Fox Kids Vs Kids' WB The last Stand

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Kunmui

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Fox kids an Kids WB has been over for some years but which one did you like the most or you think had the best shows.

I'll give 5 of the most popular-best shows form each brand.
Fox kids
Digimon
Beast Wars-Transformers
Power Rangers
Spider-Man, also known as Spider-Man: The Animated Series
X-Men

Kids WB
Pok?mon
Yu-Gi-Oh
Superman: The Animated Series
Scooby-Doo-any thing with Scooby-Doo
Teen Titans or Tiny Toon Adventures

OK Batman: The Animated Series couldn't go here because it aired on fox-kids first.
 
I was all about Fox Kids back in the mid 90's when they aired X-Men, Spider-Man, The Tick and Eek the cat, I watched the block every Saturday morning until around late 1996 and I began watching more and more Kids WB because of Superman, but I never followed Kids WB like I did with Fox's Saturday morning line up.

After the whole network TV Saturday morning regulation crap, Fox Kids was definatly my choice for my Saturday morning cartoons fix!
 
hmmm, i would say Kids WB beacause i love when they played Tiny Toons Adventures, Freakazold, Batman/Supreman Adventures, Pinky and the Brain, Animanics, short-lived Detention and of course my presomal favorite Kids WB show: Histeria! (does anyone remember the show).

i'm also recorded 5 episodes of Histeria myself back in Kids WB best yers so i'm going with Kids's WB cause they've weekday morning block (which Fox Kids didn't broadcast their weekday morning block).
 
I have many fmore happy memories with one. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE them both, but Fox Kids wins by THE TEENIEST, TINIEST HAIR IN WORLD HISTORY. Have I made my point?;)
 
Well, I grew up primarily watching Kids WB while just barely giving any attention to Fox Kids. Kids WB just aired more shows that I liked than Fox Kids so I just stuck with it. Looking back, I might not have given Fox Kids a fair chance to get my attention.
 
I watched Kids' WB much more than Fox Kids, so I prefer that block even though both blocks had some nice shows on their lineup. The only shows I remember watching on Fox Kids were Power Rangers and the first three Digimon series. I may have seen X-Men too, but I only remember the opening theme. With Kids' WB, I remember I loved to watch Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Tiny Toons, Freakazoid, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Jackie Chan Adventures, and Static Shock.

It was too bad that I literally stopped watching the block right after they got rid of Pokemon, but I didn't have any more reason to watch the block and I have plenty of memories from years of watching Kids' WB. I watched it from somewhere in elementary school until near the end of my high school years. Those were some good times.
 
i'm glad you enjoyed watching those shows on Kids WB, it's pretty sad it ended with Fox Kids (thank a lot 4Kids), then again i'm manged to record Kids WB promos from 1995 to 2001 and i stopped watching Kids WB cause they've took Histeria off on the air bu i can still watch Histeria from my tapes i recorded, at least we have kidswb(dot)com which you waatch your favorite shows in there.
 
Actually Tiny Toon Adventures aired on Fox Kids first as well. And as people have already said, Teen Titans was developed for Cartoon Network and repeats aired on Kids' WB!.

There are actually many shows that first aired on Fox Kids before airing on Kids' WB!: Batman the Animated Series, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Looney Tunes shorts (as Merrie Melodies on Fox and That's Warner Bros.! and Bugs 'N' Daffy on Kids' WB!), and even many of the Pinky and the Brain segments from Animaniacs that made up some episodes of Pinky and the Brain.

In Kids' WB!'s early years, I think that it was more defined by Animaniacs than any other show that you mentioned. Of course, things changed when Pokemon premiered. Nevertheless, people always mention Superman the Animated Series, but for whatever reason, that show just never lived up to the hype of Batman the Animated Series. Don't get me wrong, it was popular, but it never reached that upper echelon. Even today, Superman still lags behind Batman in terms of mass appeal and merchandising.

