01-27-2019, 12:27 PM | #21 |
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I never really liked Batman: TAS (maybe because I’m not a big Batman fan in general), but it did influence a lot of later 90s cartoons such as Gargoyles, Sonic SatAM and The Incredible Hulk.
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01-27-2019, 02:22 PM | #22 |
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I’ve never seen any of those cartoons, but a Kay Bee Toys by me used to carry every series of the 1995 Kenner Gargoyles line. The illustration of Goliath on the generic cards for the 1995 Kenner line did remind me an awful lot of the logo used for Batman the Animated Series from the fall of 1992 to sometime in 1993.
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01-29-2019, 01:26 PM | #23 |
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01-30-2019, 07:11 PM | #25 | |
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I forgot all about Spawn TAS. From my perspective, the best comic book animated series made in the 1990s were on the FOX network. |
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01-31-2019, 10:21 AM | #26 |
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All this recent talking about animated Batman not having any influence feels strange, as we have talked a lot at this community about TMNT (Red Sky and 4 Kids) and many other action-adventure comics being influenced by the animated Batman series (allowing darker storylines with more violence).
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01-31-2019, 11:20 AM | #27 | |
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How come you don't think Batman TAS was influential? it and X-Men were huge smash hit shows on fox even appealed to teens and adults alike. |
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01-31-2019, 11:59 AM | #28 | ||
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How do you know Batman TAS and X-Men TAS were huge smash hit shows on FOX that appealed to teenagers and adults of the 1990s? Can I please see your citations for this? I’m strongly inclined to say that the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers were the biggest force of any programming block on FOX from the mid 90s to the late 90s because the best-selling Christmas toy lists in the USA online perfectly illustrates this. Last edited by mikey0; 01-31-2019 at 12:13 PM. |
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01-31-2019, 12:37 PM | #29 | |
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And you don't think Batman TAS were as impactful as the live-action Burton films? well the animated show broke new ground among many audiences and is on the top TV shows list on the IMDB top TV shows of all time and became influential to those who grew up in the 90s, animators, animation makers and was a game changer. Or is TAS really just a cult show? And the only people who remember Gargoyles are those who grew up in the 90s? it has gained a HUGE cult following and do you think it's a cult show? Akira broke new ground that animation is not just a children's medium but there can be ones aimed at adults and anime was a cult thing before Pokemon, Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon came to the mainstream and there is some anime that some people grew up with like Voltron and others. But was anime just a cult thing? Do you know what cult means? |
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02-02-2019, 03:39 AM | #30 | |
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While there have been anime cult series and movies, Voltron was not one of them. The Transformers were much bigger hit in the US than Voltron nonetheless. I’m sorry to tell you this, but Batman the Animated Series was nowhere near as impactful as the first live-action Burton film. And I like Mark Hamill’s Joker over Jack Nicholson’s Joker like the next guy. Our opinions are not stats. This board has been the only place I’ve seen posters say that Sonic the Hedgehog (Saturday morning animated series), Gargoyles, The Incredible Hulk (the 1996 series) were Batman the Animated Series copycats. From what I have gathered from Google, the production company Buena Vista did at one time fear that Gargoyles would be seen as a Batman the Animated Series knockoff in the mid to late 1990s. Children of the mid to late 1990s tend to compare Gargoyles to the TMNT or Fantastic Four and not Batman the Animated Series. When I see Pinky and the Brain of Animaniacs fame, I definitely see Ren and Stimpy from Nickelodeon’s The Ren and Stimpy Show. Commentators on here have listed their Batman the Animated Series rip-offs that time has forgotten about. But I do not feel Batman the Animated Series was influential to 90s animators at all. I will admit that Batman the Animated Series broke new ground from the very minute “The Cat and the Claw Part 1” aired on FOX, but that’s it. The 1992 Kenner Batman the Animated Series action figure line is really best known to comic book buyers and adult toy collectors for one toy (DeVito-esque Penguin), as it was even then. The whole first wave and Party Wagon from the original 1988 Playmates Toys TMNT toy line is what that line is remembered for. I do not need to go into detail about how the 8 inch and 6 inch (Auto Morphin’) Power Rangers, Megazord, and Dragonzord were absolute must-haves for children in the Batman TAS era (mid 90s). There is holiday film from the late 90s (Jingle All the Way) to remind us of that. |
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