70's animation
70's animation
Can anyone here explain how Wizards, Fantastic Planet, and other animation of the 70's demonstrate how animation has grown up?
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GeorgeC
Elaborating on what Ben said, it's often been toy/merchandizing sales that have kept TV series alive in addition to ratings.
In some cases, shows have been cancelled before their scheduled run because they weren't selling the number of toys they were expected to.
In a few rare cases, shows have been brought back because of toy sales. This happened in Japan where the original Gundam series was a ratings failure in its initial broadcast run. Since the toys and models based on that original series were a huge success, Gundam was allowed to come back as a trio of theatrical movies (edited from the original TV series with some newly inserted footage) and eventually received a proper sequel TV series. This led to over a half-dozen more sequel TV series, more theatrical and television movies, and more than a few direct-to-video sequels, too.
Gundam wouldn't still be going on if not for 400million+ model kits sold, the videogames, and other toy tie-ins. The TV/movie series are drivers for these but it's still ultimately the toys that keep it alive.
People forget that this is all a business. Art is a result of it...
In some cases, shows have been cancelled before their scheduled run because they weren't selling the number of toys they were expected to.
In a few rare cases, shows have been brought back because of toy sales. This happened in Japan where the original Gundam series was a ratings failure in its initial broadcast run. Since the toys and models based on that original series were a huge success, Gundam was allowed to come back as a trio of theatrical movies (edited from the original TV series with some newly inserted footage) and eventually received a proper sequel TV series. This led to over a half-dozen more sequel TV series, more theatrical and television movies, and more than a few direct-to-video sequels, too.
Gundam wouldn't still be going on if not for 400million+ model kits sold, the videogames, and other toy tie-ins. The TV/movie series are drivers for these but it's still ultimately the toys that keep it alive.
People forget that this is all a business. Art is a result of it...