Why the lack of action Animated shows?

[Leofan26]

Gravity Falls / Legend of Korra / 2012 turtles series are the only good action shows left. The rest are comedy these days and not all that funny like they are trying to make them be in my opinion :(

[CyberCubed]

Because everything was recently canceled:

- Young Justice was canceled early instead of getting a third season

- Avengers: EMH was canceled just to make another crappier Avengers show right after it

- Wolverine and the X-men was canceled after only 26 episodes

- Spectacular Spiderman got canceled due to the Disney buy-out

- Green Lantern was canceled after 26 episodes

- Beware the Batman was canceled after only 26 episodes and is the biggest bomb of a Batman show


Everything has been canceled except TMNT and Korra.

[pharaohyami5000]

Toy sales. That's... from what I've been reading from various places. *shrugs* If the toys are low on sales, then the TV series take the plunge. I guess forced comedy is the way to go for them brand accessories to get attention.

Any other reasons, I'd like to know myself, but... yeah. That's all I can think of.

Legend of Korra moved to online media and I'm trying to catch up to it. Good beginning, I'll judge the progression as I get to them.

[chrisdude]

Marvel's got Spider-Man, Avengers and Hulk cartoons running.

[TurtleTitan97]

Like pharaohyami5000, it's due to a lack of toy sales, or maybe even low ratings.

[Donatello19]

It's kinda sad that cartoons these days need to rely on toy sales to stay alive...

[snake]

I wouldn't say Gravity Falls is an action show. It's kind of in it's own genre.

The actioniest episode I could think of was Into The Bunker.

[Wildcat]

Ya Gravity Falls is more mystery/adventure.

[DarkFell]

Dunno if it would make a grand difference, but cartoons should return to the local stations again. Where I live at most of the local shows (the good ones like the Marvel and DC cartoons) only come on at 3 AM on the weekends. *Yeah local stations, I'm sure that most parents would let their kids stay up that late or wake them up that early..seriously wth.*

[Leofan26]

I wouldn't mind comedy Animated shows if they were actually funny like for example, Rocko's Modern Life or Invader Zim.

These days the humors so forced, heck once upon a time I used to find the sponge funny but that was way back when seasons one through three were airing. Look at what happened to him now? Seems so childish, so forced.

I hate how the action shows get canceled due to toy sells not making enough money. Young Justice I know was guilty do to this, though I did find season two a bit poor quality compared to season one but that's me.

Than we have Ben 10, fandom's not happy with the new show even :(

Ok, now I'm turning this into a complaint thread, sorry :lol:

That's why these days I don't watch much TV am just trying to work on making my dream become a reality, who knows maybe you'll see one of my shows on Nick or Cartoon some day that I'm working on. Like I said, I only try to watch the 2012 turtles series / Legend of Korra / Gravity Falls.

Though I may try to catch Heroes Reborn since I was a big Heroes fan back when it was airing but that's live action so :P

Anime wise, One Piece and Gintama but.

[TheBlueTurtle1]

Because everything was recently canceled:

- Young Justice was canceled early instead of getting a third season

- Avengers: EMH was canceled just to make another crappier Avengers show right after it

- Wolverine and the X-men was canceled after only 26 episodes

- Spectacular Spiderman got canceled due to the Disney buy-out

- Green Lantern was canceled after 26 episodes

- Beware the Batman was canceled after only 26 episodes and is the biggest bomb of a Batman show


Everything has been canceled except TMNT and Korra.

100% agree with you here. You forgot to metion the new Thundercats show getting cancelled after just 1 season. LAME:x

[MrTMNT2012]

100% agree with you here. You forgot to metion the new Thundercats show getting cancelled after just 1 season. LAME:x

Holy sh!t that's right! I was actually planning on getting into that show cause the first few episodes were sick!

Why did they cancel that? Especially since it was another reboot like TMNT...

[snake]

New thundercats was bad after the pilot episode.

[blindturtle02]

It also seems like the execs want to dumb everything down for kids these days. Aside from TMNT and LOC, I honestly can't think of a toon that's got mature writing. I never thought I'd see a Spider-Man show that was three fourths Family Guy before Ultimate. I've tried getting into Avengers Assemble but it's like the show doesn't know what it wants to be. It's serious one minute, then they're all fighting over friggin cookies and milk the next. Someone uploaded a great Paul Dini moment from a Kevin Smith podcast several months ago. I think that totally sums it up. Funny toy sales were mentioned. It feels like we've stepped back into the early 80's where toons also depended on toy sales, but the stories were better. Writing in animated series really started to move and groove in the 90's. Man, they really knew how to tell a good story while making you want those toys. Beast Wars was a pretty great example. Don't get me wrong, a lot of the 80's cartoons had awesome stories. I was that 90's kid who was glued to the TV whenever Transformers G1 and G.I. Joe came on in reruns. Okay, so maybe a few of those episodes were stinkers too, but nothing tops modern day cartoon stinkiness. I almost want to go watch Kremzeek from season 2 of 80's Transformers and see how it compares to something like Breadwinners or Uncle Grandpa.

[sdp]

There's just no market for action shows? I remember just a few years ago it seemed that action shows were making a comeback, we had a bunch of cool Marvel/DC shows and awesome revivals like Thundercats and Voltron. Flashforward to the present and all those shows are cancelled with the exception of TMNT and Legend of Korra out of dozens of action shows that were planned to be running now. They failed, why? Well various reasons from bad schedules, to contracts, to bad timeslots, to buy outs, to politics, to quality. But What made the comeback fail is that kids just aren't interested in them sadly.

[Redeemer]

I think kids are wanting video games/electronic devices over toys now a days and is causing toy lines to fail leading to cancelled shows.