Cartoon in storage for 10 years gets new life!

[Psycho Fox]

Ok this is news is a bit old. on the top of this playback mag article (http://www.playbackmag.com/articles/magazine/19990111/24243.html?word=Kevin&word=Gillis) is the story that Racoons is finally getting new life with a new D2V called The Knight Before Christmas Plus Bert from the old Racoons series is getting his own series called The Adventures of Sir Bert.

Not bad for a animated series that has out of production for 10 years both studio that did its production are bankruped and since then has been bounced from owner to owner (which till now was only intrested in rerunning it). Hmmm if Racoons can get new life I wonder if other old animated series can too. Plus this has to be a record this series just won't die. I mean yhea Mickey mouse has been in and out of production but Racoons the studio that created Racoons went bankrupt then it went to another one and they produced more eps then they when bankrupt as well then Racoons was pasted like a hot potato for year. I don't think any other series has had the chance for renewed life after so much bad luck

Think about it if WB does go bankrupt (and look at their intellegence it is bound to happen one of these years) maybe WBA cartoon will meet the same fate and eventully land on the laps of someone willing to give them life again. I know if WB does bite the dust I would try my best to get my hands on one of them.

[don Jaime]

You know, I have never heard of this cartoon. Is it any good?

Old cartoons can be revived anytime - the money saved on character development is too much for producers to resist. This isn't always a good thing, though. Exhibit A: Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue. Errggh.

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by don Jaime
You know, I have never heard of this cartoon. Is it any good? Here is a fan page UnOffical Racoons Homepage (http://www.solaw.com/jg4/raccoons/)

[Joe Tully]

Thanks, Psycho Fox. I loved that show as a kid and will probably get one of those to see what the characters are up to. I need to do some reading about that toon though, it's been so long since it was on Disney that I can't remember it too well. I will be checking out that link as soon as I get onto a quicker computer than the one I'm currently on.

I hope that the Christmas special isn't a slightly-altered retelling of A Christmas Carol. Though Cyril was always kind of Scrooge-ish, I don't think we need another version of that story.



From the article


The broadcasters around the
world which have aired the previous Racoons shows are all interested in coming aboard the new project, says Gillis, and deals should be closed at natpe.

I hope this includes the Disney Channel. And lets they have the sense to pick up the series as well as the special. It's about time they remembered that Disney is supposed to be about quality animation. IMO the odds of Nick or CN picking it up are pretty small. I wonder: Would Fox Family Channel be interested?

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by Joe Tully
Thanks, Psycho Fox. I loved that show as a kid Me too




From the article
The broadcasters around the world which have aired the previous Racoons shows are all interested in coming aboard the new project, says Gillis, and deals should be closed at natpe.

I hope this includes the Disney Channel. And lets they have the sense to pick up the series as well as the special. It's about time they remembered that Disney is supposed to be about quality animation. IMO the odds of Nick or CN picking it up are pretty small. I wonder: Would Fox Family Channel be interested? Well Disney had it way back when so I don't see way they wouldn't have it now.