The Calculated History of The Care Bears
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In the early 1980's, with a hit on their hands in Strawberry Shortcake, Kenner approached American Greetings about reimagining the Teddy Bear so they could take a bite out of the plush market.
What American Greetings came up with was not only a reimagining of the Teddy Bear but Care Bears were a full out assault on the marketplace in the United States with every kind of merchandise imaginable.
The Care Bears were everywhere and on everything.
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Insert obligatory reminder that the Care Bears Movie beat out the Black Cauldron at the domestic box office here and we’re good
I saw both - one was awesome, one made me run out of the theatre… damn those skeletons were scary…
The movie that was the début of UA-cam commenters!
I watched and enjoyed both. Still angry that Disney seems determined to throw The Black Cauldron into a memory hole.
Insert obligatory reminder that the Care Bear Movie was by the same studio and people who just two years early released Rock And Rule. Care Bears was Nelvana's first film that didn't feature a demonic entity or the devil himself. I recommend Rock And Rule, and their earlier film The Devil And Daniel Mouse, to retro animation fans.
Probably not that different from Minions beating Lightyear
"How do we reinvent the Teddy Bear boss?" 'Shave it's torso and put a full chest tattoo on that bad boy like he was a sailor or in the yakuza.'
Grumpy seems to have been the only bear to have kept a core character role in all reboots. It is likely because he is the only one with any personality.
A. C. T.- the Grinch of Saturday Morning Cartoons.
I dropped Friend Bear off Noccalulu Falls in Gadsden, Alabama, and my poor grandmother somehow retreived him from the bottom. Still don't know how she did it.
Fun fact: Noccalulu was a legendary Cherokee woman who made the same trip over the falls instead of marrying a man she didn't love.
This train is taking jobs out of Cleveland
A whole lotta Christmas puppies enjoyed tearing those bears apart.
Is that Chuck The Plant from Maniac Mansion on your shelf?
my fav care bears were sleepy and grimpy guess I was not a happy kid.😀
I'm a 51 year old man- and I'm not ashamed to say the first time I ever saw a film *by myself* in the theater was 1985's _The Care Bears Movie..._
@@brianknapp6215 So, you're now as old as Nicholas when he made that grin while saying with his voice, "The Care Bears," and that grin says, "I touched half of these children, and I'm okay with that."
honestly, that's fantastic! I love that for you. :-)
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 No reason to make it that creepy...
@@brianknapp6215 Blame the Nostalgia Critic!
I’m ashamed FOR you. . .
I loved The Care Bears Movie so much as a young kid that my mom has a picture of the cake from my 5th birthday, which said “Happy Birthday, Nicholas”, which was the name of the main human character from TCBM. My name is not Nicholas, but apparently that’s what I asked for.
Its lore accurate that way
Wait... wait wait- so humans all look alike to CareBears? Those racists f**ks!
@@mjrleaguesweetie I can never unsee that grin when he says, "The Care Bears." Ugh!
Grumpy will always be my bear.
I still have mine from when I was a kid on my shelf. He scowls at me every day.
@@HarryBuddhaPalm we could never buy them fast enough. My mother went to Joanne fabrics and bought their early patterns and made me my own Grumpy. He is here at home with me still. Love you mom.
And mine.
Same
He's my favorite, too.
Critics always complain about toyetic brands in the 1980s, but I think it was the pinacle of toys and cartoons. I loved the multi-faceted approach that gave us comics, toys, cartoons and more, of the characters we loved.
A moral lesson is all well and good, but kids also need something to be passionate and excited about. It's things like the Transformers cartoon and the G.I.Joe box art that inspired me to go to art school, then study animation!
When the movie came out (I would have been in first grade or thereabouts), Pizza Hut did the obligatory themed kids' placemats that had games and activities. One of the activities was to draw your own Care Bear. I drew Grim Reaper Bear. My mom was so proud.
Those placemats are probably worth quite a bit nowadays. First comes merchandising, then comes collectibles.
That's rad
I volunteered to provide medical coverage for a Roller Derby tournament recently and one of the players I met works in an ICU as a nurse. Her Derby Name is "Intensive Care Bear", or "Care Bear" for short. I work in a medical clinic and one of my co-workers is named Claire. Everyone calls her "Claire Bear".
Safe to say Care Bears are a part of the social zeitgeist.
Definitely. My friend's nickname in high school was Care Bare (as in naked).
