Look these reboots don't care but we have animaniacs 2020, Ducktales 2017, the new Mickey mouse shorts from 2016, and there much better than the rainbow bridge reboot, I guess yacko wacko and dot are right, reboot have lack of personality of Hollywood
Rainbow Brite has SO MUCH potential for a successful reboot. You've got a (literally) colorful cast, an interesting fantasy world, and a smart, fun, courageous main character. It just needs a good team and good resources to craft a new generation. It worked for My Little Pony, Duck Tales, and She-Ra.
You would think Rainbow Brite would be very easy to reboot considering she's part of the magical girl genre. Even her 80s design would still very much work for today's audience since it's the most iconic.
I can easily imagine Rainbow Brite becoming the next Friendship is Magic. A show that can be enjoyed by everyone. It just needs a good team who cares about the original.
I do miss this aesthetic and tone the 80's girly show's had, which had these sugary colorful heroines and overly cute creatures battle fairly grim monsters against dark skies and rocky terrain in high-stakes conflicts, until the protagonists won and everything returned to sugar-land till the next episodes.
im too young to have seen a lot of these shows when they came out but i still feel nostalgic for 80s animated asthetic, especially girls shows. Different style to this but Jem is one show that always pops to mind with 80s cartoon aesthetic.
My little pony had a villain who had their beating heart in a bag. Old kids shows were hardcore. New kids shows can be pretty hardcore too, though. Owl house has a building with a massive beating heart in it.
@@genericname2747 Old shows got away with a lot by just...not acknowledging the horror of what was going on and everyone laughing at the end. There's an episode of G1 MLP where the unicorns are being picked off like a serial killer movie, which freaked the hell out of little me. I do think modern animated kids shows can get a bit darker though, with more ptsd and charcters losing limbs and body parts. It helps that things don't have to reset every episode these days. That said I do miss the visual grit that came with Cel Animation.
The reason why villains are too incompetent to succeed is because it makes them less threatening and less scary to kids. That in turn keeps the censors off your back
I first became aware of Rainbow Brite after Nostalgia Critic talked about it while he was talking about MLP: FiM (another show I had been into at the time; IIRC, this was not long after FiM had ended). I went and looked into Rainbow Brite, and noted that the 80s cartoon was well done and enjoyable. Though, not old enough to have watched it when it was new (childhood shows for me were mostly things like ReBoot and similar).
@StoopidBlob445 that was the second one I saw…..the first one was where rainbow brite killed off the two main villains and then covered it up as them going on a spiral journey (“PS, Blinky came with us”)
As a grown-ass man, I still think Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealers is a pretty good kid's movie. The stakes are clear and high, RB is brave, the robot horse is cool, and the deservedly evil villain has a great exit! (Crys sucked tho, ngl)
I loved this movie so much as a kid (just look at my screenname if you don't believe me, lol) and think it still holds up pretty well. I'd give so much to see someone cosplaying as the Dark Princess at a convention; I've always really loved her glam-rock, David Bowie-inspired design.
Honestly, the best way to make a Rainbow Brite reboot is to just go back to the 80's show and take those first two rushed episodes and stretch them out and just make them characters that's all you really need!
Having watched it as an adult for the first time, I feel like those two episodes weren't rushed so much as they just didn't really make a lot of sense. It felt more like they were just throwing darts at an idea board. Also, as far as I remember and doing some quick checking online... I don't think the origin of rainbow brite was the first two episodes. For some insane reason that two part origin story is thrown into the middle of the series. They literally aired several episodes first and then was like "For no real reason, here how it begins."
"You will pay for tricking me into that bottle!" "Can't you take a joke?" I laughed when I realized it's Peter Cullen, aka, Optimus Prime, talking to himself. LOL
I love you're analysis of why girl cartoons are so much more childish, because as a little girls that's exactly how I felt. I knew I would grow up so I wanted to enjoy where I was then. Most of the girls I knew were egar to grow up though. Well that is until they suddenly realised they were going to move up to the next school, then they started crying about their lost childhood and couldn't understand why I was OK with it lol (I was mercilessly bullied by kids and teachers at that school, I wonder why I wasn't sad to leave)
I will say that girls are pressured to grow up so they probably didn't WANT to of their own volition like that. Girls tend to be sexualized more and subjected to parentification. So I see it as you were the lucky one in that regard, you got to hang on to your childhood longer and that was NEVER a bad thing you should have been made to feel bad about.
Ooh man, that series was one of my absolute favorites as a kid. Also the My Little Pony movie where ponies got kidnapped and forcibly transformed into dragons. That was an era where kids movies weren't afraid to go dark, something I honestly think has been missing in children's media for far too long now. Like you said, kids are smart, and having some darkness, some danger, some real challenge, is something most of them not only can handle but genuinely benefit from seeing. We learn to feel big emotions from stories so that when we face them in the real world we are prepared. I'd love to see Rainbow Bright get the She-Ra treatment, it would fit so well! Or any version that explores the really cool world building the original set up.
Oh man...the original My Little Pony pilot movie. I remember that one scared the hell out of me as a kid, and yet I can recall renting it repeatedly from the local video place...you know it's bad when the villain that terrorized the ponies is in fact just the minion who's actually terrified his boss is going to hurt his little dragon friend to keep him in line! This stuff was my childhood, but man, looking back, it strikes me that kids cartoons (and weirdly, girls' cartoons in particular!) were pretty dang scary at times. Monsters everywhere, villains that could turn _into_ monsters...even with all the candy-colored ponies and little girls with magic rainbows, there was some dark stuff going on.
Back then children's programming respected the intelligence of their target demographic. This is especially apparent in 1980's (pre-Elmo) Sesame Street compared to more recent years Sesame Street. Watch the original C is for Cookie compared to the modernized version. You'll see the difference. The modern version is smacking viewers in the face with the letter C. Kids today (especially young girls) have the better clothes and stuff, but their TV shows are horseshit! I feel like it was somewhere in the 90s between all the straight-to-video Disney sequels and talking dog movies that people in charge of children's entertainment adopted an attitude of "Who gives a crap? It's for kids! They'll watch anything!" Then they abolished Saturday morning kids shows...The Weird Al Show only lasted one season due to this shift in Saturday morning TV. It wasn't just TV... Labyrinth with David Bowie and the Jim Henson creations...omg they would never make anything like that these days! They couldn't even do it justice if they tried! I'm sure the same could be said of The Dark Crystal as well. And what was that creepy Oz movie with a very young Fairuza Balk? ...though I will say the Super Mario movie was way better than the Mario shows we got as kids 😅
@@gypsywoman9140 Weird thing is, the 90s was also the era of wacky, sometimes really disturbed stuff like Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, and the like. It just happened that it was also during the whole Clinton-era push for education in entertainment, which meant that kids shows had to have some specific amount of educational material per episode, which did serve to de-fang a lot of stuff. Also, let's face it...any attempts to do things like Labyrinth or Dark Crystal nowadays would be ruined strictly for the massive amounts of CGI that it would involve instead of creative uses of puppets and animatronics, and all of the other things done with practical effects. Not even just the way that (given that Disney owns Henson Studios, last I recall) they would dumb it down/remove the scary...it's removing 99.9% of the practical effects in favor of just slapping a digital cartoon in place of a puppet, or a CGI effect where a real person once did something.
I don't remember a movie where the ponies were turned into dragons. But I do remember the one with the 3 witches & The Smooze. I feel like Care Bears needs to be thrown into this mix.
