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Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#251: Sep 9th 2024 at 3:24:20 PM

Shame he was unable to provide a voice in TLG.

AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#252: Sep 9th 2024 at 3:57:53 PM

This is going to make the Great Kings Of The Past scene a lot harder to watch now.

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#253: Sep 9th 2024 at 9:01:26 PM

Honestly, I feel it was inevitable given his age (93) and so many mentions of him on Twitter for the past several months. It wasn't surprising or shocking, unlike so many others. It's natural, and he left ensuring a legacy that will forever immortalize him.

He will be missed here.

Filip04 Since: Nov, 2023
#254: Oct 1st 2024 at 10:52:27 AM

Due to recent news that 5th anniversary update to Planet Zoo will add African leopard, I will name one of my leopards in one of my zoos after Makucha (and/or Sabor).

Also, can you guys be kind enough and post here un-censored version of fanart that Vtoony posted today? Even though I have arachnophobia/entomophobia, I still want to see that fanart. Pretty please?

Edited by Filip04 on Oct 1st 2024 at 7:52:54 PM

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#255: Oct 6th 2024 at 6:51:11 AM

So I found apparently a clip (or rather, the audio of a clip) that someone recorded at D23 or something that had the full song of "I Always Wanted A Brother" from the Mufasa film. It's a fun song. Actually gives us another good bit of characterization for Mufasa and Taka, too that ties in with how they both are as kings, respectively.

Antiyonder (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#256: Oct 8th 2024 at 2:34:57 AM

Hmm. Thought Lion King would have any kind of thread long before 2024.

Well I like to be sure that people know of any legit free animation available. And a couple of YT uploads of the Lion Guard:

Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#257: Oct 8th 2024 at 6:14:34 AM

I am honestly surprised it's Disney Junior.

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#258: Oct 8th 2024 at 6:22:43 AM

Once upon a time a lot of their animated movies had cartoon spin offs with varying degrees of success,I expect the lion king having an animated show aimed at younger childen is because they probably don't think the lion king appeals to an older demographic

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KiraKiwi410 Since: Jun, 2024
#259: Oct 8th 2024 at 7:25:14 AM

I'm not surprised with The Lion Guard being made for Disney Junior. After 2006 (when The Emperor's New School came out), but before 2017 (when Tangled: The Series and Big Hero 6: The Series came out), any animated shows based on movies and other big franchises would be made for Disney Junior. Look at My Friends Tigger & Pooh (though Winnie the Pooh is a young skewing franchise anyway), Mickey Mouse Clubhouse , Jake and the Never Land Pirates, and technically Sofia the First given the established characters that came out. Even The 7D , despite being a Disney XD show, was originally going to be for Disney Junior when it was first announced. I'd say the franchises that get the Disney Junior treatment, and usually get at least 2 seasons, are ones based on well known established properties, like with Spidey and His Amazing Friends, Alice's Wonderland Bakery, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, Muppet Babies (2018) (the only Disney produced Muppet show to get more than one season), and Ariel (2024) . Even Hercules got his treatment when some of the movie characters appeared in Mickey Mouse Funhouse.

Edited by KiraKiwi410 on Oct 8th 2024 at 7:31:19 AM

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#260: Oct 8th 2024 at 8:04:19 AM

Lion Guard did do a pretty good job of both deepening the Lion King canon and educating kids. Each episode included different animals and lessons on African language and culture along with on occasion having a few really good and deep episodes on things. Heck, in the last season there are multiple character deaths, even.

KiraKiwi410 Since: Jun, 2024
#261: Oct 8th 2024 at 8:49:27 AM

I'd assume the leniency with death would be because of moving the show to the lesser available Disney Junior channel. Much like with Disney Channel shows that moved to Disney XD, it did usually allow for more leniency with darker stories.

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#262: Oct 8th 2024 at 10:06:21 AM

[up][up] Lion Guard was revolutionary in that it was one of the first preschool shows that werent baby fests and could actually have hardcore plots. And it FINALLY solved the whole "Hyenas are evil" by having an amazingly sympathetic and heroic hyena character.

