Corus Leisure is queueing up a retro rewind for traditional Canadian toons followers this month! After 32 years, audiences can return to Evergreen Forest within the totally restored and remastered collection The Raccoons, launching Monday, March 27 on the brand-new Boomerang channel.
The Gemini Award-winning collection created by Kevin Gillis first aired within the Nineteen Eighties & ’90s. Now, The Raccoons has been painstakingly restored and remastered from the unique 35mm movie parts to 4K utilizing the unique paintings as shade correction references. Corus Ent. notes that this was the final on-shore hand-drawn, cel animated, shot on movie collection made 100% in Canada. The Raccoons has additionally been honored with the Canadian Minister of the Setting Award for Speaking Environmental Consciousness.
Synopsis: The Evergreen Forest is dwelling to a gaggle of adventurous raccoons, led by our kind-hearted hero Bert, alongside together with his childhood mates and married couple Ralph and Melissa, finest buddy Cedric (who occurs to be the son of Cyril Sneer and inheritor to the Sneer empire), his girlfriend Sophia, and their trustworthy sheepdog pal, Schaeffer.
Watch as the buddies of the forest face off in opposition to the villainous Cyril Sneer to guard their woodland dwelling from the grasping tycoon. The gang groups as much as create a newspaper, The Evergreen Customary, led by Ralph, and units out to tackle deforestation and educate invaluable classes in regards to the significance of defending the land for all.
Followers can reconnect with The Raccoons by way of Fb and Instagram. New shopper merchandise will also be discovered at retrokid.ca.
