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>It's crime fighting time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4YFDSDW4w
Watched the hell out of this show as a kid. The intro is incredibly good and well animated.
>>12235105
80's /m/ cartoon thread? Why not? Never really watched C.O.P.S. as a kid, though I did watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp4Sqn0eX_Q
>>12235118
>80's /m/ cartoon thread?
Sweet. There's many of them that don't get discussed around here much. Hell some 80's cartoons that weren't normally /m/ can even go that path sometimes.
>>12235118
Ah man, I wish I had made an 80's Western animated General then.
I'm a Canadian kid. I had Global, YTV and Fox Kids. Global ran Inspector Gadget, and COPS a lot.
I don't think any station around here ran RoboCop show, which is why I didn't see it until recently. The show is pretty fun and silly. It works better if you're a diehard fan of the first RoboCop film, and see how they translate an R-rated adult film into a toy focused Saturday morning cartoon show.
Dr. McNamara:
>minor character in the film, just the developer of ED 209, not really a villain
>Show: He's a cyborg and recurring villain
Lieutenant Hedgecock
>Film he's the SWAT team leader, and minor character
>Completely neutral when it comes to RoboCop, and only attacked him because he had orders
>Show: Completely against RoboCop and hates him.
Clarence Boddicker
>Chaotic Evil crime boss
>Low level weapons like shotguns, drives a van and a sports car
>Show: Flies some jet that would cost 50 million or upwards
Also it does the standard RoboCop sequel ploy of reverting Murphy's personality to when he's Robotic. I guess none of the sequels knew what the hell to do with his personality.
>>12235128
Reasons:
>Home releases are low quality, or non-existent
>DVD only typically
>piracy is nowhere near as dedicated as anime piracy
>Much of it still stuck in the avi/divx hell
For example: I can only find RoboCop animated in .avi format.
Every single 80's cartoon had to include "street punks" as villains in at least one episode. It's a law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaSJL18lJmw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8l67zoeLF4
Here's some stuff for the 80's /m/. Made by TMS for the American market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9K0SzFIf4A
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Sci-fi vehicles with interchangeable weapons versus plant-based sci-fi vehicles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Z1yLO9C-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpBx5_QJMVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iCYNVult9g
Last two are kinda murky... but it's M.A.S.K.!
>>12235353
>>12235333
>>12235315
Never heard of any of these shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv1mfNOKScE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlgkZUS7t-A
The Centurions - guys wearing lightweight exo-suits to which interchangeable weapons can be attached, fighting against a mad cyborg genius who wants to roboticize the world.
>>12235361
That's why I'm sharing them, friend. Spreading the knowledge.
>>12235374
More shows I've never heard of.
I guess Canada just didn't air many of these shows.
I did see Transformers and Mega Man though.
>>12235381
Any good rips?
>>12235384
There should be for Centurions, which got a dvd release. I'm trying to complete these shows myself. I mostly just remember them because I grew up on them.
>>12235374
Funfact: Sunrise did animation services for this one.
>>12235333
Likewise for this as well, though they did it along with SHAFT and some others
>>12235315
It's a shame it got cancelled because of Tonka's dicking around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_RdPawsqgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMaEeiku7o
This one may be stretching the /m/ classification a bit... also made by TMS for the Amercian market: The Bionic Six! An entire family of bionically-enhanced superheores.
>>12235399
>>12235315
>It's a shame it got cancelled because of Tonka's dicking around
I know, right? I found a really murky quality torrent of the entire series though. Google around, you may find it if you want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHifNJnYun0
Another promotional cartoon from Marvel, who made the 80s cartoon series for G.I.Joe, Transformers and Inhumanoids. This one was only a mini-series though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ojDGmpiIic
Again, stretching the classification of /m/, from the creators of Thundercats... it's the Silverhawks!
