Barney, purple dinosaur of 90s vintage, to return in CGI reboot

[beschizza]

Originally published at: Barney, purple dinosaur of 90s vintage, to return in CGI reboot | Boing Boing

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[theophrastus]

bzzzzt! Barney h’ain’t got no diastoma. next!

“hell, if cashing in on nostaglia is the goal…”

[joed]

I remember alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die on Usenet back in the day…

[gracchus]

This is one example of childhood that was pre-ruined.

Now I’m dreading the cgi reboot of Caillou.

[joed]

I could at the very least tolerate most of the shows my kids watched, and actually enjoyed some of them.

Caillou is not on either of those lists.

[mclemens]

@joed

Caillou is not on either of those lists

[whines] But whyyyy joed?

[slams hand in drawer for penance]

[sandrodacruz]

Holy crap, someone finally let a character designer near Barney.

Question is, will it break the inexplicable allure Barney held over tots when he was a shambling, lisping piece of outsider art?

[bashful]

@beschizza

Barney is back

[sqlrob]

I hate you, you hate me, let’s hang barney from a tree

[Mister44]

I made sure my kid never watched Barney so I didn’t have to endure that show. Sorry. I general I like kids shows, but that one was super annoying. YMMV.

That said, nothing wrong with the character, a reboot could be fine!

[MonkeyT12]

I didn’t believe they could make Barney creepier.

[FGD135]

Is this strictly necessary?

[EB01]

Barney Doom O_O

[Snoproblem11]

Yet another tiresome re-do/reboot/redux that nobody…nobody… asked for.

It’s about time that viewers as a whole pushed back on this nonsense and make sure stuff like this hemorrhages money, every time. Escaping the cultural neo-malaise should be a priority. It just makes everything else we’ve been enduring that much worse - the insult to the injury.

[smulder]

[carrma]

He does look better even if the color combo is still awful. Thankfully I don’t have kids so I don’t have to worry about a little one getting hooked on it and having to watch it.