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freespeech — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:20:52 MDT

is he talking about the old cartoon or the new one??????

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AaronMD — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:31:40 MDT

While the TV shows were low budget and a little cheesy, I must say that I find the original movie to still be excellent today.

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Parsifal — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:32:25 MDT

Oh, there we go.

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Parsifal — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:27:16 MDT

Doh, totally forgot how you add video..

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Parsifal — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:26:52 MDT

@look-up-in-the-sky-its-baby-jesus: You're thinking about "Turbo Teen" [www.imdb.com]
Someone already mentioned this series waaay up there, in the first set of comments.

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Parsifal — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:16:12 MDT

@1981suede: I remember watching that years ago. I only met one other person who saw it, but for years people thought I just made the show up.
@Apreche: Bluh, bluh?! Not that I want to knock your taste or anything, but I saw "Thundercats" recently and the voice acting was terrible. It was stilted and slow. I was surprised how not good it seemed to my friends and I. I haven't actually gone back to watch the original "Voltron", but I have heard similar things about that.
@BigDanG: I second the new TMNT love. I like the OG one, it was goofy fun, but the new one is well done. The first time the Foot Clan showed up I figured it was going to be the usual ass beating, then the Foot actually started taking the Turtles 1 on 1, making them actually have to be smart about fighting. That was cool.
@RPGr: ..but..but I like "Macross"...and "Macross Plus"..."Area 88" is good too (have both the OG and the remake).

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Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:36:09 MDT

@ManjiKengo: Hell, the 60s Spiderman cartoon still holds up pretty well. It's simple, action-packed and funny.

The original Transformers was before my time. I find it unwatchable.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

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killer_meatballs — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:20:36 MDT

NO, you suck. Ban hammer be damned. G1 Transformers is THE best '80s cartoon...ever.

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ratix240sx — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:08:35 MDT

the cartoon doesn't hold up that well. The movie on the other hand still rocks. To say otherwise, is to admit you are blind and deaf.

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look-up-in-the-sky-its-baby-jesus — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:43:24 MDT

i love this one too rubby ducky go down the hole!!!!!

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blackswordca — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:06:10 MDT

I would have to say, there were only a few shows that hold up from when I was a kid. Real Ghostbusters ( first few seasons anyways) hold up very well. Animation is solid so is voiceacting, and has enough of the 80s camp to keep it amusing. IM nervous to watching anything else though,

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Ghede — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:48:24 MDT

Also: Animaniacs is immortal. They should start showing them again. Maybe new episodes, the new movie wasn't half bad.

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hikaizer — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:37:48 MDT

I don't know if I'd say they suck, but certainly the things you liked as a kid lose a lot of their lustre as you get older. Transformers is corny, so terribly corny, but then again that's part of it's charm.

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ManjiKengo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:13:18 MDT

Don't watch the 90s spiderman animated series. it doesn't stand the test of time.

batman tas holds up quite well, but the animation is certainly iffy early on.

Thundercats is cheesy as shit but still good.

Tell you what though, just watch robotech the macross saga. you'll be happy.

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Strangelove — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:12:36 MDT

Oh, come on, the original Transformers movie was the shit, what with Orson Welles and everything.

You've got the touch ...

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A_Knothole_Resident — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:08:58 MDT

@look-up-in-the-sky-its-baby-jesus:

OMG, kids at my elementry school would quote that episode. It was the Nepolean Dynamite of the early 90s.

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look-up-in-the-sky-its-baby-jesus — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:35:32 MDT

also i remember this cartoon where this guy when he gets hot he turns into a car!! and when he gets cold he turns back into guy. i tried to remember the name and i can't and my wife thinks i was on drugs during that time!!! i swear i seen this on channel 13 ( in California L.A. area )

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look-up-in-the-sky-its-baby-jesus — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:33:07 MDT

i meant this clip :

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look-up-in-the-sky-its-baby-jesus — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:29:36 MDT

@kingofallcosmos:

here's some clips of those you mention :

and i love watching this one

especially this short :

im trying to get that sound clip as a ringtone

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Demonbird — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:06 MDT

I remember when this hit me a few years back. It first happened with He-Man. I can't believe how bad that was. Transformers came second. I am afraid to watch old Ninja Turtles.

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jinpei05 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:02:07 MDT

Them's the breaks. Everything is better in memory than it is in reality, especially cartoons from the '80s.