@@LikaLaruku It was the pilot for what became the first TV series. It's also the place where the character of Tirek first showed up, having his servant, Skorpan, kidnap ponies to transform into dragons to pull his chariot, using what he called "the Rainbow of Darkness," for all that it was literally a wave of possibly sentient dark energy he kept in a pouch that constantly twitched and made unpleasant hissing, gurgling noises. Unsurprisingly, the tool to combat him was for the ponies and their new human friend to find a magic artifact called "the Rainbow of Light," which was in fact an actual rainbow. I agree about Care Bears...the Care Bears movie was kinda freaky. Also, there's something really unnerving about having the evil menace spend most of his time in the film as a kind of mischievous-looking but otherwise harmless-looking boy, but also be a malevolent cloud-with-glowing-eyes. Like, how do these two things even begin to be parts of the same whole?
rainbow brite had a really fun comic adaptation (that is fairly recent) but it got cancelled ): it was the only modern adaptation ive seen of it that held some semblance of its predecessor behind it
I hate that these awesome comics and the stories in them keep getting canceled. Frickin' Ghostbusters, Sonic, Rainbow Brite... there should be some kind of government subsidies for GOOD STORIES as opposed to all the hollywood write-offs for mediocre sludge.
This was one of my favourite shows when I was like 5. As someone who never really enjoyed older animated shows, I didn't even realise this was animated like 25 years before I watched it. Really does show they cared about making it good. I can remember having my own of the dolls as well. Edit: The 2009 show is a lot closer to my time and somehow I never saw it or purged it from my memory
To think my very first "magical girl" would have THIS BIG OF AN ICEBERG! Thank you for making yet another video revisiting my childhood and many others! Short Story: I used to LOVE Rainbow Brite as a little, so much so that for my 13th Birthday, my parents got me a Rainbow Brite Doll, and I'm keeping it for my future children so I can share my love for this character!
I watched "Everyone Falls to their Doom: The Movie", got hooked by the whole planet sized diamond thing and never heard about it again... so thanks for the memories!
I grew up with this show and loved it as a kid, and I still enjoy rewatching the movie. I feel the need to mention that there was one other attempt to reboot Rainbow Brite and it was in a comic written by Jeremy Whitley. It was unfortunately discontinued, but was probably the best attempt version out of the reboots.
I got the movie in 1993 from my granddad, as well as the 80s doll. I vividly remember the iridescent skirt, and I remember loving the movie. The movie probably explains why I'm so obsessed with colours now as an adult.
I was born just after Rainbow Brite’s heyday, but I was still able to rent videos of her show and the movie, and my third grandmother had one of the original dolls as well as the Taco Bell Twink doll for me to play with, and a couple of coloring books for the series. I loved Rainbow Brite almost as much as My Little Pony and the TMNT as a kid, and it’s one of the classic 80’s shows that I dearly wish could get a thoughtful overhaul from people who love and respect both the franchise and the meaning behind it. MLP and TMNT have both had that opportunity and made the most of it, and it’s RB’s turn. She needs a creative team who “get it,” not just some soulless rehash like what happened to Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, Thundercats, and Jem and the Holograms (on that note, NO LIVE ACTION TEENTASTIC MOVIES!!!). I agree that there’s a lot of potential in this franchise, and I’d love to see it realized. 🎶Rainbow Brite, see the shining light, yes it’s time for Rainbow Brite-i-i-ite!🎶
I didn't grow up with Rainbow Brite. I've only heard about it recently, but I've already fallen in love with the show. She deserves a proper reboot like My Little Pony and the Ninja Turtles. By the way, I feel like Jem and the Holograms fans got it the worst. At least with Strawberry Shortcake and the Care Bears, I could tell what those shows were supposed to be, and they felt like they had some connection to the franchise. The only thing the Jem and the Holograms reboot has in common with the original show is the name.
Made by the same animation studio that brought us Inspector Gadget & Lupin III. That Orin kid from the 2nd movie sure does look like Mega Man... Never noticed that before.
i only learned about rainbow brite in the last year or two but i LOVE the concept of her and her world and it surprises and makes me happy that hallmark put all that work and research into making it successful, wisps design; like the original 80s one is so good and i hate that so many companies kinda just try to use her as a cash cow, she and her world were a labor of love and its just gonna keep failing because all these companies think kids are stupid and only care about pretty bright colors and trends
Like Strawberry Shortcake, even though I was a 90's kid, I grew up a lot with these 80's shows because I had an older cousin who introduced me to them. The reboots/remakes always end up not being as good as the original, which is true to most things. Would you ever do a video on Jem and the Holograms? It was a HUGE 80's tv show and toy line. It came back in the later 00's as a comic.
Hi. Rainbow Brite Historian here! I appreciate your enthusiasm but I’m thinking you missed a lot. Sometimes it is a “you have to be there” kind of situation. Also, it was animated by DIC who outsourced their animation to Japan because it was cheaper. There are plenty more I could correct but I won’t. On @BriteCast we went over every episode in order and the movie.
This wasn't the only DiC series that was outsourced to TMS, you also had Heathcliff (1984), Inspector Gadget, and countless others, so isn't uncommon for 80's and to an extent, 90's cartoons like Animaniacs and Batman: The Animated Series to have outsourced animation. Also, glad to have you back, Renee!
Rainbow Brite could be useful for another reboot as I really like the classic series and it's unique concept. And it was helped by TMS which explains the animesque nature of it. Though the 2010s reboot was a bit mixed as it only lasted a few episodes, it felt more of a movie than a TV series and that it was from another service. I would love to see them strike a deal for Wildbrain on a new BITBC-like comeback though it's still going well for Hallmark itself.
21:10 You should look into Galaxy High and its production history. Also you missed talking about the recent Rainbow Brite comic series, which was in more of the She-Ra direction you were looking for.
I feel like so much can be done with a Rainbow Brite reboot. You can turn it into a magical girl type show, I mean already it is a magical girl show but you get what I mean. There's a lot you can do with a show like this and it's a shame that its other recent attempts never got off the ground.
@@gwenmloveskpopandmore Or they should've made the show have the characters in a slice of life/drama vibe with some comedy. Kinda like Inanimate Insanity II or Clarence in a way.
@@gwenmloveskpopandmore Yeah. Not every cartoon needs to rely on villains all the time. Maybe bullies and jerks, but not much with villains. Just a reboot where the life in Rainbow Brite's world is a struggle.
Rainbow Brite had its heyday and I'm happy for that. That clip from the recent attempt to rebrand the show almost gave me an aneurysm. The terrible 'Tiktok speak' was painful. There can only be a good version in the future when the studio and heads start caring about quality.
I watched Rainbow Brite as a kid in the 90s. I feel like it as so much potential. Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, and My Little Pony all came back in their own way. I think Rainbow Brite deserves better.
These weren't episodes, it was a straight up movie. I remember seeing it in theaters. I also remember a large chunk of the first season of Gargoyles initially being released as a movie on a cable TV channel at least half a year before it was re-released as a TV series on The Disney Channel.
I kept really hoping they'd bring up the comic series by Dynamite because I was SO excited for that series to continue but it only got like 5 issues which was a crime but I'd still love for it to get more eyes on it because I think it was fun and creative
I remember Rainbow Brite a lot since my mom was an 80s who watched tv show and movie which she later bought for me and my sister in 2006 when we’re kids
Thank you for the retrospective! Rainbow Brite has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid renting the movie from the video store week after week. I loved it so much that I cosplayed as Moonglow. (it was not a GOOD cosplay, but still) Finding the dvd set a year or two ago brought me so much glee, as I hadn't even realized there were hard copies available for sale. I thought it was a forgotten IP. Anyways, so glad to see it getting some attention! And thank you so much for acknowledging the love put into it. There's just something really special about this series.
