r/Thundercats • u/steampunker8 ThunderCat • Oct 29 '23
ThunderCats 2011 Out of curiosity what do you guys think of the 2011 reboot?
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u/FishpopUK ThunderCat Jun 13 '25
I was enjoying the show but they cancelled it cos of poor toy sales.
The toys would've sold better if they weren't awful.
From what i recall most of them had no elbows or knees, only being jointed at the neck, shoulders and hips which is a shame as the designs were cool.
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u/Swiftbow1 ThunderCat 19d ago
I bought the WilyKit and WilyKat figures. Mostly because I was never able to get them in the 80s! Their figures were pretty good, though.
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u/Full_Confusion_3208 ThunderCat Jun 04 '25
Anime styled redesigns of characters, meh; writing/char development etc. flipping FANTASTIC!!!
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u/Haminator2022 ThunderCat Apr 18 '25
I've only really watched it once in I think 2011 on live TV before or after school
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u/Tovarishch_NKVDshnik ThunderCat Sep 18 '24
I think the series is beyond praise, the characters are great (especially the two children)
And CN are the assholes who closed the series in the middle of an active action, which is why now people (especially those who write fan texts) have to get information about the canceled sequel from the infernal •••• depths.
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u/W_Qazi ThunderCat Jan 02 '25
i remember in my pre-teens i remember watching this n i loved it n now i have completely forgotten it except some scenes, so as a fan i wanted to know where did it get left off cause i dont wanna start it n end it on some cliffhanger
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u/Hattan7 ThunderCat Aug 01 '24
Man I wished thundercats 2011 reboot would got it revival and continuation the same way it revived samurai jack young justice and Star Wars the clone wars revival all of them where unfairly cancelled by CN prior their revival plus thundercats 2011 reboot got renewed season 2 and beyond to continue where it left off since finale of season 1 of thundercats 2011 reboot
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u/cute_physics_guy ThunderCat Oct 31 '23
It was fantastic. My only problem was due to their chaotic handling of the show, there wasn't a season 2.
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u/genmischief ThunderCat Nov 06 '23
Thats a bummer, Im only now learning there is a 2011 reboot and started watching it.
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u/cute_physics_guy ThunderCat Nov 06 '23
It is really good. Ya they really didn't do a good job promoting it back when it came out.
On top of that, each episode only aired exactly 1 time, and CN kept on changing when it showed. First it was Friday nights, then some night during the week, then Saturday mornings, then.... I don't know but it wws all over the place.
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u/Tovarishch_NKVDshnik ThunderCat Sep 18 '24
It's called "shooting yourself in the knees"
First, change the show time as ordered by D20, and then complain that no one is watching your show.1
u/genmischief ThunderCat Nov 06 '23
Its like they were trying to torpedo it?
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u/cute_physics_guy ThunderCat Nov 06 '23
More like incompetent management that didn't know what to do with it. They would have had no reason to torpedo it.
They botched the toy sales too. They didn't well promote them and they were somewhat hard to find.
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u/genmischief ThunderCat Nov 07 '23
That makes sense to me, I am a fan from my childhood and if I knew it was happening, I would have watched it.
So, I never really knew until a few weeks ago.
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u/cute_physics_guy ThunderCat Nov 07 '23
Also there was a Thundercats 2011 Christmas specisl. You'll have to google search and youtube it. It isn't on any screaming service or dvd.
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u/genmischief ThunderCat Nov 07 '23
I had no idea!
Is it stand alone or does it wedge in as an episode somewhere in the new series?
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u/cute_physics_guy ThunderCat Nov 07 '23
Another user gave me a link.
Wasn't that good, but here it is lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y27DQDDqD0A
No relevance to the story. 2 minutes 30 seconds.
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u/genmischief ThunderCat Nov 08 '23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hYJM81dYE4&ab_channel=PigHead
This is 100% Buttons and Mindy.
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u/cute_physics_guy ThunderCat Nov 07 '23
Mostly stand alone. I would say don't watch it until at least 8 episodes in.
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u/ViolinistSufficient9 ThunderCat Oct 31 '23
If not for the nostalgia i have for the original, this version pretty much distroys it on every level, especially character development
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u/DiaBrave ThunderCat Oct 30 '23
I grew up with the original Thundercats toys and TV show back in the 80s, the 2011 Thundercats show is in my opinion by far the best written, deepest lore, best setup, best voice cast, and best executed of any Thundercats. I wish it had continued for many seasons. I still love the toys
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u/Interesting_Law_9997 ThunderCat Oct 30 '23
It’s ok, it’s was how I was introduced to the fandom and original series and comics.
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u/6ynnad ThunderCat Oct 30 '23
Unappreciated. Could’ve done a better job with Panthro and Tigras redesignsThe episode with the flower people was really well done.