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>no 1080p torrents of these shows
>and there never will be
>>12235406
>>12235413
I did always liked how studios like TMS tried to stretch their appeal to broader market as well, even if the execution of their efforts kinda varied. Any other studios other than Sunrise and I.G. did something similar?
>>12235456
Most of what I know is that many different Japanese studios did work for several 80s cartoons on a work-for-hire basis. Or American companies would buy whole Japanese series and adapt them, for the U.S. (Voltron, Robotech, etc.). Very few Japanese companies did like what TMS did with Orbots and Bionic Six, at least to my knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMf2OXJcvhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvWtI4NZjTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sso3h0xMJA
More cybernetically enhanced sci-fi lawmen: The Galaxy Rangers!
This one seems to have a much-beloved soundtrack.
>>12235499
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg-BcjE213U
I have never seen the show, but I really like Psycho Crystal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvHxhUyPiq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX0l5_GHGmo
Here's an interesting one: Spiral Zone!
Based on a Bandai toy line, adapted to the U.S. by Tonka, got an American cartoon.
The second link leads to a Japanese-dubbed episode.
I get a kick out of American cartoons getting dubbed into Japanese, but only when they're done well.
Nobody else remembers Starcom: The U.S. Space Force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwwhZHERlG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBoxGdz2Km4
Visionaries was also a great watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzGU2Tx4VVU
Sky Commanders! Toys by Kenner, production by Hanna-Barbera, animation by Toei.
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs was good stuff too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awxKPdqLHGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evfuc5LCftc
>>12235598
Stracom! I knew I was overlooking something...
>>12235606
April was like my second cartoon crush... first would've been Rainbow Brite.
Stop looking at me like that. The way DiC drew their cartoon girls back in the 80s, many of them have achieved legendary waifu status nowadays.
Looking at this thread makes me realize how much anime was in the 80's.
My first anime was Noozles and Adventures of the Little Koala on Nickelodeon in 1990.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLKYOSiW7U4
Here's another one that's stretching it a bit, mainly because it's 90s, not 80s.
It's like the creators of this show said:
"Okay, we have robots as the main focus of this show. What toyetic gimmicks can we give them?"
"How about ALL OF THE GIMMICKS?"
"BRILLIANT!"
That's why we have transforming robots, combining robots, ninja robots, rapping robots and extreme sports robots all in the same show. And it was awesome.
>>12235624
Nickelodeon had an awesome anime block back in the day.
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Spartacus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
The Little Prince
Belle and Sebastion
>>12235660
Okay, just sports robots, not extreme sports robots. Let my brain run away for a bit there.
Sorry if I missed it but: Dinosaucers!
http://youtu.be/gy7fO2i9y94
I had one episode of this taped, and the tape my parents used had my little sisters ultra-sound on it originally, so there was always a few seconds of ultra-sound before the show started. haha
>>12235606
Why do Germans love this series so much?
That's pretty much all I can remember from the 80s without including the obvious mecha anime adapted for the U.S. I'm trying to find the intro for this rare cartoon called "Power Masters" (not Transformers-related), but it seems to have been taken down form the Tube.
>>12235710
I have no idea. Didn't they make their own theme song for this show (like they did with many other imported shows)?
>>12235399
>Sunrise did animation services for this one
Only the intro and the stock transformation sequences, iirc. It's still one of the first times animation was ever outsourced to Japan though, and the show looks bad ass compared to other 80's shows as a result.
>>12235486
>Voltron
>several potential shows to Americanize
>"we want the one with the lion"
>they actually wanted Daltanias
how different history could have been
>>12235746
I think we got a better deal. Go Lion looks cooler than Daltanias.
>>12235727
Most shows got new theme songs when sent to other markets. I think the Italians won the contest for the best one though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwQUDi9nLSM
>>12235746
I'll say.
>in a parallel universe, Luurah is desperately trying to get Golion subbed
Ah 80s toy commercial cartoons, even the ones I didn't see as a kid feel so nostalgic.
