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[character design] https://64.media.tumblr.com/19efbb8495b94ee5a1a5f49f6771fffb/a71c6440a5c15653-78/s640x960/bd604c47b9ac58ecf8e472befd346fa8397c29c5.pnj https://64.media.tumblr.com/1de27951189a5df6c5651905dc1741c2/a71c6440a5c15653-9a/s1280x1920/bd6299c19f11ccf4178b90c8b303a1968ed954e0.jpg https://64.media.tumblr.com/76fcc8e4cf4b3cb87923191ce92ec047/a71c6440a5c15653-4b/s1280x1920/372aad9163b7dda51f81f9750e391d2f94ba6266.jpg so the og concept design for thundercats was posted and. two things tumblr source 1 source 2
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1) EXTREMELY funny that the og concepts were kinda slutty. what's going on here
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and 2) https://64.media.tumblr.com/6dcbd9aa0802e6fd8f6217f248a45a39/a71c6440a5c15653-7d/s1280x1920/f6b94ce95f014490d1d9532c9bffd60c1d6d40f2.jpg WHY IS PANTHRO JUST A STRAIGHT UP BLACK DUDE
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i'm crying
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HE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE POINTY EARS IN CONCEPTION
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just wheezing
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SAYS OUT LOUD "OH NO"
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THAT IS JUST SIMPLY A HUMAN MAN!!
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🥩meat peddler🍖 : THAT IS SIMPLY A GUY
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GLAD...THEY TOOK NOTES....
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https://64.media.tumblr.com/e3b1b1672c2ac03211c3b3824c1c65f5/a71c6440a5c15653-17/s1280x1920/48992d4676657c8e0cc02df21ae18fb1eea0fe12.jpg also apparently split wileykat into twins, he looks more like a hobbit here
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hand on hips. was cats the musical inspired by thundercat designs or was thundercats inspired by Cats --
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Anyway. Just internally screaming at panthro. good job team for catching that before release
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no claws no ears no fangs its just a black guy
Ari
extremely cats the musical
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'oh but diversity win' THE IMPLICATIONS OF PUTTING A BLACK DUDE WITH A BUNCH OF ANIMAL PEOPLE!!!
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RIGHT
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your cast can NOT be a bunch of anthro animal people and A Black Guy you can not do that
Gloomy
he's just a guy???
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also the thundercats have never been more naked than here
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SIMPLY JUST A GUY
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https://64.media.tumblr.com/f593bc608b76ca5bea1fb4b9ad227126/a71c6440a5c15653-5d/s1280x1920/a53de3a6131fcc65b551f1dcbf221abcbf6573d3.jpg i do like how glamrock the og concept for cheetarah looked
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Cheetarah just escaped from KISS
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she's starting a new band
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https://images.plurk.com/5rwI5vS6cdGAJNJDa5kepb.jpg could never put my finger on why i never liked snarf aside from his name being snarf and having an annoying voice, but maybe it's because of his weirdly human feet
Tentessee
cats the musical was first performed in 1981 and thundercats began in 1985, but we might be seeing an example of convergent evolution
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wheezing
Tentessee
oh cats first toured Japan in 1983, so hey! maybea
Comic
.... was it about the black panthers...wtf panthro
Aviy
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i'm sure they thought they were very clever and inclusive at the time,
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even though i believed you before i opened the pic of panthro it was STILL A SHOCK.
THAT IS TRULY JUST A BLACK DUDE!!! HE'S EVEN WEARING REAL FUCKING CLOTHES, UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE!!!! THAT IS TRULY HOW YOU KNOW HE WAS REALLY JUST A GUY!!!
ʋɛʀʏ ɖʀαɢօռ
what WAS the concept here. I'm so glad that changed but also how did it START there in the first place???
soup witch
i wonder... if panthro was just not supposed to be a cat
soup witch
early concept normal human guy
soup witch
he IS also the only one in clothes
𝕊𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝔸𝕔𝕖
Is there more? Do you have a link?
