General "Did you Know?"s

[CLXcool]

Did you know? At one point, before they closed their doors, Imagi studios(TMNT and Astro boy) were planning an animated film called Cat's Tale. Concept artwork was made, but the project was shot down right when Astro boy killed the studio.  I can't seem to find a whole lot of info about this movie, but if anyone knows a thing or two about it. Share it now. All I could find was this concept artwork of it. From what i'm seeing here. It would've been something cartoony looking from Imagi(I'm getting a bit of old school WB and MGM just by looking at this)

[Kakariko Kid]

Did you know? At one point, before they closed their doors, Imagi studios(TMNT and Astro boy) were planning an animated film called Cat's Tale. Concept artwork was made, but the project was shot down right when Astro boy killed the studio.  I can't seem to find a whole lot of info about this movie, but if anyone knows a thing or two about it. Share it now. All I could find was this concept artwork of it. From what i'm seeing here. It would've been something cartoony looking from Imagi(I'm getting a bit of old school WB and MGM just by looking at this)

Through a little bit of Googling, I have found some info that I'm not so sure about:

The premise of the movie is about a cat that wound up in Dogville and travels to Catsopolis to find his roots.

Production -
Initial release: April 26, 2013 (scheduled release?)
Director: Felix Ip
Story by: Cleve Nettles
Production company: Imagi Animation Studios
Screenplay by: Kevin Munroe, Aaron Mendelsohn, Cleve Nettles

Cast:
Cleo - Elisha Cuthbert 
Rover - Sean Astin
Simon - Stanley Tucci
Biscuit - Jerry O'Connell
Max - Wayne Night
Digger - Billy Idol
Bessie - Catherine O'Hare
Stork - David Cross
Newman - Alan Cummings
Sampson - Rip Torn
Blue - Fred Willard 
Pigeon - Chazz Palminteri 
(I found more, but this is hard to do on a phone)

It is also listed on Rotten Tomatoes; interestingly it does not have a Tomatometer score, but it DOES have an Audience score of 33%.

[CLXcool]

Sounds decent enough, but how does an 'unfinished' movie have a score of an audience if nothing came out of it?

[Kakariko Kid]

Sounds decent enough, but how does an 'unfinished' movie have a score of an audience if nothing came out of it?

I think you and I can sign up and score movies just like we could alter articles on Wikipedia. I reckon someone decided to do it for the heck of it.

[gamemaster1991]

Steve Blum holds the Guinness World Record for most prolific video game voice actor for 333 credited appearances as of 2 August 2013. I can only image how many more he's gotten in the 3 years and I wonder if anyone has passed it.

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

^ He now has 812 credited roles

[gamemaster1991]

Did you know that Watchmen started out as a story based on already existing characters? Sometime around the 80's, DC had acquired some characters from the defunct Charlton Comics. At the same time, Alan Moore was looking to make a story that featured an unused line of superheroes that he could revamp. Moore saw the new characters as "a nice, innocent little bunch of characters -- and there was a self-contained universe with four or five characters, and I thought it’d be nice to just take that and do whatever you wanted with it." This would have turned into a murder mystery called "Who killed the Peacemaker?".

Naturally, when you just bought something, you don't want other people braking it. So when Moore gave his idea to Dick Giordano (executive editor) loved the idea, but "didn’t want to give his babies to the butchers," which Moore admitted was what he was going to do. Instead, he was asked to change the characters around and come up with some new ones. This is how The Question became Rorschach, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) became Nite Owl, and so on. My favorite part about this is that you can sometimes tell who is meant to be whom (EX. Nite Owl is the second version of the name and has a big ovalish flying ship).

[CLXcool]

Did you know? That during the 1970s, Osamu Tezuka made an animated feature for adults called Cleopatra? 


The story about this movie has an interesting one, on how it didn't last long on coming to the USA. During the year of 1972. After the release of Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat. Japan was interested in trying to cash in the success of Fritz with Cleopatra, the film didnt do well over in Japan. Seeing the success of Fritz gave them a second wind to try to get money back from what they lost. They made a deal with a studio called Xanadu Productions to distribute the film. Except they never sent it to the MPAA for an official rating, they quickly slapped on the X rating for the film. In the end. American viewers were not impressed with the film. Demanding their money back for not witnessing a pornography film(the film had false advertising on it claiming it was a pornography film, when in reality the nudity in this was more in an artistic matter). The english dubbed version of the movie is considered a lost film. The only copies of the film that exist are in its full japanese dialogue

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

https://t.co/AbFevMO2e1

There's a newt that can poke it's ribs through its skin as a weapon just like LordRaptor/Zabel from DarkStalkers





Now, if only we can discover a bat that wraps its wings into drills....

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

There was a bear named Wojtek who was an actual menber of the Polish army during WW2.

