#cartoon network hotel

[love-takes-work]

I got to go to the Cartoon Network Hotel a couple weeks ago when I was traveling. We did not stay there overnight but we got to eat in the Cartoon Kitchen and shop in the gift shop.

[Image: Cartoon Network Hotel front shot featuring Finn and Jake from Adventure time--Tumblr blogger love-takes-work standing in front with two Cartoon Network shopping bags]

During our visit, the restaurant was very limited in terms of food and none of it was themed like I'd heard from other visitors, but that was no big deal. The selection in the gift shop, while exciting because they have items there that you can't get anywhere else, was a little disappointing because in some cases I was only able to get, say, a Garnet cup and a Steven cup when I knew Amethyst and Pearl cups of the same style also exist. I'm both excited I could get what I got and frustrated that I don't know how I'll ever get a complete set if I ever can. (Maybe I should make some friends in Lancaster, Pennsylvania?)

[Image 1: Wall of Steven Universe merchandise at the CN Hotel. Image 2: Laid out merchandise bought by love-takes-work, featuring hats, a bag, a shirt and hoodie, travel cups, a mug, a ball, two sticker packs, a water ring toss game, a mint tin, a keychain, and a deck of playing cards.]

What was really cool, though, was the concept art of CN shows framed around the building! I had never seen some of these drawings.

[Image 1: Sketches and color art of the Temple. Image 2: Two framed We Bare Bears sketchy art pieces. Image 3: Various sketchy Steven Universe art, some on colored or white paper and sticky notes, featuring Steven running, Lion, Opal, different angels of Steven, and Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet. Image 4: A closer image of the Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet art on pinkish paper. Image 5: A closer image of sticky notes and shaded sketches of Steven in different poses.]

Even the BATHROOM had themed art! Yes I took photos. I couldn't not.

[Three images: a large black runner across the top of the CN Hotel bathroom featuring various simplistic drawings in white of characters and objects from CN shows]

It was really fun to see it in person and I wish I could go back to the gift shop to check periodically on whether they have merch I don't have in my collection!

Bye-bye, CN Hotel!

[Image: the Cartoon Network Hotel outdoor sign, photographed from our Uber]

[connorthevgfan78]

Got to stop by the Cartoon Network Hotel in Lancaster, PA earlier this week.

It was really cool to finally stop and look at it after passing by it multiple times in the past.

[areanoodles]

What If (Ever After High Idea)

Hear me out.... what if ever after high was a hotel? Like in real life. I've thought about it before and any ever after high fans who see this might like the idea.

I can see the characters dorm rooms being the hotel room. The cafeteria of the hotel will be the Castleteria, and the outside of the hotel would give off this ever after high theme. Kind of like how some channels have their own hotels(like the cartoon network hotel).

I just think a hotel being themed as ever after high would be very enchanting(pun intended). Maybe even a gift shop with ever after high merch(I just feel like key chains and maybe even shirts of the characters would sell along with the dolls.)

Anyways, I just wanna see what other people think. Do you think this would be a good idea? For any eah fans out there.

[askpinkietai]

Hey, peeps! You might've noticed it was my birthday a couple days ago! Today is when we actually went out to celebrate that. One reason for which is that my sister, who lives out of state, was also vacationing with her family at this time. She and they are staying at the new Cartoon Network Hotel, and since Cartoon Network and its programming are something near and dear to my heart (much like my sister), I decided to document a few bits of it that I could~

Now, if you've seen the Defunctland episode on the Nick Hotel, this is pretty similar to that in concept. (And if you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch!) Though technically this one is in reverse: It was a freestanding motel and building that got refurbished to add the Cartoon Network branding, while the Nick Hotel eventually un-branded and de-furbished down into a generic hotel. Still, kind of a ful place to stay! Here's the front entrance, with a cool Finn and Jake sculpture outside, along with the iconic CN logo~

Here's a couple of freebie items they had available. The main motel rooms are a separate building, with the exception of the main luxury suites, which are upstairs in the main building. Even with just a cartoony layout rather than an actual map, this is roughly how the main building was laid out. I also picked up that business card because Finn was on it~

Big lobby with blocky furniture, including that exact couch with the one stripey seat. To the left is the elevator that goes up to the second level, which has a big video display that shows various characters getting on and off the elevator. Past that is a We Bare Bears themed cafe, while all the way to the back (not depicted) is a larger cafeteria. On the right there's the store, which has some merch available (but not much). The Toon Room is basically a wide hallway with big artwork of various shows, and to the back right is a small Ben 10 themed arcade with some basic games and claw machines.

Places like this, though, it's all about the theming!

