Best Cartoon When Growing Up

adser53

Every kid watched Saturday morning tv but what was the best Cartoon ever shown on telly here in Ireland? I'm not talking about rubbish like Johnny Bravo or Johnny Quest (Ppff) but classic cartoons like thundercats, bravestar, teenage mutant hero turtles or even rosie and jim if they take your fancy. (I kno, I kno they werent animated but they weren't real either) So come on people, who was the best childhood hero? Personally I was very fond of Raphael from the turtles. He's one slick mo-fo and who could forget good auld Captain Planet and the planeteers?


"Bravestar, strenght of the bear...." " GOOOO PLANET!!!!"

Phryxus

If rosie and jim can go in there then so can mine, every day after school for years i used to watch charlie chalk, call me crazy but I'd swear I could tell you what drug each of them was on, the lazy gorilla that sat around sleeping in the shade was cool, edward was his name
, and i think trader jones was selling more than just bread and milk to lewis t. duck. not the best but a great show none the less.

http://www.cjetech.co.uk/watched_it/charlie.html

Sandi

Ah there were loads I loved. My favourites were (in no particular order):
M.A.S.K.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Dungeons and Dragons (hilarious!)
The Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
The Diplodos
Count Duckula
Trap Door

I know there are more but they're the ones that came to mind first.

Zukustious

The ones that spring to mind:

Bagpuss
Teenage mutant ninja turtles
Transformers
Captain Planet (I still have lots of his toys)

T'is all I can be arsed of thinking of now, I'm sure there's more.

Makaveli

Transformers

then M.A.S.K and Bravestar and Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors etc etc.
But Transformers was by far my favourite.

Oh and Voltron was great too.

Mossy Monk

Thunder Thunder Thunder Thundercats

my favourite cartoon i suppose would have been The Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. in fact i still watch it when i come across it

adser53

M.A.S.K was deadly, I forgot all about that and trap door was pretty cool too. Can anyone tell me the names of the two putty characters on Bosco who kept repeating the same tongue twister and then there heads rose up and eventually returned to normal? Its killin me here tryin to think of them!!!:(

Wolf

Transformer more than meet the eye, Transformer Robots in diguise!

Autobots fight the evil forces of....... the Decepticons (dah dah daaa) Transformer more than meets the eye!!!!!!!!!!

Wolf

Originally posted by adser53
" GOOOO PLANET!!!!"

OMG how gay...... "Captin planet hes a villian gona put pollution up to 1 billion,"

That show was so GAY!!!!

ella minnow pea

samuri pizza cats!!

or maybe that was just a dream i had...

pugwall

Thundercats*****
The mysterious cities of gold*****
Ulysees*****
Jamie and the magic torch (just for the theme tune!)
count duckula (legendary!)
Rude dog and the dweebs*****
Transformers*****
He-man****
Dogtanion*****
Dungeons and dragons*****
Superted
Bananaman*****
Jimbo
Dangermouse
Batfink
Around the worls in 80 days.


WOW, I never realised how much tv i used to actually watch!

Thundercats was my favourite, Ulysees 2nd, Mysterious cities of Gods 3rd.

Sandi

Ah Rude Dog...used to love that too. He was so cool.

Space Coyote

In no particular order ...

Transformers
Thundercats
Dungeons & Dragons
Terrahawks (not cartoon but I loved it)
He-Man & The Masters of the Universe
Spiderman & His Amazing Friends (Ice-man rocked)
Bananaman
Captain Caveman
Centurions ("POWER...EXTREME")
Danger Mouse
Superted
The Flintstones
Godzilla (& Godzookie)
Inspector Gadget
Mighty Mouse
Muppet Babies
The Smurfs

Belle Ende

1. Transformers
2. Visionaries - Knights Of The Magical Light
3. Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors
4. Garfield And Friends
5. He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
6. Thundercats
7. Pole Position
8. Ulysees 31

( and from the files of "VHS tapes in Quinnsworth": )

9. Action Force (aka. G.I.Joe)
10. Inhumanoids

Makaveli

Is Visionaries the guys with the holograms on their chests?

Sandi

Originally posted by Belle Ende
1. Transformers
2. Visionaries - Knights Of The Magical Light
3. Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors
4. Garfield And Friends
5. He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
6. Thundercats
7. Pole Position
8. Ulysees 31

( and from the files of "VHS tapes in Quinnsworth": )

9. Action Force (aka. G.I.Joe)
10. Inhumanoids

There's another one that I used to watch religiously...GARFIELD! Class! It was never on for long enough though.

