Albert you mustard chino wearing beauty! Those are the sorts of cartoons from my era. My "kids" (truth be told, their mum on their behalf) get me a box set each Christmas. Got the dungeons and dragons, thundercats, original turtles, MASK, some transformers, some he-man and Xmen so far. Don't know which ones I'll get this year but it's great watching them with them. I actually don't mind the modern thunder cats or turtles to be honest
People tend to look back on those 80s cartoons with a bit too much nostalgia: Dungeons & Dragons - always remember this being my favourite 80s cartoon, hadn't seen it for 20 years as they never released it on VHS, longed and longed for it, searched the whole internet for VHS recording but no luck, then one day in 2003 I went into HMV, and.....IT WAS THERE ON DVD!!! Bought all 4 DVDs and stocked up on beer and junk food, ready to relive the glory days with an evening watching my favourite 80s cartoon. But it was ****. Like, really, really ****. Ever episode is the ****ing same, Dungeon Master says some unfathomable crap then disappears, Eric is a whiney little ****, Presto pulls a stop sign out of his hat when he's trying to stop a dragon, Uni goes "maaaaaaa", and they're about to get out of the realm at the end when they always have to give up the chance to escape to rescue some dick they've met along the way. That's how all the episodes go....well apart from the rather ill-advised "edgy" final episode when Venger brings a Nazi war pilot into the realm, ooh controversy!! Cities Of Gold - depressing and ****, went on and on with no hope in sight. Ulysses 31 - badly translated Jap cartoon that once again went on forever Transformers - now the '86 film with Orson Wells as Unicron was supremely kick ass, the 80s cartoon series though was just a cheap advert for the toys. MASK - as above, a toy advert in cartoon from. The only one that really stands the test of time is Thundercats, which rocked. And obviously Knightmare was the best 80s kids show, but it weren't a cartoon.