Outside the cafe, there's some framed art pieces from various shows. Naturally, I had to take a couple pics of those~

Here's the cafe's signage, as well as a couple of the retro-style games they had in here instead of the more modern ones they had in the Ben 10 area. I have a friend who'd really appreciate these, so I had to get a pic. On the left is Frogger, then a Pac-Man thing, and lastly a Scooby-Doo pinball table. You can also see some of the wall art that appears throughout the building.

There's the store. (There were some customers inside, so I didn't get any interior shots.) Mostly it's a lot of shirts and hats with various character logos (none in my size, either), some water bottles, magnets, and other stuff with the Cartoon Network Hotel logo, some plushies (mostly picked clean by the time I got there), and a smattering of Funko Pops. It was a little disappointing. They don't even have any DVDs or books from their various franchises for sale, which I think is a huge missed opportunity.

I also got a shot of one of the walls in the Toon Room, which I think is where the meet-and-greets happen as well. Since this was about the only Gumball thing I saw, I had to give it the respect it was due.

It is a luxury hotel, though, so there's a pool! There's two pools, in fact, an outdoor and an indoor one. Similar to the statuary out front, the kidie pool also has some cool sculptures of the Powerpuff Girls (in their 2016 reboot designs, but we'll forgive that). I couldn't not get a pic of them~

Lastly, this is an art piece inside my sister's actual room. Each room is themed for a different show, and naturally she went for an Adventure Time room. The rooms are pretty small, but each one has a twin bed for adults and a set of bunk beds for the kids. The bunk beds each even have their own TVs mounted at the ends, to facilitate more cartoon-watching. Pretty nice setup!

Now we're at the end! So here's the main complaint I have. Obviously, as someone who just turned 38, I may be out of the target demographic for this particular resort. But still! I think the hotel theming is great. Everything's in bold colours with a lot of character artwork. And naturally, they're going to want to promote their most popular franchises! Makes sense! The suites (both the luxury suites and the smaller ones) are all themed around either Adventure Time, Powerpuff GIrls 2016, Ben 10 (the reboot version), and Steven Universe. We Bare Bears also gets some rep here and there.

Like, this might shock you (and possibly relieve you), but there is scarcely anything related to Teen Titans Go (other than wall art, there was a single Robin plush left in the store). Craig of the Creek is basically represented just through that map I showed earlier. Summer Camp Island has a VR game. OK KO, Mao Mao, and Gumball basically just appear on the wall art. Gumball, Darwin, Jake, and Ben 10 are the only costumed walk-around characters I was able to confirm exist (they basically told my niece she probably wouldn't get to meet the Powerpuff Girls).

And that's about it! It's very specifically the most popular stuff from the last decade or so. Which, again, given the demographic, makes sense. I just think they coulda put in for the nostalgia crowd as well. At least, like, a big timeline showing some of the older stuff. Some art of Dexter's Lab or Johnny Bravo somewhere. The Toon Room also does screenings of cartoons and movie nights and stuff, and my sister reported they showed the 2002 Powerpuff Girls movie the previous night. So maybe there is some hope! I just didn't see anything. If they sold some DVDs of their shows or even, like, just a sticker pack of OK KO characters, I woulda been all over that~

[thes-hitoverlord]

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[goobersplat]

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[bones4thecats]

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[sirwhiplash]

Excluding anime, here are 20 animated TV shows you should absolutely watch in your lifetime:

1. Avatar the Last Airbender

2. Gravity Falls

3. Over the Garden Wall

4. Adventure Time

5. Steven Universe

6. Star vs. The Forces of Evil

7. She-Ra and the Princess of Power

8. Voltron: Legendary Defenders

9. Hazbin Hotel

10. The Dragon Prince

11. Phineas and Ferb

12. Hilda

13. Invincible

14. Teen Titans

15. Arcane

16. Ben 10

17. Rick and Morty

18. Star Wars: The Clone Wars

19. Miraculous Ladybug: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir

20. Batman: The Animated Series

What did I miss?

[greatsweet98]

my recent cartoon hyperfixations✋😔 /lh

[love-takes-work]

Oh my god I just found out I might get to go to the Cartoon Network gift shop attached to the CN Hotel in a couple months. They have a bunch of stuff there that isn't available anywhere else. I'm gonna end up getting a lot of Steven Universe stuff aren't I. :o

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

Ray of sunshine/adorable goober friendships, my beloved! <3

[drawlody]

5m doodle turn serious x my blorbos x cn palette

Alts

[cosmonadarovicarts]

Series/webtoons if you like Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss

Lovely hell

I'll start right away with the probably least known AND best of all - at least in terms of being similar to the universe of HH and HB-.

"Tanz, a powerful creature of pure evil, is vanished to Earth agaist her will. Weak and without a plan, she'll have to rely to Cain, a human, to guide her throught the world and figure a way back to her home: Hell."

