D&D General Another D&D cartoon reference, do they mean anything?

[billd91]

I think it means that WotC recognizes that boomers spend money; OSR is a market worth targeting.

The Boomers were all adults by the time that cartoon debuted. Any D&D Cartoon nostalgia is aimed squarely at GenX.

 

[James Gasik]

Otyugh? How quaint. The discerning derriere prefers Neo-Otyugh, thank you very much

 

[Dioltach]

Neo-Otyugh? Is that from the new Matrix movie?

 

[J.Quondam]

Otyugh? How quaint. The discerning derriere prefers Neo-Otyugh, thank you very much

Ooh! Fancy!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

My question is, once you're in the Realm of Dungeons & Dragons, why would you want to escape?

You can't play Fortnite there.

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My opinion is the children, the DM's pupils, returned to home decades ago, but Presto because he wanted to keep in the realm. If the cartoon returns, it should be a "next generation".

Isn't Disney the owner of the rights for the cartoon? I don't know the terms of the partnership deal between Hasbro and Paramount but I guess Paramount wanted the licence was exclusive.

That was my favorite childhood cartoon. It was not perfect and it made me to dream. In the no-English-speaker market that cartoon was the hook or the enter door for the brand.

The Spanish version of the intro had got a very cool song. Could Hasbro gets the rights to produce a new cover for the English-speaker audience?


Lyrics translations to English:

We arrived to a fantastic world
full of strange beings
the dungeon master
gave powers to all us.
You the barbarian, you the archer,
acrobat, mage and the knight!
Dragons and Dungeons!
an infernal world
hiding in the shadows
the evil forces!

 

[James Gasik]

A little bit older than that.

 

[James Gasik]

You can't play Fortnite there.

I thought you were giving me reasons to come back to Earth?

 

[Parmandur]

I think the new Starter Set is a tie-in to the old cartoon, and I'm going to predict right now that Paramount+ is going to do a revival cartoon soon, given that they own the rights and are content partners with Hasbro.

 

[Oofta]

We know they're making a big media push, a cartoon that's more kiddie-friendly than Vox Machina would not surprise me one bit.

 

[Parmandur]

We know they're making a big media push, a cartoon that's more kiddie-friendly than Vox Machina would not surprise me one bit.

Yeah, I think any official D&D product is going to center firmly on the PG-PG13 borderline, to be edgy-but-broadly-appropriate. That's just the nature of the brand, as a merchandising engine.