The Lion Guard (2015 / 2016)

[AnActualLion]

As much as I hope the movie casts make a lot of appearances, I'm mostly excited for the new characters and how they develop! Especially Kion, I am very excited to see how they portray him.

[crownofsimba]

I don't know if its accurate but the wikipedia page says that Broderick is coming in to voice Simba for the movie.

I wonder who will do the series though, probably Cam Clarke. I imagine we'll see Simba fairly regularly.

[TheLionPrince]

[quote="crownofsimba"]I don't know if its accurate but the wikipedia page says that Broderick is coming in to voice Simba for the movie.

I wonder who will do the series though, probably Cam Clarke. I imagine we'll see Simba fairly regularly.[/quote]

It's not on there now, but if I were you, I wouldn't trust Wikipedia. The edits that keep stating Matthew Broderick is voicing Simba in the television movie pilot are being added by an anonymous editor based on speculation, and continually keep getting reverted. It's best to wait a few months until Disney issues out a press release confirming the voice cast, but the question is when?

[crownofsimba]

True.

I am interested to know whether they'll be using his original design or the one from SP.

[Carl]

^ Probably neither.

[gothprincesskiara]

Well whatever voices that will be confirmed I plan on getting to know what there voices will be like, probably by watching some of there clips on you tube form there TV shows or movies, do that and we shall know what the characters will sound like. Better to be prepared then not at all.

[Milla]

[quote="crownofsimba"]True.

I am interested to know whether they'll be using his original design or the one from SP.[/quote]

I think they will use the design from SP (not the colors) because by the time kiara grew up into an adolescent and kion growing into a cub it would makes sense that his mane will grow much bigger like in SP (he is older now)
In the first movie his mane didn't look that big, It's probably because he is still a young lion. so it's logical for him to have a bigger mane.





Conclusion: I go with the SP design

[gothprincesskiara]

I believe that the difference in simba between 1 and 2 are that in TLK1 Simba was a very young adult at the time, and time had passed till the point when he had Kiara so he would look a bit older in TLK2, and that why he has a bigger mane is because in TLK 1 his mane was not a full max yet, but I say there is no difference between Simba at all between 1 and 2

[Lauren]

I'm pretty sure that Simba's design is going to be like the one from SP because he's much older than he was in the first film and it would make sense that he appears much bigger in size. By the time he had Kiara, he grew a bit, so I'm sure that he's going to stay the same size with Kion around like he did at the end of the second film. In the original, Simba was a young adult (the equivalence of a human around their 20s) but in SP, he's a full grown adult (around 30-40 years old in human years).

[Captain Cupcake]

Simba's SP design isn't that significantly different other than the color scheme. Size-wise, he's actually about the same as in the first film. He's pretty much kept at around the same height and bulk when one compares scenes of him sitting near Rafiki from the original and the sequel.





And the smaller things like the amount of mane fur he has compared to before isn't really something worthy of note or an intentional change, as it's inconsistent throughout both of the films. Sometimes it looks thicker(as shown in the above comparison), sometimes it looks the same. Sometimes it looks even less thick than in the first movie, as shown below:





It's mainly that darker scheme that gives a more mature-vibe to him. The rest is all due to differentiating artists and his bulk/mane thickness fluctuating during various shots.

As for what direction The Lion Guard will go, the answer is neither-ish. Given that the show seems to have a distinct art style, it's a given that Simba will probably be drawn a little differently than before. HOWEVER, regarding his color scheme, he'll no doubt be rendered more faithful to the original film than Simba's Pride. His original yellow/gold and red look is more iconic and remembered, whereas the SP colors were unique to that feature's general art design and palette they were going for. In-universe, Simba's colors didn't actually change as he got older, their alteration is just a by-product of the film having its own distinct tones and not being consistent with the original feature. A number of Disney DTV sequels similarly had different color schemes for their various characters.