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Originally Posted by DrSpengler

This coming from a fan of the Ninja Turtles franchise?

"Meh...milking for those profits. TMNT 1, 2, 3 weren't that great, now an animated movie and a new cartoon series? Doesn't Laird have enough money?"

I mean, c'mon. Star Wars fans want more cartoons. There haven't been very many. So Lucas makes money off them? So what? Laird makes money off "all this animation" we've been getting for the past six years. Would you say that the recent TMNT animated movie and the upcoming new season are nothing more than the result of a greedy Laird milking the franchise for profits?

If you're gonna hate the Clone Wars series, hate it for the animation or the characters or the stories or something reasonable. But to hate it because Lucas is providing new content for fans and gets a paycheck for it? Sheesh.

Good point, but we all have to admit that Star Wars never went away, while TMNT had a good 10+ years in hiatus. With SW, you got games, comics, novels, toys, re-released DVDs, etc. to get our fix in between movies. With TMNT, we got a failed comic series from Image until the cartoon returned in '03.

I think this is definitely another cash-cow for Lucas. Why redo Clone Wars with CG when he could have blown our minds with it the first time? It's a great thing for the Star Wars universe and its fans, but honestly, it could have been done instead of the cartoon from the get-go. It's another one of his, "Oh, I forgot a little something. Let's put it in here like this and release it as a new format for the public." He did it with the original trilogy and he's doing it with Clone Wars. Let's hope he doesn't decide to redo Episodes I-III sometime down the line.