>>12235406
>Bionic Six
Osamu Dezaki worked on this one.
>>12235438
The most important lesson learned from the Silverhawks opening theme is that metal isn't real.
Would https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cFHETq0Bzo count? Found it in the relateds for C.O.P.S ; looked pretty /m/ ish
>>12235681
Ok, that Archaeopteryx is making me feel very confused in the pants...
>Posting OPs
It's sad. Because that's all we can watch. That's all that's been ripped.
We will never see these shows ;_;
>>12236463
Nah, at least a few shows posted on this thread either have some torrents up or are on YT or Hulu if you don't mind streaming and all.
>>12235598
>>12235613
Starcom actually just got a DVD release (I just ordered one from Amazon).
>>12235660
Bots Master. No mention of this show can be complete without bringing up the 3D scenes. Which, were ok for it's time, but made some of the action scenes a little confusing. Another obligatory mention, Lady Frenzy was pure sex.
>>12235952
The lesson I got from Silverbolts was that people can breathe in space.
>>12235710
Bismarck
>>12237010
>Lady Frenzy
Her voice actress is hot too
>>12236463
>>12236952
Maybe some kind anon could make a pastebin of which of the shows listed here have torrents or can be streamed. A way to spread the love.
>>12236463
I don't know about these days, but back ten years ago when I went to comic cons there were video bootleggers with stuff that wasn't in wide circulation online that went back to the VHS days when it came to old tv shows.
Might be worth nosing around some dealers that aren't just a pile of crabsticks.
>>12235746
didn't they wanted to turn Arbegas also into a Voltron prequel or something?
>>12236342
god damn it, that looks awesome.
>>12235140
Yeah, the Robocop cartoon was actually pretty good. One thing I always found odd about the Robocop cartoon was the accompanying toyline was called 'Robocop andthe Ultra Police' so I was expecting that it would be more of a team show like COPS, but the Ultra Police only ended up appearing in one episode.
Also, what was it about the 80's and turning R rated movies into kids cartoons? Rambo, Robocop and there was even an Aliens cartoon planned. Too bad we never got a Terminator cartoon, where John Connor and his multi-racial team of GI Joe stand-ins foil Skynet's plans to destroy humanity every week.
>>12238597
Yeah, Albegas was planned to be the third series to go into Voltron. They put out toy for it.
>>12238700
Robocop tv series wasn't that bad either.
>>12235399
More fun fact!: Character designs by Peter "Aeon Flux" Chung!
>>12235739
>Only the intro and the stock transformation sequences, iirc
Really? I thought It was for the whole series. hmm
>>12236342
I guess it counts, if you're willing to include 90s cartoons.
>Ok, that Archaeopteryx is making me feel very confused in the pants...
So who do you prefer, Pteryx or the teenage blonde human?
80s DiC girls man, I warned you about them...
>>12236952
>Youtube
If you want terribad quality.
>Hulu
What's the quality like? If torrents don't exist perhaps we could make some based on Hulu streaming.
>at least a few shows posted on this thread either have some torrents up
Half don't. The other half are .avi/divx blurry low bit rate rips. Western animation piracy is garbage.
>>12235952
Bionic Six was one of the much less toy-intensive shows.
Fucking Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers literally had no toys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3EoBl5uBfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gla6FVEnJcg
>>12238700
>Too bad we never got a Terminator cartoon, where John Connor and his multi-racial team of GI Joe stand-ins foil Skynet's plans to destroy humanity every week.
We only didn't get that because Skynet sent a Terminator to the past to eliminate the person who pitched it.
>>12235589
Too bad most of the episodes on the DVD set are not recorded in VHS hi-fi audio, but with the mediocre linear track only...
>>12235877
Holy shit! Thank you for this! It's brilliant.
