Cartoon Network Upfront 2014

I can't believe I still get disappointed every year when Sym-Bionic Titan or something Gendy related isn't on there...

Genndy is 100% done with CN after Sym was canceled, and to be fair, the last season of Dexter's Lab was pretty lazy. But the Robo Dexo 3000 ep was a truly epic and somewhat stand alone dark episode. He's now doing work on a new Popeye movie i've heard. hope it's a lot more bareable than HT.

I just saw a Promo for Clarence. It looks pretty neat actually. They might have a winner with Clarence if it can differentiate itself somewhat from Adventure Time and Steven Universe.

The fact that Clarence already shows he's just a regular kid(No magic, No weapons, just normal.)is already diffrinating. He has a truly realistic, non-sureal world where everything is more or less "Down to Earth". Kinda like Doug.

News: Cartoon Brew confirms that The Looney Tunes Show Season One character designer, Jessica Borutski, is designing again for Wabbit. In fact, she drew the promo poster!

If the new Bugs Bunny cartoon is a lot like the "Casa de Calma episode" of The Looney Tunes Show, then I'm definitely interested.

edited 11th Mar '14 7:26:40 PM by Lionheart0

I'm cool with that. Boruttski's cartooning skills are fantastic, I'll gladly take her in a directorial role.

I am SO pleased she was brought back to the studio!

... somehow I feel like Wabbit is the Laugh Riot pitch they wanted to do before the sitcom idea came up.

edited 11th Mar '14 7:45:21 PM by Shota

Too much comedy. Not enough action.

Looks like the C in CN still stands for Comedy, not Cartoon.

Oh you DID see this thread.

Good for you. Who's a good troper??

From the look of things, the only two things I'm really interested in seeing right now are Wabbit and Sonic Boom. I'll be the first to say I really wasn't feeling the Looney Toons show, so anything with more of a focus on slapstick instead of... well, whatever we got for LTS... well, I'm honestly looking forward to it. And Sonic Boom looks to be basically the spiritual auccessor to Ao St H, which is pretty much the one Sonic cartoon I still enjoy these days.

I'll have to look over the list again and see if anything stands out to me, but so far that's all I'm really seeing. Too bad there's not a single action-focused cartoon on there, but I guess that's just what "those kids nowadays" are asking for these days. :P

edited 12th Mar '14 7:36:42 AM by Bobinator

The cold hard reality is that that's not true - more and more kids are watching action anime on the internet, to escape all the comedy.

Hopefully, Sonic Boom will be a little less....... annoying though.

That's my fear as well. It seemed kind of grating in the brief preview we got of it when the show and games were announced.

Eh, it's basically the cutscenes of Colors and onward in show form, and that's all I've been wanting Sega to do since Colors was a thing. :P It's got to be better than Sonic X, at any rate.

edited 12th Mar '14 11:26:06 AM by Bobinator

The lack of Chris Thorndyke makes it better than Sonic X by default.

Never assume that.

EX-FUCKING-ACTLY.

This show could introduce worse characters (human or not) to hurt things royally with.

edited 12th Mar '14 11:10:34 AM by TheShopSoldier

Looking at Scooby's new design, the only thing that really bugs me about it is the eyes.

The eeeeeeyezzzz.... THE EEEYEZZZ!!! THEY WON'T GO AWAY!!

Fixed.

That. SO much.

Anyone else think the new Scooby-Doo looks like he was designed by John Kricfalusi?

My only actual issue with it is the head looks too big. Scooby is a Great Dane. He should convey a sense of being a huge dog who is nonetheless a coward, and that's kind of hard to do when his darn head is almost as big as his body.

Scooby looks like a crackhead. I don't think he's ever looked better.