Thundercats : Season One, Book Three. Thundercats : Season One, Book Two. Photos Top cast Edit. Matthew Mercer Tygra as Tygra …. Kevin Michael Richardson Panthro as Panthro …. Emmanuelle Chriqui Cheetara as Cheetara. Dee Bradley Baker Slythe as Slythe …. Corey Burton Jaga as Jaga ….
Pamela Adlon Pumyra as Pumyra …. Clancy Brown Grune as Grune. Jim Meskimen Aburn as Aburn …. Larry Kenney Claudus as Claudus. Fred Tatasciore Tookit as Tookit …. Cree Summer Panthera as Panthera …. Michael McKean Vultaire as Vultaire.
Rob Paulsen Shen as Shen …. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The Cats are coming out to play. Did you know Edit. Quotes Jaga : While you will one day wear the crown, Lion-O, only the Eye of Thundera, the source of our power, knows if there is indeed a king inside of you.
User reviews 36 Review. Top review. Excellent re-boot and almost as good as the original series. The animation is fluid and detailed, if lacking a little in uniqueness more of an anime sort of look, not a bad thing though, rather than the painterly one of the original series , and it was really nice to see the character designs updated to styles a little more relevant now.
The music has its fair share of beautiful, haunting and rousing themes, the lack of a main theme is a little disappointing but doesn't hurt the show that much. The writing has a little humour in respect to the fun of the original show and is also very thoughtful, while the story lines maintain the fun of the original show while taking a darker approach with themes of racism and slavery.
And it does that while respecting the original show but showing more mature and relevant themes and incorporating them with little if any heavy-handedness. The action is also very thrilling, and animated beautifully. The characters are engaging and developed very well, while the story lines are paced in a way that episodes move swiftly room is always left to introduce and develop characters and their relationships. Here the heroes and villains are equally interesting, admittedly in the original series the villains were a little more interesting than the heroes.
It was an interesting choice having Snarf mute, and it was a choice that did pay off. The voice acting is very dynamic and suit the characters well without being too stereotypical. All in all, almost as good as the original show and as a re-boot Thundercats is excellent.
TheLittleSongbird Aug 23, The animation for the episodes was provided by the Japanese studio Pacific Animation Corporation, with Masaki Iizuka as production manager. The studio was acquired in to form Walt Disney Animation Japan. Seasons 2 , 3 , and 4 followed a new format of twenty episodes each, starting with a five-part story.
The series was originally distributed by Rankin-Bass Productions' then-parent company Telepictures Corporation , which would later merge with Lorimar Productions in Leisure Concepts which helped co-develop [1] [2] the show acted as a licensing agent for the series.
There were also several comic book series produced: Marvel Comics ' version currently owned by Warner Bros. Items of clothing featuring the ThunderCats logo and DVD boxsets of the original series have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years as nostalgia for the former children's favorite has grown.
In October , Variety magazine revealed that Jerry O'Flaherty , veteran video game art director, had signed on to direct. The film is being produced by Spring Creek Productions. It was originally set for a summer release, [8] but it has since been reported that the movie is on hold. ThunderCats follows the adventures of the eponymous team of heroes, catlike humanoid aliens on a planet called Third Earth. The fleet is attacked by the Thundereans's enemies, the Mutants of Plun-Darr , who destroy most of the starships in the "ThunderFleet," but spare the flagship hoping to capture the legendary mystic Sword of Omens they believe is on board.
The sword holds the Eye of Thundera, the source of the ThunderCats's power, which is embedded in the hilt. Though the Mutants damage the flagship, the power of the Eye drives them back. The damage to the ship means the journey to their original destination is not possible, instead having to journey to "Third Earth;" which will take much longer than they had anticipated.
The eldest of the ThunderCats, Jaga, volunteers to pilot the ship while the others sleep in capsules; however, he dies of old age in the process, but not before ensuring they will reach their destination safely. When the ThunderCats awake from their suspended animation on Third Earth after ten "galacto-years," Lion-O discovers that his suspension capsule has slowed, rather than stopped, his aging. He has now become essentially a child in the body of an adult.
He has thus grown in size without actually growing up, and has missed out on the first-hand life experiences which confer maturity. Together, the ThunderCats and the friendly natives of Third Earth construct the "Cat's Lair," their new home and headquarters, but before long, the Mutants have tracked them down to Third Earth. The intrusion of these two alien races upon the world does not go unnoticed, however, as a demonic, mummified sorcerer calling himself Mumm-Ra recruits the Mutants to aid him in his campaign to acquire the Eye of Thundera and destroy the ThunderCats so that his evil may continue to hold sway over Third Earth.
The basic plot above holds strong for the first season of the show, and served as the basis for a vast array of stories that freely mixed elements of science fiction and fantasy into a traditional good-versus-evil tale that steadily introduced more and more recurring allies and villains into the world of the ThunderCats.
Futuristic technology is just as central to the series as magic and myth, but even in the midst of all this action, the series never underemphasizes the importance of moral values in solving problems. The first half of Season 1 featured a gentle continuity, with early episodes following on from one another and establishing recurring concepts, although this became less common as the season transitioned into its second half, which comprised mostly incidental one-shot adventures.