[CLXcool]

Did you know? That J. R R Tolkien(Lord of the rings) and C.S Lewis(The Chronicles of Narina) HATED the Disney version Snow white and the Seven dwarfs?
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tol...it-dwarves

Interesting read it is.

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

Back in 1997, Antarctic Press published a comic called "Diesel: Masters of Dragon", written and ilustrated by Jochen "Joe" Weltjens. After being rediscovered back in early 2016, the comic became infamous by how much it was "inspired" by the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, particulary the third story arc: Stardust Crusaders.

Basically, the comic is about a group of people called "stand users" capable of summoning Stands (think of it as in a spirit animal of sorts) that grant their users special abilities, and if the user's stand gets damaged, the user gets damaged as well, which is exactly how the Stands (they didn't even change the name) work in JoJo. Addditionally, the villian of the first -and only- issue is a shameless ripoff of N'Doul: a blind man who uses a splash of water (or blood, in the case of Not-N'Doul) that he can remotely control and shape into anything to attack his foes from afar. Most of the later half from the fight the stand users have against Not-N'Doul is the same as in the fight the Joestar Group has against N'Doul, right down to the way the villain was finished off.

According to Antartic Press' office manager, the reason behind Diesel becoming a thing in the first place was because Jochen "Joe" Weltjens, the creator, got ahold of a fansubbed copy of the old Jojo OVAs. He was, obviously, totally blown away and loved everything about it. He wanted to share with the rest of the western world the awesomeness of JoJo, but even though he worked at Antartic Press, they coulnd't do anyting in order to localize the manga over there, so he decided to share the word of JoJo by himself, using the power of 90's American comic book art.

Sources:
http://ls57tiger.freepgs.com/jojo/phpBB3...f=2&t=7699
http://archive.is/5IJE9

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

Have you ever wondered why in martial arts themed movies, games, etc some characters get white hair after achieving certain degree of power?

That's becuase white hair in martial arts = power from death. Or power with a price.

Take for example:

1.Rugal Bernstein from 'The King of Fighters' series:

Rugal Bernstein:


Omega Rugal:


Using the Orochi power basically gave him a death sentence in exchange for a brief opportunity to wield power far beyond his imagination.

2. Akuma from the 'Street Fighter' series, whose hair becomes white when he is on his "Shin Akuma" state (aka when he's fighting using the 100% of his power). The power he uses is called the "Satsui no Hado", which is a form of ki that is rooted in the darker aspects of the natural human instinct, and the untrained mind can be driven into insanity if they are not mentally ready for it. In other words, when Akuma is fighting at his 100%, he is risking his own mental sanity at the cost of power.

A third example I can think of it's from the anime/manga series "Fist Of The North Star":

FOTNS SPOILERS

The characer Rei was given a death sentence with the destruction of his ability to fight. Kenshiro was able to use a technique to let Rei fight again...but at the cost of his near-immediate death. Basically he'd get one last fight. This process made Rei's hair go from black to stark white.

In other words: The white hair is a sign of the changes in the user's chi. It is symbolic both of his "death" as a standard human being and the "death" he represents as a user of a lethal martial art. You know, "I have become death itself" and all that.

[YTSpunko]

Did you know? 8 secret facts about Magiswords.

- Luke Ski, writer/storyboard artist/VO in Magiswords, wrote the song Prohyas sang to Hoppus in "Sad Little Bunny"
- The short, Walkies, originally ended with Vambre responding to Prohyas about Old Man Oldman's insomnia "What does his religion have to do with it?" but due to CN's rule against it, they replaced it with nationality
- Neddy the Mallet is based on The Tick and is voiced by The Tick himself Townsend Coleman. Micky Dolenz and Rob Paulsen, who voice Arthur in the show, will be contributing voices in Magiswords, Jess Harnell (Sewer Urchin) sang the Fud Fight song in the show. Kyle reguarly does all the voices when the eps are in animatic stage. For Neddy, he did a Patrick Warburton impression, who plays the Tick in the live-action version.
- Morbidia was originally voiced by Candi Milo and is voiced by Mary Faber.
- Judy Tenuta, Renee Albert and Weird Al Yankovic; all accordionists, voice characters in the show but they don't do any accordion music.
- The shorts were animated in-house at CN Studios while the TV series epps were done at Malaysian studio Inspidea.
- Prohyas is named after Antonio Prohias; creator of Spy vs Spy, Vambre's name was taken from the name Amber and Zange's name is based on Kyle's friend from school, Angie.
- The short "Do You Know the Muffin King?" was actually an original outline back when the show was originally entitled Legendary Warriors for Hire. The ep, titled Lord Skullbood, had some differences. The Warriors were about to save the Kotassians, the Muffin King was alive and spoke like Gary Owens and Phil pretended to be the muffin king which influenced the citizens to no longer need a king.

Hope that helps.

[Psychospacecow]

If you smash sugar, it will spark.