Netflix's THE TOYS THAT MADE US Season 3 Gets a November Premiere Date
Over a year ago Netflix announced at San Diego Comic-Con that The Toys That Made Us documentary series was picked up for a third season. We haven’t had many updates on the series since then, but it looks like we won’t have to wait much longer for Season 3 to drop!
Series creator Brian Volk-Weiss announced that the series would return on November 15th, 2019. He released a video making the announcement and it included a little cameo by Walter Jones, the actor who played Zack Taylor, the original Black Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
The Toys That Made Us debuted in 2017 and has eight episodes have aired so far. They’ve covered toy properties for Star Wars, Barbie, He-Man, G.I. Joe, Star Trek, Transformers, LEGO, and Hello Kitty thus far. Season 3 will cover Power Rangers, Wrestling, My Little Pony, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
A very special message from show creator, @brianvolkweiss!! pic.twitter.com/F6vn923foa
— Toys That Made Us (@toysthatmadeus) September 3, 2019
There will be some changes to the format of the show in Season 3. Volk-Weiss recently told Den of Geek that the series is no longer doing reenactments in Season 3, and explains:
"There's a huge format change. We stopped doing the reenactments. The main reason was that no one seemed to care about them. For every 1,000 DMs or Facebook messages we would get, two would be about the reenactments. So we were putting a significant amount of our budget into the reenactments, which nobody cared about. Again, I've been doing a lot of personal appearances now, meeting with fans and talking to people. And I asked, I started doing my own internal poll. I said to people like, 'What do you love about the show?' Nobody said the reenactments."
"By the way, of the reenactments, if people talked about it at all, the only one people talked about was Star Wars. So, I was like, 'Why are we spending a significant percentage of our budget on something nobody cares about?'"
I actually liked the reenactments, but I would never bring them up in a conversation. If I was asked directly if I liked them I would have said yes. But I’m not going to just bring it up randomly while talking about the show. Seems like it’s just an excuse to cut the budget and save some money, which is fine. We’re all there to learn about the toys anyway. He went on to give another reason why they were cut, saying:
"The other issue, and this was more important than budget, is that Netflix really wants us to be under 50 minutes. Every now and then we go over 50. So, let's just say it's 50 minutes, we're putting 10 percent of our time into a reenactment. Star Trek is 43 minutes, that reenactment is like four minutes. So, the main reason I did what I did was to have more time to tell the story. The budget was probably 30 percent of the reason, 70 percent of it was to have more time."
That’s the real reason, right there. Anyway, I’ve enjoyed watching this show and I’m looking forward to watching Season 3!