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Hero up! Marvel Super Hero Squad Heads to TV
Get ready to "Hero up!" with "Marvel Super Hero Squad!"
The all-new "Marvel Super Hero Squad" animated series debuts on the Cartoon Network in late 2009 with a slate of 26 episodes scheduled to run. "Marvel Super Hero Squad" is an action-packed show featuring super-stylized versions of its most popular characters including Captain America, Silver Surfer, Hulk, Wolverine and Iron Man.
"We are thrilled to have Cartoon Network as the U.S home for the show and appreciate the hard work everyone at the network has put into making this deal come to fruition," said Eric Rollman, Marvel's President of Animation commented. "Marvel Super Hero Squad represents many firsts for Marvel in that it's our first Marvel Universe show inclusive of characters from across the many worlds of Marvel and our first action series with a humorous twist. The commitment both Marvel and Cartoon Network have made to this show should establish it as an evergreen fixture for both companies for many years to come."
So what's it all about, True Believers? When the greatest heroes on the planet unite to face the world's greatest villains, you get the biggest, most family-friendly Super Hero team-up in TV history…Marvel Super Hero Squad. It's no small job protecting Super Hero City from VillainVille's infamous criminals…But Iron Man, Wolverine, the Hulk, the Silver Surfer, Thor and the Falcon are always up for the job.
Shouting "Hero Up!" as they rush into battle, the Squad must keep Dr. Doom's allies from gathering pieces of the Infinity Sword. Otherwise, Doom will use the Sword to rule the universe! Luckily, the City is filled with Marvel Super Hero guest-stars to help out in a pinch. These brave heroes totally deliver the action—but with plenty of humor on the side.
Superstar voice talents slated to play the roles of the dynamic heroes and villans of include: Tom Kenny ("Spongebob"), Charlie Adler ("Transformers 1 & 2"), Steve Blum ("Wolverine and the X-Men," "Hulk Vs.") and Grey DeLisle ("Fairly Oddparents" and "The Replacements").
Not enough for you? How about some gigantic guest-star voices including: Wayne Knight ("Seinfeld"), LeVar Burton ("Reading Rainbow," "Star Trek: The Next Generation"), Michelle Trachtenberg ("Gossip Girl," "17 Again," "Buffy"), Greg Grunberg ("Heroes"), Lena Headey ("Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles," "300"), Adrian Pasdar ("Heroes"), Tricia Helfer ("Battlestar Galatica"), Jennifer Morrison ("House"), Tamera Mowry ("Twitches," "Sister, Sister"), Robert Englund ("A Nightmare on Elm Street" films) and Stan Lee as the Mayor of Super Hero City.
Hasbro, the world's leader in action figures, is the Master Licensee for "Marvel Super Hero Squad" toys which have already seen success at retail.
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Old thread and all, but new to me.Did nobody here watch the ultimate avengers movies? Those were pretty great, imo.Aside from that, I agree with everything on this thread, even if I wish it could have been a bit friendlier.
As an animation student, I really have to step in here...half you people have no idea what the hell you're talking about. For starters; Animation is not Art. You're all bitching about character models (although considering Bruce Timm rocks the stylization look so much he changed his style three times to make it simpler I'm wondering why that is) but here's a little history lesson for you boys ...
