animal testing for cosmetics, recycling, Hitler and others. But there's also some stuff that's a little outdated like acid rain, CFCs and the ozone hole. Most of the episodes could be modernized though and basically still be the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Captain_Planet_episodes
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MonsieurChoc posted:Just have all the evil villain plots be real things that really happened. complete with citations at the end of the episodes.. It would get incredibly dark fast. extremely cobra commander voice: Auuugh! Professor Pox you infected Pharmacorps entire shipment of vaccines with AIDS! What am I going to do NOW? extremely mad scientist voice: We can still sell it your evilness... "TOO WHO?! The regulations are far too strict in America, I'm never going to recover financially, unless..." "Why your evilness why not sell it in the thi-" "We can sell it to poor countries under retail and recoup the losses! I'm a genius! Ahahahahah! Make the preperations!" "At once sire"
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New Captain Planet sparking the match for an international gay ecoterrorist movement would be amazing.
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Skippy McPants posted:Yeah, I feel like we're running out of really popular 80s cartoons to remake. What's even left at this point that hasn't seen some kind of update, sendup, or revival? The Jetsons, Captain Planet, Denver the Last Dinosaur? I could easily name at least half a dozen that haven't gotten any kind of reimagining yet to my knowledge and that I'd be at least interested in because I thought they were cool as a kid. M.A.S.K, Bravestarr, Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors, Mysterious Cities of Gold, the Centurions, Spiral Zone, Dino Riders, Count Duckula and Dogtanian & the Three Muskateers are all ones I watched as a kid and would at least check out reimaginings of if they were made. Looking at a list of 80's cartoons, there's also more I know others enjoyed that I never knew of as a kid like Silverhawks, Galaxy Ranger etc. And If you stretch it to include early 90's stuff then there's even more: The Bots Master, S.W.A.T. Kats, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, Gargoyles, Freakazoid! etc. Doctor Reynolds posted:This She-ra reboot ended up being wonderful, but let's be real. Most cartoons from that era were trash. It's not exactly a fruitful avenue to explore. Just make original stuff! The original She-Ra was pretty trash from what little I remember or know of it, so the fact that turned out good shows it can happen to even the worst shows. I would personally say though, that while the actual execution of many shows in the 80s and 90s was terrible, it was an era of some really wild ideas for shows, where the very concepts people were making shows around were absurd in the silliest but best way. I think it may have been simply an effect of the higher focus on toyetic designs and having to find a way around censorship, but the premise in most new shows seems to be a lot more straight forward.
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tsob posted:I could easily name at least half a dozen that haven't gotten any kind of reimagining yet to my knowledge and that I'd be at least interested in because I thought they were cool as a kid. M.A.S.K, Bravestarr, Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors, Mysterious Cities of Gold, the Centurions, Spiral Zone, Dino Riders, Count Duckula and Dogtanian & the Three Muskateers are all ones I watched as a kid and would at least check out reimaginings of if they were made. Looking at a list of 80's cartoons, there's also more I know others enjoyed that I never knew of as a kid like Silverhawks, Galaxy Ranger etc. And If you stretch it to include early 90's stuff then there's even more: The Bots Master, S.W.A.T. Kats, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, Gargoyles, Freakazoid! etc. Hasbro tried to bring MASK back as a comic a few years ago, but it was tied into the larder IDW Hasbro-verse and was kinda hampered by that.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Just have all the evil villain plots be real things that really happened. complete with citations at the end of the episodes.. It would get incredibly dark fast. Alan Moore's Captain Planet
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Cities of Gold got a sequel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXsJ1mJKkfU
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pentyne posted:It's powered by the heart of a forsaken child. Did you say...an ORPHAN?! Darth Walrus posted:New Captain Planet sparking the match for an international gay ecoterrorist movement would be amazing. King Arthur and the Knights of Justice. Keep the football angle, but make them all non-het.
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Technowolf posted:Hasbro tried to bring MASK back as a comic a few years ago, but it was tied into the larder IDW Hasbro-verse and was kinda hampered by that. They also get a namedrop in Transformers: Prime, when Optimus needs a new alt-mode as a truck with rocket engines. I'm hard- pressed to think of another 80' s girl- oriented cartoon that has mindspace and hasn't already been rebooted in some form. Jem has the IDW series, My Little Pony and Strawberry Shortcake have had multiple reboots. Though, admittedly, the lack of mindspace helps. Almost nobody really remembers Wildfire, Lady Lovely Locks, or Rose Petal Place, so you can do almost whatever you want with them. maltesh fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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Jem and the Holograms revival cartoon that's more goofy crime-fighting adventures than whatever the hell that live-action movie was.
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xeria posted:Jem and the Holograms revival cartoon that's more goofy crime-fighting adventures than whatever the hell that live-action movie was. They should be a legit band going on tours worldwide and the villains should be greedy record industry executives and producers and creepy weirdo stalker fans and people who hold up phones in front of other people at shows.
