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SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on April 22, 2010, 01:31:16 am ---Anyone ever watch Jayce and the wheeled warriors?
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Holy smokes! Is that what was? I've never seen the series, but I certainly have some of the toys. I haven't the foggiest how I came about them, but I've got a couple of the "living" cars (the one with the Bola and possibly the saw blade) and at least one of the mechanical "drillers" I saw in that clip. I used to pitch them and my MASK helicopter against my Transformers, Go Bots and the Japanese Mech toys I had.
Wow, I've completely forgotten about those toys until today.
NiN^_^NiN:
I was just cleaning up my room as im about to move and found some old toys and they were from the 80's cartoon Dino riders
Anyone remember that one?
TOK:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 02, 2010, 01:29:53 am ---
LOL... I think your reaction simply indicates that you've grown up into an old fart. Flapjack and Spongebob are quite possibly the best children's (by that I mean intended for those 12 and under) cartoons on television today.
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My kid is in the Spongebob phase, so I'm a captive audience. I've found the first few seasons have some really good episodes. Anything after about 2003 will be mediocre at best, and the new stuff is just awful.
They have basically morphed Spongebobs personality from naive and optimistic in the early ones to him being functionally retarded in the last few seasons. It is a huge shift that ruined the character of the old shows.
The situations have also gone from clever and bizarre to simple gross out stuff. Brains falling out of heads, spitting, bad breath and horrible bathing habits are now in every episode. We watch most of the new ones once, then I just delete them out of the DVR as they're recorded.
I'm jaded about the original topics... Maybe I was a little bit too old, but nearly all of the 80's cartoons were just toy commercials. GI Joe, Transformers, Voltron, He Man, its all just crap to me. As crummy as a lot of the new stuff is, some of it at least tries to be inventive and not just a marketing tool.
NiN^_^NiN:
You are correct in the 80's they made toys and found the cheapest and most profitable way to sell the toy they made was to make a cartoon.
Dinoriders is a perfect example they made the toy then thought up a cartoon to help sell them.
Then again i do feel that the cartoons now compared to the 80's are more involving and smarter it seems but thats cause as u said most 80's cartoons were made to be simple to just sell some toys
And i agree on spongebob i watched it now and then when it came out but the character now isn't the same as he originally was.
Wish we could have some good cartoons like Ren and Stimpy and roco's modern life made again for a semi mature audience.
Paladin:
My favorite is one that not many people I talk to remember: Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.
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