#strawberry shortcake 2021

[niqosblog]

Sour Grapes gay as hell for this one 😭😭🙏🙏🙏

[rotomartsblog]

Continuation from the last post. Magical Boy and Girl Huckleberry and Orange

[maslosstuff]

Updated my strawberry design

[fairydraws04]

Page of comfort stuff bc i wasnt feeling great yesterday

[mlcbluez]

bro Bread and Huckleberry lookin kinda🤔😏

[plantsandpies]

Thoughts on the strawberry shortcake series on Netflix. That’s right. That little series where each episode is like nine minutes long. The newest one.

So first things first, she’s a kid again? Did we need to do that? Cause like she’s already a cartoon and cartoons for children don’t need to star children. Because this causes a bunch of problems for a bunch of plot lines.

Like the entire plot line of this show. Because a bunch of young children are running like, all of the food trucks in the city. Why is the city allowing that? We never see her get a permit. Are they going to have her be arrested one episode as a lesson to follow food and safety guidelines? Lord knows with all the tik tok people selling food online, we might need that.

Another thing is that almost all those kids shouldn’t be running food trucks, personality wise. Why’s lemon meringue, who’s established as an engineer like character, running a food truck? Why doesn’t she have a garage the characters can visit? Also! Why didn’t the use the existing mechanical person in the strawberry shortcake universe? Banana Candy? She was introduced in the 2007 version in Berry Big Journeys (the dvd, each dvd came with two episodes). They already have that character available?

Which brings me to my next point. Now I know the 2009 version did this too. They lived in a fruit world. But I feel like we’re forgetting they’re not fruit. They’re desserts. Strawberry shortcake, blueberry muffin, plum pudding. They’re all dessert characters. Why’d we get rid of that theme? Cause if they kept it, you could do a whole lot more with the world and buildings. Also, you can use all of the existing characters? There’s so many and they aren’t using them? And they took the most popular ones and gave them new personalities. Which isn’t a problem until you realize that every one of their new personalities exists as another character introduced in the 2003-2007 version. Like the lemon meringue vs banana candy thing. Although I don’t think blueberry’s personality existed previously, but I think that’s a good thing.

Also. This is a musical? No one told me. I watched the first episode, wondering if it held any hope, and then they started singing. Why are you taking up about two minutes of your nine minute episodes for a song? Who planned that? And why are they only nine minutes? Why aren’t they longer for good cartoon stories?

I also, in general, don’t like when shows modernize. You have this great fantasy world and setting and then- you add boring skyscrapers and cell phones. I don’t want that as an adult. I can’t imagine a kid will. Think of mlp. There was such a fun world and cool buildings where little girls (the target audience) could have their murderous adventures cutely. Then in the new one all the buildings are kinda plain and we gave them phones? Why’d we give them phones? I thought we wanted those darn kids off their phones? Whatever.

As much as I love the 2009 berry bitty city strawberry shortcake. When revamping it, I would’ve looked to the 2003-2007 (side note. It’s two years because they had two versions of the same characters/ world. One where they were like nine and then the other when they were sixteen). It has a fun world that candy and cake. There’s so many more characters you can use when you reopen up the dessert theme. And that theme would work better with kids. I know that’s not what they’re doing, but it feels like we moved to fruit like candy land when it tried to promote healthiness that one time.

So here’s what’d I do. First off. Go back to 2003-2007. We got the pie man, we got the different countries and islands strawberry traveled too. We got awesome looking cookie factories. I don’t even remember the episode it was in, but I still remember gingersnap’s cookie factory. That shows impact. Or my love of making food inspired worlds. Or maybe it came from strawberry shortcake. Ooooo.

Anyway. I’d go for the short of ambiguous, where are the parents thing they did in 2003. Just because that way there’s this weird grey zone where they can do weird things but it’s still okay because they seem like adults even if their kids because their parents are gone. Like Charlie Brown. Even though they show parents, they’re so out of the picture that the kids doing anything can seem believable. Especially in a fantasy setting where they aren’t doing anything with real responsibilities (looking at you berry big city or whatever your musical ass is called).