Wolf

Originally posted by Space_Coyote
In no particular order ...

Transformers
Thundercats
Dungeons & Dragons
Terrahawks (not cartoon but I loved it)
He-Man & The Masters of the Universe
Spiderman & His Amazing Friends (Ice-man rocked)
Bananaman
Captain Caveman
Centurions ("POWER...EXTREME")
Danger Mouse
Superted
The Flintstones
Godzilla (& Godzookie)
Inspector Gadget
Mighty Mouse
Muppet Babies
The Smurfs

Oh yeah Centurions rocked as did dangermouse and HE-MAN

However D&D sucked monkey balls "oh no we could go home but homo boy billy has to go back so save Uni lets all go back for an animal that will end up dead when we go back anyway.

simu

My all-time favourite cartoon when a kid was called something like "Mysterious cities of gold" (not sure of title).
It used to be on RTE2 but they stopped showing it in the middle of the series, much to my dismay.

Twas about 2 kids who were sailing from Europe to South America to find lost treasure or something, they had discs made of gold that played some important part in the story. THese are the only fragments of it I can recall. NEbody else rember this?

PiE

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors & Trapdoor. Pure pwnage tbh.

Dungeons & Dragons and Garfield were good too.

mrbungle

It's strange that some folk have thumbnails of the characters in one of my favourite and haven't mentioned it yet :

!!Battle of the Planets Now there's a cool cartoon.


Someone was looking for the names of the mala characters in Bosco: Sile the snail, grainne the hedgehog, charlie the tree, and fiachra the frog....

....or did he mean Philip and Marion ??

de5p0i1er

Mine in no order.

Transformers
He-man
Tunder Cats
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Centurions
Visionaries - Knights Of The Magical Light
M.A.S.K.
Dungeons and Dragons
Spiderman

Tzetze

Thundercats
Ulysses
Dungeons and dragons
G-Force (or was that actually called Battle of the Planets?) (Which was the one that they used to fly in the flaming phoenix? - that's the one I mean)
Hair Bear Bunch
Perils of Penelope Pitstop ("Hayulp" - what was the name of the mobster gang?)

mrbungle

It was Battle of the Planets. They used to shout G-force when they pulled some special move with their ship, The Phoenix.

The gang in Penelope Pitstops are called the The Something Bunch or Something Mob. Dunno what the something is though.

mrbungle

Anybody remember that show, it wasn't a cartoon. Something similar to Thunderbirds but was set in space.

When things were going bad they used to join their 3 space ships together and form a big robot before kicking-@ss.

One guy was in the head, 1 the body and 1 the legs. It used to take about 1/2 an episode to join all the parts together !!!!!

Tis killing me ???

Wolf

Originally posted by simu
My all-time favourite cartoon when a kid was called something like "Mysterious cities of gold" (not sure of title).
It used to be on RTE2 but they stopped showing it in the middle of the series, much to my dismay.

Twas about 2 kids who were sailing from Europe to South America to find lost treasure or something, they had discs made of gold that played some important part in the story. THese are the only fragments of it I can recall. NEbody else rember this?

It was called Cites of Gold I believe and there was this big golden condor thing init that the kids flew around in.


Also Dogtanion "offa woofa alone for one Muscahounds are ready"

Tzetze

The gang in Penelope Pitstops are called the The Something Bunch or Something Mob. Dunno what the something is though.

It was "The Ant Hill Mob"!

Find all things perilous here.

Wolf

As you can see from my posts I know all the song go on test me.... test me!!!! TEST MEEEEEEE!

Tzetze

/me pushes Wolfs "Test" button

ozpass

Originally posted by Wolf
Also Dogtanion "offa woofa alone for one Muscahounds are ready"

I could have sworn that section of the theme tune was "One for all and all for one, Muskahounds are always ready" but I may be wrong.

Wolf

doh

im off to get some breakfast :mad:

ozpass

Originally posted by Wolf
doh

im off to get some breakfast :mad:

It takes a hard-assed individual to shatter a man's illusions before breakfast. Sorry Wolf Enjoy your cornflakes buddy.

Space Coyote

Originally posted by mrbungle
Anybody remember that show, it wasn't a cartoon. Something similar to Thunderbirds but was set in space.

When things were going bad they used to join their 3 space ships together and form a big robot before kicking-@ss.

One guy was in the head, 1 the body and 1 the legs. It used to take about 1/2 an episode to join all the parts together !!!!!

