Indeed.
Give me a cold hearted greedy toy exec who doesnt give a single frick abkut anything but money. Hes not going to meddle in the writing of your elaborate toy commercial cartoon. Look at how deep beastwars got.
Action cartoon's were basically MADE for the sole purpose of selling toys, that's why they're pretty much dead these days, kids would rather play fortnite than with action figures.
Where's my short fat black april figure??
I wanna pretend to have an heart attack from trying to reach the fried chicken on the top shelf of the fridge.
We occasionally get a tie-in cartoon for doll series because the Monster High webseries was so well received but it's not something a kid unaware of the dolls would stumble upon, modern doll cartoons are more like supplementary material to the dolls
Yes, but the age audience for cartoon watchers and toy sales is lower than it used to be.
9-12 year olds are already playing video games and watching game streamers.
Pre-school shows absolutely do. They're pretty much pitched with toyetic designs in mind. Shows for kids between 7 - 12, not so much anymore. A handful do, such as the CG He-Man Netflix cartoon. They kind of have limited releases though and don't go all out with seasonal plans like you used to see in the 80's and 90's.
CartoonNetwork wanted to shift towards multimedia franchising for a very brief period. They wanted to have cartoons releasing alongside a video game tie-in and a potential toy line, but it went nowhere. They teamed up to do that with Sonic Boom and it amounted to nothing. They tried it with OK KO and it was a flop. They did it with Steven Universe and it was a modest hit, but it was also a mobile game with no sustainability so I don't know what they were thinking there.
Nickelodeon has Paw Patrol and Spongebob, they're set for long awhile. Typically, studios aim for "video games" now-a-days instead of toy lines, but those are a lot harder and more costly to produce, so they've been flip-flopping as far as profits go.
Thing about video games is you need well done gameplay meaning skilled developers who can make a game. Otherwise it's not going to sell. And another thing video games about shitty and lame looking characters will never sell. Who wants to play as Finn from Adventure Time seriously? If I can't stand the sight of the characters because they look ugly and stupid then no I'm not buying a game about them.
These studios are full of old heads who barely know video games outside of Mario Kart, so that's all they try to emulate. GOTTA HAVE SMASH CLONES, GOTTA HAVE MARIO KART CLONES. I know South Park and the Arkham games set up a high bar for what a video game adaptation of a Cinemaphile property needs to be, but these studios could absolutely tap into the indie market and make smaller games with big FoTM impact.
How about a point-and-click We Bare Bears game, featuring all the original VAs? Maybe there's a joke sidequest where you can have Panda trying to impress a girl and it becomes a silly dating simulator. What about a 2.5 horror platformer for Gravity Falls in the same vein as Little Nightmares? I'm sure streamers will gladly promote that for free during October. Roguelike Dungeon Crawlers are big, I'm certain you can mix that genre up with Adventure Time to make a Dead Cells/Enter The Gungeon type game. Frick me, how about a pet simulator for The Croods or something?
All the execs just want to copy Smash and all the showrunners just want to copy Paper Mario. I get it, they're both good games, but maybe there's a better game genre for YOUR show.
Personally I don't get why toy commercial shows don't exist anymore
Toy sales have gone UP over time, not down
Are kids just not watching Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network anymore? I have no pulse on what kids watch since my only exposure to that is extremely poor parents who let their children play screaming loud paw patrol episodes in the middle of a grocery store
*cough* paw patrol *cough*
The frick
The funny/sad part about this is that this shit was literally a joke in the last episode of brave and the bold.
they sell liberal fascism and mental illness now.
They've been doing that since Kim Possible
Indeed.
Give me a cold hearted greedy toy exec who doesnt give a single frick abkut anything but money. Hes not going to meddle in the writing of your elaborate toy commercial cartoon. Look at how deep beastwars got.
Toys are a thing of the past.
Action cartoon's were basically MADE for the sole purpose of selling toys, that's why they're pretty much dead these days, kids would rather play fortnite than with action figures.
