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ulysses 31 80s cartoon

  • 05-08-2010 09:29PM
    #1
    stone roses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭




    the best sound track for a cartoon i ever heard, its actully a good tune!!


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  • #2
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Yeah, classic show. What I liked most was that it had a definite mean-streak running thru it that was unusual for kids shows at that time. The bad guys WERE bad (or at least morally ambiguous) and seemed to revel in punishing our heroes and those in subordinate positions to them.

    Really does hold up well for an adult reviewing.


  • #3
    Funkfield
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    Imho, the best cartoon ever made. Cartoons these days can't hold a candle to this. How can they stand up to something based on a 3000 year old epic?

    Have the box set. Fuppin amazing. Can I say that one more time? Fuppin Amazing!


  • #4
    Funkfield
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    stone roses wrote: »
    the best sound track for a cartoon i ever heard, its actully a good tune!!

    This dude does some justice to some of the tunes....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNJohAb-K2M


  • #5
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,000 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    I remember watching the show on Fox Kids (well, when it was still Fox Kids, before it became Jetix and now Disney XD) and I was just engrossed in it. My younger sis wasn't too fond of it, but then again, even my Border Collie is smarter than her.

    What suprised me even more was the fact that it was an anime that actually looked like your normal cartoon. No bigass eyes, no no annoying catgirls, it was just straight up exelence.


  • #6
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,051 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    It was only with the 90s that anime really started changing to less "realistic" proportions.

    I watched loads of American/French/Japanese collaborations as a kid in the 80s/early 90s.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUe5Ugg6Iks


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=379KSL6YcbA


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3EoBl5uBfU


    Theeeeeen... *this* happened:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3z8mkdLIJ8


    German intro is far superior though:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCC_-1gVE5Q


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  • #7
    stovelid
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    Great theme music, especially the portentous voice-over (it is the 31st century.....:) )) and the robot voice bit.


  • #8
    Wazdakka
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    EPIC show..

    Ever see the one with the Sisyphus type guy?
    It was a cool slant on the whole rolling a rock up a hill for all eternity thing.


  • #9
    Nerdkiller1991
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    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3z8mkdLIJ8


    German intro is far superior though:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCC_-1gVE5Q
    I assume you haven't seen the original Japanese intro.

    http://www.retrojunk.com/tv/videos/172-sailor-moon/439/#intro

    http://www.cracked.com/funny-730-sailor-moon/

    And yep, I used to watch the freakin' Moon Girl.


  • #10
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,955 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    don't forget these great cartoons as well













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  • #11
    stone roses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭stone roses


    great comments guys and great to see the other wonderful cartoons of out time thrown in tere!!

    also great to see we have not forgot our past keeps us young lol :-)
    80s cartoons had it all, ulysses 31 is simply amazing way befour its time, tere are bands out tere today who sound like the sound track of the ulysses cartoon, really says it all


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  • #12
    JohnDee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭JohnDee


    Fair play stone roses

    Man I loved this cartoon so much, for all the reasons the good posters listed above. :)

    Loved the opening tune,cool voiceover intro,animation top drawer, Greek mythology storyline. Ah happy days they were... :)


  • #13
    Owen
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    Loved it too. Did the series every come to a conclusion and those in stasis wake up?


  • #14
    Nerdkiller1991
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    PaintDoctor wrote: »
    Loved it too. Did the series every come to a conclusion and those in stasis wake up?
    Yes they did at the very end.


  • #15
    The Don
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    Loved this show when I was a kid. I remember RTE had it on Sunday mornings after/before Battlestar Galactica. I missed most of Battlestar because of mass :(

    Started watching it again last year but got distracted. Must finish it. It still has some great themes in the episodes.


  • #16
    Funky G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ✭✭Funky G


    Fantastic show and i have all of the episodes on dvd. i got them years ago in hmv in London as the selection here was just crap, long before i discovered ebay or amazon....

    You should be able to pick up the box set - 3 dvd's - cheap enough. the animation was years ahead of its time.

    my only gripe was the intro to each episode on the dvd was just an edited one - not the long one like below

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

    I'm currently going though volume 1 of M.A.S.K right now.....


  • #17
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Funky G wrote: »
    I'm currently going though volume 1 of M.A.S.K right now.....

    The show picks up after ep #43 fyi.

    That's where they bring in the 2nd wave of toys and it's clear they've retooled the show at that point too. Out go the terrible regional stereotypes, the annoying scott-tbob subplots and Miles Mayhem finally gets some decent one-liners.


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