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Pickens — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:14:53 MDT

I think things like that you just have to learn to laugh at. I'm not as old as pretty much any of you, so the majority of my child hood occurred in the 90's. So I grew up watching stuff like that Street Fighter show that's obviously bad, the Sonic cartoon, etc.

And even somethings I watched while I was in middle school seem to not be as awesome as I remember, but I'm still able to watch for different reasons. Especially G Gundam. The first time I watched G Gundam back in middle school, all of the hilarious national stereotypes were lost on me, the really obvious plot twists threw me for a loop, I dunno I guess I was just dumb or something. But today I can still watch that show (every episode, all the way through) and just laugh at it the entire time. And that was pretty much one of my favorite shows back then. It's an odd, but comforting feeling.

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Monsieur Fap★Fap! — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:14:03 MDT

I generally find that if you go into these things with no expectations and accept them for what they are, they're fairly enjoyable.

I watched He-Man for the first time in forever a few months ago and I didn't think it was that bad, for example.
Ditto the Ghostbusters cartoon.
No expectations!

...other times, though...well...there's no redeeming something like Thunder Cats.

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kingofallcosmos — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:51:54 MDT

A quick visit to IMDB helped me come up with this list.

Things I still enjoy:
Pink Panther
Scooby-Doo
Captain Planet (I always liked it in an ironic sense)
Batman: The Animated Series
X-Men
PeeWee's Playhouse
Duck Tales
Dungeons and Dragons (saw it recently and it was still fun)
Classic Looney Tunes

Things that I probably would still enjoy:
Chip N Dales Rescue Rangers
Darkwing Duck
Danger Mouse
Garfield and Friends
The Real Ghostbusters
Muppet Babies
Wacky Races
Rocky and Bullwinkle

Things that are probably not as good as I remember:
Bionic 6
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Jem
MASK (those were my favorite toys)
Pac-Man
Snorks
Super Mario Bros Super Show
Pole Position
Ulysses 31
3 Muskahounds
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Captain Caveman
Laff-a-Lympics
Catch that Pigeon

Things I definitely know are not as good as I remember:
Captain N
Care Bears
Jetsons
Flintstones
Mister T (but I would still watch it!)
Legend of Zelda

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Darkest Daze — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:49:16 MDT

Try the Super Mario Bros Super Show if you want to be let down by your nostalgia. The funny thing with the first season of Transformers is how many mistakes they made in it. Like when they colored both the jet decepticons like Starscream and then when they used Starscreams voice while someone else was talking....I still like it though.

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GhaleonUnlimited — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:32:50 MDT

The '80s TF movie is still godlike though.

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Paul — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:31:45 MDT

and so have you Brian. me too :(

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Paul — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:29:37 MDT

@DanteODiabo:

oh no, you've just grown up. You're no longer a toy 'r us kid.

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mikeymix — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:02:25 MDT

While a lot of the stuff I grew up on has aged poorly, I picked up a 3 episode DVD of Land of the Lost recently, and it's still awesome!! That may be because even when it was new, I thought the dinosaurs looked like they were made of foam rubber, but the sleestaks are still one of the best kid tv villain groups ever conceived!

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shimage — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:32:54 MDT

I have found that most animated stuff that has held up quality since viewing it in my youth has been Japanese. Ralph Bakshi's stuff (in particular, Wizards) is the exception that proves the rule.

Personally, if I wanted giant transforming robots, I would go with Macross. I suppose Transformers has a certain exoticness to it that Macross lacks, though (given that you're in Japan).

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LedRush — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:17:24 MDT

@Shiryu: I'm with you. Pretty much everything I liked as a kid, I still like. Sure, not as much as I used to, but I've never gone back and said, "this is horrible." This includes my experience with Transformers. Sure, the quality is uneven at best, but what did you expect? It's a kid's cartoon from the 1980's. I still love the transformers, though I can take them only in small doses.

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Handles25 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:12:40 MDT

Rose tinted glasses Brian, rose tinted glasses.

Now the game is "how many can I sit through without shoving a pen in my eye"

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Defenestrated — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:02:23 MDT

Come on, you know that 90's cartoons are where it's at. Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Batman: TAS. I'm a child of the 80s, but early 90s cartoons were totally superior.

That said, the transformers toys are still the best toys to have ever been made, barring legos.

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shinykid — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:01:24 MDT

Yeah, you know what else holds up? The Goonies, man. The Goonies. They never say die. Oh, and Heavy Metal. Rock n' Rule pretty much sucks.

