retro cartoons

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???!

Calibos

CiDeRmAn wrote:

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.

Starfleet perchance? Had a ship with like a swans neck on the front with the cockpit and a big red robot called daiusX that attached underneath.

Ah here we are linky

tintinr35

WellyJ wrote:

It was "The Island of the Bears"

I mentioned earlier on this thread

found it there was called the paw paw bears

BlitzKrieg

Chip and dale rescue rangers (theme tune rocked)

Sonic the hedgehog (satam version with the freedom fighters and really evil robotnik)

Battletech (one of the few series with a continueing storyline, a b*tch to follow)

The tick

Earthworm Jim

Bucky o hare (despite only seeing one episode!)

SHARKY AND GEORGE (has anyone mentioned this? if not SHAME ON YOU!)


the single thing 80/early 90s cartoons have over todays cartoons hands down is theme songs, M.A.S.K has one of the best theme songs ever. as does Jayce and the wheeled warriors.

alot of todays cartoons have horrible theme songs. JLU is great but dear god i hate that theme song!

Armen Tanzarian

Great stuff!!

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Mysterious Cities of Gold
thundercats
mask
captain planet
he-man

Does anyone remember Pole Position the red and blue stunt cars that fought crime, they had computers in the cars, great stuff: http://imdb.com/title/tt0086781/


What about aul Bravestar and his trusty horse thirty thirty

Ive been trying to get my hands on pole position for a while no joy tho

Great thread by the way

Siogfinsceal

yup!! I can still remember the theme song to pole position!!

Pigman II

The weird thing about Pole Position was that only 13 eps were ever made yet it seemed to be shown for years and years. Manimal was another one that had an unbelievably low number of eps made. I guess kids just don't look out for that kinda thing.

missingtime

I know someone mentioned Earthworm Jim but one of the characters on it - Professor Monkey For A Head. The name used to crack me every time I heard it. I liked Cadillacs and Dinosaurs aswell. Oh I just saw someone mention The Tick!! Brilliant!!

Did anyone watch the Mortal Kombat cartoon series? Wasn't spectacular but I was really hooked on it for some reason.

Oh dont forget Captain Planet! Way ahead of his time!! Never understood that guy with the "Heart" power always felt he got a raw deal.

The Biker Mice From Mars. Just remembered them.

stormkeeper

BlitzKrieg wrote:

Sonic the hedgehog (satam version with the freedom fighters and really evil robotnik)

That one was so cool!

Battletech (one of the few series with a continueing storyline, a b*tch to follow)

I have all the eppies of Battletech on my hard drive somewhere, though sadly they never showed the last-last episode.

vontrapp

In case anybody's interested in getting this on DVD I just found the DVD box set with all 26 episodes listed on Kelkoo.

I have to say that Barry Gibb puts in a great performance in the lead role.

*marie*

Captain Planet,
He's the hero,
Gonna take pollution down to zer-o!!

What was the song to Sharkie and George??

Also I think the Animaniacs deserves a mention.