Tis killing me ???

Hmm, it could be Terrahawks that your thinking of. Although I don't remember them having stick-together-spaceships ...

solice

dr.snuggles.
care bears.
turtles
spider man
gargoyles

Space Coyote

Gargoyles !!! That was class, although that's pretty recent innit, i remember watching it while i was sposed to be in college a few years back.

bug

Trap Door.
Button Moon- follow Mr Spoon to...
Duckula, -I liked the nanny
Cities of Gold.
Willow the wisp.


I hated, hated hated the moomins and screamed everytime they came on tele, I mean, what were they trying to do with that, scary as hell.

I forgot about Pigeon Street, at least that's what I think it was called

solice

Gargoyles !!! That was class, although that's pretty recent innit

yeah thats quite recent but im not quite finished my growing up just yet

Lemming

Transformers, followed by transformers and more tranformers

also ;

Robotech (pre Akira anime)
ThunderSub (pre Akira anime)
GI-Joe
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Dogtanian & the Three MuskaHounds
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ulysses-31
Trap Door

Nemici

Originally posted by mrbungle
It's strange that some folk have thumbnails of the characters in one of my favourite and haven't mentioned it yet :

!!Battle of the Planets Now there's a cool cartoon.

absolutely - i was thinking the same thing. battle of the planets - way ahead of its time.

Tzetze

I hated, hated hated the moomins and screamed everytime they came on tele, I mean, what were they trying to do with that, scary as hell.

I totally agree with that. I think that stuff was Finnish. Went out with a girl for a while last year who had Finnish heritage and she absolutely loved the Moomins.

Noway man, that stuff used to totally freak me out. But then again, I used to get totally freaked out after watching any kind of puppet show for long enough. Muppets, Fraggles, etc.

Belle Ende

Originally posted by Makaveli
Is Visionaries the guys with the holograms on their chests?

Indeed it was. Great cartoon and excellent action figures.

I don't have the website to hand, but there is a cool website that had details and catalogue scan pictures of what was supposed to be the series 2 characters. But alas, the Visionaries cartoon, toys, and comic book series was stopped! Which was a shame, as all three aspects of the frachise were well done.

mrbungle

Originally posted by Space_Coyote
Hmm, it could be Terrahawks that your thinking of. Although I don't remember them having stick-together-spaceships ...

No just had a look around there it was Star Fleet, X-Bomber. Man I miss that prog. Pure class. Here's the url.

http://www.80snostalgia.com/link.cgi?http://www.sfxb.co.uk

And they did form into a 3-piece kick-@ss robot !!

I think TerraHawks was that Gerry Andersen setup with Zelda as the baddie !!

Lemming

Originally posted by mrbungle
No just had a look around there it was Star Fleet, X-Bomber. Man I miss that prog. Pure class. Here's the url.

http://www.80snostalgia.com/link.cgi?http://www.sfxb.co.uk

And they did form into a 3-piece kick-@ss robot !!

That wasn't "star fleet" IIR. It was something else. I remember it now but had completely forgotten about it.

Dawg

Jebus, a 3 day old thread on cartoons and no mention of X-Men - for shame...

Also, in no particular order:
Spiderman
Mysterious Cities of Gold (still remember most of the words to it)
Transformers
He-Man
M.A.S.K.
Ulysses

trickster

what about the magic roundabout? does that count. i liked the rabbit that was a piss take of bob dylan

Space Coyote

The Magic Roundabout. That was one fúcked up programme ! They had it on the Cartoon Channel recently at night, can't believe I watched it as a kid !

Originally posted by Dawg
Jebus, a 3 day old thread on cartoons and no mention of X-Men - for shame...

Jebus indeed, why the fúck did I not put that as one of mine :rolleyes: brain malfunctionization i think

patch

Battle of the planets...... being from Galway I was amazed by my Dad one day when he said he was taking us to Dublin, and pheonix park. Then being very disappointed when he showed us deer, and no spaceships.

Fetch

Speaking of classic cartoons has anyone seen the cartoon networks remake of He-Man, its actually pretty good check it out if you get the chance....

Mercury_Tilt

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mrbungle

Originally posted by Lemming
That wasn't "star fleet" IIR. It was something else. I remember it now but had completely forgotten about it.

Ahem, one of the reasons I quoted the URL was so people can go and check it. Check it Lemming !! It was Star Fleet X-Bomber !!

The 3 piece robot. Man, that was awesome.:p