Yeah, I didn't like Beast Machines as a sequel to Beast Wars, but I'll give it credit, it took risks. Beast Wars by itself was a huge gamble, and it paid off by making the brand relevant again. Beast Machines took it's own risks and came out having some genuinely great writing and creative ideas.

That said, this show might not be a big risk-taking project, but I'm not writing it off personally until I see it in action.

Wakfu, from France, was also animated in flash, and really well too! Most of the time, anyway, though the first two seasons have their share of odd looking, stiff animation.

 

I think you missed the point of what I was quoting. They said there was no demand for action cartoons, I provided a list that says otherwise, and the list is much larger than even that. Korra the viewing didn't drop off as much as you think. Nickelodeon messed with the schedule for other reasons, and wasn't sure about the content towards the end on parent reactions. DragonBall super is on TV outside of all nighters, you're thinking the second airing. The first airing is still in a prime Saturday night spot. Popularity of Voltron on Netflix, yes a streaming service, does tend to prove there is an audience for those kinds of toons. And excuse me for not listing the modern Pretty Cure series or other various action animes and shows that are okay for kids, but there are plenty of those too. The longevity of Kamen Rider and Super Sentai proves that so.

And TMNT ran its course, but is coming back with a new series starting younger so it can run longer and tell other less covered stories from their younger days.

Ben 10 has always been heavy on the comedy. The entire premise is comedic in nature(boy finds alien watch and doesn't know how it works). It got serious later in the AF series when they tried to make it more like the other DC toons. Comedy doesn't mean it can't have action or isn't an action adventure cartoon. A good show can cover all of it. Comedy is often needed to break tension. That's what made Airbender and other series work so well. They were heavy action dramas, but the comedy kept it from becoming overbearing and bleak.

My point was the fact there is an audience for action adventure animation, and to say otherwise is a blatant lie. Even star vs the forces of evil, while it may be parody and comedy focused, is still at it's core an action adventure show. As is Steven Universe and it's doing absolutely wonderful too with its character building focused story telling, but yes uses comedy to offset the bleakness of the story itself. It's one of the amazing things about "Adventure Time" itself too. The comedy and abstract art is to offset how bleak the story itself actually is. Ninjago again is similar in that regard, action and comedy heavy, but many story elements need that comedy to offset it because of how bleak some of the story actually is.

The genre has been doing so well, that Disney XD had even expanded into Live action kids shows that are action/adventure focused. Lab Rats, Mighty Med, KC Undercover, Mech X4, and they've proven to be doing rather well as fully original new series for kids that have lasted seasons now.

So I have faith that Hasbro's new toons will do fine. As long as they are on a station that'll treat them fairly as opposed to how CN tends to favor their own shows and shuffles anything they licensed to air to near non-existent time slots. That's on CN for killing great shows. Thundercats, He-man 2k, various transformers series, and other toons. If it's not CN original or Lego, CN shuffles it to an obscene time slot.

 

I just noticed something about the image on this article. Bumblebee\'s design has had slight and very welcome tweek done to it. He now has five fingers instead of just four.

 

Some of this info is stuff we've heard before but it does look like this series will have it's episode goes for 11 minutes which I've long suspected to be the case given that most cartoon shows nowadays have that going as a new trend.

 

Not going to judge the series since we have seen barely anything about it besides a single production image and a paragraph worth of descriptions, but I do have 2 hopes for this series:

1: I hope the storyline is a lot more serialized and feels more weighty than NuRID. While I wouldn't say I dislike NuRID, I would say I was a bit disappointed that for most of the episodes, it always felt like there were way more important things going on in the universe than what Bee and Crew were doing and that the show should have focused on the important things instead.

2: I also hope that Hasbro ditches airing this on Cartoon Network and goes straight for a streaming platform. CN has treated its action cartoons pretty poorly for a long time now (Animated getting a death slot despite being co-produced by the channel happened a decade ago now), and shows like Netflix's Voltron show how much better-serialized action shows can thrive on streaming.

 

No. Some of us can't afford to stream where we live.

 

How can you not afford that? Streaming costs basically nothing. I'm sharing for example my Netflix with 3 friends and everyone pays 3€. Cable is more expensive. I have only Netflix and no broadcasting TV anymore.

 

I live in the boonies. $70 for Hughsnet. Which means its on a meter. So unless I want to stay up until from 2-7 am streaming is out of the question.

 

wtf. Sorry to hear that. Did not expect that something like this would be possible in this day and age.  

 

I love Bumblebee. I like Windblade. Not keen on only 11 minute episodes. At least the season pass on Amazon will be cheap.

 

So only about 9 episodes. 2018's gonna be pretty light on Transformers content.