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Post by chrom on Jun 13, 2020 16:48:45 GMT -5
The Noid was planned to get a cartoon series.
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Post by Malcolm on Jun 13, 2020 16:55:47 GMT -5
Seth MacFarlane's Flintstones is one bullet I'm glad we dodged I don't know...even if you don't like Family Guy, MacFarlane's other projects really aren't totally like it. So who knows how his take on the Stones would be? No guarantee it would be a straight lift of a FG cutaway gag involving the characters. I think people were more worried about endless rape jokes, needless gore, and pointless jokes that go on way too long, than cutaways.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jun 13, 2020 17:13:00 GMT -5
I don't know...even if you don't like Family Guy, MacFarlane's other projects really aren't totally like it. So who knows how his take on the Stones would be? No guarantee it would be a straight lift of a FG cutaway gag involving the characters. I think people were more worried about endless rape jokes, needless gore, and pointless jokes that go on way too long, than cutaways. Which you only see on FG. Not so much his other shows.
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Post by ERON on Jun 13, 2020 19:11:21 GMT -5
Metroid was suppose to get a cartoon series. Metroid, Castlevania, Double Dragon (a different one than what we got) and a California Games cartoon were all planned at one point for a block called the Super Mario Bros Power Hour. Also planned was a new season of the Zelda cartoon based on Zelda II, but the only remnants of that would surface in an episode of Captain N There's something a bit off about that Metroid cartoon, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 13, 2020 19:30:15 GMT -5
The Human Torch in the late 70s, aka the reason he wasn't in the Fantastic Four cartoon and got replaced by H.E.R.B.I.E. instead.
There were two Son of He-Man cartoons from different companies in the works between the end of the original Filmation cartoon and the space reboot. Neither got made, but a few of the characters from both have been incorporated into the MOTUClassics toy line.
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Post by Z-A Sandbaggin' Son of a b!%@h on Jun 13, 2020 20:56:58 GMT -5
There was almost a Buffy animated series set during the high school years and including all of the original cast members except Sarah Michelle Gellar. I was so excited when I heard this was gonna be a thing. Though I would have gone with continuing after the series(like the comics). Sadly never came to be.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Jun 13, 2020 22:46:35 GMT -5
DIC's original North American version of Sailor Moon (The animated/live action hybrid one).
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 13, 2020 22:57:17 GMT -5
In '95, there was going to be a Youngblood cartoon and a Cyberforce cartoon produced by Roustabout Productions for Fox. Beyond one clip for YB, which was repurposed for action figure commercials, neither ever got made.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2020 23:19:12 GMT -5
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Post by dav on Jun 14, 2020 0:23:02 GMT -5
Wasn't there an Arnold Schwarzenegger cartoon that got pulled at the last moment because details of his affair came out?
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 14, 2020 0:26:03 GMT -5
Wasn't there an Arnold Schwarzenegger cartoon that got pulled at the last moment because details of his affair came out? Yes, The Governator, produced by Stan Lee. Whole thing was scrapped a little less than two months after it got announced.
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Post by y4j1981 on Jun 14, 2020 0:31:51 GMT -5
In 2017, CBR.com did a article on 16 cartoons that were never made. In case you don't want to read the page, quick list on them: 16. Gotham High 15. Pryde of the X-Men 14. Operation: ALIENS 13. Lobo 12. Thor 11. Escape from Jurassic Park 10. Wonder Woman & the Star Riders 09. Youngblood 08. Captain America 07. Teen Titans 06. Spider-Man 05. Micronauts 04. Daredevil & Lightning, the Super Dog 03. Plastic Man 02. Batman: No Man's Land 01. Jack Kirby's Lost Cartoons
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Post by agent817 on Jun 14, 2020 0:44:22 GMT -5
I remember reading on IMDB that there was once a page for an alleged Final Fight cartoon, with a cast and everything. The year said 1995. I'm not so sure if this was supposed to be a spin-off then that Street Fighter cartoon from back then, but there was a cast a voice actors portraying certain characters and stuff. It has since been removed. Also, that Final Fight episode aired in 1997. But like I also said, I only found that page a long time ago and it has since been removed. I'm sure you won't find any info online.
