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Cheetara's Got Boobies!! New THUNDERCATS Series Hero Art Revealed!!
Merrick here...
The Powers That Be have issued our first clear piece of art from the updated THUNDERCATS series, once mulled as a theatrical film but now, evidently, being shunted to Cartoon Network (although I have not heard that the proposed movie is officially kaputski forever).
A press release describes the new show thusly...
The new “ThunderCats” will appeal to viewers who have loved the characters all their lives as well as young newcomers to the franchise. A sweeping tale combining swords and science and boasting ferocious battles with the highest of stakes, the grand origin story of Prince Lion-O’s ascension to the throne – and of those who would thwart his destiny at any cost .
Meanwhile, a forum member over at ThundercatsLair snagged a few new series related images from the London Toy Fair. They were grabbed on the quick and dirty, and aren't particularly stellar as photos weren't actually allowed at the Fair. Nonetheless, you can glimpse a few action figures, a new sword (presumably the Sword of Omens?) , and some character art HERE.
A Facebook page has also been established for the new series HERE.
MTV has a good look at the new series' title design HERE.
Here's the original, Geeky-badass title sequence from the mid-80s cartoon series, the entirety of which is available HERE.
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Anime like?
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Looking good. Hopefully Cheetarah won't sound like a dude this time.
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Speaking of classic TV, why not a Quantum Leap reboot? The original concept is still great.
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looks a lot like Jet from Cowboy Bebop. Either way, I'll watch this.
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I think the original costumes look way better than these new ones. And why does Panthro look like a juiced up freak? The original characters looked muscular but lean too, like cats.
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Different Animation style aside, this looks pretty faithful to original design. Love that Tigro has a gun, could this be a departure from sanitized, awful cartoons that have been churned out for years now?
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A fucking costume complaint about the fucking Thundercats. THE FUCKING THUNDERCATS. This place never fails to amuse.
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Need to keep the old theme song. It's one of the more memorable songs from cartoons of the 80's.
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I'll give it a shot. But the Thunderkittens/ Wily Kit&Kat, were useful. Perhaps some of their angst will instead go to Lion-O, as he's got the physical youth to go w/ the mental of the original show. But I'm having a hard time thinking of Thundercats w/ Wily Kit & Kat. Snarf...while a part of it, is something I can do without unless he actually gets some brains to go w/ his constant worrying. And poor Panthro looks like he got too familiar w/ HGH ^_^
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so good infact that i cant put my finger on what has changed without comparing the two side by side. oh, and FUCK Sanctum 3d for invading my browser. They've just made sure i wont be seeing that movie (i didnt exactly need any more reasons to avoid it)
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of this series as a kid. But I must admit, I never liked fantasy shows where the characters are barbarians, and use clubs and swords ect, but then were able to use mainframe computers and hover vehicles. I had the same issues with Masters of the Universe. <P> Thundercats was the show I watched because it was on TV directly before Transformers and GI Joe ARAH (Not that cars that morphed into robots or an elite special forces team that used laser guns that never hit anything made sense either).
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I'm not saying the original Thunder Cats was a visual power house but I don't care for the fact that every cartoon that comes out these days has a strong anime influence to it.
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Jan. 26, 2011, 11:31 a.m. CST
Not into Thundercats at all, but have you seen the fan-made trailer...
by WriteForTheEdit
...for a live-action feature? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb50GMmY5nk I know, it's been around for ages, but it rocks pretty goddamned hard.
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That is all.
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Thundercats Ho'!
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Jan. 26, 2011, 11:50 a.m. CST
People hate me for this, but I LOVED Silverhawks just as much as Thundercats
by aceattorney
Anyone agree?
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Jan. 26, 2011, 12:13 p.m. CST
demode, you're either trying to be funny, or you're
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
having a brain fart. Orko was He-Man.
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Thundercats in space except they were birds instead of cats. After the pilot episode it went downhill.
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Jan. 26, 2011, 12:23 p.m. CST
Honestly, cant anything from my childhood stay unmolested?
by Double M
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they're just updated to be more anime like, as long as the storylines are good
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until we see some fanfic porn with the new cheetara.
