skillex
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Post by skillex on Mar 4, 2007 3:48:19 GMT
In tribute to Rad's fabulous new avater of the Princess of Power's herself, She-Ra, I think it's about time we had a cartoon-based thread.
Who else remembers... The Transformers Thundercats He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Pole Position Battle for the Planets Thunderbirds 2086 (or somesuch year) The Mysterious Cities of Gold Flight of Dragons (a film rather than series, AFAIK) Dungeons and Dragons Ulysses 31 and of course...
She-Ra, Princess of Power
I actually had a She-Ra toy as a childm I bought her at a car boot sale and pretended she was for my sister. In reality she defended my Castle Grayskull playset along with He-Man's love interest Teela against rthe evil might of Skeletor's 2nd-in-command, Evil-Lyn. Nowadays, my boyfriend claims this was all very gay. I disupute this and point to my love of transforming alien robotic warrior Arcee from Transformer to refute this claim (err, except she was a lady Transformer who turned into a pink sports car)
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Ben
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Post by Ben on Mar 4, 2007 17:44:21 GMT
While you're about it, add:
Dogtanian Around The World With Willy Fog Space Sentinels Spiderman And His Amazing Friends (That's Iceman and Firestar to us).
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Post by jetsetwilly on Mar 5, 2007 0:02:16 GMT
I can rate these only on the virtue of their theme tunes. Which means Thunderbirds 2086 is right out and Ul-y-seee-ooo-eee-ooo-eees (No-one else can do the things you do!) wins.
And was it just me, but did all gays have to be Firestar when playing Spiderman and His Amazing Friends with their school pals, or was it just me and everyone I know? (And we also got Teela and Evil-Lyn while playing He-Man).
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Post by Rad on Mar 6, 2007 19:35:32 GMT
ooh-I inspired a thread!
as I was often the only girl I got to be firestar, cheetara, wilykit and allsorts of people from heman/shera. funnily enough I was usually a boy transformer (the only girl one I recall was made up for the film).
it is a scientific fact akin to the monkeys/typewriters thing that when any bunch of people born between about 1973-83 communicate, talk will always come onto 80s cartoons.
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Post by jode* on Mar 7, 2007 16:39:53 GMT
it is a scientific fact akin to the monkeys/typewriters thing that when any bunch of people born between about 1973-83 communicate, talk will always come onto 80s cartoons. Very true. That was the whole of Freshers' Week at every Uni everywhere. Hence, I am a little bit over it now, sorry.
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Lisa
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Post by Lisa on Mar 7, 2007 17:44:26 GMT
anybody else remember Rainbow Brite or Dino Riders? All my pals think I've made them up but I'm pretty sure they were real!
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Post by Becky on Mar 7, 2007 20:44:02 GMT
I reme,ber Rainbow Brite! Loads of people I know think I made up Captain Planet, even though I can sing them the theme tune.
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Post by xenomaniac on Mar 7, 2007 23:39:29 GMT
I still have a DinoRIders video. I'm almost 100% sure the cartoon was made solely to sell the toys.
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Post by Cherubic on Mar 8, 2007 0:33:33 GMT
They all were. Except Ullyses, which was made to implant the theme tune in your head way past when you'd forgotten the show ever existed. For the longest time I thought the lyrics were "Ullysee-ee-ee-ees no one else will need your birth control", and years later would find myself singing it in school.
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Post by Bungle on Mar 8, 2007 1:00:44 GMT
I reme,ber Rainbow Brite! Loads of people I know think I made up Captain Planet, even though I can sing them the theme tune. How ridiculous! Captain Planet, he's a hero - he's gonna take pollution down to zero. Watching the opening here: exposes the oddness that the five chosen 'young people' are from North America, South America, Africa, Asia and... err.... the Soviet Union?! What about Europe? Or Australasia, come to that. I'll forgive them Antarctica.
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Lisa
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Post by Lisa on Mar 8, 2007 8:59:58 GMT
Thank you, thank you, thank you to Becky and Xenomaniac for giving me back my childhood memories - and not making me grow up thinking I spent my beginning years on glue!
I like to think that Captain Planet and Rainbow Brite are hooked up on a trawler somewhere working for Greenpeace.
