I’m going to go with the following
- Robotech (Macross only. The rest was gay)
- G.I. Joe
- Thundercats
- Voltron (Lion style)
- Inspector Gadget
- The Smurfs
FYI Tale Spin was actually 90s. Wasn’t that the one with all the Jungle Book characters had real jobs?
Yes, it was. Not the Macross part, I disagree with you, but the Tale Spin part.
80 odd replies, and no-one has mentioned:
Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro) (1988)
Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) (also 1988) ?
I’m amazed that the best have to wait so long to be mentioned.
Dungeons & Dragons.
Inspector Gadget.
RoboTech: Macross.
Yep. Think a “furry” Crimson Skies.
Y’know, come to think of it, I seem to remember reading that the “Sea Duck” was actually based off of a real flying boat design. Have to remember to check on that one…
Yep. Think a “furry” Crimson Skies.
Y’know, come to think of it, I seem to remember reading that the “Sea Duck” was actually based off of a real flying boat design. Have to remember to check on that one…
Tell us about it you do, please. 
Dangermouse! Powerhouse! They’re re-running it at 7.30 in the morning here, so I get to watch it with my son who loves it. I love all the Carry On smutty gags they smuggle in:
{Colonel K} Thank you for the postcard of the Great Pear, DM.
{DM} Big Apple, sir.
{Colonel K} No thanks. Just had breakfast.
Of all the Captain N episodes I had to miss. I’d pay decent money for Captain N DVDs, especially for that deleted scene. Makes sense, considering it was Erdrick’s grave in the US version of FF1.
Talespin was based around “Tales of the Gold Monkey” with Stephen Collins.
Kind of an odd origin, really, but it’s part of what made it cool for me.
You will never look at He-Man the same again (Quiktime video)
In the 80s:
- Thundercats
- He-Man
- Underdog
- GoBots
- DuckTales
Today:
- DuckTales
- Almost all those other shows are unwatchable now.
I did get up super early to watch Mysterious Cities of Gold and Sparticus, and there was another one that came on that same channel (that was Nickelodeon, right?) that had a boy and a St. Bernard with a little miniature barrel around its neck. What was that one?
FWIW - and as a child of the 80s I realize that it is borderline sacrilege to say this - I always felt pretty mediocre about The Transformers and I outright hated GI Joe. Sure, I pretended like I liked them because I felt like I was supposed to - it’s just what kids did back then. I even tried to like them. I’d watch if someone else was in the room to give off the impression that I liked them, but the minute I was alone I would change the channel to something I didn’t feel was utter crap. Sue me.
Belle and Sebastian, if I’m not mistaken. I used to watch that one too.
warning contains colourful language 
Old School Afternoon
One could argue that the Transformers franchise kinda transcended that. Sure, it was a cartoon made to market a cobbled-together line of toys licensed from various Japanese companies (Bandai, Takara, etc.), but when the cartoon is well-enough made to be re-imported into Japan, where it became a major hit, you gotta think that the cartoon had something going for it.
(full confession: the marketing worked on me. I SO wanted a Jetfire toy. 'course, I didn’t have enough money to buy one…)
My gut reaction would be Macross, by the way.
There’s nothing like Voltron. (Of course the Lions…I think I might still have my 2 foot tall die-cast lion Voltron (of course, seperable) in my parents attic somewhere).
I was also a big Smurfs kid, having once owned the “Smurfs All-Star Show” record, which got played to death. Transformers was quite good too, and Dangermouse is a personal fave, though upon purchasing Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD, it’s not quite as good now as I remember it being then.
And maybe it’s because I’m not a girl, but Jem was terrible.
:smack: How could I have forgotten MASK! I had a ton of MASK toys, and, when I got a working typewriter (plastic) for Christmas one year, I actually wrote MASK stories.
The toys were fantastic. Outlaw (the Snake Oil tanker) was awesome…had a rocket launcher that could actually do pretty serious damage if aimed at someones head at close range.
Ducktales saved the decade at the last minute 
(prepare for old man Count Chocula whizzing now.) :eek:
While both the 70’s and 80’s were generally wastelands for new cartoons, the 70’s at least had uncut re-runs of Looney Tunes and Rocky and Bullwinkle/Underdog/Fractured Fairy tales. The 80’s had nothing. We sophisticates 
in the 80’s looked on He-man as nothing more than low camp, to be enjoyed only for it’s ridiculousness. All the robot type shows? As said earlier… total Choco-bot adventure hour.