Tying the second half of season one together was the overarching five-part adventure written by series head writer Leonard Starr , "Lion-O's Annointment," in which an unarmed Lion-O faced off against first each of the other ThunderCats, and then Mumm-Ra, so he could truly earn his title as Lord of the ThunderCats. The five parts were:. On all four days except the last, the Mutants tried to interfere with Lion-O's trials so that they could force the ThunderCats to remain leaderless.
The other ThunderCats were each then forced to involve themselves in the conflict specifically to foil the Mutants's interferences—all while trying to avoid assisting Lion-O in his anointment trials. Although intended to be viewed consecutively as the adventures depicted occurred one day after the other , the five parts of the mini-series were erroneously aired and released on DVD with multiple other episodes between each installment.
A massive cast of returning heroes and villains were incorporated into the story and concluded with the apparent destruction of Mumm-Ra. Leonard Starr wrote the story for this TV movie. When the series returned in , however, it was revealed that the evil wizard Mumm-Ra had survived.
In the case of "Mumm-Ra Lives! The season began with the Peter Lawrence-scripted "ThunderCubs," which, though named for its plot about the ThunderCats being transformed into children, was principally about Mumm-Ra reconstructing Thundera in order to retrieve both the weapon that had originally destroyed it the Sword of Plun-Darr and the legendary Treasure of Thundera. In the course of the adventure, the treasure—containing the Book of Omens, a tome holding all the secrets of the ThunderCats, and many other mystical items—was scattered across the New Thundera, ushering in a new concept for the series: a season with an actual story arc.
Continuity between episodes became tighter as the ThunderCats, Mutants, Lunataks and Mumm-Ra alternated their adventures between Third Earth and New Thundera, searching for the treasure and exploiting its powers.
The season also featured the running theme of the Ancient Spirits of Evil having to take a more active hand in pushing Mumm-Ra into action, culminating in another unique feature of the season—an actual finale episode, "The Last Day," in which the Ancient Spirits of Evil give Mumm-Ra one last chance to destroy the ThunderCats by sunset.
In the opening miniseries, Peter Lawrence's "Return to Thundera! This enraged the Ancient Spirits of Evil to the point that they brought Mumm-Ra back and installed him within a new pyramid on New Thundera. The season proved to be quite divorced from what had gone before, with adventures consigned almost entirely to New Thundera, and most villainous opposition coming from either Mumm-Ra or assorted new villains.
The Mutants, Lunataks, and Captain Cracker all returned for one episode each, however. In the series finale, several conclusions are reached:. Despite its large cast of characters, ThunderCats featured a rather small circle of voice actors , with only six actors providing voices for the entire first season. Every actor provided multiple voices, although the distinctive baritone of Earle Hyman Panthro left the actor providing only very occasional guest voices in comparison with his fellow performers.
In particular, as the first season's only female actor, Lynne Lipton Cheetara and WilyKit provided voices for every single female character that appeared in the season. Above all others, however, actor Bob McFadden would most regularly provide the voices of guest characters, with his two diametrically-opposed main roles: the timid, high-pitched Snarf and the rumbling, sibilant Slithe. Despite introducing a large number of new regular characters, the show's second season brought in only two new actors.
Gerrianne Raphael provided the voice of Pumyra, and was able to provide Lynne Lipton with some relief by adding new female voices. LJN produced the ThunderCats action figures from — Due to difficulties, it would not air until Each figure had an action feature of some sort, and the line also included a unique "laser" light-up feature that interacted between the Cats' Lair playset, some figures, and some accessories.
Lion-O's eyes and Mumm-Ra's eyes would illuminate when a special battery-powered key ring that came with the figure was pressed into a slot in their backs.
The PVC companion figures were also produced as full size articulated figures. LJN did produce a few variant figures including the young Tygra version and the silver rat-eye daggers for Rataro. There are also a few slight color variations of Lion-O, such as red and orange-haired versions. Driller and Stinger are the toughest figures to track down; Stinger's wings are very fragile, making it next to impossible to find a loose, complete figure.
Photos of these were featured in the LJN catalog. Many years later, Cartoon Network 's official website featured a game that allowed visitors to play as Lion-O and rescue fellow ThunderCats while venturing into Mumm-Ra's tomb this game, titled, "ThunderCats: Tomb of Mumm-Raa," can be found on an archived Toonami database. Other ThunderCats merchandise of the s included, among other items, a board game , TV tray table , an electronic racing set, tin lunch box and apparel.
A retro spurt occurred in the mids and s decade that began with the familiar s ThunderCats emblem on T-shirts and has since grown to include new T-shirt designs and various other ThunderCats-themed apparel such as hats and belt buckles. In June , Bandai announced that new toylines will be released, based on both the classic and the series. In July , Warner Bros. Mezco Toyz announced in February that they acquired the ThunderCats license to produce large scale rotocast figures based on the s animated series.
Lion-O was the first announced figure and is expected to be released sometime in July. Jerry Macaluso, owner of Pop Culture Shock , collectible statue company, announced in March that he had acquired his "dream license". Prototypes of Cheetara and Tygra were developed and displayed online and at San Diego Comic Con respectively, but didn't reach minimum pre-order thresholds. The prototypes were donated to the ThunderCats Museum in There were also several comic book series produced. A ThunderCats comic book series based on the animated series was originally published by Marvel Comics through its Star Comics imprint in , lasting for 3 years and 24 issues.
It was actually the first five episodes of season 2 sloppily edited some frames of the episode title cards remain to look like a feature length movie. Season 2 never aired in the UK.
In —09, Warner Bros.
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