-The new ThunderCats has been
a work-in-progress for about the last ten years. A previous reboot was tried to
go with the WildStorm comics, but it didn't end up happening.
-With any kind of reboot, the new
series takes things from the original, but creates its own mythology around it.
In the original series, Thundera and Third Earth were different planets, but in
the new series Thundera is now a kingdom on Third Earth, separated from
the outside world. After Thundera is destroyed, however, the remaining
Thundercats will be forced to live in the outside world.
-A slide of a Mumm-Ra stone
sculpture on a wall came on-screen and Larry said, "I could still kick his ass."
-Snarf will be voiced in Japan.
Snarf will say "Snarf" at times, but will also make "alien cat-like" sounds.
-The first season will be 26
episodes and there will be a total of 52 episodes for the whole story. Larry
said he'd like to see the new show beat the 125 episodes of the original, so
here's hoping that it actually happens.
-The Thunder Tank was a difficult
thing for them to approach because how could they possibly improve upon it? They
feel like they were able to accomplish it, though.
-A slide of Cheetara appeared and
Larry said, "She is the original Thundercats ho." The audience exploded in
laughter.
-The new series uses a combination
of 2D and 3D animation, but they do not want to overuse the 3D.
-Lion-O will be aged. They said that
it's probably a spoiler after they said it. Anyone who doesn't like the
teenage Lion-O, at some point he will become older like the original Lion-O, so
stop complaining. Larry talked a little about how in a few episodes Lion-O was
de-aged so he had to sound like a younger version. He then said in the young
Lion-O voice, "Well gee Snarf."
-Larry said, "I still have the
original leotard and was going to wear it, but..." The panelists discussed that
they wanted to ditch the weird outfits of the original and make more sensible
ones. They like their ThunderCats in pants.
-Larry said he would have found some
way to stop the show from getting made if he felt like the ThunderCats were
being screwed-up. It's getting made, so Larry must think it's great then; that's
probably a good sign.
-Snarf was compared to Chewbacca and
R2-D2. Han Solo can understand Chewbacca's noises, Luke can understand R2-D2's
beeps and boops, so Lion-O will be able to understand Snarf's noises.
-There will be a new Sky Cutter and
the Burbles will be back.
-Somehow the panelists got into
joking about the "samoflange" outtake. If you don't know it, look it up, it's
hilarious.
-A fan asked about anything
regarding Silverhawks. Larry did the voice of Bluegrass and lapsed into
his voice for a line or two. Jelenic told us to keep an eye out. Interesting.
-We will see the staple of villains
returning, but Slithe, Monkian, and Jackalman will not be the Larry, Curly, and
Moe like they were in the original.
-Any other changes to the
ThunderCats? Larry remarked about Cheetara's boob job and Dan said she was an
anorexic ho. In all seriousness, many other changes were made to differentiate
the characters from one another. In the original, all the characters were the
same height and build, so if they were silhouetted, you may not know who was
who. Panthro was made much larger than everyone else, so he's the strongest.
They wanted to change the color palette a little so not all the characters used
the same colors. Larry then made yet another Cheetara joke and said she
has arthritis.
-4ºC was actually easy to get
involved. They were very eager about the ThunderCats and were on board
with the project very early.
-A few previously unknown voice
actors were announced with Clancy Brown as Grune, Robin Atkins Downes as
Mumm-Ra, and a joke about Charlie Sheen as Snarf.
-Something else that is different is
that some of the cats will have tails and some won't. Apparently it's a societal
thing in Thundera, which is why we'll see Wily Kit and Wily Kat with tails.
-The characters will be more
cat-like in their movements and make cat sounds, like a hiss, at times.
-Lynx-O Bengali, and Pumyra will be
in the show at some point.
