There hasn’t been much to paw at since the first announcement, so it might be easy to forget that THUNDERCATS is getting a revival next year on Cartoon Network.  Splash Page, however, just got some juicy quotes from Michael Jelenic, who’s a producer of the show, While this isn't a big helping of catnip, it's still a ball of yarn to play with (yes, I love extended metaphors.) For one, they’re going to simplify the mythos a bit in this “reimagining."

In Jelenic's words…

"One thing is that I tried to simplify the mythology a little bit… It's a pretty complicated backstory that borrows from a lot of other sci-fi stuff, like Superman and Star Wars. In developing this, I wanted it to be a little more simple. In the other version, there's something like three different planets involved, and they all converge onto one planet, and nobody's really connected."

He mentioned that he’s worked on a lot of BATMAN projects and other DC animated projects prior to this, but none of them have had this kind of instant enthusiasm from people. And no character has aroused more enthusiasm (and/or dread) than Lion-O’s sidekick Snarf. == TEASER ==

"Everyone always wants to know about Snarf… He will be in it, and he will not talk. Don't worry… He won't be going, 'Lion-O, why don't you do this? We just having him say, 'Snarf! Snarf!' That's a way to get him in the show without annoying every single person who hates him. It's funny, because people are always like, 'I hate Snarf! Wait. you're not going to put him in? That's terrible!'"

The rest of the gang, including Cheetara, Panthro, Tygra and, of course, Mumm-Ra are going to return,too. They're getting darker redesigns, but they'll still be the characters everybody remembers and adores.

Jelenic speculates that the enthusiasm might be a result of this being the last great property to get a revival - - to which, I ask, where’s my BRAVESTARR re-imagining? Trust me, I love to shout "Thundercats ho!" as much as anybody, but it doesn't have quite as much oomph as "Strength of the bear!" Somebody get on this, because I'm positive I'm not the only fan of this space cowboy show...

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I don't think it needed to be simplified, I was a kid when it was first shown and I had no problem understanding it. As for Snarf, I liked him.

  As long as they have the same theme I 'll be fine

This could be cool. Poor Snarf. He always got the hate.

Snarf Snarf !

Oh Wow... Bravestarr's horse is horrible...lol

Hopefully Pumyra, Lynx-O, and Bengali will be included eventually as well! :)

Man I used to love this show.  I was psyched when they wanted to make a CGI film and they showed the designs back then.  Hope this is good.  Hope this guy gets a good voice over director.

yes!  more awesomeness from my childhood!!!

Can't wait! I always liked this show even though I really didn't know too much about it at the time.

Bravestarr? Wow, never heard of that one , too bad it stopped airing in 1988. I didn't get here till 89

AHHH!! THUNDERCATS!!!

Where's my Visionaries remake?! I want some CGI Knights of the Magical Light.
 
  

You guys can root for Lion-O and Snarf all you like, but the real hero of the show was Mumm-Ra the ever living!
 

Haven't seen thundercats since i was a kid. I hope Panthro is still a brotha, and still using his nunchaku.

Always wanting to know more info about this being remade. This time though I hope they don't make Lion-O so young that Cheetara doesn't see him as a potential mate this time around. lol

they should bring the  90'cartoon back an this 1  two   

"thundcats suck bring back he-man!! "

" You guys can root for Lion-O and Snarf all you like, but the real hero of the show was Mumm-Ra the ever living!
 

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there's custom   Bravestarr toys on ebay right now. 
 
thanks for all the old videos !!!

Panthro always reminds me of War Machine for some reasons

I have a bad feeling about the Thundercats remake. The He-Man remake wasn't successful and it was nothing like the original series. This show better be good.

"Skeletor? He sounds ridiculous. Mumm-Ra? Now there is a villain with some actual menace to him! I mean, check out the pic that Venom posted. Epic! Mumm-Ra could take Skeletor any time. "

You are not the only fan of Bravestarr as I had almost all of the figures as a kid and own the complete series on DVD. I would love to see a new Bravestarr show.

" @caesarsghost said:

"Skeletor? He sounds ridiculous. Mumm-Ra? Now there is a villain with some actual menace to him! I mean, check out the pic that Venom posted. Epic! Mumm-Ra could take Skeletor any time. "

Are you joking!? Skeletor is the only villain powerful enough too survive with only an floating skull for a head and what kind of villain loses too their own reflection anyway? "

Simplified?  We all understood it when we were 7 years old...  What's there to simplify?? 
 
I'd also love to see a Bravestarr remake :)

I don't really remember much about this show, other than the sword that gives "Sight Beyond Sight" or whatever

 Thundercats reborn? I'm very curious how it will be received by the original TC fans (80s TC fans).

I hope they don;t make the same mistake like they did with Inspector Gadget,draining it till its dead and burried.

I can only say that nothing can compete with the oldschool TC from the 80s.

http://www.back-to-the-80s.com/Thundercats.html

I think I had a couple of Bravestarr figures....

Tom, you continue to make my heart swoon with your knowledge of cool stuff.  Between mentioning Bravestarr and your knowledge of L. Frank Baum's Oz universe, I sometimes wish you were a female so I would not feel awkward about these feelings!!!  lol

I want them to bring back or redo M.A.S.K. !!!!!

Oh great. The one character that I hated as a kid... Snarf. The girls liked him of course, but the boys in my neighborhood detested him and wanted more action and less silly stuff from the show. Characters such as: Orko from He-man and Gleek from Superfriends really made it tough to enjoy the action we craved. Alright, so the "action" in cartoons has come a loooong way, but hey, we took what we could get in the 80s!  
 
I still can't believe you used the words "aroused" and "Snarf" in the same sentence, Tom.

I got one of the most awesome Thundercats Emblem T-shirts. It is really cool. 

I f-ing LOVE BRAVESTARR!!!

I, unfortunately, read an article that this was canned again.  Another set of false hope.  I am sure someone already posted this deep in the conversation.  Sorry for repeating if I did.

I'm excited to hear about a new cartoon, but please for the love of God can we forever ban the notion that "Darker = Infinitely better"  EVERYBODY and his grandmother is on that bandwagon these days.  EVERYTHING is dark now or has at least 20% more dark !!!

Check out the trailer!