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Post by shaggyfan86 on Mar 8, 2023 12:52:57 GMT -5
On a side note, if Velma is moving over to TubiTV, maybe Pups will go there too? What was the announcement about Pups? If it gets pulled from Cartoonito, it could still be put on a free service, which would only help with exposure. Can Disney + or Nick get the rights to Scooby Doo the Franchise? That'd be ironic if its competition got the rights.
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Post by Ark on Mar 8, 2023 18:38:08 GMT -5
On a side note, if Velma is moving over to TubiTV, maybe Pups will go there too? What was the announcement about Pups? If it gets pulled from Cartoonito, it could still be put on a free service, which would only help with exposure. Can Disney + or Nick get the rights to Scooby Doo the Franchise? That'd be ironic if its competition got the rights. There was a satire article about WB selling Harry Potter and I believed it with all this going on.
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Post by vakanai on Mar 8, 2023 19:20:19 GMT -5
On a side note, if Velma is moving over to TubiTV, maybe Pups will go there too? What was the announcement about Pups? If it gets pulled from Cartoonito, it could still be put on a free service, which would only help with exposure. Can Disney + or Nick get the rights to Scooby Doo the Franchise? That'd be ironic if its competition got the rights. Or better yet, can Disney or Nick just get all of WB? Doesn't seem like Discovery/Zaslav wants it despite paying for it.
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Post by elemage on Mar 9, 2023 0:05:33 GMT -5
I heard Mystery Pups also leaked in full? Leaked by the same person who leaked Krypto? Can anyone confirm?
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Post by vakanai on Mar 9, 2023 0:29:54 GMT -5
I heard Mystery Pups also leaked in full? Leaked by the same person who leaked Krypto? Can anyone confirm? Leaked yes, in full no - they weren't as far along in production, so it's mostly animatics and scripts as I understand, and only for a few episodes.
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Post by hippyboy86 on Mar 9, 2023 15:25:32 GMT -5
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Post by ShaphneLegacy27 on Mar 9, 2023 19:03:00 GMT -5
I mean Nickelodeon already has the rights to the Smurfs which was originally Hanna Barbera so maybe they could end up buying Scooby-Doo and other Hanna Barbera content if WB doesn't want Scooby or goes bankrupt.
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Post by vakanai on Mar 10, 2023 19:47:55 GMT -5
Alright, I just watched the new trailer for the Seth Rogan TMNT movie, and oh my god it looks so incredible!!!!
Just wanted to post that because if WBD ever sells off Scooby, I'd love to see what Nickelodeon might do with the property.
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Post by Ark on Mar 10, 2023 22:59:24 GMT -5
I'm done with the Scooby franchise if they sell it off to Nick or Seth. Even this new Mario movie is getting more and more disappointing with every passing day. The human characters apart from the main characters look like Grubhub commercial characters. I'm getting old. I think that's what this feeling is. The Krypto leak may be the last of the normal Scooby movies. Hollywood, the market, and culture in general has just changed too much. Kids watch TikTok and play cell phone games. Film itself seems to be struggling because our attention spans are fried.
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Post by ShaphneFan on Mar 11, 2023 19:02:19 GMT -5
Honestly the way streaming services are going means we might as well have cable again.
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Post by barneynedward on Mar 11, 2023 21:01:26 GMT -5
I mean Nickelodeon already has the rights to the Smurfs which was originally Hanna Barbera so maybe they could end up buying Scooby-Doo and other Hanna Barbera content if WB doesn't want Scooby or goes bankrupt. The Smurfs was originally a Belgian comic strip.
