sdp
03-02-2011, 09:58 PM
I've thought about this before many times but it especially seems true now that the new Thundercats cartoon is coming out and the internet definitely seems excited about it.
While the OT technically came out in 1987, it was during the end and even in Turtles Forever they are called "1988" turtles, so this was pretty late in the 80s When the 2003 cartoon came out a lot of the original fans were in High School, sure theres a few older ones in college but the OT and the turtles definitely seem to be more of a 90s thing than 80s even if its technically between both. While 80s nostalgia has always been around it seem to really hit its peak during the mid 00's, and that was with earlier 80s stuff, which the turtles weren't. The 2k3 came out too soon for the original fans to take notice and because of that it seemed to get less press, heck the 2007 movie (well besides being a film) got more press and talked about because it was more of "the right time" even if it was only 4 years later. That didnt help the movie but the comedy centric trailers and it being CG didn't help it but thats an entirely different topic. I think all that extra hype from the original fans being older even if they weren't the target audience definitely helped Trasformers.
It also came out too early in the days of the internet, now most of us here are relatively tech savvy and likely even used the internet since the mid 90s. And while the internet was not an obscure thing in 2003, its definitely gotten a HUGE increase in numbers from people in recent years. Not to mention in 2003 broadband still wasn't as widespread and of course most importantly no youtube, blogs were not as big as they're now, NO social networks (Facebook/twitter). Theres a lot of interest in the new Thundercats show and I think both factors I posted played a huge part in it. Maybe if 2k3 had come out later, people would have been much more excited and that would have translated into more kids being excited about it. Of course theres going to be a new show coming out soon and we'll see if I'm correct with this or not by the time it airs, it'll be interesting to see if I was right or wrong.
While the OT technically came out in 1987, it was during the end and even in Turtles Forever they are called "1988" turtles, so this was pretty late in the 80s When the 2003 cartoon came out a lot of the original fans were in High School, sure theres a few older ones in college but the OT and the turtles definitely seem to be more of a 90s thing than 80s even if its technically between both. While 80s nostalgia has always been around it seem to really hit its peak during the mid 00's, and that was with earlier 80s stuff, which the turtles weren't. The 2k3 came out too soon for the original fans to take notice and because of that it seemed to get less press, heck the 2007 movie (well besides being a film) got more press and talked about because it was more of "the right time" even if it was only 4 years later. That didnt help the movie but the comedy centric trailers and it being CG didn't help it but thats an entirely different topic. I think all that extra hype from the original fans being older even if they weren't the target audience definitely helped Trasformers.
It also came out too early in the days of the internet, now most of us here are relatively tech savvy and likely even used the internet since the mid 90s. And while the internet was not an obscure thing in 2003, its definitely gotten a HUGE increase in numbers from people in recent years. Not to mention in 2003 broadband still wasn't as widespread and of course most importantly no youtube, blogs were not as big as they're now, NO social networks (Facebook/twitter). Theres a lot of interest in the new Thundercats show and I think both factors I posted played a huge part in it. Maybe if 2k3 had come out later, people would have been much more excited and that would have translated into more kids being excited about it. Of course theres going to be a new show coming out soon and we'll see if I'm correct with this or not by the time it airs, it'll be interesting to see if I was right or wrong.