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[captain_slinky]

TOP 5 FAVORITE CARTOONS OF THE 80'S:
(Please note that these cartoons on this list are the ones I was absolutely ADDICTED to. I would actually cry if I missed an episode. Yes, I had a sad childhood)

(5) He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
(4) Transformers
(3) Jem & The Hollograms
(2) GI Joe: A Real American Hero
(1) Bionic Six

Comments

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[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the Bionic 6, the others I recall having seen. Transformers and Star Blazers were the only ones I recall watching regularly.

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[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Bionic Six was just an incredible concept! In the not-to-distant Utopian-esque future, there's this inventor-dude and his wife, sort of a Reed Richards and Sue Storm type of couple. They have a teenage son and daughter and an adopted Korean son. The inventor dude is all about robotics and cybernetics, and he has built a huge ape-like robot named "Fluffy".

One day, the family is flying someplace when the plane goes out of control and crashes. Everyone but the Reed Richards dude dies. Stricken by greif, the Scientist re-constructs his entire family using bionics and cybernetics. Good as new, erase the memory of their death, and VIOLA! Instant crime-fighting family!

I'm not sure, but I think it's one of the many cartoons that J. Michael Strazynski worked on. The man was THE bomb when it came to good kids shows!

[daleth.livejournal.com]

What what WHAT? No VOLTRON? Egads! Mui dissapointed in you.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

You have to consider my criteria therte, pardner... All of those shows on my list were a part of my daily routine. Bionic Six was on at 6:30 in the morning, first thing when I woke up to go to school. The Holy Trinity known as He-Man, Transformers, and GI Joe was on every afternoon starting at 3pm, right when I got home from school. And when they started showing JEM directly after that Trinity, I became hooked on it as well.

Voltron, however, never had a chance with me. Only saw maybe 3 episodes, and those were on a crappy UHF station on Sundays... random, out-of-order episodes, and it wouldn't always be on EVERY Sunday... that station seemed to throw pretty much any bit of Anime in to that time slot (giving me a taste of Speed Racer, Astro Boy, and G-Force along with both the Lions and the Vehicles versions of Voltron).

Now, STARBLAZERS had a chance of getting on this list, but it was edged out simply because there was no toy line tie-in that made me feel more closely connected to the on-screen action.

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[the-lunchbox.livejournal.com]

Growing up, the most prevalent cartoons were always Looney-Tunes. I was practically raised by Bug, Daffy, and my favorite, Foghorn Leghorn. During the early years, say around 4-9, Saturday morning was taken over by those strange Sid & Marty Krofft shows. Banana Splits, Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Lidsville, The Bugaloos, Land of the Lost, Far-Out Space Nuts; these were the Chicken Soup for the Lunatic's Soul.
The actual cartoons that were very important in the early days, besides WB, were crazy things like Harlem Globetrotters, those early superhero cartoons with the amazing sliding animation like Captain America ("When Captain America throws his mighty shield, all those who chose to oppose his shield must yield!"), old-time anime like Prince Planet, weird stuff like that. Once I got into my youth (pre-teens) stuff like Spiderman and Thundercats took over.
I guess all this explains my weirdness.

Re: cartoons

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I have seen the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by Sid & Marty Krofft. They were like Woodstock for Pre-Teens!