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| 1533 | Article | Hoju Koolander | We did a 4th of July concert of American folk songs once in 4th grade, but nothing on this scale, sounds fun. Good catch on the possible Simpsons inspiration. My son's babysitter has Swedish ancestry so they do all the traditional processions in those white robes and head wreaths at Christmas. Our son got to participate last year and they had him wearing a Sorcer's Apprentice hat with a star wand, did anybody in your group have that stuff? | The Worst Christmas School Production in the World | Nov 28, 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | 80's Cartoons: An Animated Discussion | Nov 26, 2014 | |
| 1528 | Article | NLogan | Gleaming the Cube was awesome. Tony Hawk is the guy with the Pizza Hut truck. <img style="width: 373px; height: 281px;" src="http://uncletnuc.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/3e171-huttruck1.png"> I always wanted a Powell Peralta Skull and Snake McGill board, or the Tony Hawk Skull board but never got one. I had a relatively obscure Bob Reeves Airbourne deck with a dragon on skulls with Independant trucks and either OJ or Slimeball wheels. At one point I had Gull wing trucks. Before that I had a Nash board from either K-Mart or Shopko I can't remember. I drew all kinds of skate designs on my school folders and had stickers in my locker. I sprained my ankle getting a signature from Tony Hawk at a vert demo. I always wore either my checkered vans or my black ones. I never did get into the MC Hammer skater pants though. My little brother turned out to be a way better skater than I ever was. I bought him a Zero board with three skulls on it and matching helmet and knee pads. | Skate or Die | Nov 25, 2014 | |
| 1527 | Article | fuschnikt | Greatest NES game ever. I played it for the first time in a number of decades this Halloween. I realize more and more just how terrible I was at video games as a child. And yet I loved them so much. I finally defeated the game this year, only to find that, as a child, I had only every made it halfway through level two. | Benjanime's Halloween Retrospective | Nov 24, 2014 | |
| 1526 | Article | pikachulover | The school I had gone to before that had a holiday program, but it was put on by the school choir which was an activity I didn't join. In junior high and high school the holiday shows were put on by the drama clubs. Actually I was involuntary roped into some other plays, but they were for other holidays. | The Worst Christmas School Production in the World | Nov 24, 2014 | |
| 1525 | Article | Vaporman87 | I have only participated (at least that I can recall) in church Christmas plays. Even so, the problems are the same. It often seems like everybody involved in preparing/orchestrating the plays are trying to do too much, and with too little help. This pretty much dooms the play. There are often technical issues, parts left unfilled, and all kinds of mistakes. BUT, nobody is expecting Shakespeare, so the problems are overlooked. I have a problem with plays nowadays. They seem too much like a way to entertain adults by parading our kids out there, scared and nervous. Many of them are obviously (and visibly) not enjoying it. So what's the point? I would just assume we have a straight cantata with singing and carols, and leave it at that. Unless the play is being acted by adults who are actually ENJOYING putting on the production. | The Worst Christmas School Production in the World | Nov 24, 2014 | |
| 1524 | Article | OldSchool80s | I was more of a Marvel guy. My favorite series was The Avengers. Always enjoyed the interaction of all of those big characters. (I enjoyed Justice League of America in DC for the same reason). Thor has been one of my favorites for as long as I can remember. Another would be Daredevil. Comics still hold a special place for me. The smell of an old book brings me right back to them old days as a kid. | My Top 5 Favorite Comic Book Characters | Nov 23, 2014 | |
