Topic: 80s Cartoons

[Monty]

Came across this site:

http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/

Its worth visiting just to here those theme tunes again.

A walk down nostalgia lane for those who are interested...

I heard the Thundercats Bloopers recording off that site. Hilarious!

[Clark Kent]

Very cool IUi laready have seaon 1 and part of season two of the transformers on DVD, well worth it.  Now I just need to get voltron, he-man, and GI Joe.

[Mentat Jon]

Our Starblazers!!!!!!

[J. Carney]

VOLTRON!!

I thought that I was the only one that remembered that show!

Awesome!

[kmelew]

VOLTRON!!

I thought that I was the only one that remembered that show!

Awesome!

Weren't there two Voltron series?

[J. Carney]

VOLTRON!!

I thought that I was the only one that remembered that show!

Awesome!

Weren't there two Voltron series?

Yeah- one that had the 5 lions in it... that one was good; and one that had like these little car-thingies in it... thta one sucked.

[Clark Kent]

Car voltron so totally bit dung covered monkey hiney.

[J. Carney]

Car voltron so totally bit dung covered monkey hiney.

DARN SKIPPY!!!

And besides, the chick in Princess that piloted Blue Lion was me and my little brother's introduction to anime girls.

Mind you, I like the real ones better, but I think that it's cool to sometimes escape to a world where the women actually LISTEN!!!

[Clark Kent]

remember the episode where they all went swimming in the moat and princess lost her top?

[J. Carney]

remember the episode where they all went swimming in the moat and princess lost her top?

ROFL... Yeah. I was like, 8-10 years old and my Mom ran over and cut the TV off!!!

"They shouldn't put that filthy stuff in a cartoon!"

Even back then I couldn't help but think "But Betty Boop walks around in her underware."

I gotta findme some episdes of that Voltron somewhere. I'm getting all nostalgic.

And has anyone seen the new Optimus Prime that they put out. He's identical to the old original one save 2 details:

1.) this one is 2 feet tall.

2.) this one is $60.00.

My original was, like $10 and it was the most expensive thing I got that year.

[kmelew]

[I gotta findme some episdes of that Voltron somewhere. I'm getting all nostalgic.

And has anyone seen the new Optimus Prime that they put out. He's identical to the old original one save 2 details:

1.) this one is 2 feet tall.

2.) this one is $60.00.

My original was, like $10 and it was the most expensive thing I got that year.

A couple of years ago I got a lion-Voltron set for my nephew (assemble the five lions to create Voltron).  I remember when it first came out in the '80's--it was made by Matchbox I believe and cost almost $100!!  The one I got my nephew was about $20.

I'd love to see Voltron on DVD!

GAH!! Now I got the theme music for Voltron going around in my head!!

[AncientAngel]

Macross & Robotech.

[Monty]

I'm looking for an online episode guide to the Taz-mania episdoes.... all i can find is episode titles.

[Don Karnage]

there are 3 voltron, the first i think was the car boat and plane, the 2th was a 3 robot merging together and forming a 6 arm robot (i never see this one) and the 3th is the 5 lion robot, there a kinda new voltron serie made with computer animation and it suck a lot, the story is bad and predictable and the animation is bad, the motion of the lion forming voltron is bad compare to the old cartoon.

also there one cartoon from the 80's call cadillac cat, remeber with the cute cleo the white cat girl friend of rif raf?, that was not bad, also one verry boring was fat albert, a good one was visionary but the made only 13 episode, the new he-man is cool, the is also she-ra, tmnt, connan.   thats all i remember for now 

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

Macross & Robotech.

Amen, Brother!


Now, THAT was Space Opera!

[The_Joker]

I was a Transformers kind of guy.  Here I am, almost 31 years old, I've still got some of them....LOL.  For those wondering, I've still got Optimus Prime, Bluestreak, Blaster, Jetfire, Thundercracker, Soundwave and Jazz.

