The Failed / Hated Modern Kids Cartoons 

The Rugrats reboot is the definition of “not everything needs to be in 3D”. like honestly, it’s scary.

The worst part of All Engines Go is that despite the negative reception, Mattel just cannot handle the critisicm and just use the “It’s made for kids” excuse. But when the kids themselves don’t like it, then they have no excuse. Mattel just wants money, plain and simple.

That ain't Bob the Builder that's Bartholomew the Constructer 💀

Wendy the builder was in the original Bob the Builder series. She even got a mention in the theme song! So the creepy reboot doesn’t deserve credit for introducing her.

The fact that Caillou had not one, but two reboots scares me deeply

So, there actually is a decision for why Caillou is designed the way he is. Initially, the story was supposed to be him as a 9 month old (hence the toddler tantrums) but they thought he wouldn't be fun for kids to watch so they aged him up but kept him bald, because his creator wanted to send a specific message: That even if Caillou is bald and that makes him different, that he's still just an ordinary kid like anyone else. When I was four years old (literally days after my fourth birthday), my hair fell out due to an autoimmune disorder, called Alopecia Universalis. I had no idea what was happening to me, it was really scary. One day, I was just an ordinary little girl, the next I was completely bald, even my eyelashes and eyebrows fell out. My parents took me to a LOT of doctors and I was poked and prodded a lot, cause no one knew what was happening to me. When I was diagnosed, I was an anxious little mess of a kid. My own relatives even betrayed my parents. My uncle got into an argument with my dad about my dad's decision to NOT force me to cover up my bald head. like, there was a big push to "hide it" to make everyone else comfortable... SO, people gifted me hats, people offered me wigs, ect but I turned them all down... None of that was gonna bring my hair back. It felt like I'd be living a lie. I remember actually getting fitted for a wig, that looked like my old hair and hating it, because it felt like it wasn't me... and it felt like, I was hiding who I really was. So I refused to wear hats, bandana's, ect because I shouldn't have had to cover up a part of me, to make other people uncomfortable. All of that was going through my head at a REALLY, really young age and processing some really messed up trauma from it. I have this vivid memory of watching the OG Caillou on PBS one day, after another day of people being jerks to me for being bald and I saw this character who LOOKED LIKE ME. He was my age, bald and NO ONE treated him different or weird for not having hair. I was mesmerized. I watched a lot of the show and when my parents met other parents with kids who had it too, turned out a lot of us kinda latched onto Caillou. As I got older, I noticed a lack of bald representation myself, specifically bald without needing to send a PSA about cancer. (Which people asked a lot of rude questions about) the only other character I can remember, I liked who was bald as I got older, was Aang from Avatar the Last Airbender and then One Punch Man. So, all of this is to say, while you might not like a design, it's important to note the message. I didn't identify with Caillou being a brat. I identified with him looking like me and not having to *hide* being bald. Love the rest of the video, keep up the great work, didn't mean to leave a novel in your comment section, but I admit that line about the "decision to make a six year old bald" stung a little bit.

One thing I'd like to correct about what you said at 3:18, there was a female construction worker in the original Bob the Builder. She was a pretty prominent character from what I remember, even having episodes centered around her.

The Bob redesign looks like he belongs in one of those 3D Tv Ad for a local repair business.

I'm just happy that the people behind Caillou actually improved on the original show, likely by listening to the criticism(I know big companies tend to be blind to feedback, but it'd be pretty impossible to avoid in this case). Too bad the damage has already been done; I feel like a lot of the bad reviews for the new one are just going off of tradition.

The saddest thing about the failed 3D shows is that you can create perfectly charming worlds in 3D. You can even make 3D look handmade by add cartoon shaders, or make it look like stop motion. Many games and animations do it. But those big animation studios make it as quantitative as possible for the quick buck.