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cleverlymadeup — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:47:23 MDT

yeah when you go back and watch stuff later it is a bit different, i use the same argument with star wars and how the new movies "suck" compared to the original ones

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cjschmidt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:42:32 MDT

I think I would have been ok with the Transformers movie if they would have payed a little more respect to the original character designs. Hopefully the sequel will add a little of the depth that was missing from the first.

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StratfordX — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:31:32 MDT

oh wow, yeah, you have access to an ocean of transformers cartoons that weren't exported tot he West, Bash. there's soem CRAZY stuff in there. "Headmasters" sounds like AV but it's legit.

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StratfordX — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:22:37 MDT

Don't even act like this is some sort of justification for the worst Hollywood film of the 21st century.

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Master Saji — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:15:10 MDT

Buh....BUH...

Transformers still kicks ass! I make sure to watch all seasons on g1, g2 and beastwars at least once every other year...along with robotech and thundercats...

Hoooooo!!!!!

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Jayenkai — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:46:29 MDT

@1981suede: Yeay MCoG!! ... Except the theme's stuck in my head again, now.. Bah..

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cybereality — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:45:40 MDT

Brain, you sir have no taste. Transformers is one of the best cartoons every made, way ahead of its time in the 80's. When it was out the animation was second to none (in the US) and for what its worth the writing wasn't that bad (we talking the 80's here). And yes, I've got every single episode on VHS plus the DVD boxset.

TRANSFORMERS RULE!!! It holds up as well as any media from 20 years ago.

But, then again, I still play with toys so maybe we just have different tastes.

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TheLandmark — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:40:44 MDT

Too bad, I thought the first season of Transformers held up rather well after not having had seen it for 20 odd years.

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tk. — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:38:15 MDT

This upcoming comic series mentioned over at io9, about the Decepticons ruling the earth, sounds pretty awesome, though.

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Bokusatsu_Tenshi — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:37:38 MDT

As the cartoon says... "more than meets the eye"

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Ghede — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:31:51 MDT

"You know those forgotten things from your youth that you suddenly remember and wish were left forgotten?

Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest."

Well. My work is done here. Bonus total nerd points to anyone who can identify what I am quoting.

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Lysergio — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:26:50 MDT

@Cchrist: What? That movie is awesome!! Seriously. What the hell is your problem? :P

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emuc64 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:25:40 MDT

I bought a few of the DVD sets of Transformers G1. Some episodes were so bad, they were awesome. And some were just bad. The movie though, is still good - can't beat that soundtrack.

I'm not sure why I hated GoBots but absolutely LOVED Transformers as a kid.

As for today's American cartoons, the only thing decent is Avatar Last Airbender.

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failbit — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:25:30 MDT

You should try watching Mr. Wizard...it used to be badass! now it's just a little creepy.

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vln — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:25:13 MDT

I still watch alot of 80's toons.. I think i never stopped..
All those Marvel/DC toons still hold up right?
Who doesnt like Spiderman and Friends? The incredible Hulk?
Fantastic Four? I even watch 60's boom pow Batman episodes
Even those lesser known toons still have some nice moments.
Dinoriders, Jace and the wheeled warriors,Ring raiders, man i dont think i could live witout my toons.

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cjschmidt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:22:01 MDT

Some shows hold up well, others don't. I enjoy the occasional Transformers cartoon, but He-Man (which I LOVED as a kid) is just too painful.

I think the early 90's probably produced the best children's programming. The old Nickelodeon shows, saturday mornings still belonged to kids, Disney had the afternoons. Shows like Gargoyles and Pete and Pete are still great, no matter how old you are.

This rose-tinted nostalgia applies to toys too, many (not all though) of the toys I adored look like cheap crap by today's standards.

I really like the current trend of remakes though (Transformers cartoon/movies excluded). They make the toys and cartoons how we think they were, not how they actually looked. The new 20th anniversary GI-Joe line and the recent He-Man remake.

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Patient — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:51 MDT

...but it is a good bad though!
Watch Voltron, Thundercats or Macross again, you will be presently surprised.

I will say the one memory that definitely played tricks on me was "Superman: the Movie". I rented it recently for nostalgic reasons and seriously had to imdb.com it, just to make sure I was watching the same movie that I saw as a kid.

The Girlfriend said it with me in unison about 30 minutes in, "This is the worst movie I have ever seen."

