retro cartoons

McUdar

is it just me or did Skeleton Warriors kick ass, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs too.....better than this japanese ****e nowadays anyway

ah the days of Thundercats and Transformers too

Ruu_Old

so true, they dont make cartoons like they used to, nothing half viewable on the telly. my sister sent me a thundercats tshirt from England last week *wears it with pride*

Chong

Thunderthirds were excellent but who here remembers Roger Ramjet.

Glipmac

I remember things like:

1. Transformers
2. Mighty Orebots (power rangers ripped it off later)
3. Thundercats
4. Dreamstone
5. He-man
6. Dundeons and Dragons
7. Sonic Underground
8. Danger mouse
9. Duck Tails

thats all for now i can remember

dlofnep

Willem D wrote:

Thunderthirds were excellent but who here remembers Roger Ramjet.

roger ramjet he's our man
hero of our nation
dodododododododo
and something to the station

Or something... I remember all too well.

monkeyfudge

You may not have noticed but alot of cartoons made these days actually have decent plots, good voice acting, vastly superior animation and running storylines.

Most of the cartoons in the 80's were the same boring stuff every week...

There were some exceptions though, such as the Mysterious Cities of Gold, which was an excellent cartoon with great characters and a wonderful running storyline... it also thought you alot about history as well.

But stuff like Thundercats, He-man and M*A*S*K just did the same thing every week. Transformers wasn't too bad, as they sometimes had 3 part and 5 part sagas but it had really bad animation in it.

At the moment I never miss an episode of Justic League Unlimited. It has some wonderful storylines and a great arc plot going on in the background. It even has romance... It looks like Green Lantern might be hooking up with Hawk Girl again... and Batman and Wonderman have a thing going on too...

dlofnep

Mysterious Cities of Gold was one of my favourite carttons back in the day. My love for it had no bounds. Is it for sale on DVD does anyone know? I can only remember certain bits of it. The guy and girl with the medalions, the monkey looking kid, mendoza, the ship the bird/plane thing and one of the first episodes when the main character is at a shipping port..

Ruu_Old

Mysterious Cities of Gold was quality, i missed the last couple of episodes of it! They dont have a DVD yet of it as far as i know, i wish they would, there is a petition online for it somewhere.

BizzyC

Check out 80stees.com great site for all your retro cartoon t shirts.

monkeyfudge

How good is your French? Mysterious Cities of Gold is only available on a French Language DVD at the moment.

It was actually a French/Japanese co-production. The same people made Ulysses 31.

I got all the episodes of Mysterious Cities of Gold on bad pirate video discs off eBay. I didn't watch them all as the quality was pretty terrible, but the cartoon still seemed great. I've bought He-man and Transformer DVDs and I've found both be pretty terrible by todays standards, but Mysterious Cities of Gold still holds it's own.

I never actually saw the last episode... the BBC didn't bother their arse showing it.

ixoy

FWIW, I also picked up 'Ulysses 31' on DVD and found its stood the test of time by still being remarkably dark for a kids show. Love the setting and some of the music is great too.

zeusnero

I've got to agree with McUdar, i can't watch anime cartoons, imo the shows from the 80s were classics, they made saturday mornings worth waking up for and 3-6pm weekdays was something to look forward to...

Although that being said i guess its the cartoons that are on tv when you're growing up that are the ones you're gonna get attached to.

My favourite cartoons include;

Dogtanian & the 3 muskahounds (have all the episodes on dvd and they're still class)
James bond jr / Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (these 2 go together in my mind for some reason - probably on one after another at some stage)
Original batman series
Count Duckula
Earthworm jim

these are just the ones i can remember offhand

Glipmac

ooh ooh, i forgot:

10. Samuri Pizza Cats
11. Captin planet!
12. Jasce and the wheeled worriors
13. ulisees!

0utshined

BizzyC wrote:

Check out 80stees.com great site for all your retro cartoon t shirts.

Excellent link.

jcoote

jayce and the wheeled warriors and mask

0utshined

Wasn't it M.A.S.K. though?

Yeah it was brilliant anyway. I loved those action figures.

entropi

zeusnero wrote:

Earthworm jim

quite possibly the best cartoon ever made

Danger_Dave

Death Sentence wrote:

quite possibly the best cartoon ever made

Now Now dont be forgeting The Tick, i can never pick a winner between jimmy or tick. However im geting a lend of the tick on dvd,so cant wait to re-watch them, and since you cant get earthworm jim on dvd only got 2 episodes on pc.

ixoy

0utshined wrote:

Wasn't it M.A.S.K. though?

Yeah it was brilliant anyway. I loved those action figures.

Mobile Armored Strike Kommand. It seems spelling wasn't their forté so VENOM (Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem) would've defeated them in a Spelling Bee...