Sadly the original voice actor of Chucky passed away, but Nancy Cartwright did an amazing job taking over Chucky. My children haven't seen the new Rugrats, but I have shared the older ones with them. When it comes to Caillou as a Canadian I remember when it first came out and the voice was hard to listen to. And it was all over my local news when the original voice actor passed away. My boys have read the books but they haven't seen any of the Caillou shows.

Honestly, especially with a show like Thomas, I don't get why they won't just air old episodes. It clearly worked, people loved it back then, why would it be different now?

One positive thing I will say about All Engines Go is that I like that they got Neil Crone to return as the voice of Gordon. He previously voiced Gordon over 20 years ago in the film Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

A few things about Bob the Builder and All Engines Go: For the former, Wendy was a part of the original show. She may have been a builder less earlier on from what I remember, but she's still a member of the team, and is more prevalent as a builder towards the end. What diversity was introduced in the reboot was Leo, who feels like a great addition to the cast. It's just a shame that the show was as bad as it was. Also, I'm shocked that you were able to find footage of Dizzy, since she and Roley were basically demoted to extras. Lastly, I found the movie to be fun. By contrast, I have ZERO respect for All Engines Go. The artstyle is terrible, every last bit of logic was thanos snapped out of reality, The Fat Controller has an IPad, and there's an annoying Autistic stereotype (I can't even call him a representation, his existence offends me that much) in the show.

That kid who compared All Engines Go to Splatoon 2 is a legend in my eyes

They did Bob the builder so damn dirty 💀

The Rugrats reboot was definitely a disappointment. One can only hope they learned there lesson

In season 2 or 3 of the original Thomas the Tank Engine, the animation got an update and started filming the models in such a way that they even looked to scale with real trains. It was attention to detail like that that made the show great.

Tbh I've always been IN LOVE with Caillou's original white border backgrounds. It really gave the impression of looking at a children's book. I miss that stuff.

#3, it's like with "Little Bill". After the controversy with Bill Cosby came to light as early as 2014: stuff like "Little Bill" and "Fat Albert" essentially dropped off the map.

I don’t think the hatred for All Engines Go! would be as fervent if it wasn’t a replacement for the original Thomas & Friends show. If it was a supplemental spinoff show instead, I don’t think anyone would care that much about it. If they hadn’t cancelled the original series at Season 24, there would surely still be people who criticize the show post-Big World Big Adventures, but I don’t think it would be as aggressive.

The CGI animation in Rugrats 2021 is what you're nightmares look like if they never rendered properly

The thing I never understood about Caillou is how much parents complain about it having bad messages and steering their kids wrong but then they still let their kids watch it. How hard is it to tell a five-seven year old "You can't watch the Caillou show because its a bad influence."?

Well...I think I could make a list of reboots that are genuinely good and genuinely make justice to their source materials: - All New Popeye Hour - Popeye and Olive Comedy Show - The Further Adventures of Superted - Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat - All-new Woody Woodpecker show - 90s Casper (the friendly ghost) - Mickey Mouse Works - Biker Mice From Mars 2006 - Tom & Jerry Tales - A new touch of blue (The Smurfs)

I used to work in the toy business and after the 2015 Bob the Builder reboot flopped, I had to deal with no end of angry grandparents eager to get Bob the Builder toys only to find there weren't any and they were utterly oblivious that the reboot had been such an utter failure to the point that the toy lines were scrapped.

I find it so funny that people working on the Caillou reboot actually listened to the backlash from the OG and made Rosie the bratty one instead to get all the hate off of Caillou. Although I will say that I like the fact that they made Caillou more relatable and the parents more assertive rather than submissive to Caillou's behavior like before.

Just the look on Scoop's face in the intro slide gives me nightmares. BRING BACK GRILL MOUTHS!

It's a crying shame that Little Ellen got bombed for something that it wasn't entirely responsible for. The cartoon itself looked wholesome enough. If it wasn't for the creator's reputation, chances are it would have gotten a much happier ending than it did.