I really do believe that Rainbow Brite can make a comeback. It's just about finding the right person to do it. It can't be someone that simply views Rainbow Brite as a cheap money grab and call it a day. Only a legitimate fan that had lots of love for the OG series and characters would be able to pull such a feat off flawlessly. That's why My Little Pony:FIM succeeded where it's predecessors after the 80s version failed. Lauren Faust managed to not only recapture what made the original mlp so successful, but she expanded upon it too! It wasn't just a toy commercial for her. It was her baby. She had real love for the franchise, and I believe that's what Rainbow Brite needs for it's revival as well. It needs some love put into it.
A line of Rainbow Brite toys hit stores this year for the 40th anniversary. I was waiting for you to mention them 😂 TLS toys released a line of small plastic figures, posable fashion dolls, and plushes with the yarn hair and plastic face in two sizes. Theres a new repro of the yarn hair doll you mentioned with the 20th anniversary repro that gets mistaken for the original. Theres now another repro for the 40th that looks the same as both with a similar box as well.
I had no idea that Rainbow Brite was a franchise as a kid. However, I owned a Canary Yellow doll and I had a Rainbow Brite (or Regina Regenbogen, as she was called in Germany) audiobook that was one of my favourites. Only as a teenager did I learn it was a whole Thing.
21:10 All the time? Most american 80's cartoon's were made by Japanese studios. And animation is all about outsourcing, nothing is animated by just one studio
I had a Rainbow Brite doll as a kid. Bought all the VHS rentals when my Blockbuster closed as a teenager. Bought the entire series on DVD as a 40 something year old. Got the comic trade for my birthday a couple years ago. Just saw a smaller doll at Walmart recently and plan on buying it soon.
we had Rainbow Brite and the star stealers on VHS and I played that darn this RAGGED as a kiddo. Genuinely whenever I hear the word "Diamonds" I am smacked with the core memory of the evil princess, same with whenever someone says "We've got work to do" that banger of a song from the beginning plays in my head and I can't help it. I wish that Rainbow Brite could get the love it deserves and needs, but I have little faith in children's media these days.
Having only watched the original as an adult, I was immediately struck by two things. First, twink... yeah it really is weird to hear him say that. Second, it's very colonial how the kids (outsiders) come to Rainbow Land, basically take over the place and then have the native inhabitants work in the mines. That's right, don't forget that those color sprinkles don't just come out of nowhere... the sprites have to do back breaking labor to mine them for their rainbow overlords.
I had to watch that 85' movie when I was like 7, and as a boy who only liked boy things I mentally latched on to the cool ass robot horse. Watching this recap gave me mild whiplash
Not sure if it I'm remembering the right show, but i remember the horse saying something along the lines of "I'm the most magnificent horse of all!" Like more than once, and it both annoyed and cracked me up lol
I feel like i seen Rainbow Bright before, then again, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake, and Lisa Frank's art gives the same vibe (also the movie "the last unicorn" sorta). Little girl movies, shows, and art that responsible for existence of rainbows. Also the gays, can't forget them.
Back in the 2000s I had a lot of like school supplies and stickers of her but thats as much as I saw of her as a kid. I was still obsessed tho lol. I think all the brands you mentioned just had that hyper feminine fantastical camp that really made the 80s and 90s so iconic and nostalgic.
It's a little sad to me Stranger Things didn't include Rainbow Brite. I can't recall who has the baby sister, but she could have had a Color Kid or Sprites plushie since the show was brand new around that time. Heck, dude. Give us a neighbor kid dressed as Rainbow Brite on Halloween! 💖🌈 Rainbow Brite debuted in 1984 & the series starts in 1983. I can always dream...
I love your little fox face!! But Yes!! I was a kid when the Star Stealer movie came out and that’s what made me a Huge Fan of the series afterwords. As a kid I didn’t see many shows that had black characters (I’m mixed) so when Indigo was introduced I Went Wild for the Show. A Black Girl!! And She Wore My Favorite Color?! I was locked for Life as a Raindow Brite fan.
I was so obsessed with the movie as a kid, I didn’t even know all this existed tbh! I stole my sister’s pillow when I was a toddler watching the movie repeatedly and it became my classic “baby blanket/lovey” because rainbow brite awakened me to loving rainbows for my whole life
rainbow brite was one of my absolute favorite things as a little kid. i had a figure thing (it was really tall and flocked so i don’t really know if “figure” describes it well but meh) of starlite that i absolutely adored. my mom, who was a big fan when she was a kid in the 80s, was the one who introduced it to my sister and i, specifically the movie, and i remember being kinda awestruck by it. from a modern perspective, it’s very of it’s time, and the whole story is super simple and definitely follows the typical formula for 80s kids movies, but it’s honestly just so much fun. as an aside, looking back, the dark princess was absolutely one of my first experiences of gender envy. i thought she was so pretty and cool, and i just really wanted to be her. the same thing would happen a couple years later with terra from teen titans and azula from avatar
Everytime I hear about Rainbow Brite, all I can think about (aside from me watching the movie all the time as a child) is this one artist on TikTok actually contacting the company that currently owns Rainbow Brite and it was basically her being like, "Hey, I have some good ideas for a Rainbow Brite comic and I would love to work with you guys". Like, this email literally had possible plot points, concept art of the characters, everything you could want for a pitch! And what did they send back? "Sorry but we got everything we need for Rainbow Brite". Yeah, especially after 2 failed reboots,,,
@@LikaLaruku Maybe the response was a polite, "Yeah, we're done with Rainbow Brite." If that's the case, then just sell the I.P to someone who's willing to do something with it. It's a problem I have with video game developers. Like, Ubisoft doesn't really care about Rayman anymore, so just sell him to someone who actually wants to do something with him.
From what I remember, the show had some interesting character redesigns; Hallmark's greatest mistake here was being too greedy and not letting any episodes get posted for free. That and letting people think they were trying to compete with Hasbro, which drove the Brownies into a frenzy and sent them on a worldwide campaign to cancel the show. I really wish someone in the RB fandom had mustered up the courage to tell those bloated incels to GFY. Not that all Brownies are like that, I'm just tired of the ones who think they're an aficionado on everything.
There was a Rainbow Brite reboot? I was completely obsessed with the show when I was little. I'm actually surprised I never wore out the tape for the movie. Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealers. As an adult I still think it is a fun, well written show. 8:37 "We have Brian. And they feel so bad for puking skittles onto him..." I nearly died laughing!🤣
If princess peach can get a proper game that shows her true colors and allows her to shine in the spotlight, rainbow Brite can get a better reboot, just needs the right attention
Seeing the Dark Princess from Rainbow Bright and the Star Stealer shook a memory free. I remember her so vividly but barely anything else from the movie. I absolutely loved Rainbow Bright when I was a tiny me.
I pray one day, we get a proper reboot of this show in the style of Genndy Tartakovsky's works or Studio Ghibli. Also, glad I'm not the only one who remembers the movie, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
For a long time I thought Rainbow Brite was something I'd imagined because it just vanished. I distinctly remember a commercial for a glow in the dark doll or figure.
If you ever get around to it, I would honestly be so happy if you did an episode on "Serendipity the Pink Dragon" which is an old '80s Japanese anime that got turned into an English dub movie and you can find it on RUclips I burnt out my tape throughout childhood
DUDE! We finally have received the long awaited review of Rainbow Brite! You have no idea how hyped I was when he finally talked about on what I consider as Hallmark's most mistreated franchise next to Hoops and Yoyo.
