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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2016 22:05:01 GMT -5
And Amanda Waller has been thin since the new52 revamp and on all the DC TV shows (and upcoming movie) so her days as an obese characters are 5+ years in the past now. IT's actually following the current character model for Amanda Waller.
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 17, 2016 0:21:56 GMT -5
You need more Teen Titans in your life. Oh wow. From waaaay back in Titans East? Man, what a minor character. I'd totally forgotten. She's popped up pretty frequently since, including the Young Justice cartoon and the current Titans Hunt series. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 0:27:54 GMT -5
This is Bumblebee as seen in Young Justice on CN just a few years back... out of costume...  and in...  this is Vixen in the current animated series on CW's website set in the Flash/Arrow tv-verse  and headed towards a live action appearance on the shows (which may mean her rights are tied up so she could not be used for other animated projects for DC. of course DC recently did a My Little Pony inspired Amethyst animated as part of the DC Nation shorts recently too...  so that particular vibe for the series seems to be something they are trying to capture with their stuff aimed at the tween and younger girls market. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 0:32:10 GMT -5
Oh and if you haven't seen Waller in comics recently here is the before and after for her pre-Flashpoint and post-Flashpoint...  Amanda Waller on tv then (Smallville)  Amanda Waller on tv now (Arrow)...  and in movies soon (Suicide Squad)  so as I said, the loss of a full figured Waller is not something new for the Superhero Girls show. -M |
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Post by shaxper on Mar 17, 2016 5:14:04 GMT -5
That's really disappointing about Amanda Waller.
And yeah, I'm still waiting for a full feature Amethyst cartoon!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 11:01:39 GMT -5
I just found out that DC Superhero Girls are quite popular with young girls from 4 to 12 today and surprisingly boys from 4 to 9 and many of them are excited about it. That's all I have for now.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 2:57:42 GMT -5
Apparently DC is introducing an app for the Super-Hero Gils including bios, art, games, info on the web series, samples, etc. story on BCit's a good move if you are targeting a youth market that is rarely separated form a device of some sort. -M |
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 18, 2016 19:51:01 GMT -5
Apparently DC is introducing an app for the Super-Hero Gils including bios, art, games, info on the web series, samples, etc. story on BCit's a good move if you are targeting a youth market that is rarely separated form a device of some sort. -M We are the Borg. Resistance is futile... |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2016 22:10:02 GMT -5
SO there is an interview with Diane NElson in Forbes about this line... Bleeding Cool has an article on it hereNelson is pleased with the success of the line and says it has the potential to be a $1 billion brand for DC/Warner... seems someone knew what they were doing and this has struck the right chords with the intended audience, something I had doubts about because of potential feelings of tokenism when it was announced, but the execution of it has avoided that pitfall and found its intended audience. Good job. -M |
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Post by shaxper on May 24, 2016 9:57:23 GMT -5
SO there is an interview with Diane NElson in Forbes about this line... Bleeding Cool has an article on it hereNelson is pleased with the success of the line and says it has the potential to be a $1 billion brand for DC/Warner... seems someone knew what they were doing and this has struck the right chords with the intended audience, something I had doubts about because of potential feelings of tokenism when it was announced, but the execution of it has avoided that pitfall and found its intended audience. Good job. -M My girls own all the figures, and my oldest considers Harley Quinn her absolute favorite toy. I think toy companies have been very slow in targeting the My Little Pony market. There's a ravenous hunger for quality/intelligent girls programming with positive messages. There's most certainly a deficit of that right now. No one really wants to sit their kid down to watch Monster High and Littlest Pet Shop. |
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on May 24, 2016 12:19:27 GMT -5
I saw these dolls at Target yesterday. I'm glad they exist, something else out there for the girls instead of Monster High or Ever After, etc.
I'd buy them for my daughters, but they are mainly into shopkins right now. They would love an Amethyst cartoon like the one mrp posted.
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Post by dupersuper on May 26, 2016 1:51:18 GMT -5
I've gotta' get around to season 2...
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Post by tingramretro on May 26, 2016 3:30:36 GMT -5
Let's see. For one, it's teenage girls with powers at a high school. Pretty much a total rip off of twenty other cartoons targeted at girls that are on the air right now. If you've seen My Little Pony, or Ever After High (and I have, cuz I have kids), then there's pretty much no reason to watch this. For another, they're trying to pass off a number of villains as good guys as if they didn't have enough female heroes in the DCU to pull from. Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Star Sapphire? Considering that this will be an entry point for kids into DC superheroes, I'd rather they actually tried to get some of this right. And I don't even know who Bumblebee is. If they needed an African American hero for the sake of diversity, wouldn't Vixen have been a logical choice? She would if she was African-American, but she isn't. Vixen is from Zambesi. She's African, no suffix necessary. Bumblebee is Karen Beecher, a former member of the original Teen Titans, and was in fact DC's first ever African-American female hero. |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 19:38:44 GMT -5
My girlfriend and I watched the hour long DC Superhero Girls "movie" with our niece and a couple days later got texts from her dad with some awesome Poison Ivy and Wonder Woman pictures she'd drawn.
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Post by shaxper on May 26, 2016 21:07:49 GMT -5
My girlfriend and I watched the hour long DC Superhero Girls "movie" with our niece and a couple days later got texts from her dad with some awesome Poison Ivy and Wonder Woman pictures she'd drawn. Was the movie any good? |
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