The theme songs keep on ringing in my mind whenever I hear the titles of these animated series. I recall Lion-O once in an episode wherein he reverted back to child,I just can remember exactly how that happened but it did. The good old days...
ThunderCats and Silverhawks were my favorite shows when I was little. Panthro and Cheetara were my favorite TCats, and The Copper Kid and HotWing were my favorite SHawks.
I enjoyed this. Can't wait for part 2. Growing up near Pittsburgh we didn't get rage Comic Strip on any local stations. But when I would visit my grandparents in Columbus the big treat was seeing tiger sharks on Saturday morning.
Thanks so much for getting this panel up onto UA-cam so quickly, it was the one I was most looking forward to. I'm equally looking forward to part 2. I really enjoyed the History of Animated Star Wars stream on Facebook, as well. Great stuff, as always!
I really like the Mutants and their spaceships! I remember being at a local grocery store and seeing the ThunderCats sticker book, those glossy images from the animation are still very intriguing to me. I pretty much hated seeing the Mutants capital ship crash, and sink into the sand.
AWESOMENESS...can't wait to sink my claws/talons into the second part! Digging (as per the usual) Melinda's metal wear as well as her MOST informative lead on this topic, along with Michael's humorous side commentary this time around...GREAT teamwork, as always. #RetroBlasting truly does it BEST! :) Thanks, all, and EXCELLENT work...looking forward to the other sweet panels on the way! #BlastOn
Thanks for being fair so far. Your first video ages ago really seemed to be so angry! Snarf's not so bad, SNARFER is annoying though. Snarf saved the day so many times! And those odd vocal directions I always thought, were to add to the grand, magical aspect of the show. It worked, I'm up to 25 MOC Thundercats! Can't wait to see part 2 HOOOO!!!
28 mins went by too fast! loved your panel and humor...anxious for the 2nd part. You guys always do such a great job with the detailed information. Love cheetara.
As nice as the animation was for Thundercats, GI Joe and Transformers the program with the best in show animation was Bionic Six from TMS. Can not wait to see that vid.
I think the reason people "remember" Biggs being in the movie is because of how often we heard the radio dramas, and the fact that the Biggs character/scenes *were* included in official Star Wars picturebooks.
Great show. You guys didn't mention that Thundercats was made around the same time as He-Man and it's release was delayed (I forget why). Thundercats always seemed late to the 80's party to me. It came out at the same time (roughly) as Mask, and they were very much the 'middle' shows of the 80's that predated the ALF / Real Ghostbusters / Turtles latter part of the 80's.
Will there be any mention of Steve Perry in part 2? He was one of the writers for ThunderCats and SilverHawks. He was a pretty cool guy. When I was part of a fan forum called New Hawk Haven he would pop in to chat with the fans and tell us about his plans for a SilverHawks reboot. Unfortunately he was murdered before the project could get off the ground. After we got the news about his death in the forum we were devastated. He was such a nice, cool, and friendly person and personally I was honored that he took the time to interact with a rag tag group of SilverHawks fans. When the TCats reboot aired and I saw a dedication to Steve at the end of one of the episodes I lost it and cried and cried. I thought it was so thoughtful of them to remember Steve that way. He loved writing for those shows.
And the vids start coming! =D For me, the Thundercats, Silverhawks and Tigersharks rank high on my list of best animated openings of all time. Great turnout, can't wait for Part 2. =D
I just watched the 2011 Thundercats show and loved it unlike the Original 80's version. 2011 just made sense to me and now Thundercats is being ruined by the Thundercat's Roar people, move over Dr. Jones I'm getting in the fridge with you!
TMS Entertainment That animated Mighty Orbots and Bionic Six almost always had better animation in the show than in the intro. Return of the Bunji episode of the Bionic Six arguably has some of the nicest animation for a episode ever. The also did the amazing "Call of the Primitives" Transformers episode...and the best looking of the entire G1 run.
I still have my Snarf straw... caddy? Is that what it is? A straw caddy? Whatever. Snarf thing that hangs on my straw from Burger King. I still have it.
I really enjoy Retroblasting, even if i don't know the shows you're talking about. Is there any chance, that Retroblasting will do a video about Battlestar Galactica TOS, respectively the Galactica movies?
Was Rattaro ever in the pyramid? I always thought he and vultureman were kind of freelance villains and Mum-Ra just accepted them as a package deal with the rest of the Mutants. Was Hachiman the samurai from another dimension or was he from another time? I only saw the episode with him a handful of times I just remember from the movie that Mum-Ra did something to him and Lion-O was assured by Jaga that he was just returned to where he came from. One day I'll actually get to go to dragon con and not be on the edge of my seat waiting for the videos...