First of all, it's a webtoon, so you can read it for free on Webtoon! Created by Tita (stage name Lorsupp), the story takes place in the present day. our protagonists are biblical characters (I won't give spoilers about who Tanz is. Cain, you guys must have already understood...).

This webtoon deserves much more recognition! the story is organic and well-paced, funny and tense when necessary. The characters are super charismatic and have chemistry, the Lore of Hell is super interesting and with a different approach from HH/HB. I love the character design - you can see the evolution of the author's traits as the chapters go by.

It's great to see other ways of approaching well-known characters -like the Jewish/Christian angels and demons-. A emphasis for Gabriel, ahhh this character hahah Anyway, this webtoon is the one I most recommend!

You can read it -> Webtoon account

When Instagram starts working again, I'll share the creator's account here!

Vilanius

This series - with just a few episodes left - is a Mexican animation released for Cartoon Network. Compared to HH's type of humor, here it is much more toned down, as it is aimed at a younger audience.

"Villainous is the story of Black Hat Org., run by Black Hat (whose name is synonymous with villain, a reference to the evil black-hatted cowboys of Western films) and his team of three less evil sidekicks. Black Hat is trying to sell various evil inventions created by Dr. Flug and is desperate to fulfill his evil aspirations. However, things often end badly for him, as brilliant innovations tend to have small and often comical flaws."

The lore has nothing related to the Hell, but it still focuses on the evil side of the story. I love the character designs, very similar to HH. It's worth checking out, even more Latin animation!

The Good Place

A series already consolidated and finished. One of my favorites on Netflix!

Even though it's not exactly Heaven and Hell, the concept is very similar. but what stands out here is the philosophical debate about what is right and wrong, how to be a good person in a world marked by individualism, competition and exploitation so that a person can have the basics to survive? -neoliberalism cough cough-.

"Eleanor Shellstrop wakes up to discover that she has died and entered the afterlife. But when she is told by her mentor Michael that she is in the "Good Place" because of her good deeds, helping to get innocent people off death row, she realizes that a mistake has been made because the people They think she is someone else with the same name."

Question about existentialism, ethics and the meaning of life debated in a fun way! A quick comparison to Bojack Horseman, a series that I love. in The Good Place, the existentialism, life and death are treated in a much more optimistic and... beautiful way, while in Bojack it is pessimistic and heavy. the debates on human existence can have lighter conclusions - this is not a criticism of Bojack, just a different approach.

Guardians of the Mansion of Horror

This recommendation won't have a personal review because... I still need to watch it! but I saw so many people recommending it, saying that it has good LGBT+ representation that I thought it would be interesting to bring it here. If anyone has already watched it and wants to say something about it...

"Guardians of the Mansion of Horror follows friends Barney and Norma as they work at a theme park during the summer. The two take the night shift and are responsible for organizing the place while it is empty. What they didn't expect is that this fun place is actually an interdimensional portal to hell. Suddenly, several supernatural creatures appear to haunt the Earth and the two friends must join forces to stop them. To do this, they receive help from the talking dog, Pugsley."

Inside Job

Here we have the biggest injustice in the history of Netflix, the cancellation of this series! I brought it here because of their type of acidic and critical humor towards society - not that this criticism is present in HH-. An adult animation, with swear words and the same irreverent touch as HH, following the shadow side of society.

"A dysfunctional team working in a hidden government department is tasked with keeping conspiracies around the secret world. From complicated attacks to secret societies, anti-social technology genius Reagan Ridley will need to work in a place full of shapeshifting reptilians and psychic mushrooms, at the same time as she must deal with an unbalanced father, in order to achieve the dream she dreams of. promotion."

Emphasis to the animation itself and the character design. When it comes to other species, we have unique designs, they even resemble the design of demons in HH.

irreverent, intelligent and humorous. 🤌

Good Omens

It's almost a rule, if you watched Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss, you also watched Good Omens!

For those who have never given the series a chance, here are some reasons to watch it now: Inspired by Neil Gaiman's work - and approved by him! -!. It is focused entirely on this universe of Jewish/Christian characters - and it is possible to see how well they are studied! There are references that only those who have studied demology or the sacred writings of these religions will understand-

The first season has a wonderful rhythm with captivating characters - the second lacks this a little. The angel and devil couple are super charismatic and you root for them.

Watching some of the biblical events from the point of view of the questioning and sinister demon Crowley and the good lamb Aziraphale is wonderful!

[civicmuses]

#civicmuses - an indie and private multifandom multimuse featuring media such as Adventure Time, Sonic the Hedgehog, My Little Pony, Hazbin Hotel and more! Penned by Civic. Please read carrd before interacting. Minors DNI

[katapotato55]

I prefer villainous but jeese you guys are fighting an awful lot.