Does anyone remember this cartoon?

[Drew]

It was from the late 80s or early 90s and it was called Exo-Tech. It was basically about these guys who wore exo-armour and fought some bad dudes in similar armour on mars and jupiter and other planets and space ships. I remember having the toys to it and watching it a lot but not a single person I've talked to has any recollection of it and I can't find a single thing on google.




Also, here's a webpage with tons of intros to mostly 80's and 90s shows and cartoons. Who didn't love Airwolf? And the Teddy Ruxpin intro is amazingly homosexual (if that's not allowed please replace with "beef wellington" ).

http://retro.vandegrift.net/




Edited because of stupid unintentional smilies.

[Edited on 2-22-2005 by Drew]

[Dionisius]

I watched every show intro that I recognized. I must say that it brought me WAY WAY back to when I was a kid. I enjoyed it.

[Praefection]

Holy crap I forgot about a lot of those. I remember watching them as a kid. Now I feel old.

[Drew]

That guy's bandwith bill has to be incredible. Also the ninja turtles video is weird, they are called "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" which I guess is what they were called overseas.

[Dionisius]

I noticed that too but figured maybe it was just me.

[Vad]

Wtf? No Voltron? F them.

-V

[OreoElf]

Wow ... Makes me wantto sing "Memories....!"

[Tsa`ah]

Exo Squad. It was a little Robotechish with the story line.

[Overlord]

Anyone remeber "Visionaries" and "Robotics"??

Visionaries got me all caught up as a kid. The medievil nights with animal totems on their armor that they could change into.

and Robotics was about two waring alien species on a planet going through volcanic erruptions and not what so they donwloaded themselves into computers and then into these giant combat machines that could somewhat transform. then humans came along and joined with them. Weird

ooooh and then there was this other cartoon from back in the day about this spacehship that crashed on a prehistoric planet and the people used the dinosaurs to fight each other. The bad guys used mind control devices on T-rexs n shit. Weird.....I forget what it was called

[Makkah]

Anyone remember a cartoon probably around 93-94 or so... came on Fox REAL early in the morning (5:30 or 6 AM). Basically it was this teenage kid that lived with all these robots that skated on rollerblades and fought another sect of robots with lasers and bombs and shit. Had a lot of "comedy" to it... for the life of me, I can't remember anything else about it.

[Tsa`ah]

Originally posted by Overlord
Anyone remeber "Visionaries" and "Robotics"??

I remember Robotix ... about two warring alien races that were dieing off and tranferred theirselves into robot bodies. One of those after school shows that had to share 30 minutes of time with two other crappy cartoons like Gem.

Visionaries ... didn't ring a bell until I remembered my younger brother being into the toys.

[StrayRogue]

http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/

[Warriorbird]

Captain Power.

:)

[StrayRogue]

Captain Planet > Captain Power.

[Caiylania]

Originally posted by StrayRogue
Captain Planet > Captain Power.

agree. :D

I loved most of those cartoons. The kid in me actually has a few 80s ones on DVD. From Rainbow Brite (my daughter loves it too) to he-man. I need help.

[Izalude]

What, no Silverhawks? Ripoff!

[Warriorbird]

Saying that Captain Planet = > anything suggests some deep innate personal issues.

[StrayRogue]

WHat?! How can you hate the man whose only weakness was pollution and garbage?!

Still you have to feel for that poor guy who got the Heart ring. What a fucking bumb deal compared to fire and such.

[Tsa`ah]

Silverhawks = Thundercats, the first try.

There was anotherone that was just as similar, but the name escapes me.

[Latrinsorm]

I remember the neo-humans, or whatever they were called, and how the good guy neo-human was in the two-seater that could disappear. Also, I had a crush on the hot chick, and weird exo-pr0n fantasies. I don't want to talk about this anymore.

[Ravenstorm]

Originally posted by Drew
And the Teddy Ruxpin intro is amazingly homosexual (if that's not allowed please replace with "beef wellington" ).

I just had to check the Teddy Ruxpin intro to see if I wanted to say anything. And sure enough, I do. That is so not amazingly homosexual. This (http://www.easyboyfriend.com/kiss/gay_kiss040606.jpg) is amazingly homosexual. So is this (http://www.mannersism.net/images/beefcake/AnF_lipstickunderwear11.jpg) (thank you Abercrombie & Fitch.) And just because I like groups of threes (no double entendre intended), this too (http://www.imrl.com/galleries/2004/2004winners/imlwinners2004046.jpg) is amazingly homosexual.

But the Teddy Ruxpin clip? So utterly and totally straight (http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/photo_closeups_pp1.htm).