You beautiful bastards! Sorry I just saw this thread now. Love me some nostalgic cartoons what taught me how to be a man. Ya'll have added most of the great ones, but I'll contribute with some more to keep this party going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaMo4k7iG7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8
God, I miss awesome cartoon theme songs. Less /m/anly, but there were also ones like Laser Tag Academy and Pole Position.
>non Japanese
>good
>>12240473
I remember one of my older brothers having a Galaxy Rangers lunchbox set with thermos and everything. Thought it was the coolest looking thing ever back in the day. If not for having older siblings I probably would have missed out on a lot of the coolest cartoons; shit played for a year or two then disappeared forever when new shows with new toys emerged.
>>12240780
1. Half of the time these shows are animated by Japanese studios anyways. So they at least count as American-Japanese co-productions.
2. Non-Western sci-fi, robots and mecha is great and often serves as inspiration for Japanese series.
>>12235598
That is absolutely insane. That's up there with the best animated intros I've seen.
I bet the actual show is crap, of course, but holy shit. Dat shading.
![Megazone 23 Part II [OnDeed] [2441270C].mkv_snapshot_00.00.11_[2015.03.10_12.32.34].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/aPq2Cic.jpg "Megazone 23 Part II [OnDeed] [2441270C].mkv_snapshot_00.00.11_[2015.03.10_12.32.34].jpg")
>Watching the frankly astounding Silverhawks intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUe5Ugg6Iks
>Randomly watching Megazone 23 part II
>suddenly Silverhawks pinball machine
Well, that was random and unexpected.
T-Rex is 1992, but it's still euro-sentai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA4o6WhJO-A
>>12238700
>Too bad we never got a Terminator cartoon, where John Connor and his multi-racial team of GI Joe stand-ins foil Skynet's plans to destroy humanity every week.
They already made that show. It was called Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M678PVOf5F0
>>12241127
Eh. It doesn't look that special to me, but then again it looks like an .mpg file from Ebaumsworld, so it'd probably look better in a restoration.
>>12241152
Thundercats showed up in BGC2038
>>12235315
I loved Orbots opening. And the girl-robots were pure waifu material.
>>12235499
Was Galaxy Rangers one of the first cartons with internal continuity? I loved the characters revisiting places from earlier episodes and people remembering what had happened.
>>12235152
>>piracy is nowhere near as dedicated as anime piracy
>>Much of it still stuck in the avi/divx hell
This REALLY pisses me off. Even in some private trackers which usually have higher quality rips for western content than TPB, cartoon DVD rips are still based on antiquated DivX shit. I hope one day to learn about making autist-quality DVD rips someday and get some stuff out.
Well this is pretty cool-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsNkW0S9c-w
Maybe it's just first episode favors, but the quality looks pretty high.
>>12241473
Reasons.
1. Less dedicated fanbase.
2. Anime fans are on the cutting edge of video processing and playback. They dont' do western shows.
Solution:
We have to step in and fix it ourselves. I'm thinking of getting RoboCop The Animated Series and giving it a proper mkv rip.
Also check out kickass, there are some newer mkv/h.264 rips out there for some western shows. Some. And even then, the dvd qualities are just not that great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMguVxjSkx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8gW6Euf8F8
How could I forget Ring Raiders?
Toys by Matchbox. 5-episode mini-series that never got a regular full season. Animated by DiC, designs by that Aeon Flux guy.
The premise: a task force composed of jet jockeys and fighter pilots form different eras must stop an evil group of time-travelling aerial terrorists from taking over the world and messing with time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5DxKwq-lIs
Pyscho Crystal in context for those wondering.
>>12235422
I love how Cullen is a villain in this and the humans look straight out of Battlestar Galactica.
>>12241843
Eh, I remember Ring Raiders, but didn't think it was /m/ enough.But really, it's probably because its theme song sucks.
>>12241238
The memories of playing the 'game' with the toy planes and animated episodes. I'm surprised no one's tried to bring that concept back these days.
>>12241963
>but didn't think it was /m/ enough.