That show inspired my avatar so therefore it must be great.

Another fond one from childhood was 'Robotech' although the DVDs have shown it up a lot...

Pigman II

ixoy wrote:

VENOM (Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem)

Ah those were the days! Back when evil megalomanics just came straight out and admitted what they were rather than calling themselves things like 'Republicans' or 'Democrats'.

Saw some eps of MASK/Jayce/Ulysses on Fox Kids a while back. MASK doesn't hold up well at all. Stupid characters and storylines, racist stereotypes etc. I saw an ep where they were in Holland and tbh it was embarrasing. I'm guessing at this rate they probably did an ep in Ireland too where we all lived in thatched cottages and sustained ourselves on a strict diet potatoes.

Ulysses on the other hand is still class tho. In fact I'd probably go as far as to say I was more impressed watching it as an adult than I ever was when I was a kid!

ixoy

Pigman II wrote:

Saw some eps of MASK/Jayce/Ulysses on Fox Kids a while back. MASK doesn't hold up well at all. Stupid characters and storylines, racist stereotypes etc. I saw an ep where they were in Holland and tbh it was embarrasing. I'm guessing at this rate they probably did an ep in Ireland too where we all lived in thatched cottages and sustained ourselves on a strict diet potatoes.

Really? Oh dear. We could have had a MASK that shot shamrock out, or beer, or shamrock beer with crucifixes...

It's still continuing though. Saw an episode of the Jackie Chan show a couple of years ago, and he came to Ireland. Begorrah, was it riddled with stereotypes.

Ulysses on the other hand is still class tho. In fact I'd probably go as far as to say I was more impressed watching it as an adult than I ever was when I was a kid!

That's what made it such a pleasant surprise to watch after buying it. I expected to find that my fond memories were pure nostalgia - but they weren't. It was actually a good show with a highly innovative design and background. As an adult, you can appreciate the way they worked in the Greek mythos a lot more than as a child. The score to the show is also fantastic.

Plus how can you not respect a kid's show where a character, after learning the error of his ways, is too late and still suffers eternal damnation? HA! In your face preachy moral kids shows!

CiDeRmAn

Give me Battle of the Planets, theres a blast from a distant past, that and there was a japanese puppetshow that had a Queen theme music, the name escapes me but it was on an ITV kids show in the very early '80s, full of cool spaceships and robots and things.

Capt'n Midnight

Noggin the Nog.

spiderlegs

I myself was a big fan of bosco,and what was that really odd cartoon with those white hippoy kinda things, I think they lived in a shoe....Were they called the moomen or something?

mockerydawg

I am shocked, disappointed and slightly aroused that no one has mentioned Batfink. He has a bullet proof cloak for crying out loud.
I also have a DVD or 2 of Ulysses 31, and the first episode is the most Red Commie cartoon I have ever seen. It's almost as Commie as the Eurospar in Thurles. And whats with The Count pub, the one with the 'o' missing?

Dave

monkeyfudge wrote:

At the moment I never miss an episode of Justic League Unlimited. It has some wonderful storylines and a great arc plot going on in the background. It even has romance... It looks like Green Lantern might be hooking up with Hawk Girl again... and Batman and Wonderman have a thing going on too...

"The Batman" is also a very good cartoon, it only started a few weeks ago on Toonami.

Pigman II

Dave wrote:

"The Batman" is also a very good cartoon, it only started a few weeks ago on Toonami.

I had forgotten this had started! Is it as good/better than TAS?

monkeyfudge

Oh it's not a patch on the Batman: The Animated Series.

Bruce Wayne listens to heavy metal music and the Joker has dreadlocks...

...nuff said?

Baine looked kind of cool though.


oh.. and the theme tune is by The Edge.

Pigman II

Hmm, fair enough. I guess I won't be puttting it on my list of things to watch on 'tv' then.

CuLT

Heh, trying to get a hold of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs at the moment myself, impossible to find...

I probably have the same dodgey pirate disks of Mysterious Cities of Gold as monkeyfudge, and the soundtrack too.
I've gotten a hankering for old cartoons recently, nostalgia getting a hold of me.

Realistically though, I agree with monkeyfudge, most modern anime (at least) has much higher production values than old cartoons. Let's not forget, a lot of toons in the 80's and 90's were made to sell toys.

Optimus

Pigman II wrote:

I'm guessing at this rate they probably did an ep in Ireland too where we all lived in thatched cottages and sustained ourselves on a strict diet potatoes.
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Swear to god they did one in ireland about leprachauns.

-BattleTech (mechwarrior cartoon)
-DINO RIDERS!
-Robocop the cartoon

Dave

monkeyfudge wrote:

Oh it's not a patch on the Batman: The Animated Series.

