I’m gonna say ThunderCats, because the rights for it are basically up in the air. It should have gotten a film adaptation or a franchise like Masters of the Universe or Transformers, but nobody can figure out who owns it, so they can’t make a movie without some rando suing them… so they don’t.
The OG came out in 1985 and ran for something like 150 episodes, later divided into four seasons. But back then it just came on TV, it wasn’t numbered or divided in any way (aside from multi-part episodes). They did a remake in 2011 on Cartoon Network that was pretty cool, but they couldn’t get the legal stuff in order to get a second season — it was absolutely popular enough.
15 years later, I don’t think anything’s been done with it outside of, maybe, fan fiction and fan art.
Going back even older… Mysterious Cities of Gold. That’s never been remade or adapted… however… while Tomb Raider was basically “we want to make a video game of Indiana Jones but we can’t get the rights, so let’s make it a girl with big tits,” for some reason, they wanted to swing it back the other way and say “let’s make Tomb Raider but have it be a hot guy instead and keep it exclusive to the PlayStation because at this point the concept is just so watered down, we’d lose money if we ported it to PC/Xbox” and called it Uncharted. Then they said fuck it and made an actual Indiana Jones game. Le sigh. But anyway, I wanna say one of the Uncharted games leaned into Mysterious Cities of Gold territory… but I’m not really sure. Anyway, it was about three Mexican kids (I think, as in born & raised in Mexico) who seek out the eponymous golden cities. IIRC they do find the ruins of the city they were looking for, but they expected the cities to be actually made of gold. And maybe they found some gold but not like they thought. But they had a plane and I think they had some cool adventures, so they broke even I suppose?
I had the actual ThunderTank play set when I was a kid. I think it was about a foot long? The back opened up. I have a Hot Wheels (or maybe it’s Matchbox) of the ThunderTank (so it’s like 2" long). Haven’t looked at it that close, it’s still sealed in the blister pack.
The Runabout shuttles on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine remind me of the ThunderTank so much. You got the two-seater cockpit up front and like a cargo area behind it. There’s a bit more to the Runabout than that, but it still reminds me of the ThunderTank. Also, the Mako tank on Mass Effect, and the similar one in Mass Effect 4 (it had another name but I already forgot, that game was so half-baked but still fun).
I loved Thundercats as a kid, so when I heard Cartoon Network would start playing original episodes in 2003ish, I got my roommate and girlfriend all pumped up to watch the first episode with me.
Ten minutes in and I apologized. It’s SOOOO much worse than you remember. 😂 It’s amazing the crap we like when we’re kids. SNARF!
Facts. ThunderCats had a lot of good ideas but it was poorly executed and not very well acted. Everything’s just a bit too extra.
Snarf is fine. Snarfer was annoying AF. Snarfer was the younger snarf on the second crew, with Lynx-O and Bengali and the others. No kids on that crew, I think it was just the old blind man, the alt-palette Tygra, and a woman I can only vaguely remember. And Snarfer. No one liked him. Or Mumm-Ra’s dog, for that matter… “Ma-Mutt”? Though Mumm-Ra himself was awesome, in either form.
The show has aged like milk, though the 2011 series fixed some of the cringe. It added some of its own, but didn’t add up to what the 1985 series reached.
I still think Grune the Destroyer, Tower of Traps, the Trials (where Lion-O had to best each of the other adults, and then beat Mumm-Ra unarmed), the time machine episode, and Book of Omens were mostly good. Maybe a couple others.
I remember the trials as being a step up and it was nice the way it showcased the young siblings ability. It reminded me a bit of the legion of superheroes where the wonder twins go off to defend their planet and actually show themselves pretty powerful and competent.
The twins (or whatever they were) were always top tier for child characters. The voice acting wasn’t the greatest with them sounding a bit whiny, but they were solid.
You gotta figure, Lion-O was “one of them” before the trip… assuming they’re siblings (not sure if they said), Lion-O could have been a potential mate for Kit, if they were all allowed to grow up together. So with him being aged up all of a sudden, it’s like he’s still their bro/friend/playmate/peer/whatever but now he’s kind of like their king (“Lord of the ThunderCats”) they wanna help him get better. And of course their thing is underhanded/sneaky tactics and devices (kinda like Q in James Bond), they always have a trick up their sleeves.
The Japanese animation style of Thundercats was miles ahead of other Saturday morning cartoons at the time which did a ton of heavily lifting for popularity.
I’m gonna say ThunderCats, because the rights for it are basically up in the air. It should have gotten a film adaptation or a franchise like Masters of the Universe or Transformers, but nobody can figure out who owns it, so they can’t make a movie without some rando suing them… so they don’t.