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some of you people truly amaze me... by amaze I mean, "what the fuck is wrong with your head? get out the fuckin 80s"
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http://www.nunoxei.com/rewindawesome/category/thundercats/
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Hopefully this series will be a vast improvement over the 80's counterpart, which was disappointing to say in the least.all those cool abilities and no ass kicking just ppl jumping and leaping around and shit.
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Jan. 26, 2011, 12:39 p.m. CST
Name a good cartoon for boys that came out after the 80s
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
and we might. And by good I mean one that doesn't teach fighting is bad, but being mean is okay like so many cartoons or kid sitcoms today do.
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I'm so fucking watching this shit!
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..cause GIJoe could kick all their Furry/Metallic asses.
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it works for them. Lion-o looks a little young though...and he'll probably be voiced by some cocky young voice actor and not a booming voice of presence and strength. Panthro looks like he would be voiced by ron perlman...maybe keith david in full growl mode.
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... my parents refused to get Cable because we were already too much of TV junkies. So now in my mid-30s, I sat down and tried to watch the original episodes on Teletoon Retro and I just couldn't stand it. This new series looks great. Hopefully they can do for Thundercats what Studio B just pulled off with the new My Little Pony series (which is freaking hilarious by the way).
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I'm looking forward to seeing the cute cosplay chicks rocking this outfit at DragonCon. The character designs look pretty cool, I like that Lion-O looks more like a teen than a grown man.
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it's wrong but somebody has to do it
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But then I remembered his story about not being fully developed (waking up early, yada, yada) and then I loved it.
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..because Silverhawks was trash with a capital TRASH.<p> Granted, the opening credits are a beautiful thing to behold, animation wise. I could just loop it and watch it all day, but the show itself was just awful.<p> I mean, Thundercats had 60 plus episodes, and you could count the good episodes with two hands (omiting the pilot episode "exodus", which was imagination unleashed), but Silverhawks had even less episodes one could even consider "meh" worthy.<p> Recently i downloaded all of the Silverhawk episodes, and went thru them one at a time, because i was running out of space on my hard drive and wanted to get rid of the dross. I wound up just deleting the entire series.<p> If i could find a high quality vid of the opening though, i'd keep that.
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So say we all.
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In fact, in the pilot episode, she's naked for the first half or something.
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Not crazy about the animé style, but guess that’s what kids like these days. at least Lion-o doesn’t have the swimsuit and go-go boots from the old series. I Like tygra with a gun, and the whole sci-fi pirate look of the characters. Hope they have older versions of WilyKit and WilyKat, and they keep Mumm-Ra and the mutants as the main bad guys…..
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I watched the pilot episode w/my kids last week and was pleasantly surprised there was something there for the old man to enjoy. I have to say, I did not remember that from the original run. Also, if this is half as good as the recent(ish) He-Man reboot, than hooray for us all.
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When I was like 10, it didn't bother me. Now it's one of the most cringe worthy things I've ever heard. Not that GiBlow and Hamformers were any better. You want to hear a really good toon theme? Josie and the Pussycats. You know it's true. LOL. Hey, maybe they are all really cheesy, but at least Josie's girls can play rings around all the 80's ones. They can, too. B
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Not hard to see why she has so many male friends and no female friends.
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is cheap to produce that is why they went this route.
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He was always my favorite because he was like a noble ninja. Almost jedi like. I loved his segment of Lion-o's trials.
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The original was done in Japan by Japanese animators so I don't see anything wrong with this one being anime styled. (actually, looks like this is being done by a real anime studio in Japan)
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Why,"Captain Planet and the Planeteers", of course
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and she was topless on the first episode. I remember having a boner for the whole episode and I didn't know why, and I kept thinking "there's something off about Cheetara"
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I guess we just have to hold out hope that, like all things, the anime fad will cycle around and we'll get some proper-looking cartoons again one day.
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no mumra?
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Jan. 26, 2011, 6:59 p.m. CST
Gargoyles was a great 90s cartoon. Beast Wars was very well written.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
I can't think of any others from the 90s.