Now, THAT is a name one definitely cares about. 😂 I am definitely laughing my butt off as an emergency nurse! 🧸😂
@@kgrfirdjy Yeah, it was pretty cool! I got to pick my own derby name so since I'm an Army Combat Medic, I went with "Croaker".
@@kgrfirdjy 😝I even got to pick out my own derby name so since I'm an Army Combat Medic, I went with "Croaker".
I think it's hilarious that every toy I grew up with [Care Bears, My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake] were originally from my mom's childhood. It's almost like the 80s never did leave. Speaking of the 1980s, I hope Toy Galaxy will cover The California Raisins one day.
'90s fandom is gaining in strength of course, but considering how awful the 2000s were, I don't think it's too surprising how you don't hear too much about 2000s nostalgia even though that was 20 years ago now (and in the 2040s we probably won't be hearing too much about 2020s nostalgia). Of course, I've heard accounts of people who were actually adults or teens in the '80s saying "who in their right mind WANTS to remember the decade of 'greed is good', the AIDS epidemic, and nuclear near misses?" when '80s nostalgia started coming on the scene.
@@andyjay729 There were plenty of terrible things happening in the 1980s and the amazing pop culture we had was partially an escape from that. But if you were already an adult, you probably weren't that aware of toys, cartoons, many movies, etc... My parents - born in 1938 and 1942 respectively - have zero memories of the cartoons I watched or the movie posters that were plastered all over the place and only very few memories of the movies I dragged them to see.
@@CoraBuhlert Speaking of which, I've often thought that even before the "Greatest Generation" started (occasionally) mentally fading out and dying, there was an understandable reason why you don't hear much about " '30s and '40s kids". Then again, so much of American pop culture debuted and/or had its "finest hour" during the Depression and WW2, e.g. Mickey Mouse and Disney's first generation of movies, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, the Three Stooges, jazz (which paved the way to rock 'n roll), Frank Sinatra, etc. And some would say 1939 was Hollywood's best year ever, or at least the best of the studio system/Hayes Office years. And those characters, performers, music pieces, and movies are still beloved almost a century later. Maybe angsty times tend to generate great art.
I'm not trying to make another old-fogey "the past was better!" rant; just saying it is remarkable how much staying power those franchises produced around the time that your parents were born (and which my grandma, born 1929, grew up watching; I guess you could call her either a '30s or '40s kid). I'm not quite sure how much of a fandom Care Bears will have 80 years from now, but Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ET, and Back to the Future certainly will be fondly remembered by then.
Popples!
“The Land Without Feelings”…So THAT’S what that one “Rugrats” episode was parodying.
(In the episode, Tommy and Chuckie are taken to the movies, where the film the adults intend for them to see is “The Dummy Bears in: The Land Without Smiles”. Naturally, Tommy wants to see the Reptar movie after catching a trailer on TV.)
The Squishy Bears from Eek! The Cat are the superior Care Bears parody, especially Pierre the French-Canadian Squishy Bear.
What about Fluffy and Uranus from “Duckman”?
Land without BRAINS is more like it!
Grumpy Bear is my spirit animal.
I still have mine from when I was a kid.
Mine toi
I used to say Eeyore for my spirit animal, but Grumpy Bear might be a major contender.
He's not my spirit animal, but he is my favorite.
His mere existence likely prevented thousands of would_be self_un-alive-ing attempts over the last 30 years.
. Knowing (at a subconscious level) that it is not "a sin" to be a not_happy_person, is extremely important to children.
-> Otherwise: They will grow believing there is something intrinsically "wrong" with themselves.
It always comes back to the death of Optimus. 😢 If I were to design a care bear it would be dark gray with no articulation like Optimus’ corpse. Its name: “Trauma Heart”.
LMFAO! The new version of the "I warned you" clip with the "Care Bear Stare" is f*ckin' hilarious. My favorite of your cutaway gags!
Chef's kiss 💋
Indeed. Love the Death Wish 4 clip. Doing it with Care Bears is gold.
THIS
Care Bears were legit. Both the movies and Nelvana series had surprisingly good writing. They were mostly tame for the younger viewers but just enough tension and heroism for older kids.❤
The second movie was a retcon. Though I like the songs from it, it disturbed the canon.
