Disney's The Lion Guard
 

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/disn...se-1201217283/

Finally. Timon and Pumba was great, but it's nice to get something of a serious Lion King-related show

I saw this and had many reactions, the Lion King is my favorite Disney movie. My first reaction was a new Lion King movie? This can't be good, but it's only a TV movie/pilot for the show, My second one was "I can't believe they de-canonized The Lion King 2", but he does have his sister in the show. But anyway the show being on Disney Junior worries me that it might be aimed at very young children. Also they mention "The Lion king meets Avengers"? ugh, what does that even mean but it doesn't sound good at all. So I'm cautiously optimistic.

With that said, I thought The Lion King 2 is actually a pretty good sequel, and probably one of the best Disney sequels . The Lion King 1.5 got a lot of praise when it came out but I didn't like it at all, it's just a re-telling of the first movie through the unfunny Timon and Pumba. I don't hate them but the movie already has more than enough Timon and Pumba and we didn't need more of them. Which brings me to the show, I didn't really like it at all, the mix of Timon and Pumba in the real world was just odd, the fact that I am not a big fan of them didn't help the show to me, it just didn't feel like a Lion King cartoon but a weird spin-off that isn't in continuity, it wasn't until one time I read on wikipedia that Simba and others do appear in an episode or two.

I am intrigued.

So Simba and Nala had a son after Kiera and now he's getting his own show in 2016?!

On the one hand it's cool that they're continuing on but on the other hand... wouldn't it be better if Kion was Kiera's son?

It's easier to market the son of Simba from the film you love than the son of the daughter of Simba who he had in that one DTV no one remembers. I don't see a lot of problems with Simba and Nala having more than one cub, it also makes it more interesting there could be sibling rivalry since Kiera is the one who'll inherit the throne.

Found more info. Kiara is confirmed as being in the show!

Kion has an interesting group of friends! *lol*

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2...40610disney01/

It's...on Disney Junior...

...Which is proof I need to read articles more thoroughly before I post them....:(

How depressing... they should have left it at Lion King 1.5.

Why? It's for little kids. Disney Junior does a quality job with their stuff.

Yeah, Looks like Kiara is the older sister.
So basically Simba & Nala had a 2nd cub years later, To bad the Lion King movies aren't an accurate portrayal of what Lions really do.

I also wonder if the new series will be fully CGI or traditional animation?

It's traditional animation

Not gonna lie, even if it is for preschoolers I'm excited about it nonetheless. I always thought the animal designs in the Lion King movies/Timon and Pumbaa cartoon were really cute.

Given the style of the two promo pictures I've seen so far, I'm going to guess it'll be 2D animation. Thank god. I'm getting so sick of CGI.

This...
My 2 year old loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse...and even screams "'Phia!" when we pass anything with Sophia the 1st on it.

Yeah, my nephew has pretty much grown up on the DJ stuff the last few years. It's all really well made, but it's meant for kids! Adults getting upset about it is...sad? Pathetic? One of those.

I work with kids and they find Clubhouse, Neverland Pirates, Sophie, and a lot of other shows to be utterly generic and unrewarding.

There's nothing 'sad' and 'pathetic' about wanting something brimming with dramatic potential mined

Feel free to keep rewarding your offspring with mediocrity, it suits the kind of taste you're known to have.

I somehow really doubt that's in their words.

Also, talking sh*t about how people raise their children over a cartoon show. You have issues, man.

Disney Juniors are for whimps, real caretakers lets the kids watch MTV until nap time.

The fact that you would belittle someone's parenting skills based on the cartoons their child may or may not watch is alarming. Although, I admit I expect little else from a self-loathing aspie with the mentality of a cum sock who was congealed in a British gutter full of aborted crack babies and vomit.

The fact that you take children's cartoons so deadly serious is a testament to how sad your "life" truly is. Crawl back into your playroom with your VHS tapes, clown shoes.

Hey...let's not insult VHS tapes....they're another one of my son's fascinations.

EDIT: I typed "Son't," what the heck is that?

VHS is too good for Zarius.

I was kinda excited until I saw it was a Disney Junior show :lol: still cool nonetheless, the animation looks really nice. Certainly better than that new show featuring "the seven dwarves" from Snow White...

http://www.animationmagazine.net/wor.../7D-post-2.jpg

Hehe, yeah, that could've been traumatic for all involved - cub massacre at Pride Rock. Among other things. :lol:

I love Kion already - lookit he has a cute little mohawk! :D I'm excited about this - I adored the movie as a wee kidlet, collected all the trading cards and everything... and LK2 was really good as well. I never watched 1.5 or Timon & Pumba's show because I always found their characters kind of irritating/not to my taste (no offense to those who like them!).

It'll be fun to see another big cat species in the LK world as well (via Fuli). I'll definitely be watching this.

I agree with almost everything you say here. 1.5 puts a horrid spin on the first movie, which happens to be one of if not my fav movie. I loved Lionking 2, and think it's the only disney direct to vide movie I actually like.

