Best Cartoons Ever.

[Mister Andersen]

On a more positive note:

Ulysses 31

[spinningdice]

Ulysseee-eee-ees, only you can do the the things you doOOoo!

Watched this as a kid, very fond memories. Ranked up there with Dogtanian and the three Muskehounds & Trapdoor.

[Mister Andersen]

It wouldn't take a lot to get a Stargate game out of the basic premise...

[OverNinja]

Watched Dogtanian and the Three Muskethounds as a kid (dubbed). Never saw Ulysses or Trapdoor.

G.I. Joe was fun (I'll have to think about doing some of Cobras assets into SC).
M.A.S.K. was also fun, it's now worth watching Proteus vehicle ideas.
Watched He-Man (live movie was horrible), never had any toys  .

[spinningdice]

Trapdoor was a UK short thing (each episode about 5-10 minutes I think), though it was great. I'm pretty sure you can watch complete episodes on YouTube.

[Mister Andersen]

Meet Bourke ("'Ello!"). Over-worked servant of The Thing Upstairs ("Feed Me!"). But that's nothing compared to the hoorors that lurk below. Beneath the Trap Door. For there's always something. Down there. In the dark. Waiting to get out...

Had quite a few of the He-Man toys, including Greyskull but sadly never the Eaglerider or whatever the jet was called with the cap that fitted on the turret. After a while, Greyskull became Joe HQ. All my He-Man stuff is gone now - apart from Zoar, Battle-Cat and a newly acquired old-school Panthor (yay eBay!).

[ThunderMonkey]

Bugs Bunny was my main diet of cartoons, followed by Woody Woodpecker and Heckle and Jeckle. (Good heavens I'm old).

Though I did watch G.I. Joe, it was frustrating watching them run around with the same laser rifles.

I started to watch cartoons with my youngest and have enjoyed Skyrangers (I think that's what it's called) and one with the home for imaginary friends.

[Mister Andersen]

Mysterious Cities of Gold

[Forcegypsy]

Robotech, Golderack, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Tom and Jerry, He-man... all good in their own way. Transformers is going to make a mint on the back of generation X.

[Mister Andersen]

I hear they've just released Transformers - The Complete Collection and Transformers: the Movie - Special Edition in time for the new movie - which I'm off to see this Thursday.

[VisualStatic]

My personal fav from back then.....   Star Blazers

[ThunderMonkey]

I watched StarBlazers a while back, and it just doesn't hold up very well (for me at least) after all these years.

I did watch it religiously when I was younger.

[Mister Andersen]

Yeah, I'll second that. I loved Star Blazers - I wanted my confirmation name to be Derek - but having just seen it recently via youTube, I was appalled by just how lame it looked to eyes which knew better. Especially the Voyager-esque instant damage recovery except where the plot demands they make repairs so they can be attacked/explore.


By contrast I offer up Filmation's 1970s (New Adventures of) Flash Gordon. Just as - if not more so - guilty of reusing animation sequences (I lost count of just how often that particular pair of hawkmen were disintegrated) as Starblazers, the care lavished on the storytelling and art was on a whole other level. Sadly it jumped the shark in the second season when the PTBs kiddified both its format and its content by inserting Gremlin, the forebear of Jar-Jar Binks.

[mouthymerc]

By contrast I offer up Filmation's 1970s (New Adventures of) Flash Gordon.

Man, I just have to thanks for that link for the other links to the Flash Gordon movie.  That was a trip down memory lane.  I remember seeing it in the theater.

[ThunderMonkey]

I complete forgot about the Flash Gordon cartoon series. I really enjoyed it.

I'm looking forward to the new Flash Gordon series. They had a teaser during the series finale of Stargate SG-1, but I missed it (looked away from the TV), but I swore I heard the old bass riff from the Queen song.