Wait a minute, the old man that was on board the spaceship (before he died from old age and his remains withered away), he could have altered the sleeping pod to insure that Lion-O was at least old enough to hold the sword, but possibly also to appear old enough lead the group!❤️🐈🐈⬛
+retroblasting. Just before going to this presentation on UA-cam, I was watching a thing on the "Mandela Effect", which, before today, I've never heard of. Anyway, I happened to notice the audience's deadpan reaction to Melinda's mention of this weird so called split universe phenomenon. I find it very interesting.
Burger King with Pepsi? That just feels so surreal, they've been associated with Coke for my entire lifetime. I felt the same way when Long John Silver's and a couple other places in my area switched from Coke to Pepsi.
I've thought about the aging thing. animals in the wild grow quickly to maturity and then kind of level off in later years in growth right? maybe they all did age the same, but the only noticeable one was Liono. Wiley Kit and Kat are based on Wild cats which are smaller in stature than the other big cats. so even though they are childlike in size they are actually fully mature. just my theory
The only fault I see in your theory(which I like) is that the bigger Thundercats treated the Wily Twins as children in many episodes, if my memory serves :)
Those 3 show are so similar it was a straight up crime and a cruel twist of fate that there was never an attempt to combine these 3 forces together. and buddy even though the Thundercats were impressive at times they're kinda silly to me too.
I always thought that the timeline put that it was Earth after two or through cataclysms. We're millions.of years post those cataclysms wgen.the show starts and Mumm-Ra is the last survivor pre-first cataclysm.. He's not a supernatural evil, he's a technologically enhanced human that has managed to figure out how to be a demi-lich. He still has the cloning tech etc. And he's pissed off that after orchestrating the cataclysms and finally getting third earth the way he wanted it to be... here come these damn cats!
i love the thundercats. my faves were the lunataks. and the reason some think Mandela died early on is because his cell mate died and the claimed it was him. they brought in his wife who said it was not him. but they already declared him deceased. DNA test proved it not to be Mandela and we get to this point. so far nothing I have been shown about the Mandela effect I have not been able to disprove with little research.
lion-o's pod is explained, just not very well. in the deleted scenes whilst discussing the pods, snarf says "you'll never get me to believe those things work". the pods work, just not %100, the process is sort of hit or miss. this whole bit just wasn't explained well, then cut out, and finally half forgotten, then explained away as best as we could
I watched the Tcats series off and on back then but it wasn’t the big thing for me. Never had any of the figures. I agree the first episode was a bit awkward when they showed the main character “naked”. Even to this day I am surprised R@b got away with that.
I have read many posts about the Mandela effect that claim it isn't just a foible of flawed human memory, but is actually evidence of many people traversing parralel universes with separate but similar histories :)
Watching this video I was thunderstruck with the answer to the great 80s mystery why does Lion-O age into an adult while Wilycat and Wilykit appear to stay children - the answer is simple they aren’t the same kind of Thundercats. When Retroblasting put up the big earth cat to Thundercat comparison to show how Lion-O is based on a lion and Panthro a panther etc I realized the Wilys are based on housecats. The answer was in the pilot the whole time, they all age the same amount but Lions start out the same size as housecats but then they rapidly turn into giant adults. The wilys didn’t get any bigger because that’s as big as they are going to get. The Thundercats are all members of different races of cats that evolved into humanoids and the Wilys are the housecat sized ones. That’s the correct answer. I’m sure of it.
Melinda should look up Danny Sexbangs/Ninja Sex Party's cover of The Last Unicorn theme. Despite their name Danny loves the book and movie, its a sweet loving cover.
The Star Wars Bigs scene is not a true Mandela effect. In 1978 there was a book called the Star Wars story book. This book told the story of the movie along side pictures from the movie. Included was a picture of Luke and Bigs talking on Tatooine and there conversion is in the story part of the book. I think people saw that picture and read the book and over time it became part of the movie to them. Since there is a real source of these memories I do not believe they quality as being the Mandela Effect. I had the opposite effect. I saw the pic in the book and could not remember that see in the movie. I only saw Star Wars once in 1977, and did not see it again until my parents bought the VHS tape in 1983, I remember watching waiting to see if that seen was in the movie. Which is was not.
