Care Bears - Adventures in Care-a-lot

[Raph's Girl]

Just a heads up that this is a brand new Care Bears tv series. This premiered last month (Sept 15th) but I just saw an ep. I knew a new series was gonna air but I just didn't know when. if you wanna see it just check your local listings for time and channel. Now supposadly it airs Sundays (according to the official site) but it seems to be airing on saturday instead.

This new series stems directly from the new movie, Oopsy Does It (which I have yet to see).

It's a major WTF moment when you realize that Cheer Bear is now the leader of the Care Bears (was there a cew or something? ).

The series focuses mostly on Share Bear, Cheer Bear, Funshine Bear, Grumpy Bear, and Oopsy Bear but the others are also seen (Tenderheart is now mostly a background character...hrm)

The main villian for this series is an eeeeeeevil bear named Grizzle (introduced in the movie).

Care Bears is part of a programing block called Kewlopolis that consists of Sabrina the Animated series, Strawberry Shortcake, and something called Horseland.

Also, I'd just like to say that I HATE the new theme song..... ugh!

The artwork on the show also sucks.

Now Grizzle. He's basically a cyborg bear (possably formerly a care bear?) who lives in a floating city with his robot sidekicks....One of which is a butler named UR2 (possably an R2D2 reference? )

Grizzle reminds me of Darius Dunn, while UR2 reminds me of Serling.

The care bears also have a robot companion named Wingnut (he was invented by Grumpy). He (Grumpy) appears to be a Mike (he loves cooking), Don (he's an inventor), and Raph (he's grumpy) type Grumpy also appears to curse with the curse words appearing to be quite inventive "Jumping junglefritters!", "Bumbling Bittlebots!" and "Frittle Frattle!" (this one is my fave) :lol: Grumpy and Love-a-lot have always been my faves.

U can also watch several episodes here:
http://www.kewlopolis.com/shows/carebears

[ZariusTwo]

The main cast will be who's there, the others probably in guest roles and be ellaborated on later.

Three girls, two guys...about a billion furries on Deviantart with depraved minds...what's going to happen?

[Raph's Girl]

Forgot to mention this series is on CBS.

[Drtooth]

Screw the Care Bears. Whatever happened to Beastly? He's the only character I fondly remember. That show was all his.

[Jester]

What did they do to the Care Bears!!! Darn them to the firey bowels of Hades!!

[Roseangelo]

They started killing the Care Bears when the resurgence started however many years ago and all of the classic Bears slowly got replaced by the crappy PC bears.

Classic Care Bears rock... the new ones are a disgrace to what was great.

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[Leonardo Mystic]

It's a major WTF moment when you realize that Cheer Bear is now the leader of the Care Bears (was there a cew or something? ).

The series focuses mostly on Share Bear, Cheer Bear, Funshine Bear, Grumpy Bear, and Oopsy Bear but the others are also seen (Tenderheart is now mostly a background character...hrm)

That's terrible. :( Tenderheart was one of my favorite bears. He was a great leader of the Care Bears, and he always will be the rightful leader no matter what.

Unlike TMNT, for me the new Care Bears won't be able to top the classic Care Bears series or even the later 90's one. I don't understand the reason either to add all these new bears like Oopsy. More flashy marketing gimmicks?

[Fledermaus]

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You have reminded me of how utterly depressing the Care Bear movies were. Dripping with nostalgia and moments so beautiful we could all "break down down and cry" for the lost glory days of infancy. :ohwell:

[ZariusTwo]

That ending remains one of the few times we had something close to what several animes do with their movies based on television series...hell I think we did it first. Thieving gits.

[Roseangelo]

That ending remains one of the few times we had something close to what several animes do with their movies based on television series...hell I think we did it first. Thieving gits.

The original Care Bears movies were definitely impressive. Strong soundtracks and dark themes (the second movie even had death) woven amongst a concept that should have been nothing more than a series of cliches. Rainbow Brite was another that made an excellent transition to a movie.

[Sage Ninja]

They started killing the Care Bears when the resurgence started however many years ago and all of the classic Bears slowly got replaced by the crappy PC bears.

Classic Care Bears rock... the new ones are a disgrace to what was great.

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I posted this ending song to the second movie awhile back. It still brings tears to my eyes. Oh man. Nothing can beat the classic Care Bears. The second movie used to scare the crap out of me when I was little. These movies where certainly not PC, it dealt with evil, temptation, and deceite. Gish the girl in the second practically sold her soul to that evil spirlt Dark Heart. How the heck did a show about cuddly bears get away with some thing like that back then with out the soccer moms making a hue and cry over it? I don't see I show aimed at little kids getting away with content like that now adays. Every thing has to be so kosher :roll:

oh well it good to remember the good times. Here is the song from the very start of the second Care Bears movie:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nDbvuY32xs4

man this song is really gut-wrenching when you see this as an adult. It's like they wrote the song for the little kids watching it at the time and for when they grow up as adults when they see it again. It's holds a whole new special meaning. Especially the "like the pictures in a story book. We will turn the pages" God it makes me cry :cry:

[Roseangelo]

I have the soundtrack to both movies and was gonna rip 'em for you guys, but I opened the case to #2 and the CD isn't there... no clue where it might be. :(

[Raph's Girl]

The MP3's are online already actually. There's a website where you can download the best ones (IE Forever Young)

http://www.carebearzone.com/carebear/mp3.html

[Roseangelo]

Except what I have are the actual soundtracks, not bad audio recordings straight from the movie.

[Time Mistress]

Now I remember why I liked the Care Bears.:) With all this modern day revival I was beginging to wonder why I even liked then in the first place. I still have a few Care Bears in my attic somewhere - Swift Heart Rabbit, Secret Bear, and maybe Bright Heart Racoon. I still have a cassette of the first movie that has both the story and the songs. I like the versions of the songs in the first movie better than my cassette though. But all that great music is one of the things I think I liked most about the Care Bears.

I remember going a Care Bears for Haloween a few years running. I did Cheer Bear, Wish Bear, and Swift Heart Rabbit back in the days when moms made costumes instead of just buying them. Those old one-piece sleepers can be modified to make a perfect CB costume. A basic sewing pattern for a bear costume makes the headgear. Add a tail and apropriate stomach disk attached via velcro. Draw a heart shaped nose and a few freckles on your face and voila - instant Care Bear!

[Roseangelo]

I still have a cassette of the first movie that has both the story and the songs. I like the versions of the songs in the first movie better than my cassette though. But all that great music is one of the things I think I liked most about the Care Bears.

Yeah, I have the same cassette (and that's the CD I have, which is transfered from the LP). I wish they hadn't done it like that, because the songs that are different are better in the movie, but a few of the songs are the same as they are in the movie, so it gives you a nice, clean version of those.

The soundtrack for the second movie was only a promotional LP, unfortunately. I'm rather annoyed that I can't find my CD version of that.

[BubblyShell22]

My sister and I loved the Care Bears, though she loved them more than I did. However, I don't think this new series will add up to what it used to be. I remember the old TV series with Beastly and Shrieky, though she got rather annoying.

[Drtooth]

I remember the old TV series with Beastly and Shrieky, though she got rather annoying.

Shriek? She was alright. But Beastly was one of the reasons I like John Stocker. That and Toad from the Mario cartoons.

[BubblyShell22]

Oh, I see. Well, I do remember that series of Care Bears because I used to watch it all the time. It's a shame that the newer versions are nothing like the ones back in the day.