Bruce Wayne listens to heavy metal music and the Joker has dreadlocks...

...nuff said?

Baine looked kind of cool though.


oh.. and the theme tune is by The Edge.

I haven't seen TAS in years so I can't really remember it, but it's a very different batman, alot darker, well worth a watch.

CiDeRmAn

Batman the Animated series, back in the early 90s, before they brought ni Robin, while it still had the Danny Elfman theme music, pure class.
Especially the Sub-Zero origin episode, never saw that type of emotional depth in a saturday morning cartoon before.

iguana

dlofnep wrote:

roger ramjet he's our man
hero of our nation
dodododododododo
and something to the station

Or something... I remember all too well.

Roger Ramjet he's our man,
The hero of our nation,
For his adventures just be sure,
To stay tuned to this station.

I hated that show.

Ry

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors - (Wheeled warriors exPLODE into battle..Lighting STRIKES)

COPS - (It's crime fightin' time..)

Ullyses 31 - (UllysEEEeeeEEEeeeEES)

Voltron - (Did you have the Toys though!? They'd be what power rangers are based on now imo only Voltron was of course Cartoon but so much cooler than power fagnites.)

Mysterious Cities of Gold - (...every daay and night with the condor in flight....Made by the same people that made Ullyses. Some bunch of French dudes as it happens, probably why they were both so damn good. One of the first proper Sci Fi cartoons in Ullyses and both with such intricate storylines compared to other stuff on tv at the time for kids.)

Denver the last Dinosaur should be in there too though he sucked - ("He's my friend and a whole lot more *din din* show's me a world I never sawwww before" something luridly perverse and sinister about that one but anyway :rolleyes: ) The cartoon was ****e. I hated it.

Then yeh you've brave star, thundercats, transformers, heman, gummi bears, dungeons and dragons, jem (cough CMON you know you watched it anyway ), Pole Position, MASK, yadda yadda all the usuals. But rarely are the top 3 or 4 there remembered quickly. Especially Jayce and his Lightning League :P

Ry

Catsmokinpot

1. mask
2. voltron (power rangers copied off it)
3. visionaries
4. jayce and the wheel wariors
5. dino riders
6. brave star (STRENGTH OF A BEAR!!!)
7. Mysterious Cities of Gold
8. he-man
9. captain planet
10. bucky o'hare
11. earthworm jim
12. teenage mutant ninja turtles
13. the three muskateers
14. thundercats
15. denver the dinosaur

does anyone remember that cartoon about the human body, with all the cells and stuff cant remember the name for the life of me

oh yeah and does anyone remember the cartoon with 4 dudes who had these mech suits and they linked to them cant remember what it was called

monkeyfudge

Catsmokinpot wrote:

does anyone remember that cartoon about the human body, with all the cells and stuff cant remember the name for the life of me

That's 'Once Upon a Time... Life'

There was also 'Once Upon a Time... Space' which was my favourite... I loved the robot in it.

There was also a historical one as well. All of them had the same characters in them.

WellyJ

What about the california raisins?

Or the island of the bears?

"On the island of the bears,
There is a rabbit and a ghost,
There is a rabbit and a ghost,

On the island of the bears,
There are balloons that fly around,"


Or something like that.

Creature

Saw an episode of MASK a few months ago, brought back old dusty memories of of opening the Boulder Mountain base toy one Christmas morning .


Gotta agree with what someone said above though. While they may be great for old times sake they don't hold a candle to some of the newer ones like JLU and especially Samurai Jack (one of the best animated programmes ever IMO).

Baine looked kind of cool though.

I thought Bane looked crap :P. Whats worse though was that Batman had to resort to a fukcing mech suit to beat him!

monkeyfudge

Creature wrote:

I thought Bane looked crap :P. Whats worse though was that Batman had to resort to a fukcing mech suit to beat him!

Haha... really? The episode didn't even manage to hold my interest that long...

That's terrible... and no doubt the mech suit was only put in to tie in with the Mech Suit Batman action figure.

Creature

Yeah it was fairly disgraceful alright. I said I wasn't going to watch it again after that but then I was bored one day and the one with the Joker was on. Lets call a spade a spade here; it's not a great show but you've got to love a gun that turns people into giant cards .


Still not a patch on the original animated series...

Ry

Catsmokinpot wrote:

oh yeah and does anyone remember the cartoon with 4 dudes who had these mech suits and they linked to them cant remember what it was called

OMG Man I've been trying to remember that cartoon for YEARS. I was going to ask if anyone remembered it but no one EVER does. The green red and blue dudes with all the mad vehicles and **** that they kinda transformed into and stuff. Kinda like Tron almost. They used to show it on cartoon network who were one of the last channels to still televise it afaik lost in time now.

