Author Topic: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!  (Read 25084 times)

0 Members and 9 Guests are viewing this topic.

Offline Shock

  • Xtreme Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 4105
  • Karma: 188
  • Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #285 on: December 11, 2009, 06:37:00 PM »
The thing about new fans is they will more then likely be alot younger so we'd have to be alot more careful with how we talk and what we talk about on here.

that's for the parents. kids either will already know or will know shortly.

Cannibals are seriously messed up
Quote
[17:05:27] Reiyn: Shock's tact and diplomacy is unparalleled.
Beware of he who would deny you access to information. For in his heart, he dreams himself your master
Quote from: K.A. Applegate
So sorry to get you into writing. What a horrible thing to inflict on you. Should have just sold you crack.

Offline Terenia

  • Jr. Staff
  • *****
  • Posts: 10125
  • Karma: 490
  • Gender: Female
  • Got it memorized?
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #286 on: December 14, 2009, 05:15:00 PM »
So, now that the re-release has been officially confirmed via Michael Grant himself on twitter (see RAFBlog or Hirac Delest), what are your thoughts? Any ideas what the 'elaborate' new cover designs may be? Excited? Grant said the re-release would be about a year away, sooner than originally thought!


I know I am psyched. I'm totally going to do all I can to make sure the reception and sales are through the roof. Hmmm....maybe I'll offer extra credit to all of my students who go out and buy them?

Best Fanfiction Author 2008
Best Roleplay Writer 2009
RAFian Artist of the Year 2010
Best Roleplay Writer 2011
Best Roleplay Writer 2013

Offline DinosaurNothlit

  • Pixellated Prehistoric Paradox
  • Gold Donor
  • *********
  • Posts: 14066
  • Karma: 521
  • Gender: Female
  • RAWR!
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #287 on: December 14, 2009, 05:29:48 PM »
So, now that the re-release has been officially confirmed via Michael Grant himself on twitter (see RAFBlog or Hirac Delest), what are your thoughts? Any ideas what the 'elaborate' new cover designs may be? Excited? Grant said the re-release would be about a year away, sooner than originally thought!


I know I am psyched. I'm totally going to do all I can to make sure the reception and sales are through the roof. Hmmm....maybe I'll offer extra credit to all of my students who go out and buy them?

Oh heck yeah, I'm excited!  I'm thinking of contacting Michael on facebook (I friended him a while back) and pestering him for more information.  I wanna know more, dang it!  Are they just re-releasing the series as-is, fixing KASUs, or completely re-writing it?  If they re-write, I hope they know, this time around, to give Tobias and Ax the same number of books as everyone else.  That was something that always bothered me about the original series.

And, yes, good idea.  Get your students to buy them, and maybe they'll tell all their friends how awesome they are!

Offline Chad32

  • God
  • ********
  • Posts: 11951
  • Karma: 195
  • Gender: Male
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #288 on: December 14, 2009, 05:32:51 PM »
I don't know if I've commented on the idea of cover designs. I hope that they are more consistant this time around. Keep Tobias blonde, and don' have him look like Jake's brother. Keep the people on th covers looking the same instead of having different skin tones and such. Rachel looks too young in the Super Rachel book. That kind of stuff.

Also make Ax (or more specifically his tail) look realistic.


Ani-Master 2014!

Offline Terenia

  • Jr. Staff
  • *****
  • Posts: 10125
  • Karma: 490
  • Gender: Female
  • Got it memorized?
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #289 on: December 14, 2009, 05:48:31 PM »
Ooh, and his stalk eyes. Comparing Ax's stalks to Elfangor's or Aldrea's or Alloran's? They look ridiculous!

Best Fanfiction Author 2008
Best Roleplay Writer 2009
RAFian Artist of the Year 2010
Best Roleplay Writer 2011
Best Roleplay Writer 2013

Offline Chad32

  • God
  • ********
  • Posts: 11951
  • Karma: 195
  • Gender: Male
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #290 on: December 14, 2009, 06:12:36 PM »
Yeah they probably need to work on his whole body. It's just that the tail was always the most noticable for me. Even Elfangor's tail looked a little short, though at least his looked like it could hit something in front of him. V3's was perfect, and may have only been made that long so it would look more menacing.


Ani-Master 2014!

Offline wildweathel

  • Werret of Portland
  • Gold Donor
  • *********
  • Posts: 1783
  • Karma: 200
  • Gender: Male
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #291 on: December 14, 2009, 07:04:12 PM »
Quote from: Hirac Delest
There WILL be new covers. (Our Scholastic source told us that they are supposed to be “ventricular”. Neither of us knew what that meant, but we’re guessing 3D covers).

"Ventricular" is a medical term describing the "push" part of an animal heart.  "Lenticular" means "lens-shaped" and (among other things) describes a type of printing that looks different from different angles.

Lenticular printing can be used for two things.  

First, you can make a decent, not perfect, 3D effect that's much larger and less expensive than the plain-light holograms on credit cards etc.  It looks pretty darn cool, especially because lenticular printing is rarely used for this purpose so it catches people by surprise.