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Actually we are getting Snarf. An earlyer report said that he will be in the show, but can't talk or something like that. I actually liked the old Snarf, but I can see why some wouldn't like him.
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Pirates of Dark Water The Tick Batman the Animated Series
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She finally got breasts instead of boobs... hopefully as you stated she dont sound like some 3 pack a day smoker chick.. Can`t wait
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Name one in the 80`s where someone shot a villian point blank in the face or body and the villian didn`t come back the next episode? Talk about uber realism....Hey thats copiable. Hey johnny come stand here well i shoot you in the face with this gun like gi joe did we will laugh go have juice and cookies and all will be done with! Nowadays shows are to busy forcing Multiculturalism down our throats rather then allowing someone to run free with their creativity! Hence the whining over non asians playing asians in The Last Airbender.. I guess next will be How can a black shild have red hair and freckles? Or own a stray dog considering factually most afro-americans are afraid of dogs!
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Jan. 26, 2011, 8:59 p.m. CST
wait. why is this happening? and why do all the faces look familiar.
by stu_pickles
is it racist to say all anime characters look exactly the same? if so i apologize and will work on it
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...because they really can't screw it up. It was a show that had the potential to be awesome, but in reality kind of sucked. Any new take won't be worse, and has every chance of being better. The 90's was when cartoons finally started to get their acts together. Batman and Gargoyles especially were great action shows, and Beast Wars finally made a decent Transformers show.
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dont know if these count, but I sure as hell miss them... Muppet Babies Animaniacs Doug Freakazoid Batman Tiny Toons Beavis and Butthead Simpsons I really cant think of any action cartoons.
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Dexters Lab Powerpuff Girls (only for Mojojojo!) Johnny Bravo Two Stupid Dogs
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It was unique, I'll tell you that.
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http://backseatcuddler.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/zac_efron.jpg Fuck them.
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http://www.reviewbusters.net/images/movie/hellboy_2_the_golden_army_002.jpg Nice ripoff. Oh, my mistake, Panthro is grey and Hellboy is red. Well, that's entirely different, then.
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Only things I'm not fond of are Panthro's muttonchops (the sideburns). They make him look kinda like American Idol's Randy Jackson on steroids. And Lion-O's hair could be a little longer. He looks kinda like Super Saiya-Jin fan art. Hope there's a nice trailer at Comic-Con this year.
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Tom Cruise IS Cheet-O!!!
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WORSE.
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"fighting is bad, but being mean is okay" This really nails what I detest about most all popular entertainment now, including the kid stuff: the incredible meanness that pervades all of it. Snideness and sarcasm pervade almost everything, and hardly any dialogue can be written without it. The first show I can remember where this bothered me was Buffy. For all of its clever virtues, it relied on a sort of snide, putdown-heavy dialogue that made it grating to watch (not to mention formulaic). This caught on like wildfire and is now everywhere. One day, all this emotional violence will be looked back on with as much or more scorn as the unrealistic physical violence of the 80s. I'm hoping that starts to happen before my little boy gets much older.
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Especially the second picture. Wonder what they're going to do with Mum-ra, or will they go with all new villains this time?
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Heh, I dug that show too. I liked the theme song to bionic six too: We are a family I fight for them And they fight for me As close as we can be High in the mountain Or deep in the sea Bionic...Bionic 6 oooouuu, oooouuu We are together We fight for right Bionic...Bionic 6 oooouuu, oooouuu We are so proud to be A super future family A family, brought together by fate And given superpowers Thorough the miracle of modern science Bionic...Bionic 6 oooouuu, oooouuu We are together We fight for right A super future family And we're so very proud to be Bionic 6!
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Muppet Babies is from the 80's
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Almost as bad as what they did to the Looney Tunes characters with their Loonatics revamp: http://www.weblo.com/product_image/Loonatics_Unleashed_20_84303/
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I know that she is a feline...... we it could work.... couldn't it?
