Really? I must have spent far too much of my youth glued to 80s cartoons...!Firefox wrote:WTF was that?! I only recognised Pole Position out of the whole lot!F-ZeroOne wrote:
There was Visionaries, Defenders of the Earth (Master of magic, spells and illusion... ), The Spiral Zone (fair dos, that one is pretty obscure and to the best of my knowledge was only broadcast in the UK during the early days of Sky), Dinosaucers (that I haven't seen), M.A.S.K. (Working overtime! Fightin' crime!), Pole Position (only their uncle knows - way oh, way oh, way oh... ), Galaxy Rangers, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Mighty Orbots, and Jem (which was a fairly successful attempt to create a 80s action-adventure cartoon show for girls with a bit of cross-gender appeal). Looking at all those, its amazing how many had some Japanese input one way or another.Of course, they missed a few personal favourites of mine:
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(The Odyssey spacecraft from that last one, by the way, was designed by none other than the God of Transforming Mecha, Shoji Kawamori...!)
