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Alright, I feel like watching some more 80s cartoons and am looking for recommendations. Already watched/watching:
>Thundercats
>Transformers
>BraveStarr
>Voltron
>Galaxy Rangers
>GoBots

What are some other iconic or must-watch shows from that era?
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>>152790526
Are Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, She-Ra, or Inhumanoids worth watching? I have no idea what Jayce is about but the clips look cool.
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>>152790780
While J&TWW has the cutie Flora, don't expect a proper conclusion.
This has been a major problem for most action cartoons with series goals even unto this day.
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>>152790865
At least she's has nice /34/ / r-18
https://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/45289#search=Jayce_and_the_Wheeled_Warriors
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>>152790934
Yeah, the Madoc ones are great, she's a real cue-t-pye.
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>>152790526
I highly recommend Mighty Orbots
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>>152791077
That looks good, there's a playlist of all the full episodes on YT here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwnmiGijsgsNkx86Op2P9zBZNl71mD5Wt
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>>152790780
Just watched Jayce for the first time a few months ago. It's excruciatingly toyetic but it still manages to look cool.
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>>152791674
>toyetic
Is that a negative adjective?
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>>152790526
Beetlejuice and inspector gadget were 80's?
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>>152790526
Ewoks/Droids
Thundarr The Barbarian
Kid Video if you can find it
Tigersharks
Blackstar
GIJoe

Out of the kiddyslop in the image, def recommend:
Alf
The Littles
Pound Puppies (season 1 only)
probably Snorks
Beetlejuice
Gummybears
Smurfs

Adding:
Garfield And Friends.
The New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse
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>>152791781
In this context, yes.
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>>152791833
Also:
Ulysses 31
Bionic Six
Pole Position
maybe Gem
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>>152790526
Why?
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>>152791963
>Ulysses 31
Patrician taste. That show had style and nice animation.
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>>152790526
I recommend Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light.
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>>152793384
Oh man, nice throwback, I remember these toys that glow in the dark if you rub them or something. Didn't know they made a cartoon out of them too. Has a surprisingly good rating on IMDB too for some reason.
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>>152790526
Ducktales is both a historically important show for kicking off the TV side of the animation renaissance and also still holds up pretty well.
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>>152791618
This was the most sexualised robot kids' cartoon ever made.
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>>152793862
They had holograms in their chests.
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>>152793925
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Thundarr the Barbarian is also a fun watch with legends like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Steven Gerber, Mark Evanier, etc at the helm.
Also check out the new Dynamite comic that all the Villains of the Week form a Legion/Council of Doom to get revenge on Thundarr as well as a origin flashback b-arc on he went from slave to liberator and how he, Ariel, and Ookla all met.
Sometimes old school is better than dead fish.
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>>152794504
>new Dynamite comic
Devil Dogs! I had no idea. Thanks for the info, anon!
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>>152790526
Inspector Gadget
Garfield and Friends
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Only catch is that it's Jason Aaron writing it. Hopefully he broke away from his bad writing habits
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This what U.S. Kids watching Nick Jr never got to saw back in the day
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>>152794630
>Only catch is that it's Jason Aaron writing it. Hopefully he broke away from his bad writing habits

LMAO
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best looking stuff:
Count Duckula
Danger Mouse
seconding The Mighty Orbots
Galaxy High School
Ulysses 31
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Inspector Gadget
The Littles
Rainbow Brite
Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
The Real Ghostbusters
Dennis the Menace
Adventures of the Gummi Bears
DuckTales
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
Thundercats
Muppet Babies

fun kitsch:
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
The Legend of Zelda
Captain N: The Game Master
Dungeons & Dragons
Inhumanoids