Or, you can use it for a sad-looking animation that never really works out right, the old "tilt to make Mr. Cheezy's arm wave" gag.  

I think I know where Scholastic is going with this.  Yeah.  "Tiltamorphs."   ::)  I'm jaded though, believing that there's not much that can top the Japanese covers.

Actually, here's what I'm worried about: lenticular printing is even more expensive than normal hard cover.  It's not so much a problem of real printing costs (maybe another $1 per volume), but that there's an industry rule that you have to make people pay more for fancier covers.  (Seriously.  Hardcover usually costs 25 cents more per volume than soft to print.)  Last time around, Animorphs was priced to sell.  It looks like they're going for a higher price point this time, what my terribly cynical self fears is a privishing attempt to kill off 2.0.
Kony 2012
arrest the worst


Sharing a special bond of RAFenmity with Tocade since Dec '08.

Offline goom

  • the underling of underlings
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 8929
  • Karma: 690
  • Gender: Male
  • no other distinguishing characteristics.
    • Twitch.TV Streams
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #292 on: December 14, 2009, 07:18:51 PM »
yeah, i really hope they don't go for the cheesy 'tilt' effect.
do you think they'll still remain ghostwritten at points? :-\

Offline Aluminator (Kit)

  • Most Ladylike-Robot-superhero-weak ankled Chippendale-loose cannon teleporter-1/64 ninja-not British comedian-also not Steph-Kit in spirit-Sharing member for life-cuddlestorm-bricklayer-necromancer-Hot Dog Day enthusiast!
  • Social Staff
  • ****
  • Posts: 6974
  • Karma: 416
  • Gender: Male
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #293 on: December 14, 2009, 07:42:45 PM »
I actually can't see Scholastic doing any more work to the original series than slapping new covers on them. I feel like we'd be lucky to even get edits of the few grammar mistakes that are in the original books. They're a corporation; their view of the re-released series is not likely to parallel any of our fan wishes.

Marie and Abby are my wonderful RAFsisters ^_^
Salem's Story

Offline Terenia

  • Jr. Staff
  • *****
  • Posts: 10125
  • Karma: 490
  • Gender: Female
  • Got it memorized?
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #294 on: December 14, 2009, 07:55:46 PM »
Maybe not....but they do want to make money off of it, and some changes might be necessary to make money. Although I agree that major changes probably won't happen.

Best Fanfiction Author 2008
Best Roleplay Writer 2009
RAFian Artist of the Year 2010
Best Roleplay Writer 2011
Best Roleplay Writer 2013

Offline anijen21

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 666
  • Karma: 49
  • Gender: Female
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #295 on: December 14, 2009, 07:57:03 PM »
THIS SPECULATION IS IDLE AND FRUSTRATING BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING BUT UGH I can't stop it :( :(:(
I go off topic on purpose.

Offline Aluminator (Kit)

  • Most Ladylike-Robot-superhero-weak ankled Chippendale-loose cannon teleporter-1/64 ninja-not British comedian-also not Steph-Kit in spirit-Sharing member for life-cuddlestorm-bricklayer-necromancer-Hot Dog Day enthusiast!
  • Social Staff
  • ****
  • Posts: 6974
  • Karma: 416
  • Gender: Male
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #296 on: December 14, 2009, 07:59:23 PM »
We could always just form a big Animob and kick Scholastic's butt until they do it right  ;D

Marie and Abby are my wonderful RAFsisters ^_^
Salem's Story

Offline Chad32

  • God
  • ********
  • Posts: 11951
  • Karma: 195
  • Gender: Male
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #297 on: December 14, 2009, 08:08:58 PM »
People have rallied for less.


Ani-Master 2014!

Offline DinosaurNothlit

  • Pixellated Prehistoric Paradox
  • Gold Donor
  • *********
  • Posts: 14066
  • Karma: 521
  • Gender: Female
  • RAWR!
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #298 on: December 14, 2009, 08:53:07 PM »
Well, there's really no point to them re-releasing the series unless they make some fairly major changes, right?  There are so many electronic copies available, that I just don't see how they could profit from releasing exactly the same thing again.  Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I wouldn't think they would do something that's pretty much guaranteed to be a flop.

We could always just form a big Animob and kick Scholastic's butt until they do it right  ;D

I'll bring the torches, you bring the pitchforks.

Offline RYTX

  • Shadow and Flame
  • Xtreme Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 4877
  • Karma: 140
  • Gender: Male
  • Pretend I said something clever
Re: Rumor has it, that an Animorphs 2.0 might be in the works...with Scholastic!
« Reply #299 on: December 14, 2009, 09:02:28 PM »
Crap. Honestly, I'd hope for nothing more than a fix of typos and KASU's. Really, I don't think I want anything more, unless you could update it without being silly. As has been said, Animorphs was very 90's.
No matter what, I wanna know, but back to my original sentiment (crap):
I'm not gonna have enough money by next year to keep up with a re-release for a while! :'(
Something, something, oh crap I pissed everyone off again....