'Dungeons and Dragons' Returns!

dane23 writes: "Saw this over at AICN. Looks like my favorite Saturday morning cartoon from childhood is returning to TV. 'Dungeons and Dragons' is going to be run on the Fox Kids channel this summer. Times are 11:00 Eastern and 10:00 Central and Pacific." I saw this when I was watching cartoons yesterday, and I immediately called all my friends that remembered the original. I can't wait. Now only if they would bring back "Pole Position" and "Lazer Tag Academy."

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Script of the final (never aired) episode

[tamyrlin]

A quick search at yahoo revealed a couple of Dungeons and Dragons fansites. At least one of them had a link to this site which should be interesting to you. It has the script of the last episode that was never produced:
http://www.mindspring.com/~michaelreaves/D&Dpref ace.html

And btw, If I was a moderator I would moderate you down to (Score:-5 Spoiler...) :)

Why is D&D coming back? Answer obvious...

[Masem]

Ok, so FOX kids is placing an old D&D in prime kid advertizing space (mind you, I like the cartoon). There's at least 3 good reasons for this:

There is a D&D movie scheduled to come out this November. No real details on this.

TSR has released on CD ROM most of the stuff for 2nd edition (If I remember what I read in GAMES magazine right). Also, unrelated, 25 years of Dragon magazine is also out on CD rom similar to the MAD collection a while back.

Finally, the 3rd edition of AD&D is soon to be released.

Now, while I do like the cartoon, to push the blatent commercialism makes me sick, especially since at the beginning of the 90s, we were moving away from so-called "toyetic" cartoons ("toyetic" meaning to be centered around the commercialism for a toy; He-Man was a prime example of this). But now, toyetic cartoons are back, Pokemon leading the way, but followed by Max Steel on Kids WB and other such shows. This type of entertainment is not enjoyable, and doesn't have the same corniness and fun that those mid-to-late 80s cartoons had.

If FOX kids was just bringing it for no good reason I would praise them, but this is blatent commercialism.

Mazes & Monsters?

[seebs]

Completely fictional. Or rather, based off a completely fictionalized version of what happened to the kid who allegedly "snapped". He snapped, yeah, but it had more to do with drugs, and less to do with D&D. D&D did not figure in his snapping, nor did he go around thinking people were monsters.

URL: http://mypage.direct.ca/c/crm114/dallas.html

I believe this to be a tolerably accurate summary of the issues in that case.

Where have all the other cartoons gone?

[Anime Man]

Now that D&D will be coming back to the small screen, I can only pray that someone is smart enough of is rich enough from a software IPO to buy the rights to The Lost City Of Gold. That cartoon was a masterpiece in almost everyway.

You had great writing (a rarity among 80's 'toons or any for that matter) that really made you think that these people were real and that were multi-dimentional.

The main story and even the episode plots were brilliant. I remember after each episode wishing that I was there with the kids and run arround the backyard of my grandparents house pretending.

And another great thing about the series was the fact that it was a very beautifuly animated. It was in that Anime style of the 80's that we all love (or hate). The action scenes from what I remember were very vivid in colors and style.

But what really bothers me is that i've only met a hand full of people that remember the show. But all of them loved it and would give their right testicle to see the series again.

I kinda wish Cartoon Network would shell out some dough for the series and all of the other cool 80s cartoons we grew up on (so far they have a nice spectrum of the 70s so I wont go into that) and have "80's Weekends" or even late nights. They could pull in so much money from the advertisers from all of us geeks that would actually watch it faithfully (look at Toonami and how big and profitable is became).

But internal politics at CN (as always with all Tunner owned channels) and many other reasons will make sure this dream never come to fruition.

The same thing will also never come true for my other wish, that of mtv bring back all of it's 80's content to be shown late nights when they dont have anything on and could actually score some ad cash from all of us 'kids' remebering our "big hair" phase.

Anyways thats it for my bi-annual posting to /. . I mainly never post because i already know my posts will never get read let alone a score of 1 or more and that there has never been a topic that has gotten me out of 'lurker mode'.

Anyways comments would be nice, but money and/or food would be better. Thanks.

OFFTOPIC: Hello?! Mountains?!

[Wah]

Times are 11:00 Eastern and 10:00 Central and Pacific."

Dangit, I live in the "Mountain" time zone. Nobody ever tells us when stuff is on. It's discrimination and it needs to stop now. (Either that or do the obvious thing and just post it on the Net and I'll watch it when I dang well please)

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Good 80s cartoon site

[Sits]

80'S CARTOONS ALLIANCE. This takes me right back. I was horrified to find out how many of these cartoons I actually remembered (like MASK, Visionaries, Captain N etc). Anyone who enjoyed these cartoons should start here.

Did they ever get home?

[Scorchio]

If it's the same series I'm thinking of, they quite frequently had a chance of getting home, but then had to go back because one of them was stuck or bad things would happen in the real world... any of a thousand excuses. Was there an end to the story? Did they ever get back home, permanently, no strings attached?

Anyway, I much preferred Cities of Gold and Ulysses 31. I even caught an episode of Mr Benn on tv yesterday... ah, happy, carefree days!

Scorchio, suddenly feeling much older.