But it's got JETS!
>>12242010
Yeah, fair enough, but in the very small spot in my brain that remembers bad cartoons, it was all prop planes and being a bad cartoon. That opening shows jets(and shouts Ring Raiders a bunch) but does not show how shitty the rest of the show was.
>>12242027
Episodes of Ring Raiders are up on the Tube, so you can check them for yourself. Quality of the show aside, it certainly wasn't "all prop planes". There were only like one or two characters that used prop planes. Most of them used jets. And a rescue copter.
>>12242111
Yeah, I checked them to confirm my hazy memory. Was definitely wrong about the prop planes part, so that's my bad. Not so wrong on the whole it being a shitty cartoon, though.
>>12242135
>Not so wrong on the whole it being a shitty cartoon, though.
Welp, I can't win them all.
>>12235681
Never look this show up on Deviantart if you value your sanity.
The late 90s/early 2000's had some decent shows too. Here's a western show about actual mecha! Heavy Gear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQdl5k3y0E
Phantom 2040: A kinda weird, but well doen cyberpunk take on the old comic hero.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnxG7vXFXrJUKX7cA-VspJPShMp-NyX3K
War Planets: Alien races team up to battle a giant robotic planet that literally eats worlds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXDH2NUYrgg
The Action Man CG cartoon is surprisingly decent, and deserves some credit for turning maths into a viable, if goofy superpower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NF8Pkbtz-Q
>>12242733
>War Planets
>got renamed to Shadow Raiders in Canada because "war" is a bad word
>ends withthe Beast Planet teleported elsewhere and still at large
It still hurts. Cool show otherwise, though.
>>12242733
>War Planets: Alien races team up to battle a giant robotic planet that literally eats worlds.
That was done by Mainframe in their prime. They also did Beast Wars and Reboot. Also great shows to check out. Reboot especially got amazing in season 3-4. Got really serious and gritty.
Holy shit why have I never seen Starcom before? 3 eps in and there's classic Toei-style 80s mechanical drawing all over the place. It's probably above Ulysses 31 in terms of animation quality so far unless it takes a dive in the next few episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyaUO2iSQJM
Some of the battle animation is beautiful.
And Malvanna is the sexiest.
90s had a bit of /m/ as well.
There was a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk dystopia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoXP2tMmv7Y
Also, two guys and a jet fighting kaiju.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty7GT2vgM1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzVaEf7_UD4
>>12242733
>>12243846
90's and early 00's had some of the best /m/ western animation. I think it's mainly because at this time they started to combine some of the toyetic concepts from the 80's with better storytelling, including ongoing plots, continuity, character development, even character deaths.
We have of course, Exo Squad, which imo is the best western /m/ animated show (despite the often cheap animation and weird 90's dayglo designs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR7ktkOEeFw
Wing Commander Academy, which is ten times better an adaptation than that pile of shit of a movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z0JSfCejY4
Roswell Conspiracies, a nice X-Files like series from the story editors of Beast Wars (TF scribe Simon Furman even wrote the series finale): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bVHpMvedOs
Starship Troopers Roughneck Chronicles which is a decent adaptation that combines the power armor/ mecha concepts of the novel with the movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-97DMohl6o
To name a few.
>>12243775
Yeah I loved Starcom. Shame it only lasted one season. Great toys too. I still have my Starmax Bomber, although age has not been kind to it and only the basic body is still intact.
One thing I always found funny is that Emperor Dark, far from being the standard Evil Overlord these shows usually had, seemed more like a NEET who'd rather stay in his room all day doing experiments than conquering the universe.
>>12243896
>Wing commander OP
Thanks for that! I remember loving the hell out of the cartoon back in the day. Fuck yeah, those were good times.
>>12243910
>Emperor Dark, far from being the standard Evil Overlord these shows usually had, seemed more like a NEET who'd rather stay in his room all day doing experiments than conquering the universe.
