At Wal-Mart there's a two-pack with the Iron Man movie and a sneak preview for this show. I didn't buy it since I already have the Iron Man DVD, and the sneak peek isn't sold separately.
But anyways. This show is called Iron Man: Armored Adventures. This is the ****tiest name ever. But it gets better:
Wiki said:
17 year old Tony Stark nearly loses his life and his father in a fatal plane crash one day at the time when Howard Stark refuses Obadiah Stane's Earth Mover Project. Building a device that keeps him alive, then 3 years later Tony Stark then builds a high-tech armor and becomes Iron Man. With the help of Jim Rhodes, Happy Hogan, and Pepper Potts, Iron Man fights the enemies of World Peace ranging from Mandarin, Iron Monger, Crimson Dynamo, Madame Masque, Blizzard, Living Laser, The Controller and Whiplash.
Okay, so Tony's not even at drinking age yet. He's 20 years old in the series. He looks like a teenager in the trailer for this....he really looks like Peter Parker. Pepper Potts is a teenager as well (she wears a schoolgirl uniform). Too young to even be Tony's secretary. She actually looks like Mary Jane Watson come to think about it. And it looks like Howard Stark is the head of Stark Enterprises until his death early in the series (probably in the pilot). Rhodey looks like he's still in freaking high school. Even though it appears that this Tony is a snob as a result of his wealthy upbringing, he's far from the Howard Hughes playboy type guy. Mandarin looks like a freaking robot. He's like Darth Vader but with more of the samurai-like stylings. And Iron Man's origin is apparently that Tony's plane crashed, killing his dad and leaving Tony with injuries that lead him to make the suit.
So apparently we've got the adventures of Iron Boy. It reminds me of Iron Man 2020. The animation looks beautiful in terms of Stark's technology and stuff, but the characters look....meh. I think the creators of the show have taken a cue from anime and stuff; the suits remind me of mecha and whatnot. When it shows Tony inside the suit it's like Gundam.
Again, I know that this is a kid's cartoon, but making Tony a little whipper-snapper who's just out of high school age is taking away one of the fundamental characteristics of Iron Man....he's supposed to be a flawed playboy in like, his mid-to-late 20s, or as I see Downey Jr.'s version, early-to-mid-thirties....just because it's a kid's cartoon, doesn't mean he has to be a kid. The kids that are watching this saw Iron Man in theaters. That's why they're watching this. They've seen a wild, partyboy arms manufacturer who downs scotch and has one-night stands and turns his jet into an airborne club with go-go dancing stewardesses. I'm not saying that you should include that in the show, but don't tone it down so much that he hasn't even grown facial hair yet (in the trailer he is seen with a backpack in a hall with lockers; I realize that most males have facial hair by the time they are 17, but the animators have explicitly left his face un-moustached in order to show that he isn't as old as the Tony Stark we're familiar with). You don't have to show the extent of Tony's partyboy lifestyle, but seriously....Not even the 1990s Iron Man cartoon was toned down this much, and even the 2007 direct-to-DVD cartoon Invincible Iron Man has a much more matured Tony than this, complete with facial hair). It doesn't sound like this Tony's balls have even dropped yet. He looks like 15-year-old Ultimate Peter Parker in an Iron Man suit. The show's going to be on Nicktoons.
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