Genres: action, adventure, science fiction Themes: aliens Objectionable content: Mild Plot Summary: Following the destruction of their home planet Thundera, the surviving Thunderans (a cat-human race) hope to find a new home, only to be attacked by mutant pirates. All but one Thunderan ship are destroyed by the mutant attacks. Aboard that ship, Jaga instructs seven other Thunderans to board their stasis pods while he directs the ship to the nearest planet Third Earth. The ship crashes, Jaga dies and the other Thunderans call Third Earth their new home. Gifted with the ability to use the coveted Sword of Omens, the young Lion-O takes leadership of the Thundercats to battle the mutants and their new leader Mumm-ra, who has awakened from his eternal sleep on the planet. Number of episodes: 130 Vintage: 1985-01-23 to 1986-12-05
Genres: action, science fiction Objectionable content: Mild Plot Summary: The kingdom of Thundera has been attacked by an army of Lizard people. Lion-O and the Thundercats are set on a quest to obtain the Book of Omens to help restore their kingdomâs peace. The team will have to face numerous villians that stand in their way including Mumm-Ra & Slythe. With the Sword of Omens in Lion-Oâs possession, heâll be able to use its powers to fight off the evil that stands before him on his quest. Number of Episodes: 26 Vintage: 2011-07-29
Warner Bros has start re-releasing the original series again except in 2 disc single sided 12 episode sets. Looking like itâd take them 10 to 11 sets at that episode count per set. I know the first set of the original release was double sided disc. I donât know about after that.
If you go to this http://tv.ign.com/articles/118/1182312p1.html, you can hear some of the music for the new ThunderCats series done by Kevin Kliesch. He did a very good job with the music, in my opinion.
While I enjoyed, and still do, the classic series, Iâd like them to take a not everything is âblack and whiteâ view of the world. Just from what they show and say in the trailer, Iâd like for this to happen:
[details=spoiler]So the show is set on Third-Earth from the get go, maybe thatâs because theyâve exhausted their planetâs, Thundera, natural resources, thus necessitating space exploration. Finding TE full of natural resources, and âprimitiveâ indigenous life, they go about colonizing and conquering the planet; thus making their empire one above all others and the scene were the reptilians are chained and slaving away make senses. Eventually, like all conquerors, time passes on and the descendants soon forget, or are taught a more âpatrioticâ history, all the while the conquered races, some who might have been enemies at one time, soon band together to reclaim their planet.
Maybe the show will be not only about young Lion-O protecting his people but also about learning the truth of the people of TE, and his struggle, both inner and outer, to make it right [/details]
Well, I think thatâd be cool. I just hope they donât cancel it mid-story like they did with He-Man.
So what your saying lets hope the toys do well and the donât make 17 versions of Mumm-Ra and Lion-O that sit on the selves to they clearance them?
It really was a shame the Four Horsemen sculpts for the 2002 series were amazing. The line did not hit with kids though. It did decent I heard with collectors though. Which is probably why Matty Collector came about. Shame the company that is making the stuff seems to be getting the figures made poorly at times. Heard countless stories of stuff breaking in transit or legs just coming off. Should not happen for something that cost more then 3 standard figures.
Oh well back to Thundercats the toyline has both a new line and classic line if I read right so they are at least trying to aim at both kids and adults.
TVGuide has no repeat listings for the 2 weeks it shows. But it also doesnât have any listings for additional episodes either, so Iâm not sure whatâs going on with it.
Correction, it has 1 listing for the next episode on the 5th.
