"Biker Mice From Mars (2006)" & "Di-Gata Defenders" on 4Kids TV starting August 9th

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Okay, so they're airing in the 8 AM hour, but they're still airing. At least 4Kids is giving Di-Gata a second chance. I know that the show has some fans around here.

The new Biker Mice From Mars cartoon looks okay from the episode descriptions and trailers at the official website, but reviews have been mixed.

But wow, 4Kids is really on an acquiring spree. :sweat:
 
Oh I love the original Biker Mice from Mars. I hear the new series is not as good as the original. The lack of Lawrence Limburger ( I love watching his building being blown up at the end of every episode:evil: ) and the toning down of some of the original series content may have something to do with it.
 
I'm surprised 4Kids picked up Biker Mice. Though it makes no sense to have a new show airing in a death slot and have nothing but reruns air after that with the exception of Dinosaur King.

Is that all 4Kids is putting on FOX this Fall? Thats pretty sad if it is, but I understand why.

I also noticed that Viva Pinata is off the schedule, I thought there was still some episodes left?
 
Viva Pinata probably will return at some point (it still has 18 unaired episodes), and assuming that 4Kids doesn't pull Di-Gata again, there will be new episodes starting in September (they only aired the first five last year). There's also a second season of The Adrenaline Project, but there's no news of it airing on 4Kids TV yet.
 
I'm surprised 4Kids is picking up the newest Biker Mice series that the UK got a few years ago. The company behind it held a panel at Comic-Con 2007 and mentioned that their goal for being there was to sell the show. Considering how awful the clips were we saw (they showed us a portion of the all-musical episode ::shudders:: ), I was kinda glad that no one got it.

I guess with the need to pad two blocks now though, 4Kids has to go with any available option :yawn:

I hate to go all Jeff Harris, but they couldn't pick up Class of the Titans or something else from Canada over this garbage?
 
I'm guessing that whoever is in charge of the show is probably paying 4Kids to air it, since it's over two years old now and they're airing it in an early morning spot from the get-go.
 
From what I'm seeing here, I guess that Biker Mice From Mars isn't that good of a show. I don't know what its about since I've never seen it, but I'm probably not going to check it out. I am looking foreword to seeing Di-Gata Defenders this fall. I didn't see much of the first five episodes when 4Kids aired it before, so I'll check some more out. From what I did see, it looked like an interesting show.
 
Yeah that's good news! Di-Gata woot! Hopefully they'll start things off without going into rerun mode after two episodes or something stupid like last time...and not cut down the show from widescreen and cut bits for time ><

If you go past the early mediocre episodes and don't bother yourself too much with that 'game' aspect (which is in the end fairly minor in the grand scheme of thing) you'll find that Di-Gata has a pretty interesting universe.



I think its the first time I get mentionned by name whitout posting in a thread first! :D Sweet!
 
I never got to see Di-Gata the first time, so maybe I can catch it this time around.

The new Biker Mice show looks crappy. Granted, I haven't seen much besides the various clips here and there, including the preview clip of the first few minutes of the first episode. It looks really terrible. It's kinda funny though because reading Monkey Funk's review, the old Biker Mice cartoon was guilty of many of the same offenses (like the bad puns, funny-accented villains, what I call "instant Spanglish" where you just add an "o" or "io" or some funky sound to a word that doesn't normally have it). But I really liked the old Biker Mice. I don't know if it was because I was still a kid and nostalgia makes everything better, or if it was just a better show. The old designs of the mice and the bikes were a lot better in my opinion than the skinny, emaciated mice and the brightly-colored CGI messes their bikes became. And even after all these years, the same VAs voice the mice (which is probably the only reason I think I'll be watching).

Not a good sign: I saw a commercial for the new Biker Mice during Sonic X this morning. They introduced the mice by name, but they introduced Throttle as Vinnie and Vinnie as Throttle. lol
 
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