Hi All,

Do you all remember the days, coming home from school, and sitting down to watching your favorite Cartoons, not like the crap they have on today, classics like "Danger Mouse", "Count Duckula", and the american cartoons, show on the Cartoon Channel, like "Bravestar" or "Jason and the Wheelies", these are some of the best animation for the time and good story lines, unlike pokemon, the same shite over and over, another great classic, which a cult following on the internet, "Thundercats" any followers here?

post your views on some of your favorite cartoons, and us know,

my All time favotrites, which I have on DVD where, Ulysses 31 (Until I got it on DVD, I never knew if they made it back home)

as Shane Morone says "Keeping It Retro"

p.s. Anyone remember "Flash Gordan"cartoon from the makers of He-Man?, it had major sexual overtones :blink:

I remeber (and loved except blundercats) all of the above, here are some others

He-man
Mask
Cities of gold
Prince Valiant

and of course Dogtanian and the muskerhounds

and my personal favourite:

Dungeons and dragons - qwality class :D

ok, check here to get a kicker, to help you remeber what you missed, if you weren't around at the time,

http://www.retrojunk.com/

Cities of Gold and Dogtanian were fantastic. Really strong stories that werent just invitations to spend money at Toys R Us.

I also liked Jamie and the Magic Torch, the theme tune rocked.

Not a cartoon but StarFleet aka X-bomber was an excellent non Jerry Anderson Japanese puppet show. Had touches of transformers, manga mechs, and power rangers.

Inspector Gadget was excellent too. Go go gadget submit button.

my Top 5

1) Battle of the Planets (I have a 4xDVD set of this)
2) The Pink Panther (I have the 5xDVD Set of this too !)
3) Dungeons and Dragons (guess what - yeah i have the 4xDVD set)
4) He-Man (no - I DON'T have the DVD set to this !)
5) Centurions (... Power X-Treme ! .. would LOVE the DVD to this !)

Battle of the Planets will always be #1 for me .. even though 7-Zark-7 is really, REALLY quite camp and Zoltar looks like he wants to be in a drag queen contest.

I still watch a lot of Anime, i prefer the "older" funny stuff like Bubblegum Crash, Dominion Tank Police and my favourite - the "Project A-KO" series which has the added benefit of being well .. about lesbians !

Japanese Cartoons just rock !.

anime rules - I have akira (the best anime film) and ninja scroll on DVD, am planning to get things like Guyver and fist of the north star too.

And the ridiculously explicit overfiend films :lol:

Harsh.

I'm old enough to remember Buster Crabbe 'Flash Gordon' and 'Buck Rogers' serials on kids TV :). Dangermouse and Count Duckula became cult teen viewing though and I will admit to buying them on DVD, owning a Duckula mug and having the missus buy me a Dangermouse for my 35th birthday.

However, when I was a kid I used to watch the Superman cartoon series pretty much every week and every time Tom and Jerry or Looney Tunes cartoons were on I would be glued to the screen. Scooby Doo was another favourite as well and if 'The four musketeers' was on in the school holidays I would usually watch that as well.

Oh and for some reason 'Trapdoor' and 'Stoppit and Tidyup' became required post pub viewing in later years.

if your having trapdoor then i'm having starfleet - class, brian may did the theme you know :)

OMG ! - Star Fleet !!!!!!!!

Commander Makara ... X-Bomber has taken off !

I used to record the shows onto AUDIO cassette you know .. didn't have a video back then ..

just loved it !!! .. and the theme ? ... that was awesome !

go here and have a listen

http://tv.cream.org/ then goto themes, enjoy it

Hi All, He's the greatest, He's fantastic Yep for me it just has to be dangermouse :D Penfold Shush!! :D

oh dear shouldnt get me started on this... i will be here for ever..


Am 1st and foremost a transformers fan have the 1st 2 series on dvd, savie for the3rd gen 2 on vhs, approx 70 Toys, 4 versions of the movie... including the infamous swearing.. an more than enopugh stuff for me to be the bain of me lasses life

still on mecha theme

Original robotech episodes 1+2, codename robotech and Robotech:the Sentinels dvd..

