It ’s not just enough to make a good cartoon any more . Too often , animated shows are dependent on deal legal action figure so as to stay on the line , ratings ( and quality ) be anathemize . Here are seven appearance whose fate would have been far dissimilar if they had gotten their merchandising together …
1 ) Young Justice
As long time DC animation mind honchoPaul Dini revealed in a sulfurous interview , internet executive director of kids ’ channels do n’t just want interview , they want specifically boy audiences , as son grease one’s palms toys . So despite Young Justice ’s popularity and decisive acclaim , it was cancel for have too many girls watching , which is to say girl were n’t buying enough Young Justice toys . Of of course , this ignores that the boy plausibly were n’t purchasing Young Justice fiddle either , thanks to Mattel ’s limited miscellanea of poorly articulated champion which were either 4.75 inches , antagonistic with all other DC figure , or a more traditional 6 - inch , which competed with several other DC toylines that Thomas Kid also did n’t want . Of naturally , Mattel also hardly exhaust any image of the cartoon ’s many superheroines , thus ensuring young lady would n’t want to bribe the toy . TV executives are idiots .
https://gizmodo.com/paul-dini-superhero-cartoon-execs-dont-want-largely-f-1483758317
2 ) He - Man and the Masters of the Universe
I speak not of the ’ 80s sketch , of course , which helped betray a million activity bod and vice versa . But the 2002 relaunch which , despite attain a respectable two seasons totaling 39 episodes , was a pale shadow of the ’ 80s juggernaut . Surely it did n’t help that the cartoon was a uncanny throwback to the ’ 80s cartoon , full of bumbling villains and obvious morals . But the toyline did n’t help either , although they were pretty good . They were excellently sculpted and had some fun features , although they were for sure retro in style if not in design . What sentence the toy is that Mattel decided to release several million icky variants of He - Man and Skeletor or else of all the other characters , ensuring only He - Man toy dog that no one wanted inundate the shelf .
3 ) Go - Bots
The original Go - Bots cartoon was , objectively , horrendous . I mean , compare to the Transformers and G.I. Joes and He - Mans of the metre , which do to snarf in some coolheaded stories , some badass moments , or just enough weirdness to turn kids into spirit - long fans . Go - Bots , however , just sucked from start to coating . The animated cartoon had no deliver quality . And yet and many other cartoons of the ’ 80s raise , the calibre of the cartoon did n’t matter if the toy were halfway decent , which the Go - Bot toy were decidedly not . They appear fearsome , the transformations were lame , and the cartoon proved that the characters were all unappealing imbeciles . Had the Go - Bots managed to put chassis even half as good as the Transformers toy we might have watched Michael Bay ’s Go - Bots this summer .
https://gizmodo.com/20-gobots-that-remind-us-why-the-gobots-sucked-so-incre-5976109
4 ) Avengers : United They brook
Well before the Marvel Cinematic Universe , but after Marvel had major hits bringing Spider - Man and the Adam - hands to Saturday morning vivification blocks , the Avengers made their first cartoon debut in 1999 . How did an Avengers cartoon miscarry ? Well , there were two main reasons : 1 ) Marvel made the incomprehensible decisiveness not to let in Captain America , Thor or Iron Man in the show , or else focusing on a team based on the much lesser known and less interesting West Coast Avengers ; 2 ) rather than trusting their character , as they did with Spider - Man , XTC - valet and other , they decided to give the superheroes anime - esque armor to transubstantiate into . This was because they ’d decided kids would be more concerned in buying anime - esque Avengers than regular 1 , and based the cartoon around these blueprint . Thus the toys countermine the Avengers animated cartoon from the very beginning . youngster , of course , recognize this Avengers sketch and the action digit for the cheap anime knock - offs that they were and bide the hell out from both . Within a year , both the show and the toyline had been call off .
5 ) Sym - Bionic Titan
Genndy Tartakovsky ’s fantastic gargantuan robot cartoon manage an impressive feat of being vote down by non - actual toys ! After the show became a collision in its first time of year , internet executives started see dollar sign house , and planned a plethora of activity figures and other ware , and ask — rationalize me , I should say , they “ asked ” — Tartakovsky to make the show ’s second seasonmore conducive to sell toyswith new golem , action feature , etc . Tartakovsky probably did n’t tell them to go fuck themselves , although he almost sure enough should have . When no one could agree on the toy , the connection canceled the show , despite it give birth solid ratings .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3EoBl5uBfU
6 ) Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
This cartoon serial — a raving mad western United States / scifi mash - up — was , somewhat familiarly , a rage favorite that did n’t get much recognition when it aired . But compared to most of the other child cartoons at the time , Galaxy Rangers had some well - specify characters and nice composition , and , most importantly , never seemed like it was made solely to shill toy dog . This was probably because the toy were n’t ready when the show was first produced and slapped on video . Of of course , what made it extra was also its undoing ; without the synergy of a toyline , it freed up the storytelling , but it failed to reach the popularity needed to stick around . Galoob never even bothered releasing the Galaxy Rangers toys they made in America , and transmit them to Europe alternatively , and the cartoon was canceled .
7 ) Green Lantern : The Animated Series
Canceled unceremoniously around the same meter as Young Justice , Green Lantern did n’t have as large a female audience , but it also did n’t have any toyline to talk of , as Mattel toy executives were still reeling from the complete failure of the live - action Green Lantern movie and its accompanying toyline . So DC Animation made a Green Lantern cartoon , Mattel reject to make toys for it , and thenit was call off for not selling enough merchandise . That ’s receive to be frustrating .
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