How come extra cubs are JUST now appearing?

[Kiana]

In the lion king series ( mostly 1st in the Pridelands ) how come you don't see barely any other cubs? male in particular, how come, just now in the lion guard they're introducing more lion cubs? lion king 1 was Simba, Nala ,and an unnamed in the cave ( probably Nala ) . why now?

[Moka]

TV shows often have way more characters than movies because they simply run longer. Movies, especially Disney movies, keep the character count pretty low.

Simba and Nala are likely not the only cubs in the pride during The Lion King. They just didn't want to introduce more characters than they needed to in order to tell the story, for which they had under 90 minutes to tell.

[gothprincesskiara]

makes sense im sure hoping we get new characters in future series too

[Leviara_Lioness]

yeah its funny too, but I see the point. I'm always curious of new charas they add.

[Troll Berserker]

Well, Simba's Pride showed barely no other lions except the two lionesses on Simba's group during Kiara's cubhood so introducing more lions (including cubs) that obviously were in the pride is very easy.

There were no cubs intorduced for Simba&Nala's cubhood.

We don't see Mufasa and Scar's cubhood and the male lions from the former Guard were not present during events of TLK because Scar get rid of them.

And like Moka said, the movie features only characters that are necessary for the plot. Simon Wells (director of Balto, Prince of Egypt, American Tail) said "I think it was Hitchcock who said you can only remember five people you meet at a cocktail party, so there should only be five principle characters in a screenplay. This isn't a hard and fast rule, but it is generally true that you only have enough time in a movie to get to know a small number of characters with any depth." So introducting more characters that are unecessary for the main plot just for the sake of appearing is pointless and confusing to viewers.