Dat Thundercats ripoff
Nuff said.
shareGlad I wasn't the only who noticed this. I saw that once character and thought, "Lion-o?"
Why do you guys fight like this???
Fight Like this!!!
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MovieChat Forums > Legends of Chima (2013) Discussion > Dat Thundercats ripoff
Specifically the Thundercats revival: the main character's outfit even looks like the Lion-O redesign, and the beginning assault on the ruling-class lions' fortress by Crocs was just WAY too much like the opening 2-parter where Thundera is conquered.
I'll give it a chance, since Ninjago was amusing enough, but while I don't automatically mind a rip-off per se, if the new Thunder-toon isn't going to have a 3rd season, they'd better not have cancelled it explicitly to make room for Chima just because Lego convinced CN that they could outperform Bandai's toy sales. A Lego promo for Chima claimed its concepts were the closest to what their research showed boys wanted in a toyline, which begs the question: was the new Thundercats cartoon doing well enough that kids actually said, "We want Thundercat Legos"? grrrrrrr...
The main reason I intend to actually watch this series is that the vehicle designs seem to rip-off...well, draw from another '80s franchise that hardly anyone remembers because it died before it got off the ground: ANIMAX.
I have all 4 issues of the Marvel comic, and thought they never actually made any toys for it until some started showing up on ebay. It was set in a post-apocalyptic future where animals had to be saved from extinction by turning them into cyborg motor-vehicles. Yeah, it made a LITTLE more sense when the comics explained it. The good guys were 5 humans defending the city of Peopleopolis (yes, seriously) with animal-shaped helmets allowing them to control their animal/vehicles, and the bad guys were anthropomorphic animal mutants running their cyborgs like a biker gang; largely pigs and rats led by the demonic-looking X-tinctor (not sure about that spelling) whose beast was a fossilized skele-dragon-ram monster, the one genuinely bad-ass ride in the line. The hero, of course, had a hot-rod-lion named Jungle Max, and a sadly generic name for himself: Max Action. The whole idea was hampered by characters and vehicles having names that were either too long and clunky, or as dumb as any name Tonka used in GoBots or Spiral Zone, though another good guy can boast being the first ever Rhinox, almost a decade before Beast Wars.
Well, I probably will follow this one just because I still wish Lego had its own cartoons when I was a kid. Still, mostly hoping the Adult Swim Toonami reruns can save the real T-cats from the brink, if it's not already too late.
"Oh, I am going to smack you SO HARD if this works, movie!" -Crow T. Robot
Thanks for watching "Legends of Chima." I wrote most of the episodes, and I've read a few comments here and elsewhere about Thundercats vs. Chima. I actually never saw the original Thundercats, or ANY of the shows mentioned above. So it's a little weird to read these "rip-off" comments. I DID see the "Thundercats" revival, but our first few scripts were already locked and in production when the revival aired. I can't speak for everyone at Lego, but "Thundercats" was never a factor for me when writing and creating these stories. I always thought of it more as a kind of a "Game of Thrones" for kids than a fighting animal show. But maybe that's just me.
shareI like the show, jderevlany. And I'm in my 30s! I like that the crocs look like the Gorn! How many episodes are going to be in this first season?
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shareLegends of Chima reminds me more of the Battle Beasts.
It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the Lego of it in a toy store.
Just looking at the screenshots, it looks to me like LEGO+Thundercats+He-Man+Kung Fu Panda.
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