Marvel Super Hero Squad
 

Yesterday Marvel announced their schedules for movies and tv. Well one of the tv shows mentioned was Super Hero Squad. Well...now there's info on it!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080507/tv_nm/marvel_dc_1

Hmm....a kiddiefied Marvel-verse...sounds....fun....

I'm sure it will be for the kiddies

Read the article. It's aimed at the elementary school crowd. :P

I think it's really cool that Marvel is really trying to branch out to every age group. It'll be really cool if they ever fully max out this plan, with plenty of R rated stuff all the way down to toddler toys...which they already kinda do. I'm just saying that I'm excited for it to expand.

At the risk of sounding ignorant on the matter... ehhh... don't enough 6-8 year olds watch the regular stuff? I mean, other than the fact they appeal to kids slightly older (including 10- 12 year olds) what more could they really do?

I mean, the 6-8 group seems a little too old for the preschooly Hulk type stuff they tried to pull years ago. How would this be any different in style and tone of the current Spider-Man series, and upcoming X-men and Iron Man programs? I'm just asking.

Seems that that demographic could gravitate to something sort of like the "Action heroes" Hasbro lines (what they had with Star Wars Galactic Heroes).

Or maybe it's just a semantics thing.

Anyway, the idea sounds sort of like, well, Marvel's answer to the Super Friends. That actually sounds like a cool idea. Think about it. Marvel Super Friends. Really has a nice Saturday morning cereal cartoon feel to it (cereal Cartoon is the TV cartoon equivvilant of a Popcorn Flick- I made it up).

The first teaser posters for the upcoming kiddie show Marvel Super Hero Squad are up.... Dr. Doom looks so cute. :lol:

The villians consist of Dr. Doom, Mole Man, Juggernaut, Modok (?), Enchantress,.I think the green guy is a Skrull (or possably Abomination), Domammu (?) and Absorbing Man.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stori...8/villains.jpg

The heroes consist of Iron Man, Wolverine, Silver Surfer (WTF?), Thor, Captain America, Falcon, Hulk, and Penance/Hollow (Monet and her sisters).

Iron Man looks demented...

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stori...arveltease.jpg

The green guy is Abomination, a major Hulk villain.

This is rediculous, there is no need to make a chibi marvel cartoon. Think back to when you were a kid... did you refuse to watch any cartoon that didn't have babies in it?

So, in other words, this is based on those damn toys where even the Sentinels smile. Gah...

http://www.worldincatalog.com/upload...7529321mb8.jpg

Definately a toy commercial... they look EXACTLY like the Marvel Galactic Heroes toys. EXACTLY.

But then again, DC also super stylized their characters for the new version of Super Friends... which is basically a toy line and then a comic book.

Hey Marvel, I got an idea!!! Why don't you stop blowing money on all of these useless new animated shows/movies and invest it in getting your rights back from Disney to the 90's Marvel animated series (that were worth FAR more than anything you have produced in the past 10 years) that are sinfully long overdue for a dvd release in America?! :x

God, I just want to go right up to Stan Lee or whoever makes marketing decisions for Marvel and strangle them!!

By that logic, you should say, "Hey! DC! Stop trying to make more movies and TV shows and work out a tentative deal with Fox to release the 1966 series!" There are too many stupid rights issues and red tape preventing them from getting their own shows. Disney doesn't really own them, but for some reason, they're blocking US DVD releases. Everywhere else in the world, however is fair game.

That said, I don;'t see how this would stop the release of the 90's shows at all. And I don't see how either effects the other. This is just a way to cash in off the multiple blockbuster films they've been making lately. I don't understand why they need a kid friendly version of this stuff, sionce it's already kid friendly enough... but at least its not the Spider-Man and his Friends stuff. I mean, the stuff is cute and all... but Spidey don't belong on no diapers!

Wow, someone is passionate about cartoons.

Have you seen those 90's animated series lately? They haven't aged well at all, Especially Spider-man (Although that could be because Spectacular Spider-man makes it look like complete crap in comparison.)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Lee independent now, and he works with Marvel on products involving his characters on his own accord?

Man, I think X-Men has aged worse. It just looks awful.

Dude...get a grip. Your 90s shows PALE in contrast to Wolverine and The X-Men and Spectacular Spider-Man.

And threatning to go Chris Benoit over this doesnt make you look like a rational human being. Stan is completly independent these days, and still has legal wranglings with the company here and there. You really need an education.

I've seen it on the Internet quite a bit, but just what the heck is a "chibi"?

Anyway, it doesn't look like anything that will interest me, but I'm all for anything that is trying to get more kids interested in the Marvel or DC characters. Since comics are sold in less places these days this is probably the way to do it.

I'm kind of wondering what Dr. Doom is plotting though. Is he going to be hogging the sandbox like the dastardly fiend that he is?

:lol: Some of you may hate the idea, but I'd get a kick out of tuning in for five minutes to see something like that happen.

I love how all kids shows now have to be "cute" and "cuddly". Makes me miss the 90's. At least we had more mature cartoons back then, ones that lasted more then one season.

This looks like something Japanese people would come up with.