[Grey Wolf]

I believe they revised the characters after the uproar caused by those images.

[aldo_14]

Agreed Aldo, I swear they'd make Bugs Bunny into a Killer Rabbit if it weren't for Monty Python.

aka 'Shadow the Hedgehog syndrome'.

It's a bit like the next Mario game having Mario as a grizzled, homeless war veteran, recovering from alcoholism, whilst struggling to cope with the fallout of his wife Daisys' illict affair with his best friend Toad (himself struggling from a traumatic upbringing as a short mushroom in a big city), before eventually going on a violent bullet-ridden rampage to avenge his brother Luigis bloody murder by the local crimelord, Bowser. Oh, and Yoshi as an illegal immigrant prostitute, sick and twisted from being forced to play S&M games involving being ridden like a dinosaur and being made to eat and vomit out raw eggs.

[Mefustae]

Oh, and Yoshi as an illegal immigrant prostitute

I believe you're thinking of Birdo.

[Nuke]

Agreed Aldo, I swear they'd make Bugs Bunny into a Killer Rabbit if it weren't for Monty Python.

Someone hasn't been paying attention.

Click me

thats ****ing sick. the design queers that came up with this need to be shot revived and shot again. thats SHOT, REVIVED AND SHOT AGAIN!!!!!11111111ONEONEONE

i wish theyd make cartoons in the old skool style. there are so many cartoons theese days that if i had kids, i wouldnt let watch. id rather let kids watch the ww2 episodes that featured aldof hitler getting whacked by the loony toons characters. in a thousand years people will still be watching those cartoons, as for the rest theyd get flushed down history's toilet. modernizing the most classic of cartoons is an atrocity i cannot tolerate.

[Dark Knight]

I've started buying old Cartoon series on DVD in responce to this kind of thing, I want my kids watching the good stuff that I did. Thundercats, Transformers and Dogtanian & the Three Muskerhounds to name but a few.

I didn't buy the DVDs just so I could watch them myself...

Honest.

[karajorma]

I believe they revised the characters after the uproar caused by those images.

I'd heard that too but the fact that they'd even try is a pretty good example of what's wrong with kids TV these days.

I would quite happily sit down and watch one of the classics from my childhood again today. How many kids are going to be saying that in 20 years time?

About the only kids cartoon I would even watching from the last few years is Dan Dare. I can't think of anything else even remotely watchable.

[Flipside]

And Dan Dare is based off a far far older Comic strip from the Eagle, which was around before even I was born. Though, admittedly, I did read the 'new' Dan Dares when the Eagle was re-released about 20 years ago for a while

[karajorma]

And Dan Dare is based off a far far older Comic strip from the Eagle, which was around before even I was born. Though, admittedly, I did read the 'new' Dan Dares when the Eagle was re-released about 20 years ago for a while

Never said it wasn't I used to get Eagle at one point when I was much younger too

It kinda proves my point that about the only inventive new cartoon is actually about 50 years old. In a similar fashion some of the batman and spiderman cartoons weren't bad but again both are old concepts which died a very quick death when people tried to "jazz them up for the 21st century" with Spiderman Unlimited and Batman of the Future.

[Flipside]

Heh, there was a kid at school who used to have the nickname of Mekon..

We used to say he had a fivehead, because it was too big for a forehead.

Kids can be so cruel sometimes