So that's why children's cartoons had no edge! I grew up in Latin America. We got a ton of Anime from the golden age of the 70's and 80's. Even the ones that were not violet were straight up tragic... I watched these shows along with the Thundercats and loved them all. Having said that, as an adult The Thundercats cartoon doesn't hold my attention... And the acting on the Spanish Dubbing is far superior. I just can't watch the English version....
The theme songs keep on ringing in my mind whenever I hear the titles of these animated series.
I recall Lion-O once in an episode wherein he reverted back to child,I just can remember exactly how that happened but it did.
The good old days...
ThunderCats and Silverhawks were my favorite shows when I was little. Panthro and Cheetara were my favorite TCats, and The Copper Kid and HotWing were my favorite SHawks.
Thanks for posting this. What an awesome panel! You guys are so well-prepared and professional. Can't wait to see Part 2.
I enjoyed this. Can't wait for part 2. Growing up near Pittsburgh we didn't get rage Comic Strip on any local stations. But when I would visit my grandparents in Columbus the big treat was seeing tiger sharks on Saturday morning.
Great to see another one of your panels here on your channel. I'm looking forward to seeing them all.
Great viewing guys. I really wish I could come to America to see you live at one of these events. Much love and support.
+Matt Leuty thanks Matt!
oh nice, Mel is sporting a Amon Amarth shirt. GREAT BAND!!
Thanks so much for getting this panel up onto UA-cam so quickly, it was the one I was most looking forward to. I'm equally looking forward to part 2. I really enjoyed the History of Animated Star Wars stream on Facebook, as well. Great stuff, as always!
i always enjoy these con panels that you do,they are always fun to watch.
Really fantastic panel guys!!
I am totally enjoying watching that woman eat what appears to be an icecream sandwich while listening to the panel.
I really like the Mutants and their spaceships! I remember being at a local grocery store and seeing the ThunderCats sticker book, those glossy images from the animation are still very intriguing to me. I pretty much hated seeing the Mutants capital ship crash, and sink into the sand.
I gotta go to one of your panels some time, great stuff as always!
Awesome job guys. Looking forward to the rest.
Excellent. Love the panel videos. Can't wait for the next part. ^>^
Great job guys! It was an awesome panel!
Great video guys! Can't wait for Part 2.
AWESOMENESS...can't wait to sink my claws/talons into the second part! Digging (as per the usual) Melinda's metal wear as well as her MOST informative lead on this topic, along with Michael's humorous side commentary this time around...GREAT teamwork, as always. #RetroBlasting truly does it BEST! :) Thanks, all, and EXCELLENT work...looking forward to the other sweet panels on the way! #BlastOn
Thanks for being fair so far. Your first video ages ago really seemed to be so angry! Snarf's not so bad, SNARFER is annoying though. Snarf saved the day so many times! And those odd vocal directions I always thought, were to add to the grand, magical aspect of the show. It worked, I'm up to 25 MOC Thundercats! Can't wait to see part 2 HOOOO!!!
28 mins went by too fast! loved your panel and humor...anxious for the 2nd part. You guys always do such a great job with the detailed information. Love cheetara.
Thanks for sharing - amazingly detailed panel and very well presented 👍
Great job leading the panel, Melinda.
Man, your panels look like so much fun. I hope to attend Dragon Con next year. Looking forward to part 2.
Hear the Roar is avaible on Kindle on Amazon for 6 buck as of 9/25/17. Just a quick FYI.
That’s so true!! lol I really thought that there was dialogue about the pod malfunctioning and it was snarf who was saying it. I’ve got to see this.
Melinda, you're wearing an Amon Amarth shirt? Awesome.
nice, this took me back to my teens. cant wait for part 2
As nice as the animation was for Thundercats, GI Joe and Transformers the program with the best in show animation was Bionic Six from TMS. Can not wait to see that vid.
Mighty Orbots was also way up there.
You're damn right it was. Too bad it had such a short run.
I think the reason people "remember" Biggs being in the movie is because of how often we heard the radio dramas, and the fact that the Biggs character/scenes *were* included in official Star Wars picturebooks.
Now I want to watch the original Thundercats!
This is the greatest!!! Looking forward to part two.
The first episode of the show, Exodus, is my favorite.Panthro and Cheetarah are my favorite characters.
"THUNDERCATS, HO!"since it's so much fun to dive into our animal and action gene smashing series'. Stay safe everyone!
Great show. You guys didn't mention that Thundercats was made around the same time as He-Man and it's release was delayed (I forget why). Thundercats always seemed late to the 80's party to me. It came out at the same time (roughly) as Mask, and they were very much the 'middle' shows of the 80's that predated the ALF / Real Ghostbusters / Turtles latter part of the 80's.
