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'Dungeons and Dragons' Returns!

Posted by emmett on from the cavalier-and-acrobat dept.

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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  1. Why is D&D coming back? Answer obvious... by Masem · · Score: 4
    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.

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  2. OFFTOPIC: Hello?! Mountains?! by Wah · · Score: 4

    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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