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Postby MongolSquad » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:25 am

First, it started with the announcement of Wulin Warriors, which may or may not (debatably) be animation.

Then, a live-action pilot called Saul of the Mole People was announced for Adult Swim.

Now, it's final: Starting next year, the word "Cartoon" will mean nothing to this network's name. They will be airing full-fledged, live-action movies.

Yes, you heard me. This is not a joke. This is an actual commercial that aired on Cartoon Network. Their first movie on the list, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is understandable, but look at what else they picked up:

-Small Soldiers
-The Goonies
-Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves


http://www.toonamiinfolink.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=968

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Postby Space Penis » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:39 am

I heard they'll be dropping the "cartoon" part soon; they'll just be called "Network".

N.B. This is a lie.
Tell me, is something eluding you, sunshine?
Is this not what you expected to see?
If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes
You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise!

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Postby Titus » Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:38 am

:cry:
"I say Evamonkey did it himself. After seeing that Titus had more Eva images than him, he was driven into a fit of jealousy that led him to set this up in the hope of infecting everyone with a trojan that automatically rooted through their harddrives and sending him any images he didnt already have." - Space Penis
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Postby drinian » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:27 pm

Sounds like it's about time for an "Adult Swim Network."

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Postby The Sandman » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:51 pm

*points gun in my head* BANG!!!
Exit light/Enter night/Take my hand/We off to Never Neverland

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Postby Timesplitter 01 » Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:00 pm

Titus wrote::cry:


Why u crying titus, does this affect you?
I have too much anime, yet it's not enough. Anime Addict, if it were a drug; I'd be dead.

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Postby Heidroch » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:00 pm

EDIT: Double post! Whoops!
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Postby DatDude » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:01 pm

Ho man the entire point was to just run frecking cartoons!

Lets hope this tanks as bad as giant robot week.

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Postby Heidroch » Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:02 pm

I'm kinda thinking that maybe it won't be so bad. If they do live action, that means they will be buying less of the crappy flash animation cartoons and giving them their own shows. 12 oz. Mouse being a perfect example. What were the creators of this POS show thinking when they made this?

Probably something like...
-So, we want to make a show, but we don't really like ideas such as putting in any actual work, or paying for quality animators, voice actors, or even writers. What should we do?
-Well, I have a few drawings of various creatures that my 3-year old kid did, in which the only thing recognizable as a life form is that of a green mouse. Or at least I think it is a mouse.... And I guess that we could just draw lame excuses for squares in Photoshop for any extra characters that we may need.
-For voice actors; it could just be us, right? I mean, we aren't actually being filmed, it's just our voices! So, we could just say whatever into the microphones since it isn't really acting.
-Wow, sounds great! I guess for stories, we could just write about stuff like getting drunk at bars and going to porn studios. In the 13 minutes that our cartoon runs, at least 12.5 minutes will only be sickenly uncreative drinking and sex jokes.
-Wow, making a cartoon was easier than I thought! I'll tell you what we'll do: We'll use the huge paycheck from Adult Swim to hire a painter, who will come in to paint a portrait of us. We shall then hang this portrait on our wall, and everyday we shall stare at this picture and contemplate how great and original we are.

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Postby superdoughboy4 » Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:19 pm

I guess their younger audience is lowering.
So they try and obtain more crowds with these movies.

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Postby Titus » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:30 am

Timesplitter 01 wrote:
Titus wrote::cry:


Why u crying titus, does this affect you?


When nothings on T.V, I could always go to Cartoon Network... I love Johny Bravo, Samurai Jack, THe Edd Boys... Etc... Now Ill have to watch MTV or nothing at all.....

Not that I watch much T.V anyway...
"I say Evamonkey did it himself. After seeing that Titus had more Eva images than him, he was driven into a fit of jealousy that led him to set this up in the hope of infecting everyone with a trojan that automatically rooted through their harddrives and sending him any images he didnt already have." - Space Penis
"some of the most intelligent people I know are complete fuck ups, and some of the less intelligent ones are incredibly interesting and promising." - The Eva Monkey
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"TITUS + ADSL = Disaster" - Timesplitter 01

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Postby Timesplitter 01 » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:16 am

Titus wrote:
Timesplitter 01 wrote:
Titus wrote::cry:


Why u crying titus, does this affect you?


When nothings on T.V, I could always go to Cartoon Network... I love Johny Bravo, Samurai Jack, THe Edd Boys... Etc... Now Ill have to watch MTV or nothing at all.....

Not that I watch much T.V anyway...


Just to point out unless your watching things from the USA, which you maybe be doing, then you wont be affected.

Good old cartoon network AUS brings me such shows as initial D.
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Postby Titus » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:28 am

No, i don't. I get good ol British cartoon network.
"I say Evamonkey did it himself. After seeing that Titus had more Eva images than him, he was driven into a fit of jealousy that led him to set this up in the hope of infecting everyone with a trojan that automatically rooted through their harddrives and sending him any images he didnt already have." - Space Penis
"some of the most intelligent people I know are complete fuck ups, and some of the less intelligent ones are incredibly interesting and promising." - The Eva Monkey
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"TITUS + ADSL = Disaster" - Timesplitter 01

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Postby Timesplitter 01 » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:42 am

Done some web searching and found that Cartoon Network Uk dropped Adult swim ( that has all the anime) and is possibly thinking picking it up again.

So you never know :?
I have too much anime, yet it's not enough. Anime Addict, if it were a drug; I'd be dead.

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Postby superdoughboy4 » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:22 pm

Timesplitter 01 wrote:
Titus wrote:
Timesplitter 01 wrote:
Titus wrote::cry:


Why u crying titus, does this affect you?


When nothings on T.V, I could always go to Cartoon Network... I love Johny Bravo, Samurai Jack, THe Edd Boys... Etc... Now Ill have to watch MTV or nothing at all.....

Not that I watch much T.V anyway...


Just to point out unless your watching things from the USA, which you maybe be doing, then you wont be affected.

Good old cartoon network AUS brings me such shows as initial D.


Are you serious?
Well, I don't think they have any English dubs for America anyways.
So it's much better.
I can just find the episodes off the good old en-ter-net.

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Postby sachiel » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:22 pm

Why does this not surprise me? :shock:
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Postby Titus » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:33 pm

Cuz ur a computer nerd and you already knew it???
"I say Evamonkey did it himself. After seeing that Titus had more Eva images than him, he was driven into a fit of jealousy that led him to set this up in the hope of infecting everyone with a trojan that automatically rooted through their harddrives and sending him any images he didnt already have." - Space Penis
"some of the most intelligent people I know are complete fuck ups, and some of the less intelligent ones are incredibly interesting and promising." - The Eva Monkey
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"TITUS + ADSL = Disaster" - Timesplitter 01

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Postby superdoughboy4 » Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:25 pm

Cause you have no care for the Network of Cartoons, that is Cartoon Network?

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Postby sachiel » Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:32 am

Maybe a bit of both. :(
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Postby Timesplitter 01 » Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:08 am

I wish that Cartoon network Australia would show more anime. ITs only showing 4
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