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KirbyMorph — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:05 MDT

Watch the Transformers movie and tell me it doesn't hold up. Optimus vs Megatron in the opening half hour is the most epic battle ever and I still get misty eyed when Prime bites it (ZOMG SPOILER). The only blemish ont he movie is "dare to be stupid". You know what I'm talking about.

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Buddy_DoQ — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:14:06 MDT

I find the more artistic live action 'kid shows' the TV beamed to my eyes as a youth hold up pretty well. The Muppet Show, and the Adventures of Pete & Pete for sure. The 90's Batman animated series still holds up fairly well IMO. It's hard for me to think of any animated shows from the 80's that hold up, they sure as hell weren't trying to be the Looney Tunes...

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emag — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:12:08 MDT

We told you to watch Transformers: Animated instead. Now you've soured Mini-Bash on TF forever! ;)

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angry_gamer — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:08:39 MDT

@BigDanG: Here's one I really hated that will shock people... Macross, the original series be it in it's uncut JP originial or that even worst butchering job of a dub.

I "tried" watching it as a kid. Hated it. Boring as heck and the story just felt cut-up. Tried again a couple years ago... even worst.

I don't know why people like Macross, it's a real zzzz like most rose-tinted shows are (Batman the campy West ver. and Star Trek). Batman TAS is still really good (the series released with the original Tim Burton film).

And yeah, the new TMNT animated series is really good. I don't know why "old-schoolers" give it so much hate. Even apart from the comic, it still stands out on its own as great. Too bad they couldn't have let go of the cheesy "no killing/dying" stuff.

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Sharpfish — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:52:57 MDT

I was obsessed with the Transformers when I was a kid (84-87 mainly) but it was nothing to do with the cartoon (which I hardly ever saw in the UK it was on TOO early) and everything to do with the UK comic (which had better stories than the US one I since found out). Obviously the toys (Gen 1/mostly metal) rocked too and the comic/toy combo was what kept me going...

I too bought the cartoon movie on dvd a few years ago and its nice nostalgia but it's not going to win any awards for (voice) acting or script.

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SpishackCola — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:51:44 MDT

So very few things from childhood hold up now. I loved In Living Color as a kid (sure, the first season was in 91 and I was only 8 and didn't get the nuance of every joke, but I got and laughed at most of them). So I went and bought the first 2 or 3 seasons on DVD thinking, "Hey! I'm older now, so I should get every joke in here now and it'll be hilarious!" Yea, that didn't go over too well when I started watching the episodes. It kind of made me sad that I wasn't really laughing after remembering all the good laughs I had almost two decades ago watching the show.

What I'm really afraid of is trying to go back and watch the 80s-90s TMNT. That was my absolute favorite show as a kid, and I don't know if I could take my fond memories of the show be shattered to a million pieces by watching it now...

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romBox — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:51:25 MDT

I remember HATING Transformers as a kid. I could never understand why a flying robot would need to change into a car, it just baffled me.

Come to think of it, there weren't that many cartoons I liked at that time. I thought almost all of them sucked(Smurfs was good, I think). I watched mostly live action shows like Gilligan's Island and the like. It was only later did I discover the awesomeness that was Anime. Loves me some anime.

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BigDanG — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:51:24 MDT

@RPGr: The new TMNT (the series, not so much the new movie, and not Fast Forward) is actually really good. Like the first movie, it stays close to the original comic book, and there are no buffoonish villains. The people who don't like are are usually old-school fanboys who remember the old series with rose-tinted reverence (although the pilot miniseries was actually pretty well-done).

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angryoaf — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:50:59 MDT

I think the recent Transformers movie was awesome, minus the minor departures from the story. Jazz was a huge mistake... especially since he was the first and I think only transformer to die haha.

Also I think it's totally unfair to judge something you liked when you were a kid with the same standards you'd judge a new favorite.

I mean... think about it.... really.... the 80s? c'mon... the 90s???? even worse imo.

Bad hair, pants with high waists... robot shoulder pads, puff paint!? Flash Dance? C'mon... seriously.

And there's this:

It's not the exact details that made these things so cool. It was the little things (and the fact that we were kids... and kids love anything).

Think about the transformer's cartoon.. and think about non-anime cartoons now. Comparatively, Transformers was fucking epic.
Deep twisting plots full of moments of sadness, loss and triumph.

Look at the Transformers cartoon remake they made a few years back... wanna be pokemon/power rangers.

