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Topic	Have you ever wanted religion in myyyy sat.am cartoons?
ParanoidObsessive 11/15/23 2:04:19 AM #23:	Lokarin posted... Realistically, the reason sat.am cartoons SEEM worse is because they don't sell toys for them as prominently as they did in the 80s They seem worse because they don't actually exist. Sure, there are still cartoons that air on Saturday mornings. But that was never what "Saturday Morning Cartoons" as a concept meant. It was the fact that you'd have multi-hour blocks on every major network. Kids would actively look forward to getting up early every Saturday just to watch. You'd get excited every season when new shows would get introduced, and agonize over the occasional decision of which show to watch if two shows you wanted to see were on different channels at the same time. It was a pop cultural touchstone for about 30-40 years. If you check out CBS, NBC, or ABC on a Saturday morning now it's bleak as fuck, and mostly faux-educational crap they throw into their most useless timeslots to bypass government regulations. And I don't think any child in the US has gotten up early on a Saturday to watch TV for like 20+ years now. As a conceptual experience, "Saturday Morning Cartoons" are dead. Government regulation and 24-hour cable channels killed them. Lokarin posted... Ironically, this might be Disney's fault for making GOOD cartoons without having a slew of toys for them Are we talking about the same Disney? The one that merchandises the ever living shit out of pretty much everything they've ever made? And even besides that, toy sales still play a role in cartoons today (for the worse). Shows like Young Justice got cancelled because they didn't sell toys. Teen Titans got replaced by Teen Titans Go! because of the perception that aiming for a younger demographic would up the likelihood of them buying merch (same with the 2011 Thundercats reboot). It's possible to sell shows based on art/writing over merch, but quality shows cost money, and merch is one of the major ways to offset that cost. So without merch sales you're likely to get a lot more corner-cutting from the cartoons you do get. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:977222755] in Have you e... [t:80619335]...</cite> <quote><cite>Lokarin posted...</cite><quote>Realistically, the reason sat.am cartoons SEEM worse is because they don't sell toys for them as prominently as they did in the 80s</quote>They seem worse because they don't actually exist.Sure, there are still cartoons that air on Saturday mornings. But that was never what "Saturday Morning Cartoons" as a concept meant. It was the fact that you'd have multi-hour blocks on every major network. Kids would actively look forward to getting up early every Saturday just to watch. You'd get excited every season when new shows would get introduced, and agonize over the occasional decision of which show to watch if two shows you wanted to see were on different channels at the same time. It was a pop cultural touchstone for about 30-40 years.If you check out CBS, NBC, or ABC on a Saturday morning now it's bleak as fuck, and mostly faux-educational crap they throw into their most useless timeslots to bypass government regulations. And I don't think any child in the US has gotten up early on a Saturday to watch TV for like 20+ years now.As a conceptual experience, "Saturday Morning Cartoons" are dead. Government regulation and 24-hour cable channels killed them.<cite>Lokarin posted...</cite><quote>Ironically, this might be Disney's fault for making GOOD cartoons without having a slew of toys for them</quote>Are we talking about the same Disney? The one that merchandises the ever living shit out of pretty much everything they've ever made?And even besides that, toy sales still play a role in cartoons today (for the worse). Shows like Young Justice got cancelled because they didn't sell toys. Teen Titans got replaced by Teen Titans Go! because of the perception that aiming for a younger demographic would up the likelihood of them buying merch (same with the 2011 Thundercats reboot).It's possible to sell shows based on art/writing over merch, but quality shows cost money, and merch is one of the major ways to offset that cost. So without merch sales you're likely to get a lot more corner-cutting from the cartoons you do get. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76"POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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