The FAILED Rainbow Brite Reboot 

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@@DinopopI think Negative forgot to do that

@@rx500android Finally did it! :D

Lost 150$

Look these reboots don't care but we have animaniacs 2020, Ducktales 2017, the new Mickey mouse shorts from 2016, and there much better than the rainbow bridge reboot, I guess yacko wacko and dot are right, reboot have lack of personality of Hollywood

im too young to have seen a lot of these shows when they came out but i still feel nostalgic for 80s animated asthetic, especially girls shows. Different style to this but Jem is one show that always pops to mind with 80s cartoon aesthetic.

My little pony had a villain who had their beating heart in a bag. Old kids shows were hardcore. New kids shows can be pretty hardcore too, though. Owl house has a building with a massive beating heart in it.

@@genericname2747 Old shows got away with a lot by just...not acknowledging the horror of what was going on and everyone laughing at the end. There's an episode of G1 MLP where the unicorns are being picked off like a serial killer movie, which freaked the hell out of little me. I do think modern animated kids shows can get a bit darker though, with more ptsd and charcters losing limbs and body parts. It helps that things don't have to reset every episode these days. That said I do miss the visual grit that came with Cel Animation.

You do have a point but in legal part I dont belive some drag queens can choose those names

Rainbow Sprite and Twink Brite Should be still on the table

It sounds like a sponge brand

​@@beashemmad.sayson545 they really do lol

@@Justmyselfyt all you would have to do is spell "bright" correctly

You would think Rainbow Brite would be very easy to reboot considering she's part of the magical girl genre. Even her 80s design would still very much work for today's audience since it's the most iconic.

I can easily imagine Rainbow Brite becoming the next Friendship is Magic. A show that can be enjoyed by everyone. It just needs a good team who cares about the original.

And yet they messed up. TWICE. and did it SO bad most people don't even know they happened...😵‍💫

They should make as a magical girl show

@@princessCashelexactly they just need a good marketing strategy

Evil Con Carne.

@@kootunesscrewy I think the first time I saw it was with GI Joe. At least as a way to evade censorship

@@kootunesscrewy Evil with meat.

A better art style wouldn't hurt. I could feel the cheapness in that reboot design.

Having watched it as an adult for the first time, I feel like those two episodes weren't rushed so much as they just didn't really make a lot of sense. It felt more like they were just throwing darts at an idea board. Also, as far as I remember and doing some quick checking online... I don't think the origin of rainbow brite was the first two episodes. For some insane reason that two part origin story is thrown into the middle of the series. They literally aired several episodes first and then was like "For no real reason, here how it begins."

The first 2 episodes were literally called the beginning of rainbow land.

I first became aware of Rainbow Brite after Nostalgia Critic talked about it while he was talking about MLP: FiM (another show I had been into at the time; IIRC, this was not long after FiM had ended). I went and looked into Rainbow Brite, and noted that the 80s cartoon was well done and enjoyable. Though, not old enough to have watched it when it was new (childhood shows for me were mostly things like ReBoot and similar).

That's pretty bad! I was unfortunate enough to first hear about Rainbow Brite from a homophobic meme on Facebook that circled around recently.

Same bruh😂

@StoopidBlob445 that was the second one I saw…..the first one was where rainbow brite killed off the two main villains and then covered it up as them going on a spiral journey (“PS, Blinky came with us”)

@@justinchannel128 I feel so sorry for you. Robot Chicken shouldn't be anyone's first exposure to anything.

**Crys Also Skydancer and On-X are pretty badass

I loved this movie so much as a kid (just look at my screenname if you don't believe me, lol) and think it still holds up pretty well. I'd give so much to see someone cosplaying as the Dark Princess at a convention; I've always really loved her glam-rock, David Bowie-inspired design.

As a grown man who just discovered what Rainbow Brite is last week, I totally agree with you.

It's probably one of the first 5 movies I ever saw in theaters, so I'm biased in it's favor. lol

@@Spectra651 You know what. I never really thought about it before, but... I kinda want to cosplay her now! 😅

Am sorry what happened to you. ☹️💔😔.

I will say that girls are pressured to grow up so they probably didn't WANT to of their own volition like that. Girls tend to be sexualized more and subjected to parentification. So I see it as you were the lucky one in that regard, you got to hang on to your childhood longer and that was NEVER a bad thing you should have been made to feel bad about.

I hate that these awesome comics and the stories in them keep getting canceled. Frickin' Ghostbusters, Sonic, Rainbow Brite... there should be some kind of government subsidies for GOOD STORIES as opposed to all the hollywood write-offs for mediocre sludge.

i was 7 in 1993 when it was aired in Hungary and i loved it, it deserves a better 20th anniversary reboot

Oh man...the original My Little Pony pilot movie. I remember that one scared the hell out of me as a kid, and yet I can recall renting it repeatedly from the local video place...you know it's bad when the villain that terrorized the ponies is in fact just the minion who's actually terrified his boss is going to hurt his little dragon friend to keep him in line! This stuff was my childhood, but man, looking back, it strikes me that kids cartoons (and weirdly, girls' cartoons in particular!) were pretty dang scary at times. Monsters everywhere, villains that could turn _into_ monsters...even with all the candy-colored ponies and little girls with magic rainbows, there was some dark stuff going on.

