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I was talking to a girlfriend and she believes She-Ra and He-Man will be over in 20 years and forgotten in 50 years. I told her it can live on like Star Wars if the movie gets made and she laughed at that. Am I crazy or do you think like me that my two favorite twins can last 4Ever.
I agree with you that it can, but that is largely down to Mattel, or whoever has the movie rights in time to make a movie.Â
If done right they could inspire a whole new generation but if fumbled then your girlfriend could be right.Â
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I agree with you that it can, but that is largely down to Mattel, or whoever has the movie rights in time to make a movie.Â
If done right they could inspire a whole new generation but if fumbled then your girlfriend could be right.Â
Yes. A hit series of movies can unequivocally ensure the future of this brand. Having faith in Mattel not to fumble it is a scary proposition.
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@elder yep, I feel movies are key. I just don't think they'll bring a new generation on board with an animation. I really enjoyed Revelation and I'm looking forward to Revolution, but I don't think kids are clamoring for it.Â
And to be honest, that seems right. They're making Revolution and Revelation before it, to appeal to the Filmation/ vintage generation primarily as far as I can tell, and I'm here for it!Â
A new generation could more easily get behind an awesome film franchise and then start buying film specific toys and only then start to discover the rabbit hole of MOTU.
"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."
Bowie
It will always have an audience, it's just hard to break out from it sometimes. That said, the recent She-Ra did catch lightning in a bottle and became very much a part of cultural conversation, for good and ill, so it can happen again.
As many others have said that a movie would help keep in in the spotlight. Alsothey need a continued presence on store shelves. Without that I could potentially see an audience but a very small one after we’re all goneÂ
It will always have an audience, it's just hard to break out from it sometimes. That said, the recent She-Ra did catch lightning in a bottle and became very much a part of cultural conversation, for good and ill, so it can happen again.
It was big to be the first mainstream kids cartoon to have a lgbtq title character.
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People are still reading authors such as Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton) and Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent) who wrote very different kinds of pulp fiction circa the 1930s and have had enough revivals since to interest some new fans. It's the nature of pop culture to recycle things; another couple of old ones from different ends of the spectrum are Nancy Drew (Stratemeyer updated them as attitudes changed) and The Phantom (still big in international markets).
Movies can't hurt, even if they flop. People get exposed to a show like Defenders of the Earth that reinvented various King Features characters from fifty years earlier and find their way back to the original material.
People are still reading authors such as Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton) and Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent) who wrote very different kinds of pulp fiction circa the 1930s and have had enough revivals since to interest some new fans. It's the nature of pop culture to recycle things; another couple of old ones from different ends of the spectrum are Nancy Drew (Stratemeyer updated them as attitudes changed) and The Phantom (still big in international markets).
Movies can't hurt, even if they flop. People get exposed to a show like Defenders of the Earth that reinvented various King Features characters from fifty years earlier and find their way back to the original material.
When you brought up pulp writers from the 1930's I could not help but recollect another pulp writer who has ties to this brand's history... Robert E. Howard created Conan the Barbarian around or before that same decade! 🙂
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Mmm. There are big gaps in my knowledge, but swords/sorcery/science were huge in the post-WW1 period with escapism being on everyone's minds -- including things like school stories that played on idealised nostalgia. Tolkien was putting together Middle Earth throughout the 30s and then fantasy exploded again in the 70s with D&D laying the groundwork for movies and things like MOTU. Once a genre becomes established it's all cyclical.
Of course, the creators of MOTU hedging their bets and throwing in everything including dinosaurs, gun-slingers, ninjas, etc doesn't hurt.
@elder yep, I feel movies are key. I just don't think they'll bring a new generation on board with an animation. I really enjoyed Revelation and I'm looking forward to Revolution, but I don't think kids are clamoring for it.Â
And to be honest, that seems right. They're making Revolution and Revelation before it, to appeal to the Filmation/ vintage generation primarily as far as I can tell, and I'm here for it!Â
A new generation could more easily get behind an awesome film franchise and then start buying film specific toys and only then start to discover the rabbit hole of MOTU.
Yes a movie will be the trick mate. Look around us. Fans in their 40th and 50th decades buying action figures again and watching He-Man cartoons. Can this cycle repeat with cartoons? The new children's reboot says otherwise. As with Transformers, a popular movie is surely the way.
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. -James Cameron
@elder yep, I feel movies are key. I just don't think they'll bring a new generation on board with an animation. I really enjoyed Revelation and I'm looking forward to Revolution, but I don't think kids are clamoring for it.Â
And to be honest, that seems right. They're making Revolution and Revelation before it, to appeal to the Filmation/ vintage generation primarily as far as I can tell, and I'm here for it!Â
A new generation could more easily get behind an awesome film franchise and then start buying film specific toys and only then start to discover the rabbit hole of MOTU.
Yes a movie will be the trick mate. Look around us. Fans in their 40th and 50th decades buying action figures again and watching He-Man cartoons. Can this cycle repeat with cartoons? The new children's reboot says otherwise. As with Transformers, a popular movie is surely the way.
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Exactly. When we were kids, these cartoons lasted for a long long time. We didn't have that many options in terms of good quality shows to watch and so we watched and rewatched the great options we had. These cartoons were on continuous repeat on kids after school TV.
These days kids are watching via streaming services on demand and their attention span jumps from one thing to another with alarming speed. Nothing gets a chance to become iconic, its all disposable content.Â
Movies seen in the movie theater are much more likely to create an iconic moment for kids today, and create the desire for "merch".
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MOTU, POP & NA will live forever. 😀Â
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As long as they keep making content, either new series, or as many have said here, movies, I think they'll be around for a while. Just look at the TMNT.
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As long as they keep making content, either new series, or as many have said here, movies, I think they'll be around for a while. Just look at the TMNT.
TMNT is on another level bro. Look how many movies they had. We are still stuck at 1.
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@he-dad exactly. The people at Mattel (or Dreamworks, if the rights change over) need to get their rears in gear and start planning out a film series.
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@costume-n00b I absolutely agree with the idea of a film series!
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Masterverse wishlist:
Catra 2018 (season 4)
He-Man 2002 (Snake Armor)
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She-Ra 2018 (season 5)
Skeletor 2002
If no movie or series occur then they need to at least keep a presence on the toy shelves like marvel and star wars
@catra That better not take forever! I don't want to be old lady in a She-Ra costume in the cinema. 😹