I remember renting this cartoon on vhs when I was younger, was really weak for anything that sparkled in cartoons. It was only one vhs, I don't know if this was really popular in Norway.
i remember watching bits and pieces of the Raindow Brite show, but what i really remember was the 2004 doll and a book i had that i made my dad read to me more than once.😂
OmgThat last reboot. When you brought up them making RB's personality "Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie being mashed together" was a perfect description. But the dregs of ponies affecting this reboot didn't stop there. The villainess of the show felt very very Nightmare Moon, and the way they defeated her felt... just so... disappointing... like I think they *might* have wiped her memories but that was never made clear, but once they did what they did, she was now an angsty kid hating no fun restrictive librarian in the school? Like... why? I ... guess that's one way to solve the problem? But it felt so... bleh... Then there was the animation, the way that Brian was horribly esakai'd into the world with NO explaining, and the whole general tone and feel... I salute you for subjecting yourself to this stuff for the good of us all, and for the very ... uhm.. something... _totally not snuggle-able cartoon mouse-satyr AV_ That looks awesome.
As someone that grew up with Rainbow Brite, I agree with everything you said. To remake the series and make it popular, they need to follow the original formula. They need to look at what modern kids want, not just modern girls, and most importantly, they need to care.
I loved Rainbow Brite in the 80's and still do! I really loved the dolls and the animation. In fact I was given a original doll by my best friend recently. I treasure it. I wish they would reissue all the dolls. That would make me so happy!
I was also really impressed by the animation, had no idea it was TMS!! I used to see the trailer for the movie as a kid because I had some casettes of old kid's shows and I always felt so fascinated by it and still remembered the title to this day... and yep, 100% horse girl, I rode horses wherever I could (they often allow you ride a horse at the zoo [I guess our equivalent of a petting zoo] and around some amusement parks, etc., I also loved drawing horses and could draw them better than human beings (I had no interest in drawing human characters until I got obsessed with... Team Rocket, ironically getting into Pokemon for the human characters), the musical part feels fun for kids, fff. Also, yeaaah, explaining things to the princess probably seemed like a good idea to Rainbow Brite because she's... a little kid. She might've been too naive! That second reboot hurts my eyes. Ew... so, now it's just. Girls fighting over a guy effectively??? It doesn't have heart, like you said.
I recently rewatched the original show's first episode (I used to watch the series religiously as a kid) and it was DARK I was surprised by how dark it was, even for an older cartoon
I was born in 1988, so I'm used to this '96 dolls' kind of design. Her face feels Anime inspired. She's just a cutie to me. A fan recreation of this doll would be nice to have. Her striped undershirt is endearing.
I only learned about the comic after it had already been cancelled. I wish it had continued, it was an interesting take on a new alternate universe. Willow being foreshadowed to become this world's Stormy shocked me -- I thought she might be 1996's Sparkle Brite rescued from the trash pile that was the 1996 version! (While her being Stormy is way better, I want to see Sparkle Brite in something new now too. Guess there's always fanfiction...)
Oh man, I remember checking out Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealers and the VHS of the first couple episodes of the series, repeatedly from my local library as a kid in the 90's/early 2000's. I absolutely adored it, and I wish Rainbow Brite could get a better reboot that actually embraces its roots. And also an explanation for where the heck Tickled Pink came from.
Found the original was animated by TMS. Same people who later animated some episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs (The best animated episodes, that is. Google up Animaniacs TMS) , and also Cybersix animated show. So, technically, the animation is Semi-Anime.
You continue to surprise me with these awesome videos of things I used to love but forgot about. Keep up the great content, love your channel and your personality
I'm watching this a second time and just now realizing you're wearing a keyblade. I know I'm wrong, but it'd be funny if that were an easter egg for you one day covering kingdom hearts and it's failed animated series concept.
I remember when rainbow Brite was trying to make a comeback with Emily osment. I think that rainbow brite just wasn’t as popular like strawberry shortcake or my little pony to make a comeback. Maybe your video could be about Jem and the holograms
I had a very anxious day today. When I got off work I just clicked on a video. When I heard your voice I felt at peace…. Thank you for the content that helps put my mind at ease.
Great Grandma didn't have those lil hummels, but the women around me when I was young LOVED Precious Moments. I always hated them. They're yucky & creepy. I'm so glad they're extinct now. Seeing a younger person such as yourself talk about Rainbow Brite makes me feel very happy. Thank you for teaching us more about her & the Color Kids.
My mom had the VHS tapes of the first couple episodes and I would watch them over and over again. Other kids my age didn’t really get into her cause she wasn’t really popular at the time when I was a kid. But I adored her, I hope the IP is put into good hands one of these days.
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Look these reboots don't care but we have animaniacs 2020, Ducktales 2017, the new Mickey mouse shorts from 2016, and there much better than the rainbow bridge reboot, I guess yacko wacko and dot are right, reboot have lack of personality of Hollywood
Rainbow Brite has SO MUCH potential for a successful reboot. You've got a (literally) colorful cast, an interesting fantasy world, and a smart, fun, courageous main character. It just needs a good team and good resources to craft a new generation. It worked for My Little Pony, Duck Tales, and She-Ra.
You would think Rainbow Brite would be very easy to reboot considering she's part of the magical girl genre. Even her 80s design would still very much work for today's audience since it's the most iconic.
I can easily imagine Rainbow Brite becoming the next Friendship is Magic. A show that can be enjoyed by everyone. It just needs a good team who cares about the original.
And yet they messed up. TWICE. and did it SO bad most people don't even know they happened...😵💫
They should make as a magical girl show
@@princessCashelexactly they just need a good marketing strategy
I do miss this aesthetic and tone the 80's girly show's had, which had these sugary colorful heroines and overly cute creatures battle fairly grim monsters against dark skies and rocky terrain in high-stakes conflicts, until the protagonists won and everything returned to sugar-land till the next episodes.
im too young to have seen a lot of these shows when they came out but i still feel nostalgic for 80s animated asthetic, especially girls shows. Different style to this but Jem is one show that always pops to mind with 80s cartoon aesthetic.
My little pony had a villain who had their beating heart in a bag. Old kids shows were hardcore.
New kids shows can be pretty hardcore too, though. Owl house has a building with a massive beating heart in it.
@@genericname2747 Old shows got away with a lot by just...not acknowledging the horror of what was going on and everyone laughing at the end. There's an episode of G1 MLP where the unicorns are being picked off like a serial killer movie, which freaked the hell out of little me.
I do think modern animated kids shows can get a bit darker though, with more ptsd and charcters losing limbs and body parts. It helps that things don't have to reset every episode these days. That said I do miss the visual grit that came with Cel Animation.
Centaur World was really interesting, I will say that.
@@brighteyes6585 Centaur World perfectly captures the 80s kid show vibe
The reason why villains are too incompetent to succeed is because it makes them less threatening and less scary to kids. That in turn keeps the censors off your back
Evil Con Carne.
@@kootunesscrewy I think the first time I saw it was with GI Joe. At least as a way to evade censorship
@@kootunesscrewy
Evil with meat.
@@kootunesscrewyEvil con carne asada
Rainbow Brite and Twink Sprite sounds like a cute drag duo
You do have a point but in legal part I dont belive some drag queens can choose those names
Rainbow Sprite and Twink Brite
Should be still on the table
It sounds like a sponge brand
@@Yammerzaki123fr they really do lol
@@Justmyselfyt all you would have to do is spell "bright" correctly
i was done dirty: my first exposure to rainbow bright was.......Robot Chicken
I first became aware of Rainbow Brite after Nostalgia Critic talked about it while he was talking about MLP: FiM (another show I had been into at the time; IIRC, this was not long after FiM had ended). I went and looked into Rainbow Brite, and noted that the 80s cartoon was well done and enjoyable.
