• explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”

    Based on a comic book, it follows the lives of four turtle brothers who were mutated by toxic ooze to become anthropomorphic crime-fighting ninjas. Absolutely wild stuff.

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    I thought mine was Torchy the Battery Boy, but it turns out it was a puppet show. A very weird puppet show.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchy_the_Battery_Boy

    So, I’d plump for Rupert the Bear. Our family didn’t have spare cash for frivolities like comics, but when we moved house one time the previous family had left behind a Rupert album. The covers had been torn off, but I loved that book.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Bear

    It seems Rupert isn’t forgotten…

    https://followersofrupertbear.co.uk/

    Buried in that site: “In 1985 the first of what has become a series of facsimiles was introduced. For reasons of political correctness, there are several years for which no facsimile has been produced and the 1970 annual was the last one for which a facsimile was produced.”

    Rupert the Racist Bear, I’m guessing… oh dear. Back to watching Bluey.

  • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    9 days ago

    I used to love the Gummi Bears when I was a kid, but every time I’ve mentioned the show, no one sees to know what I’m talking about. 🤷‍♂️

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 days ago

      A just saw a YouTube video about this, David the gnome, and the wuzzles. The absolute raw voice talent they had on those shows is something we will likely be privy to again.

    • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      Both the Gummi Bears and MASK were famous in France for some reason. MASK was weird but fun, they also made a ton of money by selling toys.

      • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Yeah, cartoons were all about selling toys, even back in the 80’s.

        Here’s another obscure show:

        Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.

        I don’t remember much about the show, but I was all about the toys.

        I remember having this one:

        Drill Sergeant

    • lemonSqueezy@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      That Gummy bears theme song was like crack. I tried rewatching it now, and it doesn’t have thst same magic anymore. Around that time Voltron was on and Go Bots was around too.

      • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Yeah, I tried rewatching it not too long ago and it definitely wasn’t as good as I remembered. Theme song was still dope though.

    • early_riser@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      I used to love the Gummi Bears when I was a kid, but every time I’ve mentioned the show, no one sees to know what I’m talking about. 🤷‍♂️

      My dad actually liked that show more than we did I think. When Rugrats had Stu Pickles obsessed with the Dummy Bears cartoon it reminded me of my dad. My dad wasn’t that crazy about it but that bit of characterization made the show more endearing to me.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    22·
    8 days ago

    Anyone else remember “The Pirates of Dark Water”?

    I think someone else mentioned it already, but Swat Kats was also great

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19·
    9 days ago

    I’m gonna say ThunderCats, because the rights for it are basically up in the air. It should have gotten a film adaptation or a franchise like Masters of the Universe or Transformers, but nobody can figure out who owns it, so they can’t make a movie without some rando suing them… so they don’t.

    The OG came out in 1985 and ran for something like 150 episodes, later divided into four seasons. But back then it just came on TV, it wasn’t numbered or divided in any way (aside from multi-part episodes). They did a remake in 2011 on Cartoon Network that was pretty cool, but they couldn’t get the legal stuff in order to get a second season — it was absolutely popular enough.

    15 years later, I don’t think anything’s been done with it outside of, maybe, fan fiction and fan art.

    Going back even older… Mysterious Cities of Gold. That’s never been remade or adapted… however… while Tomb Raider was basically “we want to make a video game of Indiana Jones but we can’t get the rights, so let’s make it a girl with big tits,” for some reason, they wanted to swing it back the other way and say “let’s make Tomb Raider but have it be a hot guy instead and keep it exclusive to the PlayStation because at this point the concept is just so watered down, we’d lose money if we ported it to PC/Xbox” and called it Uncharted. Then they said fuck it and made an actual Indiana Jones game. Le sigh. But anyway, I wanna say one of the Uncharted games leaned into Mysterious Cities of Gold territory… but I’m not really sure. Anyway, it was about three Mexican kids (I think, as in born & raised in Mexico) who seek out the eponymous golden cities. IIRC they do find the ruins of the city they were looking for, but they expected the cities to be actually made of gold. And maybe they found some gold but not like they thought. But they had a plane and I think they had some cool adventures, so they broke even I suppose?

