Thanks for coming to Sunday Supercade #5!!

Big thanks to everyone who attended the Classic Cartoon Party April 18th, it was a hit & I am glad you all could make it!! It's always a great experience to relive some of your old favorites & I am really happy when I can reintroduce you to great series you may have long forgotten. I've heard your requests for next time & hope to bring you more of your favorite Cartoons from the 80's & 90's in 2010 & beyond!!

favorite quotes from that day:
Chris on Mighty Orbots: "This is waaaayyyyy better than Muppet Babies!!"
Brian on Mighty Orbots: "That Cartoon was a like a Visual Orgy!!"
Jared on Cadillacs & Dinosaurs: "I've never seen a Saturday Morning chick that hot before."
Randy on Cadillacs & Dinosaurs: "It was always about the hot babe."

Carl Macek 1951~2010

It's a sad day for US anime fandom, as US Anime distro forefather Carl Macek passed away sadly over the weekend (4/17) due to a heart attack at age 58.
"Uncle Carl" was one of the original people to bring anime to the US (Robotech), abit modified of course for US TV standards, but he did what he had to do to get a a wonderful genre of animation to US fans who had never seen anything like it before. He is one of the pioneers. Producer, active dubber, & one of the originals to help uncensored anime get to video stores everywhere in the US in the 90's. He worked with Harmony Gold, co-founded Streamline, & was helping ADV & Funimation toward the end of his career. RIP Uncle Carl.

NEW "The Last Airbender" animated series in the works??

This just in!!
Nickelodeon Animation Studio is looking for several artists for its newest show, tentatively titled, Untitled Avatar the Last Airbender Project!
http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-animation-jobs-avatar-last.html
Here's looking forward to new Airbender Universe developments!!

WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN CANCELLED!!

Much to the surprise of cartoon fans everywhere, Nickelodeon's hyper popular "Wolverine & The X-Men" has been canceled!! Shocked fans lament over the fact that we have heard on several occasions that this terrific show had been renewed for a 2nd season & was in progress with an "Age Of Apocalypse" story arc, & it's popularity across the borders helped it get there. Marvel Animation Age reports that Sony/Marvel are looking to move on to new ideas for properties & that both W&TXM & "Spectacular Spiderman" (which will be replaced by a new "Ultimate Spiderman" series on Disney) are no longer in the works. A very surprising & saddening turn of events... if you never watched W&TXM do yourself a favor & check it out on DVD (hopefully a full season box will be coming soon), it's almost like a more mature return to the "X-Men Evolution" days, & proved to be an entertaining show with great animation, character designs & continuity for all ages. One of the current best animated series on (along the likes of Avatar:The Last Airbender & Clone Wars) it will be missed!!

***UPDATE: Appearantly W&TXM cancellation is because they were unable to work out the financing for the show with their financing partner... =(