You shoulda mentioned how the Nelvana episodes of Care Bears were a little saucier than the DIC ones. Like, when the baby Care Bears sing, it pans over to the anti-Care Bear Beastly, tapping a baseball bat in his palm. Or those episodes where the Care Bears were on Star Trek (complete with The Next Generation offering a riposte in an episode where they encounter the planet Nelvana, a barren and empty world without meaningful resources).
Ahh Care Bears. The first emojis?
That is wild. Transformers the Movie now with Care Bears.
Tenderheart zapping Prime with Heart stare.
Tenderheart: "Fall. Fall!"
Tenderheart: "I would have waited an eternity for this. It's over Prime!"
Later:
Grumpy: How it pains me to do this!
Tenderheart: Wait, i'm still living!
Grumpy: Wanna bet?
Tenderheart: Gruuuuumppyyyyy!
@@The_Str4nger But what would Unicron transform Grumpy into?
@@FunkyM217 into nothing. He got killed ne a reformed Tenderheart
Surprised it didn't happen. We've had a lot of crossovers with Transformers. (Latest one is Knight Rider.)
Also, The Care Bears Movie saved Nelvana from bankruptcy after the failure of Rock & Rule, and outperformed Disney's own The Black Cauldron.
I remember a few of the pillow dolls.
Henry Rollins said in the eighties you could hug your Care Bear while being evicted from your home.
Good Luck Bear was my favorite. Cute and cuddly battle beasts?? Damn it, I'm in!
Lets get this battle beasts plush idea rollin! Perfect for the couch in the mancave.
Throw in a couple of gi joe, cobra, autobot, decepticon logos while we are at it.
Care Bears, Stare! Edit: HE SAID THE THING!!!! I had the raccoon
CARE COUSINS...CALL!!!
When anthropomorphic animals shoot lasers from the tattoos on their bellies ... It would be METAL if it weren't so plush.
@@spoonimefan they'll reboot it to where they're unintentionally blasting people with lethal amounts of radiation. A Cronenburgian body horror.
The raccoon was the best.
ONLY $9.99! PESTER, SCREAM, AND YELL AT YOUR PARENTS UNTIL THEY FINALLY BREAK DOWN AND BUY YOU ONE!
I was a big Care Bears fan back in my preschool days. I believe I had either Cheer Bear or Funshine Bear. And I have a Good Luck Bear from one of the revivals around here that I got as a gift. You know, the funny thing about the American Greetings/TCFC approach of market the character first, come up with the rest later is that it goes back a lot earlier on another continent. It's roughly the same approach Sanrio came up with a decade earlier in Japan when coming up with characters like Hello Kitty.
Remember The Get Along Gang another American Greetings property?
@@huntercoleman460ohhhhh yeah
@@TitularHeroine prefer them over Care Bears like me?
The movie that came out in the 80s before the animated series was syndicated on TV was great
I loved being a kid in the 80s, materialistic as it was.
I also loved a lot of villains (cobra, mum-ra, and shredder come to mind) had their own sub licensing and branding
The materialism was what made it great.
@@Belgand Agreed
Was Care Bears 2 the one with kid who was possessed by evil and in the climax he killed the girl character in the movie but then they brought her back to live because he broke the possession by realizing he cared?
I remember that whole plot scared me as a kid.
If you’re thinking of the one where the kids were at a summer camp that was the 2nd movie. Called Care Bears II A New Generation. The devil was called Darkheart and he disguised himself as a boy with red hair. I’ve never watched the other Care Bears movie so I can’t tell you what it was about. The main human characters names were John, Dawn, and Kristy. I hope that information helps you figure out which movie scared you as a kid. 😉
I know this wasn’t how it was intended but the idea that modern Care Bears would include emotions like “Would” is amazing.
WTF?? "Would" Isn't an emotion, it's a conditional statement!
"Hey Tenderheart, why does Would Bear always say he busy in the morning? He just woke up, what could he have to do?"
He was referencing 'Battle Beasts'. Which were little armored animal figures with 'rub signs' that when they were activated showed one of three symbols - fire, wood, and water. They were then used in a 'rock-paper-scissors' like system to determined victors and losers. He said he'd hoped for a cross over between Battle Beasts and Care Bears, making Battle Beast plushies. Apparently, it was an inside joke.
I had the Lucky Care Bear ( the one with the 4 leaf clover on its belly) when I was little. 😎👍
I was a huge fan of Care Bears movie 2, wherein the message was DONT SELL YOUR SOUL TO BECOME CAMP CHAMP! As a kid who never went to summer camp, was there some sort of rash of 80s kids selling their souls we had to have a movie about it?
