Western Animation - Discuss American, Canadian, and European cartoons here (or just bitch about wokeshit, I guess)

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Trollblade69 said:
What's been getting merchandise these days? Just Spongebob and capeshit?
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Chromeo said:
Trolls, Bluey, Star Wars, Barbie, and lately I've been seeing a lot more Harry Potter stuff. The Walmart knockoff American Girls (My Life dolls I think they're called) have entire color-coded Hogwarts uniform set
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Sonic, Pokemon, FNAF, and Minecraft as well. (Because autism never dies)
 
Saw this courtesy of some X account devoted to "lost media", the artwork for an ultimately rejected pitch to Disney, now up for auction.

These boards are for an unmade sci-fi cartoon titled "Warp Wilde", which never made it past the pitch stage, really, and the illustrator went on to work on the Aladdin TV show.

It's more than a bit sad when you see rejected cartoon pitches from years, even decades ago where the artists still have a better grasp on character design than anything that modern outfits like Disney TVA produces now. Like I imagine more kids would be interested in watching something along the lines of the above than the latest beanmouth tripe about some kid with a massive family going on quirky adventures.
 
Commander X said:
Saw this courtesy of some X account devoted to "lost media", the artwork for an ultimately rejected pitch to Disney, now up for auction.

These boards are for an unmade sci-fi cartoon titled "Warp Wilde", which never made it past the pitch stage, really, and the illustrator went on to work on the Aladdin TV show.

It's more than a bit sad when you see rejected cartoon pitches from years, even decades ago where the artists still have a better grasp on character design than anything that modern outfits like Disney TVA produces now. Like I imagine more kids would be interested in watching something along the lines of the above than the latest beanmouth tripe about some kid with a massive family going on quirky adventures.
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The original concept for "Warp Wilde" followed an military man in the future who got demoted to become the guardian of the kids of extraterrestrial ambassadors. The kids then joined him as he continued to investigate the galactic Gandi trying to bring down the Intergalactic Federation, and got in the way as only kids are able to do.
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pretty damn cool find.
 
A Grey Cat said:
I've heard some takes suggest that bloo used to be a sweet if naive friend when he lived with Mac, and being away from him over time eventually eroded away bloo's moral compass.
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Bloo was a troublemaker at home, that and the move made Mac give him up to Foster's.

Also you'd probably lose your shit and become a jerk too if your "half-brother" was Cheese.
 
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pretty damn cool find.
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That design got used somewhere else I know it. I didn't recognize the others (except for them being vaguely in the style at the time - i.e. the big guy looks a human version of Launchpad McQuack) but that character design there is triggering my autism. They definitely reused that somewhere...
 
Flexo said:
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That design got used somewhere else I know it. I didn't recognize the others (except for them being vaguely in the style at the time - i.e. the big guy looks a human version of Launchpad McQuack) but that character design there is triggering my autism. They definitely reused that somewhere...
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yeah it's a The Littles or a Thundercat or a something
 
KingLiberty76 said:
Rocko is such amazing show it feels like someone wanted to make an adult comedy but was forced to do a kids show with all the jokes in it.
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I feel that was most of the '90s cartoons tbh. Also Rocky & Bullwinkle is pretty much an adult comedy disguised as a family-friendly cartoon when you think about it, so this is a pretty old take.
 
The Ultimate Ramotith said:
Explain, please.
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I don't recall sexual jokes at all, but you don't need those to be adult. Just need to reference and spoof the politics of the day on the regular, most of which was Cold War-related. Wasn't uncommon for the show to have it be where Bullwinkle, who's a simpleton, tends to be in the right unintentionally because of military/government incompetence. Almost like the writers were saying they'd rather have a moose in charge.
 
Yes we can. In fact there's entire multihour video essays on youtube comparing and contrasting old and new media.

Here's just one example.

You want to get autistic? Oh we can get autistic about it.
 
fdtalways said:
Oh some idiot got his fee-fees hurt by a statement of fact. Your tears are yummy. Your sorry ass can't even explain why old media is immune from the woke label, can you?
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I don't think you're dumb because of your point, I think you're dumb because you got this ass mad over an internet sticker.
 
fdtalways said:
Its strange how, if a modern cartoon has a male character get even slightly scummy with a female character, it's "woke demonization of males". Yet certain 80s girl cartoons would depict 99% of male characters as either filthy cheaters or borderline sexual predators and its "what? That cartoon was my childhood, what's wrong with it?".

Oh some idiot got his fee-fees hurt by a statement of fact. Your tears are yummy. Your sorry ass can't even explain why old media is immune from the woke label, can you?
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I think some old stuff gets too much of a pass, but woke propaganda is a specific accumulation of spiteful intersectional Marxism spurned on by omnipresent social media in an environment that did not really exist before the 2010s.
 
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