I'm 4 eps in now and it seems that the usual corporate meddling has reared its head. ie: airing episodes in the wrong order.
Episode 3 had Malvanna appear and talk about wanting to doublecross emperor Dark. We had never seen these characters before. And she develops a crush on one of the good guys. But we don't know who she is because she's just appeared.
Then Episode 4 had Emperor Dark and Malvanna being introduced..! The hell?
>>12243924
I think the best thing about the Wing Commander is that they actually went to the trouble of getting Mark Hamill, Tom Wilson and even Malcolm frickin' McDowell to voice their characters. You could tell that the creators really cared about the lore and wanted to keep it in line with the game universe.
Which is far more than you could say for the live action movie.
>>12238700
If you was popular or had a popular toy you had a cartoon.
Also too, C.O.P.S, Divsion 2, The Tank Police & Robocop protect a city. Is crime fucked or FUCKED.
>>12240451
Just go ahead and tell me to yiff in hell, cause I prefer me some ancient protobird. And not because the other choice is a teenager.
>>12244213
>C.O.P.S, Divsion 2, The Tank Police & Robocop protect a city. Is crime fucked or FUCKED.
FUCKED for sure. but the colateral damage would astronomical thanks to the tank police and Div 2
>>12241965
because they did, it's called power rangers
>>12246961
100% of Special Vehicles Division 2's destruction is due to Ota. Fire that one guy, and they go from a maligned group causing destruction to the best most well run force in media.
>>12242733
>War Planets
My brother had a toy of that planet that eats other planets, it opens up and there's a bunch of canons. Shit is pretty cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ46aKjB9oE
>>12235598
>>12237010
>>12243775
Thanks for convincing me to finally give in and order the show; I've been waffling on it cuz like
>>12241127
said, I wasn't sure if the show could live up to that intro. But the price sure is tempting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ki99YBVKyw
>>12241473
>divx
oh god memories came flooding in
>>12235598
Ahh right, Visionaries is sorta like Saint Seiya except with Jem holograms right?
>>12242645
Surely Dinosaucers are immune from donut steels?
Huh, so that explains why plenty of 80's cartoon designs and artstyle reminds me of 80's anime - they were outsourced to Japan?
>>12256752
Not exactly. Saint Seiya characters have various powers and abilities all over the place. Visionaries characters' had powers that were a little more limited, more strictly defined.
You should still watch it anyway.
>>12256763
Yup.
>>12250891
Ugh, I hate Filmation's animation. It's so cheap.
>>12256788
I watched Visionaries but vaguely remember it, only know that they have solid holograms of their animal spirit or something.
>>12256794
Yeah, dem stiff bodies with moving faces.
>>12235315
Shit, is that the late Garry Owen's narrating?
>>12235606
In that 2nd vid... Prime is that you?
>>12256980
Yeah, that was Peter Cullen. He was also the narrator of Voltron; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uS5b8aQ6z8
>>12256936
Yes. He is sorely missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sFdf3P-RS0
>>12257589
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUnoOIikE0
I know it's early 90's, but it's sci-fi
>>12257838
Neat.
Ah the 1980's, when the Cartoon industry was deregulated and Toyetic was the name of the game.
>>12235660
It's French, they always have a tendency to go all in on whatever concept they hit on
It was also the time when they were running with 3D and CG in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6BwW85nTI8
>>12242803
>Reboot especially got amazing in season 3-4. Got really serious and gritty.
Because they finally got the shackles of ABC's S&Ps off after they got cancelled when Disney took over and YTV picked them up and basically went 'we love you guys, do whatever you want and we'll green light it.'
>>12260178
YTV is a Canadian station. The rules for Canadian shows is much looser. It's just that most Canadian shows are rebroad-cast American ones which come pre-censored, and the original content tends to be TVO or CBC (educational, PG-rated). You can have mild nudity or swearing past a certain point if you want.