Though, not old enough to have watched it when it was new (childhood shows for me were mostly things like ReBoot and similar).
That's pretty bad! I was unfortunate enough to first hear about Rainbow Brite from a homophobic meme on Facebook that circled around recently.
Same bruh😂
@StoopidBlob445 that was the second one I saw…..the first one was where rainbow brite killed off the two main villains and then covered it up as them going on a spiral journey (“PS, Blinky came with us”)
@@justinchannel128 I feel so sorry for you. Robot Chicken shouldn't be anyone's first exposure to anything.
As a grown-ass man, I still think Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealers is a pretty good kid's movie. The stakes are clear and high, RB is brave, the robot horse is cool, and the deservedly evil villain has a great exit! (Crys sucked tho, ngl)
**Crys
Also Skydancer and On-X are pretty badass
I loved this movie so much as a kid (just look at my screenname if you don't believe me, lol) and think it still holds up pretty well. I'd give so much to see someone cosplaying as the Dark Princess at a convention; I've always really loved her glam-rock, David Bowie-inspired design.
As a grown man who just discovered what Rainbow Brite is last week, I totally agree with you.
It's probably one of the first 5 movies I ever saw in theaters, so I'm biased in it's favor. lol
@@Spectra651 You know what. I never really thought about it before, but... I kinda want to cosplay her now! 😅
Honestly, the best way to make a Rainbow Brite reboot is to just go back to the 80's show and take those first two rushed episodes and stretch them out and just make them characters that's all you really need!
A better art style wouldn't hurt. I could feel the cheapness in that reboot design.
Having watched it as an adult for the first time, I feel like those two episodes weren't rushed so much as they just didn't really make a lot of sense. It felt more like they were just throwing darts at an idea board. Also, as far as I remember and doing some quick checking online... I don't think the origin of rainbow brite was the first two episodes. For some insane reason that two part origin story is thrown into the middle of the series. They literally aired several episodes first and then was like "For no real reason, here how it begins."
The first 2 episodes were literally called the beginning of rainbow land.
"You will pay for tricking me into that bottle!"
"Can't you take a joke?"
I laughed when I realized it's Peter Cullen, aka, Optimus Prime, talking to himself. LOL
I love you're analysis of why girl cartoons are so much more childish, because as a little girls that's exactly how I felt. I knew I would grow up so I wanted to enjoy where I was then. Most of the girls I knew were egar to grow up though. Well that is until they suddenly realised they were going to move up to the next school, then they started crying about their lost childhood and couldn't understand why I was OK with it lol (I was mercilessly bullied by kids and teachers at that school, I wonder why I wasn't sad to leave)
Am sorry what happened to you. ☹️💔😔.
I will say that girls are pressured to grow up so they probably didn't WANT to of their own volition like that.
Girls tend to be sexualized more and subjected to parentification.
So I see it as you were the lucky one in that regard, you got to hang on to your childhood longer and that was NEVER a bad thing you should have been made to feel bad about.
Ooh man, that series was one of my absolute favorites as a kid. Also the My Little Pony movie where ponies got kidnapped and forcibly transformed into dragons. That was an era where kids movies weren't afraid to go dark, something I honestly think has been missing in children's media for far too long now. Like you said, kids are smart, and having some darkness, some danger, some real challenge, is something most of them not only can handle but genuinely benefit from seeing. We learn to feel big emotions from stories so that when we face them in the real world we are prepared.
I'd love to see Rainbow Bright get the She-Ra treatment, it would fit so well! Or any version that explores the really cool world building the original set up.
Oh man...the original My Little Pony pilot movie. I remember that one scared the hell out of me as a kid, and yet I can recall renting it repeatedly from the local video place...you know it's bad when the villain that terrorized the ponies is in fact just the minion who's actually terrified his boss is going to hurt his little dragon friend to keep him in line! This stuff was my childhood, but man, looking back, it strikes me that kids cartoons (and weirdly, girls' cartoons in particular!) were pretty dang scary at times. Monsters everywhere, villains that could turn _into_ monsters...even with all the candy-colored ponies and little girls with magic rainbows, there was some dark stuff going on.
Back then children's programming respected the intelligence of their target demographic. This is especially apparent in 1980's (pre-Elmo) Sesame Street compared to more recent years Sesame Street. Watch the original C is for Cookie compared to the modernized version. You'll see the difference. The modern version is smacking viewers in the face with the letter C. Kids today (especially young girls) have the better clothes and stuff, but their TV shows are horseshit!
I feel like it was somewhere in the 90s between all the straight-to-video Disney sequels and talking dog movies that people in charge of children's entertainment adopted an attitude of "Who gives a crap? It's for kids! They'll watch anything!" Then they abolished Saturday morning kids shows...The Weird Al Show only lasted one season due to this shift in Saturday morning TV.
It wasn't just TV... Labyrinth with David Bowie and the Jim Henson creations...omg they would never make anything like that these days! They couldn't even do it justice if they tried! I'm sure the same could be said of The Dark Crystal as well. And what was that creepy Oz movie with a very young Fairuza Balk?
...though I will say the Super Mario movie was way better than the Mario shows we got as kids 😅
@@gypsywoman9140 Weird thing is, the 90s was also the era of wacky, sometimes really disturbed stuff like Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, and the like. It just happened that it was also during the whole Clinton-era push for education in entertainment, which meant that kids shows had to have some specific amount of educational material per episode, which did serve to de-fang a lot of stuff.
Also, let's face it...any attempts to do things like Labyrinth or Dark Crystal nowadays would be ruined strictly for the massive amounts of CGI that it would involve instead of creative uses of puppets and animatronics, and all of the other things done with practical effects. Not even just the way that (given that Disney owns Henson Studios, last I recall) they would dumb it down/remove the scary...it's removing 99.9% of the practical effects in favor of just slapping a digital cartoon in place of a puppet, or a CGI effect where a real person once did something.
I don't remember a movie where the ponies were turned into dragons. But I do remember the one with the 3 witches & The Smooze.
I feel like Care Bears needs to be thrown into this mix.
@@LikaLaruku It was the pilot for what became the first TV series. It's also the place where the character of Tirek first showed up, having his servant, Skorpan, kidnap ponies to transform into dragons to pull his chariot, using what he called "the Rainbow of Darkness," for all that it was literally a wave of possibly sentient dark energy he kept in a pouch that constantly twitched and made unpleasant hissing, gurgling noises. Unsurprisingly, the tool to combat him was for the ponies and their new human friend to find a magic artifact called "the Rainbow of Light," which was in fact an actual rainbow.
I agree about Care Bears...the Care Bears movie was kinda freaky. Also, there's something really unnerving about having the evil menace spend most of his time in the film as a kind of mischievous-looking but otherwise harmless-looking boy, but also be a malevolent cloud-with-glowing-eyes. Like, how do these two things even begin to be parts of the same whole?
rainbow brite had a really fun comic adaptation (that is fairly recent) but it got cancelled ): it was the only modern adaptation ive seen of it that held some semblance of its predecessor behind it
I hate that these awesome comics and the stories in them keep getting canceled. Frickin' Ghostbusters, Sonic, Rainbow Brite... there should be some kind of government subsidies for GOOD STORIES as opposed to all the hollywood write-offs for mediocre sludge.
This was one of my favourite shows when I was like 5. As someone who never really enjoyed older animated shows, I didn't even realise this was animated like 25 years before I watched it. Really does show they cared about making it good. I can remember having my own of the dolls as well.
