Not talking about the movie. Someone recently bought the rights to continue the cartoon series, and their announced plans for it are an abomination. We talked about it a few months ago, but I'll jog your memory:
- New series takes place in modern Los Angeles.
- Thundercats are a Rock Band during the day, fight Mumra when not "rocking out."
- Every member of the Thundercats now has a unique Eye of Thundara.
- Snarf is turned from the bumbling coward he was to a spiritual warrior/guru for the Thundercats, and he may also become the new leader (though Liono would still be prince, duh).
- Mumra and his forces all have new abilities. For example, Mumra now has wings when he isn't in his fragile form.
- Some new species/mutation of the Robears will be allied with the new Thundercats.
- All of this will be done using the animation styles of Teen Titans (read: cheap mock-anime with terrible shading and lots of excessive expression).
While none of that has been officially announced, but the concept was leaked about 6-12 months ago. Apparently, based on the awesome sales of the overpriced Thundercats series DVDs, a company (I'm only guessing Fox because they seem to love pumping out shitty cartoons as of late) made the move to attain the cartoon rights and start marketing for a hip new generation.
Needless to say, Thundercats are officially dead in my mind. I'd rather let the beauty of the original series rest in the back of my memories instead of having their rotting corpse raped with the dual combination of a terribly conceived cartoon and a Thundercats movie-turned furry flick. RIP TC 4eva.
