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More on the end of the Universal animated sequels

Written by steet :



 
I tried to contact Aria (the voice of Ducky for Land before time) for getting confirmation of the end of LBT, but instead her representative answered me, and confirmed the same thing. I think everyone should read this, as this is very interesting :


Yes, for a long time the new regime tried to kill the series, they did everything possible, released new ones in mid January instead of Christmas, (the videos) so they could say they were not selling as well, changed the series airing time on cartoon network several times so the poor little kids had to keep looking for it or lose interest. The first air time was for little toddlers and no weekends for older kids who would be very interested. Only true and rabid fans cared. The old true producing staff for these shows (LBT, Balto) were wonderful people professionally and personally. The new people that take over in this kind of case just want to dump all the old shows and put on edgier stuff, so it has their signature, and they want to pay the actors very little, and hope to pay them no residuals from sales as well. It is this same callousness and greed that has us in the current writers strike. It is sad.
Will let you know if we can find out anything. Anything is possible. If the "glorious" minds of the current crop of people in power think they can make a personal fortune by re starting or re-releasing something, they will.

Yes I am a bit cynical if you can't tell. I have heard and seen too much. I liked the simple days when there were really good people at Universal Animation. Now it seems all about them keeping money for themselves however they can. Even if Balto and LBT had more fans than any other shows they would not want to keep their finger on the pulse of what people want. They want to DRIVE people and steer them into wanting whatever it is the animation companies want to push.
Sad.


Looks like the staff at Universal Cartoons Studios has changed pretty much - since the arrival of Glenn Ross, I suppose. And it seems they made everything possible to get rid of LBT... :?
It wouldn't surprise me if they did the same for Balto. After all, the staff has changed just before the Balto 3 release, so they probably didn't market it correctly on purpose, so that they could say "look, it didn't sell well" as an excuse to get rid of it. Maybe them telling us that the sales of Balto 3 weren't enough wasn't the true reason for stopping it, after all...





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January 07, 2008
Usa Female
Path of the Demon
Yeah, I really think we should try! A Balto fund raiser!

January 07, 2008
Usa Male
Talespin VS Management
Yeah Steet, it wouldn't hurt to find out and they probably
wouldn't sell Balto for what he's worth if they're that
desprete to get rid of him, plus even if we can't do it, we
could send a the price, and probably a list of names, to
someone who cares about what the fans want to see and could
afford it, like Disney or Nick. In fact I'm going to go post
on Nick's message board about this right now!

January 07, 2008
Australia Female
no u
Steet, it wouldn't hurt to ask how much they'd be willing to
sell it to us for, would it?

January 07, 2008
Female
Stupid! We all should think of a way to raise money for
Balto

January 06, 2008
Usa Female
Path of the Demon
Oh my. I have lost all respect. Who would? I can't
understand why Universal would be that way.
To bad
there's no way to hand, Balto over to dreamworks.


Guest
Guest
January 06, 2008
... Well I lost complete respect for Universal Studios.
Great job trying to do an interview though Steet, you should
be commended for that.

January 06, 2008
Usa Male
Talespin VS Management
Too bad there aren't more people that aren't greedy. I was
kind of meaning togather maybe we could raise the money,
there are quite a few of us. We could all run out and buy
Balto 3 if that their excuse not to make anymore.

January 06, 2008
Webmaster France Male
AS leader
Err...Guys, I don't think anyone of us has millions of
dollars...
Honestly, I really don't know what we could
do, except waiting that the staff change again with
(hopefully) less people focused only on the money side of
it.

January 06, 2008
Usa Male
Talespin VS Management
That's what I'm saying Lone Wolf_fanwriter, there's probably
enough Balto fans on this site to easily make enough to buy
the rights, or take them by force if nessicery, then we
could make a movie that kicks the crud out of anything
Universal can come up with. I agree, power to the fans!!

January 06, 2008
Usa Male
Belle's Ice River pack
Honestly, the way LBT sequels keep coming out, I never would
have guessed Universal was trying to dump it.
But
yeah, now that I think about it, Universal's trying to dump
Balto would explain their unwillingness to, you know, listen
to the fans.
And heck yeah, we should buy the rights
to Balto. If these people care as little as it seems they'll
be glad to make the money off the transaction. ("Hey look,
we dropped Balto AND made money! Sweet!")
Greedy hogs.
Power to the fans!!

Guest
Guest
January 06, 2008
I lost all respect for these people after I read this. It
was slowly going but now... what greedy...selfish..money
hogs. Those poor, poor movies. D:

Amblin,
Ghibli, and a few others are truely good. I swear. The world
is becoming a dump. In more ways then one. -sigh-
I
bet Disney is becoming the same way. (Let go of the Lion
King, Hannah Montana, and High School Musical disney. It was
old the day after you showed it. D

January 06, 2008
Usa Male
This actually came as a surprise to me. I've never heard of
writers and creators trying to abandon their on shows,
whether they were the original people or not. I just lost
most if not all respect towards the people at Universal.

January 06, 2008
Usa Female
Wow, I never heared that they are trying to dump LBT too!
I'd bet Balto and LBT would be in much better hands if
Universal Studios gave them to Disney or Dreamworks.

January 06, 2008
Uk Female
That is such a terrible thing to do. But the people at
universal now are becoming more greedy. So LBT AND Balto are
gone. What's next? I feel sorry for the actors working with
them.

January 06, 2008
Canada Female
Unalaq Pack
That is sad. I don't get it....

January 06, 2008
Usa Male
Talespin VS Management
Stupid greedy Universal people! How dare you do that! Maybe
we could try to raise enough money to buy the rights to
Balto ourselves, would take awhile but it'd be worth it to
save our favorite heroic wolfdog!

January 06, 2008
Female
Yeah,you're right..it's interestin but....

Guest
Guest
January 08, 2008
I cant beleive tey're doing this!!! If they could at least
make a WELL DONE Balto movie with better advertisment and
they could get money but Balto would probably be better off
with Disney or Dreamworks.

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