Okay. I don't expect this to get much response since it's been a heckuva long time ago since we can remember this.

Of course I needed to since I was browsing my old files and came across this old commercial that used to show on CBC right before Dragon Booster aired. If ever I find the footage I swear I will post it up somehow:

I have no idea if that has been posted up yet (it would be more embarassing if it was me that did) since this was a long time ago, but I might as well and ask: what did Jetix/Toon Disney or whoever hosted Dragon Booster on their channels do that was unique or funny to promote the show? :)

Why doesn't he comb them?
The cities nearby will have to rezone them!

Oh, I'm smiling so hard right now! I swear a muscle in my jaw has snapped in two.

In Singapore, being Singaporeans, we were submitted to a horrible, drawling, half-minute intro on Artha Penn and how he's going to be the saviour of his people. Cue dramatic music. Then, the occasional advert on Word Payne wanting to lay waste to Dragon City's landscape and dominate the world. We are very unoriginal people. :C Boo hoo. Sob sob.

I don't recall Jetix ever doing much to promote the show here in the US. The only thing I ever saw were some really short 10 second little promos that usually showed Artha and Beau from some action scene with an announcer voice over that didn't accurately describe the storyline of the show. Of course, I could have missed other promotions since I didn't really watch Jetix except for Dragon Booster.

Jetix never had much of anything for DB on their web site either. They mostly seemed to just be mentioning the show in passing more than anything else.

We can only hope that if the show starts up again they'll something better to promote it.

I was not watching television much, and Malaysia did nothing to promote it. According to Burnout Beau, the show was aired 44 times every week. You heard me, 44 times every week. Only the first 5 episodes of the show will be aired for the whole of September before moving to the next 5 in October.
Well, that is what Malaysia did.

44 times a week is definitely a lot of DB! :) Here in the US, Disney used to air DB on two of their channels at the same time. At the peak, DB was airing about 25 times a week total. Each channel would show the episodes in rotation according to the season. So for the first season of DB, those first 13 episodes would air in rotation all year long. Then when season 2 started, the channels would air season 1 & 2 in rotation for the entire second year and so on. By the end of the third year, those episodes had aired a lot!

Ah, the good old days. :)

And hey, look! I'm almost at 4000 postings! :dance:

Oh, gee golly wonkers, that's just crazy. But I heard our countries share some channels - is your local children's channel Kids Central, too?

Yeah, DB is quite a bit different that most of the other shows Disney airs on its channels. That's probably why they didn't promote it very well, or didn't know how to promote it since it was so different.

I don't like much of anything Disney shows on TV anymore. They had a couple of gems like Gargoyles and Tale Spin, and the Aladdin series had its moments, but mostly the shows aren't for me.

I do not watch any of the Disney shows on tv, either. It seems to have gone downhill since gargoyles.

Gargoyles was one of Disney's best. The fanbase on it's apparently one of Disney's strongest. (It did for 90's Disney what Avatar's doing for Nicklelodeon now.)

From what I hear, nowadays Disney's been trying to keep violence, bloodshed and any character complexity down to a minimum, since most of its money is gained and lost through its movies. But personally, would it kill them to make a cartoon that was meant for an audience that doesn't still suck their thumbs?

Make a show with an antihero! With explosions that can actually kill people! Characters that actually angst! (In a positive manner, none of that I'm-EMO-my-life-sucks junk, of course.) And, of course, put a little more soul in your work, and a couple more frames in your animation.

Wow, that felt so good. XP Rant rant rant rant.

CBC did pretty good/funny commercials for DB. They did that first one Skylii mentioned, and they did some others including a rap song and another one where another host 'talked' with Word on a moniter. At one point she said "*cough* loser says what! *cough*" And right after Word says "What?" :D Though after CBC got rid of their hosts those commercials stopped and they only showed crappy ones. Anyone on this board could have made better promos than those ones.

And I totally agree with Wanlingnic. Disney really needs to show some better cartoons and some targeted to an older audience.

wow not once did i ever see a promo for DB and i use to watch alot of tv like i only found dragon booster by pure luck. i only watched the last 10 min of the chromatic dragon but i was hooked and thn i went to watch it again and it was not on and i could not find it and then i found it last year about half way though season 2 by pure luck again lol and i have been watching it ever since every saturday morning till CBC cancelled it ( stupid dirty sons of a hydrag that they are, no offense ment to you hydrag but that whas the best way that i could discripe the people at CBC) and started to play that dumb animalia show.

i agree furox like they where different shows that had a good thing going but with out a doubt dragon booster is the best show i have seen and i know that even when i am 80 years old i will still be watching DB and driving around in one of those motor chairs saying release the dragon and faster pyro faster lo. any ways back on topic i think that if CBC, jetix, disney and all the other TV companies did a better job promoting the show it would have a even bigger fan following then it does now