Brilliance!

[Ace of Spades]

Hello, it's me Uncle Breezybum. This idea occurred to me in some idle chit-chat with the great Pimp Char. With Toonami being dead and CN going the MTV route. I PROPOSE THAT TOONAMI BE REVIVED AS AN ENTIRE CHANNEL! Showing the best action cartoons along with the old and new school anime from the old days and what adult swim has forgotten about. WHO ELSE THINKS THIS IS A GOOD IDEA!?

[R. Daniel 01]

That's what Funimation should be. Instead of the Loli channel.

WHO ELSE THINKS THIS IS A GOOD IDEA!?

All aboard the Awesome Train! Woo wooo!

What titles would it include? My contribution is Venus Wars.

[Ace of Spades]

I was thinking of the good old stuff I.E. Case Closed, Outlaw Star, Big-O, and any of the gundam series. Then at Midnight show the mature stuff such as Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Yu Yu Hakusho uncut, and all the other favorites that Adult Swim has long since forsaken. ANY MORE IDEAS LADIES?!

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

Excellent idea Ace.

My contribution? Gungrave. Gungrave is a show that had sooooo much potential to be huge over here if shown at the right time and advertised right. It's from the creator of Trigun, the animation is very nice, and it's got plenty of stylish fighting and violence and on top of that the story is actually good.

One of the many things Toonami did right was advertising and putting together commercials that made you wanna watch the show.

[Professor Vogler]

I definitely think Gurren Lagann would be on a Toonami channel

One of the many things Toonami did right was advertising and putting together commercials that made you wanna watch the show.

Without a doubt. I still rewatch some of those clip-commercials on youtube because they are so awesome. One of their greatest one's being for Outlaw Star.

If there were to be a revival of Toonami with its own network, the only way it would work is if it had the same atmosphere as the original. That calls for a return of TOM 2.0, S.A.R.A., and the Absolution as well as all the awesome music and attitude.

[Yuko-san]

I agree with those.
But at least add old school DBZ. And Dragon Ball for that matter. I grew up with all those awesome TV shows.
Maybe add GITS too, and a bunch of other old school favs, Knights of the Zodiac, Candidate for the Goddess, Dual!. Plus some newer stuff, King Gainer, IGPX, transformers and Crest/Banner for the stars.

[Professor Vogler]

I agree with those.
But at least add old school DBZ Dragon Ball Z KAI. And Dragon Ball for that matter. I grew up with all those awesome TV shows.
Maybe add GITS too, and a bunch of other old school favs, Knights of the Zodiac, Candidate for the Goddess, Dual!. Plus some newer stuff, Megas XLR, Soul Eater, King Gainer, IGPX, transformers and Crest/Banner for the stars.

Fixed some spelling errors for you.

I would love to rewatch DBZ in 1/4th the time! That's an awesome idea Yuko

[Char Aznable]

I agree with those.
But at least add old school DBZ Dragon Ball Z KAI. And Dragon Ball for that matter. I grew up with all those awesome TV shows.
Maybe add GITS too, and a bunch of other old school favs, Knights of the Zodiac, Candidate for the Goddess, Dual!. Plus some newer stuff, Megas XLR, Soul Eater, King Gainer, IGPX,S-cry-ed transformers and Crest/Banner for the stars.

Fixed some spelling errors for you.

I would love to rewatch DBZ in 1/4th the time! That's an awesome idea Yuko

And I fixed some of Evan's spelling errors. 

In lieu of a new Toonami channel, I passed out in the conversation before getting to this point, but also a Mecha channel. All Gundam series, Transformers, Beast Wars, Big-O, Giant Robo, Dual! PTA, Rahxephon, Voltron, Zoids, Battletech, stuff like that...

[Yuko-san]

Battle tech had a TV series?
Holy Carp! I must watch it.

But yeah, a Mecha channel would be freakin awesome.

[Char Aznable]

It's early 90s bad, and the show's idea of a Summoner looks a helluva lot like a Sunder...the chassis are nothing alike from each other, and that's a 15 ton difference!

On that subject, some friends of mine are restarting his dad's old Battletech company (that I currently forgot the name of) and making a tabletop Roleplay game for Battletech that involves character classes, rewards and consequences, and the like. Fully detailed and everything.

And while I do own the series and both games, I concur on Gungrave.

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

Char, ditto on Zoids. I loved Chaotic Century.

[Yuko-san]

yes. Zoids was awesome. Did Bandai ever release Genesis in English? I've only ever found it in Japanese, and want to know what it would be like in English.

Anyway, whoever makes a Toonami channel needs to add the 1980's animated Star Trek to the line up. It embodies everything that Led up to the original Tom and Chim, the original Toonami hosts. Plus it wasn't that bad an animated remake. It had all the original actors playing their animated counter parts.

[Sharpshooter005]

1980's animated Star Trek to the line up

'70s, but yeah those were neat

What was cool about those is I've heard a few of them were concepts the writers had for the original show, but it was too expensive to do the effects, so they got reused for the animated series

edit: Wait now that I read the rest of this thread (aside from "Oh cool somebody else saw the star trek animated series"), CN did try a network that was the old cartoons that were owned by the parent company, it was called boomerang and failed. I realize this is not what the thread was about, but it is an example of why that'd bomb

Niche channels always try to mainstream themsevles, frequently in idiotic ways. The sci-fi channel didnt show a 4th of july twilight zone marathon this year, thats the madness that exists..if they cancel the new years marathon my childhood will totally be dead (Some channel I got in Jersey..I think wpix would air marathons of it, then the sci fi channel did them)

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

They finally canned Boomerang eh?

Did Bandai ever release Genesis in English? I've only ever found it in Japanese, and want to know what it would be like in English.

I think Hasbro and Bandai dropped Zoids cold turkey after the toys stopped selling.

[Char Aznable]

I think Boomerang is still on the air actually...I'd have to look at my TV...or ask my friend...he watches it all the time...

...I had a Sleeper Zoid builder before I even knew what Zoids was...wish I still had it...I'm now down to a Hel-Digunner and my Liger Zero Jaeger.

Edit: I made this post at 04:00:00...I coulnd't do that again if I tried.