Hi Color Kids.
If you haven’t heard yet, I wanted to
let you all know about the NEW Rainbow Brite Animated show! After 30
years our favorite color sparkler is back with an all new look and
fun adventures on Feeln. It's a video streaming services featuring family friendly programming.
The new trailer for the new Rainbow
Brite was released last week. And I have to admit I was afraid at
first. I was scared because I actually liked what I saw and I felt I
was betraying the first Rainbow by liking it. I love the original
Rainbow Brite. She has been a part of my life for decades and she
holds a special place in my heart. Several times in the past they
have tried to replace her for a new generation and it hasn't
worked. I have hopes for this new Rainbow.
In the beginning of the Trailer she is
hyper and joyful and her happiness is infectious!
They have kept her young and fun and I
think kids today will love her!
The new Rainbow is not mine, and I love
my Rainbow, but I am also loving this new one. I've thought about it
a lot since the release and I have concluded that I am not betraying
her, my childhood or my fandom! Those memories are safe in my heart.
There is a Rainbow in my heart, painted there decades ago, and it
can't be replaced. But I think the new generation deserves their own
Rainbow.
I know she is different, but kids today
are different. I don't expect them to be the same as I was growing
up. I was born in a time before the internet, and things are
different. I have nieces and nephews that are nothing like me when I
was a kid and I'm GLAD. I want them to be just as happy as I was if
not happier, and that means things change. But as things change that
doesn't mean we forget about the past.
This new Rainbow Brite show has shown
us several things from the original show, not continuing it, but
remaking it for a new generation. I see my Rainbow Brite in this new
show. So far we've seen a new color castle with color kids, sprites,
Starlite, Rainbow Brite and Brian! The Key to Rainbow Land, the pits,
etc.
In fact in a previous episode of the
Brite Cast I said: the new show needed to remember the original, and
needed to include things the old generation would like for it to be
successful. My exact words were “I'm hoping they will keep us in
mind, because it is our generation that is teaching the new
generation and if we don't like its not going to be shown.”
I DID NOT say that meant they had to
remake the original show in the same style. I think the new show has
included everything I had hoped they would. They are remembering us,
honoring us, and this makes me excited.
Yes, the new Rainbow Brite does speak
differently but kids today do speak differently. From “OMG” to
“SELFIES! The 80s slang things were awesome, rad, rude, and it made
that era fun.
History has a way of repeating itself.
For example when I was in High School I was wearing vintage clothing
my parents wore. When I go to the stores now I see the fashions I
used to wear when I was about 10 or 12 years old. I never thought I
would see the generation where my childhood would be repeated. But it
also reminded me how my parents may have felt about my generation
re-hashing theirs. Still its not a bad thing.
In relation to cartoons, there were
cartoons rebooted in my childhood, even your childhood that were
popular in decades before for us: For example: Let me bring up two of
the most popular characters in history.
Bugs Bunny:
Mickey Mouse:
Too large a comparison? Then lets look
at Garfield.
These are characters you love and have
a special place in your heart, but they didn't always look like you
remember them.
And that is just what makes a
generation. It doesn't erase the generation that came before, but in
enriches its history.
Rainbow Brite deserves another chance.
She has waited so long and I want to give her this chance, not for
me, but for every kid I know who I know will love this Rainbow.
The New Rainbow Brite airs online
November 6th 2014 on Feeln.com
Feeln offers streaming family friendly
programming for $4.99 a month or $47.99 a year.
You can also see more of the new
Rainbow Brite on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr. And of course Feeln.com
Also tune in to Brite Cast, theRainbow Brite Podcast featuring myself and Katy Cartee Haile of RainbowBrite.Net
Have a Rainbow Day!
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