As someone who played with GI Joe toys, loved the GI Joe Real American Hero cartoon, the overwhelmingly negative feedback to the animated Thomas the train show calling it a defilement of various things and a childhood ruining show, perfectly sums up my feelings about the live action GI Joe movies.

One show that DEFINITELY needs a reboot is My Life As A Teenage Robot! It was a VERY popular Nickelodeon show, but Nickelodeon hated it for some reason and it was ended earlier then expected with season 4 cut short. Thankfully Jenny has been getting a lot of love since 2021!

30:42 well u do realize sodor is an island with towns

The worst offender: Mindy Kaling’s Velma.

Funny you mention Tails because Caillou's dad (and a lot of the male adults) are voiced by Mike Pollock, the voice of Dr. Eggman / Robotnik

I am quite surprised that Fireman Sam isn't here on how disliked the recent seasons are, especially on what they did to Norman Price, turning him into a literal whiny brat who doesn't get a rightful punishment.

I watched the og powerpuff girls with my dad and stepmom and I honestly enjoyed it. I remember being really excited when I heard about a reboot of the show but was quickly disappointed with it. Even 9-10 year old me couldn’t watch more than a few episodes. Everything I liked about the og show was almost entirely gone and I was left with an empty shell of a cheap cash-grab reboot of a beloved show. I felt cheated and insulted. I’m 16 now and I’m still disappointed.

31:05 Bro Mattel really said "oh and the parent are there too i guess"

Words cannot describe how incredibly pained I was when I first saw the bob the builder remake. It was a genuinely scarring experience for second grade me.

As someone who grew up with the original Caillou I’m quite surprised with what they did in the newer shows by changing his character. Great improvement I guess.

Bro, my body physically does NOT want to watch the Rugrats reboot whenever I try.

30:43 Sodor is and island connected to Barrow-in-Furness with shores where you can see the Isle of Man clear as day. It’s a huge island.

#7: Welp, time to pay Mattel a visit with my little friend 🙃 #6: Love the original voice actor’s dedication, but I’ll stick to the classic version #5: Burn all evidence before the 2016 version and it’d be decent #4: Cashgrab at its finest. I didn’t see the Lego Movie as one #3: Ooo bad timing 😬 #2: Running SpongeBob for 12 hours makes a lot more sense now #1: Taking another trip to Mattel with my big friend…

28:09 Funny thing is: Mattel kind of revived it for a few seasons, then the soft reboot for seasons 22-24, which many hated due to poor writing and complete alienation from the series roots. Then comes season 25, completely changing it even to its roots. Also, the reverend Awdry, the creator of the railway series which Thomas is based / adapted from, said that once the Americans get control of the show, they would vulgarize and bastardize it. Guess he predicted the future.

Thomas and Friends: All Engines Go is a disgrace to Reverend W. Awdry's creation. The entire point of The Railway Series was to teach children about trains, the railroads, etc. Engines based off real-life engines doing real-life engine work, even using real-life British countryside backgrounds from the era of steam trains. Now Mattel basically rebranded Thomas into a rip-off of Chuggington (according to some of the imDb reviews, the characters literally bounce from track to track, use their wheels as hands, and I've also heard that not even Chuggington got that bad). And it's not just that, EVERYONE *hates* AEG. OG fans like myself, and even the younger kids hate it. I sincerely hope that AEG gets cancelled and they bring back the GCI series, because AEG is just a cheap cashgrab.

finally someone who exposed this bob the builder reboot!! I miss the original (well not just me), I mean, these machines' personalities has changed, like, Lofty from 1999 seems to be scared at times, but in the 2015 reboot, he's sarcastic. And also in that reboot, Bob looks like a person dressing up as a builder I mean, HE LOOKS LIKE... WHAT DO I CALL IT?? "MORTON THE CONSTRUCTOR" ?? And worst of all, Dizzy and Roley are excluded in the team, replacing them with Two Tonne and Leo.

