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| 1529 | Article | Vaporman87 | Awww yeah. This is what I'm talkin' 'bout Willis. Sooo much good stuff in this article. I loved about all of these shows, and I agree with every point you make regarding the styles of animation. I pretty much disliked any and all anime growing up. I didn't like the style, as it was too simplistic and crazy looking. Not to mention that dubbing them over made for some really strange interactions between characters. Unlike traditional American animation dialogue, you would have the weird moments where the characters talk over each other, or say things that really make no sense, or don't flow with the conversation. It is funny how now I can tell just by the style of animation, which studio pumped out a particular cartoon. Look at Dennis The Menace and Heathcliff. You could interchange the characters in those shows and nothing about the character design or animation would need to change at all. The same goes for Sunbow and Filmation. Speaking of Filmation... they get no love here!!! Really? C'mon Hoju! The animators of He-Man himself! BraveStarr? Ghostbusters (the non-Bill Murray led team)? Filmation was really good at taking movements from actual film footage and changing them to animation, then reusing those same animations while fitting in different characters. These animated sequences were repetitive, but also very smooth. I loved Filmation's style. Looking back now at cartoons from Sunbow, it's easy to see that some segments were well done, and some were just dreadful. This was especially true of Transformers. There would be times when a character was not colored properly, or missing a mouth or eyes or some other detail. Times when the animation was so choppy it was as though they had run out of frames and needed to cut a few. Yeah, Transformers could be pretty bad looking at times. I never really noticed it as a youngster, but now I can see it doesn't hold up well sometimes. Great breakdown of 80's classics Hoju. I loved this one. | Nov 26, 2014 |  | |
| 1530 | Article | pikachulover | Cartoons on tv by Disney like the Gummi Bears, Ducktales, and Winnie the Pooh. With Disney you know you are going to get a good quality animated cartoon. I think my first anime was either Robotech or Voltron. I didn't get into anime until the 90s with Sailor Moon. My Little Pony G1 Sunbow cartoons were pretty poorly animated too. They were usually the wrong species or like Vapor said the pony was the wrong color or had the wrong hair color. | 80's Cartoons: An Animated Discussion | Nov 27, 2014 | |
| 1531 | Article | Fulton4V | Im glad to see you mention Dinosaucers here as that was one my favorite shows as far as cartoons go. I was a nice show with good art work. | 80's Cartoons: An Animated Discussion | Nov 27, 2014 | |
| 1532 | Article | Hoju Koolander | @Vaporman87 I said it would be controversial, didn't I? The Filmation omission was definitely on my mind. I figured since I was already trashing H-B, focusing in Filmation's faults would be redundant. Bravestarr and Ghostbusters were B-Level favorites of mine whose animation quality did improve a lot over He-Man, but the associated toys were always better than their cartoons. @pikachulover The Disney cartoons deserve an article all their own. I almost added The Wuzzles to the list, but they were cut for length. I actually thought the G1 My Little Pony TV movies were OK animation wise, but they had pretty scary villains terrorizing the ponies. @Fulton4V Glad get some support on Dinosaucers. One of the creators, Michael Uslan was a producer on Batman '89 and a lifelong comic book fan. He talks about developing the show in his book, "The Boy Who Loved Batman". | 80's Cartoons: An Animated Discussion | Nov 28, 2014 | |
| 1536 | Article | Vaporman87 | @Hoju - That was something that I was glad Filmation did with He-Man... make his show more than just a half hour advertisement. Mattel probably would have settled for anything as long as they were getting time on tv for their property, but Filmation cared about these characters and took time to delve into their backstories, world history, relationships, struggles, etc. and they did it on a very limited budget and with very limited time. They were expected to pump out 65 episodes a year! How do you do that and still manage to make all those elements work? Ask Filmation, because that's exactly what they did. Mattel didn't place "By the Power of Grayskull" in our vernacular... Filmation did. Filmation made He-Man just as much as Mattel. | 80's Cartoons: An Animated Discussion | Nov 28, 2014 | |
| 1561 | Article | Hoju Koolander | @Vaporman87 You are right, even though their animation was pretty limited and recycled on He-Man, they did create the backstories we know and love for the characters. Connecting Man-At-Arms, Teela and The Sorceress? Making Queen Marlena an Earthling Astronaut? That was some pretty cool stuff. Reading the mini-comics, you realize how different it could have been | 80's Cartoons: An Animated Discussion | Dec 02, 2014 | |
| 1564 | Article | AceNThaHole | They pretty much single handedly removed the whole "combine two halves of the sword" gimmick as being important at all. A kid in the 80's might wonder why the heck they manufactured He-Man and Skeletor with to half swords. | 80's Cartoons: An Animated Discussion | Dec 03, 2014 | |
| 1535 | Article | Vaporman87 | Man, I miss '88 McDonald's. I want my food served in styrofoam. I my large drink to be the size of a medium (and sometimes small) by today's standards. I want grease, trans fats (okay, maybe not really), shameless marketing to children, McDonaldland characters... I want it all. I'm just wishing I could have brought back some of those flocked Berenstain Bears toys and a few Changeables without causing a paradox in space/time. Work that out, will you good doctor? | Timewarp: McDonald's 1988 | Nov 28, 2014 | |
| 1547 | Article | SegaFanatic | Great article, the moon always scared me though to be honest. At least it isn't the Burger King. | Timewarp: McDonald's 1988 | Nov 30, 2014 | |
| 1549 | Article | pikachulover | I'll go back to 1988 McDonald's and get some Oliver and Company and Garfield toys. That was before they started putting mustard in the cheese burgers in my area. A Happy Meal cheese burger with an orange soda. | Timewarp: McDonald's 1988 | Dec 01, 2014 | |
