|
Narrative
|
redirected from Main.GummiBears alt title(s): Gummi Bears 
"Dashing and daring, courageous and caring, Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears is a truly groundbreaking series by Walt Disney. Although the The Wuzzles was Disney's first original animated TV series, that was a really a trial run for this series that almost immediately made the company a dominant force in television animation.
The key to this success that Disney gambled that if they have a big budget to produce a quality series, they could recoup in syndication. As it happens, the dare worked and a new era of unprecedented quality in western television animation was born.
The series takes place in The Theme Park Version of medieval time, centuries after the Great Gummis fled across the sea while a small caretaker colony stayed behind in Gummi Glen in the Kingdom of Dunwyn to maintain the civilization's extremely sophisticated infrastructure on the off-chance the Gummis could return to live with humans in peace.
Unfortunately when the story begins, the Glen Gummis declined to only six descendants who have forgotten their past skills. Fortunately, they meet a friendly human boy named Cavin who has a Gummi Medallion that unlocks their library's Great Book of Gummi, the essential book of their culture's knowledge. Inspired, the colony decide to rediscover their heritage and help the boy whose kingdom is under dire threat.
That threat comes in the form of Duke Igthorn of Drekmore and his army of really dumb ogres. He is out to conquer Dunwyn and upon discovering that the supposedly mythological Gummi Bears exist, he will stop at nothing to exploit their secrets like their powerful magic and technology for his own use. Furthermore, he is but the most frequent of a whole host of enemies that the Gummi Bears, and their human allies which later include Princess Calla, must oppose.
At the most uncharitable, you could call this series a copy of The Smurfs, but it's more accurate to be essentially Disney's chance to show how to do the premise right. Apart from obviously lavish animation, the series addressed the major complaints of the H-B series and the basic ideology of 1980s; for instance, individuality is celebrated in proper proportion to the value of cooperation and the primary characters are far more nuanced with characters with carefully considered flaws and strengths. Furthermore, the female characters avoid the The Smurfette Principle sexism with multiple characters with strong well defined personalities who bow to no one.
Even more amazing, this is perhaps the first western animated series with a Grand Finale.
If you're wondering how they came up with a premise for, of all things, Gummi Bears, as the story goes Michael Eisner was inspired when he was snacking on themFaithful and friendly with stories to share, All through the forest they sing out in chorus, Marching along as their song fills the air..."  . True story, straight from That Other Wiki.
Characters:
Gummi Bears includes examples of:
|
This wiki is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
