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

[Ellimist757]

i just watched a few episodes of the tv show online and found this site..what a trip!  i loved animorphs books/still do!  i'm not sure if a revamp would work well though.  i supposed anything's possible.  i didn't quite like the ending to the last book, but i'm a young writer and i'm pretty sure that i could start where it left off, start it into a new series and give it a good send off.  ambitious to say so, but it would definitely be fun..this site rocks!!!

[Darth Revan]

Welcome Ellimist757,

Yes, this site does rock.

Hey create an intro thread in the http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/board,7.0.html section and meet most of the active members.

You may catch some flak, 'cause we already gots ourselves an Ellimist. j/k

[EscafilDevice]

to get slightly back on topic, someone was saying that if they could make a few changes (this was one of many things) one of them would  be making Marco fully hispanic (this person was himself hispanic). I am assuming that his assement was based on Marco"s description of his father as being lighter (light brown eyes with dark brown as opposed to black hair) and taller than Marco or Eva and that his mother wasn't born in America and she spoke spanish. I always assumed that Marco was fully hispanic it's just that his father was more spanish (like apparently in Argentina distinctions are made between spaniards and native Mayan or Inca etc) and Eva was Aztec or Mayan or Inca and spoke spanish because she had been born in latin america (my preference is for Aztec in Mexico)

I don't think it was never specified if Marco's dad was Hispanic, but I always assumed he was white. In one book it mentioned that Marco's maternal grandmother only spoke Spanish and that his mother became a naturalized citizen.

I've always pictured Peter as being a generic white guy, like Scottish or German or something and Eva being from El Salvador or somewhere in Latin America (but not Mexico). He's defined by how much he loves his wife and I think that the cultural differences might make it more powerful, I guess. I don't know, maybe I thought I read somewhere that he was white or I assumed that he was because Marco only ever said that his MOM was Hispanic.

If both of his parents were, then why would his Spanish be so terrible?

[Darth Revan]

When was it written that his Spanish was terrible?

[dasada122]

I think that was in #11, when they were in the jungle.

[QIfry]

It was. It was when he was trying to translate the native's Portuguese for the rest of the group.

[dasada122]

The interesting thing about learning a language through family is that you get around 50 words,40 of which are foods.

[anijen21]

It was. It was when he was trying to translate the native's Portuguese for the rest of the group.

lol something just occurred to me...Ax has a universal translator, right? Did he end up translating? I can't remember, but they had a habit of forgetting him as a resource.

[voodooqueen126]

Marco"s father cuold"ve been in america his whole life... Ax and another case of forgotten phlebotinum as well as in megamorphs 3.

[EscafilDevice]

It was. It was when he was trying to translate the native's Portuguese for the rest of the group.

lol something just occurred to me...Ax has a universal translator, right? Did he end up translating? I can't remember, but they had a habit of forgetting him as a resource.

Yeppp

I think KA used it to explain how Ax understood the Animorphs and then forgot about it.

[Homiegee]

They should do a re-release rather than an entire rewrite of the original series. If anything would be changed, maybe make sure there's more continuity. Also, maybe have K.A. re-write the lesser quality books written by some of the ghostwriters.

Or if it's easier, maybe release summary books including an overview of important events and storylines.

And then start a series of new books picking up from book 54, or some alternate version of book 54.
As for what age group the books should be aimed at... I always felt as if the Animorphs books could be enjoyed by anyone. But financially speaking for the series to be successful it should be aimed at young adults as they were before, but written in the same style as the originals. Because that's what we still enjoy about them eight years later, right?

Scholastic should NOT try to emulate Twilight, Harry Potter, etc. Animorphs is too good to stoop to that level. Give KA management of the project and don't have any more ghostwriters than is necessary to continue the series on a regular schedule.

[animefanboy]

Scholastic should NOT try to emulate Twilight, Harry Potter, etc. Animorphs is too good to stoop to that level. Give KA management of the project and don't have any more ghostwriters than is necessary to continue the series on a regular schedule.

Very true, plus, one should remember that those series are different genres from Animorphs, so emulating them may not work well (and as an aside, why does the lol emote have Goku's hair?)

Yeah, the ghostwriters tended to cause some issues, like a change in writing style, that would throw me off a bit when I was a kid.

[voodooqueen126]

I like the length of Harry Potter books...
Goku and Anne Frank?

[animefanboy]

Goku and Anne Frank?

You know what is awful? I know of a story about that topic.

[voodooqueen126]

We are probably talking about the same story, it was on tv tropes as the worst crack fic...The worst part is that I understand it: Who hasn't read or watched "The Diary of Anne Frank" and wished she had lived happily ever after?