...
Lets put this in terms of video games.
Back when I was 8 I played Final Fantasy 1 for the first time on the NES. I thought DnD was interesting and I wanted to see what it was like but I lived in Jamaica. If anyone even knew what it was, they didn't care. When I played FF1 it was like made of win and awesome. It gave someone like me a chance to enjoy an 'epic' Fantasy adventure.

I couldn't begin to tell you how amazing FF2(4J) on the SNES was to me and then FF3(6J)...epic.

When I fire up my emulator to relive the nostalgia, naturally they don't carry the same 'epic' feeling. Time's have changed, technology has evolved, and even the very idea of what I'd consider 'epic' is different.

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GoonieGooGoo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:49:23 MDT

Best written 80s Cartoon.....GALAXY RANGERS....by the way

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GoonieGooGoo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:48:44 MDT

Transformers Live Action when you think about it is a perfect translation of the 80s Cartoon in writing and plotline....especially when you compare it to the 1st week of episodes.

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sandyklep — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:48:20 MDT

man i feel ur pain.... don't re watch anything... leave ur mind to carry on playing tricks on you' we all deserve it.

i re-watched thundercats once....cried

watched he-man- masters of the universe.... i was offended

u'll be o.k to re watch (most of) the transformers animated film, some of the animation is cheap, but the rest of it is the greatest movie ever made...

orson wells' last film i'll have you know

^_^

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angry_gamer — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:44:41 MDT

There are a few that do hold up. The transformers movie doesn't quite but the original episodes do (prior to the Rodimus Prime era, pre-movie stuff). GI Joe was always bad (never liked it) while Ninja Turtles was good (till they started getting censorship presures).

However the new batch of cartoons going around lately are IMO really good. The new TMNT is one example. That is really good, so is Avatar. Let's not forget to mention any Go Nagai stuff (Voltron, Getter Robo, etc.) holds up really well through the lens of time.

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Angryrider — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:43:42 MDT

Come on! With zillions of Jap Transformers cartoons you expected the original to hold up. Go watch the Headmasters.

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Lancehead — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:41:26 MDT

@ProfWho: Can you suck balls in a good way?

I never caught the original transformer series when it aired, but I did watch the Beast Wars spin off. I thought it was pretty cool back then... hmm...

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Sparx — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:39:38 MDT

Please, the original Transformers will run circles around pretty much any reimagining of today. The whole transformer concept went downhill the day they introduced the minicons. Personally I've always had a thing for Beast Wars but the original was great. I still watch the animated movie every once in a while.

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jayntampa — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:39:16 MDT

I think some shows hold up pretty well ... some, well, don't. Again, I love Galaxy Rangers ... although, it seems no one ever saw it (DVDs coming out soon!). Smurfs holds up really well, I think.

I also really liked Mighty Orbots. Anyone ever see that?

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jiSh — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:39:02 MDT

I tried to watch those Transformers cartoons after the movie came out, and was disgusted. The story and the voices made me want to shoot someone (mind you, the story still sucked in the movie, but it was a LITTLE better).

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Dakobah — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:33:54 MDT

i love retro, you just got to have to pull it off to be cool.

i went and bought Looney Toones collection on DVD because that is what i was raised on and its great to watch em again and take a trip down memory lane.

remember these cartoons appealed to kids back then so looking at em in retrospect means we have to still think what the auidence was aimed for.

Im a Retro collecter so i buy anything i played as or watched as a kid so i guess im still living in the 80's

i still have the first issue of Nintendo Power, so what i am saying is don't sell yourself short just let these cartoons do exactly what there suppose to do,

bring back memories of our childhood.

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thaKingRocka — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:33:36 MDT

actually , this trip down memory lane makes me think of something more recent. i had trouble reconciling in my mind the notion that kratos was greek because, even after finishing god of war 1 and 2, my subconscious recognition of the voice of kratos as being that of a black man supplanted my conscious understanding of the character as being greek. hey, maybe you should tell that gears griefer about kratos as a black character. he doesn't seem very stereotypical to me, unless you want to say he is a negative stereotype of the war-obsessed greeks of old. how offensively steretypical! okay, cue the shit hitting the fan as people lambaste me for identifying race by voice. please remember though that i said it was subconscious.

on a related note, when i was a kid, i imagined the guy singing the wonder years theme song to be black. imagine my surprise when i saw that clip of him with john belushi.

