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Post by dizagaox on Aug 5, 2022 9:00:32 GMT -5
I believe quite literally the worst possible news is incoming. Worse than all the Scooby projects getting canceled? Well yes that is it.
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Post by Ark on Aug 5, 2022 9:10:36 GMT -5
Yeah, this recent news is pretty shocking. I had no idea streaming wasn't doing well, but then the recent economy downturn and end of major lockdowns in most areas have definitely affected what we spend our money on.
Like streaming, Dungeons & Dragons sold a lot of books during the major lockdowns and they're now trying to recoup losses now that people are back to actually playing in person and don't want a stack of books on lore and simple campaign ideas.
Bouncing back from the lockdowns, I believe a great deal of businesses will be having similar troubles. Even Lego put out their "Missions" sets which were sorta late to the game and heavily criticized. They didn't include instruction manuals, and you had to download an app to build them. During the lockdowns that might have been acceptable enough, but it's just a plain overcharged inconvenience now. It's interesting how much business models were affected by this.
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Post by ShaphneLegacy27 on Aug 6, 2022 16:43:52 GMT -5
Personally hope Velma and Mystery Pups are cancelled. Scooby-Doo is meant to be one of those things everyone can watch and not a selected age audience.
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Post by dizagaox on Aug 7, 2022 9:53:37 GMT -5
So whilst Velma might not air on HBO Max, it’s not dead. Fox and The CW (post-sale) are interested in the series.
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Post by ShaphneLegacy27 on Aug 7, 2022 11:57:15 GMT -5
If either one picks it up it should be heavily re-worked to not feature any Scooby-Doo characters and maybe make this version of Velma her cousin.
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Post by dizagaox on Aug 7, 2022 18:40:24 GMT -5
If either one picks it up it should be heavily re-worked to not feature any Scooby-Doo characters and maybe make this version of Velma her cousin. Mate, we get it. You don’t want the show to exist because it’s for older audiences. Sensible thing is to just not talk about it, no?
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Post by ShaphneLegacy27 on Aug 7, 2022 20:58:29 GMT -5
Mate, we get it. You don’t want the show to exist because it’s for older audiences. Sensible thing is to just not talk about it, no? It's not that it's a Scooby-Doo inspired adult series, it's that I just would prefer it to use original characters over the Scooby cast to avoid controversy. They have dozens of original shows which are just Scooby-Doo clones.
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Post by russm on Aug 8, 2022 3:30:13 GMT -5
So whilst Velma might not air on HBO Max, it’s not dead. Fox and The CW (post-sale) are interested in the series. I thought The CW were having their own bonfire of shows, or even on the bonfire themselves.
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Post by dizagaox on Aug 8, 2022 4:53:21 GMT -5
So whilst Velma might not air on HBO Max, it’s not dead. Fox and The CW (post-sale) are interested in the series. I thought The CW were having their own bonfire of shows, or even on the bonfire themselves. Yes, but once it's sold, it will have a new programming slate.
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Post by dizagaox on Aug 8, 2022 4:58:00 GMT -5
Mate, we get it. You don’t want the show to exist because it’s for older audiences. Sensible thing is to just not talk about it, no? It's not that it's a Scooby-Doo inspired adult series, it's that I just would prefer it to use original characters over the Scooby cast to avoid controversy. They have dozens of original shows which are just Scooby-Doo clones. I count we've had 11+ different on-screen iterations of Scooby-Doo. Whilst the changes they're making are more visually different in this new Velma iteration, i.e. Velma is Indian, Shaggy is black, Fred is gay, etc., I don't understand why you have an issue with this and not, say, Be Cool Scooby-Doo. Unless you have an issue with all iterations of the characters besides the original?
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Post by russm on Aug 8, 2022 10:44:54 GMT -5
I had issues with Be Cool Scooby Doo.
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Post by ShaphneLegacy27 on Aug 8, 2022 11:51:04 GMT -5
I count we've had 11+ different on-screen iterations of Scooby-Doo. Whilst the changes they're making are more visually different in this new Velma iteration, i.e. Velma is Indian, Shaggy is black, Fred is gay, etc., I don't understand why you have an issue with this and not, say, Be Cool Scooby-Doo. Unless you have an issue with all iterations of the characters besides the original? I am mostly a pre-1988 old school fan but the only modern WB Scooby shows I can tolerated are What's New? and Guess Who?. Why I don't like certain incarnations: Pup = Never was a fan of turning older characters into younger characters unless it's just for a one-time flashback Get A Clue = Just feels like an original show with Scooby and Shaggy self-inserted SDMI = Toxicity of the gang's new personalities, unnecessary romance Be Cool = Not a fan of the "calarts" designs, dumb writing Live-Action Movies = CGI uncanny, dumb writing, unnecessary romance, not fond of making Scrappy the antagonist in the 1st, there should be no modern technology in the prequels as Where Are You? is set in the late 1960's/early 1970's. And you have to remember that not everyone is fond of turning characters who existed for 40+ years into LGBT representatives. I have no problem with LGBT being in animation, but they should be original/new characters.
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Post by Ark on Aug 8, 2022 14:07:22 GMT -5
>modern technology in the prequels
To be fair, Craig Titley started that, not Gunn. Why WB hired James Gunn at the time to write a Scooby film is still beyond me. He had just done a couple adult parody films and frankly, did a great parody with the first film. Seeing it as canon is a mistake, imo.
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Post by dizagaox on Aug 9, 2022 14:07:24 GMT -5
It's confirmed that Hanna-Barbera abandoned the trademark for the show last month. Doesn't mean it's dead-dead but it does imply they're not moving forward with it.
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Post by Doo on Aug 9, 2022 15:28:14 GMT -5
It's confirmed that Hanna-Barbera abandoned the trademark for the show last month. Doesn't mean it's dead-dead but it does imply they're not moving forward with it. Is this screenshot from WB's internal records or is it available online somewhere?
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