Will there be any mention of Steve Perry in part 2? He was one of the writers for ThunderCats and SilverHawks. He was a pretty cool guy. When I was part of a fan forum called New Hawk Haven he would pop in to chat with the fans and tell us about his plans for a SilverHawks reboot. Unfortunately he was murdered before the project could get off the ground. After we got the news about his death in the forum we were devastated. He was such a nice, cool, and friendly person and personally I was honored that he took the time to interact with a rag tag group of SilverHawks fans. When the TCats reboot aired and I saw a dedication to Steve at the end of one of the episodes I lost it and cried and cried. I thought it was so thoughtful of them to remember Steve that way. He loved writing for those shows.
Damn i completely forgot about tigersharks, i loved it as a kid
And the vids start coming! =D For me, the Thundercats, Silverhawks and Tigersharks rank high on my list of best animated openings of all time. Great turnout, can't wait for Part 2. =D
How about a Dino Riders cartoon/toy review soon? :D
Love your channel BTW. ^^
I just watched the 2011 Thundercats show and loved it unlike the Original 80's version.
2011 just made sense to me and now Thundercats is being ruined by the Thundercat's Roar people, move over Dr. Jones I'm getting in the fridge with you!
I own the two rarest Lion-o toy pieces but Thundercats is hard to watch NOW but loved as a kid
I still can enjoy it. so far the only cartoon that I can't go back and watch is darkwing duck.
awesome as always
Love this panel! :P
TMS Entertainment That animated Mighty Orbots and Bionic Six almost always had better animation in the show than in the intro. Return of the Bunji episode of the Bionic Six arguably has some of the nicest animation for a episode ever. The also did the amazing "Call of the Primitives" Transformers episode...and the best looking of the entire G1 run.
Antarctic Vortex TMS went on to Batman: The Animated Series and Animaniacs as well, they were a very fine Asian studio.
I realized something: in Latin American Spanish version they fixed A LOT the voice of Snarf, he's very popular because of that. Great panel!
I still have my Snarf straw... caddy? Is that what it is? A straw caddy? Whatever. Snarf thing that hangs on my straw from Burger King. I still have it.
Sorry just wondering ,love the channel, great video by the way
+Me Ü no worries. These things just take time
I really enjoy Retroblasting, even if i don't know the shows you're talking about.
Is there any chance, that Retroblasting will do a video about Battlestar Galactica TOS, respectively the Galactica movies?
Mumm-Ra was absolutely badass!
27:21 Ha ha, the Greek in Melinda is coming out with that, "Slapping my partner" gesture.
Was Rattaro ever in the pyramid? I always thought he and vultureman were kind of freelance villains and Mum-Ra just accepted them as a package deal with the rest of the Mutants.
Was Hachiman the samurai from another dimension or was he from another time? I only saw the episode with him a handful of times I just remember from the movie that Mum-Ra did something to him and Lion-O was assured by Jaga that he was just returned to where he came from. One day I'll actually get to go to dragon con and not be on the edge of my seat waiting for the videos...
Wait a minute, the old man that was on board the spaceship (before he died from old age and his remains withered away), he could have altered the sleeping pod to insure that Lion-O was at least old enough to hold the sword, but possibly also to appear old enough lead the group!❤️🐈🐈⬛
I think Jaga programmed Lion-O's pod so he would age, because he knew Lion-O would need to be bigger and stronger in order to be ready to lead sooner.
Woaaah I can't believe that Melinda is wearing a t-shirt of Amon Amarth, my favourite black metal band, so freaking cool!!! is Michael a fan as well?
The animation for all 3 shows were made by Pacific Animation Corporation
I always thought that Panthro kind a resembled Louis Gossett Jr. Any idea if Panthros design was based of him?
Nice video
+retroblasting. Just before going to this presentation on UA-cam, I was watching a thing on the "Mandela Effect", which, before today, I've never heard of. Anyway, I happened to notice the audience's deadpan reaction to Melinda's mention of this weird so called split universe phenomenon. I find it very interesting.
Burger King with Pepsi? That just feels so surreal, they've been associated with Coke for my entire lifetime.
I felt the same way when Long John Silver's and a couple other places in my area switched from Coke to Pepsi.
Wow, that was FAST! Not much editing needed on this one?
+DataCab1e oh, just wanting to get it to those that couldn't make it.
