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#NEW THUNDERCATS CARTOON. SERIES#
It seemed just as much an echo of Japanese series like Voltron and Space Battleship Yamato (or Star Blazers in America) as its own unique world.īut that lack of a strong and detailed setting gives Nacelle and Super7 a lot of room to work in terms of updating the series for a more modern audience - there are plenty of intriguingly drawn characters, like the non-verbal alien mime elf Copper Kidd, who could finally get more of a backstory and a world to fit into. Like so many 1980s animated fantasies, it showcases a lot of variety and imagination, and not much depth. (At least until ThunderCats’ final era, when the action moved to space.) The backdrop is an entire galaxy, where the SilverHawks face off against a wide variety of weird schemes. The ThunderCats young leader Lion-O and his six noble warriors have escaped their homeworlds doom and now use their super powers to fight Mumm-Ra and the. Welcome to the seventh installment of Nostalgia Snake, a look at 2000s revivals of 1980s properties, revivals now so old theyre also quite nostalgic. When WildStorm Productions revived ThunderCats as a comic in the 00s, it was as tame as the 80s cartoon until a shocking last-issue twist. SilverHawks always felt much more thematically chaotic, and like it took place in a far larger setting. WildStorms ThunderCats Revival Was Pure 80s Nostalgia. The original 1980s ThunderCats had a strong backbone in its core Egyptian theme: The villain is a mummy who lives in a pyramid, the heroes are cat-people, and the subsidiary villains are humanoid versions of animals that feature prominently in Egyptian mythology, including jackals, crocodiles, vultures, and monkeys.
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Much like ThunderCats, the show focused on the heroes’ found-family team dynamics and cooperation as they went up against a deep rogues’ gallery of adversaries themed around animals, robots, music, and a lot more. THUNDERCATS Series Coming Soon to Cartoon Network Roaring to life through WBA and Studio4☌’s use of the Japanese animated artistry of anime, ThunderCats characters Lion-O, Mumm-Ra, Panthro, Cheetara and others will spring off the screen with realistic cat-like characteristics inconceivable in previous incarnations. SilverHawks centers on a group of cyborg space cops, “partly metal, partly real,” fighting the transforming alien mob boss called Mon*Star. It could also serve to build a more compelling and fully realized world around what was initially a fairly shallow setup. But just as the 2011 ThunderCats reboot elaborated on the original series’ fantasy setting and added intrigue and deeper character relationships and motivations, a modern SilverHawks reboot has a lot of potential.