New Thundercats, Ho?

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This poster showed up at my door this morning (Excuse the early-morning iPhone photo):

If the glossiness of the iPhone shot is too much, this is the important part:

Along with the poster, there was a note telling me to “Answer The Call,” along with a link to a website that offered up this additional image –

– along with a press release announcing a new Thundercats series co-produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Studio4°C, the Japanese studio best known to American audiences for their work on The Animatrix, Batman: Gotham Knights and Halo Legends, to debut on Cartoon Network next year.

As someone with fond memories of the original series, I’d be tempted to be anxious of any reboot, but the producers for the series bring a good amount of goodwill – Batman: The Brave and The Bold‘s Michael Jelenic, Teen Titans’ Sam Register and Avatar: The Last Airbender‘s Ethan Spaulding. Call me easily swayed by promotional ploys, but I’m cautiously optimistic about this. What about you?