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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2008, 10:42:38 PM »
If they make a movie out of one of the chronicles, it wouldn't make much sense to be titled Animorphs, no. And, then, every Animorphs fan who sees it would be begging for an actual Animorphs film.
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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2008, 10:51:55 PM »
Was it hard destroying an old apple lisa, some old halloween masks, and incorrect animal species?

No. No it was not
well it started off with not enough funding. so the show was terrible.
And again I must but my standard Ani-TV arguement.
We say the budget was poor, where do we get that idea; WHAT WAS THE BUDGET?!

Something, something, oh crap I pissed everyone off again....

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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2008, 11:24:07 PM »
And again I must but my standard Ani-TV arguement.
We say the budget was poor, where do we get that idea; WHAT WAS THE BUDGET?!

$2?

I think we have definitely established that the budget was low...We just don't have a real number.

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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2008, 11:26:00 PM »
No, it had to have been at least 3.  :P
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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2008, 11:27:16 PM »
Haha...Right.

I just honestly wish that this show could've done better. It would've been fun to have a GOOD Animorphs show.
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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #20 on: July 03, 2008, 12:36:09 PM »
Was it hard destroying an old apple lisa, some old halloween masks, and incorrect animal species?

No. No it was not
well it started off with not enough funding. so the show was terrible.
And again I must but my standard Ani-TV arguement.
We say the budget was poor, where do we get that idea; WHAT WAS THE BUDGET?!


There aren't a whole lot of shows that actually say how much their budget really is, unless they're comfortable with doing so. A regular Buffy episode used to cost around $1 Million, I think (but I'm sure that changed once the show got more popular).

For Animorphs, I'd guess that it was a 5 figure amount per episode. Green screen, morphing effects, props, costumes, animals (and their trainers), the actors, the crew, the equipment, the locations & sets -- the cost for all of these things add up quite fast. For the amount of corners they would've had to cut in order to make show with what they had, I think the people involved with the show did a pretty damn good job.

I know everyone hates the show because it still didn't meet our expectations, but I honestly doubt that it was the fault of either the writers or the production crew involved in making the show. If you look at the stories and the way they tried to fit everything with what they could do, you'll notice that they actually did try to make an effort into making the best of what they could. If funding wasn't such a problem, I think they could've made the show much much better.


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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #21 on: July 03, 2008, 01:03:38 PM »
The show got canceled because it was terrible, the Yeerks looked different every episode(First they looked real, then they were actual slugs, then they leeches.), The Andalites were....scary looking, Rachel only used her grizzly morph once, her regular battle morph was lion, Marco's was a wolf, and Cassie didn't have one, I didn't really mind Jake's battle morph cuz it was still a tiger just a different color. It was so terrible that the dude playing Tobias was about to quit but then the show got canceled so he didn't have to. They should've just given up when they realized how much the budget was and waited to get more funding and switch to another channel.
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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #22 on: July 03, 2008, 02:14:47 PM »
Ug, that show. I heard it was cancelled because hard core book fans were up in arms about it. Can't blame them. Back in middle school when it was on I thought it was ok. Saw the first episode at a friend's house and my grandmother taped it for me. Watched them again near the end of high school and I was like, "Ew, what the..."

All I can say about that show is good riddance. I got so annoyed the way the later show plots strayed from the books. What was up with the disk? That was the main one that got on my nerves royally.

Thoughts that passed through my head:

* "I hope Ax had a good tutor in the manly Andalite art of arm wrestling."
* "Oh no! They are being attacked by Visser McMuppet!"

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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #23 on: July 03, 2008, 03:04:06 PM »
Oh man, I still have that image of Ax and Visser Three arm wrestling to death burned into my brain. 

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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #24 on: July 03, 2008, 03:34:14 PM »
What was up with the disk? That was the main one that got on my nerves royally.

That disc that Elfangor was trying to give to Tobias was his Hirac Delest.


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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2008, 04:06:00 PM »
They probably made it a disk on the off chance that they could use it as merchandising.  Yes, buy the disk that represents all of Elfangor's memories...nahhh, just give 'em another fakey Transformer...


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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #26 on: July 03, 2008, 04:06:58 PM »
I thought the disk having the Yeerk DNA was funny...Well, mostly when Rachel went into Tobias' head.
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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #27 on: July 03, 2008, 04:11:22 PM »
LOL I must've missed that one...or I passed out from apathy...


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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #28 on: July 03, 2008, 04:44:24 PM »
Yeah, I know how the disc was SUPPOSED to fit into the plot for the show. I was just annoyed that they threw that random element in there. The whole Vader-esque "I am your father" thing.

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Re: What Happend To The Animorphs Show
« Reply #29 on: July 03, 2008, 05:37:04 PM »
It really should have been animated. Even Katherine Applegate thought so.

I think I missed the arm wrestling episode, but what made anyone think an ARM wrestling match between Andalites would be a good idea?


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