Wanna wish my last and longest high school friend Melissa @nimbledol a HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🥳🎂. Crazy to think we have known each other for about 20 years. Hope we get to hangout again soon 😎.
36 years ago today, ‘Captain Planet and the Planeteers’ premiered on TBS.
The series featured an all-star voice cast, including Whoopi Goldberg, LeVar Burton, and Meg Ryan and ran for 6 seasons + 113 episodes.
29 years ago today, ‘Mummies Alive!’ premiered.
The series ran for just 1 season with 42 episodes.
It was produced by DIC Entertainment, the studio behind ‘Inspector Gadget.’
So Kojima has been dropped twice now for the exact same reasons, missing deadlines and going over budget.
The reason Chris Nolan is so beloved by film studios is he makes certified hits and he comes in under budget every single time. Kojima does neither of those these days so from a financial standpoint what is the point of bankrolling these massive projects in a mature market where AAA costs are already unsustainable ???
I also think it’s in bad taste for Microsoft to bank roll a guy known for inflated budgets while simultaneously laying off over 1600 people and there are still more layoffs to come!!
It’s like “hey devs at ID Software sorry we are laying you off but here ya go Kojima here’s $500 million to make Physint.” 🙄
James Arnold Taylor is the kind of voice actor you can grow up hearing for years before realizing just how much of your childhood came from the same person. 🎙️
He gave Obi-Wan Kenobi a defining animated voice for a generation of Star Wars fans, while also becoming inseparable from Tidus, Ratchet, and Johnny Test. Then you look deeper and find superheroes, classic cartoon icons, video game leads, and even characters whose voices had existed long before he stepped into them.
Some of his most popular roles include:
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
Tidus (Final Fantasy X)
Ratchet (Ratchet & Clank)
Dave the Minion (Despicable Me: The Game)
Johnny Test (Johnny Test)
Leonardo (TMNT)
Green Arrow (Batman: The Brave and the Bold)
Harry Osborn (The Spectacular Spider-Man)
Barry Allen / The Flash (Young Justice)
Fred Flintstone (The Flintstones)
Milo Thatch (Atlantis: Milo’s Return)
Wooldoor Sockbat (Drawn Together)
Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes)
and many more!
Taylor’s real strength is adaptability. He can honor an established character like Obi-Wan or Fred Flintstone, then turn around and help define someone like Tidus or Ratchet from the ground up. His own biography also highlights how broad that range has become, from cartoons and games to superheroes and classic characters.
James Arnold Taylor didn’t build his legacy around being instantly recognizable. He built it around making the characters instantly recognizable instead.