Reboot season 3-4, and especially War Planets were pretty brutal and gritty. War Planets had soldiers dying repeatedly in episodes. Hostages being executed. They were solid PG rated shows.
It's a total shame that there aren't new shows made in this style. It could be like Canadian-anime. Most Canadian animation now is just meant for the American market.
>>12260313
wish it were true
>>12235333
>>12235353
>>12235438
>>12235438
>>12235681
I think Shuki levy has done the majority of the intro themes for much of the eighties and early nineties.
>>12235374
I think Centurions is a show that I think is a show that you can do a remake of. just add some halo elements to the suits, keep the crazy cyborg scientist wanting to turn the world into robots, just give him a better reason on wanting to do so. have gratuitous mech porn when they combine with the weapons, and mech gore when they're out there fighting robot bad guys and bam got some animated vanquish going.
Would this counts as Western Sentai?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USUucZVnno0
>>12235105
Just the best mobster ever, passing through.
I had the toy for this badass when I was a kid. Everything in his little bio card was "Unknown: no witnesses willing to testify". He wasn't in the episodes nearly enough, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev1aBt-_Zs4
>>12267403
Where are his organs?
http://kickass.to/c-o-p-s-the-animated-series-t9903005.html#main
This the best torrent for C.O.P.S?
>that feel when you'll never see these shows remastered in HD
>>12268507
Shout's getting there, slowly.
>>12263932
I've always confused Shuki Levy and Ron Wasserman.
>>12260178
The ABCs turned on them, the treacherous dogs.
>>12267008
Not really, but it's similar enough to the same type of shows as animes with young men in mystical armor (Saint Seiya, Shurato, Samurai Troopers, etc.).
>>12268507
>.mp4
God damn.
Can someone just make a nice simple chart explaining how to properly make proper x264 rips?
>>12273600
Doesn't h264 work fine in an .mp4 container? The wikipedia article seems to say so.
>>12268498
He doesn't has an organ, just a stradivarius.
>>12268507
I don't suppose anyone has found the soundtrack to C.O.P.S. yet?
>>12275842
Would that have even been released?
Guess you'd just have to extract it from the show directly.
>>12275842
Was that modeled after Lemmy from Motorhead?
>>12260313
I hope the new reboot is good.
>>12277217
It probably won't get out of development hell.
>>12276979
It wouldn't surprise me to be honest.
Was Silver Hawks any good?
>>12275898
Sometimes the music gets releases later on as a bonus or is just released by the artist on a whim. Like bits from the Thundercats soundtrack.
https://mega.co.nz/#!tRlXyA6b!JebEXR_LxBzdsLbuW6eK394YwCZOO0diuIshXCrDi3A
>>12280320
It was... okay. Nothing really knockout spectacular, but entertaining. And pretty animation every so often, like Thundercats.
It suffers from the same depictions of outer space that the original Thundercats did... namely, that people can breathe and talk in deep space and not worry about explosive decompression or anything, even though Silverhawks had after-show educational segments that were supposed to teach kids about outer space.
>>12235105
The english version sounds weird without the vocals
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21j1vd_cops-generique_shortfilms
>>12235406
Fun fact: Nobuteru Yuki did the character design for Bionic Six.
Yeah, the one who did Escaflowne, Chrono Cross, X, Xenosaga and others.
>>12235438
I usually hate Bernard Minet's openings, but the french one for Silverhawks was pretty cool. At least, the BG is cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb8PA8SZIHs
>>12283974
>Nobuteru Yuki did the character design for Bionic Six
Wait, really? The designs in that show don't really look much like his usual style.. than again the same could be said for his Little Tail Bronx work so what do I know.
>>12281617
I always wondered about this, was there ever any official crossover between Thundercats and Silverhawks? I know that they were by the same creators but was there ever anything like with Transformers and GI Joe (where a retired Cobra Commander showed up in one episode of Transformers)?
