Comments on: Nickelodeon Acquires Global Rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for $60 million

By: Mumbo

Mumbo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:28:48 +0000

@dumont – TMNT leaves the CW4Kids after August 31, 2010. Then apparently Nicktoons will be rerunning the newer series.

Nick doesn’t have the rights to the 80s cartoon yet – they still belong to Fred Wolf – but apparently they’re working on it.

By: Bitey

Bitey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:11:17 +0000

Tying the first and last post together, the original season of Batman: TAS frequently used black paper in the photography, instead of the typical use of white on the backgrounds. The lush images for the background art were simply breathtaking with the originality.

By the time of the Batman Beyond spinoff’s 3rd season it was so much cheaper and easier to use computers and never even use a background cel that the first series’ beauty was just a curious artifact of time. That art style was never used before, and is not cost effective for televised childrens’ cartoons ever to be used again. It had truly magnificent visuals that really could only exist at that one small moment.

By: nkinsey

nkinsey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:40:35 +0000

The Complete Series has all of them (finally).

And as for being the best ever? How shall I say this….You are my new best TVBTN friend! I TOTALLY agree. It was beautifully written, presented, acted, never pandered to little kids (instead it was for all ages). Just nothing short of brilliant.

By: chrisjozo

chrisjozo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:13:53 +0000

Nkinsey

Batman the Animated series was the best animated, executed and written cartoon ever in my opinion. I really wish they would release Batman the Animated series out n DVD’s that show an entire season instead of volumes. The current volume DVD’s don’t have all the show’s episodes and they are not in the order they were aired in.

By: Bitey

Bitey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:59:19 +0000

The digital networks Nicktoons and Disney XD claim to be targeted at boys with lots of action cartoons, but they’re about 1/3 the subscriber base of the main Nick and Disney cable channels. I agree about the billion hour blocks of iCarly. The action animation market seems to be locked into a very tiny number of channels now.

By: DaisiesDeathKnell

DaisiesDeathKnell — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:12:38 +0000

It’s pretty much the fault of Disney/Nickelodeon why they have trouble capturing the male audience the way Cartoon Network has been doing…why not actually make shows that appeal to young males? Pretty much everything on Disney is a terrible sitcom targeted at females while Nickelodeon has been starting to do the same with their four hour blocks of iCarly…I think the shift towards young females has a lot to do with video games…boys playing the games will watch less cable television, meaning the kids networks are better off appealing to girls…

By: Bitey

Bitey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:41:32 +0000

George Lucas has no difficulty shopping anything he has to some channel somewhere, so he wouldn’t want a channel but Hasbro has virtually all the other popular boy brands, but wrapped up mainly in toys and then ancillary media came later. They were getting a network with Discovery but I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted a kids channel all to promote their properties as well.

By: nkinsey

nkinsey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:28:21 +0000

SGNJ- You are right. I had a brain fart for a minute on all of that. What I mean is that Nick is grabbing it to try and capitalize on the boy market. With the Marvel buy Disney is trying to grab that demo, so their competition needs to follow suit or lose it. If done right, this strengthens Nick’s hold on that demo.

By: Some guy named John

Some guy named John — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:20:20 +0000

@ nkinsey — Nickelodeon is owned by MTV Networks, aka Viacom, in no way associated with Disney. Nick is trying to get a hold of something, as Warner brothers has a strangle hold on DC comics and Looney Toons and now Disney with Marvel and of course the Mouse and friends. Viacom is looking to capitalize on characters that can be used for new releases through multiple revenue streams.

Disney purchase of Marvel is a great buy because it brings a movie company, a comic print company, and don’t forget toys and all the other licensing that it brings. While Viacom’s buy of TMNT is a oddity of sorts as the show has been a tide like sensation. no doubt a new show/movie will be out shortly to make so new waves.

By: dumont

dumont — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:13:54 +0000

I wonder if this means ‘TMNT’ will be pulled from the CW4Kids Saturday morning line-up where it is currently running so that Nick can program it exclusively.

By: nkinsey

nkinsey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:59:31 +0000

Bitey- You are half-right. It somewhat relates to the Marvel buy, but not for what youa re talking about. Disney has been scrambling to tap into the BOY market. With Marvel, and now Turtles, they are trying to build that up to reach them.

By: nkinsey

nkinsey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:57:26 +0000

I wish they did more shows like they did Batman: The Animated Series in the 90′s. I’m snatching up as many shows like that as I can, so when I have kids, I could show them the amazing world before CG & anime took over.

And $60 million? That’s it? Seems low for a two decade-old show.

By: Bitey

Bitey — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:47:12 +0000

I know what you mean but it sells and may ultimately become cheaper than cell animated cartoons.

You have to wonder whether this is any reaction to Disney’s purchase of Marvel. Is Nickelodeon trying to make sure they have enough superhero cartoons on their now Marvel-heavy Nicktoons division?

By: chrisjozo

chrisjozo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:18:22 +0000

Must people do everything in CG these days. What is wrong with a good old fashioned animated cartoon. I hate the way those CG shows look.