I'm Back and Thundercats

[eastofthemoon]

Well, I made it back home. secondlina dqbunny and I had a blast together. We hit China Town, Old Montreal, and just hung out and watch movies. I got some Sakura tea for Stu, and I managed to get the soundtrack for Tales of Legendia (it's not the best Tales game, but it does have the best music of the series) and I also got a Tales of Destiny bag and a Toaru Majutsu no Index bag. (Hopefully, I can find more Index stuff at anime maritime.)

Also, I just found this, a trailer for the new Thundercats cartoon. Is it wrong that I'm more curious about this series now? I'll save final judgment until I see the actuall series, but this trailer does give a bit of hope for it.

Comments

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I guess they figured with the kids all grown up now, they have a new generation to suck in.

I don't mind reboots if they're done well, but then again, it shouldn't stop them from making new stuff. (I'm especially thinking when they try to reboot series into live action movies. There are enough of them. @_@)

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

No, it's all about merchandising. "Hey, let's do a modern update of all these old shows from the 70's and 80's that has the cool characters that people will want to buy toys of!"

And since the kids who grew up on the originals most likely have kids now, that means they'll want to buy all of the toys like THEY used to have! Oh boy!!

But with the modern updates, they take away from the charm that made the originals classics in the first place, with the redesigns and flashy new animation styles. I realize kids nowadays are used to that sort of stuff, but it just makes the new versions of the characters look odd and weird.

And I found out the other day that there's going to be a reboot of the Voltron series that I LOVED as a kid. And of course, that comes with chracters redesigns that just look wrong.

Sorry if I seem a little long winded about this, but this is something that bothers me and has for quite some time. Some things just need to be left well enough alone...