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Post by thelovelykate on Mar 10, 2007 10:55:04 GMT
I think Dogtanian and Willy Fogg were two of the more bizarre kids cartoons. I just love the concept of making a cartoon of classic novels but with talking animals. I loved in Dogtanian how all of the main characters were dogs except for Milady who was a cat.
On the subject of 80's cartoon roleplay in my final year at uni me and my friend went to a fancy dress party dressed as Cheetara and Liono. It was quite good fun except that he got pissed and kept trying to summon me with his cardboard Sword of Omens.
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Post by schmindie on Mar 11, 2007 23:38:14 GMT
I had a plastic Rainbow Brite tea set. It ruled, until I used the plates as frisbees and lost them all.
*weeps*
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Post by klee on Mar 12, 2007 10:46:55 GMT
The best cartoon baddie was self-evidently Cat-Ra from She-Ra who had the kick-arse mask which, when worn, turned her into a panther. She was amazing and I wanted to be her.
Ulyssess 31 scared the living daylights out of me. Also, being a horrible know-it-all child I was offended by the fact they used the Latinate rather than Greek names for the Gods. This seemed terribly wrong.
I always wanted to be Presto in Dungeons and Dragons and Orko in He-Man. Geek from the word go, really.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Mar 12, 2007 11:23:35 GMT
When I was a child I was convinced that Blonde Ranger and Invisible Cloak Girl in Dungeons and Dragons were doing it. I don't know why; I was just picking up on some heavy sexual chemistry between them.
However I also thought that Julian and Anne from the Famous Five were also having illicit sex all the time. Somehow the fact that they were (a) brother and sister and (b) about eight completely didn't register.
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Post by Steven on Mar 12, 2007 17:37:39 GMT
However I also thought that Julian and Anne from the Famous Five were also having illicit sex all the time. Somehow the fact that they were (a) brother and sister and (b) about eight completely didn't register. Oh please. Everyone knows that Julian was cheating on Anne with Dick behind her back. I had the Famous Five computer game on the ZX Spectrum, which was awesome. Despite having read the book from cover to cover, I could never figure out how to survive the storm that hits when you're on the island without catching a cold and being sent to bed for the rest of the hols by Aunt Fanny.
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Post by Nick on Mar 12, 2007 23:54:03 GMT
I found all the Stoppit and Tidyup episodes on YouTube tonight.
(To be fair, they weren't very well-hidden.)
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Post by naughtybloke82 on Mar 13, 2007 22:59:50 GMT
Galaxy High!
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Post by Dr Onion on Mar 14, 2007 14:39:11 GMT
Mysterious Cities of Gold! What a show and what a theme tune (but not as great as Ulysses 31)
But for me it was Dungeons and Dragons all the way! The Cavalier guy was great with his cowardly ways and the Ranger guy with his magic bow (Fnar Fnar). I suspect they were all doing the invisible girl - even the unicorn - when things got quiet. Maybe Vengar? (The evil guy) had her tied up in his dungeon at the weekends or something!
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Post by urbanninja on Mar 14, 2007 15:49:44 GMT
They were all doing her except the magician. He was a bummer for sure. The acrobat munched rug and used the barbarian kids helmet for extra-curriculars. The Dungeon Master filmed it all. True story.
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Post by urbanninja on Mar 14, 2007 15:50:49 GMT
"Evergreen forest. Quiet, peaceful, serene. That is until Bert Racoon wakes up!" Ah, memories.
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Lisa
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Post by Lisa on Mar 26, 2007 8:08:43 GMT
If anyone can help me with this, I know you lovely people can... what was the bad guy situation in Bananaman? I'm actually starting to lose sleep over it now!
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Post by Rad on Mar 26, 2007 10:32:08 GMT
Wasn't it some shortarse miltary guy?
EDIT: Yes, it was. General Blight.
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Post by thelovelykate on Mar 26, 2007 10:32:19 GMT
When I read that I instinctively thought it was the legend that was Texas Pete but then I remembered he was in fact in Super-ted.
Texas Pete was great although quite why a cowboy would be obsessed with the downfall of a magical teddy bear and his alien chums is anyone's guess.
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Lisa
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Post by Lisa on Mar 26, 2007 11:22:11 GMT
Thank you girls, that's settled a bit of a domestic disagreement I'm having with the other half!
Super Ted was ace - unfortunately it's only on these days in Welsh which can be pretty tricky to follow!
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