Mis-spent Childhood!!

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Thu, 19. Dec 02, 22:16

Ok people. Here's a pressing question for you lot who were children of the 80's. What was your favourite cartoon of the 80's? I have limited the selection to the decent action cartoons that fuelled my imagination whilst running round a playground in primary school getting in the way of 'The footballers!'.

I have not been exhaustive, just the main contenders. Have fun!

PS. I haven't included puppets, just animation. (Terrahawks and Starfleet)

As silent bob would say: " "

~Lonowski~ · Post by **~Lonowski~** » Thu, 19. Dec 02, 23:07

duh...

transformers rule

General Antilles · Post by **General Antilles** » Thu, 19. Dec 02, 23:48

Tsk.. you forgot about He-Man.

.SW-880 · Post by **.SW-880** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 00:20

Ghostbusters...I still wanna get my hands on a proton pack.

silentWitness · Post by **silentWitness** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 00:32

I remember when this was all fields... bloody Global warming

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I went into the X men stuff... I really liked Rogue!

Don't know what they mean childhood experiences don't follow you into adult life...

WarpPig · Post by **WarpPig** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 00:44

Transformers gets my vote, although the comic was MUCH better than the cartoon. Ulysses 31 was well wothh watching too!

Anyone remember the Telebugs?

Warpy

Thalass · Post by **Thalass** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 01:01

Well, I'd have to say the Transformers are the only one's I can remember. But I was still in my larval stage for the entirety of the 80's so I can't be expected to remember anything from those years!

I also remember a cartoon with robot cats (tigers and lions and stuff) which connected together in a disturbingly powerrangers-like way to form a giant robot warrior. Can't for the life of me remember the title, might have been thundercats though. dunno. it ruled tho!

monkman · Post by **monkman** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 01:16

To old for me you lot. While you were watching things like x-men i was crawling around on me hands and kness goin wah wah so !

Belgarath · Post by **Belgarath** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 01:39

Well, seeing as I grew up in the 60's, I guess all these are after my time. Though, I did watch The Transformers a few times. I think I saw Thundercats a couple of times, too. Wasn't impressed with it, though.

When I grew up, my favorite Cartoon was Speed Racer.

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What a cool car. I still want one.

Avis · Post by **Avis** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 02:39

pah you forgot the master ,,
the one that all these cartoons got there momentum from (literaly)
'Robotech - Macross Saga' (long winded but possibly interesting reason for that statement but it is true, but I'll spare my fingers the ache)

UncleKnobby · Post by **UncleKnobby** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 02:55

Ulysses 31 kicked ass.

BTW Battle of the Planet's is now out on DVD

Apothos · Post by **Apothos** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 06:11

I can hardly believe noone else voted for Dungeons and Dragons (narrowly beat Transformers, but those two were way ahead of the others, imo).

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 08:33

monkman wrote:To old for me you lot. While you were watching things like x-men i was crawling around on me hands and kness goin wah wah so !

However, you WERE 26 at the time.

Thalass · Post by **Thalass** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 08:38

Robotech? is this the same one I remember?

Well, actually I don't remember it, but I do remember the title and it zings in my head from the fond half-memories I was too young to store properly.

I remember watching robotech, but I don't remember it!

IMHO though. Technoman was just about the best (and it was the first) manga show I ever watched, but that was in the 90's so it doesn't count!

Goldo · Post by **Goldo** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 13:01

yey transformers

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 14:23

Apologies for the ommitance of He-man! Completely forgot about that.

The one with the linking cats was Voltron wasn't it? I never saw the cartoon but remember the tacky toys...

Good to see Transformers doing the biz! Hail Prime!!

Post by **HelgeK** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 14:42

Am I too old or too german for this stuff? I don't know any of these series

I used to watch Captain Future back in the 80's, does anybody know this series?

Helge

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 14:45

You don't know any of them?! Surely you know Transformers?

I have just remembered another huge ommision from the list...

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors!

Damn! Gutted I missed that one, a sheer classic!

Post by **HelgeK** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 14:58

Roobarb wrote: You don't know any of them?! Surely you know Transformers?

Hmmm... I think I know about them, but I couldn't say if they were on german TV at that time. Later on into the 80's I developed a habit to zap right through cartoons when they were on. Perhaps I just missed them this way...

Helge

Avis · Post by **Avis** » Fri, 20. Dec 02, 15:59

Thalass wrote:Robotech? is this the same one I remember?

Well, actually I don't remember it, but I do remember the title and it zings in my head from the fond half-memories I was too young to store properly.

I remember watching robotech, but I don't remember it!

IMHO though. Technoman was just about the best (and it was the first) manga show I ever watched, but that was in the 90's so it doesn't count!

Yup Technoman aka Technoman Blade aka Blade aka ..... is cool as, yes but late 90s unfortunately

Robotech, was manga, the transformer Jetfire was a direct unadulterated rip off of a veritech from robotech.

where all the shows listed above came about in mid late 80s robotech was early 80s and is also credited as being the 1st sci fi cartoon space opera to make it the the western audience and directly led the way for the air time that the earlier of the shows above managed to get (ie transformers and heman were gap fillers for robotech

, which is actually true)..

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