The OG came out in 1985 and ran for something like 150 episodes, later divided into four seasons. But back then it just came on TV, it wasn’t numbered or divided in any way (aside from multi-part episodes). They did a remake in 2011 on Cartoon Network that was pretty cool, but they couldn’t get the legal stuff in order to get a second season — it was absolutely popular enough.
15 years later, I don’t think anything’s been done with it outside of, maybe, fan fiction and fan art.
Going back even older… Mysterious Cities of Gold. That’s never been remade or adapted… however… while Tomb Raider was basically “we want to make a video game of Indiana Jones but we can’t get the rights, so let’s make it a girl with big tits,” for some reason, they wanted to swing it back the other way and say “let’s make Tomb Raider but have it be a hot guy instead and keep it exclusive to the PlayStation because at this point the concept is just so watered down, we’d lose money if we ported it to PC/Xbox” and called it Uncharted. Then they said fuck it and made an actual Indiana Jones game. Le sigh. But anyway, I wanna say one of the Uncharted games leaned into Mysterious Cities of Gold territory… but I’m not really sure. Anyway, it was about three Mexican kids (I think, as in born & raised in Mexico) who seek out the eponymous golden cities. IIRC they do find the ruins of the city they were looking for, but they expected the cities to be actually made of gold. And maybe they found some gold but not like they thought. But they had a plane and I think they had some cool adventures, so they broke even I suppose?
I always wanted Panthros tank when I was a kid. It was awesome. ThinderTank goooo
I had the actual ThunderTank play set when I was a kid. I think it was about a foot long? The back opened up. I have a Hot Wheels (or maybe it’s Matchbox) of the ThunderTank (so it’s like 2" long). Haven’t looked at it that close, it’s still sealed in the blister pack.
The Runabout shuttles on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine remind me of the ThunderTank so much. You got the two-seater cockpit up front and like a cargo area behind it. There’s a bit more to the Runabout than that, but it still reminds me of the ThunderTank. Also, the Mako tank on Mass Effect, and the similar one in Mass Effect 4 (it had another name but I already forgot, that game was so half-baked but still fun).
Niceee!!!. I got this awesome comic book cover prints at new york comicon last year.i
I loved Thundercats as a kid, so when I heard Cartoon Network would start playing original episodes in 2003ish, I got my roommate and girlfriend all pumped up to watch the first episode with me.
Ten minutes in and I apologized. It’s SOOOO much worse than you remember. 😂 It’s amazing the crap we like when we’re kids. SNARF!
Facts. ThunderCats had a lot of good ideas but it was poorly executed and not very well acted. Everything’s just a bit too extra.
Snarf is fine. Snarfer was annoying AF. Snarfer was the younger snarf on the second crew, with Lynx-O and Bengali and the others. No kids on that crew, I think it was just the old blind man, the alt-palette Tygra, and a woman I can only vaguely remember. And Snarfer. No one liked him. Or Mumm-Ra’s dog, for that matter… “Ma-Mutt”? Though Mumm-Ra himself was awesome, in either form.
The show has aged like milk, though the 2011 series fixed some of the cringe. It added some of its own, but didn’t add up to what the 1985 series reached.
I still think Grune the Destroyer, Tower of Traps, the Trials (where Lion-O had to best each of the other adults, and then beat Mumm-Ra unarmed), the time machine episode, and Book of Omens were mostly good. Maybe a couple others.
I remember the trials as being a step up and it was nice the way it showcased the young siblings ability. It reminded me a bit of the legion of superheroes where the wonder twins go off to defend their planet and actually show themselves pretty powerful and competent.
The twins (or whatever they were) were always top tier for child characters. The voice acting wasn’t the greatest with them sounding a bit whiny, but they were solid.
You gotta figure, Lion-O was “one of them” before the trip… assuming they’re siblings (not sure if they said), Lion-O could have been a potential mate for Kit, if they were all allowed to grow up together. So with him being aged up all of a sudden, it’s like he’s still their bro/friend/playmate/peer/whatever but now he’s kind of like their king (“Lord of the ThunderCats”) they wanna help him get better. And of course their thing is underhanded/sneaky tactics and devices (kinda like Q in James Bond), they always have a trick up their sleeves.
The Japanese animation style of Thundercats was miles ahead of other Saturday morning cartoons at the time which did a ton of heavily lifting for popularity.
was it its own thing or was it like the xmen where the opening was super cool and then it was the same cartoon outside of that.
I was in my local comic shop today, being free comic book day, and saw a Thunder Cats x Silver Hawks comic.
Purchased immediately!
They actually resumed the story directly in a sequel series in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold_(2012_TV_series)
Thanks, I had no idea.
They should make a play of that series.
Thundercats: The musical
Honestly even the title song fits.
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