If someone can tell me where i can get other robotech pal as have tried ebay and cant find owt

Again on a mech a theme( you'll notice a pattern here)

Volume one Voltron DVD ( vehicle force, not lion force)+ vol 2 is out, cant find it anywhere.


Chuck in Robotix the Movie, some SDF Macross, Macross Plus, Mazinger Z, Gunbuster, Patlabor, Appleseed, Black Magic Marionette 66 etc Masmune Shirow in General and Rumiko Takashi (sp?) and Venus Wars

As for the Starfleet fans. try looking for The Thalian Space Wars VHS... first several episodes woven in to feature length movie got that too... yay me!

MCOG, is on DVD in france only at moment, but a sequel of sorts has been planned!! some ebay types can put entire lot on dvd for you if you get the right auction.

also Action Force the Movie, Inhumanoids, THUNDERBIRDS 2086,

and Willy Fog, Dogtanian and the three muskahounds, JAYCE AND THE WHEELED WARRIORS, Ulysses 31, Dungeon and Dragons.

Want to find captain Bucky o'Hare, get Visionaries on DVD Revenge of the Defenders: Robot 17.

And Need a new Pinky and Brain World Domination Video... dont care much for Pinky Elmira and the Brain though

FJORD!

TTFN PINKY

Dungeons and Dragons was ace!

Am I right that they never actually got home (for good)? ...and if not, why not? Goddammit!

On a few occasions home was there for the taking but it usually meant one of the group would have to stay behind holding some amulet foolishness to keep the portal open. Also The last few epsidoes were only produced in black and white, apparently due to there not being enough money :(

Just noticed the end of your post (missed it before). Trapdoor was indeed GOOD veiwing. As for Stoppit and Tidyup, I have all episodes on VHS. Definately for pre-school and post-pub. Good ties and narrated by Wogan too!

Continuing the thread, did anyone mention...

Space Sentinels?

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/spacsent.htm

Stop it and tidy up available for peanuts, well a few bob at your local music zone so *do as you told*... sponsored by keep britain tidy iirc

Patdfb wrote on Sep 20 2005, 09:54 PM

jesus christ, I remember dis, but it is hazy, there super hero right?, this was golden oldie, why can't they make cartoon like dis anymore? top animation, funny robots and and Spirit inside a computer, which gave them there objectives, great stuff, the 80's where really the best days in my eyes, now if only I could invent that time machine,:)

Dungeon Master and the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

not really a cartoon but I also loved knightmare - when they used to but a helmet on on of the team and the others guided them through a D&D type game, if you watched it now the effects would probably be dire :lol:

Hi koops, yeah it was ok for a kids show, mind you I personally think that you just can't beat Tiswas, I never missed an ep :D

Knightmare was essential viewing when I were a lad. Cant believe how how crap it looks now!!!
Transformers was the ONLY reason to watch TVAM. BTW, George Clooney is doing the voice of Optimus Prime in the new movie!!

I had a soft spot for Biker Mice From Mars too.

My favourites were the ones that I rarely saw, such as Hong Kong Phooey, The Harlem Globetrotters and Spiderman.

I've never seen Starfleet but I've got the Mini LP by Brian May and Friends and it's pretty damn good.

Never liked Dogtanian though, it just seemed to go on and on and on...

Oh yeah, mustn't forget Godzilla!

Several of the shows mentioned in this thread can be gotten from http://www.raretv.co.uk/ including Starfleet, Centurions and Space Sentinels :)

They only do shows that aren't commercially available, so if an official DVD is announced, they pull their copy. Fairy nuff.

My personal favs were (are):

Mysterious Cities of Gold was pure class - can't wait till they release that on DVD (managed to download some episodes of emule - but they are bad VHS copies)

Dogtanian and the 3 muskahounds - used to watch this every week - did it ever finish? Loved the theme tune as well "one for all, and all for one muskahounds ..."

