Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!

[Lucky_number_sleven]

Personally, I believe that Animorphs could do with a continuation. That said, it doesn't really need it, albeit the ending was a bit of an anti-climax. And I wouldn't sleep any less soundly at night if it didn't go ahead, because I believe the ending did have the desired effect.

But, on the other hand, if Scholastic and KAA did go ahead with it, I would expect nothing short of an epic story, one that has been worth the eight-year wait. I think it should be along the lines of Capnnerefir's continuation series Neomorphs, which (in my time reading through countless hundreds of fanfics) seems to be written with the exact style of KAA. (He also said that he is trying to get it published so...) For those who haven't read it. At the moment I believe he is up to book 71: The Lesson, and each is 25000 to 30000 words long, so they are about the same length as the original books, so he's no slacker. 

[CDJV]

A continuation would be great, but at the same time you have to wonder: what could you do with it? Sure, they've got The One to do battle against if they do go in a linear fashion, but the series got most of it's charm from staying on Earth and trying to hide.

So I would basically like a revamp of sorts. Maybe it will condense the books into bigger and more mature volumes, or maybe it will give us completely new characters in the same setting. Or maybe it would be the same stories retold in a comic book (that would be the best way to go, IMO).

But if they do directly continue it, I would like Rachel to be back somehow. Not permanently, if that's best. perhaps a Ellimist-powered ghost so that she and Tobias can get  a bit more closure.

[Alaphlosiam]

I personally wish they would've done more recruiting earlier, though not quite in a David fashion. First person that just comes to my mind is Melissa, since I'm sure she'd love to join the fight (another not-quite-so-leader Jake). The Auxiliary Animorphs were cool, but there wasn't much contact with them; it'd just be cool if they'd made a separate group of Animorphs earlier in the series who would go fight the Yeerks in other parts of the city or whatever, and the two groups might meet up occasionally.

Kind of like Titans East and the main Teen Titans (from the cartoon). Dunno why I thought of it that way, since I haven't watched that in years.

[SuperBlue]

I wouldn't mind a 2.0 series. It'd defiently fix the mistakes that were made in the original. I could see them changing lots of stuff for the better. Like....

- Making David a recurring villain

- making Mellisa a more important character(maybe even an animorph) or at least make her one of the few humans who actually knew the animorphs identities(were there any humans who knew in the original series?)

- Give Marco a girlfriend(possibly Mellisa)

- give Jake a younger brother(Still keep Tom though) like they were originally gonna do and add him to the team (Not to replace Cassie though. Regardless of her lack of popularity, she was still one of my favorite Anis)

- have a scene where Tom(for a moment) is freed and Jake(and younger brother if he's there) get to tell Tom about the Animorphs and how they'll never give up trying to save him, blah blah blah, and then the all mighty Ellimist puts things back in place so Tom's a controller again and doesn't remember that little convo he had with his brother(s)

- Make Rachel the Ellimist's right hand woman when she dies

- Give Cassie a decent battle morph

- completely redo book 48 but keep the ending (actually scratch that, change the ending so we know what happens to David. I still think Rachel should let him live, only to be scooped up by Tobias who thought he thought was just a normal rat lol)

I probably have tons of other stuff they could change but I can't think of anymore right now

[DinosaurNothlit]

I love the idea of a redone/continued series, but I doubt it's ever going to become a reality.  Yes, we live in a time where a lot of old concepts are being picked up and redone, but they're mainly things that were a lot more popular than Animorphs to start out with.  That, and Animorphs is right at that boundary age; too old to be directly continued, and too young to be revamped.  Maybe in ten or twenty years, they'll pick it back up and redo it, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Sorry to rain on everyone's parade, but that's life for ya.

- completely redo book 48 but keep the ending (actually scratch that, change the ending so we know what happens to David. I still think Rachel should let him live, only to be scooped up by Tobias who thought he was just a normal rat lol)

If you ask me, the ending to 48 was a huge part of what made it a good book.  I really liked the ambiguity of not knowing what Rachel did with David (I am personally of the opinion that she had the strength to do the right thing and killed him).

