This HAS to be a joke! Please?

what happend ? He got older and got lazy...

Kit reminds me of my Casa 212 Instructor.

I mean what did you expect? He's a BEAR. It's not like they would just take his kid appearance, stretch out the limbs and call him an adult., as you seem to have done.

The thing is, being a bear doesn't necessarily mean he's going to look like Baloo. Rick Sky is also a brown bear character in Talespin who has the body shape that we would have expected Kit to have as an adult. So being a bear in that world doesn't automatically = fat.

I'm pretty disappointed by Kit's design, too. I would have expected him to take on more of the daring sky pilot look, and not the portly air trucker look.

Though I'm with the "he's a bear" line of thought, that's easily refuted by the sexual dimorphism that is Rebecca. (Then again, cartoon women of that era weren't allowed to not be curvy so...)

Yeah, I was going to originally counter with Rebecca, but it's clear that she and Molly are thin as a purely aesthetic choice to differentiate the sexes. Plus most male bears in the show ARE portly, so it seems like the "fat bear" design is intended by default. The Rick Sky example is the only one that's different, but it does at least show that even male bears can come in smaller sizes.

Even in real bears, they're not all fat like Baloo. That's a cartoon stereotype. Not to mention that Disney reuses Baloo (Little John, Baloo from Jungle Book, Baloo from TaleSpin). But more to the point, it's rare in cartoons that we see a character go from young to old. There's actually little evidence that all cartoon bears go from thin as cubs to fat as adults.

But other examples are Rusty from Little Bear. He's hefty, but he's muscular, not fat. Brother Bear isn't that kind of hyper-pear shape either - looking much more like a realistic bear. Baloo has more in common with the Country Bears than with other cartoon bears. Heck, even Yogi Bear, who arguably has the pear shape isn't this exaggerated.

Also, Kit may call Baloo 'poppa bear', it's clear in the show that they're not actually related, so the 'inherited physique' concept doesn't hold up here either.

But in truth, my biggest complaint with the reboot is that it's lazy. They took Baloo's body and slapped a comedic goofy face on it. It doesn't even look like Kit. He looks... Goofy. Even Baloo doesn't look like that. And the scale of the head doesn't match the body. It's too small and the neck looks wrong.

I have similar complaints with their new Don Karnage who at least is in the same ballpark as the original, but the new design elements make him look... simplified and badly drawn.

Just what we were not asking for, but Disney is going to force it down our throats anyways. And the sheep will come to gorge on the slop they offer. Ugh! :(

A quick edit to my above post. I found a site that shows something totally different, but it appears it will have the same crappy look an animation as the new DuckTales that I gave up on after the two pilot episodes: https://ideas.fandom.com/wiki/TaleSpin_(Reboot/Revival_TV_Series)

It used to be that fanfiction and art were considered jokes by serious fans of shows, but we seem to have reached an era where fan artists can make better stories and artwork than the original studios!

...Why, Disney? Why would you do this? I don't have as much a problem with him looking like Baloo as much as I do his utterly derped out and idiotic face! I agree, bears should have a more bulky frame, more bulky arms, and be... well, Bear like! Not Baloo with new colors! Kit would not let himself go like that! Not unless something seriously bad happened and destroyed his self esteem. (which could happen) Kit would want to ride his airfoil thingy regardless of his age!

Next time Disney Reboots Talespin, that should make Baloo, Becky, Kit and Molly a real family!

One word: Yuk!

Yeah, it looks like a cheap Baloo recolor.

That's just the grown-up male bear body type, I see nothing wrong with it.

I’ll admit, I thought that Kit would be a lot older since Talespin is supposed take place in the 40s to 50s.

I take it from your comments your not a fan of his adult design.

Mmm, it's not that I have issues with the design itself, it just feels like a weird direction to have gone given what he looked like as a teen (I'm assuming he was a teen in the show given the kind of antics he got into - well, either that or Rebecca is one singularly terrible adult and parent... Baloo well, about what we'd expect. :) )

I agree. I was excepting Kit to be more dashing when he grew up and not a slob. And forget that excuse that people keep saying that he’s suppose to be a bear and basically look the same as Baloo. That’s like saying all the Gummi Bears characters should all look like Tummi Gummi.

I don't really see the issue here. Just because he was a slim kid doesn't mean he'd stay slim as an adult; there are plenty of people who put on weight as adults. While his face looks goofy, that's just one image of him; it's not like he loves ok's like that all the time.

Also, from what I understand, him taking on some of Baloo's appearance and traits was a deliberate homage to him and to Talespin since Baloo himself didn't appear in the episode.

I get that, but Kit isn't related to Baloo and in the show, he's presented as having a specific body type that was abandoned rather out of hand to make him more like a character that isn't in the new show. Compare with Rebecca. She's an adult bear and is slim, so clearly slim bears exist in that world. If kit had been more 'bearish' as a teen, then being more 'Balooish' as an adult would make sense, but it seems arbitrary and to me, off putting. If they wanted a Baloo-like bear - they could have just had Baloo there. Or introduced a new character as a Baloo replacement. But Kit was never like Baloo in form or personality, so to me, it feels strange.