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Transformers. I was an obsessive Transformers fan when I was a kid. And yeah, Sabre Rider and the Star Sheriffs was cool... although I hated how all the Anime back in the day ended with a "finishing move" - it made the whole rest of the battle seem pointless. Plus, Ramrod's finishing move (a bunch of big chest cannons) was kind of lame.

Anybody remember the show Inhumanoids? That one gave me nightmares.

I miss the days of action-figure-driven cartoons like Skyriders and MASK and Transformers - for shows like that, it wasn't enough to be merely *good*. You had to make the kids into obsessive fans who would rush to the store and buy every damned toy you made.

Since videogames have killed off action figures, that genre is pretty much gone.

@Master-Athmos

The Robotech/Macross series was a little before my time, but it had tonnes of awesome action-figures. The damned thing was like Star Wars for little Japanese kids, and they imported all the toys for that one.

Cartoons I grew up on...

He-Man, She-Ra, Marshall Bravestar, Transformers, Thundercats, Saber Rider et al.

C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists), AstroBoy, Sailor Moon, Inspector Gadget, Care-Bears, Spiderman, The X-Men, The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, Digimon, Smurfs, My Pet Monster, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Ninja Turtles

SinbadEV wrote:C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists), AstroBoy, Sailor Moon, Inspector Gadget, Care-Bears, Spiderman, The X-Men, The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, Digimon, Smurfs, My Pet Monster, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Ninja Turtles

Fun fact: the guy who designed the COPS characters, and directed the opening intro? Peter Chung, who later went on to make the Aeon Flux cartoon, Riddick: Dark Fury cartoon, and that really trippy Matriculated segment of the Animatrix.

Looking back, you can really see his style in the COPS stuff.

I can't remember any particular cartoons before grade seven or eight. Too much reading, I suppose.

Apollo wrote:CAPTAIN PLANET



and the planeteers

Man I watched a lot more TV than I remembered.

Oh man, Bucky O'Hare? Was that his name?

Also, Rocko rules.