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Slowly, they try to revive my childhood... and only kill it more.

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Is anyone else pissed off by all the remakes they're doing of stuff from the nineties?
Seriously, I can't look through the toy aisle at Target or watch Pokemon anymore without seeing another thing I knew and loved during my childhood get turned anime, or "cutting edge" or anything.
First they took Polly Pocket and turned her into essentially a miniature Barbie with her own wardrobe, thus destroying what made the original so kewl (tiny little dolls the size of an Advil tablet that came in little playsets)
Now they've got Furbies that look and sound demonically possessed, Treasure Trolls that look like Bratz dolls, and worst of all, they've turned the joy that was Littlest Pet Shop into bobbleheads.
Anyone hear me?
 
::seconds!::

I didn't like Furbies to begin with, so...

I don't know, maybe I'm not with the times, but I hate how girls basically have nothing but fashion dolls to play with. There are more important things than designer clothers. Barbie's not even a teacher or anything anymore, she's just a ditzy model with a bunch of craptastic accessories.
 
Exactly. And I don't think Barbie exists outside of "My Scene" anymore (choke.. Lindsay Lohan..)
 
::contains anger:: Lindsay Lohan is my personal enemy. (And it sucks that our names are the same... argh.)

Umm, to balance the nastiness of remakes... they are putting Classic Nickelodeon on DVD. They have Pete & Pete and Clarissa Explains it All out now. Clarissa was my idol. <3
 
I used to like looney toons but now there makeing em stupid "loonitics unleashed" that is so ritard never mess with the classics I say never.>_<
 
I saw a promo for Loonatics Unleashed. Somewhere, Mel Blanc is rolling over in his grave.
 
LOL 90s. Funny! How about stuff from the 80s coming back?

We got Transformers reissues, He-Man, Gi-Joe and more! Lots of stuff from then are coming back too for collectors and people who never had the orignal Transformers. Yeah, I got a few reissues.

As for the Loonatics? Oh. My. God! So sad and disturbing. My eyes bled seeing those things.

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I don't really care. I just ignore all the crappy remakes and bathe in the glorious glory that is Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet, easily the greatest remake ever.
 
Kids are at a different level these days...they're into more 'mature' stuff younger...yet they're still highly immature at the same time. It's like a child that's at the age for playing house with babydolls trying to have a soap opera with their stylishly dressed Barbies. It's a different world out there...

I don't like it much.
 
Spider said:
Kids are at a different level these days...they're into more 'mature' stuff younger...yet they're still highly immature at the same time. It's like a child that's at the age for playing house with babydolls trying to have a soap opera with their stylishly dressed Barbies. It's a different world out there...

I don't like it much.
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yeah, kids' humor is infestated with old clichés and pure "action" instead of quality
 
Please, NO animated show has EVER had ANY REAL quality. It's all nostalgia. I LOVED Thundercats as a kid, but while watching the reruns on Cartoon Network however many years ago it was, I just realized how horribly cheesy it was. Still good...but cheesy.

As for the toys, it IS crap, but it's just following new trends. It's horrible, but it's what happens.

But of course, there's the third medium: Comics. They've gotten into the reboot business as well.. Marvel has its Ultimate line. DC has its "All Stars" line. Of course, no one else seems to remember Marvel's other attempts at repackaging their characters (Professor Xavier and the X-Men, X-Men: Hidden Years, Adventures of Spider-Man, Marvel Age Spider-Man, etc...).

The fact is that companies are trying to market things on the nostalgia angle that pops up 20 years later. Anything that comes out BEFORE then ends up failing. It happens in TV, it's starting to happen in toys now. Eventually, I hope, kids are going to realize that they're getting ripped off, and stop buying this crap...or look for the one or two NEW products out there.
 
Am I the only person who is amused by the fact that they're packaging old 1970s-era Saturday morning cartoons into deluxe DVD sets? I'll admit to owning "Schoolhouse Rock," but that's educational.
 
I love it. DVDs are the best thing to happen to the TV since the bunny ears. Finally...I can see TF: G1 from the beginning. Now if only they would release the Japanese series like Masterforce, Victory, and Headmasters.
 
I have the first season of Space BattleshipYamato (dub name: Star Blazers), which I remember from 1981. I think Speed Racer's out on DVD as well. I'm saving up for the Land of the Lost first season set.
 
Now see, I grew up on the SECOND Land of the Lost series that used to be on ABC on Saturday mornings, but sadly has been largely forgotten. Of course, I don't think it ever properly ended...so I can't blame people for their memory loss.
 
I grew up on the original. Marshall, Will, Holly, Grumpy, Chaka, and the Sleestaks...*gets nostalgic* I guess the phrase 'everything old is new again' is a marketing tool as well.
 
I hate the new Strawberry Shortcake dolls. The new Care Bears are ok, but I like the old ones from the 80s and not those enviromental ones from the 90s either. I like the new My Little Ponies I even bought a few, but they still aren't as good as the one from the 80s and early 90s. I still wonder if Jem came back how messed up that doll would be now. Like would they make her more "modern"? I don't see what's the point of the Bratz dolls I know they are supposted to be trendy, but they always look a little trashy to me. I never remember my Barbies ever being that trashy.
 
I was the generation of the second Land of the Lost, too. It was pretty cool.

I don't like the new Strawberry Shortcake, either.

You want to know the worst show ever that I thought was fine as a kid? Captain Planet. Sure, the concept and the rings were awesome, but I was up late, and watched it, and it was scarring. It makes no sense and they don't back up any environmental points and it's so... sad...
 
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You want to know the worst show ever that I thought was fine as a kid? Captain Planet. Sure, the concept and the rings were awesome, but I was up late, and watched it, and it was scarring. It makes no sense and they don't back up any environmental points and it's so... sad...
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I never liked that show even as a kid. I never really got the point of it. I knew it was trying to teach me something. fruitsmoothierevenge how old were you when you saw it as a kid?
 
Good ol' captain planet, what a legend.

That show was pretty poor, it tried to teach kids something and be hip, but instead it was neither, lol. If they ever bring back Captain Planet I would have to burn the person that made it.

"We're the planeteers, and you can be one too, coz saving our planet is the thing to do. Looting and polluting is not the way, hear what Captain Planet has to say...The Power is Yours!"

Damn cheezy theme song...
 
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