Edit: The 2009 show is a lot closer to my time and somehow I never saw it or purged it from my memory
i was 7 in 1993 when it was aired in Hungary and i loved it, it deserves a better 20th anniversary reboot
My nanny had a Rainbow Brite book and I remember loving the illustrations ! the chara designs were so good !!
To think my very first "magical girl" would have THIS BIG OF AN ICEBERG!
Thank you for making yet another video revisiting my childhood and many others!
Short Story: I used to LOVE Rainbow Brite as a little, so much so that for my 13th Birthday, my parents got me a Rainbow Brite Doll, and I'm keeping it for my future children so I can share my love for this character!
I watched "Everyone Falls to their Doom: The Movie", got hooked by the whole planet sized diamond thing and never heard about it again... so thanks for the memories!
I grew up with this show and loved it as a kid, and I still enjoy rewatching the movie.
I feel the need to mention that there was one other attempt to reboot Rainbow Brite and it was in a comic written by Jeremy Whitley. It was unfortunately discontinued, but was probably the best attempt version out of the reboots.
I got the movie in 1993 from my granddad, as well as the 80s doll. I vividly remember the iridescent skirt, and I remember loving the movie. The movie probably explains why I'm so obsessed with colours now as an adult.
I was born just after Rainbow Brite’s heyday, but I was still able to rent videos of her show and the movie, and my third grandmother had one of the original dolls as well as the Taco Bell Twink doll for me to play with, and a couple of coloring books for the series. I loved Rainbow Brite almost as much as My Little Pony and the TMNT as a kid, and it’s one of the classic 80’s shows that I dearly wish could get a thoughtful overhaul from people who love and respect both the franchise and the meaning behind it. MLP and TMNT have both had that opportunity and made the most of it, and it’s RB’s turn. She needs a creative team who “get it,” not just some soulless rehash like what happened to Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, Thundercats, and Jem and the Holograms (on that note, NO LIVE ACTION TEENTASTIC MOVIES!!!). I agree that there’s a lot of potential in this franchise, and I’d love to see it realized. 🎶Rainbow Brite, see the shining light, yes it’s time for Rainbow Brite-i-i-ite!🎶
I didn't grow up with Rainbow Brite. I've only heard about it recently, but I've already fallen in love with the show. She deserves a proper reboot like My Little Pony and the Ninja Turtles. By the way, I feel like Jem and the Holograms fans got it the worst. At least with Strawberry Shortcake and the Care Bears, I could tell what those shows were supposed to be, and they felt like they had some connection to the franchise. The only thing the Jem and the Holograms reboot has in common with the original show is the name.
Made by the same animation studio that brought us Inspector Gadget & Lupin III.
That Orin kid from the 2nd movie sure does look like Mega Man... Never noticed that before.
i only learned about rainbow brite in the last year or two but i LOVE the concept of her and her world and it surprises and makes me happy that hallmark put all that work and research into making it successful, wisps design; like the original 80s one is so good and i hate that so many companies kinda just try to use her as a cash cow, she and her world were a labor of love and its just gonna keep failing because all these companies think kids are stupid and only care about pretty bright colors and trends
Like Strawberry Shortcake, even though I was a 90's kid, I grew up a lot with these 80's shows because I had an older cousin who introduced me to them. The reboots/remakes always end up not being as good as the original, which is true to most things. Would you ever do a video on Jem and the Holograms? It was a HUGE 80's tv show and toy line. It came back in the later 00's as a comic.
OMG YES, I absolutely adored Jem and the Holograms as a little girl!!!
Hi. Rainbow Brite Historian here! I appreciate your enthusiasm but I’m thinking you missed a lot. Sometimes it is a “you have to be there” kind of situation. Also, it was animated by DIC who outsourced their animation to Japan because it was cheaper.
There are plenty more I could correct but I won’t. On @BriteCast we went over every episode in order and the movie.
This wasn't the only DiC series that was outsourced to TMS, you also had Heathcliff (1984), Inspector Gadget, and countless others, so isn't uncommon for 80's and to an extent, 90's cartoons like Animaniacs and Batman: The Animated Series to have outsourced animation.
Also, glad to have you back, Renee!
@@pennysanchez7656 TMS also worked on Real Ghostbusters.
Rainbow Brite could be useful for another reboot as I really like the classic series and it's unique concept. And it was helped by TMS which explains the animesque nature of it. Though the 2010s reboot was a bit mixed as it only lasted a few episodes, it felt more of a movie than a TV series and that it was from another service. I would love to see them strike a deal for Wildbrain on a new BITBC-like comeback though it's still going well for Hallmark itself.
Oh may gah it's kawaiilifeanioanitoon :O
21:10 You should look into Galaxy High and its production history.
Also you missed talking about the recent Rainbow Brite comic series, which was in more of the She-Ra direction you were looking for.
Yessss! The comic’s artstyle reminds me of the Owl House
Galaxy High School is still watchable to this day. It is very 80s but enjoyable.
I feel like so much can be done with a Rainbow Brite reboot. You can turn it into a magical girl type show, I mean already it is a magical girl show but you get what I mean.
There's a lot you can do with a show like this and it's a shame that its other recent attempts never got off the ground.
I like the 2014 reboot, tbh. But that 2009 one I just saw... kinda sucked.
@@kootunesscrewyI think it could’ve been good I mean having her as a teen/young adult
@@gwenmloveskpopandmore Or they should've made the show have the characters in a slice of life/drama vibe with some comedy. Kinda like Inanimate Insanity II or Clarence in a way.
@@kootunesscrewy yeah that too
@@gwenmloveskpopandmore Yeah. Not every cartoon needs to rely on villains all the time.
Maybe bullies and jerks, but not much with villains. Just a reboot where the life in Rainbow Brite's world is a struggle.
This made me remember another old similar cartoon - Lady Lovely Locks
5:54 Ay yo! Don't be disrespecting my man Snarf! Boyo rode a giant bat and spider into battle, like he was on the cover of a metal album.
At least Snarf did SOMETHING useful for the plot.
Rainbow Brite had its heyday and I'm happy for that. That clip from the recent attempt to rebrand the show almost gave me an aneurysm. The terrible 'Tiktok speak' was painful. There can only be a good version in the future when the studio and heads start caring about quality.
That attempt was actually before TikTok existed
I watched Rainbow Brite as a kid in the 90s. I feel like it as so much potential. Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, and My Little Pony all came back in their own way. I think Rainbow Brite deserves better.
These weren't episodes, it was a straight up movie. I remember seeing it in theaters.
I also remember a large chunk of the first season of Gargoyles initially being released as a movie on a cable TV channel at least half a year before it was re-released as a TV series on The Disney Channel.
I kept really hoping they'd bring up the comic series by Dynamite because I was SO excited for that series to continue but it only got like 5 issues which was a crime but I'd still love for it to get more eyes on it because I think it was fun and creative
I remember Rainbow Brite a lot since my mom was an 80s who watched tv show and movie which she later bought for me and my sister in 2006 when we’re kids
Thank you for the retrospective! Rainbow Brite has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid renting the movie from the video store week after week. I loved it so much that I cosplayed as Moonglow. (it was not a GOOD cosplay, but still) Finding the dvd set a year or two ago brought me so much glee, as I hadn't even realized there were hard copies available for sale. I thought it was a forgotten IP.
Anyways, so glad to see it getting some attention! And thank you so much for acknowledging the love put into it. There's just something really special about this series.
I really do believe that Rainbow Brite can make a comeback. It's just about finding the right person to do it. It can't be someone that simply views Rainbow Brite as a cheap money grab and call it a day. Only a legitimate fan that had lots of love for the OG series and characters would be able to pull such a feat off flawlessly. That's why My Little Pony:FIM succeeded where it's predecessors after the 80s version failed. Lauren Faust managed to not only recapture what made the original mlp so successful, but she expanded upon it too! It wasn't just a toy commercial for her. It was her baby. She had real love for the franchise, and I believe that's what Rainbow Brite needs for it's revival as well. It needs some love put into it.