Raven

[Izalude]

Thundercats was good too. I watched these shows religiously when I was a kid:

Silverhawks
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Thundercats
He-man, masters of the Universe
Transformers

[StrayRogue]

The Racoons pwned.

[Drew]

Originally posted by Tsa`ah
Exo Squad. It was a little Robotechish with the story line.


Ding ding. Thanks Tsa'ah. Yeah I almost called it "American Robotech" when I wrote up the FP but then I remembered that Robotech was the American version of Macross so that didn't make much sense.




Still you have to feel for that poor guy who got the Heart ring. What a fucking bumb deal compared to fire and such.


Haha, I always thought the same thing and they always tried to make him seem like he was the key to everything just because they gave him the crappy power (he did have a monkey though).

I really loved Captain Planet, even as a young capitalist in training. I loved how the enemies were business men and their goals were simple:

1. Pollute the world!
2. Profit! (after accomplishing goal 1)

It's a wonder I didn't join Stay in the socialist party after that kind of indoctrination!

[StrayRogue]

Heh, if you want a Pro- Capitalism Cartoon, watch Scrooge. Theres always mild references to communism being inferior to capitalism...

[DeV]

Originally posted by Izalude
Thundercats was good too. I watched these shows religiously when I was a kid:

Silverhawks
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Thundercats
He-man, masters of the Universe
Transformers
^ Ditto the entire list. Add to that, GI Joe.

I now remember why I hate the Brits. Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles??!?!? Try NINJA!

- Arkans

[Jinnrui]

Originally posted by Makkah
Anyone remember a cartoon probably around 93-94 or so... came on Fox REAL early in the morning (5:30 or 6 AM). Basically it was this teenage kid that lived with all these robots that skated on rollerblades and fought another sect of robots with lasers and bombs and shit. Had a lot of "comedy" to it... for the life of me, I can't remember anything else about it.

This one was called Bots Master. The leader of the pack was a kid named Zip Zoolander. Starting to sound familiar?

[Soulpieced]

Kid Vid all the way.

[Chadj]

That's fucking awesome.

I have the remnants of an Exo squad toy around here somewhere.. he was totally demolished by going through three kids. He's got like, his legs and arms left, and thats it.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Jinnrui
This one was called Bots Master. The leader of the pack was a kid named Zip Zoolander. Starting to sound familiar? LASER TIME!!

I remember one episode where the big bad guy was hypnotized or something and one of the robots was like "Uh let's kill him and end world suffering" and Zip is like "That's not the way the game is played!!" and I remember thinking "The greatest military commander of all time!!!!!!!!!!1"

[AnticorRifling]

King Arthur and his knights and they had their weapons emblazoned on their armor. What cartoon was that?


Pole Position
Voltron
Thundercats
GI Joe
Transformers
Ghetto Transformers (Go-Bots heh)


Man I miss the good stuff.

I remember that King Arthur one. It was when all the football players got put back in time. I think it was, "King Arthur and the Knights of Justice".. That was a pretty good cartoon. They all transformed into knights at the round table and shit.

- Arkans

[Tsa`ah]

Now I remember why "Grimlock" sounded so familiar.

You fucking Dinobot rip off. :P

My staple cartoons as a kid were Transformers, GI Joe, all 3 Robotech, both Voltrons (though the lions were far greater), G-Force, and Speed Racer.

Through Jr High and early HS it was Silverhawks/Thundercats (if you watch them both they really are the same cartoon), Robotix (which was a partial episode followed by a partial of Gem followed by a partial of Jayce and the WW [thanks Iz], and a few others I can't think of at the moment.

[AnticorRifling]

What was the COP cartoon set in the future with the hover copters and such?

[AnticorRifling]

Originally posted by Arkans
I remember that King Arthur one. It was when all the football players got put back in time. I think it was, "King Arthur and the Knights of Justice".. That was a pretty good cartoon. They all transformed into knights at the round table and shit.

- Arkans

Yeah I liked that one.

My mains ones where..

GI Joe (I remember the movie when Duke got stabbed with the snake and it actually showed blood in a cartoon OMFG!!!!)

Transformers were teh awesomez.

The REAL Ghostbusters were always watched

One cannot forget Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Those were the earliest cartoons I can remember and they rocked hardcore.

- Arkans

[Tsa`ah]

Originally posted by Drew
That guy's bandwith bill has to be incredible. Also the ninja turtles video is weird, they are called "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" which I guess is what they were called overseas.

I'm sure Eastman didn't argue much over the title change. Who would when your wife is Julie Strain.

[Drew]

Originally posted by Arkans
I remember that King Arthur one. It was when all the football players got put back in time. I think it was, "King Arthur and the Knights of Justice".. That was a pretty good cartoon. They all transformed into knights at the round table and shit.

