Transformers & G.I. Joe, finally the shared universe I always dreamed of…
As an 80s nostalgia nerd it’s kind of hard to pick a favorite brand or property from my...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jun 29, 2015 | 80s TV, Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary, Personal, Toys | 4 |
As an 80s nostalgia nerd it’s kind of hard to pick a favorite brand or property from my...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | May 14, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Toys | 16 |
After I started reacquiring some of my childhood toys recently, specifically picking up a number...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 28, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 5 |
So, picking up from where I left off last week when discussing some of the things that jumped out at me while re-watching the 1st season of the original Transformers cartoon, there were a lot of things that I didn’t...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 20, 2011 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 7 |
I’ve spent the last five years building a library of cartoons on DVD and sometimes I fear that I get too caught up in acquiring new series and not spending nearly enough time actually sitting down and watching them. ...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Apr 27, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
I found some time this weekend and scanned another Thundarr the Barbarian article. This one comes from an issue of Fantastic from 1980, though for the life of me I can’t remember which month. It was written by Adam...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Aug 7, 2009 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
Finally getting around to finishing off the Cartoon Commentary! series on the 1st G.I. Joe mini series (A Real American Hero). This final episode, titled A Stake in the Serpent’s Heart, was first broadcast on...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 22, 2009 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 0 |
One of the things that I find endlessly fascinating about cartoons in the 80s is the tonal shift that a lot of the shows took. Throughout the 70s child advocacy groups like A.C.T. (Action for Children’s Television)...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 20, 2009 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 1 |
I don’t know how obvious it is, but I’m really excited to be podcasting again. As some of the long time readers might remember, this site started at a platform for a podcast I was doing on my nostalgia...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 15, 2009 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 0 |
So the Saturday Supercast Jerzy Drozd, Kevin Cross and I recorded recently was pretty mammoth. We ended up talking about the 1st G.I. Joe cartoon mini series for well over two hours and it was decided to break the show in...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Sep 14, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 1 |
So here we are at episode 13 of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. I just wanted to remind anyone who cares, that next week I’ll be switching to a different cartoon for a bit to take a rest of dragons and underpants....
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Sep 10, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
It’s funny how life gets in the way of website content updates. I was supposed (I say supposed, but that’s so self-imposed) to have this posted last week (as well as the 13th commentary on the D&D cartoon), but...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Sep 6, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
This week I’m going to tackle the last three episodes of the 1st season of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon before moving on to a new show for a little bit. Today’s episode is titled The Box (a word that the movie...
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