There were countless TV cartoons in the '80s, and Saturday mornings were filled with adaptations of popular toy lines, comic books, and movies, even if some of the properties weren't exactly ...
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 ...
I'm a '90s kid, but that being said, some great cartoons definitely spilled over into my childhood from the '80s...and these shows are MONEY. There's no denying the popularity of Care Bears. The show, ...
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 ...
Saturday morning cartoons were the only reason to wake up early in the ’80s. Growing up, we did not have a television so I would be at my best friend’s door (much to the disappointment of his dad) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...