Both shows were hokey fantasy adventures with hefty amounts of sci-fi sprinkled on top. Sadly, both were also canceled after ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There were countless TV cartoons in the '80s, and Saturday mornings were filled with adaptations of popular toy lines, comic books ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animation has been back in the news recently due to the king of all characters — Mickey Mouse (his Steamboat Willie incarnation, ...
An entire generation spent their Saturday mornings watching cartoons in the 1980s, but many of their titles are long forgotten.
Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs. Just laser guns, synth music, animal hybrids, toyetic vehicles, and an intro theme that went harder than it had any right to. Some of these ...
The 1980s were a golden age for cartoons, which often featured some creatively creepy villains that linger in memory even all these decades later. The most famous and iconic cartoons of the 1980s ...
The worlds of He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformers, ThunderCats, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t end after the credits—they live on through vintage toys, comics, and trading cards. Before there were ...
In 1980, everything changed for animation in America. President Jimmy Carter signed the FTC Improvements Act of 1980, limiting the Federal Trade Commission’s ability to regulate children’s programming ...
Anyone who grew up in the 1980s grew up watching many of the same, 30 minute toy commercials known as Saturday morning cartoons. Those same children, in all likelihood, grew up in households where ...
The lesson of MythForce, if Beamdog’s zany roguelite has one, is that parody is easy; homage is hard. It’s simple enough to snicker at the 12-frames-per-second animation of the 1980s, and the cynical ...