New Rainbow Brite feels like Star vs the forces of evil
But not as good.
I was thinking the same thing.
A line of Rainbow Brite toys hit stores this year for the 40th anniversary. I was waiting for you to mention them 😂 TLS toys released a line of small plastic figures, posable fashion dolls, and plushes with the yarn hair and plastic face in two sizes. Theres a new repro of the yarn hair doll you mentioned with the 20th anniversary repro that gets mistaken for the original. Theres now another repro for the 40th that looks the same as both with a similar box as well.
the reboot legit just turned her into star from the star verses the forces of evil but with the modern strawberry shortcake type art style changes
i love that he dosen't expect us to know what the f*ck he's talking about and instead goes over the history of Rainbow Brite
2:27 I’m so excited! That image is from my listing on eBay - the 2004 talking one! ❤❤ This made my day 😄😄 Love your videos!!
I had no idea that Rainbow Brite was a franchise as a kid. However, I owned a Canary Yellow doll and I had a Rainbow Brite (or Regina Regenbogen, as she was called in Germany) audiobook that was one of my favourites. Only as a teenager did I learn it was a whole Thing.
21:10 All the time? Most american 80's cartoon's were made by Japanese studios. And animation is all about outsourcing, nothing is animated by just one studio
I had a Rainbow Brite doll as a kid. Bought all the VHS rentals when my Blockbuster closed as a teenager. Bought the entire series on DVD as a 40 something year old. Got the comic trade for my birthday a couple years ago. Just saw a smaller doll at Walmart recently and plan on buying it soon.
we had Rainbow Brite and the star stealers on VHS and I played that darn this RAGGED as a kiddo. Genuinely whenever I hear the word "Diamonds" I am smacked with the core memory of the evil princess, same with whenever someone says "We've got work to do" that banger of a song from the beginning plays in my head and I can't help it. I wish that Rainbow Brite could get the love it deserves and needs, but I have little faith in children's media these days.
Having only watched the original as an adult, I was immediately struck by two things. First, twink... yeah it really is weird to hear him say that. Second, it's very colonial how the kids (outsiders) come to Rainbow Land, basically take over the place and then have the native inhabitants work in the mines. That's right, don't forget that those color sprinkles don't just come out of nowhere... the sprites have to do back breaking labor to mine them for their rainbow overlords.
I’m like 90% sure I had a plush of the fluffy brown guy with the squidward nose as a kid
I had to watch that 85' movie when I was like 7, and as a boy who only liked boy things I mentally latched on to the cool ass robot horse. Watching this recap gave me mild whiplash
Not sure if it I'm remembering the right show, but i remember the horse saying something along the lines of "I'm the most magnificent horse of all!" Like more than once, and it both annoyed and cracked me up lol
Yep Starlite said this A LOT IN THE SHOW! 😭
I feel like i seen Rainbow Bright before, then again, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake, and Lisa Frank's art gives the same vibe (also the movie "the last unicorn" sorta).
Little girl movies, shows, and art that responsible for existence of rainbows. Also the gays, can't forget them.
Back in the 2000s I had a lot of like school supplies and stickers of her but thats as much as I saw of her as a kid. I was still obsessed tho lol. I think all the brands you mentioned just had that hyper feminine fantastical camp that really made the 80s and 90s so iconic and nostalgic.
@@Aros4 Yeah they do. I miss some of it, since when i got older the toys and school supplies got given away or for garage sale.
I was reminded of rainbowbrite cause of robot chicken.
Funnily enough, I’d never heard of Rainbowbrite until that Robot Chicken sketch.
I saw it in that one Family Guy scene which honestly gave me dread as kid😂
Same
Yeah me too. @@mrmoonboi9534
Really? 😮 wow
No mention of the live action movie where RB goes to the zoo. “🎵🎶It’s a perfect day come on out and play”🎵🎶
Boy this unlocked core memories. I used to love this series as a kid but I forgot it to the point I thought these episodes were just movies.
It's a little sad to me Stranger Things didn't include Rainbow Brite. I can't recall who has the baby sister, but she could have had a Color Kid or Sprites plushie since the show was brand new around that time. Heck, dude. Give us a neighbor kid dressed as Rainbow Brite on Halloween! 💖🌈 Rainbow Brite debuted in 1984 & the series starts in 1983. I can always dream...
I love your little fox face!!
But Yes!! I was a kid when the Star Stealer movie came out and that’s what made me a Huge Fan of the series afterwords. As a kid I didn’t see many shows that had black characters (I’m mixed) so when Indigo was introduced I Went Wild for the Show. A Black Girl!! And She Wore My Favorite Color?! I was locked for Life as a Raindow Brite fan.
I was so obsessed with the movie as a kid, I didn’t even know all this existed tbh! I stole my sister’s pillow when I was a toddler watching the movie repeatedly and it became my classic “baby blanket/lovey” because rainbow brite awakened me to loving rainbows for my whole life
rainbow brite was one of my absolute favorite things as a little kid. i had a figure thing (it was really tall and flocked so i don’t really know if “figure” describes it well but meh) of starlite that i absolutely adored. my mom, who was a big fan when she was a kid in the 80s, was the one who introduced it to my sister and i, specifically the movie, and i remember being kinda awestruck by it. from a modern perspective, it’s very of it’s time, and the whole story is super simple and definitely follows the typical formula for 80s kids movies, but it’s honestly just so much fun.
as an aside, looking back, the dark princess was absolutely one of my first experiences of gender envy. i thought she was so pretty and cool, and i just really wanted to be her. the same thing would happen a couple years later with terra from teen titans and azula from avatar
A franchise not brought up a lot nowadays
My dad absolutely LOVES Rainbow Brite, and him and i watched it a lot when i was a tiny little toddler
Everytime I hear about Rainbow Brite, all I can think about (aside from me watching the movie all the time as a child) is this one artist on TikTok actually contacting the company that currently owns Rainbow Brite and it was basically her being like, "Hey, I have some good ideas for a Rainbow Brite comic and I would love to work with you guys". Like, this email literally had possible plot points, concept art of the characters, everything you could want for a pitch!
And what did they send back? "Sorry but we got everything we need for Rainbow Brite". Yeah, especially after 2 failed reboots,,,
Oof….. 😂
Yeah, you're making millions upon millions with Rainbow Brite, with all that merchandise she doesn't have.
The response was basically a polite "Don't tell me how to raise my kids."
@@LikaLaruku Maybe the response was a polite, "Yeah, we're done with Rainbow Brite." If that's the case, then just sell the I.P to someone who's willing to do something with it. It's a problem I have with video game developers. Like, Ubisoft doesn't really care about Rayman anymore, so just sell him to someone who actually wants to do something with him.
It was rejected because they legally cannot accept unsolicited ideas.
From what I remember, the show had some interesting character redesigns; Hallmark's greatest mistake here was being too greedy and not letting any episodes get posted for free. That and letting people think they were trying to compete with Hasbro, which drove the Brownies into a frenzy and sent them on a worldwide campaign to cancel the show. I really wish someone in the RB fandom had mustered up the courage to tell those bloated incels to GFY. Not that all Brownies are like that, I'm just tired of the ones who think they're an aficionado on everything.
Bronies, fsck autocorrect
Love it when you show me something I didn't realize I wanted to know more about
There was a Rainbow Brite reboot? I was completely obsessed with the show when I was little. I'm actually surprised I never wore out the tape for the movie. Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealers. As an adult I still think it is a fun, well written show.