[Clark Kent]

Jazz was cool in both the series and the toy.  It always ticked me off how the best transformers didn't get nearly as much attention after optimus died.  BTW, Rodimus Prime sucked dung covered donkey hiney as well.
Car voltron came after lion voltron- one of the dudes from the original team- the dude who the prnicess replaced in the blue lion- was in it if i remember correctly.  Never saw the third one, or heard of it, but did see the 3d voltron with most of the original voices, but truly, it did suck.

[Durin]

Macross & Robotech.

Amen, Brother!


Now, THAT was Space Opera!

Oh yeah... I loved em..  I thought that was what  Iwas going to get out of Gundam..  man was I wrong.

[DAnahos_XC]

Macross & Robotech.

Amen, Brother!


Now, THAT was Space Opera!

Oh yeah... I loved em..  I thought that was what  Iwas going to get out of Gundam..  man was I wrong.

Gundam W is pretty awesome.

Nice to know I wasn't the only Cartoon fanatic around.

Robotech was still better then Gundam W.

Star blazers is my favorite.

The original Japanese versions of Starblazers (Space Battle Ship Yamato) are the best.


What about modern cartoons? Most bite...but Yu-Gi-Oh rocks. Plus the Japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh is intense. Parents would freak if they saw the uncut versions...

[Sethan]

No one has mentioned the best of the 80's cartoons:  Heavy Metal.

[KnightAdvancer]

Macross & Robotech.

Amen, Brother!


Now, THAT was Space Opera!

Oh yeah... I loved em..  I thought that was what  Iwas going to get out of Gundam..  man was I wrong.

Gundam W is pretty awesome.

Nice to know I wasn't the only Cartoon fanatic around.

Robotech was still better then Gundam W.

Star blazers is my favorite.

The original Japanese versions of Starblazers (Space Battle Ship Yamato) are the best.


What about modern cartoons? Most bite...but Yu-Gi-Oh rocks. Plus the Japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh is intense. Parents would freak if they saw the uncut versions...

I like Gundam 0083 and 8th MS Team the best. Gundam SEED seems interesting, but suffers from the newtype/superhuman junk.

I also favor Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X, Cowboy Bebop, and Wolf's Rain. Megas XLR is a riot, and Samurai Jack must be considered among the finest cartoons ever made.

[AlienLXIX]

  I used to run home after school (this being my 7th to 12th grades) just so that I wouldn't miss Robotech!  Yeah I'd even run home for the re- re- runs.  Sad huh?  But it was my first ever true taste of anime.  I don't count Starblazers because I just couldn't get into the art.  I mean you look at a girl who is *screaming* Mark! Mark! Mark! but her mouth barely opens!  Then you get that big bad guy what's-his-name who has a mouth like a cavern when he laughs.  It's just freaky.

Akira rocks!  Have you ever read the Manga?

[Age]

Macross & Robotech.

Amen, Brother!


Now, THAT was Space Opera!

Oh yeah... I loved em..  I thought that was what  Iwas going to get out of Gundam..  man was I wrong.

Gundam W is pretty awesome.

Nice to know I wasn't the only Cartoon fanatic around.

Robotech was still better then Gundam W.

Star blazers is my favorite.

The original Japanese versions of Starblazers (Space Battle Ship Yamato) are the best.


What about modern cartoons? Most bite...but Yu-Gi-Oh rocks. Plus the Japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh is intense. Parents would freak if they saw the uncut versions...

I like Gundam 0083 and 8th MS Team the best. Gundam SEED seems interesting, but suffers from the newtype/superhuman junk.

I also favor Yu Yu Hakusho, Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X, Cowboy Bebop, and Wolf's Rain. Megas XLR is a riot, and Samurai Jack must be considered among the finest cartoons ever made.

Tremok you can't do the withe out thing anymore oh well.I never used to watch that show I was a little to old for it.The Flintstones that another thing or the Munsters.I always like Danny on the Partridge Family.I guess it is and was becuase of hair colour and practical jokes.

