'That 直面する is unsettling as hell': Barney fans SLAM the purple dinosaur's new look after getting a CGI makeover from Mattel

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Barney's new look is 直面するing scrutiny across social マスコミ, after?Mattel, Inc 明かすd his CGI makeover?on Monday while teasing the 再発進する of his beloved franchise.?

In 返答 to?the purple dinosaur's new look, which 含むd a wider grin, gap between his teeth and green 注目する，もくろむs, many were left wondering why the company choose to 直す／買収する，八百長をする some that 'wasn't broken.'??

'Why does Barney look like he’s sky high 割れ目d on コカイン? That 直面する is unsettling as hell,' one Twitter 使用者 asked as more?表明するd horror over his new 直面する and teeth.

Another joked that Barney underwent a 'buccal fat 除去.'

'They gave Barney 接触するs, a nose 職業 and bigger veneers. Sad,' a third social マスコミ 使用者 penned on social マスコミ.

Dianna De La Garza, whose daughter?Demi Lovato rose to fame portraying Angela on Barney & Friends in seasons seven and eight, also jumped into the conversation.?

'Aww man… I hate change,' she wrote of?the new 見解／翻訳／版 of Barney, which is 完全に animated.

On Monday, Mattel, Inc. 発表するd it will be 再発進するing the beloved franchise as it 明かすd their modernized new 見解／翻訳／版 of the beloved Tyrannosaurus rex.

The 活力回復 will occur across television, film, YouTube, music, toys, 調書をとる／予約するs, 着せる／賦与するing, and more, a 圧力（をかける） 解放（する） for the 再発進する 明らかにする／漏らすd.

Mattel is also developing a line of apparel and 従犯者s of the 初めの Barney for adult fans. In 新規加入, a new animated series for preschool children is 予定するd to debut globally in 2024.

News of the 再発進する comes five months after Peacock 解放（する）d I Love You, You Hate Me, a?docu-series 調査するing the 'dark 味方する' of the world of Barney.?

Much like the 初めの program, 'the series will feature the ubiquitous purple dinosaur and friends, introducing new audiences to the world of Barney through music-filled adventures 中心d on love, community, and 激励,' によれば the 解放（する）.

'Barney's message of love and 親切 has stood the 実験（する） of time,' Josh Silverman, 長，指導者 Franchise Officer and 全世界の 長，率いる of 消費者 製品s at Mattel, said.

'We will tap into the nostalgia of the 世代s who grew up with Barney, now parents themselves, and introduce the iconic purple dinosaur to a new 世代 of kids and families around the world across content, 製品s, and experiences.'

Fred Soulie, SVP and General 経営者／支配人 of Mattel Television, said: 'In creating the new series, it was important to us that we 適切に 反映する the world that kids today live in so that the series can 配達する meaningful lessons about navigating it.

'With our modern take on Barney, we hope to 奮起させる the next 世代 to listen, care, and dream big. We think that parents, many of whom will 情愛深く remember the 初めの Barney from their own childhoods, will love the show, too.'

Created by Sheryl Leach, Barney & Friends 初めは debuted in 1992 and 回転するd around the purple dinosaur and his group of friends.?It also helped 開始する，打ち上げる the career of a young Selena Gomez, who appeared on the show.?

Th e show ran until 2010, and にもかかわらず it remaining a favorite amongst children and their parents, it was still a 的 of 激しい mockery.?

That （激しい）反発 was 調査するd in the 2021 Peacock docu-series, I Love You, You Hate Me - a play off the Barney 主題 song, I Love You, You Love Me.?

When the trailer dropped, it sent people who grew up watching Barney flocking to social マスコミ to 株 their hilarious reactions.?

Barney spawned a cottage 産業 of toys, 商品／売買する, and live public 業績／成果s that pulled in tens of thousands of frenzied nursery school fans.?

As the Peacock docuseries 詳細（に述べる）s, 割れ目s began to appear in the incessantly-楽観的な world of the beloved T-Rex with a radiant Colgate smile.?

Adults 設立する him insufferable, and Barney became a catalyst for hate and the 支配する of vitriolic gossip. 噂するs also 疫病／悩ますd the show.?

Those who worked on the show 設立する themselves on the receiving end of savage 脅しs: 'They were violent and explicit, death and dismemberment of my family,' said （頭が）ひょいと動く West, who was the 初めの 発言する／表明する of Barney. 'They were going to come and find me, and they were going to kill me.'

'Barney bashing' turned into a 国家の pastime with 組織するd events and clubs such as 'The Jihad to Destroy Barney,' which was an online 会議 '献身的な to defamation, humiliation, eradication, 殺人，大当り, and 除去 of Barney the Purple Dinosaur... from every human's life.'

But the saddest 運命／宿命 was saved for Sheryl Leach and her son Patrick, whom the show was 初めは 奮起させるd by in 1988 when Sheryl 認めるd a need for content to 占領する her rambunctious two-year-old.

As it turns out, no 量 of fame, fortune, and Barney's '広大な／多数の／重要な big 抱擁するs' could save the Leach family from スキャンダル and upset behind the scenes; in fact, the family was 激しく揺するd by a 素晴らしい 離婚, followed by a 自殺, and then later, Patrick's 2013 逮捕（する） for shooti ng his neighbor.

'In 1988, Sheryl Leach created a monster,' reads the 開始 scene of the doc. 'It was beyond what anybody could ever think would happen,' said a former 従業員.