Leaked footage of new Thundercats cartoon

[icon_uk]

After the disappointment of the new Voltron cartoon (Seriously... could they make it ANY more dull or clichéd, and the animation looks like it's escaped from 1993) this gives me a little hope for the new Thundercats.

And jump to 4:00 for the BEST "Context is for the weak" moment I've seen in a LONG time...

Looking at her eye design, Cheetara looks like she's escaped from an episode of Jem!

Wily-Kit and Wily-Kat are less annoying than I was expecting... so far. I'll be interested to see how they continue that arc.

In looking for legality scans to go with this, I found two of the most stylistically mismatched covers I think I've ever come across... The DC/Image crossover which I assume was in two parts

First up the collectors variant cover of Bop/Thundercats by Alex Ross, where Lion-O seems to be channelling his inner KISS fan more than usual



And this is the other half, which may include the sleaziest Lion-O I've ever seen (and that's not a word I'd ever have thought to use to describe him) by J Scott Campbell.

Comments

[thokstar]

Cheetara's design feels off to me (this is mostly an age issue: she's appears to me to have lost at least 10 years from the old cartoon design, in a way that makes her seem to have lost a certain amount of experience and wisdom. It has a side effect on relationship dynamics: Cheetara is supposed to be in Panthra and Tygra's peer group, not Lion-O's.)

On the flip side, is anybody going to complain about changing Snarf from an 80's Western Animation mascot character to a modern amine-style mascot character? That seems like a brilliant move.

[icon_uk]

A good number of them seem to have had their ages reset; Cheetara (as you note), the Kittens appear much younger than they were before, and Tigra is now an older brother rather than an almost father figure.

[marco]

My thoughts and feeling exactly. I liked having a competent, older female character. One who was on level with Tygra and Panthro. She just feels and looks so young now. (But as icon_uk pointed out, seems like they tried to deage them all, except for Panthro.)

And I noticed Snarf in the CN trailers. The design is pretty cute... While he did annoy me before at times, I did like him. I like the new design, but I wonder what they're going to do with him.