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Post by wileyk209 on Mar 12, 2023 10:49:31 GMT -5
Or better yet, can Disney or Nick just get all of WB? Doesn't seem like Discovery/Zaslav wants it despite paying for it. Heck no! Viacom/Paramount/Nickelodeon would be a terrible idea, especially given the way they treat most of their pre-1990s animation library (i.e. the Terrytoons). Plus, they are far more greedy and heartless than WB-Discovery currently is. And Disney, definitely not. They already have so many IPs, especially after the 20th Century Fox buyout. But if that happen, then my "Robin Hood" YTP from almost ten years ago will come full circle... Although I largely made that due to all the animation cutbacks Walt Disney Animation Studios had to take when making "Robin Hood" starting to resemble a Hanna-Barbera cartoon at times (things weren't going well for Disney by that point after Walt died), along with how the Disney animated TV shows from the mid-80s to the early 90s often used the Hanna-Barbera sound effects library a lot (like "Gummi Bears," "The Wuzzles," "DuckTales," "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh," "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers," "TaleSpin" and "Darkwing Duck"). If another big company were to buy out Warner Bros., I could see Comcast/NBCUniversal doing so. After all, Warner and Universal already collaborate on some home media releases under the Studio Distribution Services name (the 50th anniversary 4K Blu-Ray of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" was released under that brand, rather than the regular Warner Home Video brand), and Warner also shares distribution rights to the 1971-82 DePatie-Freleng Dr. Seuss TV specials with Universal. Universal/MCA was also expressing interest in buying Hanna-Barbera back in 1991 before Turner beat them to the punch, as Universal had distributed the Jetsons theatrical movie and they also had the "Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera" ride at their theme parks in the 1990s. Additionally, Scooby-Doo and his human friends still appear as meetable characters at the Universal theme parks (they even now use the Scooby-Doo costume design originally developed for Warner Bros. World in Abu Dhabi!). Also, Universal also cares about classic animation in one way or another, the way Warner Bros. does (or at least, they did). But Comcast/Universal also now has Illumination AND DreamWorks Animation, so I'm not sure if they could manage also having Warner Animation Group. (I'm reminded of Disney shutting down Blue Sky among buying out 20th Century Fox.)
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Post by vakanai on Mar 12, 2023 15:09:49 GMT -5
Or better yet, can Disney or Nick just get all of WB? Doesn't seem like Discovery/Zaslav wants it despite paying for it. Heck no! Viacom/Paramount/Nickelodeon would be a terrible idea, especially given the way they treat most of their pre-1990s animation library (i.e. the Terrytoons). Plus, they are far more greedy and heartless than WB-Discovery currently is. And Disney, definitely not. They already have so many IPs, especially after the 20th Century Fox buyout. But if that happen, then my "Robin Hood" YTP from almost ten years ago will come full circle... Although I largely made that due to all the animation cutbacks Walt Disney Animation Studios had to take when making "Robin Hood" starting to resemble a Hanna-Barbera cartoon at times (things weren't going well for Disney by that point after Walt died), along with how the Disney animated TV shows from the mid-80s to the early 90s often used the Hanna-Barbera sound effects library a lot (like "Gummi Bears," "The Wuzzles," "DuckTales," "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh," "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers," "TaleSpin" and "Darkwing Duck"). If another big company were to buy out Warner Bros., I could see Comcast/NBCUniversal doing so. After all, Warner and Universal already collaborate on some home media releases under the Studio Distribution Services name (the 50th anniversary 4K Blu-Ray of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" was released under that brand, rather than the regular Warner Home Video brand), and Warner also shares distribution rights to the 1971-82 DePatie-Freleng Dr. Seuss TV specials with Universal. Universal/MCA was also expressing interest in buying Hanna-Barbera back in 1991 before Turner beat them to the punch, as Universal had distributed the Jetsons theatrical movie and they also had the "Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera" ride at their theme parks in the 1990s. Additionally, Scooby-Doo and his human friends still appear as meetable characters at the Universal theme parks (they even now use the Scooby-Doo costume design originally developed for Warner Bros. World in Abu Dhabi!). Also, Universal also cares about classic animation in one way or another, the way Warner Bros. does (or at least, they did). But Comcast/Universal also now has Illumination AND DreamWorks Animation, so I'm not sure if they could manage also having Warner Animation Group. (I'm reminded of Disney shutting down Blue Sky among buying out 20th Century Fox.) Fair enough - all I want is a company that will deliver some satisfying Scooby content, and right now that doesn't seem likely with "Cancel It All" Zaslav at the helm. He's canceled three movies and a show and won't even stream the show that did survive on WB's own streaming service. For the first time in nearly 20 years we don't know when or even if we'll get new Scooby content for the next few/several years. I honestly don't care about the business side of things of who owns Scooby, I just want more/new Scooby on my screen.
