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ID	Post Type	Posted By	Comment	Title	Posted On

2022	Article	echidna64	Excellent idea for an article! Thank you for some interesting tidbits of film history! Orion films would also be worthy of consideration!		Feb 18, 2015
2023	Article	Vaporman87	Ahhh. Golan and Globus. Favorite targets of MST3K. Great article jkatz. The story of Golan and Globus is SO much like that of John DeLorean that you might think they were related somehow. Big dreams, taking it all the way to the big time, then dying off before the dreams were fully realized. They had some good films, Cobra and MOTU being two of them (even though MOTU could have been SO much better with a bigger budget). But man, they really loved pumping out crap. Crap that we love today for taking itself so seriously, but just plain crap back then. Sell the renter on the VHS cover (<a href="http://www.retro-daze.org/site/article/id/275">as you've mentioned before</a>) and then hope you make the budget back without too much word of mouth crashing your chances. Without the internet, discussing some crappy movie you watched was far less likely to happen. My favorite MST3K Golan and Globus disaster? Alien in LA with Kathy Ireland. LOL	An Ode to Cannon Films	Feb 18, 2015
2024	Article	Hoju Koolander	Cannon Films are so important to 80's cinema...and video stores. What would have been playing on cable and Sunday afternoon TV with out the violence filled schlock they pushed out on a regular basis? Of course Masters of The Universe is their most special release to me. Yes, they disregarded everything about the cartoon that made us love it, but it's such a fun fantasy/sci-fi hybrid and inter-dimensional dwarves stealing fried chicken makes me happy. From what I understand Cyborg was created from sets, costumes and script elements planned for the MOTU sequel that never happened. Oh and the Spider-Man movie! I get such a kick out of all the promo materials and costumes they designed for it. It would have been just one step above the 70's live action TV show, but that film would have defined my childhood for sure. Fantastic article!	An Ode to Cannon Films	Feb 18, 2015
2025	Article	AnEarly90sMan	Ah yes, the Bart Simpson hair carving. The good old days. Remember when people had this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Superfly_(soundtrack)#/media/File:The_Return_of_Superfly.jpg Those magazine ads are definitely from an early 90s magazine. You can see the mid 90s coming in (Pop Qwiz popcorn, anyone), but there's still a HW Bush era atmosphere (Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers) to them. Those Simpsons Illustrated issues had to be from the fall of 1991 into the spring of 1992 when we were getting a lot closer to 1993. Thank you for writing this article, Holu.	Simpsons Illustrated and 90's Magazine Ads	Feb 18, 2015
2026	Article	Vaporman87	To just imagine Gary Goddard's original vision for MOTU on screen back then makes me disappointed it never happened. Maybe if Paramount, Universal, or some other big studio could have gotten the rights and budget together, it might have been a real classic.	An Ode to Cannon Films	Feb 19, 2015
2027	Article	SegaFanatic	I'm wondering if anyone here has ever found every hidden hyperlink in this article; they're mostly on pictures and certain words.	Christmas: Alone & Kickin' It	Feb 20, 2015
2028	Article	Vaporman87	I didn't know there were any. Now I will have to mouse over everything to find them.	Christmas: Alone & Kickin' It	Feb 21, 2015
2029	Article	Vaporman87	My experience with "military kids" is next to nothing. Now, I knew lots of kids whose fathers spent many years in the military. In fact, my best friend's dad fought in Viet Nam also, and so did the father of a friend that lived next door to me. Both fathers were gruff, a bit odd, and hard to judge. Especially the father of my neighborhood friend. His dad was actually pretty weird. He was big into computers, and like to dole out lessons to his son and the oddest times. I recall one time while we were downstairs pretending to wrestle (using pillows as opponents) when his dad came down and yelled at us for it. Yet, we had done that many times before and he had never said a word about it. Another kid in my school whose father was in the military in years past was actually our scout leader in Cub Scouts. He was very military in nature, but not as gruff as the others. My best friend's dad has mellowed out over the years. He mostly sits in his recliner and watches Nascar, football, and whatever else is on TV. He also fishes in tournaments. But there was a time when he was an alcoholic and made my friend's life miserable. Water under the bridge now.	Military Kids	Feb 21, 2015
2031	Article	Vaporman87	First of all, I have bad news. Sonic figures are still made to be broken within minutes. Jazzwares didn't learn any lessons from Resaurus when it comes to toy manufacturing. My kids have broken so many Sonic figures I could have 3 whole collections of them if they were all in tact. And I agree that rubber band hips were just a terrible and lazy idea. Unfortunately G.I. Joe wasn't the only popular figure out there sporting rubber hips. He-Man did as well. Lazy articulation is what I call that (though in Mattel and Hasbro's defense, the kind of articulation you see today just wasn't around then, and likely would have been so cost prohibitive that you would have never had the opportunity to own the figures period).	Toy Annihilation	Feb 21, 2015
2032	Article	SegaFanatic	I've never been a large Family Guy fan, but I love the Gremlins reference with that chick from The Nanny (Fran Drecher, whatever her name is), made me laugh like crazy when I first saw it.	80s Pop Culture References in Family Guy	Feb 21, 2015