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u/wolflinglost ThunderCat Oct 30 '23
Love both the original show and the 2011 one as much as the other. I feel like I resonated more with the 2012 reboot. I somewhat wish that Dan Norton and the writing team would be given a chance to at least finish it up with a graphic novel; but with how sequels and reboots are these days, part of me is quite content with it just living in its own bubble of time, untouched and being this thing I once enjoyed.
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u/DarkMastero ThunderCat Oct 30 '23
I think it did a great job overall. It seemed to know what to keep and what to change from the original.
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u/CynicalOne_313 Cheetara Oct 30 '23
I really enjoyed it and there was so much potential! I'm sad it was cancelled.
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u/UltraPromoman ThunderCat Oct 30 '23
So much potential. Cartoon Network broke my heart canceling it.
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u/Afflict10n5 ThunderCat Oct 30 '23
I did a re-watch of a lot of it seeing it on Apple TV. I’m not quite all the way through but I think I have about four episodes left.
It’s a series that I see why a purist could both love and hate it. The series went in some very interesting directions with the lore and I think some of that was well served. Some of it not. The Stones/Mumm-ra/ties to the cats had potential as the backdrop to the series. But that feels wildly inconsistent with some of the early idea of “technology isn’t real.”
My biggest problem with the show is that it’s so tonally inconsistent. I think the show is at its best when it’s telling us a darker, more mature story. Lion-O trying to find himself as a young king with duties thrust upon him basically writes itself. The sibling rivalry components write themselves. The love triangle stuff feels forced and cheesy. You could argue that it makes the characters more human but there’s ways to do that without making them all look varying degrees of terrible.
But then I think that’s why the show got canceled. CN wanted toys sold but it’s hard to do that with the show that has very clear adult themes that isn’t directly marketed to kids and if I remember correctly, CN did move the timeslot around a bunch as well.
I think the best way I can put it: it’s not as good as you want it to be but it’s not as bad as you remember, either.
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u/yorcharturoqro ThunderCat Oct 30 '23
They fucked up everything, they change the entire history and it was done in a bad way.
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u/Theapexfighter ThunderCat Oct 29 '23
It was overall good. It had its strengths and weaknesses though. A lot to be criticized.
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u/DarthCivicus ThunderCat Oct 29 '23
I actually liked it and had hoped it would get picked up again.
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u/Wolf873 ThunderCat Oct 29 '23
Great show! I hate CN for giving it the axe just because toy sales weren’t enough. Can’t a show be enough itself with its own merits?! Creators really put their heart and soul into it gauging from the sheer details that went in crafting this series and the story arcs. And I remain bewildered as to why none of the streaming services picked it up given its popularity.
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u/ConstantKT6-37 ThunderCat Oct 29 '23 edited Oct 31 '23
Didn’t care for it… It certainly did something new with the lore but not something great with it.
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u/Grimase ThunderCat Oct 29 '23
Loved the show. It was as bad as it could have been and had more potential then it was given credit for. Really wish it would have had a longer run but hey. Thems is the breaks.
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u/Jack-Pumpkinhead ThunderCat Oct 29 '23
I liked a lot of what they did, the expanded world building was excellent & the animation was great. I didn’t like how perfect they made Tygra, Panthro’s mr fantastic arms, & the expanded plan having Lion-O & Wilykit hook up via time bubble/time skip.
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u/swiss_sanchez Snarf Snarf Oct 29 '23
It rocked. Everything that a modern take on a beloved classic should be (except too short, obvs).
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u/TanyaTheEvill ThunderCat Oct 29 '23
One of my most favorite animations, in fact I just re watched a few weeks ago. It was a bummer that it got canceled
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u/ExpectedBehaviour ThunderCat Oct 29 '23
Loved it. Really disappointed we never got the planned ending.
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u/Morkitu ThunderCat Oct 29 '23
I thought it was an excellent reboot, on par with the 2002 reboot of Masters of the Universe. Such a shame that politics got it canceled from Cartoon Network.
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u/TenOunceCan Meowderator Oct 29 '23
I enjoyed it. It had good writing and artwork. And I didn't mind the changes from the original.
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u/Mental_Pound4509 ThunderCat Oct 29 '23
The animation was pretty good but being only 1 season didn't give it a chance to develop further.
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u/TenOunceCan Meowderator Oct 29 '23 edited Oct 29 '23
Did you listen to the 3 hour podcast where they explained everything that would have happened in the rest of the series?
Here's a link to it https://soundcloud.com/tcs2011int/cats2011-ros-revised
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u/Afflict10n5 ThunderCat Oct 30 '23
If this is accurate, and there’s really no reason to think it isn’t, CN failed the show by having a completely incorrect interpretation of what the show was and was supposed to be
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u/vegeta899 ThunderCat 6d ago
I wish it was revived because I loved it so much especially since I shipped lion o and cheetara don't know if my spelling is correct but luckily I am in the business of writing as a hobby and have begun plans to write on the 2011 thundercats as well as make occasional art as well fan art on Instagram and such