Did this cartoon actually exist?

OrangeDaisy

Me and my buddies were talking about cartoons we used to watch as a child and I remember watching one I think it was about the center of the earth or something? It had a really cool theme tune too. None of my friends remember seeing it though does anyone have any ideas?

steveone

means nothing to me, can you elaborate?

Chauncey_freak

I remember this!!! Been trying to find it for ages with no luck tho

I think it was a french cartoon originally. It looked a little like Ulysses 31 from what i remember. There were these 2 talking little armadillo things - are we thinking of the same thing?

starn

Wass is Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea

The story concerns a fictional lost city, Arkadia (named after the poetical fantasy land of Arcadia), resembling a small Alderson Disk. This ancient civilization escaped a Great Cataclysm by relocating deep within the Earth, and was not aware life continued on the Earth's crust. Hoping to keep them safely away from the surface, their elders sealed all records of their past in the city's Archives. They survive by the light of an artificial sun, the Tehra (Shagma), but it is dying, and something must be done. With no other options, a few Arkadian children defy the law and enter the Archives. Armed with information about the world above, they create a messenger, Arkana, and send her to find help.

She encounters two siblings from the surface, Matt (Bob) and Rebecca, and brings them back through the underground strata to save Arkadia. They travel in a living spaceship called Tehrig (ShagShag), along with Spartakus (a wanderer) and Bic and Bac (a couple of pangolins).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartakus_and_the_Sun_Beneath_the_Sea

starn

Chauncey_freak wrote: »

. It looked a little like Ulysses 31 from what i remember.

Unfortunatly time has not been good to Ulysses

tk123

Yeah my guess was spartakus too - but i was running out the door in work and didnt have time to post!

Chauncey_freak

Waa!!! Been looking for this many years. You have made a jaded, bitter cynic happy.

starn wrote: »

Unfortunatly time has not been good to Ulysses

It's always sad when cartoons you loved as a kid turn out to be a bit crap. Made a vow to not watch Dogtanian because so many shows were ruined by too-high expectations ;P

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starn wrote: »

Unfortunatly time has not been good to Ulysses

OI!!!!

:mad::mad:

captain caveman

Ah lads... thanks so much for this!! i actually began to think i'd imagined this show! but in the back of my head i remembered having the toys so it had to be real.:)

OrangeDaisy

Oh my God thats it!!!!! I used to love it.....thanks so much!!!

dlofnep

Wow, good find. I remember Spartakus.. Just barely though. It has a "Mysterious Cities of Gold" feel about it.

seanybiker

dlofnep wrote: »

Wow, good find. I remember Spartakus.. Just barely though. It has a "Mysterious Cities of Gold" feel about it.

mysterious city of gold FTW