ThunderCats (2011 Series)

ThunderCats (2011) is an American/Japanese animated television series, produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Studio 4°C. The series is a reboot of the original 1980s TV series of the same name, which ran from 1985 to 1989.

Summary
The show centers around the young ThunderCats prince Lion-O and his band of Thunderians as they are forced to flee their once thriving kingdom of Thundera after it is attacked and destroyed by the evil sorcerer Mumm-Ra and his Lizard army. Lion-O, who wields the powerful Sword of Omens, must lead a small band of surviving Thunderians to seek out the Book of Omens which is said to have the knowledge needed to defeat Mumm-Ra.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) This show stays faithful to the original series.
 * 2) Beautiful animation for both 2D and 3D and the character designs are looks very impressive since it was made by Japanese studio Studio 4°C.
 * 3) Great voice acting, especially from Will Friedle, Matthew Mercer, Kevin Michael Richardson, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Larry Kenney (who voices Lion-O in the original series), Corey Burton, Dee Bradley Baker, Robin Atkin Downes, Clancy Brown, Pamela Adlon, Satomi Kōrogi, Michael McKean, Madeleine Hall and Eamon Pirruccello.
 * 4) Memorable characters, such as Lion-O, Tygra, Panthro, Cheetara, Snarf, WilyKit, and WilyKat.
 * 5) *Speaking of Snarf, the 2011 version was more favorably received by critics and fans than the original version.
 * 6) Great antagonists, such as Mumma-Ra, Grune, Slithe, and the Ancient Spirits of Evil.
 * 7) Most of the episodes for that focused on stories (and even filler) are really good, including "Omen" and the series finale, "What Lies Above".
 * 8) It was spawned a short called "Snarf: Butterfly Blues", which was aired in 2011.
 * 9) It was probably one of best reboot of the original series that Warner Bros. Animation has ever done.
 * 10) The intro, despite being short, was decent and even the end credits we're good to listen.
 * 11) The action scenes are really great to watched.
 * 12) "Thunder... Thunder... Thunder!... Thundercats... HO!"

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Pumyra is now a villain in this series, unlike the original series.
 * 2) Similar to what happened to Mummies Alive! it was cancelled after one season because of low toy sales.

Trivia

 * Toonami has decided to pick up the series as part of its new expanded block, alongside fellow CN favorite Sym-Bionic Titan, giving them the support and reruns until 2013, when this show was taken off.
 * This is the first ThunderCats series to be produced by Warner Bros. Animation, after they had acquired the post-1974 Rankin/Bass library when they acquired Lorimar-Telepictures in 1989 (Telepictures had bought R-B in 1978, then merged with Lorimar in 1986).
 * The series became available streaming on Hulu, along with the original series.