One of the large names in 1980s cartoons, ThunderCats is back again, set to premiere on Cartoon Network on July 29 at 8 p.m. Its come back will be the outcome of individuals who grew watching the original Rankin/Bass series, who went along to work in the computer animation industry and today have a chance to breathe new life into the characters that created an influence on them many years ago.
There have already been many efforts to revive the adventures of Lion-O, Cheetara, Panthro and the rest, but absolutely nothing had truly stuck until the existing inventive team formed.
“It’s been in the works for a while,” states Jelenic. “I think this team came together and it sort of clicked and mostly that’s why it’s going right now. People have been waiting for this show for 25 years, but it’s been in development for two or three years.”
- Ethan Spaulding, Michael Jelenic, Dan Norton of ThunderCats
This particular group of three is rounded out by Ethan Spaulding, who became a member of Norton and Jelenic in January of 2010, right about some time the series was greenlit. Spaulding formerly worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender and is really a self-professed fan of anime series such as Future Boy Conan, Macross and Cowboy Bebop. He assisted in creating ThunderCats right into a grand saga which unfolds in a fashion comparable to anime serials and U.S. shows just like the Last Airbender.
The anime reviews go past the story plot of the new ThunderCats series as Warner Bros. labored with Japanese animation house Studio 4°C (Memories, Tweeny Witches, Detroit Metal City) on the project. The anime studio continues to be concerned in the series since the storyboarding process, that is atypical for this kind of a joint effort.
“In this case, we wanted the kind of filmmaking sense that they have in Japanese animation, so it made sense to have them take our scripts and storyboard an entire show,” states Spaulding.
Without doubt, the brand new ThunderCats series will tap right into a particular sense of nostalgia for people who grew up in the 1980s and might now be watching show with their own children, potential viewers which the team calls “ThunderDads.”
“We wanted those ThunderDads to like the show well enough that they could bring their kids in and watch it together, so it’s a family experience,” states Jelenic. “We made sure we stuck to certain characters, parts of the mythology. We break a lot of the old mythology, but more or less when you look at the show it looks like the old show, even though there are some pretty big departures.”
Nostalgia is really a strange factor, although, according to memories which have grown obscure with the passage of time.
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