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BigDanG — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:32:36 MDT

@ZenGaijin: I don't believe the Marvel shows really hold up as well. Too much censorship, inconsistent animation, and (especially in Spider-Man) ADD pacing. The writing is pretty strong though. The Bruce Timm produced DC animated series hold up pretty well, though they aren't without their share of stinkers as well (episodes written by Sean Catherine Derek and/or animated by Akom Studios).

After watching some extensive Doraemon with my girlfriend, I feel like I've been cheated in my childhood entertainment. Also, we never got Japan's World Masterpiece Theater.

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supercrap — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:32:16 MDT

The fact is, standards have just gotten higher for TV writing. It's probably a good thing.

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Tenth — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:32:16 MDT

GI Joe still kicks ass.

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WordMan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:27:10 MDT

A-Team and Dukes of Hazzard were like that. I watched them recently and can't for the life of me remember what was good about them when I was a kid.

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1981suede — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:21:16 MDT

@CaptMonkey: It is out there somewhere, well worth hunting down. I'd almost go as far as to say I enjoyed it more now than I did when I was young.

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KindaGamey — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:20:41 MDT

This is my problem with tattoos. If I were allowed to choose a tattoo at age 8, I would be mortally embarrassed now at my decision then. I think now at 34, I'd be embarrassed at my tattoo choice from age 18-21. So, the only time to get a tattoo is at age 94, and even then you should only mark yourself under the wrinkles.

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thaKingRocka — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:18:43 MDT

he-man was my hero. i watched that show as often as i could as a little guy. i bought the "best" of season 1. it was utter shite. i still love everything about it, just please don't make me watch it ever again.

even back then, i thought gi joe was stupid and transformers was boring as hell. i would like to revisit thundercats because i always liked panthro and, more importantly, mummra, the ever-living source of evil. i always thought he was pretty lame, but i liked his delivery. panthro had a great voice too, and i remember recognizing him when he showed up on the cosby show.

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Eschguy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:18:17 MDT

Oh, another show I loved when I got a bit older (it's from the 90's) is Animaniacs. Some of the best stuff out there.

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KindaGamey — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:16:48 MDT

That's nothing. I bought The Greatest American hero and if you squeezed the box it played the theme song. Man, memories either lie or our tastes have gotten more refined.

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firelogic — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:16:35 MDT

Those shows just aren't as old as G1 Transformers. As for the poster who mentioned that Thundercats still holds up....not for me it doesn't. I couldn't believe how cheesy and gay it was. I couldn't sit through a whole episode. And to think, I used to have the action figures and even the sword as a kid...:(

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Doomstink — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:15:55 MDT

There's actually a few good episodes of the old show... like when they tried to give it a real story.

I've always liked the Transformers comics much more. Once the continuity starts in the comic (around issue 40-something) it gets really good. Since most of the comic's audience was adults, the comic doesn't treat you like an idiot (the first 40 comics do, however) like the show does.

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Menolly — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:14:53 MDT

Wow, Bash. I really, really still like the original series. Maybe what was kick ass back then is just funny to me now. Either way, I'm still a TF fan!

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ZenGaijin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:13:12 MDT

What holds up really well. The original Fox Comic shows such as X-men, Spider-man. Even the DC shows such as Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series.

All great, I need to pick those shows up on DVD

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Islandkiwi — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:13:02 MDT

The animation was godawful, and the early episodes were particularly bad.

Stick with Batman, the animated series. Oh, and Smurfs. Go Gargamel!

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CaptMonkey — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:11:41 MDT

@1981suede: I loved that show when I was a kid! I'm going to have to track it down now. I haven't seen that in a good 20 years...

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fresh1 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:09:33 MDT

umm yea how about turbo teen, pole position and m.a.s.k, all were cool when i was 8 now i look at them and say WTF!!!! i must have been a retared child.

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Eschguy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:06:30 MDT

@Daemonstalker: YOU GOT THE POWEEEERR!!

Personally, I like watching/playing things from my childhood. Yeah they might actually suck, but that makes it better I think. Cause you remember how much you thought that stuff kicked ass and so you can let yourself slip into that mental state again. It's fun!

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DanteODiabo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:03:41 MDT

In my opinion they dont make cartoons like the used to. Cartoons now a days suck ass, hard. Saturday morning cartoons used to be the best things on t.v. and now, they just suck. No story, no development, nothing worth while. Sure as far as animation goes and how pretty the cartoons might look, the 80's goldie oldies don't hold up. But, the good old stuff, the stuff that used to make me get up early saturday morning just to watch, pricless.

