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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: wolfev on May 15, 2009, 06:40:15 PM
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Can you imagine animorphs as a 1 shot goosebumps story?
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It would probably be something like the early books. Excluding book 1, because it's a bit darker than most early books.
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I can't imagine packing everything or even the bare minimum of the story into one Goosebumps book. However, I could see a book where someone got the power to morph and might have gotten stuck or something like that. It could've been somewhat interesting.
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if RL Stine wrote Animorphs it'd be a lot darker and would either end in all the Animorphs dieing, becoming nothlits, or infested
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if RL Stine wrote Animorphs it'd be a lot darker and would either end in all the Animorphs dieing, becoming nothlits, or infested
he's dark but not that dark.
that's going more down the lines of Dean Koonz or Steven King.
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if RL Stine had written it, at the end, THE ANIMORPHS WOULD HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE THE YEERKS!!!!!! SHOCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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All I ever used to read before Animorphs was Goosebumps, and the only reason I read them was because I couldn't anything else easy or fun to read. That said, I was never engaged in any of the Goosebump books that I ever read. Animorphs was the first series that truly made me care for the story and its characters, so I would NOT want R.L. Stine to ever touch Animorphs and ruin that for me.
The only exception I'd make to this is if he wanted to do the Alternamorphs, since no one really cared for them anyway.
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if RL Stine had written it, at the end, THE ANIMORPHS WOULD HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE THE YEERKS!!!!!! SHOCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree RL Stine loves making sudden plot twists. XD
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Can you imagine animorphs as a 1 shot goosebumps story?
It's hard to truly imagine an abomination of that magnitude, but I think it's safe to say it would have been just as terrible as the rest of his work.
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Can you imagine animorphs as a 1 shot goosebumps story?
It's hard to truly imagine an abomination of that magnitude, but I think it's safe to say it would have been just as terrible as the rest of his work.
Ooh, burn and agreed.
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Get 'em mike!
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i loved R.L. steines goosbumps! but i agree, the animorphs in goosebump format woulda ended up with everyone being yeerks, or at least one of them, the whole time. don't forget a Night in Terror Tower and how THAT ended :-X
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Can you imagine animorphs as a 1 shot goosebumps story?
It's hard to truly imagine an abomination of that magnitude, but I think it's safe to say it would have been just as terrible as the rest of his work.
:ditto:
seriously, why R L Stine? :-\
maybe stephen king? the changelings. i can see that.
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don't forget a Night in Terror Tower and how THAT ended :-X
how did that one end. I can't remember (LOL I havent read a Goosebumps book in like 3 years)
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I haven't read that one Estrid, but I have read some truly terrible work by him. About the only think the series has in common with Animorphs is that they both went on to create a TV series that was bloody awful!
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I don't seem to remember Goosebumps the way you people do. Goosebumps was the first series that I really got into, and I read a lot of the books. I thought he was a great writer.
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Oh, they were great, don't get me wrong, but they weren't on par with Animorphs.
And yeah, R. L. Stein could give M. Night a run for his money as far as twist endings go...
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It's be like Monster Blood, they'd all find some magical alien goo and eat it in Jell-O form, and then realize they spontaneously turn into animals at uncomfortable times. And then there are aliens involved who made the goo and want it back, and they're going to find it by infesting every human on earth.
And yeah I agree, in the end it would be like an even bigger Invasion of the Body Snatchers ripoff...they'd all be back at school living their normal lives but they'd all be Yeerks, dun dun dunnnnn...
Phoenix you're so right, Scholastic's Goosebumps TV show and the Animorphs show have EXACTLY the same production values (hence why they both look like utter crap, and have the same horrible faux-creepy background music)...so very sad.
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blue, night in terror tower ended like so:
[spoiler]at the end it turns out her and her bro are sent into the future by some magician, and her family and the life she knows is all fake and she goes back into the past[/spoiler]
the headless ghost was the one and only goosebumps book that truly terrified me to read as a kid. i wonder if itd still do that now................
