And now here they are!

[FAT$TACKS]

The most daredevil group of daffy drivers to ever whirl their wheels,

in the ..... Wacky Races!

Don't know if any of you have seen this commercial, but it's better than a lot of actual remakes of shows coming out these days.

I would totally watch it.

 

[Lastblade]

Nice, it is so good because it skips all the terrible conversation and human interaction in most of the current movies.

 

[Neodogg]

he kicked Muttley out! Then again...I only see one head after he picks up Penelope and they are going around that curve...

 

[NeoSneth]

How do people still know about this IP? It's from 1968.

 

[HellioN]

How do people still know about this IP? It's from 1968.

A lot of those cartoons survived in reruns straight through the 80s and even into the 90s.
Many of them could still be watched on cartoon network's retro channel boomerang well into the 2000s and beyond.
I was born in the late 70s so lots of those cartoons weren't quite retro when I was growing up.

 

[NeoSneth]

i get that. but the 90's were 30 years ago. i guess their target demographic is 40-60 year olds?
There was a Whacky Races boardgame from a prominent company a few years ago, and I thought the same thing.

I loved the show as a kid, I'm just surprised it's still relevant. I imagine most of Hanna Barbara brands are fading away.

 

[lithy]

Would rather have the Hispano-Suiza than the Peugeot.

 

[Neodogg]

bitches please...there was a Wacky Racers game on the DC ~ 2000

 

[madmanjock]

i get that. but the 90's were 30 years ago. i guess their target demographic is 40-60 year olds?
There was a Whacky Races boardgame from a prominent company a few years ago, and I thought the same thing.

They were still rerunning it in the late 90s.

 

[NeoSneth]

I get that, but no one became attached to the IP via a Dreamcast game. which was 23 years ago...

 

[Lagduf]

i get that. but the 90's were 30 years ago. i guess their target demographic is 40-60 year olds?
There was a Whacky Races boardgame from a prominent company a few years ago, and I thought the same thing.

I loved the show as a kid, I'm just surprised it's still relevant. I imagine most of Hanna Barbara brands are fading away.

I agree it’s strange. You’d have to be late 50s or in your 60s to have watched the show as a child.

I definitely watched the reruns as a child on occasion but they’re not a standout cartoon memory.

My assumption is that it’s just creatively bankrupt corporations mining their backlog of IPs to make something cheaper.

 

[SignOfGoob]

How do people still know about this IP? It's from 1968.

WTF?

Godzilla is from 1954 and still sells hundreds of millions of dollars worth toys every year.

Beowulf is on Amazon as a paperback for $10. It’s ten centuries old.

The pope has made a pretty good living off the Bible and its fans and that’s 2000 years old.

Also, this ad was made for France.

Also, people in their 60s kinda have all the money. Why not target them?

 

[Neodogg]

Also they released that Wacky Racers game on Dreamcast in the early 2000s.

thanks joe, I just said that before...

 

[FAT$TACKS]

There was a short lived reboot about five years or so back.

I loved that show as a kid.

There is an auto show in England where they have reproductions of the cars and costumed characters. They do a little staged race and drive through town.

 

[SignOfGoob]

Wacky Racers fandom seems to vary greatly by region. There has always been WR merch in Japan and I get the feeling a lot it is exported to like…Spain or some place. Poland is probably only now just discovering it. Maybe it’s big in Belgium.

 

[Burning Fight!!]

@smokey thoughts about the belgium wacky races fanbase?

 

[Lagduf]

WTF?

Godzilla is from 1954 and still sells hundreds of millions of dollars worth toys every year.

Beowulf is on Amazon as a paperback for $10. It’s ten centuries old.

The pope has made a pretty good living off the Bible and its fans and that’s 2000 years old.

Also, this ad was made for France.

Also, people in their 60s kinda have all the money. Why not target them?

Godzilla isn’t a great example as it has consistently had new films, spin-offs, etc since the 1950s.

Godzilla is iconic. Wacky Racers isn’t.

That said when are we getting a new Godzilla film? I thought they were making a followup to Shin Godzilla. New monster-verse film?

 

[SignOfGoob]

There are a lot of Godzilla movies but there have been two long breaks in the series, nine years between the goofy period and the good stuff and then twelve years between the good stuff and the J rocker pretty boy stuff. The merch never stopped. There is a Criterion BR now.

And people still buy specifically Godzilla 1954 stuff. The film itself is better than any of its sequels. You can still buy new GKs and UFO toys and shit based on the 60-70 year old Godzilla. For some people it’s like golden age Superman or pie eyed Mickey. None of the other stuff does it for them.

Wacky Racers may seem less iconic to us because we also got the two million other shit HB cartoons and nobody cares. It’s not that great, for sure, but the Japanese may have experienced it in more of a vacuum and it may have really stood out. I know the LD boxes are really nice, that was about 30 years ago when those came out. There was at least one capsule series from Bandai/Konami, they’re still all over eBay.

 

[Tung Fu ru]

@Lagduf I know Im a bit older than you (41), but I definitely watched Wacky Racers as a kid. Just like Looney Tunes, Flintstones, Jetsons, Mr Wizard ect...

Just because it originally came out before your time, doesn't mean you aren't familiar with it.

 

[Syn]

Many of the Criterion movies do not contain the English soundtracks. It's not up to the Criterion standard.

 

[terry.330]

Many of the Criterion movies do not contain the English soundtracks. It's not up to the Criterion standard.

It also has inexcusably bad packaging.

 

[SignOfGoob]

Many of the Criterion movies do not contain the English soundtracks. It's not up to the Criterion standard.

Dubs are for retards, that’s probably why.

Godzilla 1954 is however really two movies. The US and OG versions are massively different, there’s no Steve Martin in the JP one and there’s no character equivalent either. The OG is considerably more bleak. I’ll watch either version. The DVD I have has both.

 

[terry.330]

Twat.

 

[Lagduf]

@Lagduf I know Im a bit older than you (41), but I definitely watched Wacky Racers as a kid. Just like Looney Tunes, Flintstones, Jetsons, Mr Wizard ect...

Just because it originally came out before your time, doesn't mean you aren't familiar with it.

I’ve absolutely seen it. I’m only 2 years younger than you lol.

I still agree with NeoSneth, it’s a weird series to reboot. Maybe it will do well.

 

[FAT$TACKS]