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As an animation student, I really have to step in here...half you people have no idea what the hell you're talking about. For starters; Animation is not Art. You're all bitching about character models (although considering Bruce Timm rocks the stylization look so much he changed his style three times to make it simpler I'm wondering why that is) but here's a little history lesson for you boys and girls; the first rule in designing a character model for animation (feature film, anime AND especially TV) is to keep it simple. Jim Lee level detail is a thoroughly retarded idea because you have to draw those models over and over and over again on high quality cells, and that’s just for characters hanging around talking. That’s twelve drawings for one second of animation, and that’s just standard stuff. Try (and I know a lot of you won’t because even spelling it out for you like this you have no idea what I’m actually telling you) and put into context how many frames of that you’d have to do for a fight. And I’m talking a fight like Avatar, Samurai Jack, Spectacular Spider-Man and JLU. Think about how much time and money I takes just for the average stuff, never mind fully choreographed fight scenes like what’s in those shows. Consistently. You want that, on whatever budget you have, you need to keep your character designs simple so you can animate them to the best of your ability. To add to that photo realism in animation always, ALWAYS looks as much like ass as it moves like ass. So go to hell whoever said these things are 'drawn on teh computorrrrr!!!1! because a large majority of cartoons on TV right now are hand drawn. Computer coloured and computer recorded, sure, but guess where that started? The 90’s. More than likely your childhood. Which had it’s share of made-for-kids garbage, and you know it. If you genuinely don't like the art, fair enough, but again, there's the Bruce Timm angle. Why does he get a free pass? Guys like Sean Galloway (Spectacular Spider-Man), Mike Weringo (one of the greatest modern artist for the Wally West Flash and a tragic loss in death), Chris Blatcho, Darwyn Cooke, and Mike Mingola (Hellboy) work their **** off as hard as he had, with similar styles. You going to have a problem with them on principle too? Another little fun fact. Mingola hand picked Galloway for his Hellboy DTVs. everyone bitched. Everyone turned it into a big corporation like Film Roman (who's a flash in the pan compared to a pile of grease like WB or Disney) cheaping out on the little guy and spitting in their faces. And Mingola chose the guy. He was involved every step of the way; story, design, everything. And since Galloway’s name is synonymous with Spectacular Spider-Man; if you people bitch about the art, animation and writing of what is essentially to Spidey what BTAS was to Batman, you know jack about art and animation and **** all about writing. The lead writer and guy in charge is Greg Wiseman. Burn that name into your brain, because he wrote the one show that stands shoulder to shoulder with shows like Batman and Avatar: Gargoyles. Disney’s most controversial and well loved series. Safe to say, he knows exactly what he’s doing. Especially since he’s a big time Lee/Ditko fan. Backing him up are Matt Wayne and Kevin Hobbs, two of the lead writers on JLU. If that line up doesn’t inspire confidence, I have no sympathy for you. You deserve the misery you're drowning in because it’s entirely self inflicted. Granted, Super Hero Squad isn’t going to be anything like JLU or Spectacular Spidey, but why in the hell would you ask it to be? Kids aren’t allowed something? Worse case scenario, you guys are unhappy (and God knows YOU‘RE so ****ing important), and if this thread is any indication it truly doesn’t take much to make you unhappy, and turn off the TV. If those of you who have kids like it, what are you going to do if they do? Shove them in the corner? I'm probably not going to care how this show does, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. You guys are automatically up in arms hammering away at your keyboards about how this isn't going to meet your 'standards'. Given how the majority of you tailor your 'standards' to nostalgia…yeah. Most of you don’t have standards at all. Throw in the general ignorance of what animators and character designers actually do, HAVE to do, how little credit, thanks or pay they get, and the fact the second the legendary Bruce Timm put out stuff like Superman: Doomsday and other DCU DTV’s that WEREN’T from the DCAU and the hypocrisy of the majority of people on this thread is unsurprising, but sickening nonetheless.The animation industry needs a kick up the ass. I know that. Good God in Heaven, but I know that. I also know it won't come from people like you anytime soon. Not if you're too busy eviscerating everything that doesn’t have the nostalgia and perfectionist tags, because nothing will. I honestly believe that if Bruce Timm saw how you ‘adults’ act he wouldn’t give you the time of day. Not if your ten seconds away from burning effigies and blaming kids. And because I love pissing off people who go ape **** over the delusion that everything is ‘Done on computers’, here’s an inspiring video from animation legend Ralph Bakshi (look him up):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WApcUBcVMos&feature=channel_page
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Agh! Sorry guys. My name is SUPPOSED to be Disposable Hero, not Dispoasble Hero. :juggernaut: So mad at self.Also, check out my superheroes in the gallery!
Okay, whoever put up the Bruce Timm post is a genius. We, as fans, must at least give it as much of a chance as a Howard The Duck 2, but it might be pretty dumb, like Armored Adventures looks (Tony is not a kid!), or DC's new show Batman: The Brave and the Bold's plots (I have watched it), but hey, it might be good.A JLU-style Avengers would be wicked good, though... :venom:
first off if Marvel makes an adult oriented hero animated series cartoon network would be perfect, adult swim would be greatly enhanced by a deadpool series w/lots of gore and crazy obscene violence. But guys let the kids discover the heroes in a more family oriented way. I do agree though , with the animation on most of these shows being second rate, do any of these producers ever watch ...
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first off if Marvel makes an adult oriented hero animated series cartoon network would be perfect, adult swim would be greatly enhanced by a deadpool series w/lots of gore and crazy obscene violence. But guys let the kids discover the heroes in a more family oriented way. I do agree though , with the animation on most of these shows being second rate, do any of these producers ever watch "ghost in the shell" that is the level I expect from any Marvel cartoon adult or child oriented. RHINO805 :x-men: [/i]
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