What’s kind of interesting too is that Pinkfong was sued because they don’t actually own the rights to the “Baby Shark” song, only the characters.

I’ve heard if not for Ellen’s brand being part of it, little Ellen could have gone far, because the lessons in it are actually good for kids and the animation and style are good.

13:22 Wildbrain knows what they're doing with Caillou, Sonic, etc they are a great company.

12:24 "uhm actually, Caillou is 4🤓"

How to make a reboot 101 1. Take notes from Animaniacs and Tiny Toons. Perfect reboots 2. Don’t add modern generation stuff. It’s not gonna be funny and it’ll get stale and repetitive 3. Don’t make the animation garbage. Make it solid and perfect 4. Don’t add weird stuff or it’ll ruin it. Teen Titans Go and PowerPuff Girls 2016 are good examples for ruining what made the original great 5. Prey if the reboot you’re making goes successful

What some people don’t touch upon in the new show is that in some episodes, while sadly rare, Caillou’s parents actually discipline him, and they even ground him not once, but twice! It’s great to see Boris & Doris get some character development so they can stand up for themselves!

Thomas already had an electric engine, his named was Stafford

Fun fact: Mike Pollock (the voice actor of Dr Eggman from Sonic) voices Caillou’s dad in Caillou’s New Adventures

Honestly, I just kinda feel bad for caillou at this point. The creaters have fixed the flaws from the original multiple times, and still, almost nobody has given the series a second chance.. Edit: Dang, I've never gotten this many likes on a comment before... People actually agree with me on this???

Apart from the bad animation, the main reason I hated the Rugrats reboot was because of what they did to Betty. In the original show her and Howard were my favorite parents. It changed gender norms with Betty being the more strong onr and Howard being a stay at home husband type. When I heard they made Betty a single gay mom in the reboot and just completely wrote off Howard entirely, it infuriated me. Don't fix something that isn't broken! If you want a gay character add a new character, don't change someone or something that was already perfect.

Mforsting: At least the original had some "chaaam". PhantomStrider: What freaking "chom"?!

28:08 My dad didn't know what aeg was and when he started playing it on netflix he burst out laughing as soon as thomas came on screen

Even those Caillou Gets Grounded videos had better quality than the actual Caillou reboot.

According to one of the original voice actors from Rugrats, it seems they never contacted the VAs for the adult characters. Which is sad since it seems that at least the one I’ve heard about, Micheal Bell, would’ve jumped at the opportunity, and has even reprised other roles fairly recently. It just seems strange to me to bring back some voice actors but not others.

I like the idea of failed/hated adult cartoons, so I hope PhantomStrider does one someday. I remember going to a movie and seeing the previews for _Father of the Pride._ At first it looked funny and we all laughed, but as the preview progressed, everyone got dead silent. I later learned that the show did very poorly, in part due to Roy's mauling in 2003. The intensely bloated budget that the show required at the time didn't help matters. I would be curious to see what other "adult cartoon" shows did badly or crashed hard, just as a matter of interest.

_"But Mattel, when even the kids are saying your animation is too kiddish, I'd wager you're a very silly engine!"_ Snapped the -Fat Controller- PhantomStrider.

11:59 *CAILLOU PLAYS MINECRAFT*

I remember when Thomas was just a segment of a whole other show, Shining Time Station. When I got into my pre-teen years I got disinterested in the series when my older mind figured out there was only one voice actor doing all the narration and all the character voices. Though in hindsight that was a pretty impressive feat for them to pull off at the time. Kudos to all the actors who narrated Thomas over the years. When the show switched over to CGI for a while and every character now had their own voice actor, my interest in the show peaked for another little while.

Wendy was a construction worker in the original Bob the Builder too.

