The Amazing World Of Gumball – News & Discussion Thread

That clip was awesome even though the context is yet to be known. All the characters are animated pretty well they all look good in the live-action backgrounds. Can't wait to see the show premiere early next month! :D
 
According to one of the main writers for the series, all twenty episodes (forty segments) have been written and the series should premiere early next year. I have higher hopes for this series than I ever had for Hero: 108, but the network's poor treatment of that series does have me somewhat concerned.
 
They may use some studio effects to make the kids sound younger or just get new kids to voice the characters.

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Kids are voicing the characters...right? If not then this post has been an absolute waste.
 
One thing Gumball has over Hero: 108 is that it's being produced by Cartoon Network themselves and not a third party. I just hope it actually comes here at all, though. As I recall, Robotboy and Cramp Twins were the only CN Europe originals to come over stateside.
 
There’s no need to post an unrelated image, so I went ahead and removed that. I understand where you’re coming from, but all that matters is that the series is entertaining. I may have disliked Fish Hooks because of the school setting, but it was the uninspired things that they did with the school setting that caused me to lose interest. It felt just like every other Disney Channel sitcom in existence. If The Amazing World Of Gumball manages to have interesting plots in the school, then it will overcome any problems with the setting. And there will be a number of episodes that take place outside of the school, from what I’ve seen.
 
Eh... nah, I don't see that happening. I think it's safe to assume that CN will never have an equivalent to Spongebob. At best, they can hope for something to reach the same popularity level as, perhaps, The Powerpuff Girls or DBZ at their respective peaks... but not Spongebob.

Spongebob is a massive media/merchandising conglomerate, in a league all its own. We'll never (yes, I say never) see a CN series reach the kind of level that's on. Undoubtedly, part of this comes from having a company like Nickelodeon/Viacom in your corner, whereas Turner doesn't seek the same kind of output from their animation network. Another part of this also comes from CN's self-imposed term limits to their programming, whereas Nick doesn't care about the quality of the product, and will just milk that series dry until the end of time.

It's all the same, though. It really doesn't matter that Spongebob's overall episode quality is substandard nowadays; the series, its characters, and its merchandise is still absolutely huge, more so than anything CN can ever hope for. It's basically on a whole different level than any of its animated counterparts. CN just isn't a big enough brand to create something like that... and, as I mentioned earlier, their business practices kinda prevent that from ever happening, anyways.
 
Since I don't care either way about the school setting, I'll still give it a chance. Who knows what they'll come up with. I'm a believer that if a cliche is executed well enough, I can overlook how much of a cliche it is.

Just read the character list and all I got to say is that most of them sound interesting enough. I just hope they're executed well enough and not tossed to the sidelines like other shows.
 
I was told by one of the main writers, back when I first learned about the series, that it was being developed with the states in mind and that they planned on it airing over here. That’s why it’s using U.S. voice talent. I guess one executive or another figured kids wouldn’t like hearing European accents.
 
The site looks nice, but it's a tad glitchy. The audio was missing from the second trailer (the one with Gumball in class), and I couldn't find the character descriptions at all.
 
OK, sorry about the image, and I'm still going to check this series out when it premieres. If the show is entertaining despite the overused setting, then that will indeed be a good thing, it's just that I was really, really hoping that we would get something else besides yet another show about kids going to school. And also, if there are going to be a fair amount of stories that don't involve the school, then it will be even better.
 
The Amazing World Of Gumball – News & Discussion Thread

When you go to watch the videos, they?re muted by default, so you?ll have to unmute them. As for the descriptions, you have to click on the characters to open up their mini-pages, which has the description as well as some icons and wallpapers.
 
The preview did make me laugh somehow when I first watched it, yet this seems to share similarities to Chowder with all the mischievous escapades that Gumball and his fish friend/brother Darwin had gone through with the tattered DVD in the first episode. :)

Gumball is a cute and enjoyable series in my vote, and I'm doing my best to keep up with newer episodes of the series. :D
 
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