- Arkans



Yeah it was on early sunday mornings where I live and was the only good sunday cartoon (other than Street Sharks, JAWESOME!).


No one mentioned one of my definate favorite, the x-men cartoon which I thought was spectacular. I especially enjoyed watching them think of new and exciting ways to NOT have Wolverine ever use his claws on someone living.


Also, I don't know if anyone remembers but there were two Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons, one was on ABC and had good animation and was pretty cool and the other (I forget which channel) had crappy animation and was more humour and wasn't so great.



PS: Another great cartoon, Cowboys of Moo Mesa.

[AnticorRifling]

Cowboys of Moo Mesa was hilarious, cows dressed up in hats and shit and talking with that drawl while chewing a piece of wheat or whatever heh.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Drew
Also, I don't know if anyone remembers but there were two Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons, one was on ABC and had good animation and was pretty cool and the other (I forget which channel) had crappy animation and was more humour and wasn't so great.YES. The good one had Sally and Bunny and so on. The other one was trash.

Yeah, I remember the one with the good animation. They were hanging out in the forest a lot and rings made Sonic just become super good. The other one wasn't that good.

- Arkans

[Edaarin]

Dinosaucers? I think that was the name of it.

Also will reiterate the godliness of TMNT...my earliest TV memories were watching this show. Also used to watch Smurfs, David the Gnome, and Grimm's Fairy Tales...

I remember David and Gnome and Dinosaucers. I still wonder which ones were my favorite, probably The Real Ghostbusters. Egon was the man.

- Arkans

[longshot]

Originally posted by Chadj

I have the remnants of an Exo squad toy around here somewhere.. he was totally demolished by going through three kids. He's got like, his legs and arms left, and thats it.

Yeah, toys generally hate it when you turn their torso into a water bong.

[StrayRogue]

Dashing and daring, courageous and caring
Faithful and friendly with stories to share
All through the forest they sing out in chorus
Marching along as their song fills the air


GUMMI BEARS, BOUNCING HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE
High adventure that's beyond compare
They are the Gummi Bears

They drank those potions and bounced around like psychopaths, right?

- Arkans

[Chadj]

Originally posted by longshot

Originally posted by Chadj

I have the remnants of an Exo squad toy around here somewhere.. he was totally demolished by going through three kids. He's got like, his legs and arms left, and thats it.

Yeah, toys generally hate it when you turn their torso into a water bong.

Untrue.

It has no feelings, and therefore was indifferent when I chose to do so.

And actually, in reality, I kept it really well. It was my little brother that completely demolished it.. sometime between dropping it out the second story window, and throwing it against the wall when the power rangers shot at it.

[StrayRogue]

..yes.

[Drew]

Originally posted by StrayRogue
Dashing and daring, courageous and caring
Faithful and friendly with stories to share
All through the forest they sing out in chorus
Marching along as their song fills the air


GUMMI BEARS, BOUNCING HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE
High adventure that's beyond compare
They are the Gummi Bears



In college I wrote a paper comparing the Gummi Bears theme song to the current (at the time) war in Afghanistan. No, seriously.

[Drew]

Oh and I definately know the whole song by heart, you left out the second verse.


Magic and mystery, a part of the history
Along with the secret of gummi beary juice
Legend is growing, they take pride in knowing
They'll fight for what's right in whatever they do

[Warriorbird]

I think that song gets better when you substitute "Underwear" for Gummi bears and change a few articles.

[Overlord]

Transformers all the way. Visionaries, Robotix and hell does anyone remember Mask? (Masked Crusaders)

[Makkah]

Originally posted by Jinnrui

This one was called Bots Master. The leader of the pack was a kid named Zip Zoolander. Starting to sound familiar?

Nope that's not the one. This one was a bit more obscure. It was earth-based, and the robots were all smart-assy. Inline rollerskates too.


Anyone remember "Pro Stars"? Bo Jackson, Gretsky and that other dude. That cartoon kicked ass.

[AnticorRifling]

I thought that was All Stars.

And it's their history not the history Drew, jeeze.

[AnticorRifling]

And I'm glad I'm not the only person that knows that whole song, my wife thinks I'm nuts.

[The Korean]

You are nucking futs.

[Latrinsorm]

I don't think I've ever heard Michael Jordan described as the "other dude".

Mega Man was the best, because Goku was Mega Man's voice.

C'mon, no one mentioned Captain N the gamemaster along with the Zelda and Mario cartoons! The Nintendo golden years.

- Arkans

[Drew]

Originally posted by AnticorRifling
And it's their history not the history Drew, jeeze.

I'm so embarrased