My husband works for the local Fox station and last weekend they started showing previews for the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon that will be starting this Saturday (29th) at 11am (eastern time)! It does not say, “all new”, and it looks exactly like the old one!
So far as we are able to tell, it is going to be reruns of the old D&D cartoons!
I, for one, am very excited about this!
The commercials were being run from Fox national, so it is not just a local station thing.
Anyone else seen these commercials?
Those who are dancing look insane to those who cannot hear the music.
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Show: Dungeons and Dragons
Episode: PRESTO Spells Disaster
Description: Series Premiere! Presto bungles yet another spell, and he and Uni must face enormous danger to rescue both their friends and the last of the Golden Dragons from the infamous Giant With the Brooklyn Accent (and his slimebeast, Willy).
Does anyone remember if this is the plot to an old episode?
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I guess I’ll have to watch it on Saturday morning and if the plot doesn’t seem familiar when I watch it (not ringing any bells right now), I’ll check the “cast” in the credits. No way they could get these people back together to do voices for a cartoon! (Not because I expect any of them are too busy or anything…)
Cast
Hank Willie Aames
Eric Donny Most
Presto Adam Rich
Sheila Katie Leigh
Diana Tony Gale Smith
Bobby Ted Field III
Dungeon Master Sidney Miller
Venger Peter Cullen
Uni Frank Welker
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Like New Voltron and the New Johnny Quest and GI Joe Extreme and GhostBusters Extreme this is another example of some company saying “Well hell, we’ve still got the licence, lets see if theres a buck to be made”.
It pisses me off that big companies have no problem cranking this crap out, while Savage Steve Holland (Eek the cat) is reduced to grinding out Sabrina the Teenaged Witch and John Kricfalusi (Ren and Stimpy) is doing Old Navy commercials.
Expect worse stuff ahead. As I recall Nelvana (big animation distributer) made pilot episodes for a New Fat Albert and a New Inspector Gadget, and theres going to be a New Scooby Doo to coincide with a live action movie.
Could be this is something similar. There is a live action D&D moving coming out later this year. Big names (if you want to call them that) in the cast:
Jeremy Irons
Thora Birch (American Beauty)
Marlon Wayans
Justin Whalin (Jimmy on “Lois and Clark”, masturbator in Serial Mom)
I don’t see any sign of a new D&D cartoon at IMDb but perhaps it hasn’t shown up there as of yet.
Here’s the imdb entry for it, which neither of us posted before.
You’d consider not calling Jeremy Irons a big name??
You also skipped Tom Baker - who would be a Big Name as far as the movie’s (geeky) demographic (like me) is concerned. (He’s one of the more popular (and longest lasting) Doctors from Doctor Who.)
Here’s the imdb entry for it, which neither of us posted before.
You’d consider not calling Jeremy Irons a big name??
You also skipped Tom Baker - who would be a Big Name as far as the movie’s (geeky) demographic (like me) is concerned. (He’s one of the more popular (and longest lasting) Doctors from Doctor Who.)
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No way they could get these people back together to do voices for a cartoon! (Not because I expect any of them are too busy or anything…)
Cast
Hank Willie Aames
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As a Recovering (Soon-to-be) Ex-Spouse of a fundamentalist, I need to tell y’all about something. Willie lives here in the Kansas City area now, he’s gone Fundie, and he has a production company that produces a Xian kids video series called “Bible Man”. This series has acting, special effects, dialogue and production values that make the average MST3K movie look like “The Empire Strikes Back”! Bible Man goes around and defeats foes by (as far as I can remember) quoting Bible verses to them with all the subtlety of the Nagasaki blast.
There was something that I wondered about the New Voltron thing. They had all new episodes for a while, but with the same voices I remember from childhood. Were they really able to get all the old actors back to do another run of the series?
I watched the D&D show and it certainly appears to be the original, although the opening audio is different. I remember Dungeon Master saying each of their titles, (barbarian, magician and it ended with acrobat, I believe)
Anyhoo, it wasn’t a particularly great episode, but I’m glad it’s back. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed Malph, er, uh Eric, the Cavelier(?).
I wonder if a live action D&D would be any worse than that live-action Masters of the Universe? Y’know, the one with Dolph Lundgren as He-Man? The one that TBS keeps showing? Boy, was THAT a waste of celluloid!
Umm…Jeremy Irons won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in 1990’s Reversal Of Fortune, in which he played Klaus Von Bulow. That makes him a big name in my book.