# Remember this 80s sci-fi cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-80s-sci-fi-cartoon/125230 "2002-08-23T13:31:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-80s-sci-fi-cartoon/125230/21 "2002-08-24T14:43:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zanshin \* > \*\*(Me, I miss ‘Silverhawks.’) \*\* That was on Cartoon Network for about a month or so spring of 2001. My roommate and I watched it religiously when it was on CN, reliving old memories. Then we went home and tried desperately to dig up our old action figures. That was an awesome show. And even though it seemed like it was designed to be “ThunderCats From Space”, strangely I loved this show but was never able to get into ThunderCats. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-80s-sci-fi-cartoon/125230/22 "2002-08-24T16:07:47Z")
Loved **Orbots** even more than **Robotech**. Call me a blasphemer if you will but I was young and it was easier to understand. What I _couldn’t_ understand was how the heck did those bots grow so big that the Human and Ono could fly a car into the chest of the mega-bot? Brain…hurts… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-80s-sci-fi-cartoon/125230/23 "2002-08-24T18:05:38Z")
Max: robot viagra. ---
**Author:** ![UNIMATRIXONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/2bfe46/32.png) [@UNIMATRIXONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UNIMATRIXONE)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-80s-sci-fi-cartoon/125230/24 "2002-08-25T01:15:41Z")
Anyone remember the TV show Goldar. A family of robots that turned into jet planes and lived in a cave with an old man. This goes back a little further than the 80s ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-80s-sci-fi-cartoon/125230/25 "2002-08-25T03:53:40Z")
Ah. Orbots. A lovely spot of my childhood. (Robotech, Voltron, GI Joe, Astroboy and Transformers fill the rest of my ‘Oh, my GOD, I loved that show as a kid!’ list. Too bad that Robotech’s the only one of the bunch that still seems brilliant now. Haven’t seen Orbots since I was a kid, though. Not sure if I want to risk ruining a childhood memory like I did with the others, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-80s-sci-fi-cartoon/125230/26 "2002-08-25T04:03:06Z")
Goldar sounds familiar. was it an epic series where in the last episode the big bad guy is fought and killed? ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2002, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-80s-sci-fi-cartoon/125230/27 "2002-08-25T10:39:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Charmian \* > \*\*I just bought the first few episodes on VHS… Wish I could compare it to the true version from Japan. \*\* Then you need to get the DVD’s! Rhino did a great job with them; each one includes 2 episodes of “Battle of the Planets,” one of the episodes as “G-Force” (the Turner re-packaging that was a little more faithful to the original Japanese version but dull as toast), and then the 2 episodes of “Gatchaman,” the original Japanese version. Actually, I was a little disappointed. Once you get past the far superior theme song, and the fact that they’re called “Science Ninja Team,” which is just about the coolest thing ever, the Japanese episodes are straight ahead 60’s TV anime. And most disappointing, they’re actually _coherent_. For years I’ve had so much respect for Japan for giving us _Ape Escape_ and “Iron Chef” and _Samba de Amigo_ and “Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ” and _Super Monkey Ball_ and more that I’m forgetting – and then here it turns out that all the wacky stuff I remember from “Battle of the Planets” was added by an American! The real show _didn’t_ have completely nonsensical plots and gratuitous _Star Wars_ rip-offs; that was all added by Sandy Frank. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-this-80s-sci-fi-cartoon/125230.md?page=1)