• Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    14 days ago

    I used to love the Gummi Bears when I was a kid, but every time I’ve mentioned the show, no one sees to know what I’m talking about. 🤷‍♂️

    Edit:

    This one too. It was kinda like a mix of G.I. Joe & Transformers.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.world
      5·
      14 days ago

      A just saw a YouTube video about this, David the gnome, and the wuzzles. The absolute raw voice talent they had on those shows is something we will likely be privy to again.

    • early_riser@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 days ago

      I used to love the Gummi Bears when I was a kid, but every time I’ve mentioned the show, no one sees to know what I’m talking about. 🤷‍♂️

      My dad actually liked that show more than we did I think. When Rugrats had Stu Pickles obsessed with the Dummy Bears cartoon it reminded me of my dad. My dad wasn’t that crazy about it but that bit of characterization made the show more endearing to me.

    • lemonSqueezy@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 days ago

      That Gummy bears theme song was like crack. I tried rewatching it now, and it doesn’t have thst same magic anymore. Around that time Voltron was on and Go Bots was around too.

      • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        Yeah, I tried rewatching it not too long ago and it definitely wasn’t as good as I remembered. Theme song was still dope though.

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
      2·
      15 days ago

      I loved that jolly little purple fuck!

      I can still sing: We’re the squishy bears and we’re right over there. We’re the squishiest bears you know!

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    18·
    14 days ago

    Anyone else remember “The Pirates of Dark Water”?

    I think someone else mentioned it already, but Swat Kats was also great

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    15 days ago

    I’m gonna say ThunderCats, because the rights for it are basically up in the air. It should have gotten a film adaptation or a franchise like Masters of the Universe or Transformers, but nobody can figure out who owns it, so they can’t make a movie without some rando suing them… so they don’t.

    The OG came out in 1985 and ran for something like 150 episodes, later divided into four seasons. But back then it just came on TV, it wasn’t numbered or divided in any way (aside from multi-part episodes). They did a remake in 2011 on Cartoon Network that was pretty cool, but they couldn’t get the legal stuff in order to get a second season — it was absolutely popular enough.

    15 years later, I don’t think anything’s been done with it outside of, maybe, fan fiction and fan art.

    Going back even older… Mysterious Cities of Gold. That’s never been remade or adapted… however… while Tomb Raider was basically “we want to make a video game of Indiana Jones but we can’t get the rights, so let’s make it a girl with big tits,” for some reason, they wanted to swing it back the other way and say “let’s make Tomb Raider but have it be a hot guy instead and keep it exclusive to the PlayStation because at this point the concept is just so watered down, we’d lose money if we ported it to PC/Xbox” and called it Uncharted. Then they said fuck it and made an actual Indiana Jones game. Le sigh. But anyway, I wanna say one of the Uncharted games leaned into Mysterious Cities of Gold territory… but I’m not really sure. Anyway, it was about three Mexican kids (I think, as in born & raised in Mexico) who seek out the eponymous golden cities. IIRC they do find the ruins of the city they were looking for, but they expected the cities to be actually made of gold. And maybe they found some gold but not like they thought. But they had a plane and I think they had some cool adventures, so they broke even I suppose?

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
      7·
      15 days ago

      I loved Thundercats as a kid, so when I heard Cartoon Network would start playing original episodes in 2003ish, I got my roommate and girlfriend all pumped up to watch the first episode with me.

      Ten minutes in and I apologized. It’s SOOOO much worse than you remember. 😂 It’s amazing the crap we like when we’re kids. SNARF!

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        15 days ago

        Facts. ThunderCats had a lot of good ideas but it was poorly executed and not very well acted. Everything’s just a bit too extra.

        Snarf is fine. Snarfer was annoying AF. Snarfer was the younger snarf on the second crew, with Lynx-O and Bengali and the others. No kids on that crew, I think it was just the old blind man, the alt-palette Tygra, and a woman I can only vaguely remember. And Snarfer. No one liked him. Or Mumm-Ra’s dog, for that matter… “Ma-Mutt”? Though Mumm-Ra himself was awesome, in either form.

        The show has aged like milk, though the 2011 series fixed some of the cringe. It added some of its own, but didn’t add up to what the 1985 series reached.

        I still think Grune the Destroyer, Tower of Traps, the Trials (where Lion-O had to best each of the other adults, and then beat Mumm-Ra unarmed), the time machine episode, and Book of Omens were mostly good. Maybe a couple others.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        I had the actual ThunderTank play set when I was a kid. I think it was about a foot long? The back opened up. I have a Hot Wheels (or maybe it’s Matchbox) of the ThunderTank (so it’s like 2" long). Haven’t looked at it that close, it’s still sealed in the blister pack.

        The Runabout shuttles on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine remind me of the ThunderTank so much. You got the two-seater cockpit up front and like a cargo area behind it. There’s a bit more to the Runabout than that, but it still reminds me of the ThunderTank. Also, the Mako tank on Mass Effect, and the similar one in Mass Effect 4 (it had another name but I already forgot, that game was so half-baked but still fun).

    • Apeman42@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      14 days ago

      Finally, a current discussion about Reboot to bring this up in.

      Okay, so Matrix from the later seasons was absolutely just a parody of Cable from X-Men, right? With the gun, and the sleeveless armor, and the gold eye?

      • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
        5·
        14 days ago

        Yeah, it’s been a while so I looked up the character’s arc and it does seem that he is inspired from Cable and/or Solid Snake (who actually debuted in Metal Gear in 1987).

      • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        Ahh… Always felt like that was a parody or callback, and never figured it out!

  • janonymous@lemmy.world
    13·
    15 days ago

    Bucky OHare and the Toad Wars! Although, IT was called something completely different in German

    Also: Samurai Pizza Cats!

    • Apeman42@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      I always seem to want to conflate Bucky O’Hare and Jazz Jackrabbit. Like, if I had a nickle for every gun-toting green animated space rabbit in the 90s, I’d have two nickles. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

    • early_riser@lemmy.world
      2·
      15 days ago

      Samurai pizza cats :D. Now THAT’s an anime I wouldn’t mind watching again. I guess it was an early example of a gag dub, early for me anyway.

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    10·
    15 days ago

    I don’t remember anything about this but i remember liking it:

    Code Lyoko

    • Apeman42@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      15 days ago

      I knew this existed, but never watched it because their big heads and tiny face creeped me out.

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
      4·
      14 days ago

      Such an underated show, honestly if someone rebooted this one I’d be okay with that. Even better if the reboot just redid the 3d cgi with a good budget and left the rest.

    • Clbull@lemmy.world
      4·
      14 days ago

      It’s one of those series I never really got into because the 3D CGI looked grotesque and gave the world of Lyoko this uncanny valley feeling.

      CGI has advanced by leaps and bounds since Code Lyoko aired, and I’d hope that if it ever got remade, they’d switch entirely to a toon shaded CGI style that looks hand-drawn.