This is a powerful message for any age group. While the ThunderCats make the “lion’s share” of dumb mistakes, their unity and support make all the difference. The mutants fail because they never trust or support each other. Each of them are very skilled in their own way, but alone, they’re not much of a match for the mutants, who on the surface have knowledge, resources and Mumm-Ra’s magic on their side. The ThunderCats win because of their respect for each other, their brave willingness to self-sacrifice and their combined talents. One message comes through loud and clear, though.
Were Cheetara and Tygra an item? What were they doing in that cave-just inspecting it? And were Wilykit and Wilykat their love kittens? It was a blast to come up with origins, suppositions and stretchy facts no matter how silly they were. It was fun to make connections between characters even if the scripts barely suggested any truth to the assumptions. The whole production glowed with élan it was irresistible to anyone remotely partial to such art. The dialogue was so staccato it was as if everyone in the cast was channeling Gary Owens.
He-Man is a rousing old-school comic book adventure, histrionic melodrama and a campy gigglefest (we kid because we love, remember). You can also hear this cast in the last Rankin/Bass network holiday special, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
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The series also brought the great Bob McFadden back to a regular animated TV series for the first time since shows like Cool McCool and Milton the Monster.īecause the show was based in Manhattan, such fine actors as Larry Kenney, Lynne Lipton, Peter Newman, Earl Hyman and Earl Hammond were given well-deserved exposure (and eternal fan affection). ThunderCats was the icing on the R/B cake, combining the serpentine storytelling and absorbing personalities of their specials with the sword-and-sorcery fantasy look and feel of their award-winning version of The Hobbit (c’mon-Slithe might as well be Gollum). The small New York independent had given monoliths Hanna-Barbera and Filmation a bit of a competitive jolt with several years’ worth of Saturday morning animation, but despite such hits as The Jackson 5ive, The Osmonds and King Kong, Rankin/Bass became more successful as TV’s preeminent creators of animated holiday shows. Voices: Larry Kenney (Lion-O, Jackalman) Bob McFadden (Snarf, Slithe) Lynne Lipton (Cheetara, Wilykit) Earle Hyman (Panthro) Peter Newman (Tygra, Wilykat, Monkian) Earl Hammond (Mumm-Ra, Jaga).Īfter Filmation broke new ground in syndicated animation with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, the floodgates were wide open for five-day-a-week “strips” of original animated programming, usually produced in unprecedented quantities of 65 episodes a season.įor fans of Rankin/Bass, the arrival of ThunderCats in this hot new marketplace was cause for celebration. TV Executive Producers: Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass. Producer for Peter Pan Records: Donald Kasen. Peter Pan Records C-266-46 (Cassette / Mono) Peter Pan Records C-265-35 (Cassette / Mono) Find out how Toy Story connects to ThunderCats as we feel the magic and hear the roar of the 30th anniversary of those denizens of Third Earth… even Snarf!
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