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New Series of Thundercats :/

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wtf omg :S

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Lion-O, Cheetara, Panthro and friends will return in 2011, as Warner Bros. Animation announced today it has begun production on an all-new ThunderCats.

The update of the popular mid-1980s cartoon will air on Cartoon Network alongside such other Warner Bros. series as Batman: The Brave and the Bold and the forthcoming Young Justice and MAD Magazine. The “21st-century reimagining” of ThunderCats is a collaboration with Studio4°C, the Japanese animation house whose credits include Tekkon Kinkreet, The Animatrix, Batman: Gotham Knight and Halo Legends.

“In addition to being Warner Bros. Animation’s first anime series, ThunderCats marks our most ambitious foray yet into fantasy,” WBA’s Sam Register said in a statement. “The realism and dynamic visual style we’ve achieved are sure to thrill viewers, and the cool weapons, vehicles and technology should help the show appeal to a diverse audience.”

According to Warner Bros. Animation, the new incarnation is “a sweeping tale combining swords and science and boasting ferocious battles with the highest of stakes” that focuses on the story of Prince Lion-O’s ascension to the throne: “As the forces of good and evil battle each other in the quest for the fabled Stones of Power, Lion-O and his champions learn valuable lessons of loyalty, honour and mortality in every episode.”
i really don't know if this is gonna be good or utter fail, but with past remakes of stuff like say He-Man and the Transformers cartoon, then i think this will pretty much fail... though the Turtles "reimagining" anime was pretty good :D
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if Tygra doesn't state the obvious at every opertunity, i'll be highly disappointed

and even though they look like their changing the 80's cartoon style of Lion-O, i'll be pleased so long as their "realism" doesn't equal the below

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just found out that a CGI movie was in production an announced in 2007 and pegged for a summer 2010 release, but was since put on hold, i geuss for this new series, as warner brothers (who own the copyright to Thundercats) famously don't like doing 2 different productions of the same source material at the same time. eg, in the series Smallville, Warner Bros. put a halt to a young Bruce Wayne (aka Batman ;)) appearing in the show, because Dark Knight was being made at the time.

so... concept art was released to the public at Comic-Con 2009, and it may yet still be used as a base for the new anime series, though obviously it'll be more flat and less 3D CGI ;)

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