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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #30 on: September 21, 2008, 01:51:35 AM »
I would love to have a boxed set or special editions of the complete series.

I think the idea of combining the books into larger volumes is good, but personally I don't really like those because they are too heavy to hold while reading.  Haha, I'm lazy.

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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #31 on: September 21, 2008, 09:45:39 AM »
I would love to see a rerelease! But I just am not keeping my hopes up. Most people outside this community barely remember Animorphs, while most people have at least read Goosebumps. It's a sad truth in my opinion and stings a little bit.



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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #32 on: September 25, 2008, 11:11:55 AM »
I would love to have a boxed set or special editions of the complete series.

I think the idea of combining the books into larger volumes is good, but personally I don't really like those because they are too heavy to hold while reading.  Haha, I'm lazy.

Now imagine 10 books thrown into 1 when all of them are about the size of an adult (as in for readers who are adults you perverts  ::) ) novel today, tiny print and all. That's heavy...

But I wouldn't mind if they rereleased Animorphs in one form or another. I'd find it much easier than scowering used book stores and antique shops for them like I do now. And plus, how do they know that they (or more likely we) won't influence a younger generation too, huh?
Heck, I've sort of managed to turn a seven-year-old into a fan by reading funny lines from the books.
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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #33 on: September 25, 2008, 03:55:12 PM »


This reminds me about what they did with Ghostbusters. There was the old ghostbusters with the four guys, but then there was a new ghostbusters with some teens, and one guy from the old ghostbusters. I believe it was Egon.
Wow I love Ghostbusters with a passion and hated that new series.
But seriously, being a purist, I would just want them to reissue all the books, no changes. I think most kids would get them, and if not, they could still connect with the characters.

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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #34 on: September 25, 2008, 04:16:48 PM »
You bring up a good point about being a purist. I mean, I'd be ok with a few minor changes, but there's just something wrong with major changes. Like messing with established timeline and cannon! *Goes off to mutter about Enterprise being stupid*
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But I would like to see them come back. And I agree. Most kids would at least be able to understand most of it. They may wonder why the Animorphs don't have cell phones or iPods, but that's minor details.
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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #35 on: September 26, 2008, 04:32:01 PM »
The reason they don't have cell phones or iPods is because of that stupid episode of the tv series where there were yeerks in cell phones.
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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #36 on: September 29, 2008, 04:01:05 PM »
...There were Yeerks...In cell phones...Gawd, I'm trying to decide if that's worse than Ax and the blockbuster card...
Though I thought it was because cell phones and iPods were only just beginning to come into play towards the end of the series. As in, everyone and their dog having them, not just doctors, business men, and maybe your parents. Heck, I didn't get a cell phone until I was sixteen.
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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #37 on: September 29, 2008, 08:32:56 PM »
I actually liked the idea of Yeerks in phones. Or some other device you put in your ear. However, it takes too long for the Yeerk to get in and take control than what was shown in that episode. It's not instant by any means. I guess that's what makes it unrealistic.


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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #38 on: September 29, 2008, 09:52:39 PM »
I was thinking about this last night, and I reckon the best way to do it (in my opinion) would be to to seperate the books into sets of 6 (chronologically, for instance 1-6 in one book, 7-12 in another etc), so you would have 9 novels all up. That means that there's one story for each narrator, each novel, right? All of these would be hard cover (with dust jackets), black background with a full close up of one of the Animorphs face, with half of it in their battle form (a la Megamorphs cover, so human face on left, bear/tiger/gorilla/wolf on right), and their neck fading to black. For Tobias, have him with the hawk on left and human on the right.

At the top, have the familiar Animorphs title, but with a white border, white font and black fill (around the font) and K A Applegate at the bottom in the ame (but smaller) font and colour, with no border. The back would be same as usual, except black background and white text (keeping it simple as possible). The image on the front I was thinking could also be black and white, apart from the eyes that would be full on saturated colour. Also, for

Anyway, I can hear you thinking: But there's 6 Animorphs and 9 books. Well, for the other three, I was thinking have one of Visser 3 or perhaps Elfangor. Definately have the last one as being just black, with the Animorphs logo/title in the centre, to sort of signify that it's the end and what not...And for the one before the end, perhaps have Chapman, or Marco's mum? I totally haven't read that far in the series, so I can't remember what happens to her. Anyway, find a way to fill those two covers with significant characters from the series (perhaps David morphing a rat? Or perhaps Erik King (sorry if I've misspelt, I actually haven't read the books he's in yet) with half his face as an android?)

Also, inside, have the same "flip-to-morph" do flacky, but also have at the start of each chapter the character's arm/hand reaching in from top-right, starting at human and gradually (as each chapter passes) morphing to an animal significant in that story. So, not on every page, but on every start of chapter (assuming all starts of chapters would be on the same side, ie on the right side of the book when open, otherwise it would look weird)

Okay, so now that the main series is done, onto Chronicle. I'm envisaging completely white for all of them, with an image of the main character on the front. For instance, with the HBC, have perhaps one standing HB and one crouching next to him. They would be in colour, and the title at the top would be black font and black border (with the title of the individual chronicle below in black). On the back, same as main series, but inverted colours. Same with other chronicles...So Ellimist would be all white, apart from the Ellimist in colour on the front.

For Mega-morphs, I was thinking that they could all go in one volume as well (or perhaps just go in with the main series novels), but if they were to be all in one novel, the cover could be just a huge image of every animal they've ever morphed...Like have dinosaurs in the back, insects up front, lions, tigers and bears (oh my). This could either be in colour, or in black and white with red highlights in some places. The title up the top would be red on a black background, white red border and same colour scheme on back (perhaps with some kind of white highlights or something)

Anyway, that's how I see it. I know, I spent waaaaay too long writing, but it's holidays here, so sue me :D

Plus, I couldn't sleep last night and had it on my mind

Also, I don't think it's ever going to happen....But it would be cool if it did...Perhaps, when I become rich, I buy the rights to Animorphs and begin making the books again...?

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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #39 on: October 10, 2008, 11:12:49 AM »
I think the only hope we have at getting new covers lies in Gone. If they make enough money, then maybe they will use it on animorphs. The idea for a movie is already out there, and she might try to bring more attention to the sieres again by redoing the covers.

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Re: Rerelease Animorphs
« Reply #40 on: October 10, 2008, 02:56:35 PM »
You have some great ideas, davo-man!

But I don't think dividing the books into volumes of six each makes a lot of sense, considering that you would have two of one of the narrator's books in that one volume.  For example, in the first volume you would have two Jake books.  Unless that was what you were going for regarding the cover art?  Because then it would make sense to show Jake on the first volume.

If you had five books in each volume up until volume 36-40, and from that point had six books per volume, it would make sense because at that point Tobias and Ax get their own books in the sequence rather than alternating.

It'd be awesome to have the final arc books all in one volume, and the David trilogy as one volume as well, but that'd mess up the allotment of books for the rest of the volumes.  Hmm.

Like:

1-5
6-10
11-15
16-19
20-22
23-27
28-32
33-36
36-40
41-44
45-54

It doesn't really work D: