Thundarr the Barbarian

Looks and sounds damn familiar. Wasn't it shown on Cartoon Network until about a decade ago, in the Power Zone cartoon block? If I recall correctly, it was pretty kickass.
 
Yeah, Thundarr was pretty dark and bleak for a Saturday morning cartoon.

Very Conan meets Planet of the Apes-esque. Last episode I can remember watching had them in the deep south somewhere fighting some red-neck mutant man-pig cops. Good stuff (well back, then anyway).
 
Good cartoon from the 80s. Ariel ever trying to teach Thundarr how things used to work before the apocalypse. Chewbacca going around bringing chaos and destruction to the wasteland. Thundarr's lightsaber. There was another great cartoon from the same period where people turns into insects after armageddon. Everyone has an insect pet. There were even some toys. Someone here remember the name of that cartoon?
 
While we're here, Caddilacs and Dinosaurs anybody? That show's probably what primed me for Fallout, later in life.
 
I think I already mentioned it somewhere and nobody paid attention to it. :P Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is pretty cool. Xenozoic Tales comics, are even better.

Xenozoic Tales is the old name for the comics, which appeared long before the animated series and the games called Cadillacs and Dinosaurs .

The story is about a post apocalyptic future with strong retro touch, cadillacs (engines running on dino-droppings) and lots of jungle (but there are also wastes and deserts!). And of course Jack Tenrec and Hannah Dundee... and lots of Dinosaurs. (i.e. Hermes *g*)



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Roshambo said:
EyeMaster7 said:
There was another great cartoon from the same period where people turns into insects after armageddon. Everyone has an insect pet. There were even some toys. Someone here remember the name of that cartoon?
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Not quite the background, but close enough for twenty years back. My favorite of the Sectaurs was Skulk and his tarantula puppet/mount.
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Sectaurs!!! This cartoon brings good memories. Sectaurs toys could beat Masters of universe ones any day. IIRC.

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs sound more better then xenozoic tales. The arcade game based on this comic is great. I'm going to check the cartoon. Looks good.
 
EyeMaster7 said:
There was another great cartoon from the same period where people turns into insects after armageddon. Everyone has an insect pet. There were even some toys. Someone here remember the name of that cartoon?
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The Great Space Coaster?

Seriously though.Kids today don't realise what they are missing.Cartoons seem to go more for a gross out factor as entertainment then being entertainment for entertainments sake.

Robotech,Battleship Yamamoto,New Zoo Revue,The banana Splits,H.R Puffinstuff,Thundarr the barbarian gave way to cartoons such as He-Man,GI Joe,My little Pony and the Care Bears.

Could you imagine a network showing A Watership down nowadays?Cartoons such as the Simpsons,Family Guy,South Park are awesome for the 18-35 crowd.Ren and Stimpy just awesome..yet showa like Captain planet and Power rangers soon dominated the airwaves

During the early to mid-90's there was a rennasiance with Shows such as Animaniacs,Histeria,The New Adventures of Batman/Superman and the WB seemed to try to bring back cartoons that children could watch and adults would enjoy also..then we began recieving Japanimation as hip and cutting edgeCartoons today don'y even have aby moral beyond the latest trend,

Whatever happened with Bugs Bunny cutting off Floridia from the US and being caught by the bounty hunter..knowing he is cornered,he takes the last refuge of a scoundrel he marches out of a Phone booth wearing dress blues snd announcing,after the Pearl Harbor attack that "This is a job for real Super Man" as the Marine Corp Hymn played in the background.

Now the young audience can look foward to seeing Boo-Bo-Bo-BOO Boo.Narartu.Ed,Ed,and,Eddy
 
DirtDigger2000 said:
He-Man,GI Joe,My little Pony and the Care Bears.
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Those were pretty much cartoons built around, and for promoting toy lines. (All of them HASBRO?). Whereas PuffNStuff and Great Space Coaster really seemed to be the product of some really stoned guys having fun without which in and of itself precluded them from any kind of corporatization.

Could you imagine a network showing A Watership down nowadays?
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Cimmerian Nights said:
DirtDigger2000 said:
He-Man,GI Joe,My little Pony and the Care Bears.
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Those were pretty much cartoons built around, and for promoting toy lines. (All of them HASBRO?). Whereas PuffNStuff and Great Space Coaster really seemed to be the product of some really stoned guys having fun without which in and of itself precluded them from any kind of corporatization.

Could you imagine a network showing A Watership down nowadays?
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Way too dark for todays kids, hell, that black death rabbit still gives me nightmares.
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Growing up and watching cartoons during that time.The shift was just amazing.Violence was bad and pseduo-violence ala GI Joe or no violence at all with shows such as Care Bears and My little Pony became the norm.The worst,and more recent example,being the Conan cartoon.Howard would be turning over in his grave at the depiction of his anti-hero as Conan represented the base instinct of human nature.He was a noble Barbarian in his own right but a barbarian none the less..Though i guess it is a mute point as saturday mornings have been filled with info-mercials on the major networks during the times when cartoons used to be aired.
 
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