8:37 "We have Brian. And they feel so bad for puking skittles onto him..." I nearly died laughing!🤣
If princess peach can get a proper game that shows her true colors and allows her to shine in the spotlight, rainbow Brite can get a better reboot, just needs the right attention
Seeing the Dark Princess from Rainbow Bright and the Star Stealer shook a memory free. I remember her so vividly but barely anything else from the movie. I absolutely loved Rainbow Bright when I was a tiny me.
People who think kids are like dogs, are also the types of people who leave dogs in cages for 20 hours a day
I pray one day, we get a proper reboot of this show in the style of Genndy Tartakovsky's works or Studio Ghibli. Also, glad I'm not the only one who remembers the movie, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
13:35 that dog just popped into existence right in that lady’s living room
For a long time I thought Rainbow Brite was something I'd imagined because it just vanished. I distinctly remember a commercial for a glow in the dark doll or figure.
If you ever get around to it, I would honestly be so happy if you did an episode on "Serendipity the Pink Dragon" which is an old '80s Japanese anime that got turned into an English dub movie and you can find it on RUclips
I burnt out my tape throughout childhood
Serendipity was a childhood favorite of mine, as well! Still have the VHS!!
@@charlesbennett7484 I miss my pink vhs tape copy
DUDE! We finally have received the long awaited review of Rainbow Brite! You have no idea how hyped I was when he finally talked about on what I consider as Hallmark's most mistreated franchise next to Hoops and Yoyo.
Hoops and Yoyo! You just unlocked a flood of memories for me.
I remember renting this cartoon on vhs when I was younger, was really weak for anything that sparkled in cartoons. It was only one vhs, I don't know if this was really popular in Norway.
i remember watching bits and pieces of the Raindow Brite show, but what i really remember was the 2004 doll and a book i had that i made my dad read to me more than once.😂
OmgThat last reboot. When you brought up them making RB's personality "Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie being mashed together" was a perfect description. But the dregs of ponies affecting this reboot didn't stop there. The villainess of the show felt very very Nightmare Moon, and the way they defeated her felt... just so... disappointing... like I think they *might* have wiped her memories but that was never made clear, but once they did what they did, she was now an angsty kid hating no fun restrictive librarian in the school? Like... why? I ... guess that's one way to solve the problem? But it felt so... bleh...
Then there was the animation, the way that Brian was horribly esakai'd into the world with NO explaining, and the whole general tone and feel...
I salute you for subjecting yourself to this stuff for the good of us all, and for the very ... uhm.. something... _totally not snuggle-able cartoon mouse-satyr AV_ That looks awesome.
Here I thought everyone's first impression was Star Vs. the Forces of Evil!
@@BagOfMagicFood except Star had more interesting characters!
As someone that grew up with Rainbow Brite, I agree with everything you said. To remake the series and make it popular, they need to follow the original formula. They need to look at what modern kids want, not just modern girls, and most importantly, they need to care.
But what does "modern" want? I guess..smartphones? The horse with a portable navi? The safest is cleaner animation.
13:34 Did...did that dog just teleport into the shot?
I loved Rainbow Brite in the 80's and still do! I really loved the dolls and the animation. In fact I was given a original doll by my best friend recently. I treasure it. I wish they would reissue all the dolls. That would make me so happy!
I was also really impressed by the animation, had no idea it was TMS!! I used to see the trailer for the movie as a kid because I had some casettes of old kid's shows and I always felt so fascinated by it and still remembered the title to this day... and yep, 100% horse girl, I rode horses wherever I could (they often allow you ride a horse at the zoo [I guess our equivalent of a petting zoo] and around some amusement parks, etc., I also loved drawing horses and could draw them better than human beings (I had no interest in drawing human characters until I got obsessed with... Team Rocket, ironically getting into Pokemon for the human characters), the musical part feels fun for kids, fff. Also, yeaaah, explaining things to the princess probably seemed like a good idea to Rainbow Brite because she's... a little kid. She might've been too naive!
That second reboot hurts my eyes. Ew... so, now it's just. Girls fighting over a guy effectively??? It doesn't have heart, like you said.
I recently rewatched the original show's first episode (I used to watch the series religiously as a kid) and it was DARK I was surprised by how dark it was, even for an older cartoon
I was born in 1988, so I'm used to this '96 dolls' kind of design. Her face feels Anime inspired. She's just a cutie to me. A fan recreation of this doll would be nice to have. Her striped undershirt is endearing.
I only learned about the comic after it had already been cancelled. I wish it had continued, it was an interesting take on a new alternate universe. Willow being foreshadowed to become this world's Stormy shocked me -- I thought she might be 1996's Sparkle Brite rescued from the trash pile that was the 1996 version! (While her being Stormy is way better, I want to see Sparkle Brite in something new now too. Guess there's always fanfiction...)
Oh man, I remember checking out Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealers and the VHS of the first couple episodes of the series, repeatedly from my local library as a kid in the 90's/early 2000's. I absolutely adored it, and I wish Rainbow Brite could get a better reboot that actually embraces its roots. And also an explanation for where the heck Tickled Pink came from.
That was a perfect sponsor transition
Found the original was animated by TMS. Same people who later animated some episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs (The best animated episodes, that is. Google up Animaniacs TMS) , and also Cybersix animated show.
So, technically, the animation is Semi-Anime.
Woah I didnt know that cybersix was a tms animation.
And lupin the third :3
You continue to surprise me with these awesome videos of things I used to love but forgot about. Keep up the great content, love your channel and your personality
Funny enough, I've found a few Strawberry Shortcake and Rainbow Brite dolls in Walmart the other day.
I'm watching this a second time and just now realizing you're wearing a keyblade. I know I'm wrong, but it'd be funny if that were an easter egg for you one day covering kingdom hearts and it's failed animated series concept.
I remember when rainbow Brite was trying to make a comeback with Emily osment. I think that rainbow brite just wasn’t as popular like strawberry shortcake or my little pony to make a comeback. Maybe your video could be about Jem and the holograms
I remember seeing the cards and linking them, but didn't know about any of the shows.
I LOVED rainbow brite as a kid, and Twink was my favorite character- flash forward to now and... well
Cool profile pic !
2:42 baby alive doll eyes+toddler Disney princess body=this
Thank you thank you for doing a video on one of my favourite characters ever
SAME
Fun fact: Lurky (Murky's big brown furball sidekick) & the Sprites (like Twink) were the inspirations for Fuzzy Lumpkins from "The Powerpuff Girls."
no way i loved the movie so much when i was little and i still think about it to this day!! what a flashback 😭
I owned some things growing up of the og Rainbow Brite and sometimes caught it on tv. It was neat
I had a very anxious day today. When I got off work I just clicked on a video. When I heard your voice I felt at peace…. Thank you for the content that helps put my mind at ease.
Never even heard of this franchise until today.☠️
totally not influenced by Sailor Moon. I remember I used to get back at my older sister by hiding the horsey somewhere.
Great Grandma didn't have those lil hummels, but the women around me when I was young LOVED Precious Moments. I always hated them. They're yucky & creepy. I'm so glad they're extinct now. Seeing a younger person such as yourself talk about Rainbow Brite makes me feel very happy. Thank you for teaching us more about her & the Color Kids.
My mom had the VHS tapes of the first couple episodes and I would watch them over and over again. Other kids my age didn’t really get into her cause she wasn’t really popular at the time when I was a kid. But I adored her, I hope the IP is put into good hands one of these days.
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it’s giving Chronicles Of Narnia, Book 2, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe