So you might not know this, but The Magic School Bus was probably the second-biggest influence in my young preschool life after Thomas The Tank Engine. I lived and breathed this show for a solid eight years of my existence- to this day I can still quote the theme song pretty much by memory. Miss Frizzle was probably one of my childhood inspirations and definitely the spark that ignited my love of science and biology.

So I was intrigued when, way back in 2014 when they announced a reboot, and moreso when promotional images and trailers started to hit the net late in the summer. The reaction was… probably not what the folks behind the show were hoping to see. Within hours, people were taking to social media to scream about it being the “WORST REBOOT EVER.” Which is quite an accusation, really, considering how many goddamn reboots there are nowadays. I’m sure that in the time it took for me to write this post eight more have been announced.

On Wednesday, there was a stream on the Scholastic website of the premiere episode – it doesn’t seem to want to work for me now, but I did feel obliged to sit down and see what it was like. And goddamn it, I’m 23 years old, I can do what I want and what I want to do is sit down and write down my rambling thoughts about The Magic School Bus. Seatbelts, everyone.

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#magic school bus #rides again #msbra #!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted on Monday, 25 September 2017

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Keesha Franklin was always one of my favorites in the Magic School Bus so maybe it’s the nostalgia glasses or something cause while I think her reboot self is cute, it just doesn’t quite fit the very smart and ambitious Keesha we had back in the day. another problem was her skin tone, Keesha wasn’t even that dark in the original series yet they still felt they needed to lighten her skin. it’s safe to say no one really looks great in the new “style” (although Phoebe I think was a good change…) but I think Keesha and probably Wanda got the shortest ends of the stick, neither really fit their old characters, Keesha the capable leader and Wanda the girl always up for a new adventure :(

anyways, I darkened her skin, changed her face and altered the colors of her clothing (maybe vomit inducing colors are in, I’m no expert of today’s fashion so I could be wrong but her wardrobe was hard to look at…) also altered her legs a bit, they were looking a bit wonky and made her hair looking more puffy.

I get the original show wasn’t exactly pretty but it did so much with what it had that it’s kind of a let down that the reboot even after it was announced such a long time ago produced such low quality art. In the end I really hope its a good show to inspire kids to get into STEM, the OG was what got me into Paleontology and science so hopefully it still holds those ideals and isn’t just out for a quick buck.

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#magic school bus #keesha franklin #yes yes yes #my dude this is good shit #great redesign I'm so into it they should've hired u to do character design lol

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