Barney The Dinosaur Movie From Mattel Films
 

He "left and disappeared into the shadows" for a very good reason and he is clearly not "misunderstood". The franchise clearly did not hold up very well after a while. The writers behind it were literally using their imagination way too much and forgot about how real life works. Psychiatrists and family experts who watched the series and videos felt that way too. There might've been some educational things in the franchise, but the truth of the matter is that life is not all about hearts, rainbows, and fluffiness. There are going to lots of times in your life where you feel angry and sad, but those emotions were discussed less than 1% of the time in episodes and videos. In real life problems don’t get solved right away by singing happy songs. If you look back on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and also what Sesame Street is continuing to do today along with Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, you'll see that are far superior when it comes to teaching important subjects to very young children. My siblings also went to the same schools or participated in soccer leagues with some of the child actors from the show and they learned that they were bullied as a result of taking part in the series.

This news demands a reaction from me, but I am not saying sh*t.

...Y'all can probably Mad Libs exactly what I'd actually say about it, anyway. :lol: I have faith in you.

I'd be surprised if anyone here is excited for this.

I'll never forget being around 8 or 9 years old and opening up a video game magazine that had featured fan art depicting Scorpion stabbing Barney in the head.

Of course, Scorpion was the hot new **** in town, but it hurt seeing my old friend all cross-eyed and dripping from the head.

In 1994-95, "party" places around here would advertise over-21 "Kill Barney Parties" on the radio for all the frustrated parents out there. :lol: I never got to go to one because I was a kid but I imagine that it was spectacular.

I'm legit excited for this, loved Barney as a kid, in fact I still have my Barney plush toy I got from that Christmas VHS special. I was actually under the impression that Barney was still airing, but apparently not, still reaching up to 2009 is quite impressive.

I’d like to this. I still have my original plushie too. The original version that didn’t quite match the show. There was early variants. Barney even looked a bit different in some vhs videos.

I also have the Sega Genesis game. Not really a game since it’s impossible to lose and the gameplay is basically nothing but if you liked Barney it was fun to go through.

I didn’t keep up with the show later on. I occasionally checked it out during the 2000s out of curiosity. I knew it would come back somehow so it’s interesting to see what they do.

Thanks to you, Prowler owes me like $50! :lol: Thanks, brother!

....He'll never pay up though. You know.... "Portuguese". :trazz:

Never was a fan of Barney, the ideal I guess is ok, but it really failed on its face as a kids show imo. It has no emotion or "It". Just happy songs, and really no real story. As a kid, I pretty much felt Fraggle Rock was the greatest kids show there was. It was not all sunshine and roses in Fraggle land. It taught us how to deal with death, bullies, friend problems, if some one is sick, how to overcome your differentness to better yourself like Red and Cotterpin did, racism in a non out front way(The Fraggles not letting Cotterpin in the music feasible because she is a doozer, until Whembly stood up for Cotterpin) How the Gorgs, Fraggles, and Doozers needed each other even though they did not know it. Stuff like that, I don't think there will ever be a show for kids like Fraggle Rock.

Wisdom and Truth.

No problem ;) So just 2 of us this then?

Don’t know what they’re planning but a crossover with other edutainment shows could work.

People are joking about turning it into a horror movie like Banana Splits.

Yeah I wonder what they were smoking when they did that. :lol: All I know is it was not good for you.

I would absolutely pay money to see a gritty reboot movie where Barney is not only an actual dinosaur, but a cannibalistic serial killer who preys on and eats the small children left in his care.

I also enjoy glass painting and jigsaw puzzles.

Some TMNT merchandise was removed from stores due to the immense popularity of Barney the Dinosaur and Nickelodeon merchandise in the mid 90s (circa 1993-1994), so I imagine that most shellheads hate Barney and Friends.

I don't think anyone but you has an awareness of or care about this.

Historians are supposed to.




What would a Barney the Dinosaur movie look like?

There are so many better choices for movies...even from other kid shows.

The fact that this is even a thread somebody thought should be seriously discussed horrifies me.

Barney didn’t disappear. Millennials grew up and moved on. It couldn’t be that 1992 to 1993 fall TV season forever.

The Barney the Dinosaur movie will probably be a dud like the Power Rangers reboot from two years ago.

Seems like an odd choice for a character to bring to a movie, especially this many years later.