https://youtu.be/o6LRLbdYQgU?si=piD8Kf-gl-XTAeO1
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>>152794840
>https://youtu.be/o6LRLbdYQgU?si=piD8Kf-gl-XTAeO1
>Cocoa Puffs
Damn, this nigga hit all the notes!
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>>152794504
Thundarr is a major favorite. Also, TigerSharks, ThunderCats, and SilverHawks are amazing.
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https://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/766322#search=ariel%20Thundarr_the_Barbarian
We'll never if this was sketched by either Jack or Alex but they had to make it after hours
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THE 80s!!!
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>>152793862
>surprisingly good rating on IMD
Even though it only lasted a handful of episodes, I thought they were brilliantly written for a kids show.
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>>152796686
Gem, Jem, potato, pomato.
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>>152793881
I thought it was Gummi Bears that had that distinction?
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>>152794504
Thundarr was going to have another but old school corpos are doddering old toads no matter what era.
From the tvtropes:
>> The show got great ratings but ABC wasn't too keen on its violent content, and felt that it would overshadow the then-upcoming Laverne and Shirley in the Army, which they were co-producing. As a result, they cancelled a possible third season.
All L&S TAS had going for it was a pig and only lasted as long as Thundarr did with 21 episodes.
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>>152797852
That's typical, so many of these cartoons were pearls before swine.
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>>152793360
It also has one thing distinctive that a lot of 80s cartoons don't;
An actual ending
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>>152798087
it must have been (and probably still is) incredibly frustrating to be an artist or writer working on one of those shows just praying some executive doesn't axe your project early for some retarded reason
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Series 1-2 of pic related (if you're restricting yourself to 80s) is unironically pretty kino as is TUGS
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>>152798195
Again corpos are doddering old toads who only see money. And unless you have backup plans like graphic novels to continue and hopefully finish the story, you're going to have pissed off fans at best and numb ones at worst.
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>>152791674
Cartoons usually look cool BECAUSE they're toyetic.
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>>152791833
>>152791963
Kinda chad taste, been meaning to look up Blackstar. Is it similar enough to MotU?
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>>152794630
Recommending aaron should be a bannable offense.
We'd be rid of Boco, for one.
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>>152798369
Pretty similar, yeah, less coherent but same kind of science fantasy setting.
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Ariel fanart by Henderson:

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Alice [1988] by Jan Svankmajer
Cat City (1986) Macskafogó
FEHÉRLÓFIA (SON OF THE WHITE MARE) (Marcell Jankovics, 1981)
Il était une fois… l'Espace - Once Upon a Time... Space 1982 to 1983 - picrel
Il était une fois... la Vie - Once Upon a Time... Life 1987
Les Maîtres du temps - Time Masters 1982 - same director as Fantastic Planet but produced by Hungarian studio, Moebius inspired;
When the Wind Blows (1982)
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Real Ghostbusters
Darkwing Duck

If you want to branch into anime
Dirty Pair
City Hunter
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>>152798340
Depends. Some of them focus too much on the thing without a lot of plot and variation. Couldn't get into Transformers G1 until the post-movie space stuff because it seemed like same shit, different day at the time. Same for GIJoe but seeing all the crazy shit that gets posted here I may have missed out.


>>152798369
A lot of elements were actually retooled into MotU.
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L&S JtA and this which aired in the previous year would be one of many animated spinoffs that would fill the weekday and Saturday mornings
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>>152800694
>Couldn't get into Transformers G1 until the post-movie space stuff
That... sure is a particular taste

>A lot of elements were actually retooled into MotU.
I've seen a pretty cool dragon design used in MotU that I found out was reused from Blackstar, been interested since then.
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And don't forget Galtar, the off-brand discount He-Man! I say that with love since it actually had fantastic backdrops and pretty good animation.
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>>152798677
Good stuff. Ariel should have had so much more rule34 but it's a very old show. She gets a few good shots in the new comics. I wonder if she was an inspiration for Psylocke in any way?
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>>152802130
There's more but beware and bring bleach and salt
https://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/Thundarr_the_Barbarian/1
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>>152802460
Some of these are fun & funny.
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>>152798335
Case in point; Legend of The Galaxy Rangers
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>>152790526
Been watching random episodes of Silverhawks on MeTV when they do reruns. It's fun. Pretty goody but the designs for Monstar's crew are cool and the sci-fi stuff is fun.
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>>152804203
Galaxy Rangers is great, wonderful stories, but I found the voice acting to be incredibly grating. Maybe it's the yee-haw fake western accents and screechy voices on some of the characters.

>>152805225
Silverhawks was recommended to me to watch after Thundercats because they supposedly share a universe/continuity?

>>152794840
Mighty Orbots was great but too short.
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>>152806260
Should made a movie with the Rangers settling the score with the Queen once and for all
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K*m*n* has some decent fanart. Unfortunately it has the dreaded a.i.
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Show this to an 80s kids and they'll lose it
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>>152790526
Absolute '80s kino.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFp9J4eu9mA
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>>152790526
i was born in 1994 and i cant help but feel like a lot of these cartoons are shit
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>>152790526
Missed cheese
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>>152805225
>>152806260
If you like ThunderCats and SilverHawks, don't miss TigerSharks.



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