80s Cartoons

Boba Fett · Post by **Boba Fett** » 2003-07-07 06:20am

Transformers

G.I. Joe

Masters of the Universe (He-man)

Spiderman

Now my favourite is Dexter's Laboratory.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-07-07 09:07am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:Action Force. I remember before GI Joe came in and took over it was Action Force. I had all the toys and boycotted it when the yanks took over. I kept hoping their'd be a misunderstanding and that the fight with cobra would become a 3-way. I was dissapointed.
What is Action Force?

Action Force was the britishversion og GI Joe untill they decided to merge the 2. Kinda about the same time our Marathon bars became Snickers.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-07-07 09:31am

GI Joe. hands down the best cartoon ever

Transformerswas really cool, the old school transformers anyway.
I also was really into Star Blazers when i was really young....back in like '80-'81. Funny thing, the Cartoon Network website had the second season online and i watched most of it simply in awe of it's cheesyness and complete lack of scientific understanding. come on now, smoke and flames in space? lol And when they magicly restored life on earth, everything grew back, including all of the Skyscrapers in Tokyo!

and does anyone remember Danger Mouse?

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-07 11:27am

Lord Pounder wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:Action Force. I remember before GI Joe came in and took over it was Action Force. I had all the toys and boycotted it when the yanks took over. I kept hoping their'd be a misunderstanding and that the fight with cobra would become a 3-way. I was dissapointed.
What is Action Force?
Action Force was the britishversion og GI Joe untill they decided to merge the 2. Kinda about the same time our Marathon bars became Snickers.

What was the difference??

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-07-07 02:21pm

My absolute favorite cartoon as a kid was Voltron, the one with the five robotic cats that joined to form Voltron.

RadiO · Post by **RadiO** » 2003-07-07 02:48pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Lord Pounder wrote:
Action Force was the britishversion og GI Joe untill they decided to merge the 2. Kinda about the same time our Marathon bars became Snickers.
What was the difference??

Hey, one I can answer. In the early 80s, Palitoy marketed a range of small military figures based off Action Man, which was the name that G.I Joe was very successfully marketed under in Britain. These figures, which were similar in construction to Kenner's SW range and had very few named characters, sold well and lasted in stores until 1985-ish. Thereafter the range changed to include the more familiar US figures and vehicles, which had very few alterations except new decals and some slight tweaking in the character backgrounds (namely changing some birthplaces to international locations).
When Action Force really became successful (after a brand relaunch in the late 80s) the background to Action Force was reworked. It was now the European wing of the same UN-style organisation that G.I Joe represented in the Americas. Action Force was controlled from a secure bunker hidden in the London Underground, and was commanded by Flint (who, here at least, was a Brit).
After the good times went, Action Force was eventually replaced as a brand by G.I Joe, and the European birthplaces went with it. Shame... Did you know that here Footloose was Scottish, Tripwire was Welsh (IIRC), Airtight was German and Alpine was French?

johnmarkley · Post by **johnmarkley** » 2003-07-08 06:06am

Rye wrote:OK...these are 90s cartoons, but i'd just like to say my views.

There were 2 sonic the hedgehog cartoons, one was childish and followed the tried and tested same-plot-every-episode method of making kids like it . There was the usual for its ilk: the bungling bad guy, dr robotnik, his bungling sidekicks, and the hero and his sidekick, who always said "funny" heroic things after effortlessly defeating the bad guy.

Now the other one...that was a different story...well not really, it still had robotnik, but he was a proper villain, and had taken over most of Sonic's world. Sonic was the leader of an animal vs robots resistance, and it was much darker, had proper stories, and was drawn much better. The shame was, the rubbish tried and tested sonic was favoured, presumably because it was much easier to produce, but IT WAS SHIT.

...my views.

Didn't the crappy version of the Sonic show have the guy who played Urkel as the voice of Sonic?

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2003-07-08 10:16am

I got to give props to the Ghostbusters cartoon--it takes balls to have Cthulhu appears as a guest start not once but TWICE!

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-08 10:40am

Majin Gojira wrote:I got to give props to the Ghostbusters cartoon--it takes balls to have Cthulhu appears as a guest start not once but TWICE!

The thing is - wouldn't Lovecraft considered "Ghostbusters" to be far too juvenile and immature for Cthulhu??

(OK - he might have argued in a letter that "Yog-Sothoth is a basically immature conception and unfit for really serious literature", but Cthulhu is not Yog-Sothoth)

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-07-08 11:49am

I thr and forget about Danger Mouse. Throught my childhood i was tormented by chants of "Penfold" where ever i went. I used to have Penfold in my Advatar, Still use it on Space Battles.

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2003-07-08 11:51am

Maybe, but they treated Cthulhu with a greet deal of respect -- Their proton pakc were useless against the Star Spawn of Cthulhu, and were hardly felt by Cthulhu himself.

Egon said something along the lines of "Cthulhu makes Gozer look like Slimer" or something to that effect. Later he states that Cthulhu is 'More powerful than anything we've ever faced before...he's off the charts".

Sure, it didn't have the maddness or the horror, but it had a great deal of respect for Lovecraft in it. Which is the best you can hope for in an 80s cartoon. Plus their was a Soggoth.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-07-08 04:29pm

Majin Gojira wrote:Plus their was a Soggoth.

What's that???

I've heard of Shoggoths, Shaggoths and Shuggoths - even Shaggaroth and Shaggathoth, but not of Soggoths.

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2003-07-08 04:45pm

Sorry, Typo: Shoggoth. My bad.