why did the new thundercats fail and this succeeded? - Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016) Discussion

[–] racy1285 8 years ago

Nope. The Thundercats reboot wanted to sell alot of toys and it didnt. So they canceled it.

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I'd say its a mix of that and the ratings it got while on air. I wish it had been on Netflix though, things were getting really interesting.

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[–] mauirixxx 8 years ago

I was really shocked Thundercats "failed" - it was a solid show that dealt with some very adult themes I thought.

I don't remember much of the 80's version of Thundercats, so I don't know how true the reboot stayed to the source material, but I really really digged the reboot.

I would love to see Thundercats get the Netflix treatment the way Voltron did. One can home, right?

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[–] ImaWeabooApparantly 8 years ago

Because this isn't on Cartoon Network. If there is any action cartoon on CN, it'll get axed after a season because of toy sales.

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[–] GrimeyRickGrimes 7 years ago

Exactly. Cartoon Network sucks. I can't believe they cancelled Symbionic Titan.

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[–] owen1975 7 years ago

Don't know the answer but wish Netflix would pick it up and continue. The reboot was so good.

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[–] mrmad2001 7 years ago

I have no clue, but I did like the semi Thundercats reference in season 2 episode 4.

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[–] windquake 7 years ago

Which reference was that? I must have missed it!

I hate IMDB's Signature policy...

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[–] mrmad2001 7 years ago

Coran tells one of the Voltron members to either fix the samophlange, or get the samophlange and they do a brief pause. It's more of a reference to the classic Thundercats Outtake video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftU5GfORvH8

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[–] Dblshotz 7 years ago

Id love to see a crossover episode of Voltron/Thundercats. Its completely plausable that they exist in the same universe.

Anyone who uses the term "Mary Sue" is a dirty neck beard having homosexual hipster.

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[–] ArchAngelJosh 7 years ago

That's easy. Thundercats completely destroyed the original story and characters in the reboot. The first season wasn't too bad, honestly, despite all the iffy changes. But, by season two it was pretty much unwatchable by its target audience. (People who were huge fans as kids who would both watch it and get their kids hooked on it too.)

I'm sure Netflix would have helped it, but it still would have likely bombed. The people doing Voltron understood that they needed to grab and keep the original audience and let it spread through them. Yes, there are changes in this from the original, but they kept the core essence of the main characters (other than Coran) the same and included enough of the original elements to keep the original audience hooked.

Too many people doing reboots/remakes today forget that the whole point in redoing a successful intellectual property is to have a built in audience you already know love the material. Then you make it just different/updated enough to keep them hooked, without making it so different that it might as well be a whole new show/movie.

I thought the He-Man reboot Cartoon Network did in the early 2000's did this well, for instance.

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