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| threesixtee 259th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):What were your fave. cartoons growing u"
, posted Fri 14 Mar 09:12
quote:
1)X-Men
2)Transformers Victory
3)Saber Rider & the Star Sheriffs
4)Voltron
5)Dungeons & Dragons
6)Spiderman & His Amazing Friends
HOLY CRAP YOU REMEMBER SABER RIDER!!!!!@@!!!1
that was totally one of my favorites - with the robot horse, and the ship main computer who sounded suspiciously like optimus prime saying "head 'em up, and move 'em out!"
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there was this one cartoon, it was called "bots master" I think it was american, could be wrong. it was pretty cool. I remember part of the ultra-hip theme song "I'm ziv zulander, zz for short"... I'm looking up the voice actors right now just for nostalgia's sake... ziv zulander was played by mark "terry bogard" hildreth! maybe this cartoon was more recent than I thought.
there was thundercats and all its lame variant "animal-hero" shows like silverhawks and tigersharks.
... and of course the usual transformers, GI joe, robotech, voltron, et all.
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| Spoon
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| "Re(1):What were your fave. cartoons growing u" , posted Sun 16 Mar 00:28
i sense a disturbing lack of
SAMURAI PIZZA CATS
(best localization ever, bar none; had humour that appeals to people far beyond kids... when was the last time you saw a villain shout, "NOOO! My Loving Spoonful albums!!!")
in the preschool years:
#1 Transformers (i was sad in kindergarten, how they didn't show it any more; but the comics made by Dreamwave Productions restores some of my faith in humanity, for those of us who grew up with Transformers have not forgotten)
#2 He-Man (by the Power of Grayskull, FOO!)
elementary school:
Terrible Thunder Lizards ("You don't know diddly, Squat!")
Exosquad (they seemed to stop airing it right when they hit a major plot point; way cool and very serious cartoon tho)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (it was fun back then)
X-Men (was good until then they ran endless reruns)
various Nintendo stuff (Mario 3 when it was on, watching Mario Bros. Super Show endlessly hoping for a Zelda cartoon, Captain N while it was good...)
Spider Man (fun for awhile)
Batman the Animated Series (really interesting art style... particularly striking rendition of cars...)
some others:
Dino Riders (every kid loved dinosaurs. Plus sci-fi stuff. I only ever managed to watch a few eps tho)
Bionic Six (pretty nifty)
random comments:
you ppl watched Hokuto no Ken when you were children?! Man I remember how creeped out I was after seeing Bluto the Butcher (this old animated short), and that has nowhere near the violence... and you see people talking about how Power Rangers affected kids, I can only imagine what long talks parents needed to have over something like Fist of the North Star...
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| Veigoss
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|  "Re(2):What were your fave. cartoons growing u"
, posted Sun 16 Mar 01:52:
quote:
irandom comments:
you ppl watched Hokuto no Ken when you were children?! Man I remember how creeped out I was after seeing Bluto the Butcher (this old animated short), and that has nowhere near the violence... and you see people talking about how Power Rangers affected kids, I can only imagine what long talks parents needed to have over something like Fist of the North Star...
nah for the most part its just goofy otaku who are trying to declare their "holier than thou" status...or something like that.
That is unless they like lived in Italy or one of the other countries that showed it.
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| Treepull Aitch
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| "Re(1):What were your fave. cartoons growing u" , posted Tue 18 Mar 03:10
quote:
1)X-Men
2)Transformers Victory
3)Saber Rider & the Star Sheriffs
4)Voltron
5)Dungeons & Dragons
6)Spiderman & His Amazing Friends
In answer to an earlier question, I'm 20 this July.
Most of the cartoons on my list I saw during my primary school days; as local TV stations here take time to import new cartoons.
1) X-Men was by far and away my favourite cartoon. I remember a New Years day ('92? '93?) where I was at a relative's house and turned on the TV, and first saw Jubilee running through a shopping mall after manifesting her powers. Her confusion and fear at having superpowers was new to me, as in all the cartoons I had seen till then, the protagonists would be overjoyed at having said powers.
Wolverine and his gruff, tough attitude was my favourite character, while Magneto and the seemingly-indestructible Mr. Sinister scared the hell out of me back then.
I was also struck by that, unlike most other cartoons of that time, what happened in one episode STAYED happened in later episodes. No Wile E. Coyote dying and coming back the next minute there, no siree.
X-Men also featured lengthy plots adapted from the comic book. I remember being excited every 10.29 am, Saturday, as I watched the credits of whatever 5 minute short cartoon play, wondering what would happen next in the Days of Future Past and the Phoenix Saga.
The full run of X-Men was never shown here; the last new episode I recall seeing on TV was when I lay in a hospital bed, and learnt about some Phalanx alien attempting to assimilate the X-Men.
2) Tranformers Victory was shown on RTM every Sunday evening, and continued from the Junior Headmaster cycle. It featured the adventures of Autobot fighter jet Star Saber against Death Sarus the mecha-dragon.
Optimus Prime was my hero, growing up - heck, I had both the Powermaster and classic versions of him at that time - he was my be-and-end-all in That Which Is Good. Imagine then, my surprise when I learnt that Optimus Prime took orders from Star Saber. If Optimus bows to Star Saber, Star Saber's something to watch, I told myself.
And he was, from his transformation sequence against a black and green grid from his oversize beam saber in Ultimate mode to his courage and leadership in battle.
Victory would also introduce new characters in ways that made you think they were the bee's knees. The Hellbat intro episode, for example. Hellbat was just one part of the Lio Kaiser gesalt, a small, 3 1/2 inch high plastic toy, unimportant in the grand scheme of things, now that I look back with the benifit of 20/20 vision. The intro Hellbat episode though, had Hellbat appearing and using hypnotic waves to manipulate all the Autobots into fighting each other in the forest, causing mass destruction.
The principle was that if a subordinate of Death Saurus could wreak so much havoc - then Death Saurus himself must be more powerful than he looks, despite that he loses to Star Saber's saber everytime. And one day, DS just might win.
And then, there was the episode where Optimus Prime died.
Star Saber had been fighting the Lio Kaiser gesalt, unsucessfully. When all hope semed - or rather, WAS- lost, Optimus Prime punched his way into the fray, and held off the rampaging Lio Kaiser - at the cost of his own life.
I remember being devastated by that scene, for it made me realize that if even fictional heroes die, what more real-life ones? - a painfully tough concept for an eight-year-old to swallow.
Optimus Prime was later ressurcted as Victory Leo the mecha lion, who became the supporting partner in the Vicory Saber gesalt. I was overjoyed; at that time, it was something akin to the Second Coming of Hulk Hogan.
Here's to Transformers Victory; the series where giant robots brought me to then-unheard-of emotional highs and lows. I salute thee.
*whee! lookit all that text! my hands are tired, though, so I'll continue my ruminations on old cartoon serieses after dinner*
ICQ: 37031364 Treepull Aitch
*send dubloons derring-do and dubious dojinshi to wolfwood@pacific.net.sg*
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