[Alaphlosiam]

- Making David a recurring villain

I don't know, that'd be big trouble for the Animorphs. I don't mean just because he can morph, but because he's willing to go to Visser Three/One and spill the beans. Something would have to be slightly altered so that's not such a big possibility, like maybe Visser Three/One wants David just dead, too.

- making Mellisa a more important character(maybe even an animorph) or at least make her one of the few humans who actually knew the animorphs identities(were there any humans who knew in the original series?)

Until they reveal it, I don't think anybody knew (though obviously the former Visser One and a few other Controllers suspected it). I guess after #30, ex-Visser One knew it for sure, and so Marco's mom also knew.

But if Melissa wasn't an Animorph but she knew about the Animorphs, Jake would take her into the group anyway. Another David situation, though more under control since Visser Three/One wouldn't know about her. Still, the Animorphs would know it's too dangerous to just leave her at her house; she'd be stuck holding life-or-death information in a house with two Controllers? No way.

- Give Marco a girlfriend(possibly Mellisa)

Ehhh.

- have a scene where Tom(for a moment) is freed and Jake(and younger brother if he's there) get to tell Tom about the Animorphs and how they'll never give up trying to save him, blah blah blah, and then the all mighty Ellimist puts things back in place so Tom's a controller again and doesn't remember that little convo he had with his brother(s)

I guess that'd be good for Jake, but it just kind of feels, idk, just dumb.

- Make Rachel the Ellimist's right hand woman when she dies

Besides "HURR SHE WAS AN ANIMORPH", what sets her apart from any other (female) Andalite warrior who died fighting the Yeerks?

- Give Cassie a decent battle morph

For god's sake, YES. It was bad enough she only had her horse morph on their first trip into the Yeerk pool. Come on, she was with the rest of the group when they were getting battle morphs. She could practically live at The Gardens. WHY THE DAMN WOLF ALL THE TIME?

- completely redo book 48 but keep the ending (actually scratch that, change the ending so we know what happens to David. I still think Rachel should let him live, only to be scooped up by Tobias who thought he thought was just a normal rat lol)

The Tobias ending would be rather humorous, but I personally think it wouldn't fit the serious nature of the ending of that book. The question of what to do with David was a very humane decision that Rachel had to make, and I think it would hurt her if Tobias just came in and ate David.

[Shock]

if they are going to redo animorphs, they need to start right off from the beginning again.

yes the cliffhanger ending with the ships and what not is a tempeting starting point but it isn't what animorphs is really about.

it's about a bunch of kids given a gift and basically going to war over an advance alien race using conspiracy as a backdrop. 

 

[Chad32]

I would like Casie to have a morph that doesn't require her to actually kill something to render it incapable to fight. Wolves just have their teeth, and Cassie would be less of a hypocrite if her only way to disable a Hork was ripping its throat out. Maybe give Cassie the gorilla morph, since munching it less fatal than biting. But then, what would marco have?

I don't quite have the answer to this, but the wolf is not good for battles. Hawk isn't great either, but at least he's up there to scout everything out. And Tobias spends 13 books getting used to being a hawk.

[SuperBlue]

- Making David a recurring villain

I don't know, that'd be big trouble for the Animorphs. I don't mean just because he can morph, but because he's willing to go to Visser Three/One and spill the beans. Something would have to be slightly altered so that's not such a big possibility, like maybe Visser Three/One wants David just dead, too.

True, I still think it'd work though. just have him appear once every few books like Visser 1 and Ellimist and Crayak do

- making Mellisa a more important character(maybe even an animorph) or at least make her one of the few humans who actually knew the animorphs identities(were there any humans who knew in the original series?)

