So I stumbled across this awesome fan-made trailer for an Animorphs movie on Youtube today, and I just had to share it with you guys. I could’ve done without 1 or 2 of the obvious clips, but otherwise it was very well done. Check it out in the video above!
(Shameless Plug: And while you’re at it, if you haven’t seen myAnimorphs 300 Trailer video yet, then watch that too! I posted about it a little while back on this blog as well. 😉 )
Also, while we’re still on fan videos, there’s another fan who has made a few videos using the Spore game, where they’ve recreated the battle on the Hork-Bajir Homeworld using their Hork-Bajir, Andalite, and Taxxon models. See it here (unfortunately the embedding is disabled for it, so I’m not able to post the actual video here).
Two Articles have been posted up on eHow by A.M. Trent, “How to Detect a Human Controller” and “How to Detect an Andalite“. I believe these two are going to be part of a series of articles that will be posted on there by her. They’re both amusing and educational, so check ’em out. 😉
I wanted to give a quick shout out to the Animorphs: A Graphic Novel Project. It’s being drawn by the fabulous Char Reed. So far, everything looks fantastic. I eagerly await her updates whenever she has a new panel to share with us (via Twitter and her Blog), so I thought I’d pass it along to you guys as well.
At the same time, there is also a new project started for an animated series, called Animorphs: A Second Chance. I believe they are looking for artists, editors, voice actors, etc to get going. They have a Youtube account set up, and the project is being lead by Capnnerefir.
Both projects are added in the Projects section (which I randomly decided to re-organize today). All info regarding both projects, including contact info, has been posted up in there. 🙂
Looks like after we posted our previous bit of news, fans from both the Animorphs LiveJournal and RAF communities asked Michael Grant (co-author/co-creator of Animorphs) if the rumor of the re-release was true.
The answer, is YES. The re-release is definitely happening! Michael Grant confirmed this via his Twitter account. I’ve compiled all of his responses so far in the image below:
So to sum up and update upon our previous post:
1. Yes, the re-release is happening. It is no longer a rumor.
2. There WILL be new covers. Our Scholastic source told us that they are going to be “lenticular”. We’re assuming this means that they will be 3D covers that morph from one image to another when they are tilted.
You may have already seen examples of this in a variety of products, everything from trading cards to dvd covers. (Those that have the Animorphs Invasion Board Game will have a better example, as they came with a deck of morphing holographic lenticular cards for all the Animorphs. We’re guessing that the new covers could be similar to that).
3. The release date is now no longer 2012, but is estimated to be 1 year from now, so somewhere around late 2010 to 2011.
4. The re-release is still being used by Scholastic as a way to test out the market, and see if a brand new ‘Animorphs 2.0’ series will be profitable enough to invest into. They will be looking at both the sales and fan reception once the books are re-released.
5. Editorial changes to KASUs and continuity errors are still unconfirmed, and so are the packaging details (whether the books will be sold in volumes, or individually as they originally were).
More updates to come as we hear them here at Hirac Delest. 😀
Edit: Thanks to wildweathel for correcting us on the proper term for the covers. I’ve made the appropriate changes to that above.
Here’s another Andalite costume that was fan-made for Halloween this year. (Sorry for the late addition; I got it 2 weeks after Halloween, and then I got sidetracked myself. Nevertheless, this is just too awesome. I had to share it!)
Here is R.A and his father tells us: “He is 7 and been reading the series of books for over a year now. He is a big Ax fan so when it came time for him to decide what he wanted to be for Halloween, it was an easy decision. Let’s just say this costume took several hours to complete. It was a big hit and I am glad he got to enjoy it.”
Thanks so much to R.A and his father for sharing this with the rest of us! The costume turned out great! 😀
I’m sure a lot of you older fans remember Vegemorphs. It was a one time book parody that was released when Animorphs was at the height of its popularity. It even ended up being part of an Arthur episode ‘D.W. Tale Spins’. (Thanks to Sarita Wolf from The Animorphs Fan Forum for finding this episode).
There was also a live-action fan film that was based on the book, and then posted on Youtube a few years back. I’ve posted both parts of the Arthur episode, and the live action fan film, in the Vegemorphs book page. You can find the Vegemorphs book in Articles & Interviews, under the Database section (since it is not officially linked with the series). Both this and the Cracked magazine parodies have been listed under the Published Parodies category.
This isn’t Animorphs related, however I know that many of you also read the Gone series by Michael Grant, so I thought I’d post an update on the upcoming book anyway. Here is the new cover for LIES:
The book is currently set to be released May 4th, 2010 (US).
Update: For future updates, I’ve now added new separate categories for the Gone Series and K.A & Michael specifically on the right side of the blog. Hopefully this will simplify things from now on.
Following up from our previous post, our good source is back to let us know that Scholastic is indeed planning on going ahead with the re-release of Animorphs! However, to clear up any confusion, our source tells us that the re-release will only be for ‘Animorphs Classic‘ (the current series), and that it is estimated to be released (with new covers) around Spring 2012. Official Date TBA.
Now the bad news: It seems that Animorphs 2.0 is currently on hold, pending review. Apparently Scholastic will also be using the re-release of Animorphs Classic as a way to determine whether to go ahead with Animorphs 2.0. This means that they’ll be looking at both the fan reception and the sales of this release to see if a new series will be profitable enough to pursue.
No further news on how the Classic re-release will be handled, aside from the fact that they’re supposed to have new covers. It’s far too early to tell whether the series will have new artwork, be bundled into volumes, or have any editorial changes be made to them (as some of you have suggested). Rest assured though that we here at Hirac Delest will let you know as soon as we hear about it ourselves!
That about sums it up for that bit of news. As a side note, I also want to let you guys know that I’ve updated the side link for our Facebook page (on the right). If you haven’t done so already, then ‘Become a Fan’ of Hirac Delest on Facebook. All of our updates, like this, will now be posted directly on to your news feed to let you know that we’ve updated!
That is probably the BEST (or possibly, the only) Animorphs Fan Costume I’ve ever seen. Props (literally) to faerykore for making this. I absolutely love it!
Also, interesting note for those that have read our previous blog posts, you’ll notice that two of those members are none other than Kevin James and Ryan Murphy, who made the Animorphs film short, The Questioning, a little while back!
These pictures were an awesome surprise for me to stumble on to, and I hope you all enjoyed it as well. Happy Halloween from every one of us here at Hirac Delest! Until next time! 😈