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xeria posted:Jem and the Holograms revival cartoon that's more goofy crime-fighting adventures than whatever the hell that live-action movie was. I love the Joueur du Grenier's review of the old tv series. *Misfits show up at a birthday party* "They threw your sister into a volcano! Why are you letting her in?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtszgIRPLMQ If you udnerstand french
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If you want more Jem content, read the excellent recent comic series, including the Misfits miniseries.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I love the Joueur du Grenier's review of the old tv series. And if you're sufficiently interested in 80's Jem and the Holograms, and have a heck of a lot of free time for some reason, there's the Jem Jam podcast, which covers the 65 episodes of the cartoon, the IDW comic series, and the live action movie.
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kefkafloyd posted:If you want more Jem content, read the excellent recent comic series, including the Misfits miniseries. I know its good on body types, but how gay is it?
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twistedmentat posted:I know its good on body types, but how gay is it? Stimber is canon.
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tsob posted:I could easily name at least half a dozen that haven't gotten any kind of reimagining yet to my knowledge and that I'd be at least interested in because I thought they were cool as a kid. M.A.S.K, Bravestarr, Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors, Mysterious Cities of Gold, the Centurions, Spiral Zone, Dino Riders, Count Duckula and Dogtanian & the Three Muskateers are all ones I watched as a kid and would at least check out reimaginings of if they were made. Looking at a list of 80's cartoons, there's also more I know others enjoyed that I never knew of as a kid like Silverhawks, Galaxy Ranger etc. And If you stretch it to include early 90's stuff then there's even more: The Bots Master, S.W.A.T. Kats, Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, Gargoyles, Freakazoid! etc. The show's creators made a Kickstarter trying to fund a new miniseries or something, but it sadly didn't go anywhere. I remember that the show's first season looked just okay, but the second season took a huge jump in quality due to switching animation studios.
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I'll take a Captain Planet reboot if it's hardcore communist. He flies around and just murders polluters. Feel good show of the year!
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Doctor Reynolds posted:I'll take a Captain Planet reboot if it's hardcore communist. He flies around and just murders polluters. Feel good show of the year! Did somebody say
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twistedmentat posted:I know its good on body types, but how gay is it? It's very gay.
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With the Jem and the Holograms cartoon, I've long been of the opinion that the late Emmett Benton set up the secret lair under the drive-in with the tricked-out car and the AI holographic supercomputer with the intention of allowing his daughters to become crimefighting superheroes. And when they told Synergy, the computer built from the memories of their mother, "We'll use this to become Glam Rockers", she decided "That seems less dangerous. Let's do that, instead." She was wrong, of course.
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Original She-Ra was cheesy, hokey, and used a lot of recycled animation, but it's actually still a lot of fun to watch now if you go into it with the right attitude. It's a silly, ridiculous show, and targeted at a younger audience (plus it was the 80s so there's vanishingly little continuity and no episodic storytelling), but a lot of the seeds of what's fun in the reboot were present in the original. Shadow Weaver, notably, is very similar in both incarnations, at least as far as the "fallen sorcerer from Mystacor who tapped into unspeakable evil power" aspect goes. An early-in-his-career J. Michael Straczynski was a staff writer for much of the show's run, too. The reboot took the original's broad, simple caricatures and turned them into characters, that's the main thing. It's definitely a huge improvement overall, but I wouldn't say the original She-Ra is bad - it's definitely a cheesy 80s kids' show, but it's one of the better ones. If you can look past the clunky dialogue and awkward voice acting, there's a lot to enjoy in the ludicrous pastel fantasy land where the hero chucks mountains at people and everything is scored to dramatic synthesiser honking.
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He-Man was known as Musclor in french. She-Ra remained She-Ra.
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Mazerunner posted:ugh, shadowweaver's constant touching makes my skin crawl same, glad I'm not the only one. I'm considerably better these days, but for a long time I didn't even shake hands because touch freaked me the gently caress out. thanks, my parents. you made me an excellent sad catgirl
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Mazerunner posted:ugh, shadowweaver's constant touching makes my skin crawl Don't worry, someone even worse comes along eventually.
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maltesh posted:Stimber is canon. I can't find the gif, but imagine Kimber in a car with Stormer driving off going "see ya breeders!"
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The She-Ra podcast says that the 80's She-Ra cartoon was like the top rated one back then so I guess it was really popular but I just missed it since I was born in the 90's 
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I remember putting together a bunch of notes for a Ulysses 31 reboot, but I’m not an artist, and I wouldn’t know where to go with them. :/
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RareAcumen posted:The She-Ra podcast says that the 80's She-Ra cartoon was like the top rated one back then so I guess it was really popular but I just missed it since I was born in the 90's In my own television market, when She-Ra aired on the channel that became the local Fox Affiliate, it was a weekday morning cartoon, and was shown late enough in the morning that there were no other broadcast cartoons airing to compete with it. So it was probably PBS, Nickelodeon's Pinwheel if you had Cable, or She-Ra, for the sufficiently-young demographic who wasn't interested in talk shows.
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I'm 32 years old, why is it that I can't stop thinking about a cartoon for children I had not watched before last week? Maybe it's cause I'm depressed and jobless and it makes me feel good. ... I'm super disappointed there isn't a mod for Endless Space 2 that reskins Horatio into being Horde Prime.
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