How awesome were the 80's???????????


Sometimes I can't believe my luck with how good children's action programming was in the 1980's. As a kid I felt I had the best of the best: Transformers, GI Joe, jeez... so many I can't even think straight to remember them all.

The point is that when I look at the cartoons & CGI animation of today, they are just so different from my own tastes. I not necessarily knocking them, it's just so refreshing that i grow up with the cartoons that best spoke to my interests. They were just so flippin' cool. And now, slowly but surely, a lot of them are coming out on DVD as boxsets. How cool is that?????

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could't agree more

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Sometimes I can't believe my luck with how good children's action programming was in the 1980's. As a kid I felt I had the best of the best: Transformers, GI Joe, jeez... so many I can't even think straight to remember them all.

The point is that when I look at the cartoons & CGI animation of today, they are just so different from my own tastes. I not necessarily knocking them, it's just so refreshing that i grow up with the cartoons that best spoke to my interests. They were just so flippin' cool. And now, slowly but surely, a lot of them are coming out on DVD as boxsets. How cool is that?????


Agreed!

My generation grew up in the golden age of cartoon and animation programming and we all know it! Thee isn't one person who i talk to who doesn't recognise this fact!

Here is a list of the ones i can name that are highly respected and remmebered today!

* The Adventures Of The Galaxy Rangers

* Transformers

* Thundercats

* Dungeons & Dragons

* Ulysses 31

* The Lost Cities of Gold

* Masters Of The Universe

* G.I. JOE

* Bravestarr

* Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors

* M.A.S.K.

* The Centurions

* Visionaries

* Robotech

* Pole Position

* Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends

* Spider-Man

* The Incredible Hulk

* Plastic Man

* Superman (1988 series)

* The Smurfs

And some carry overs from the late 70's too like;...

* Battle Of The Planets

* Space Battleship Yamato/Starblazers

* The Space Sentinels


An incredible era of animated shows thats yet to be replicated in anyway shape or form at all!


ST4


"He is one, we are three, it is the strength of three that will defeat him...together. General Zod"

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Forgot about Thundar the Barbarian.

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Don't forget Voltron, Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years, Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs...Geez...so many. Even I've missed a few I'm sure!

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I'm with you, guys.

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Totally Awesome!! Rangers ARE Forever....We miss you Jerry! Thanks to DVD I can share the experience with my son who now eschews the ghetto that has become kids television and comes to me exclusively for the best of the Eighties.


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I am with you folks all the way! I grew up with all these wonderful 80's cartoons and now I have been collecting them on DVD. I kinda feel sorry for the generations of youngsters after us that do not have quality entertainment like we did. I never thought that I would see a time when Saturday mornings were absent of cartoons and the after school cartoons are almost non-existant and the ones that they do run are not worth watching. With all the cartoon channels available now-a-days why doesn't one of them realize the potential marketing genius it would be to run action-style cartoons of the 80's and early 90's? Being a stay-at-home father I do watch a lot of childrens programing and cartoons and to be honest with you the cartoons they run are not very entertaining at all. They have season upon season of great cartoons that children would love. Look at how it is all coming back to the 80s. You have Transformers and now Tranformers 2 coming out. The trailer for GI Joe premiered at the superbowl. The revival of super hero movies. I think it is time to give us what we want. This world needs some heroes. We had characters in our cartoons that stood for what is right and honorable. I say they need a 80's action cartoon channel or the networks they have now need to start running action cartoons in blocks. If I had my own network that is what I would run all action cartoons in series order like they were ment to be!

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Amen to that.

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agreed leyenda61 when i was 3 in 1987 i saw my little pony and strawberry shortcake and when i was 4 in 1988 pee wee's playhouse and punky brewster, fraggle rock when i was 5 in 1989 and captain planet and the planeteers and flight of the navigator movie when i was six years old in 1990 and i remember as an a adult i liked the transformers cartoon series the animation was probably the best of that time in 1984!

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Consarnnit! I got a ton of the 80s action cartoons entire boxsets on dvd, and my little guy has no interest in basically all of them. He does like Galaxy High, though.

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There are several reasons why the 1980s were an awesome time for children's action programming:

-The success of Star Wars showed that there was a large audience for science fiction and fantasy stories and that merchandise associated with a popular movie or TV series could be huge sellers.

-Filmation's He-Man and the Master of the Universe demonstrated that an animated series created for first-run syndication could be commercially successful . It was soon followed by others.

-Deregulation of children's programming during the Reagan era. Restrictions were lifted on using TV series to advertise products to children. Scripts could focus on entertainment over education.

-Anime styles had an increased influence as more animation was being imported from or outsourced to Japan.


The industry changed in the 1990s and 2000s, leading to a decline in Saturday morning and syndicated cartoons.

-By the late 1980s, there was a glut of animated series competing for a share of the syndication market, which caused a decrease in revenues for production companies such as Filmation.

-There were changes made to American TV regulations in the 1990s. Restrictions were placed on advertising aimed at children. It was mandated that all broadcast networks air a minimum of three hours of "educational and informational" programming for children per week. This limited the time slots for non-educational children's programming and made action-oriented cartoons less financially viable.

-Saturday morning and syndicated cartoons faced increased competition from home video, specialty cable channels, and other sources of entertainment. Cable channels did not have to follow the same rules as full-power or class-A stations.

-According to some accounts from people who worked in the animation industry, there were complaints of increased corporate meddling in the creative process.

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The best! Where are the cool cartoons nowadays???

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i keep returning to this show when i don't know what else to watch

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