That said, now I want them to give it to Platinum Dunes so they can make a realistic (albeit oddly colored) singing purple T-Rex.

That way kids of today and fans of yesterday can truly believe that he really exists... and learn that a giant predatory reptile only wants to teach you about love and friendship, and crap like that. (Twist ending, he eats them and is carted off to the next Jurassic World park.)

Is...is this why so many people have been talking about him lately???

Not interested in this movie. Was never really a fan of Barney, though I watched bits of the show in the mid 90s, as there was nothing else on. Didn’t know it lasted so long. It was ok imo. Loved the parody Animaniacs did of Barney, though.:lol:

yes Micheal Bay presents Barney the Dinosaur :lol:

If he's a real dinosaur and he eats the children... how is he a cannibal? :tcool:

[citation needed]

He'd probably eat other fuzzy dinosaurs too, if he could find any.

ORRRRR maybe he already did?

WE DON'T KNOW!!!

There's already been one.

Hey, they did Dora -- encourage this new direction and away from the likes of the Turtles. :tlol:

I was going from personal memory, but there are some links below. The links don’t describe how Barney and Nickelodeon merchandise were flooding stores in late 1993 and early 1994, though.

On The Subject of Barneymania

1992: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lat...ml%3f_amp=true

1993: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lat...ml%3f_amp=true

On The Subject of Nickelodeon Cartoons

1993: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lat...ml%3f_amp=true

The start of mid 90s,in general, was the time of the TalkBoy (not to be confused with Game Boy (:lol:)), Barney, Treasure Trolls, The Uncanny X-Men, Street Fighter 2 versus Mortal Kombat, Ren and Stimpy, Disney’s Aladdin, Sonic the Hedgehog, Charlotte Hornets merchandise, Batman The Animated Series, and Spawn comic books, IIRC. TMNT was starting to look like an early 90s phenomenon in late 1994 when MMPR took over completely.

I was wondering what a Barney movie closer to Dora and the Lost City of Gold would look like [not a Barney flick similar to Follow That Bird (Sesame Street movie)].

Why the F*ck is "Michael" such a hard name for people to spell?

Is it the Anniversary of this show or something? Why bring up another film for this so called purple dinosaur? Once upon a time as a young kid I used to like him but as you get older, well.

What do kids of this current generation think of him? I'm curious.

At no point do any of these articles support your claim.

I never said they did. I was going from personal memory.

There are no news articles about kid trends replacing other kid trends.

Here are some pictures of the Nickelodeon toy aisle at TRU from the mid 1990s: https://m.facebook.com/1TheNostalgic...6704498034933/

Here is a video featuring the Barney aisle at JCPenney in 1992:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HTyTpxwhON4

People underestimate Barney, is there even a show in the 90s that didn't reference Barney in some way? I don't think any other preschool show has had that kind of impact, not teletubbies, not blues clues, not dora and all of these were huger in their own right.

I have no idea how they'd make a Barney movie work, but hey if they made a Dora movie somehow then perhaps it's not impossible. CG Barney here we come.

https://scontent.fmex7-2.fna.fbcdn.n...a8&oe=5E5720FA

Maybe something like Winnie the Pooh and make him a live stuffed animal. So his plushie form for the whole movie. That’d be cute.

https://i.postimg.cc/YS2RMqXr/88294-...D05-A47642.jpg

megatron, terrorize!

I was hoping the director would be Michael Bay.

Thats what im hoping for.

The still for that Barney movie looks like he's hanging a noose around that kid. How bad do you have to screw up your life for Barney to abandon you? That guy put a positive spin on everything.

In my first post to the reaction of this movie being made I mentioned that problems don't get solved right away by singing happy songs I suddenly remembered that "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music tries to give that message. I still think that Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein meant well when they wrote that song for the Broadway show. When the cast from the film reunited on The Oprah Winfrey Show back in 2010 I believe it was Julie Andrews who said the movie might've been on the verge of being a little too saccharine when talking about some of the reviews the film got for its initial release.. Rogers also said this:

I still think that the film holds up very well to this day and has beautiful messages. After all, it was added the National Film Registry in 2001 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The people who wrote the songs for Barney, however, were going the same route of Care Bears, especially with the 80s movies and it just didn't work. They were also mainly focused on consumerism as well.