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New Adventures of Johnny Quest, anyone? TMNT: the Series Spider-man X-Men Bat-fucking-man Doug Darkwing Duck GI Joe (oh wait, was that 80s?)
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at first Lion-O's face threw me off because of the style change....but it's all good. I'll definitely check this out. I'm curious how Mumra and other characters will look.
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if Muppet Babies is 80s, I enjoyed the hell outta it in the 90s... so, Im still right (but youre right too)
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They gave him a Dragonball Z hairstyle.
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That was a good 90's cartoon for boys.
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This has yiffing written all over it.
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Coming to a comic book convention near you...2011.
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Jan. 27, 2011, 12:18 p.m. CST
wait, are you guys saying Looney Tunes wasn't mean-spirited?
by Spandau Belly
The entire premise of that series was pure sadism. I can't think of a meaner show. It was hilarious, but the whole point was watching a duck or a hunter or a cowboy or a coyote get frustrated, beaten, and hurt.
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and the world doesn't need anymore of that shit.
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One of the first kids' shows to figure a way for chracters to swear & pass it by the FCC...followed by TF: Beast Wars It was good to be a late teen/adult in the 90s... I could swear & only fellow geeks knew what the hell I was saying. ^_^
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I probably won't catch it until it shows up on Netflix, but I like the updated character designs. Cheetara was always hot, btw. I definitely fantasized about her when I was a kid. Her spot during the intro on the original show is the best part. She's all hot and nimble and stuff? *Pant pant.*
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with 3 guys and they had diffrent color suits. But things would attach to them. Like one guy went underwater. One guy flew. Anyone Anyone?
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That shit was awesome when i was a kid. Wonder how it holds up now.
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Actually that started in 88 or 89 and is considered to be 80's.
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Jan. 27, 2011, 3:02 p.m. CST
Personally I like the 80's stuff better then 90's
by room23storeblogspotcom
But that could just be me looking back with nostalgia. the 90's did have a lot of good comicbook animation along with the Animaniacs, but I prefer the 80's stuff. I think that it was mostly the fact that a lot of it was widely cross pollinated, meaning that most of them started as a cool toy and then a cartoon and with some of them comicbooks. So you could watch the show and then playout your own adventures with the toys. Thats not to say that the 90's stuff didn't have that, its just that the 80's stuff seemed cooler to me. But then again that could just be the nostalgia again.
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No I remember that one. The dude in the green suit had a mustache and went underwater. I had the toy but it was a cartoon as well.
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I believe you are referring to "The Centurions".
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That's it!
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Jan. 27, 2011, 3:51 p.m. CST
The difference between Looney Tunes and modern "mean-spirited" ones...
by Chewtoy
...Is that in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the trouble-makers are the ones who get their comeuppance. Bugs reacts to other people's aggression, where as in modern cartoons, the lead characters are often horrible people who cause all of the problems. There was a Looney Tunes short where an Opera Singer started a fight with Bugs because he didn't like him playing a banjo while the singer was trying to practice. So he goes over to Bugs' rabbit hole and smashes the banjo, starting the trouble. I recall they did an episode of Tiny Toons that may have even used the opera singer character again. Only this time it was set on an airplane, and the main characters were being obnoxious, kicking the back of the guy's chair, dropping things on him and making a racket until he blew up at them, at which point they made him suffer for it. Bugs was a guy minding his own business and playing a banjo. The modern characters were just total dicks.
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..."Centurions." Power extreme! They were recently rerunning that on Boomerang.
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Never understood why Lion-0 started off younger than those two, but then became older. During hypernation they all got older supposedly, but he jumped over them and they pretty much stayed the same. Even at age 6 I didn't get that.
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They tried to play it like only Lion O's chamber was damaged so he got a little older. An Annie Wilkes cheat if ever there was.
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As was the construction worker vs. Bugs and his home. "I'm feeling mighty low."