Satanic panic in the 80s. The CEO of Proctor and Gamble made a whole speech about worshipping the devil. At least that was the gist of the poorly photocopied newsletters. Dungeons and dragons players sold their souls to summon devil's.
There's an episode of the Simpsons that runs with Bart selling his soul so it's definitely in the cultural zeitgeist.
My theory is that its society processing and dealing with the popularity of the exorcist films. series.
@@johnlee7164 makes sense, I learned about the 80s issue with that (as opposed to all the others) much later. It never affected my life
"...emotions like wood, and fire." LMAO! Thanks, Dan, for that. Now I'm wearing my mouthful of soda.
Ah yes, the relatable emotions, wood and fire
I watched the first movie and the cartoon and had several PVC mini-figures, which were my primary thing at the time, because they were cheap enough and small enough to allow you to get a big selection of characters, plus all my PVC minis could play with each other across franchises.
That said, while I liked the Care Bears all right, I was aging out of the pastel coloured cuddliness by that time and was more into He-Man, She-Ra, MASK and Jem at the time.
I was more of a Strawberry Shortcake person, because she came out exactly when I was at the right age for her. I remember being sent to stay with my grandparents over New Year 1981/82, because my parents were on a cruise. Grandma took me shopping and after endless clothes shopping, we went to Wichlein's toy store (still around, but more focussed on educational stuff these days) and they had just gotten Strawberry Shortcake mini-figures in stock. And Grandma brought me the entire line of ten or twelve figures, which must have cost her a lot of money. So thank you, Grandma, whereever you are now.
Wow, that's really cool, and great of her to do!
@@TitularHeroine That's one of my happiest memories involving Grandma and I'm sorry that I never told her later on how much it meant to me that she got me all of those Strawberry Shortcake toys. Though I guess Grandma and Grandpa knew, because I spent much of that stay with them sitting on their kitchen floor, playing with my new Strawberry Shortcake toys with Grandpa's footstool doubling as a castle.
My Grandma actually worked as a dollmaker for a few years after WWII, so I guess she just understood how important toys can be.
@@CoraBuhlert Yeah, wow, I certainly sympathize with missing an opportunity to tell a loved one something important. But it sounds like she did know. I'm sure she did.
And the fact that she was a dollmaker for a time makes this story even better!
I really enjoyed your description of the same-sized figurines ....well, inhabiting the same world, basically. I do somewhat the same thing now as an adult collector; as a creative type (I am so sorry if that sounds pretentious) those "what if's" spark the imagination. I don't believe it's required of us to lose our sense of wonder and imagination as we grow up. I'm grateful that my ex (and still best friend) and our now-adult son share that in common, and that hopefully it was we two that gave him that.
Thank you -- your story brought me a lot of joy.
I love how you are unsure if youre grandma went to heaven or hell! 😇😈
J/K of course. You were blessed to have a grandma in your life. I never knew mine.
@@drewlovelyhell4892 She was my grandpa's second wife, but since I never knew my biological grandma, she was just grandma for me.
In an odd bit of consistency, Good Luck Bear, all green and with Irish implications, was the one I wanted as a little kid in the 80s… Green is still my favorite color. And I’ve been to Ireland repeatedly since becoming an adult.
I worked on the more recent Unlock the Magic animated series while I was staying in Canada, so I can't hate. They paid my salary. The Care Bears marketing and licensing is insane though. I don't have my childhood Cheer Bear anymore but the merch is still everywhere, even all these years later.
[ Please, do not reply if it collides with your N.D.A. ]: I would like to know:
. The date of your last day of work (in this project).
. If you worked in any "season finale" episode.
. If you have personally read the "Bible of the Show".
Thanks.
@@adolfodef The studio was working on multiple shows at the time, and I and a few others were moved to a different show about half way through the season so I didn't work on the finale. I didn't read the show bible. I think we had access to it, there were some preproduction things we could look at that weren't animation specific, but it wasn't need-to-know info that was given to us in the way they gave us model sheets and notes and such. I have read some of the scripts though, like if a word of dialogue is hard to hear or if the animatic shows the wrong bear speaking then referring to the script could help.
I for one would love a Care Bear/Sunbowverse crossover.
Tenderheart: "No weapon forged by man can defeat the power of caring!"
Megatron: "Allow me to introduce you to my fusion cannon, you pastel plushy pushover!"
