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Chris Hu on 30 July 2012
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Mr Khan said:
d21lewis said:
As a child of the 80's, I remember cartoons being much better than anything you guys have today.....but then I looked at youtube. I watched some of the old shows I watched as a kid on Netflix. You know what? Cartoons are pretty darn good, these days. There's a lot of good stuff out there, depending on what you're looking for. Even though My Little Pony isn't for me, I still can't imagine why it would appeal to a lot of other adult males. There's just too much out there. I will stand by that belief but who knows? Maybe I'll sit down and watch it with my kid some day.

Enjoy your pony cartoon, guys.

Replying to a post 1 month after the fact ftw, but

The 80s was a bad time for animation. The 70s was the real low-point, with most of it being mass-produced low-budget Hannah-Barbara cartoons and the Dark Age of Disney, but Disney was poor through most of the 80s as well, and the great 80s cartoons often don't stand on their own two feet (that is, are not good except through nostalgia-vision. Exceptions might be Thundarr the Barbarian and Thundercats). The 90s was where it was at for American animation, when Disney came roaring back (before they got stuck on the notion of CGing everything like everyone else who does animated movies now), and with Nickeolodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney, and Warner Brothers all producing at least a dozen classic series a piece, stuff that really was more timelessly good.

Then of course came the 2000s, when Disney and Nick switched focus to live action tweeny comedies, and Cartoon Network slumped (with the darkest days there being 2009 with CN Real, yikes).

Now it seems things are slowly healing.

Anyway, this post has no point.

Never heard of Thundarr the Babarian before, I'm familiar with Thundercats.  I grew up as a kid in Germany in the late 70's and early 80's.  They didn't show armerican cartoons much execpt for classic Disney, Looney Tunes and Hanna Babara (Tom and Jerry) shorts.  They mostly showed anime shows that where mainly made for the European market like Vicky the Viking, Maya the Bee, Pinocchio, Captain Future, Heidi, 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother, and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils.