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 Jehan-reznor wrote:


Because it was not an american show, it was a cut up version of macross, mospeada and Southern Cross anime.

I'm pretty sure everyone who saw Robotech when it first aired knows that the animation came from Japan.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Ha!

The Thundercats theme is INSANELY awesome! The actual show on the other hand...

Haha i had the green centurion toy from when i was a kid.

Since you included swat katz i'll include another semi bad cartoon

I always like the intro to the COPS cartoon. But it came out as I was growing out of cartoons. And then Beavis and Butthead pulled me back in. Along with Aeon Flux on MTV and then South Park.

Damn cartoons!

That COPS show looked mental. I love how the decrepit old woman could lift a car. What was the main COPS guys special power? I MUST KNOW! It can't just be sunglasses, can it?

I remember these two from around the same time.

Skeletons on jetbikes! Why doesn't GW give me this?!



Conan gets even better after the revelation that it exists in the Cthulhu universe.

Ah, Conan the Adventurer was awesome!

Some pretty cool old shows! I'm a bit younger than some of you though so some of the shows I watched weren't that old.







And had to leave this one here too!

 Mr. Burning wrote:
Any brits remember Chorlton and the Wheelies?

very.

We have that on DVD, along with Will o' the Wisp, The Flumps, and The Trapdoor.

While I know it's a bigger named series, I have to throw out this show


First time I watched this, I was GLUED to the TV. Been addicted to mecha ever since.

I watched the Godzila series on netflix last year. Quite enjoyed it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCOkcKqLdY8
There's my Nostalgiac entry

nareik wrote:
What was the cartoon where they are on a space base and have their own fighter ships... the intro credits they all panic and someone shouts 'scramble'!

I've been trying to remember the name of this show for years!

Here you go

 Andrew1975 wrote:

nareik wrote:
What was the cartoon where they are on a space base and have their own fighter ships... the intro credits they all panic and someone shouts 'scramble'!

I've been trying to remember the name of this show for years!

Here you go

Wow. I remember that show. I had a few of the toys... they were pretty cool; they used magnets on a lot of things and some neat innovations in their design. Apparently, the show/toys were put together with input from NASA (or so they said at the time).


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 Medium of Death wrote:
That COPS show looked mental. I love how the decrepit old woman could lift a car. What was the main COPS guys special power? I MUST KNOW! It can't just be sunglasses, can it?

His super power was a cybernetic torso. His name was "B. P. Vess", and his co-workers decided that the B.P. stood for "Bullet Proof".

You '80s kids. Growing up in the '70s, we had LIVE ACTION sci-fi adventure shows. Yeah, you read that right. Really hardcore gak...not that pasteurized Reagan-era drek.

MAYBE you could have handled Space Academy...




...but Jason of Star Command, Saturday morning's biggest badass, would have had you all running to your mommies!




Jealous much?

Maybe if you kids are good, someday I'll tell you about Ark II and its crazy jetpack action!

 gorgon wrote:
You '80s kids. Growing up in the '70s, we had LIVE ACTION sci-fi adventure shows. Yeah, you read that right. Really hardcore gak...not that pasteurized Reagan-era drek.

MAYBE you could have handled Space Academy...




...but Jason of Star Command, Saturday morning's biggest badass, would have had you all running to your mommies!




Jealous much?

Maybe if you kids are good, someday I'll tell you about Ark II and its crazy jetpack action!

You forgot Buck Rogers Beedee beedee bee.

Wow. I remember that show. I had a few of the toys... they were pretty cool; they used magnets on a lot of things and some neat innovations in their design. Apparently, the show/toys were put together with input from NASA (or so they said at the time).

Thats all these shows were, 30 minute commercials for toys.










These didn't all have toys, but its a nice mashup of some of the best shows.

 gorgon wrote:
You '80s kids. Growing up in the '70s, we had LIVE ACTION sci-fi adventure shows. Yeah, you read that right. Really hardcore gak...not that pasteurized Reagan-era drek.

You have to go to the 90's for the return of Live Action:













Course, they were pretty much all made from Japanese stock footage...

 Andrew1975 wrote:
You forgot Buck Rogers Beedee beedee bee.

Being serious for a minute, I think every single episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (at least in season 1) either had Gil Gerard "accidentally" falling into a harem of some kind, or getting into a heavy makeout session with Princess Ardala. It probably wasn't something that you would have seen in the Reagan years. (Out went hot pants and tight, revealing clothing, in came big baggy sweaters.)

Come to think of it, my impression is that stuff got cleaned up a little in the 2nd season when they were on the ship.

Trivia question -- What actor links Jason of Star Command and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century?

For some genuinely trippy '70s sci-fi, you can hardly beat:




Answer: Sid Haig, also of House of 1000 Corpses.

You want live action?

You want special effects that aren't very special?

You want clay-mation so bad it makes 1970s Clash of the Titans look like Avatar?

feth you and your power rangers and space 1999 and your Space Academy!

I give you, LAND OF THE LOST!

I've only seen a handful of episodes of Space 1999, but the one thing that sticks out in my memory is the plastic chairs that look like they belong on someone's patio.

 kronk wrote:
You want live action?

You want special effects that aren't very special?

You want clay-mation so bad it makes 1970s Clash of the Titans look like Avatar?

feth you and your power rangers and space 1999 and your Space Academy!

I give you, LAND OF THE LOST!

Oh god, I remember that show! The German version lost the hilarious Banjo theme, though (heard it for the first time watching that clip), and replaced it with equally corny synthesizer sound.

EDIT: Ha! Found it!

Still waiting on the final episode of "Pirates"



I used to dance myself silly in circles when this one came on:



And whatever channel out here in CA that played Danger Mouse always played Count Duckula right after:

Very amusing article on this subject by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, of Black Library fame

https://aarondembskibowden.wordpress.com/tag/80s-cartoons/

 Medium of Death wrote:
I think my favourite theme of all the cartoons I watched has to be the X-Men one. Transformers comes close, but the X-Men one is just slightly more epic and brings back the nostalgia in waves. The fact the subsequent live action movies didn't have sentinels in them was truly upsetting, given their prevalence in the cartoon. Hopefully the new film makes up for that.



Well this one is a classic. It still retains it's elements of cool I think, which can often be lost when revisiting shows you watched as a child. Then again TAS did stray into some adult themes.



I love the intro exposition by Aku at the start.

You my friend, have impeccable taste in cartoons. Samurai Jack is on Netflix right now.

I personally love the first few seasons of Pokemon, but not as much as:




Greatest kid's TV show of all time.

The Ashleys wrote:Scandaaaallllouss

I looooved that show!

squidhills wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:


Because it was not an american show, it was a cut up version of macross, mospeada and Southern Cross anime.

I'm pretty sure everyone who saw Robotech when it first aired knows that the animation came from Japan.

So in the 80's when Japanese culture was not so ingrained, and you are 8 years old and see Robotech for the first time you immediately know it was Japanese?

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

squidhills wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:


Because it was not an american show, it was a cut up version of macross, mospeada and Southern Cross anime.

I'm pretty sure everyone who saw Robotech when it first aired knows that the animation came from Japan.

So in the 80's when Japanese culture was not so ingrained, and you are 8 years old and see Robotech for the first time you immediately know it was Japanese?

Well, yeah. I mean you probably saw Battle of the Planets and Starblazers already, you instantly knew Japanese animation was different.

I can't believe you guys are forcing me to post this. You're all outrageous. Truly outrageous.

I did.
Mind you, I was probably older than a few of the regular dakkites.
(born at the tail end of the 60s, but deaf until the mid 70s, I don't recall a lot of it).
The faces on the organics had one of those styles that japanese animation was famous for (since the other animation we had that WASN'T American sourced was Japanese anyway. Like Kimba the apartheid lion).

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

squidhills wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:


Because it was not an american show, it was a cut up version of macross, mospeada and Southern Cross anime.

I'm pretty sure everyone who saw Robotech when it first aired knows that the animation came from Japan.

So in the 80's when Japanese culture was not so ingrained, and you are 8 years old and see Robotech for the first time you immediately know it was Japanese?

Yes. Exactly. I'd seen the Yamato compilation movie while in Ireland as a five year old. I had caught the odd episode of Mazinger Z on the local UHF station when I was home sick. Anime existed in this country since the 60s (Speed Racer). It wasn't as ubiquitous as it is now, but those of us who were fluent in cartoons in the 80s understood that some cartoons came from Japan. Nobody I know had any illusions that Robotech was some kind of entirely American show. We may not have understood that it was a chimera of a show Frankensteined together from three seperate shows (that knowledge came later), but we knew right away that the show had some kind of origin in Japan.

 Andrew1975 wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

squidhills wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:


Because it was not an american show, it was a cut up version of macross, mospeada and Southern Cross anime.

I'm pretty sure everyone who saw Robotech when it first aired knows that the animation came from Japan.

So in the 80's when Japanese culture was not so ingrained, and you are 8 years old and see Robotech for the first time you immediately know it was Japanese?

Well, yeah. I mean you probably saw Battle of the Planets and Starblazers already, you instantly knew Japanese animation was different.

Indeed. When you go from He-Man to Battle of the Planets the difference is fairly stark.

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