{"id":1177,"date":"2012-03-30T00:13:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T06:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2013-10-10T12:44:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T17:44:55","slug":"say-goodbye-to-thundercats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2012\/03\/say-goodbye-to-thundercats\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Goodbye To ThunderCats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it wasn&#8217;t that <a title=\"Whiskers!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2012\/03\/thundercats-thunderous-return\/\" target=\"_blank\">thunderous of a return<\/a>. Cartoon Network&#8217;s recent upfront release showed that <a title=\"Ugh... you're killing me Cartoon Network.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nickandmore.com\/2012\/03\/28\/cartoon-network-upfront-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">ThunderCats will not be one of the returning shows<\/a> next year. This comes nearly a year after the cancellation of <a title=\"I'm still in mourning.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2011\/03\/say-goodbye-to-sym-bionic-titan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sym-Bionic Titan<\/a>. For the record, I will be more bummed about losing Titan, but ThunderCats was still a worthwhile show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ThunderCats1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1178\" title=\"How did Sight Beyond Sight miss this?\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ThunderCats1-300x231.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ThunderCats1-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ThunderCats1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new season just premiered last week, which implies this decision was made without TV ratings in mind (or at least the new season&#8217;s). Many speculated the demise of the show due to no new toys being released at the recent Toy Fair.<\/p>\n<p>The question is &#8211; which action precipitated which? Were no new toys made because the show was about to be cancelled, or was the show cancelled because their weren&#8217;t marketable toys? If it was the former, then why would a second season even be green lit if the show was to be canned before the new season started? If it was the latter, then what the hell? Growing up, I couldn&#8217;t have enough ThunderCat toys. Then again, I couldn&#8217;t believe Sym-Bionic Titan couldn&#8217;t find a market for toys with <strong><em>a giant robot as its main character<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it wasn&#8217;t that thunderous of a return. Cartoon Network&#8217;s recent upfront release showed that ThunderCats will not be one of the returning shows next year. This comes nearly a year after the cancellation of Sym-Bionic Titan. For the record, I will be more bummed about losing Titan, but ThunderCats was still a worthwhile show. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,71,89],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cancelled","tag-sym-bionic-titan","tag-thundercats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}