Also, I've said this before, but when evaluating the quality of shows that aired on Fox Kids, you have to look at its entire broadcast history and not just look at its later years. The network was run by different people from 1990-1997 than from 1998-2002.

I think it's very hard to restrict your lists to only five shows. Fox Kids ran for 12 seasons and Kids' WB! ran for 13 seasons. For that reason, here's 10 examples of what I think defined each block (in no particular order).

Fox Kids:
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (and its subsequent renamed seasons)
- Batman the Animated Series / The Adventures of Batman and Robin
- X-Men
- Animaniacs
- Spider-Man the Animated Series
- Bobby's World
- Eek! The Cat / Eek! And the Terrible Thunderlizards / Eek! Stravaganza
- Goosebumps / Ultimate Goosebumps
- Beast Wars: Transformers
- Digimon: Digital Monsters

Kids' WB!:
- Pokemon (and its subsequent renamed seasons)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (and its subsequent renamed seasons)
- Animaniacs
- The New Batman/Superman Adventures
- Batman Beyond
- Jackie Chan Adventures
- Scooby-Doo Where Are You! / What's New Scooby-Doo?
- Pinky and the Brain
- Histeria!
- Static Shock

You may be asking why I didn't list Tiny Toon Adventures for either block...and that's because almost all of its episodes premiered in syndication. Yes, it did move exclusively to Fox Kids in fall 1992, but it had already run its course by then and come 1993, Animaniacs overshadowed it on the block.
 
Im Gonna have to go with Fox Kids because I started watching it in 1995, I didn't start watching KidsWB till 1998.

Both had good & bad shows though, but Im still fond of Foxkids because of all the shows it gave me over the years...Beast wars, Power Rangers, Spiderman, X-men, Bobby's world, Flint the Time detective & so many more.:anime:
 
I liked the shows on both blocks, but I have to give the edge to Fox Kids. They had Eek!, Bobby's World, and Animaniacs (which later went to Kids WB). I liked Power Rangers up until just after the movie.
 
All of the Warner Brothers shows (except Taz-Mania) went to Kids' WB! after airing on Fox Kids because, well, Kids' WB! was programmed by Warner Brothers. The only reason why Batman continued airing on Fox Kids until 1997 was because the original deal with Fox was for exclusive rights to the show for 5 years (1992-1997).

Moreover, no new episodes of Animaniacs were ordered after the initial season (a 4 episode second season doesn't really count) since Fox knew that the show was moving to the WB. It didn't want to invest in a show that they knew was going to leave the block anyways.

Part of the reason why Fox Kids and Kids' WB! were successful were because of the Warner Brothers shows. Whatever network aired them was going to be a hit.
 
I'm partial to both animated series blocks actually. Although when those blocks were still around and on the air, there were some shows that I never checked out the first time. Looking back on some of them, I wish I did/had. But thanks to video sites like Youtube, I can catch up on them luckily. For one, I already seen a few episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures on IMDB. But I think my most favorite Fox Kids show of all, which would rank at the top of my list, has to be Peter Pan And The Pirates. But I don't think I should say that I'm surprised no one else has mentioned that one yet, since it's got to be the (or one of the) most underrated and overlooked series to air on that network, not to mention due that's to it's rarity. I can't believe it's never aired on any other channel since the show ended and I can hardly believe that next year will be it's 20th anniversary. Which would be a great time for it's DVD release as a commemoration. I'm not sure which company has exclusive rights, Disney, Saban or both, I know about the difficulty it's been getting any of them to bring that show to DVD, but I wish any of them would wise up and just put it out already. I considered it to be among the better shows and it deserves, as one of the first Fox Kids shows, to be, or rather, should've also been among the first on DVD. Never got the few episodes that were available on VHS, but I wish I did.

Sorry for rambling and somewhat straying from the topic, but I just had to bring up this series. As for my favorite shows on Kids WB, I like Tiny Toons more than Animaniacs for another thing, among certain others.
 
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