I also remember that there was supposed to be an American version a Sailor Moon. There is even a clip on YouTube that has some people with Saban at a conference to show footage of this American version. It was also supposed to incorporate live-action segments.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jun 14, 2020 1:15:42 GMT -5
Disney has a bunch of them, as you'd imagine.
I know Greg Weisman pitched several Gargoyles spin-offs to Disney that they just weren't interested in (Gargoyles might have a strong cult following, but it was never a major ratings winner). They included a series about that universe's King Arthur, a series about New Olympus, and a series about Brooklyn stuck traveling through time due to the Phoenix Gate.
Also the version of Gargoyles we got was not the original pitch of the show. Originally it was supposed to be much more light-hearted and jokey show and Elisa would've been a school teacher.
There was Maximum Horsepower. A proposed 90's cartoon showing Horace Horsecollar being kidnapped by aliens and made into their defender and champion as an explanation for why he pretty much disappeared after the 1930's.
Atlantis: The Lost Empire was supposed to have an animated series spin-off called Team Atlantis (which Greg Weisman was also attached to), but the movie underperformed and Disney canceled it before it could even air. The three completed episodes (along with some quickly done wrap-around segments) were eventually Frankensteined together to make the Atlantis 2 DTV.
Similar story with the Cinderella 2 DTV, it was also cobbled together from some completed episodes of a canceled series.
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Post by dav on Jun 14, 2020 3:26:12 GMT -5
Wasn't there an Arnold Schwarzenegger cartoon that got pulled at the last moment because details of his affair came out? Yes, The Governator, produced by Stan Lee. Whole thing was scrapped a little less than two months after it got announced. Yeah, that's it. Even had a trailer whipped up as well.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 14, 2020 3:41:25 GMT -5
Metroid was suppose to get a cartoon series. Metroid, Castlevania, Double Dragon (a different one than what we got) and a California Games cartoon were all planned at one point for a block called the Super Mario Bros Power Hour. Also planned was a new season of the Zelda cartoon based on Zelda II, but the only remnants of that would surface in an episode of Captain N CAstlevania 3 was supposed to get a big animated movie that was in development forever. There are as rumblings that a lot of the storyboards for that were turned into the Netflix show.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 14, 2020 3:42:27 GMT -5
Metroid, Castlevania, Double Dragon (a different one than what we got) and a California Games cartoon were all planned at one point for a block called the Super Mario Bros Power Hour. Also planned was a new season of the Zelda cartoon based on Zelda II, but the only remnants of that would surface in an episode of Captain N There's something a bit off about that Metroid cartoon, but I can't quite put my finger on it. kinda funny cause Samus was IN a bunch of Captain N comics.
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Post by thechase on Jun 14, 2020 3:53:22 GMT -5
There's something a bit off about that Metroid cartoon, but I can't quite put my finger on it. kinda funny cause Samus was IN a bunch of Captain N comics. As a love interest obsessed with Kevin.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jun 14, 2020 4:22:22 GMT -5
Two big ones from Nickelodeon
Constant Payne: Pilot that was scrapped as a series for two reasons. The face value one was that it depicted the Twin Towers and a plane flying in between them in a scene. This was animated and boarded before 9/11, but of course that was the reason given. The real reason the creator cited was he was trying to create a union with Nickelodeon's animation crew and it was snuffed out as was he from the company in a blackballed manner.
The Modifyers was unique stylstically, had a good storyline hook, but Nickelodeon passed on the pilot, many rumored reasons why, but nothing confirmed. Chris Reccardi unfortunately passed away last year, but Co-Creator Lynne Naylor is still working on a revamp of the project to pitch it again to a broader net with streaming now existing.
Another interesting one, Butch Hartman, Nickelodeon creator for basically his entire career, did pitch a show to Cartoon Network once called Dyna-Mice. Pilot was made, it was never picked up.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 14, 2020 4:40:25 GMT -5
A Doctor Who animated series was planned by Nelvana but was scrapped around the same time Doctor Who was cancelled.
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