I've thought about the aging thing. animals in the wild grow quickly to maturity and then kind of level off in later years in growth right? maybe they all did age the same, but the only noticeable one was Liono. Wiley Kit and Kat are based on Wild cats which are smaller in stature than the other big cats. so even though they are childlike in size they are actually fully mature. just my theory
The only fault I see in your theory(which I like) is that the bigger Thundercats treated the Wily Twins as children in many episodes, if my memory serves :)
Am I the only one that thought Thundercats were going to eventually ship Lion-O and Queen Willa?
"Like Jar and Jar!"
Wouldn't that make Snarf "Binks"?
More like Jiminy Cricket.
This show was the genesis of many furries.
So, what did we learn today?
Those 3 show are so similar it was a straight up crime and a cruel twist of fate that there was never an attempt to combine these 3 forces together. and buddy even though the Thundercats were impressive at times they're kinda silly to me too.
I always thought that the timeline put that it was Earth after two or through cataclysms. We're millions.of years post those cataclysms wgen.the show starts and Mumm-Ra is the last survivor pre-first cataclysm.. He's not a supernatural evil, he's a technologically enhanced human that has managed to figure out how to be a demi-lich. He still has the cloning tech etc.
And he's pissed off that after orchestrating the cataclysms and finally getting third earth the way he wanted it to be... here come these damn cats!
i love the thundercats. my faves were the lunataks. and the reason some think Mandela died early on is because his cell mate died and the claimed it was him. they brought in his wife who said it was not him. but they already declared him deceased. DNA test proved it not to be Mandela and we get to this point. so far nothing I have been shown about the Mandela effect I have not been able to disprove with little research.
lion-o's pod is explained, just not very well. in the deleted scenes whilst discussing the pods, snarf says "you'll never get me to believe those things work". the pods work, just not %100, the process is sort of hit or miss. this whole bit just wasn't explained well, then cut out, and finally half forgotten, then explained away as best as we could
Cool Amon Amarth shirt \m/ \m/
As a kid, I always thought Brigitte Nielsen resembles Cheetara!
awesome
I watched the Tcats series off and on back then but it wasn’t the big thing for me. Never had any of the figures. I agree the first episode was a bit awkward when they showed the main character “naked”. Even to this day I am surprised R@b got away with that.
I have read many posts about the Mandela effect that claim it isn't just a foible of flawed human memory, but is actually evidence of many people traversing parralel universes with separate but similar histories :)
Amon Amarth!
Watching this video I was thunderstruck with the answer to the great 80s mystery why does Lion-O age into an adult while Wilycat and Wilykit appear to stay children - the answer is simple they aren’t the same kind of Thundercats. When Retroblasting put up the big earth cat to Thundercat comparison to show how Lion-O is based on a lion and Panthro a panther etc I realized the Wilys are based on housecats. The answer was in the pilot the whole time, they all age the same amount but Lions start out the same size as housecats but then they rapidly turn into giant adults. The wilys didn’t get any bigger because that’s as big as they are going to get. The Thundercats are all members of different races of cats that evolved into humanoids and the Wilys are the housecat sized ones. That’s the correct answer. I’m sure of it.
The Mandela effect is like how people pronounce the bearenstein bears.
Melinda should look up Danny Sexbangs/Ninja Sex Party's cover of The Last Unicorn theme. Despite their name Danny loves the book and movie, its a sweet loving cover.
I love the Silver hawks but hate the Thundercats.
Oh sorry I understand
Amon Amarth! \m/
The Star Wars Bigs scene is not a true Mandela effect. In 1978 there was a book called the Star Wars story book. This book told the story of the movie along side pictures from the movie. Included was a picture of Luke and Bigs talking on Tatooine and there conversion is in the story part of the book. I think people saw that picture and read the book and over time it became part of the movie to them. Since there is a real source of these memories I do not believe they quality as being the Mandela Effect.
I had the opposite effect. I saw the pic in the book and could not remember that see in the movie. I only saw Star Wars once in 1977, and did not see it again until my parents bought the VHS tape in 1983, I remember watching waiting to see if that seen was in the movie. Which is was not.
I have the Mandela affect
If the show was that bad, why was a reboot done?
So that's why children's cartoons had no edge! I grew up in Latin America. We got a ton of Anime from the golden age of the 70's and 80's. Even the ones that were not violet were straight up tragic... I watched these shows along with the Thundercats and loved them all. Having said that, as an adult The Thundercats cartoon doesn't hold my attention... And the acting on the Spanish Dubbing is far superior. I just can't watch the English version....
tigra has a feminine name. he should have been called Tygore or something
Mister M or Tygris