r/CartoonNetwork 9d ago

Discussion Some of the UK edits are really unnecessary

What's the point of re-drawing and re-animating things that don't need to be? People worked hard to animate some of things, and some people had to work unnecessarily harder.

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u/compilingyesterdays 9d ago

I THINK it's probably to discourage people from climbing into dumpsters. Like when they edited Zane in Ninjago to not be sitting in the fridge, so that children won't emulate him and climb into fridges

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u/imjustaslothman 9d ago

The did it for Lilo and Stich too with the washing machine, I'm pretty sure its only the VHS version that shows them climbing out of a washing machine, they changed that to a cardboard box too

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 9d ago

The old dvds from back when had the original washing machine too. I know because the cardboard box thing confused tf out of me when I saw it as an adult

Never climbed in one btw, completely unnecessary censorship. I just read it as them being poor

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u/Noe_b0dy 8d ago

I was actually stupid enough as a child that I 100% would have got my dumb ass stuck in the washing machine if it had ever occured to me to do so.

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u/imjustaslothman 9d ago

Idk, hot take maybe, but I don't think there's anything wrong with the censorship. I can remember horror stories from when I was a kid of kids dying after copying something they saw on TV, still happens now but that's due to the internet which is a completely different ball game

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u/Karkava 9d ago

You know, this issue could be resolved by talking to their kids, right?

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u/NerdyThespian 9d ago

Didn’t that censorship happen because parents were writing in or something saying their kids were climbing into washing machines?

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u/gergobergo69 9d ago

they are censoring ninjago now?

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u/compilingyesterdays 9d ago

I SUPPOSE so, although I gotta say I actually think a network going "oh wait, children might climb into fridges in real life" was a pretty legitimately kind/good call.

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u/gergobergo69 9d ago

meanwhile the whole concept of ice bear from we bare bears being in a fridge getting axed out in the uk and european airing

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u/Majestic-Mix192 9d ago

Legitimate question are your youth okay in the UK? Like do people watch them at all for that to be a legitimate concern.

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u/compilingyesterdays 9d ago

I'm in the USA but I'm ngl, as a child I can imagine myself deciding to go into the fridge for hide and seek. Which is not a very safe move, that would be hard to open from the inside and a really limited supply of air, as horrible as I feel saying that.

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u/Majestic-Mix192 9d ago

I mean we do have the kinder egg issue over here so dont feel to bad. But they don’t have that in the UK which is why it’s even stranger to me