Trailer For Netflix's THE TOYS THAT MADE US Season 3 which Focuses on TMNT, Power Rangers, Wrestling, and My Little Pony
Netflix has released a trailer for the upcoming third season of the nostalgic docu-series, The Toys That Made Us. Series creator Brian Volk-Weiss previously announced that the series would return on November 15th, 2019. It was also revealed that this next season would cover Power Rangers, Wrestling, My Little Pony, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I’ve enjoyed this series and in the previous seasons, they’ve explored the history of toy lines such as Star Wars, Barbie, He-Man, G.I. Joe, Star Trek, Transformers, LEGO, and Hello Kitty.
It was previously revealed that there will be some changes to the format of the show in Season 3. Volk-Weiss said that the series is no longer doing reenactments, and explains the reasoning for the decision, saying:
"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?'"
He went on to say:
"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."
Are you looking forward to watching The Toys That Made Us Season 3?