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 days ago

      I loved Thundercats as a kid, so when I heard Cartoon Network would start playing original episodes in 2003ish, I got my roommate and girlfriend all pumped up to watch the first episode with me.

      Ten minutes in and I apologized. It’s SOOOO much worse than you remember. 😂 It’s amazing the crap we like when we’re kids. SNARF!

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        9 days ago

        Facts. ThunderCats had a lot of good ideas but it was poorly executed and not very well acted. Everything’s just a bit too extra.

        Snarf is fine. Snarfer was annoying AF. Snarfer was the younger snarf on the second crew, with Lynx-O and Bengali and the others. No kids on that crew, I think it was just the old blind man, the alt-palette Tygra, and a woman I can only vaguely remember. And Snarfer. No one liked him. Or Mumm-Ra’s dog, for that matter… “Ma-Mutt”? Though Mumm-Ra himself was awesome, in either form.

        The show has aged like milk, though the 2011 series fixed some of the cringe. It added some of its own, but didn’t add up to what the 1985 series reached.

        I still think Grune the Destroyer, Tower of Traps, the Trials (where Lion-O had to best each of the other adults, and then beat Mumm-Ra unarmed), the time machine episode, and Book of Omens were mostly good. Maybe a couple others.

        • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          I remember the trials as being a step up and it was nice the way it showcased the young siblings ability. It reminded me a bit of the legion of superheroes where the wonder twins go off to defend their planet and actually show themselves pretty powerful and competent.

          • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            The twins (or whatever they were) were always top tier for child characters. The voice acting wasn’t the greatest with them sounding a bit whiny, but they were solid.

            You gotta figure, Lion-O was “one of them” before the trip… assuming they’re siblings (not sure if they said), Lion-O could have been a potential mate for Kit, if they were all allowed to grow up together. So with him being aged up all of a sudden, it’s like he’s still their bro/friend/playmate/peer/whatever but now he’s kind of like their king (“Lord of the ThunderCats”) they wanna help him get better. And of course their thing is underhanded/sneaky tactics and devices (kinda like Q in James Bond), they always have a trick up their sleeves.

      • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        The Japanese animation style of Thundercats was miles ahead of other Saturday morning cartoons at the time which did a ton of heavily lifting for popularity.

        • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          was it its own thing or was it like the xmen where the opening was super cool and then it was the same cartoon outside of that.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      4·
      9 days ago

      I was in my local comic shop today, being free comic book day, and saw a Thunder Cats x Silver Hawks comic.

      Purchased immediately!

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        I had the actual ThunderTank play set when I was a kid. I think it was about a foot long? The back opened up. I have a Hot Wheels (or maybe it’s Matchbox) of the ThunderTank (so it’s like 2" long). Haven’t looked at it that close, it’s still sealed in the blister pack.

        The Runabout shuttles on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine remind me of the ThunderTank so much. You got the two-seater cockpit up front and like a cargo area behind it. There’s a bit more to the Runabout than that, but it still reminds me of the ThunderTank. Also, the Mako tank on Mass Effect, and the similar one in Mass Effect 4 (it had another name but I already forgot, that game was so half-baked but still fun).

  • dusty_raven@discuss.online
    18·
    9 days ago

    Catdog

    It’s not the most obscure, but I remember loving it so much and as an adult (with friends that watch plenty of cartoons) it doesn’t ever come up.

    • Apeman42@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      8 days ago

      Finally, a current discussion about Reboot to bring this up in.

      Okay, so Matrix from the later seasons was absolutely just a parody of Cable from X-Men, right? With the gun, and the sleeveless armor, and the gold eye?

      • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
        6·
        8 days ago

        Yeah, it’s been a while so I looked up the character’s arc and it does seem that he is inspired from Cable and/or Solid Snake (who actually debuted in Metal Gear in 1987).

      • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Ahh… Always felt like that was a parody or callback, and never figured it out!