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There really is no influence. Studio4°C (Japan) is in charge of the animation ... so it's going to definitely 'look' like anime. Furthermore, it should be noted that even the original Thundercats was inspired by anime. In fact, the studios responsible for Transformers and GI Joe were heavily influenced by 80s anime ... not so much the art style but just the fluidity of the animation. Even furthermore, that intro for Thundercats was animated by a Japanese team. I don't know the studio or director, but I remember reading years ago in an issue of Animerica about it. And really ... it shows. The art style maintains the American look, but the running, jumping ... the speedlines ... the way the camera flows around Cheetara ... and just the 'explosiveness' of the intro is distinctively 80's anime. It really holds up after all this time. I mean, look at the lighting on Lion-o in the beginning with him standing on the rock. Those few seconds are AMAZING animation. Unfortunately, all that awesomeness ends with the opening credits, as the animation for the show is actually pretty weak. I believe this new show is in good hands, as everything I've seen from Studio4°C has been pretty impressive.
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Jan. 28, 2011, 3:21 a.m. CST
Visionairies & The Centurions are missing from everyone's lists here, why?
by CeejayNightwing
The Best 80's cartoon were: Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, The Centurions, Transformers, Thundercats, Dungeons & Dragons, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Defenders of the Earth, M.A.S.K, He Man & The Masters of the Universe, Spiderman & his Amazing Friends, The Incredible Hulk. Nothing came close tot he storytelling in Visionaries and Centurions, they had minimal comic relief and amazing action sequences especially Centurions. Plus both the main heroes in these shows had a blooming Moustache which was unheard of in kids shows! I say remake the Thundercats if it will do without the stupid comic relief like Snarf and the Wiley Kat & Kits stuff. The opening sequence was awesome so they better make sure they do one to match. As for manga influence, well most of these cartoons were animated by Koreans and Japanese so their opening sequences in some cases had that look, especially the later shows in the 80's. Sometimes I wanted the rest of the show to look as good as the opening but that was never the case. This time though, it should be!
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I agree that in Looney Tunes always went for the underdog appeal. It was always the victim turning the tables on their aggressor. But the whole entertainment of the show was still comic sadism. I don't watch that many cartoons, but the modern (90s and onwards) ones I've seen have not featured outright cruel protagonists. I have seen Johnny Bravo, Spongebob Squarepants, Kim Possible, Powerpuff Girls, and some intended for older audiences such as Clone High and Venture Brothers. Maybe you guys can tell me which big modern cartoons glamorize cruelty. I have not seen Dora The Explorer, but she looks she would probably have a mean streak. I wouldn't cross her.
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But, it jumped the shark with the two new guys. Sea, Air, Land. That's all you needed.
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That is all
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And Scooter, the robot equivalent of Robin had a thing for Leader 1.
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You couldn't go wrong with guys in powered exoskeletons vs giant monsters.
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And NOT one.... of you ever mentioned the Bionic Six!!! WTF i used to watch that all the time... are you serious!
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Not digging it at all. They gonna replace Snarf with Pikachu? WTF?
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It was a actually a really good show (based on a video game?)....
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And Cheetara is hot. Panthro is Jet from Cowboy Bebop. And all is all right in the world. Unless you live in Egypt.
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But she's squeezing them together with her arms to maximize the cleavage. Dirty girl.
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Jan. 29, 2011, 6:13 p.m. CST
You know who wrote the THUNDERCATS theme music? James Lipton.
by D.Vader
That's right, "Inside the Actors' Studio"'s James Lipton. Whowouldaguessed?
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who doesnt ? but really does the article gotta be named "cheetarah has boobies" ?? sounds like a horny 12 yr old wrote it.
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Conan the adventurer Exosquad Transformers gargoyles Darkwing Duck The tick Freakazoid The xmen Biker Mice From Mars Swat Kats Batman TAS There are just to many to name.
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Why are cartoons so ... minimized these days? The art and design for the original thundercats was amazing. Why make these guys look like they're from the cover of a cereal box?
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Sorry. He-Man did the same thing when it was rebooted and even though the stories were better, the animation was much poorer than the original (sad to think since on the original series Filmation was notorious for being cheap). I don't like the new style of animation, I wish they'd bring rotoscoping back for an element of realism in cartoons.
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