Okay, which Bear would pair up with which Autobot? I mean, Grumpy would definitely hang with Gears, but who else?
@@ladysilverwynde I'm not familiar enough with Care Bears to speculate, unfortunately... :(
OMG I love the CBs! Cannot wait to watch this! 😊❤😊❤😊❤😊❤
Grumpy bear will always be the most popular one mainly due to the fact that he's the most relatable to adults.
My favorite was always Tenderheart. My favorite Cousin was Brightheart Racoon. I had the first movie and a few cartoon episodes (including the original special) on VHS. My favorite Care Bear movie was Adventures in Wonderland.
"Emotions like wood and fire." 🤣
FIRE Bear, as voiced by Beavis.
Fire beat wood!
Land Without Feelings is worth it *entirely* for Professor Coldheart's villain song about himself.
Kids who saw that film did not know that they were seeing the future, minus the happy ending, of course, because happy endings don't happen in the real world.
I had bedtime bear. Carebears where HUGE.
Ditto. Slept with me every night, right next to my pound puppy.
@@juanmiguel2636 I had a pound puppy also. Those things where also big at the time. Maybe that needs to be another video.
I actually liked the old movies. Those had some dark themes
We're going to talk about the Care Bears movie and NOT talk about one of the most terrifying 80s cartoon movie antagonists ever? I mean, the death of Optimus Prime was heavy, but the evil book that possesses the kid was WAY more intense than 8 year old me was expecting from the frelling Care Bears movie! As such, it still remains a favorite of mine!
I don't need an evil book to make me a jerk. Or a UA-cam commenter, but I repeat myself.
Wish Bear is my favorite Care Bear. I didn't have a plush toy as a kid, but I bought some once they came back in 2002. I love the line from the executive about setting up the licensing like a D-Day invasion. Caring is serious business!
Grim Reaper Bear would be the shit
Me and my siblings had care bears in wonderland taped on VHS... we always thought it was a beloved classic kids movie... until last year when we showed my son and looked it up on Wikipedia and discovered it kinda killed the franchise... well we loved it as kids haha.
I still have my Good Luck bear and my Braveheart Lion from childhood. I picked up several others from yard sales and flea markets when I was in Highschool and College. They are all on display in my art studio with so many other 80's/90's toys that made my childhood wonderful.
I like The Care Bears I watch it a lot when I was a kid and they are still great today. 😀👍🐻
I can only remember the Robot Chicken sketch: "Bring out the Gimp!"
We (i say we, my older brother and i shared a lot of toys as kids) had a couple of the figures but that's it. Don't even recall who. I would love to see a history of the influence of greeting card companies on the pop culture landscape, i feel like that is something that has happened almost secretly amongst hundreds of toylines, cartoons, video games, comic strips, etc.
Cheer Bear is awesome.
Swift Heart is cute and the fastest.
Bright Heart Raccoon is the smartest even cool.
Grumpy Bear is the grumpiest and coolest.
Care Bears will always be the classic better than the so called Unlock the Magic PERIOD!
I like how the commissions constantly take things away from kids without even asking their opinions
Are you really lamenting the notion that 8-year-olds aren't asked what's best for them?
In the Grumpy Bear club since '83. Favorite moment might be in the movie:
Grumpy Bear: How come I'm always the one fixing things around here?
Share Bear: Because you never complain, Grumpy Bear.
😆😆😆
My sister and I grew up with The Care Bears. I remember there used to be a local fabric shop, and Mom had bought patterns, with The Care Bears on them, and made us our own Care Bear toys. No store-bought bears for us! I remember the TV series and specials, but I've only seen the first movie. Seeing this video sure brought back a lot of nostalgia. Thanks!
When I was 4 or 5 years old I fell over in the back yard and went face first into the concrete ground! My nose burst open and I had to be rushed to hospital. I had seven stitches and was awake the entire time I was being stitched up! Afterwards my Mam got me Braveheart Lion. I loved that lion and still have him today.
Care Bears were great but Fraggle Rock was the pinnacle.
Secret Galaxy is the only youtube channel of which I am a member. It's such a small amount of money for such a great benefit - not only getting an extra video each month but also helping the channel.
I did have a care bear growing up in the '80s! I had Grumpy Bear. I remember watching the show, and seeing the movies on tv but I never did get to see any of them in theaters.