Don't get me wrong I love Timon and Pumbaa, but hated the 1.5 movie.

I hope they have not de-canonized The Lion King 2, it would be cool to see Kovu.

I think the show has some promise, so I shall keep an eye on it.

sorry for double post, but here is some high light info

A new Lion King spin-off TV movie for 2015 and series for 2016 are in production for Disney Junior and Disney Channel. The shows will follow Simba and Nala’s son, Kion.


According to the Disney press release, Kion “challenges tradition by calling upon friends he believes are the best choices (for the Lion Guard) – Bunga, a fearless honey badger; Fuli, a confident cheetah; Beshte, a happy-go-lucky hippo; and Ono, an intellectual egret.”

Worried you’ll miss the original King clan to much to tune in to the spin-off? Disney promises cameos by Mufasa, Timon, Pumbaa and Zazu.

Also it has said he is Simbas second born male cub. For those who don't know the cub at the end of Lion king one was called Kopa, and died before Kiara was born. Believed to be killed by the outlanders.

http://i.imgur.com/RoP20PN.png

http://i0.wp.com/pmcvariety.files.wo...size=670%2C377

Ditto, Kovu was awesome.

Oh my god! That's pretty dark... :o

Haha, yeah, Lion King has some dark/not-too-child-friendly **** going on sometimes.

Just ask yourself: who is Nala's father?

:lol:

Clown shoes? Christ No-Nuts, where are you learning such harsh langauge? Oh yeah, from your easily-pleased experiances with mediocre PBS s*ite.

Keep proving me right pal, you couldn't score a date with DW Reid if you tried.

Betamax is king!:lol:

You write serious fan fiction.

Ignore List Girl I Could Kiss You[/John Hurt]:lol::lol::lol:

Right, on topic again folks, just having my fun with a lost cause/boy

As if he's not clicking just to see what I say, anyways, right?

Here we have someone who LIVES for children's cartoons. Writes stories about them! He can't let go of these experiences made for TODDLERS, yet he's trying to sh*t on people for what their children watch?

Also, he's so bad at insults. I don't even know what he's talking about. Insults don't work when they other person doesn't get your references, or when they don't relate to the person at all. I don't care about cartoons. I don't know anything about them. Insulting what cartoons I watched as a kid is like insulting my favourite football team...when I don't watch football.

Dude is sick. He needs help. I would feel bad for him if he wasn't a Chris-Chan style autistic with an ego and an attitude.

Those stills look pretty legit. Child show or not, it looks clean as ****. Good to se some quality animation.

There's a difference between not being the Target Audience and a show being too childish. Just because it's a kids show doesn't mean it has to be stupid. Many cartoons are aimed at kids but can easily be enjoyable by adults, not being the target audience means nothing if you understand that. People who want gritty versions of kids things don't get it the same way people who think kids properties can only be enjoyed by kids.

I am not familiar with Disney Junior but if it's like Nick Jr. then this show might be like the Land before Time sequels/TVshows that are a shadow of the original movie,which they're all intended for children but they have clearly different intentions and one can be enjoyed by adults and the others really can't. But it seems like it'll be more of an action saving the jungle type show. With the premise I expect something more along the likes of Aladdin the series and not Timon and Pumba. If it's the latter then i'd like it, if it's like the former then it wouldn't be for me. Of course this is without taking into account quality which is another deal breaker regardless of the type of show that it is.

I know several adults that enjoyed the Land Before Time sequels, myself being one of them.

The cartoon, not so much.

I'm sure, and I enjoy them for what they are. But are you honestly going to recommend anyone to watch them? I can easily recommend the original movie, I recently saw it with my girlfriend and she loved it, it's a great children's movie; and if I had a kid who loves Dinosaurs and enjoyed the first movie I'd let him eat up the sequels, but you can't tell me with a straight face that they are nothing but a mere shadow of it's former self. You can enjoy them but they're not quality children's entertainment.

Yes, they are quality children's entertainment, actually. These characters have some serious familial issues that get handled in the sequels in a really good way. I'd love to recommend the original movie and the sequels to any children, as well as adults that enjoy cartoons.

Yeeeah... I kind of just made up my own headcanon that Nala and her mother joined from a visiting pride or something. :lol:

I kind of stopped watching the LBT sequels after a certain point... from what I gather, some of them got a bit crappy (I definitely haven't heard good things about the tv series). But my kid sister and I grew up on them; even though the sequels weren't as good as the original, I still can't give the sequels too much crap. If nothing else, they had some good songs. :) Remember The Land Before Time sing-along songs tape? I actually set up my tape recorder next to the tv just so I could listen to the whole thing on my Walkman.

Ah, the good old days of ancient technology. :P

that's because the only good thing from that movie was




I'm a little on the defense side of things, for the most part, it has been rare that the disney spin-off tv show has ever been good as compared to the movie (Read as: Emperor's new School)