How High School Musical Has Affected Animation TALKBACK

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AWN just posted a very interesting article highlighting the effect of HSM on the animation industry.

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3436&page=1

It breifly mentions a few animated series that still do well with 9-14 tweens including Spongebob, Fairly Odd Parents, Avatar, Naruto, One Piece, Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo and Courage the Cowardly Dog between Nick and CN (funny) that CN's only tween grabbers are a show from old and shows they didn't make... I guess that really says how detached from tweens they've become lately but anybody would tell you the only part of CN that really targets tweens is Toonami (and just tween boys for that matter).
 
Gee, it's not like a certain someone on this forum has been SAYING this for the longest time, in regards to the sharp decline in animated show popularity. On the plus side, this article was able to put it into more detail as well, and chances are- you'll listen to it over me any day( though it and I are basically trying to say the same thing...only for obvious reasons, IT'S getting thru :D)
 
Well, with big live-action hits like HSM and Hannah Montana, I can only conclude that we will be seeing more of these kinds of shows. Although these new shows may not necessarily be musical in their nature, they will probably be very similar to some of Disney's shows. Nick was/(is still?) targeting the 9-14 group with their "Teen-Nick" block (I believe that was the name) that usually aired on Saturday and Sunday nights, but I don't remember seeing much of that on Nick anymore. So, it wasn't an untapped market, but at the time HSM aired, I believe that Teen-Nick had been cancelled, so many tweens flocked to HSM and Disney's other live action shows. Perhaps we'll see a Teen-Nick revival, or perhaps we'll see something totally different. We'll probably be seeing more tween targeting from CN, too. Well, I'll just sit back and see what happens...Maybe my predictions will come true, maybe not.
 
While this is something we all know, reading this crap again really...MAKES ME.....

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HULK SMASH!! HULK CRUSH! HULK DESTROY!!! HULK get revenge on 20 year olds posing as teenagers...Grrrr!

cough cough

so what I'm basically getting at is I don't think animation should be endangered because Disney just happens to have an at the moment hit on hands.
 
So since HSM are kids breaking out into random song and dance numbers?

In a few years, the next batch of lil' twerps will pop up and think that musicals and tween stuff the current jerks like is totally stupid and will move on to another fad. You know this, I know this and your parents know it cause they've probably lived through a billion of these things. The backlash will come, you just have to give it time.
 
Correction.

CN is run by ratings whores who are biased towards getting cheap ratings, even if it means selling their souls and cashing in on some at the moment piece of poo.

Well, at least moronic soulless midwestern soccer moms in a lame attempt to be cool and their dumpy daughters love it. But what about the rest of us, who want... you know. Quality. I'm not a Musical fan myself, but there are much better Musicals out there they can both enjoy.

(I'd suggest my favorite, Rocky Horror Picture Show, but then I don't think that would work. But imagine if cartoons wound up having to follow that model)
 
Anything that's successful gets picked up, sequelled, prequelled and brought into other media.

Take Legally Blonde. First a movie. Then a sequel. Then the Broadway show. Then MTV cuts a deal to broadcast the show in order to get the HSM demographic.

I'm just hoping we'll get a Zanna Don't movie out of this HSM trend. It's almost the same story as HSM. HSM kids could even do their own production of it come to think of it.
 
I think if there's a lesson to be learn from this is CROSS PLATFORM MARKETING. Animation characters can't guess star on Hannah Montanna or go on tour, that's their weakness.

They CAN release albums though *points to the Japanese and their character song*.

Copying the success of HSM doesn't hinge on copying the concept for a shallow(er) experience, but to careful adapt the strategy to your property of choice.
 
They could also advertise heavily the times when and if a star from HM or HSM. So far one that comes to mind is having a mini-marathon of Kim Possible, focusing on the episodes with Camile Leon (voiced by Ashley Tisdale).
 
It was pretty funny since Daran Norris plays Gordy on Ned's and also the voice of Cosmo.

Disney did that whole Lilo & Stitch crossover episodes.. and the Thats So Suite Life of Hannah Montana.
 
He was referring to the latter; the Suite Life/Hanna Monatana crossover. He just didn't quote correctly/was unspecific, but I think any knowledgeable person could have easily realized was Undrave was saying.
 
Doesn't Disney usually just shoehorn in some of their celebrities into voice acting guest appearances in their cartoons? I remember someone posting about an Emperor's New School episode that had Banana Bandana or whatever her name is (it's best to ignore them.... maybe they'll go away).

Not to mention they muck up classic timeless movies like the Jungle Book with an awkward music video by some future hasbeens. I can't wait until Disney's "Muppet Mini Movies" in which the muppets engage in forced banter with Disney's At the moment bunch.
 
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