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It's be like Monster Blood, they'd all find some magical alien goo and eat it in Jell-O form, and then realize they spontaneously turn into animals at uncomfortable times.
did RL stine already do that when these four kids used spray on tan that turned them into dogs but in the end they found out that the spray wasnt what transformed them and that they were born dogs but were used for an experiment that turned dogs into humans. IDK if tht was a book or not but it was in the show
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I do like his plot twists they are cool this isn't goose bumps its from his fear street series but there was this one book where the main character turns out to be a dog that dreamed he was a human it was weird and awesome.
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ya at the end of the series they all would end up being nothlits remembering when they used to be human, and what it woulda been like had they not become nothlits or in the end the whole war was just a crazy dream jake had or whatever
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but then it would end with him going downstairs for breakfast and his mom offering fried yeerk, Kentucky Fried Tobias, or Kandrona.
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but then it would end with him going downstairs for breakfast and his mom offering fried yeerk, Kentucky Fried Tobias, or Kandrona.
LOL, I think you're right on with that!
I thought Goosbumps was good at times (I haven't read any since I was young, but still). I really liked the ones where you could choose your own adventure, I believed they were called "Give Yourself Goosebumps". I had a very vivid imagination (I actually still do), so it was very easy for me to picture myself in those situations.
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ya i think it was give urself goosebumps. those were WAY better then the alternamorphs
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I think it's safe to say that Stine would have given the Animorphs books a terrible (and completely ridiculous) plot twist ending to the series.
Choose your own adventure books are nice in theory, but in practice I've always found them to be disappointing at best. Even the great KA couldn't pull them off well, but I don't blame her, they're very tricky stories to write. Also they're kinda limited by the fact that even though you're always given a lot of choices, you usually end up with only being able to take one path that doesn't lead to your death.
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And they don't always give you the option you want when you're given an option, or give you an option when you feel like you need one. I remember in one, the black hole or something, I had the option of eating berries or leaving them and continuing on I thought "Why don't I take some berries with me and eath them while I walk on?"
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And they don't always give you the option you want when you're given an option, or give you an option when you feel like you need one. I remember in one, the black hole or something, I had the option of eating berries or leaving them and continuing on I thought "Why don't I take some berries with me and eath them while I walk on?"
lol, good point. The same thing often happens to me on multiple choice quizzes.
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Interesting thread. I'd still read 'em if he did. I liked R.L.Stine when I was a kid and didnt know much better :P
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I loved Choose Your Own Adventure, at least, the original series (not so much the Goosebumps or Animorphs ones)...I was actually looking for CYOA books when I first found Animorphs x3
Dave and I were just talking about Goosebumps yesterday, we were wondering if they're still being written? I guess the original series stopped in 1997 but there was Goosebumps 2000 and then something called Goosebumps Horrorland which came out this year.
It looks like there are new covers for the "Goosebumps Classics", too o_O Weird.
I still can't get over how similar the production values (or lack thereof) of the Goosebumps and Animorphs Scholastic TV shows are, though. Right down to the cheesy music and '80s film quality...
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why is goosebumps still found in stores but not animorphs? that is just lame
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That's a good question. Maybe because there are so many more that came out. I remember one book labeled 150.
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R.L. Stein keeps writing the series. I think the original series is over, but he has written a separate goosebumps series entitled Horroland. Older books are rerelased, sometimes with new covers and updates for the time. Maybe K.A. will attempt to rerelease them. That's not her decision though, but rather a publishing decision.
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I do remember that Stine's Beast from the East, was pretty cool and so was "How i learned to fly" was like the only goosebumps where the main character didnt confront wizards, horrors, blah blah blah, but was more about human troubles.
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why is goosebumps still found in stores but not animorphs? that is just lame
Actually Animorphs books are still on sale at at least one of my local book stores, they had most of the middle but none of the beginning or end last I checked.
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no fair! the only bookstores that sell ani books around my house are used bookstores :(