I <3 Thundercats. Even though some of the plots are insane, and some of the resolutions are completely insane, and each episode conveys a moral of some kind. Any other Thundercats fans here? I'm almost afraid of how many people are going to ask what Thundercats are. Damn kids, stay off the lawn!
I remember Thundercats. I was just talking about them on... Saterday? with a friend of mine. Have no idea how it came up. I think we were talking about the GI Joe command center that you could buy and then the skull mountain for He-Man and then we couldn't remember what the fortress for Thundercats was called.
The Thundertank. Still love watching it, but I routinely get in trouble for my foulmouthed Snarf impressions-imagine Snarf telling Lion-O that's NOT the Sword of Omens he's holding.
I recently rewatched the series...it's no where near as good as my memories of it from childhood suggested.
Showing my age, but I prefered Battle of the Planets and Starfleet. My Younger brother was into Thundercats though... Hmmm. Thundercats Though... Thundercats Ho... Heh.
Yeah I had the toys and have the DVD's now, my little lad loves them. These was a thread like this someplace already I think. ninja edit: sorry it was this trailer I was thinking about
Awesome, they show Thundercats on television in Cuba, I think every Thursday at 5pm, in Spanish, no adverts. THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDERCATS HO! Cuban TV > all.
Battle of the Planets, definitely - that was the one where the ship changed into a big flaming phoenix, right? Not forgetting classics like Dogtanian and The Mysterious Cities of Gold Most of my early childhood was filled up with weird eastern European animated films that made absolutely no sense at all and had psychedelic jazz backing tracks. That, and Barnaby the Bear, Andy Pandy and Pipkins... Let's just say I'm fast approaching 40
The Firey Phoenix, Yup. Always 5, acting as 1 - Transmute! Oh god - the other stuff as well. It's like we had the same childhood. Hartley Hare Cheesecake!
I've been meaning to pick up the DVD's of Thundercats, I've got a few of the videos kicking about (however not having a fully working video makes them kind of pointless). Picked up Hong Kong Phooey recently (Taylor is hooked on it now, he keeps singing the theme tune every chance he gets, 5 yr olds are the funneh) I've also been after the Pole Position, Mysterious Cities of Gold and M.A.S.K. boxsets. Anyone remember the Terrahawks? or Jayce and the wheeled warriors? (I would love for that to get released on DVD)
I recently found my old Panini Thundercats sticker album Sadly it's not 100% complete, though it appears I have some duplicates for swapsies! I'm with you GOO, I loved Battle of the Planets. In fact I have Battle of the Planets, G-Force and Gatchaman on DVD now (but I also have The Moomins [original stop-motion not the rubbish cartoon], Trap Door, Fingerbobs, Ludwig, Bagpuss, Banana Splits, the original Transformers film, Rentaghost and various cult kids classics DVDs). Blademrk: I think Terrahawks is out on DVD. I remember seeing it years ago in HMV and nearly buying it. Oh and so is Jayce+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayce_and_the_Wheeled_Warriors#DVD_Release
I recently picked up the transformers series 1 dvd box set and the Mysterious Cities of Gold dvds, and the transformers dvds made me re-analyze what i watched on tv as a kid, it was complete ****. Became increasingly apparent that its main aim was to stimulate toy sales rather than be a entertaining show. I think I'll skip buying the dvds of my precious childhood tv memories and just revisit them in my mind in the future.
The episodes do seem a bit lame now that I'm rewatching them 15-20 years later, but they're still far superior to today's cartoons.
I was looking into both of these a while ago. Thunder cats is pants. But if I were seven and watched it I expect I'd think it was great. And Battle of the planets was to total butchering hatchet job on Geforce I've watched the 1st episode of Geforce and it's allot darker and violent than Battle of the planets. 7Zark7 (r2d2 clone) was used to tie up any plot holes due to cutting out some of the violent scenes.
