I know they supposedly stopped making this show because Bill Scott, the voice of Moosel, died. But he also did the voice of Gruffi on "The Gummi Bears" at the same time, and they didn't stop making that show after he died, because they got a replacement for him. If they could get a replacement for him on "The Gummi Bears", why couldn't they get a replacement for him on this show?
shareGood question...I loved The Wuzzles, and I would have loved to continue seeing the show! I can only assume that Disney didn't want to support 2 shows and chose the higher rated one, or that the replacement for Gruffi didn't want to also do the voice of Moosel. What a shame, either way.
shareYeah, basically ratings. One of the writers talks a little about it here (fourth & fifth paragraph):
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_01_24.html#016578
There were more episodes planned but nothing ever came of them other than storyboards and not many of them survived. I know that a few of the eps were going to include other wuzzles such as Pandeaver and Koalakeet and Skowl.
There was an episode where butterbear and hoppo opened up a daycare for the wuzzle babies which was also another toyline that never made it, there were a total of 6 babies and 15 plushies made of each wuzzle baby. These were made exclusivly for the investors of the show. Sadly they were never released to the general public, yet few have leeked their way onto the internet and are being sold on ebay. I curently have all but 1 toy and I plan on getting it.
Back to the eps, there was also 3 more eps that were based on books and the story was actually going to start involving children like the books did.
Again these idea's were never given their chance.
Also a bit of trivia, people claim Michael Eisner was one of the worst CEO's of all time at Disney, that all he did was milk sequels and prequels for all they were worth. However as arrogant and hated as this man was he was the one who came up with the idea of the wuzzles only after he saw the toyline which was created by I believe the womans name was martha and her last name escapes me.
MrEisner got the show rolling and sadly it came to a hault after only 13episodes.
Good point. In fact, Eisner helped raise the bar for tv animation when he got Disney involved in tv animation. For all of his arrogance and alienating blunders, I still have to give him credit for opening the door to the shows I treasure to this day: Wuzzles, Talespin, Gargoyles, etc.
shareThe sad irony is that both might have survived if they hadn't been in the same time slot, with Wuzzles on CBS and Gummi Bears on NBC (this was before Disney bought ABC).
Not sure if I can picture Corey Burton (Bill Scott's replacement on GB) voicing Moosel, though. Someone who I think would have worked had he been discovered early enough is Jim Cummings (who hails from my hometown area of Youngstown Ohio and is a fellow Ursuline High School alumnus), but maybe that's just me.