Was it hard destroying an old apple lisa, some old halloween masks, and incorrect animal species?
No. No it was notwell 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.