Dangermouse - Terry Scott & David Jason at their best. Penfold - bronze medal winner in the Penfold look-a-like competition :lol:

Dungeons & Dragons - execept for uni - mmmeeehhhh!

Inspector Gadget - pure class again - what was the dog called?

Starfleet - again pure class - wouldn't mind a dvd release of this as well

Great memories!

Brains I think, and wasn't the girl called Penny?

koopa42 Posted: Sep 21 2005, 07:00 AM

your right, I found it on VHS from years back, they really are dire :angry:
i was hoping to feel 13 again :blink:

Well, I did like Galaxy Rangers, Visionairies and the Raccoons, but I am a Transformers guy all the way. Just bought the Revamped version of the movie and what a difference... :D

OH SHIT!!! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO NOW??!!

;)

Well, today I have bought 2 Sonic the Hedgehog videos (which I gave away to a young fan), a Super Mario video and a Spiderman 1970's live action series video.

No idea if they have any value, but I never watched Mario when it was on and my memory of the Spiderman series is sketchy. All that I really remember is that his suit was a bit baggy and his web was more like rope than anything.

I've just joined Screen Select, you know the folk that send you DVDs in the post? Anyways one of the first titles I got was Battle of the Planets, and I think its still ace even now... I even remembered all the words to the theme tune... lol :lol:

Was having a dig around their site and there's hundreds of other anime titles there - can anyone suggest a few classics that I should get, apart from Akira which I've seen?

As i mentioned in this thread - you won't go far wrong with hiring any of the "Project AKO" series - esp. if you like Battle of the Planets - it pays some homage to that for sure.

I also like a lot of the funny anime - things like "Dominion Tank Police" but also more serious anime like Gologo 13 and Patlabor, Appleseed .. all good stuff !.

Did you hire all 4 of the DVD Set to BOTP ?

I know what you mean about the theme tune - once in your head ... never comes out :)

Ross ...

RS you like Anime too! Dominion Tank Police was class, interogating the suspect by sticking a hand grenade in his mouth and throwing knives at him on a wheel of death. And the cat sisters. :P

I'd recomend Venus Wars, it's a pretty good all out action film anime.

Also, the Appleseed comics and anything by Adam Warren. B)

I would have to say that Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away are simply breathtaking, but if you want to stick to the usual suspects like Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll et al then thats good too.

I would personally recommend also: Mobile Successor Nadesico and of course the Evangelion series, which is great apart from the WTF ending.. :D

ninja scroll rocks, jubay (or hiowever u spell it) hes solid, take yo face clean off, anyone who wants and accidental backuyp let me know :lol:

See my last post for anime recommendations, but I' d also add Roujin-Z by Otomo Katsuhiro, Gunsmith Cats, 3x3 Eyes, Ultimate Teacher (for a Laugh) Nausicaa:Valley of the Wind, Porco Rosso, Rumik's World, Sailor Moon and Wings Of the Hominase.

Hope that Helps

TTFN PINKY

As with Donnanut would put Dangermouse very,very high,but just beating into
first place would be Snagglepuss..exit stage right..running all the way..Heavens
to Murgatroyd..fabulous,cant remember what show or channel it was on though.
Who is Murgatroyd? cheers peter(unfashionably late to here!).

As a kid there a loved alot of the cartoons already mentioned but there was one above all others, and i can't believe no-one else has mentioned it:

THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS

I had the proton pack, ghost trap action figures and everything!

never liked 'em, my cousin had the toys - I remember ecto1 being a pretty cool toy

Heavens to Murgatroyd, sounds like its from Super Gran to me iirc.

TTFN PINKY

Probably as good a place as any to put this as it bears relevance to the subject. Play.com have got the Tom & Jerry classic collection DVDs going at £6.99 each. I have just blown what was left of my pay after the mortgage company and missus dipped their fingers into my wallet on six DVDs worth of cat and mouse japes (about 18 hours worth). Along with my Looney Tunes and Daffy Duck ones I shall be hibernating for about a week to view this lot :)