But maybe I'm just making too big a deal of it since I'm still bitter about Holiday Haunt, Haunted High Rise, Krypto seeming like it might not get an official release, and Mystery Pups. That's a lot of bad news in a heck of a short time period.
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Post by Ark on Mar 12, 2023 19:32:07 GMT -5
Honestly the way streaming services are going means we might as well have cable again. That's the plan, unironically. Netflix was the gateway drug into paying for the delivery service, too (internet subscription+streaming subscriptions).
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Post by jonathanmuddlemore on Mar 12, 2023 20:47:27 GMT -5
Heck no! Viacom/Paramount/Nickelodeon would be a terrible idea, especially given the way they treat most of their pre-1990s animation library (i.e. the Terrytoons). Plus, they are far more greedy and heartless than WB-Discovery currently is. And Disney, definitely not. They already have so many IPs, especially after the 20th Century Fox buyout. But if that happen, then my "Robin Hood" YTP from almost ten years ago will come full circle... Although I largely made that due to all the animation cutbacks Walt Disney Animation Studios had to take when making "Robin Hood" starting to resemble a Hanna-Barbera cartoon at times (things weren't going well for Disney by that point after Walt died), along with how the Disney animated TV shows from the mid-80s to the early 90s often used the Hanna-Barbera sound effects library a lot (like "Gummi Bears," "The Wuzzles," "DuckTales," "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh," "Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers," "TaleSpin" and "Darkwing Duck"). If another big company were to buy out Warner Bros., I could see Comcast/NBCUniversal doing so. After all, Warner and Universal already collaborate on some home media releases under the Studio Distribution Services name (the 50th anniversary 4K Blu-Ray of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" was released under that brand, rather than the regular Warner Home Video brand), and Warner also shares distribution rights to the 1971-82 DePatie-Freleng Dr. Seuss TV specials with Universal. Universal/MCA was also expressing interest in buying Hanna-Barbera back in 1991 before Turner beat them to the punch, as Universal had distributed the Jetsons theatrical movie and they also had the "Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera" ride at their theme parks in the 1990s. Additionally, Scooby-Doo and his human friends still appear as meetable characters at the Universal theme parks (they even now use the Scooby-Doo costume design originally developed for Warner Bros. World in Abu Dhabi!). Also, Universal also cares about classic animation in one way or another, the way Warner Bros. does (or at least, they did). But Comcast/Universal also now has Illumination AND DreamWorks Animation, so I'm not sure if they could manage also having Warner Animation Group. (I'm reminded of Disney shutting down Blue Sky among buying out 20th Century Fox.) Fair enough - all I want is a company that will deliver some satisfying Scooby content, and right now that doesn't seem likely with "Cancel It All" Zaslav at the helm. He's canceled three movies and a show and won't even stream the show that did survive on WB's own streaming service. For the first time in nearly 20 years we don't know when or even if we'll get new Scooby content for the next few/several years. I honestly don't care about the business side of things of who owns Scooby, I just want more/new Scooby on my screen. Not to diminish Zaslav's awful decisions regarding finished projects, but how do you think it feels for fans of Jonny Quest? Or Rocky and Bullwinkle? Or Mighty Mouse? Scooby is incredibly lucky to have been kept alive as long as it has. Keep in mind, the majority of the recent projects have been met with negativity by fans.
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