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Automageddon! — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:01:17 MDT

There are two things that survived the test of time for me, Future Boy Conan and Space Pirate Captain Harlock. And both were aired in Italy on public television in the late 80es, early 90es.
Bash get the full series of Conan and watch it with the kid, both of you will love and one day he will have great memories of some evening on the sofa.

Unrelated side note: Fist of the North Star, Devil Man, Tiger Man, on public television in Italy in the 80es? Simply incredible!

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6010 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:58:51 MDT

There's a kids cable channel in the UK which repeats them on a nightly basis. Perfect for when I'm away at a course and it's the only half amusing thing on the hotel TV. It's got good camp value too.

The main thing is that it makes me feel really nostalgic for playing with the toys and for all the ones I didn't get to get as a child. I always really wanted a Jazz...

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T16skyhopp — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:58:35 MDT

did you watch "the girl who loved powerglide"? cause thats the best episode of anything ever.

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Zenax — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:58:31 MDT

@awesomerobot: Didn't say I spoke for everyone. But nowadays I am just not the same kind of gamer I was back then and I quickly stopped playing to play some Shining Darkness I also bought.

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Apreche — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:57:33 MDT

Thundercats and Voltron hold up. Stick with those.

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Resso — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:57:31 MDT

Did you buy this because of your kid? I remember readin the first article but not clearly :P

This is going to be "I remember loving Mario 64 as a kid, I bought it after 20 years, but it's not the same..." in a while.

Don't flame me for that, I just believe that's how -storytelling,animation,everything(transformers)- games are going to evolve.

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ElMuerte — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:57:23 MDT

These however are hilarious. NSFW audio.

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awesomerobot — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:56:36 MDT

@Zenax: I have to disagree, SMB3 is one of the best games ever made - when I replayed it I realized how much more I can appreciate it now rather than when I was a kid.

I think it's funny people say the movie sucked in comparison to the cartoon - I think the last time a lot of the people saw the cartoon was in the 80's, it was really bad - don't get me wrong, it is/was certainly entertaining - and the translation to film was actually pretty decent considering.

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FP Bleentastic has cake — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:56:11 MDT

nothing can dimish my views of Fragglerock and Beast Wars but Transformers and GI Joe god that looks so horrible now

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Daemonstalker — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:55:59 MDT

Transfomers the Movie stands up even today as one of the greatest cartoon movies...heck just plain old movies of not only the 80's but the last 20 years.

YOU GOT THE TOUCH!!!

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Shiryu — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:54:54 MDT

Really? My memory does not play tricks on me. Stuff I like a s a kid, Istill liek today, like the TMNTurtles. Spectrum games i liedk as a kid, I still like them now. Same for Gameboy, SNES, etc... maybe my brain just refuses to grow up and let go!?

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tuffie — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:54:36 MDT

I totally agree. I remember that movie and the GI Movie being two of my all time favorites as a kid, but when i found them again and watched them at 26, i couldn't begin to understand what i ever liked about them. Just goes to show ignorance is bliss

o_O

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ProfWho — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:54:22 MDT

@PSN ID: Kadaj24: That movie did suck balls and not in a good way.

It was sad that not only did it have no character development or interesting characters, that they also went with the lame old kill the black one (Jazz was clearly the black Autobot).

God give me the old movie any day of the week.

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Dannon — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:54:10 MDT

I don't watch anything I watched as a kid, it was good, I remember it being good, as long as I don't watch it again it'll always be good

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Cchrist — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:54:05 MDT

Yeah i made the mistake of buying the original transformers movie on dvd a while back. Nostalgia is a lie.

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1981suede — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:53:18 MDT

I'll tell you what does hold up over the sands of time. Mysterious Cities of Gold. Pure awesomeness!!

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ElMuerte — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:53:03 MDT

Yea pretty much everything I thought I liked as a kid is horrible.

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PSN ID: Kadaj24 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:52:30 MDT

The Transformers cartoon in the 80s was WAY better than the movie that came out last year. IMO, that movie sucked.

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Zenax — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:50:43 MDT

Its quite true. I got SMB3 on my VC because nostalgia attacked me and I kind of regret the purchase now. Have barely played it. It is still fun and all but it is not what I remember as a kid.

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