I never watched the show or movies (was before my time) but I have become aware of it through osmosis... so what left the biggest impression on me was that there was SO much planning going on. These people were NOT playing around when it came to mascot design, this was a war performed with surgical precision and meticulous planning. I admit it, American Greetings, You have impressed me.
Now I have to check who came first, Care Bears or My Little Pony.
I always thought Care Bears were a product of the archetyped characters fad all over the 80's. I was under the impression it was just another way to capitalize on the Smurfs popularity...
I know this was a capitalistic cash grab but I did love these guys as a kid.
There's no better way to communicate feelings to emotionally neglected dependents than cheaply made merchandise.
Care Bears on 'The Hub'? I had to roll that back for context. lol
Always love an unnecessary Battle Beasts reference.
We had a local religious channel that had a show where a guy was explaining the dangers of various toy lines. For example, Smurfs were little dead homosexuals (blue, black lips, no women - Smurfette was artificially created after all). The Care Bears, they declared, were a cult, encouraging children to share their emotions and concerns with the bears. I think the clip is somewhere on UA-cam. It's amazing. Lol.
"little dead homosexuals" 😂😂 geez
I need to see that video drag all my childhood characters hard. It sounds really wild
So the Transformers movie had been being worked on as a treatment through the second half of 1984 and was being worked on as the Care Bears movie was coming out are you saying the success in March of 85 is what made hasbro commit to a full theatrical animated movie? As prior to the Care Bears release it had only existed in Script form.
Care Bears, I do miss the 80s originals. The new designs just don't work for me. Least I do have the first two movies. . . and some of the episodes do pop up if you look for it. For me, the music in "the New Generation" was some of the best. I still remember the one episode where a young girl was treated as she was just bad luck. Good Luck Bear gives her a small chest, telling her to not open it. She did a few things around school, like being the very tip of a human pyramid and a few other things where people thought the worst was going to happen, but didn't. At the end of the day, Good Luck Bear allowed her to open the chest, inside was a photo of herself.
Please do videos on pogs, Bop It, & the Pokemon & Yugioh TCGs
A Death Wish IV clip in a video about the Care Bears. I can't even begin to explain how much I appreciated that.
I liked Good Luck Bear when I was 3 because he was green.
Also, didn't know I was on the spectrum then... lmao
I'm always more amused by how DARK OG Care Bears could get, with No Heart, Dark Heart, the Spirit in the Book etc.., but they got bumbling sidekicks like Shrieky and Beastly so they wouldn't get too scary. So much 80s animation was taking cues from The Black Cauldron.
I watched actual R rated horror movies as a kid but that damn green face in the book from the Care Bears movie scared me more than any horror villain ever did.
lol! Brings me Back!
Grumpy Bear is my boy for life.
I had the first two Care Bears movie recorded on a vhs tape, and I much preferred the second movie. Probably in part because that kid who got possessed by that book near the end of the first movie scared the fuck out of me when I was little. I never knew there was a third movie. Funny thing about the second movie is that it completely ignores the first one.
I still have my Care Bears panini sticker book that I'm fairly sure was either purchased or given away at the Care Bears movie at my local theater.
And I feel old! 😊 Speaking as an 80s kid, and someone who has since grown up in capitalist America, I've never totally understood this drive to stop advertising. What, today, ISN'T geared toward making ira provider money? It's not great that money makes the world go round, but who's going to make a good, fun, high-quality product without aiming to profit from that idea, and the work done around it? Oh well, I still have fond enough memories of the time, having been a kid myself then, so I don't have to be labored by the villainy that was every industry, every company, and product, wanting their share of my money. Care Bears, MLP, and the like weren't my jam, but I totally get why they were so popular, even as No-Heart, and his evil sidekick Corporate-Greed Parrot, did everything they could to hoover up every penny they could, and I happily helped by asking for my share of GI Joes, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, and numerous other product lines many people here might only know ever existed because this channel already covered it in an episode, or because the intro theme was particularly catchy. 😊
I grew up in the 90s in Soviet canada and watched Care Bears before school. I enjoyed it, but No Heart creeped me out when I was like 5. Remember his Cloud Of Uncaring that mindwiped the bear into a drooling vegetable? Its like it sucked out his soul. Later I watched Sailor Moon and going ack to Care Bears made me recognize the voices. With everything getting a reboot and often going darker/grittier or making the bad guy sympathetic, I wrote this intentionally bad outline on what if they got Care Bears like how the Comics remade Megatron a Hero.