[DAnahos_XC]

I used to run home after school (this being my 7th to 12th grades) just so that I wouldn't miss Robotech!  Yeah I'd even run home for the re- re- runs.  Sad huh?  But it was my first ever true taste of anime.  I don't count Starblazers because I just couldn't get into the art.  I mean you look at a girl who is *screaming* Mark! Mark! Mark! but her mouth barely opens!  Then you get that big bad guy what's-his-name who has a mouth like a cavern when he laughs.  It's just freaky.

Akira rocks!  Have you ever read the Manga?

It's not sad to run home to a cartoon. I remember one time some news special or something cut into Starblazers. It was past 3 o clock and I'm freaking. I then called the station in semi panic mode and asked if they were going to broadcast Starblazers! Five minutes after I hung up, I heard the theme song and smiled. I'm sure I wasn't the only one in Tampa who called in that day. Pretty brave for a little squirt, hey?

Regarding the voice-overs and the "bad dialouge" it's just bad dubbing, like when a network shows "Smokey and the Bandit" In prime time and you hear Burt and Jackie go "DARN you..." Battle Of The Planets (real name Gatchaman) is the same way.

[Holocat]

The Real Ghostbusters!  WOO HOO!!!  That car is sooooo cool.

The campy western bretheren of Shin Megami Tensei, which is good, since if Tensei were something I could watch as a kid, it would probably scare me to death, hee.

Now, if I could only find that opening bit to the Muppet Show...

[Astarte]

Now, if I could only find that opening bit to the Muppet Show...

There's a list of some of the openings and how they were.  Which opening did you want in particular is I think the question you need to ask.

http://members.tripod.com/themuppetshow2002/id52.htm

[Aldaron_Nirantani]

Anyone remember Galaxy Rangers?

[Don Karnage]

[color=Teal][/color] i don't remeber that show, what is it?, also something from the late 60's early 70's call banana split.

[Holocat]

Now, if I could only find that opening bit to the Muppet Show...

There's a list of some of the openings and how they were.  Which opening did you want in particular is I think the question you need to ask.

http://members.tripod.com/themuppetshow2002/id52.htm

Any one I can get my curious little paws on, preferably a movie clip or mp3.  I think I have a midi already.

Edit:  Holy Shmoley!  M.A.S.K.!  I nearly forgot about this.  Those transforming toys that I constantly tried to find out how they worked a la screwdriver science were so cool!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have several people to annoy with the Smurfs theme.

Laaa, LLAAAAAAAAA!, La-La, La-Laaaaaaaa.

Another edit:  Found one. 

Most Sensational,
In-Sperational,
Cele-Brational,
Muppet-Tational,

THIS-IS-WHAT-WE-CALL-THE-MUP-PET-SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

Yet another edit: found a similiar themesong link here. 

And just remember, perhaps you can Hire the A-Team.

[Reverend]

I remeber Galaxy Rangers...

I enjoyed re-runs of Voltron, first He-Man, and the Real Ghostbusters...

Funny thing about the two Voltrons, was the car/plane suffered the same problem tht the lion one did... without a component, they could not build the great robot... the car/plane one ran into that at least every other episode, as at least one of the 10 or 15 vehicles wa stuck, or the RoBeast was holding it, or something.
The lion one defeated that problem, I recall still in one of my favorite episodes of the lion one. They kept getting beat up by this red Robeast... he was really fast, like faster than the lions. I had always wanted to see this, and it disappointed me in a way, but was cool in another... the lions were all beat up by this red guy, the finally get the strength to all leap up and get into space formation to join up... well, here comes that red guy while theyre all trasnforming, clinking together.... this red guy comes up right in the middle of the little ritual, disturbs the stock music and everything, and tries to knock the black lion, the main one, out. Well, drat........they had a force field on when they go through the tansformation process, so, they were untouchable until it was complete...bah!! Drat!

