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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #510 on: October 13, 2011, 09:59:18 PM »
I'm really curious what will happen with The Reaction if they get that far. They'll probably have to make a bigger change since the Jonathan Taylor Thomas/Home Improvement thing won't be recognizable these days.

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #511 on: October 14, 2011, 06:54:15 PM »
neutralizing it would be okay with me.......but it would be different if they majorly changed it.
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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #512 on: October 15, 2011, 12:15:10 PM »
There's no reason to change that one in particular- they never mentioned Johnathan Taylor Thomas or Home Improvement. It was the already-generic Jeremy Jason McCole. Honestly, he could still stand in for any girl teen fantasy of today. Like... Justin Bieber. Girls like him, right? The things that might need to change are the references to Ahnold, for example, or Scully and Mulder- how many teens of today are going to have even heard of the X-Files?

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #513 on: October 15, 2011, 06:16:59 PM »
I hadn't even caught on to Scully and Mulder at the time, to be honest.
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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #514 on: October 16, 2011, 11:28:51 PM »
HAH! They're re-doing pop culture references and stuff!? :D Awesome! I hadn't looked into it that far.

I wanna see what they do to "The Warning (#16)" :D That one is amazingly dated at the moment.


I gotta know, did they justify none of the kids having a camera phone in the first book or did they just handwave it? ;)

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #515 on: October 17, 2011, 11:30:00 AM »
Handwave. Most things aren't updated, just neutralised. It's still officially set in the same time period.
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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #516 on: October 17, 2011, 06:04:18 PM »
Handwave. Most things aren't updated, just neutralised. It's still officially set in the same time period.

That's much less entertaining.

That said, they're gonna have to update the hell out of The Warning. That one's more dated than any other one I can think of.

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #517 on: October 17, 2011, 06:30:26 PM »
Heh, yeah, it is, with all the old computer stuff from back then LOL.

Why do you think they neutralized rather than updating it to be set today? Too big and involved to deal with since a lot would need rewriting?

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #518 on: October 17, 2011, 06:58:16 PM »
i emailed one of the guys from scholastic and this is what i got as a reply:

Hello. Some of your questions can be answered here: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/node/405. The new re-issues do have some updates to cultural references.
 
Best,
Tracy

so i have no idea what all their going to change
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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #519 on: October 22, 2011, 09:25:05 PM »
I was on wikipedea and it said that up to the 12 book or so was also getting re issued. Does anyone know where they got that info?
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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #520 on: October 24, 2011, 02:09:29 AM »
It's wikipedia, most likely from a southern area of their anatomy that doesn't get much sun. ;)

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #521 on: October 25, 2011, 12:38:11 AM »
ROFL....yeah, things are not always what they seem over there.

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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #522 on: October 29, 2011, 02:45:56 PM »
Why has Scholastic decided to re-release the Animorphs books?
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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #523 on: October 30, 2011, 12:11:12 PM »
To make more money? (J/K.... I think)

I all seriousness, they saw how popular it still was, and decided to see if it could be a hit with the next generation as well. And there's a good chance that if the rerelease does well, we might get a sequel.
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Re: Animorphs Relaunch covers and updates
« Reply #524 on: October 30, 2011, 01:06:04 PM »
but i thought that they were only doing the already out ones
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