Until they reveal it, I don't think anybody knew (though obviously the former Visser One and a few other Controllers suspected it). I guess after #30, ex-Visser One knew it for sure, and so Marco's mom also knew.

But if Melissa wasn't an Animorph but she knew about the Animorphs, Jake would take her into the group anyway. Another David situation, though more under control since Visser Three/One wouldn't know about her. Still, the Animorphs would know it's too dangerous to just leave her at her house; she'd be stuck holding life-or-death information in a house with two Controllers? No way.

oh right, I forgot Mellisa's mom was a controller too. I guess that really wouldnt work unless Mellisa moved away from her parents or somethin lol

- have a scene where Tom(for a moment) is freed and Jake(and younger brother if he's there) get to tell Tom about the Animorphs and how they'll never give up trying to save him, blah blah blah, and then the all mighty Ellimist puts things back in place so Tom's a controller again and doesn't remember that little convo he had with his brother(s)

I guess that'd be good for Jake, but it just kind of feels, idk, just dumb.

I waited the entire series for something like that to happen. lol I was so pissed when book 54 came and Jake and Tom had absolutely no interaction

- Make Rachel the Ellimist's right hand woman when she dies

Besides "HURR SHE WAS AN ANIMORPH", what sets her apart from any other (female) Andalite warrior who died fighting the Yeerks?

IDK, maybe the Ellimist gets lonely and jealous Crayak cuz he has Drode to keep him company lol

- completely redo book 48 but keep the ending (actually scratch that, change the ending so we know what happens to David. I still think Rachel should let him live, only to be scooped up by Tobias who thought he thought was just a normal rat lol)

The Tobias ending would be rather humorous, but I personally think it wouldn't fit the serious nature of the ending of that book. The question of what to do with David was a very humane decision that Rachel had to make, and I think it would hurt her if Tobias just came in and ate David.

lol that was joke actually I know that would probably never happen. I was just making a reference to a very funny fanfic I read

[Chad32]

I also hate that we never get to hear Tom speak for himself. What did he think about Jake after he found out the truth? We'll never know. It was about as maddening as Rachel's death.

[Alaphlosiam]

Now that you both mention it, that would've been a very awesome scene, just Jake and Tom, maybe both of them holding the Yeerk and slowing pulling it apart, JUST LIKE HOW THE YEERKS PULLED THEIR FAMILY APART (ha, just came up with that). GODDAMMIT APPLEGATE.

[Shock]

Now that you both mention it, that would've been a very awesome scene, just Jake and Tom, maybe both of them holding the Yeerk and slowing pulling it apart, JUST LIKE HOW THE YEERKS PULLED THEIR FAMILY APART (ha, just came up with that). GODDAMMIT APPLEGATE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chx642w3Ob8


replace the record with the yeerk

[SuperBlue]

Now that you both mention it, that would've been a very awesome scene, just Jake and Tom, maybe both of them holding the Yeerk and slowing pulling it apart, JUST LIKE HOW THE YEERKS PULLED THEIR FAMILY APART (ha, just came up with that). GODDAMMIT APPLEGATE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chx642w3Ob8


replace the record with the yeerk

WIN +1

[Essam 293]

Now that you both mention it, that would've been a very awesome scene, just Jake and Tom, maybe both of them holding the Yeerk and slowing pulling it apart, JUST LIKE HOW THE YEERKS PULLED THEIR FAMILY APART (ha, just came up with that). GODDAMMIT APPLEGATE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chx642w3Ob8


replace the record with the yeerk

I liked it better in Office Space. I won't post the video here though, because of the lyrics.

[Lector]

- Make Rachel the Ellimist's right hand woman when she dies

Besides "HURR SHE WAS AN ANIMORPH", what sets her apart from any other (female) Andalite warrior who died fighting the Yeerks?

With regards to the Andalites, she was the only child who died actively fighting them, wasn't she? then again would leave the auxilliary animorphs kinda out of the picture, but perhaps if you count that she was fighting since the beginning...