He-man, the new series couldn't touch the old one. The new one stinks so bad, when Adam becomes He-man, there's no ''accidentally' upped volume, no great light show, no music, no echo, nothing. For as dorky as the old He-man was, the transformation scene was always prety awesome, and the later episodes got pretty creative. I swear, during the old He-man's trasnformation, they upped the volume in the mixing by 15%, just enough to make my father mad at 7:30 in the morning....
"nooo... ill get you... here's the sword... SCHWINK! BY THE POWER OF ....ZZZT ...(SINGING) HE-MAN!!!!!..ZZZT!!!"
about now, I ma jumping up to turn off the volume, and enter my father, the old gunfighter..."BOY. ...YOU TURN DOWN YOUR STUPID AMERICAN CARTOON, OR ILL GET HIS SWORD AND BEAT YOU WITH IT"

how's this.... I bet none of you will remeber this one, we got repeats from England of them....
I believe it was the same people tht made He-man (Filmation), so on..
Black Star (series), and
Tarzan (not Disney, but a series)....
both were pretty clean looking, but I dont think they were on very long... cannot find anything about them either, at all...
and, I managed to obtain about every episode of the one the few cartoons to get actually removed from TV... Dungeons and Dragons.

[Aldaron_Nirantani]

http://www.loony-archivist.com/rangers/

The Galaxy Rangers

And who can forget Battle of the Planets

http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/botp.html

[Don Karnage]

i never see that show, but i remember another show whit a mechanical horse call 30 30, also here another show but m not sure about the title, cop's, the chef of the cops was B.P. Bullet proof, the crook where always out of jail and the genius of the villain have is brain in a glass on is head, the son of the villain boss what a moron.

[Grand Master of Shadows NCC37385]

Well, if the truth be told. I have never heard of most of those cartoons. I lost interest, for the most part, in cartoons by the time I was 11 or 12. The few I do remember are Starblazers, Speedracer(?), and GI-Joe.

Speaking of transforming machines. Anyone remember the Japanese show about the rockets? I think one of them was named Goldar. Sorta reminded me of the old Ultraman show.

[Don Karnage]

not sure, also i remember another 80's cartoon call go-bot, a bad imitation of transformers.

[Clark Kent]

Oh, do not bring up go bots- very few thingsz could compete with that one on its level of suckage.

[Don Karnage]

waldo kitty was not too bad for the 80's.

[J. Carney]

Well, if the truth be told. I have never heard of most of those cartoons. I lost interest, for the most part, in cartoons by the time I was 11 or 12. The few I do remember are Starblazers, Speedracer(?), and GI-Joe.

Speaking of transforming machines. Anyone remember the Japanese show about the rockets? I think one of them was named Goldar. Sorta reminded me of the old Ultraman show.

That was Go-Bots, alright.

[Grand Master of Shadows NCC37385]

Well, if the truth be told. I have never heard of most of those cartoons. I lost interest, for the most part, in cartoons by the time I was 11 or 12. The few I do remember are Starblazers, Speedracer(?), and GI-Joe.

Speaking of transforming machines. Anyone remember the Japanese show about the rockets? I think one of them was named Goldar. Sorta reminded me of the old Ultraman show.

That was Go-Bots, alright.

Karnage said that Go=Bots was a cartoon. This was like Ultraman in that it had Japanese actors.

[Grand Master of Shadows NCC37385]

After a bit of looking I finally found it. It was called Space Giants. It was a late 60's Japanese show shown in the US in the late 70's. Goldar was a 50 ft. robot that transformed into a rocket, as was his wife and kid, even though they looked "human".

[Dash Jones]

Someone said the uncut versions of Yu-Gi-O had some interesting things, what type of items are in it?

[Don Karnage]

Samuray pizza cats was bah.
it was a bad imitation of the tmnt from the 80s

[Holocat]

I'll admit that Samauri Pizza Cats was pretty boring in english, but I still stand behind the premise of cute fuzzy kitties and giant mecha-robot things. :3

[Clark Kent]

Also of particular note: Ducktales, Darkwing Duck and Tailspin.  Good shows all around.

[The_Joker]

Its not from the eighties, and I was in my mid twenties when I got hooked on them, but I'm ashamed to admit to watching Cow and Chicken and Johnny Bravo(Man, I'm Pretty). 

[Clark Kent]

Johny Bravo rocks mam!!
HU HA HU!!!