I’d also bring back pie man. He’s a fun crazy man. Maybe they took him out because of stranger danger, but he’s a fun character. Maybe add a pre-establishing thing about his relationship to the kids or something. Maybe he’s one of their uncles who’s trying to entertain them or something. I like pie man the way he is, but I know stranger danger is obviously a huge concern.

For episode plots, I’m thinking they just go on random adventures. Like it rains and they’re bored inside so they come up with stuff to do. Or they need to help their friend when they’re overworking. You know, implementing habits to take down capitalism, like actually caring for yourself and relaxing. I’d also have some of those fairytale episodes they had. I really liked those.

I’m keeping the rivalry between raspberry torte and strawberry. It’s not a new rivalry. It existed in the 1980s version I think. But I think it’s a good message situation. (Maybe pie man is her uncle and he’s trying to support his niece in hating people).

I also, desperately want them to keep their pets. The 2009 version had them have dogs, but who else remembers blueberry’s pet mouse? (Side note: I love cartoon/ fantasy pet mice, like blueberry’s or alador’s from the owl house. But do not ever give me a real mouse, I will freak out). And then the pets could have their own episodes like in Barbie life in the dream house or the mlp episode with spike taking care of all the animals? How fun would that be?

I don’t care too much about the horses. I’m pretty sure only one of them had a horse though and the they were like, money, and made more horses. In my head, I’m not doing this to sell toys, so, no need for horses.

Finally, I think we should have 2D animation again. I like the 2009 version a lot, but shitty 3D animation only works in one iteration. You can’t have it work in more than one. I’m thinking a style like the image below but with the saturation of the 2009 version. (I do know that this is their original character, I just like the way it looks. Their instagram is peryrypan) I like the colors, they’re bright and fun. I think the characters would be a mix of the 2003-2007 and 2009. Combine the bright colors and patterns with the dessert like details the characters get. I think they’d look awesome. (Another side note! Please go find Lauren illustrated, also on instagram. They have strawberry shortcake designs that are so cute. Not the animation style I’m talking about, but they are so adorable!)

[julieemarine]

I keep imagining that Angel Cake returns in the 2021 Strawberry Shortcake cartoon as an albino black girl and also has a twin sister named Devil Cake (she doesn’t have the albinism gene).

[randomuser678]

These are the family trees on Strawberry Shortcake and their naming patterns btw. If you care.

[rpicons]

398 icons of strawberry shortcake from strawberry shortcake: berry in the big city s1ep1. Like or reblog if using icons. Download: here. 

[hikiclawd]

transberries... methinks

[woolblossom-archive]

[niqosblog]

Why Do People Distrust Reboots of Cartoons?

An Analysis

Root of The Trust Issues

I feel like ever since Teen Titans Go, people have lost faith in reboots of classic shows. Especially since their only basis is "this is a show for little kids", and they expect it to be immature and plotless.

You can't just announce that you're making a TV show reboot of a classic with a more simplistic art style without expecting backlash.

Just saying "I like the [insert media] reboot!" Everyone is gonna be on your back and say that it's a bad lifeless reboot. But I believe that some are actually good. They have kept up similar themes and still progress with the modern world.

The Exception

If we're really getting into this topic, may I say that Voltron: Legendary Defender is a reboot that people loved to pieces. Even with its awful ending, people still loved it. Yet no one asked for it.

No one looked at the old Voltron and said "I wish there was a reboot".

Was the show good? YES!

It performed amazing during its run. It had a strong fan following to it as well.

Was it bar for bar, character for character accurate? NO!

Keith was supposed to end up with Allura, going so far as to marry her. Pidge was actually a clumsy dwarf boy that had a crush on Allura. Hunk was some buff white guy rather than a chubby Samoan dude.

Yet, did people complain? ALSO NO. And the only reason why, was the art style.

Simplistic Art Style

Then we get to things like the My Little Pony and Strawberry Shortcake Reboot. These are objectively good reboots as a stand alone, without a nostalgia bias.

They have representation, life lessons, friendship themes, basically everything that the original was. But the fact it's a 'reboot' is what throws people into hysteria.

Strawberry Shortcake was always a spunky girl who would always problem solve in a kind and caring way. Always true to her friends, loved making friends.

