Green Lantern: The Animated Series
02-26-13, 02:27 AM
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I really wish this didn't get cancelled. There's so many excellent stories that still need to be told and the character developments have just started getting good. 4 more? That's disappointing.
02-26-13, 08:13 AM
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Yeah, this show has really grown on me. I wasn't a huge fan of season one until the end, but this season has been fantastic.
02-26-13, 05:42 PM
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Yeah, Young Justice has a 20 episode season and 17 have aired. So 3 more episodes to go.
I liked the Larfleeze episode this week on GL. At the end when he was going to give them a gift, I was like, "Wait, that's totally out of character!" But then he couldn't even give them one of his flies.
I liked the Larfleeze episode this week on GL. At the end when he was going to give them a gift, I was like, "Wait, that's totally out of character!" But then he couldn't even give them one of his flies.
02-26-13, 08:54 PM
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03-04-13, 06:28 PM
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Re: Green Lantern: The Animated Series
From over at Bleeding Cool:
Bruce Timm, like many of us, was disappointed with Cartoon Network’s decision to not pick-up Green Lantern the Animated Series for second season since he said it was one the best things he’s ever worked on, and considering his career, that’s saying something. Anyway, I asked if it really came to down to the lack of merchandising sales, as Bleeding Cool had previously reported regarding Young Justice. He said yes. Since the Ryan Reynolds’ film, retailers were stuck with film merchandise that just wasn’t selling. This lead to those retailers being very reluctant, if not downright refusing, to any carry merchandise from the Animated Series. Therefore, a lack of sales on that front lead to a lack revenue for an admittedly expensive CG Series.
03-05-13, 02:33 PM
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The Green Lantern merchandise from the movie and the show couldn't be moved at all. Even now, I see it clogging up shelves. A movie with zero fan buzz will actively hurt toy sales. Warner should have pulled the movie from the summer schedule and retooled it.
03-05-13, 03:19 PM
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I have made an effort to buy all the Young Justice toys I could get my hands on but the Green Lantern movie toys were mostly crap.
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-...dp/B004UUKLT6/ shit sandwich
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-...dp/B004FV5XG6/ garbage
http://www.amazon.com/Lantern-Master...dp/B004TWV8OC/ Frasier
Why buy this http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-...dp/B004IYJ3EI/
when you could get this http://www.amazon.com/Universe-Infin...dp/B001MSY6YU/
So the shelves are flooded at Target and Toys R Us with this stuff nobody wants and meanwhile I'm like 4 degrees of separation from having seen a Young Justice Invasion figure.
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-...dp/B004UUKLT6/ shit sandwich
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-...dp/B004FV5XG6/ garbage
http://www.amazon.com/Lantern-Master...dp/B004TWV8OC/ Frasier
Why buy this http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-...dp/B004IYJ3EI/
when you could get this http://www.amazon.com/Universe-Infin...dp/B001MSY6YU/
So the shelves are flooded at Target and Toys R Us with this stuff nobody wants and meanwhile I'm like 4 degrees of separation from having seen a Young Justice Invasion figure.
03-05-13, 04:11 PM
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Of course Ryan Reynolds had to destroy the green lantern franchise...from the moment he was casted I knew the movie was going to bomb. Why can't DC get anything besides Batman right?
03-05-13, 04:50 PM
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Reynolds has tried latching on to a movie franchise since Blade Trinity.
03-05-13, 05:46 PM
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Damn! I can understand cancelling GL but not Young Justice. There's so much shit going on in YJ; there's no way they can tie it all up. CN sucks!
03-05-13, 05:51 PM
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03-07-13, 01:08 AM
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Its a SHAME that cartoons live or die by toy sales.
Seems DUMB to me.
Good to see the Science Guardian again, SCAR. Wish she had been a tad bit more scary looking.
Give her a dead eye.
Anyone notice Hal touching the BOOK of BLACK in Scar's secret lab?
Seems DUMB to me.
Good to see the Science Guardian again, SCAR. Wish she had been a tad bit more scary looking.
Give her a dead eye.
Anyone notice Hal touching the BOOK of BLACK in Scar's secret lab?
03-07-13, 01:12 AM
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I didn't notice that but I recognized the guardian as the one from blackest night. And I'm so glad Venture Bros and Archer don't have to rely on toy sells. I'm pretty sure that was the reason the new Thundercats cartoon was canceled.
03-07-13, 02:11 AM
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03-07-13, 09:54 AM
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Re: Green Lantern: The Animated Series
Is it that
A. Cartoons dont make enough money as shows to be profitab; or
B. Networks are greedy and want toy sales in addtition to show revenue?
Non-cartoon shows dont have toys.
A. Cartoons dont make enough money as shows to be profitab; or
B. Networks are greedy and want toy sales in addtition to show revenue?
Non-cartoon shows dont have toys.
03-07-13, 10:18 AM
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03-07-13, 01:32 PM
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Re: Green Lantern: The Animated Series
Cartoons used to be solely renewed on the basis of their ratings, before the early 1980s. That changed with the rise of shows like GI Joe and Transformers, which spawned massive toy lines.