Back then children's programming respected the intelligence of their target demographic. This is especially apparent in 1980's (pre-Elmo) Sesame Street compared to more recent years Sesame Street. Watch the original C is for Cookie compared to the modernized version. You'll see the difference. The modern version is smacking viewers in the face with the letter C. Kids today (especially young girls) have the better clothes and stuff, but their TV shows are horseshit! I feel like it was somewhere in the 90s between all the straight-to-video Disney sequels and talking dog movies that people in charge of children's entertainment adopted an attitude of "Who gives a crap? It's for kids! They'll watch anything!" Then they abolished Saturday morning kids shows...The Weird Al Show only lasted one season due to this shift in Saturday morning TV. It wasn't just TV... Labyrinth with David Bowie and the Jim Henson creations...omg they would never make anything like that these days! They couldn't even do it justice if they tried! I'm sure the same could be said of The Dark Crystal as well. And what was that creepy Oz movie with a very young Fairuza Balk? ...though I will say the Super Mario movie was way better than the Mario shows we got as kids 😅

@@gypsywoman9140 Weird thing is, the 90s was also the era of wacky, sometimes really disturbed stuff like Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, and the like. It just happened that it was also during the whole Clinton-era push for education in entertainment, which meant that kids shows had to have some specific amount of educational material per episode, which did serve to de-fang a lot of stuff. Also, let's face it...any attempts to do things like Labyrinth or Dark Crystal nowadays would be ruined strictly for the massive amounts of CGI that it would involve instead of creative uses of puppets and animatronics, and all of the other things done with practical effects. Not even just the way that (given that Disney owns Henson Studios, last I recall) they would dumb it down/remove the scary...it's removing 99.9% of the practical effects in favor of just slapping a digital cartoon in place of a puppet, or a CGI effect where a real person once did something.

I don't remember a movie where the ponies were turned into dragons. But I do remember the one with the 3 witches & The Smooze. I feel like Care Bears needs to be thrown into this mix.

@@LikaLaruku It was the pilot for what became the first TV series. It's also the place where the character of Tirek first showed up, having his servant, Skorpan, kidnap ponies to transform into dragons to pull his chariot, using what he called "the Rainbow of Darkness," for all that it was literally a wave of possibly sentient dark energy he kept in a pouch that constantly twitched and made unpleasant hissing, gurgling noises. Unsurprisingly, the tool to combat him was for the ponies and their new human friend to find a magic artifact called "the Rainbow of Light," which was in fact an actual rainbow. I agree about Care Bears...the Care Bears movie was kinda freaky. Also, there's something really unnerving about having the evil menace spend most of his time in the film as a kind of mischievous-looking but otherwise harmless-looking boy, but also be a malevolent cloud-with-glowing-eyes. Like, how do these two things even begin to be parts of the same whole?

I didn't grow up with Rainbow Brite. I've only heard about it recently, but I've already fallen in love with the show. She deserves a proper reboot like My Little Pony and the Ninja Turtles. By the way, I feel like Jem and the Holograms fans got it the worst. At least with Strawberry Shortcake and the Care Bears, I could tell what those shows were supposed to be, and they felt like they had some connection to the franchise. The only thing the Jem and the Holograms reboot has in common with the original show is the name.

Oh may gah it's kawaiilifeanioanitoon :O

OMG YES, I absolutely adored Jem and the Holograms as a little girl!!!

Yessss! The comic’s artstyle reminds me of the Owl House

Galaxy High School is still watchable to this day. It is very 80s but enjoyable.

But not as good.

I was thinking the same thing.

That attempt was actually before TikTok existed

This wasn't the only DiC series that was outsourced to TMS, you also had Heathcliff (1984), Inspector Gadget, and countless others, so isn't uncommon for 80's and to an extent, 90's cartoons like Animaniacs and Batman: The Animated Series to have outsourced animation. Also, glad to have you back, Renee!

@@pennysanchez7656 TMS also worked on Real Ghostbusters.

I like the 2014 reboot, tbh. But that 2009 one I just saw... kinda sucked.

@@kootunesscrewyI think it could’ve been good I mean having her as a teen/young adult

@@gwenmloveskpopcecmore Or they should've made the show have the characters in a slice of life/drama vibe with some comedy. Kinda like Inanimate Insanity II or Clarence in a way.

@@kootunesscrewy yeah that too

@@gwenmloveskpopcecmore Yeah. Not every cartoon needs to rely on villains all the time. Maybe bullies and jerks, but not much with villains. Just a reboot where the life in Rainbow Brite's world is a struggle.

Funnily enough, I’d never heard of Rainbowbrite until that Robot Chicken sketch.

I saw it in that one Family Guy scene which honestly gave me dread as kid😂

Same

Yeah me too. ​@@mrmoonboi9534

Really? 😮 wow

Back in the 2000s I had a lot of like school supplies and stickers of her but thats as much as I saw of her as a kid. I was still obsessed tho lol. I think all the brands you mentioned just had that hyper feminine fantastical camp that really made the 80s and 90s so iconic and nostalgic.

@@Aros4 Yeah they do. I miss some of it, since when i got older the toys and school supplies got given away or for garage sale.

At least Snarf did SOMETHING useful for the plot.

Serendipity was a childhood favorite of mine, as well! Still have the VHS!!

@@charlesbennett7484 I miss my pink vhs tape copy

Oof….. 😂

Yeah, you're making millions upon millions with Rainbow Brite, with all that merchandise she doesn't have.

The response was basically a polite "Don't tell me how to raise my kids."

@@LikaLaruku Maybe the response was a polite, "Yeah, we're done with Rainbow Brite." If that's the case, then just sell the I.P to someone who's willing to do something with it. It's a problem I have with video game developers. Like, Ubisoft doesn't really care about Rayman anymore, so just sell him to someone who actually wants to do something with him.

Hoops and Yoyo! You just unlocked a flood of memories for me.

SAME

But what does "modern" want? I guess..smartphones? The horse with a portable navi? The safest is cleaner animation.

Cool profile pic !