Coming soon: revisionist take on a classic: Care Bears Redone! In here, No Heart is the Good guy who's oppressed by dealing with emotions he don't want and tries to save people from dangerous emotions that cause them harm, but the EVIL Care Bears don't want people to be allowed to Choose what emotions they can feel, and FORCE them to SUFFER through them! No Heart's past is explored where he was in love with his sister Ice Heart, who was a Yuki Onna and she died when she couldn't handle her emotions after getting pregnant and flew into the sun after giving birth to Shreeky, who is both No Hearts Niece and Daughter. So now they try to beat the EVIL Care Bears to FREE people from the CAGE of Emotions and feelings, Comming soon to Netflix, as everything bad is good now!
I was more of a Strawberry Shortcake and Holly Hobby girl, later Cabbage Patch doll. I never really got into Care Bears. About 20 years ago a cousin of mine gave my then 5 year old daughter a huge Cheer bear (the rainbow). She still has it. Care Bear is now passing on in the generations and is a classic.
I watched a bunch of Care Bear movies and episodes as a kid in the 90's but I never had a desire to own any actual merchandise.
Edit: Yep, they reran Care Bears on the Disney channel proving Disney had no problem with the brand after losing to the first film back in the 80's.
Despite everything I think a Jem movie could have worked. They had next-level storytelling even back then. If there is any room in your galaxy, can we see a deep dive into Jem?
How would the movie have refreshed the toy/doll line though? Kill the Holograms and replace them with…holograms?
Care Bear Stare was so OP.
Probably the only thing more powerful was the deregulation of children's programming.
i still have a grumpy bear, i dont sleep with him. my cat gets jealous
Gotta say, as much as I enjoyed this one and am still subscribed... every time I see one of your videos pop up, I immediately think of the travesty that was your garbage Thundercats hot take, and that makes it harder to click through. Really hoping you don't go full Simple Jack like that again.
Boy the Care Bears In The Land of No Feeling was creepy AF! The little boy got transformed into a slug like monster after drinking some blue beer. Seriously that was dark for a kids cartoon.
Your entire business is based on Capitalising off adult's nostalgia for their childhood toys... and you want me to take you seriously on some kind of half baked moralizing trip about "Capitalism". C'mon guys.
Lucky Bear has always been my favorite.
However, I recently saw Basic Fun Bear being sold in the children's aisle of a pharmacy, and I think that Basic Fun bear now might be my seconf most famous bear.
Awesome t-shirt Dan!
The Care Bears are one of the truly great elements of 80s culture, love it!
I am one of the few who feels that Care Bears Movie 2: A New Generation {Camp Champ} is better than the original probably because I had the tie in origin comic book and started watching Care Bears Family lol
Hot take, but I liked Care Bears II better than the first one. The songs were better, Hadley Kay and Cree Summer did amazing voice work, and the expansion of the lore seemed organic to me.
I love the care bears and don't think I would have made it emotionally through some of my early childhood very well without having the care bears.
I do remember the stage show and remember going to see it and it was one of the only times my dad came on a mothers group trip to the theatre. Him and one other dad, probably the only 2 dads in a theatre of over a 1000 little kids, had the great idea to start cheering Professor Coldheart, how they made it out alive I don't know. (He did redeem himself by getting me and my sister a photo with bedtime bear)
But i still love the care bears and have several from the 80s bears and cousins (Not my originals, mine got loved to death and had to go back to care-a-lot according to my mam) and my friend got me several of the builder bear ones.
"If you just Love allot, Share allot, help allot, care allot, give allot right to the end." 😂😂😂
Man, I had that VHS of the Care Bears battle the freeze machine and i WORE THAT VHS OUT 😂. I had Bedtime bear as well. I embraced the care bears when I was in preschool and kindergarten even first grade lol. I was born in '85 and what i remembered, Care Bears was for both Boys and Girls. Man Goodtimes.
Pretty much 1/3 of all toys in the 80's came from designers in Ohio
You're welcome world
Was kinda a fan...my sis had a couple of the bears. I did like thr movie
The first movie I remember seeing in the theatre was The Care Bears, I would have been 2 or 3. 5 kids in my family, I think 1 of my sisters had a Care Bear doll. My two brothers and I had a bunch of Transformers toys, but we didn't get to see the movie in the theatre, we had to wait to see it on video at someone else's house.
They had 2 different French names: Bisounours in France and Calinours in Québec.