Thundercats(2011)

[drgon78]

Are there other fans to the 2011 remake?

Favorite characters?

Favorite episodes?

I really wish this series got more seasons.

[IMJ]

Absolutely one of my favorite cartoons of all time. The show was terrific in every way. The two seasons are just gratifying enough to represent a body of work, but I've always hoped for a third season or bare minimum some kind of animated movie to round it off. But it's a bit like Dark Angel now - way too far gone to get it done.

Also always hoped for some third party toyline to make 3.75 figures that could be generically inserted into this line, but it never happened. But for what they did manage to pump up, the Bandai toyline was terrific.

To this day I still check Lion-O's when I see them just to see if I missed a facial expression variant even though in my head I know there are only two.

[Drose18]

It was soo good such a bummer It ended abruptly

[Cowabung-Gal]

As great as the animation was, the writing was…mediocre. Sorry but it’s true, which is probably why it didn’t make it past season 1.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Cowabung-Gal

As great as the animation was, the writing was…mediocre. Sorry but it’s true, which is probably why it didn’t make it past season 1.

I actually forgot that the content we got was season 1 parts 1 and 2....

But that aside, I think the writing was terrific. I always sort of attributed it's failure to a variety of other factors such as when the Cartoon Network chose to air it, and also related to the style of the show in conjunction with who they wanted their target audience to be rather than who it really was. Basically I think it was quality all the way through but it was a terrible mismatch of target audience and delivery on the goods.

And that doesn't even begin to tackle the licensing agreement where the show was basically counting on a level of toy sales that it never saw. Which is ashame too because the stuff Bandai released was pretty good. But they took a mostly old-school "figure and vehicle" route as opposed to full on "Marvel Legends route" that was popular at the time. Bandai had what you would imagine was a good horizontal spread of scales and offerings, but I honestly think that lent to confusion regarding the toyline. Had they just committed vertically on the 4" scale and had more releases it might've done better by grabbing more dollars from the fans it had.

And after that of course, they did "Thundercats ROAR!" which was a maligned failure somewhat akin to TMNT going to "Rise".

[Antoniocafe]

It was ok. I love Will Friedle. I thought it could've used a little more action. Pretty much all that we got was build up. But we never got to see what it was building up to.

[Cowabung-Gal]

Had the series continued and did not get canceled, according to the producers:

Spoiler:

Pumyra would’ve turned into a mutant bug-like creature and Tygra would’ve slain her when it was made clear that she was beyond redemption, causing some tension to grow between Lion-O and him.

After the planned time skip, as an adult, Wilykit would’ve become Lion-O’s new love interest and eventually queen of the new Thundera (yeah, ew, no).

Cheetara and Tygra would’ve had a son together and his name would be, you guessed it, Bengali.

Lynx-O would’ve made his second appearance (his first was in the second episode) but would later be beheaded by Slithe due to the latter’s grudge against the former (yeah I’m not joking)

It would’ve been revealed that Third Earth is actually our Earth years into the future and that all of the anthropomorphic animals were created by Mumm-Ra using human blood

[Allio]

As an overarching plot, I thought it was okay. But I enjoyed it’s episodic stories the best.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Cowabung-Gal

Had the series continued and did not get canceled, according to the producers:

Spoiler:

Pumyra would’ve turned into a mutant bug-like creature and Tygra would’ve slain her when it was made clear that she was beyond redemption, causing some tension to grow between Lion-O and him.

After the planned time skip, as an adult, Wilykit would’ve become Lion-O’s new love interest and eventually queen of the new Thundera (yeah, ew, no).

Cheetara and Tygra would’ve had a son together and his name would be, you guessed it, Bengali.

Lynx-O would’ve made his second appearance (his first was in the second episode) but would later be beheaded by Slithe due to the latter’s grudge against the former (yeah I’m not joking)

It would’ve been revealed that Third Earth is actually our Earth years into the future and that all of the anthropomorphic animals were created by Mumm-Ra using human blood

Source/s ???

[Cowabung-Gal]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Source/s ???

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p...hunderCats2011

[TheBlueTurtle1]

Such a great show, still love it, I listen to a podcast a couple years ago, full of all the plans for season 2, it sounded awesome., Such a shame it was cancelled.

[ZariusTwo]

I wonder just how much a season two would have gotten past the censors? Unless they had planned for the show to move into Adult Swim or something...

[drgon78]

Yeah, season 2 sounded really wild, not sure if CN would have let them do all that stuff unless it did move to Adult Swim.

It is a real shame the toys did not sell, if it did we would have gotten a second season.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Source/s ???

I know she quoted Wiki, but that info has been out there for some years. A couple years after the show was cancelled their was a creator interview somewhere where they dumped the planned info.....

Originally Posted by drgon78

It is a real shame the toys did not sell, if it did we would have gotten a second season.

Exactly true.
I mentioned it above too but imagine a toy company basically making matched scale Thundercats figures using different names for generic animal people. Sort of how Articulated Icons got a Jubie Kibagami Ninja Scroll figure out there years ago with a head and body swap.

[drgon78]

Wasn't it Bandai that did the toys?

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by drgon78

Wasn't it Bandai that did the toys?

....Yup! ....

[Vegita-San]

Originally Posted by Cowabung-Gal

Had the series continued and did not get canceled, according to the producers:

Spoiler:

Pumyra would’ve turned into a mutant bug-like creature and Tygra would’ve slain her when it was made clear that she was beyond redemption, causing some tension to grow between Lion-O and him.

After the planned time skip, as an adult, Wilykit would’ve become Lion-O’s new love interest and eventually queen of the new Thundera (yeah, ew, no).

Cheetara and Tygra would’ve had a son together and his name would be, you guessed it, Bengali.

Lynx-O would’ve made his second appearance (his first was in the second episode) but would later be beheaded by Slithe due to the latter’s grudge against the former (yeah I’m not joking)

It would’ve been revealed that Third Earth is actually our Earth years into the future and that all of the anthropomorphic animals were created by Mumm-Ra using human blood

well, the last one is the only one I don't really mind. the rest, not so much. maybe it's a good thing it ended where it did. Third Earth in the original was obviously our earth as well, they pass over the friggen sphynx.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Vegita-San

well, the last one is the only one I don't really mind. the rest, not so much. maybe it's a good thing it ended where it did. Third Earth in the original was obviously our earth as well, they pass over the friggen sphynx.

That's exactly right... oddly enough a lot of people don't make that connection when they watch the show!

Man I feel like I want to sit through Thundercats now...

[drgon78]

Yeah, Third Earth was Earth in both versions.

[IMJ]

There were some truly great episodes too. The one with the Petulars was a masterpiece - it should have won an award.

And quite a few "fun" episodes, like Lion-O learning swordplay from the rabbit against the Swordsman.