I actually liked the first episode of the Rugrats reboot as despite its handful of initial faults, at least it does do a pretty decent job of reintroducing most of the characters. From what I've seen of the reboot, it does get better once you look past the initial 5 episodes. Later ones touch on topics like Las Posadas since it has a holiday episode in S1, which is a Latin-American holiday that not many shows I've seen talk about actually!

The character design and art style of little ellen actually looks so cuuuute to me, I just have no idea what would ever inspire someone to make a cartoon about ellen in the first place?? like where is the connection? It was weird enough having a lil Bill cartoon, which I actually grew up watching, but never even made the connection until I was older anyway. They could have cut ties with Ellen the TV host and Im even keep the same name and have it be the same story etc and it seems like it’d actually be fairly popular

Rugrats reboot wasn't the best and with many of the adult actors passed away it makes it harder. Personally, I was couldn't stand that Kimmy was no longer related to Chucky being a missed opportunity!

"Angelina Ballerina" is a particularly good example of this. The original had charm in great abundance in animation, voice, and story. The new CGI ones are bland, lifeless, and formulaic. Just torture to watch as they plodded on and on. OTOH, I thought the CGI version of Thomas was quite good. It stayed true to the original in showing the trains like they were and not bendy as in the manic cartoon series. I really don't think kids have changed that much that they can't enjoy the series as it was. I suppose it costs too much to make even in CGI so they opted for easy to do stunted animation.

I feel like the reason most cg kids shows nowadays don’t look good is it’s shading. When you compare the 2D SpongeBob show to its 3D Camp Coral counterpart. Or even the Camp Coral segments in the third SpongeBob movie compared to the series. It’s shaded in black which just makes the shows look way less appealing to the average person let alone kids. Maybe this just a budget thing, but I feel like if these cg shows used a diverse range of chasing colours other than black. They would look way more appealing.

30:32 thanks strider. I’ll be seeing StriderTrain in my nightmares tonight. 😂

Damn, what a shame. Little Ellen looks so good and it seems like such a kindhearted show, the only issue I see with it is the fact that they tried tying it to Ellen. It didn't have to be her, I have a feeling that if she wasn't a character in there at all, the show would not have been hated so much. This is really sad

Original cartoon show are more OG than modern cartoon shows. Some of the modern cartoon show are so underrated.

4:22 the cg Garfield movies get a pass because it's better than the movies. Also the idea that the comics were little films that are printed in our world. I think Jon could actually hear Garfield and it was a roomate situation

I used to watch Thomas and Friends religiously as a child so when you showed clips of it in this video I got so excited; this show looks not only as good but even better than I remember it! Absolutely gorgeous. There’s a lot of great kids content if you know where to look these days (hi Bluey) but that Thomas remake is not it. I recognize that using digital animation as opposed to stop-motion is inevitably cheaper and easier to produce but that original stretch of British television is absolutely timeless for their choice in medium.

“You’re more horrible than Megan Fox’s acting in Transformers!” Alfred Hitchcock

That is Carter the Creater, Cry you, Elaine, Floor mice, Timmy the Train, and Youngster Fish.

my younger brother is huge train collector and thus a huge thomas fan (honestly i was too as kid, it always played in my house) and since that reboot he will talk to ANYONE who will listen about what a disgrace it is to awdry's legacy, how bad it is in terms of animation, and how mattel down graded the quality of the thomas toys, something else he spends a lot of time collecting. it honestly broke my heart too since thomas was such a piece of my childhood and connection my brother and i shared growing up.