You do realize we have a board dedicated to a cartoon toy commercial, right? Just got a new movie and series not too long ago.
We do?
Miniature equines.
oh right
The new TMNT movie will be for selling toys like always
Where's my short fat black april figure??
I wanna pretend to have an heart attack from trying to reach the fried chicken on the top shelf of the fridge.
No. Shit media never sells merchandise.
We occasionally get a tie-in cartoon for doll series because the Monster High webseries was so well received but it's not something a kid unaware of the dolls would stumble upon, modern doll cartoons are more like supplementary material to the dolls
Yes, but the age audience for cartoon watchers and toy sales is lower than it used to be.
9-12 year olds are already playing video games and watching game streamers.
Nah, they try to sell diversity now.
Frick the 2000s
Cartoons leaving network TV killed the big scheme. The general audience under 13 went in all different directions.
Pre-school shows absolutely do. They're pretty much pitched with toyetic designs in mind. Shows for kids between 7 - 12, not so much anymore. A handful do, such as the CG He-Man Netflix cartoon. They kind of have limited releases though and don't go all out with seasonal plans like you used to see in the 80's and 90's.
CartoonNetwork wanted to shift towards multimedia franchising for a very brief period. They wanted to have cartoons releasing alongside a video game tie-in and a potential toy line, but it went nowhere. They teamed up to do that with Sonic Boom and it amounted to nothing. They tried it with OK KO and it was a flop. They did it with Steven Universe and it was a modest hit, but it was also a mobile game with no sustainability so I don't know what they were thinking there.
Nickelodeon has Paw Patrol and Spongebob, they're set for long awhile. Typically, studios aim for "video games" now-a-days instead of toy lines, but those are a lot harder and more costly to produce, so they've been flip-flopping as far as profits go.
Thing about video games is you need well done gameplay meaning skilled developers who can make a game. Otherwise it's not going to sell. And another thing video games about shitty and lame looking characters will never sell. Who wants to play as Finn from Adventure Time seriously? If I can't stand the sight of the characters because they look ugly and stupid then no I'm not buying a game about them.
These studios are full of old heads who barely know video games outside of Mario Kart, so that's all they try to emulate. GOTTA HAVE SMASH CLONES, GOTTA HAVE MARIO KART CLONES. I know South Park and the Arkham games set up a high bar for what a video game adaptation of a Cinemaphile property needs to be, but these studios could absolutely tap into the indie market and make smaller games with big FoTM impact.
How about a point-and-click We Bare Bears game, featuring all the original VAs? Maybe there's a joke sidequest where you can have Panda trying to impress a girl and it becomes a silly dating simulator. What about a 2.5 horror platformer for Gravity Falls in the same vein as Little Nightmares? I'm sure streamers will gladly promote that for free during October. Roguelike Dungeon Crawlers are big, I'm certain you can mix that genre up with Adventure Time to make a Dead Cells/Enter The Gungeon type game. Frick me, how about a pet simulator for The Croods or something?
All the execs just want to copy Smash and all the showrunners just want to copy Paper Mario. I get it, they're both good games, but maybe there's a better game genre for YOUR show.
I love point n clicks, almost any source material can be made into one.
The thumbnail makes it look like Rayman's there on the right.
no? they are literally selling more bullshit now than ever, look at rick and morty, they will sell literally anything.
Personally I don't get why toy commercial shows don't exist anymore
Toy sales have gone UP over time, not down
Are kids just not watching Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network anymore? I have no pulse on what kids watch since my only exposure to that is extremely poor parents who let their children play screaming loud paw patrol episodes in the middle of a grocery store
Millennial parents just don't want to deal with a bunch of toys all over the place.
My nephew will put down his Switch to play with his legos.
>lego*
>LEGO®*
>LEGO® Bricks and Building Kits*
Ninjago has a show
Glorified commercial cartoons still exist, but selling ideologies is the more profitable choice compared to toys these days.
anon, we have an entire board with a cartoon that was made for that