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the link source is linked near the start of the plurk
𝕊𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝔸𝕔𝕖
Thank you. I'm blind.
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𝕊𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝔸𝕔𝕖 : oops sorry yes comic pointed them out! I fell asleep lol I'll edit them into the top comment soon
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ʋɛʀʏ ɖʀαɢօռ : it truly is so jarring
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soup witch : yea that's my guess but also makes it worse. The group of exotic animal folk and ...the black guy! No matter what reason he's there it looks so bad via implications
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it's so jarring!!! aside from that i keep looking at his outfit and losing it over the little. sock booties with the single big toe separated out. tabi sock leotard. how do they manage to make it look baggy on the shin but skintight on the calf.
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it feels like it was originally going to be, like, one-piece swimsuit cut with bare skin thighs and then shin guards + .... tabi sock booties. but?????
ʋɛʀʏ ɖʀαɢօռ
mister guy why do you need ribbon fasteners on your legs for a skintight one piece
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The cats hadn't invented shoes yet so they tied sockies to his feet,,,
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his calf is is so big it just hangs loose under it
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also all the thundercat dudes get soles for their... weird foot shoes
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oh the cats do have shoes huh
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THAT MAKES IT EVEN WORSE
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GIVE MY MAN SOME SHOES!!
Kyo
.....that is just a man!!!
Kyo
i can almost see how they could have accidentally ended up there, just spitballing a bunch of traits and ideas at their concept artist and having them pull it all together
Kyo
but dear god I hope as soon as that hit someone's desk they went Oh No We Can't Do This
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TRULY
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good job editor(s) u dodged a bullet
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really speaks volumes abt me i think that i had to go back and forth on the images to figure out what you meant by "kinda slutty"
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fully just stared at lion-o's ass like "is that not what he looked like in the og. what's different. it's the same picture"
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me @ me they have clothes on now you idiot
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though it's also hilarious to me that jaga's design seemed to get worse actually in terms of nudity. like he went from a superhero fit to a mankini
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also cats the musical's premiere was in may 1981 and sometime in 1981 tobin wolf made the INITIAL sketch for thundercats which did not start actually being produced until 1984 so like
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thundercats was inspired by cats the musical. cats the musical was inspired by TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. TS Eliot was inspired by children. so children have to blame children for the sexy furry awakenings—
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also-also i am SCREAMING ABOUT PANTHRO
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🦁(but spooky)🎃 : ;lfdakjdaflk yog staring at liono's ass with nothing but a belt "hm seems wholesome?"
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and yea jaga is very funny. he looks like an english body builder in the concept and then 'NO, MAKE HIM OLDER AND MORE NAKED'
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I'm glad the cats influence goes deep. its very funny to think that foreign studios were just lke 'oh! this is how americans see humanoid cats. okay.'
云深不吃素
... his name was lionel
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LEGITIMATELY NO JOKE MY THOUGHT WAS "i mean sure he doesn't have clothes but he's a cat. like cats musical cats don't have clothes... i guess cats musical cats ARE considered pretty risque..."
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jkahdfajdf
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云深不吃素 : AND YEA IT IS i'm so used to saying liono cuz thats where he ended up
云深不吃素
I WAS EXPRESSING SURPRISE akfjekdjdj
云深不吃素
that is just a whole ass normal person’s name
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liono with a person name and panthro as as whole ass person. balance--
云深不吃素
au where panthro was the jane goodall of cat persons and he meets lionel and is like dang. these guys can have normal person names? dang i should have just told them my name was daniel
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help
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tbh liono sounds like a small toddler trying to say lionel but doesn't quite have the speaking ability to do it yet
MURDERE
same as yog re: the sluttiness
MURDERE
i think clothes are actually often what makes someone look slutty
MURDERE
if you're naked you're just naked
MURDERE
anyway i can't fucking get over panthro oh my god
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