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Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#263: Oct 8th 2024 at 2:13:11 PM

Also I can't believe it came out in 2016. But that's what happens when the 2019 movie exists.

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#264: Oct 8th 2024 at 3:27:09 PM

I've only seen some of the lion guard ("sisi no sawa means we're the same" is best song) but it is a well done, non patronizing epic cartoon for little kids, kinda like a boys version of Sofia the first.

Edited by GlitterCat on Oct 8th 2024 at 3:27:23 AM

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#265: Oct 9th 2024 at 3:41:21 PM

Neat, I've been (re)watching TLG recently since I never officially finished it. I'm in the first half of Season 3.

There's a Casual Geographic video that has me thinking "so that's why Bunga is the bravest" [lol]

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Filip04 Since: Nov, 2023
#266: Oct 12th 2024 at 10:13:28 AM

Seeing those two bird compilations posted today by Vtoony has me wishing that we should get more birds in Planet Zoo.

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#267: Oct 13th 2024 at 12:12:49 AM

I saw a trailer for Mufasa while seeing The Wild Robot and I don't know whether its a terrible idea or not. On one hand the 2019 remake banked heavily off of being a remake of an extremely iconic movie with an enticing (on paper) gimmick. I doubt most people who saw it liked it enough to want a prequel. On the other it may very well turn a profit on brand recognition alone. Could go either way.

Once Upon A Time.
theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#268: Oct 13th 2024 at 5:27:22 AM

At least it's something new that they're doing with the "live-action" remakes. A big criticism of them (alongside, you know, clearly being cash-grabs) is that they're almost the exact same as the originals with very little variation, and often done worse.

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#269: Oct 13th 2024 at 1:45:53 PM

[up] That doesn't exactly inspire confidence since making something entirely new is way, way harder. Though, to be fair, being original and not being so safe with the source material. Though I'd still hate it based entirely off the art style. To me, the "Live Action" remakes are an enormous betrayal to animation history. Here we have a bunch of movies that are crucially important to the history of the medium, one that's already seen as a "lesser" medium, and turning them into "real" movies. Those old movies were babyish and animated. These live action remakes are those movies if they were "real" movies. In short, I see them as a symbol of the Animation Age Ghetto based on movies that are some of the biggest aversions of that idea. If they announced an animated remake of a seminal live action film, I doubt it would be anywhere close to as accepted.

Edited by TheLivingDrawing on Oct 13th 2024 at 4:58:23 AM

Once Upon A Time.
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#270: Oct 14th 2024 at 8:02:10 PM

The initial disappointment with The Lion Guard was more that it wasn't a direct sequel to Simba's Pride. It didn't help that the last major piece of TLK media at the time was also a midquel.

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Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#271: Oct 14th 2024 at 9:27:11 PM

TLG does stand out as the only TLK media that has a major focus on "teenage" age of a lion character. Somehow that was skipped in both 1 and 2, and was only a scene in 1/2.

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#272: Oct 15th 2024 at 7:19:18 AM

Yeah, in Lion Guard the whole final season had the Guard all aging to be teenagers rather than kids and Kion got married at the end.

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#273: Oct 15th 2024 at 7:55:50 AM

Pretty opportune time for the voice actors to mature as well.

I wish Season 3 were at least as long as the previous seasons though, I would've liked more characterisation / fleshing out of the Night Pride, particularly Rani. Then the romance with Kion could've had more time to develop.

I also Love to Hate Mama Binturong tongue (well, partly because binturongs are a fave of mine in general)

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Oct 15th 2024 at 11:01:20 PM

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Filip04 Since: Nov, 2023
#274: Oct 15th 2024 at 8:14:24 AM

[up] If you love binturongs, then I have a question for you. Do you have Planet Zoo? Because you can build there a very nice and cozy habitat for your popcorn-smelling favorites.

As for Kion and Rani... they and Fuli should had became a One True Threesome.

Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
This is going to be so much fun.
#275: Oct 15th 2024 at 3:36:38 PM

I was wondering why season 3 was shorter. At least the show ended with no loose ends and teased as the epilogue of sorts for TLK 2.

Edited by Ookamikun on Oct 15th 2024 at 3:37:20 AM


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