She is such a stereotypical good girl that the show even pokes fun at it. Making jokes that she's too trustworthy and friendly. And they keep this trend in the reboot. Yet people didn't watch it.

And you want to know why?

"it looks lifeless" "it lost its spark" "the designs are ugly"

Why This Argument Sucks

This isn't a real argument. Exhibit A would be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT).

We can agree that TMNT has kept a consistent art style. Mostly consisting of the big eyes, similar body shapes, wide mouths... The only two thing differentiating them being the eye covers and weapons.

Now in the reboot, there are several differences.

Raphael - Stocky, beefy, wider, taller, snaggle tooth

Leonardo - skinner waist, broad shoulders, long head, slightly muscular arms, eye markings

Donatello - basically the same as Leo but he has skinner arms, and goggles

Michaelangelo - rounder, shorter, bigger eyes, more colors

Unlike the other adaptations, where they look like the same copy and paste character with a slight hue shift, they actually look different. But before it came out, there was a lot of backlash of the characters looking ugly.

That soon changed when clips started circling around that people gave it a shot. And guess what. They liked it! They called the characters charming and unique, and even got a huge fandom from shares on Tiktok and advertisements from the program airing the show.

Sure, people did complain about the simplicity. But they eventually came to enjoy it. So why can't people keep the same energy for other reboots?

Nostalgia

The biggest factor of all is nostalgia. I loved Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Bitty Adventures. And I dabbled in watching the 2003 version because I loved it when I was a kid. Yet, I still love the reboot.

Berry in the Big City isn't a bad reboot, people just don't want to give it a chance because of the nostalgia factor. They grew up with the 2003-2009 version and expect no changes, and when things did change they threw a fit.

I don't know how to tell you this, but this show was made for KIDS. Not teenagers looking for a fun watch, not adults looking for a taste of classic TV, but children.

Sure, there are some teens and adults who love this show because they might be a babysitter or an older sibling. Or maybe just someone who heard it was good and wanted to give it a watch.

But if your only reason for disliking a show is that "it's not my [insert character]" is showing that you're just scared of change. If I'm really being honest, BITBC shows more personality in their characters.

Back in Berry Bitty Adventures, they all felt like the same girl just with a different goal. Here, Strawberry is more hyperactive and passionate, Blueberry is going with the flow and airhead-ish, Orange is a competitive athlete, Lemon is an emotionally closed off inventor, Lime is a nerdy fashionista.

And they all look different.

I have confused Raspberry Torte and Strawberry in 2009 more times than I can count. Even characters like Cherry Jam and Blueberry who have a different color scheme, look similar when desaturated.

And if you feel hurt by the fact that I'm saying cons about a series you loved as a kid, then you're part of the problem.

I don't expect you to say that "oh, yeah, I can see that." but instead, admit that not everything you grew up with was perfect.

And if Strawberry Shortcake isn't enough proof that people glorify the original too much, may I remind you people continuously hate the Monster High reboot.

The original had racial stereotypes, outdated jokes, sexist characters, toxic relationships (that for some reason stayed together), misrepresentation of disorders, and way more.

The reboot actually tries to be sensitive to who might be watching their show. They made Asian coded characters not yellow, they properly represent disabilities, they don't make Abbey's foreign accent a joke, they have body diversity. And g1 is apparently still superior.

Another reminder is that when g1 tried to make progress with their first gay character, they back tracked it and made it subtext. There will always be a problem with g1 Monster High, the only people who ignore it are people who are scared of change.

Conclusion

Are you supposed to watch all reboots from now and forever into eternity. No. This is just a thing I noticed when goons glaze on a cartoon that they (probably) didn't even watch getting a reboot.

There are bad reboots out there, (I'm looking at you Velma..), but I feel like if you just watched a couple episodes you'd find them more enjoyable. The original doesn't disappear when you watch a reboot. In fact, most of the examples I've mentioned are free on YouTube.

[rotomartsblog]

I’m late- It was their birthday!

[maslosstuff]

She's so stylish

[fairydraws04]

Back on my strawberry shortcake 2021 bullshit

[yaspup9000]

Between 2009 and 2021 Orange Blossom's designs.. They did her dirty! Thats all I have to say. They did her dirty