Funny thing about the Bob the Builder 2015 reboot, that wasn’t the first time Bob was in CGI, the first time was for the 2010-2011 seasons prior to Mattel's acquisition, and those were done better than the 2015 one

instead of Rugrats reboot, they should of made a sequel that follows a new group of babies who are the kids of the original cast of characters after they have grown up even more after all grown up

Mattel really is the Warner bros of toy companies

0:23 this background is from one of my favorite shows (bluey)

The topic of the Rugrats reboot I was a little bit upset cuz I did some research and they removed his grandfather and grandmother who were Jewish (Yiddish Zaydee and Bubbeh) It made me a little upset since I felt like Tommy's grandparents played this big generational gap and told stories of events before my generation

I think a big factor to the disdain for All Engines Go, primarily for younger kids, is how drastic it changed its style going in. Thomas has had several soft reboots in its time (Seasons 8, 13, 17, and BWBA), but in all of them the characters and world were almost unchanged from what came before. Jumping from Season 24 to AEG in the span of a year really damaged any chance of it getting viewed well, and even worse so given All Engines Go is treated as a continuation of the original show as the official soundtracks label the AEG seasons as Season 25 and 26.

The fact Caillou got a reboot makes my already given up on humanity ass made me give up on humanity EVEN MORE... -_-

17:00 Bad news guys: BABY SHARK IS GETTING A MOVIE.

When I watched four episodes of Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, I was so disappointed about it that I gave up being a Thomas fan back in 2021 and ever since from a couple of years ago; I never thought Thomas of all shows would go that low. What upsets me is that Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go dumbed down the audiences and children. Imagine a child saw a train and expected it to jump like show; this shows that children are not that stupid but the show and the company that owned Thomas (Mattel) is trying to make kids stupid. What makes the original Thomas The Tank Engine show so much better is that they’re not talking down to their audiences and all the episodes are not written just for children but they put elements that even parents and adult can enjoy. That’s my input about Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go. Saying this as a “passed Thomas fan”

It's not a bad reboot, but you forgot about the CGI reboot to Thomas the tank engine, Thomas and friends. I love how the characters transitioned into 3D, and they actually have voice actors for the characters besides them just being the narrator. I love how the trains mouths move, and how the story is for each episode or movie. In fact, the CGI reboot actually got me into Thomas to begin with from how good it was

22:22 Here is my guess: The invisible motorcycle is making “invisible noise” as well? I don’t know, I’m just taking a wild guess.

9:46 Just off topic for a little bit I appreciate that you use A soundtrack from Rayman PS1. Respect bro 😊

As someone who's working tirelessly to create his own cartoon series, I can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that several shows on this list just feel soulless especially the last one. And that's a crying shame because when done right animation is more beautiful than words can describe! At least to me anyway. Luckily there are many, many creative people in this world that can and continue to do better than what these shows offer. Still, I can't help but wonder... How can CGI from Pixar and Dreamwork look so beautiful most of the time, yet everywhere else it just looks bad nearly all the time? Maybe it's just me but it's really jarring when THIS many animated shows cut too many corners.

I am so glad you’re starting to talk about Cartoons again but also, still talking about fast food. It’s a great variety for your channel.

2:01 that delivery killed me 😂

Amazing video phantomstrider of failed/hated modern kids cartoons shows,fantastic job.

I think a better Rugrats reboot would be the Rugrats being adults (since it’s an old show) facing the struggles and challenges of work and adulthood, as well as being parents of their own children.

I said this on your previous video about Modern Cartoons and I'll say it again: I'd love to see you do a revamped "Best Modern Cartoons" list where you talk about newer shows like Amphibia and The Owl House as well as the Sequel serieses to Adventure Time.

27:41 I like the design of the new one because the old one was creepy. They made him more cute than terrifying

The original Bob the Builder already had women in construction. You just showed it at 2:57 too.

I’m a massive Rugrats fan. My favourite animated show ever. I really enjoyed all grown up, I didn’t care for preschool daze like a majority of people. But I really liked the 2021 reboot for what it was overall. I mean I don’t love it, but I’m glad it got brought up to some capacity. This was the original SpongeBob as far as I’m concerned.

Strider your girlfriend’s voice acting of the reviews always cracks me up! Great cartoon and ranking video as always!

"Have a bucket, Boo!" Is Phantom's depiction of "Have a bowl, Mr. Squidward!"

Poor Bob will NEVER build his empire back up. He's just Bob now.