Trivia / ThunderCats Roar

• Early-Bird Release: “Exodus” was released to the Cartoon Network app six weeks before its linear premiere.
• Out of Order: "Mandora Saves Christmas" was meant to air before "Plundmas", as that episode has Santa Claus in jail in reference to the end of the former. Instead, it was held over to air in December, becoming the last broadcast episode of the series.
• Promoted Fanboy:
  • Victor Courtright watched a lot of ThunderCats (1985) growing up, and often looked at it and its intro for reference when learning to animate. Now he's working on his own ThunderCats show. This is backed by a later interview with Toonsphere.
  • Musician Stephen Lee Bruner, also known as Thundercat, grew up watching the 80s series that inspired his stage name. Cut to 2020, and he gets to gleefully participate in Roar as its version's Grune the Destroyer, even providing the vocals to a music video explaining Grune's origins.
• Remake Cameo: Larry Kenney is the original voice of Lion-O in the 1985 series, and voiced Lion-O's dad Claudus in the 2011 series. Here, he voices Jaga.
• Role Reprise:
  • In the Hungarian dub, Tamás Markovics reprises his role as Lion-O from the 2011 series.
  • The Fake Crossover episode ends with Larry Kenney playing the original Lion-O.
• Schedule Slip: Was meant to premiere in 2019, but the year came and went with little peep from the series, and it instead made its debut at the start of 2020.
• Screwed by the Network: It got a Saturday morning premiere timeslot along with Cartoon Network's more adored shows, and was consistently and heavily advertised during this period, but had virtually no reruns. And if there actually was a rerun, it would most likely be on the weekend right before [adult swim]. After the middle of the first season, the show (being the only one on the Saturday morning block to have this distinction), was removed entirely due to the block being pulled, and Cartoon Network dedicating most of their weekend to Teen Titans Go! and The Amazing World of Gumball. New episodes would eventually return on November 2nd with heavy advertising; however, they aired at 8:00am ^note bar the Thanksgiving Episode which aired at 9:45am on a Saturday morning, when the target audience would be too busy getting ready for school, with reruns being non-existent. The staff soon revealed on Twitter the show had ended production for the time being, with "Grune" as the last episode to be made (and "Mandora Saves Christmas", held over for the holiday season, being the last episode broadcast).
• What Could Have Been: According to David Horvath's Twitter on Feb 26, 2023◊, he was asked to make a comedic series take on ThunderCats in 2016. Thereby, the idea predates Roar by four years. While he did some pitch sketches at a sushi diner to grasp the idea's foundation, he never had time to commit to it.

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