There was also that Holograms cartoon which they spawned like animals from their staves which had holographic images. The toys had all these hologram shields on their chests and stuff they were cool.

STARCOM too another great line of toys came from that. No batteries needed just magnets and stuff like that. It was fantastic.

Ry

Pigman II

Are you talking about Centurions by any chance?
http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/605.html

I think the one with the holograms was called Visionaries btw

Ry

Pigman II wrote:

Are you talking about Centurions by any chance?
http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/605.html

I think the one with the holograms was called Visionaries btw

You f*cking LEGEND. Man one by air one by land one by sea ****in excellent. Had the toys.

And VISIONARIES I remember the name now Classic. Hologram pwoea!r11

Check this for a few sites about all the classics.

http://www.sfxb.co.uk/other80sstuff/multimedia.html

Has a Cops site too and visionaries and all of the old ones no one ever remembers

Ry

Ruu_Old

Catsmokinpot wrote:

1. mask
2. voltron (power rangers copied off it)
3. visionaries
4. jayce and the wheel wariors
5. dino riders
6. brave star (STRENGTH OF A BEAR!!!)
7. Mysterious Cities of Gold
8. he-man
9. captain planet
10. bucky o'hare
11. earthworm jim
12. teenage mutant ninja turtles
13. the three muskateers
14. thundercats
15. denver the dinosaur

does anyone remember that cartoon about the human body, with all the cells and stuff cant remember the name for the life of me

oh yeah and does anyone remember the cartoon with 4 dudes who had these mech suits and they linked to them cant remember what it was called

FINALLY! Someone mentions Bucky O'Hare, i posted a thread ages ago and no one replied, shame on you ppl Great cartoon and had the comic too!

In another Dimension, another Time and Space
A Parallel Universe was fallin' on its Face
When out of the Chaos, who else could it be
Bucky Animal-Adventurers is on S.P.A.C.E.

Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare!
Mutants and Aliens and Toads beware!
You're looking for Adventure? Well, this is it,
With Jenny, Deadeye, Blinky, and Willy DuWitt

I said Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare!
"And now, an update on Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars!"

In the Battle of the Aniverse, you don't know what's next
You only know Amphibians have made it KOMPLEX!
When you check out your Scanner and the Evil that it shows
There's only one course of action: Let's croak us some Toads!

Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare!
He goes where no ordinary Rabbit would dare!
If your Righteous Indignation has suffered a hit
And your Photon Accelerator is broken a bit
And you're losing your mind, and you're having a fit
Get the funky fresh Rabbit who can take care of it!

Bucky! Captain Bucky O'Hare!
You say Bucky? I said Bucky!
Bucky O'Hare!
Let's croak us some Toads!

Catsmokinpot

Pigman II wrote:

Are you talking about Centurions by any chance?
http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/605.html

I think the one with the holograms was called Visionaries btw

ah man legend! that was killing me inside for ages!!! :cool:

stormkeeper

I remember Interbang, Battletech and Knightmare as well... quite good shows, oh and the original Turtles series, that was quite good. I also loved The Real Ghostbusters, and Ghostbusters wasn't too shabby either...

tintinr35

i swear i have been trying to remember the name of this cartoon for years now and no one else can either
it was an island of bears that looked like the wookies from star wars
they had some medallion round their neck where in times of trouble they called upon some totem poll thing in the shape of a bear and on its head was an eagle thing and it stood on a turtle
**now im confused**
anyone who can name this for me gets a cheque for 1 million euro!! :eek:

Siogfinsceal

Im a total addict I buy all the retro stuff on Ebay!! I got one guy to make me a set of videos with every episode of Shera on it it was well worth it. i also bought dungeons and dragons on vcd on ebay - top quality (look for the sellers with top feedback scores). I have rainbow brite on video...and all the my little pony too.

I loved thundercats, mysterious cities of gold, jayce and the wheeled warriors and the gummi bears.

heres a question that has been wrecking my head for ages now:
does anyone else remember a cartoon in the 80s which was about a girl looking for a flower with 7 colored petals like a rainbow?? it was like a girly version of jayce and the wheeled warriors ie she went round and round looking for it but never seemed to find it.. please dont tell me it was all in my head!!!!

WellyJ

tintinr35 wrote:

i swear i have been trying to remember the name of this cartoon for years now and no one else can either
it was an island of bears that looked like the wookies from star wars
they had some medallion round their neck where in times of trouble they called upon some totem poll thing in the shape of a bear and on its head was an eagle thing and it stood on a turtle
**now im confused**
anyone who can name this for me gets a cheque for 1 million euro!! :eek:

It was "The Island of the Bears"

I mentioned earlier on this thread

Siogfinsceal

wellyj do you know the answer to mine???!