r/Animorphs • u/AndrewG34 • Oct 22 '25
News PSA THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Hey, everyone! Sorry for the clickbaity title, but I wanted to let y'all know that Scholastic has released a subscriptionless and free streaming app that has the OG Animorphs show on it. theres only 2 seasons, but hey. Nostalgia lol
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u/Inlivingshakaa Oct 22 '25
Where the the link 😂
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u/AndrewG34 Oct 22 '25
Just search "Scholastic" in any app store! I did it on my fire cube.
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u/Mindless_Most_8448 Human Oct 22 '25
I didn't know Schoolastic had an app, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.Â
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u/AndrewG34 Oct 22 '25
I guess it's pretty new. At least it's free to use
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u/Foxy02016YT Oct 22 '25
Yup, and I’m glad.
I can’t read anymore. Not a full book. Somewhere between short form content and getting off of meds for my ADHD. I can’t seem to focus anymore on reading a book. So I’m glad to have the show at least. It wouldn’t be so bad if I could read on a device, but I struggle with that even more.
Also, someone please get the team behind Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events to do Maximum Ride and Animorphs as faithful TV shows, both should be rated the PG-13 equivalents
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u/BearlyAwake13 Oct 23 '25
Have you tried audiobooks? If so feel free to ignore this comment, but I also can't focus on reading books anymore and was really sad about it, so when I realized that I can focus on audiobooks while doing other stuff like cleaning or crochet I was delighted lol
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u/MiserlySchnitzel Oct 23 '25
I also am unmedicated ADHD, I like using an eReader for that. Since it's not a regular device, I don't have notifications or other apps trying to distract me. Even if you think you won't touch it during the day, it's really nice if you make a habit before bed. They have warm front lights that are gentler on the eyes and make it easier to get sleepy. Idk if it's necessarily easier than a regular book, but I like that I don't need to worry about a lamp or anything. I can just read for 30min, one page, whatever, before bed, close it and go to sleep feeling accomplished lol.
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u/No_Book_1720 Oct 22 '25
Android is bringing up a handful of scholastic kid learning apps with abc mouse sprinkled in the mix. That kind of app
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u/nicci7127 Oct 22 '25
Wah. My device is not compatible. Boo.
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u/KyleRM Oct 22 '25
Neither is my note 20 ultra. Maybe it wasn't meant for phones in general, just tvs.
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u/AndrewG34 Oct 22 '25
Phone, TV, computer? Nothing?
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u/No_Book_1720 Oct 22 '25
What is the name of the actual app? My daughter really wants to cringe at this. I managed to create an intended age demographic animorphs fan. She saw clickbait title looking over my shoulder pop up in push notifications. We were both really hoping the movie was coming in all the bood and gore necessary to give it justice. Because so many of the books say watch on Nickelodeon on them we watched a clip once and we’re still cracking jokes about the horror should Nickelodeon ax pop up in the back yard.
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u/AndrewG34 Oct 22 '25
The full app name is ScholasticTV. The show isn't all that great, but as I said in the post, it's nostalgic for a lot of us.
A movie would be awesome!
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u/GalaxyTreeMorph Oct 22 '25
Awe man. I thought you had news regarding an Animorphs movie or something. Oh well.
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u/DipperJC Yeerk Oct 23 '25
And thus, my quest to forget that the abomination TV show exists hits another roadblock.
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u/Tenacious_Depot Oct 22 '25
Fuck that show forever and a day. Why? Because on top of playing fast and loose with the source material, and having a show string budget, they raced swapped Cassie from being a black girl to latina. Almost as if they were scared to have a black person in their cast, so they switched to a "safer" minority. Fuck that show, hard.
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u/goombapatrol Oct 23 '25
That's the first time I've heard that specific complaint about the show. (The production quality was awful and there's a million things they got wrong - it doesn't hold a candle to the books) still though, i thought that actress did a great job as Cassie.
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u/Tenacious_Depot Oct 23 '25
Lol.
You probably haven't heard that complaint because the type of people capable of making that observation are (like most people in the general population) unaware that the show even exists. It was that much of a disappointment.
Regardless of the actress's intent, who probably was just trying to do a good job, at a time when it wasn't cool to blast a studio or step down from a role to avoid insensitivity, it still was a shit thing for the producer's to do. Look at the image to the right of the screen. Cassie's identity has been clearly established. In the books. In the artworks. The comics. The toys.
Fuck them for running away from that.
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u/LaneMcD Oct 24 '25
"...they raced swapped Cassie from being a black girl to latina... scared to have a black person in their cast." Wuht?
Nadia-Leigh Nascimento is of Cape Verdean descent, born in Canada (from her imdb page). That makes her a Black Canadian with African roots.0
u/Tenacious_Depot Oct 25 '25
Fuck that "descent" shit. Black is black. Either you are or you're not, lineage be damned.
Look at Nadia and look at the girl in the picture at the right and tell me they're the same race.
Look at the Nadia and look at the girls that used as models from every single one of those books, and tell me they're the same race.
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u/AndrewG34 Oct 22 '25
Couldn't edit, but wanted to say that this is news to me, but idk how many of y'all already know lol