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De-Compose turning people with a touch was mind blowing as a little kid. Very disturbing. A neighbor kid owned Tendril and De-Compose's huge oversized action figures, they were so cool!
@@markcastellanet9672 I loved the episodes that included D'Composes' undead underworld along with those creepy ass skeletal giant bats! Chris Latta was one hell of a voice actor btw.
"you know what kids love? Cthulhu Mythos!!" Decompose is on the list of "cartoons that scarred me" along with "Shipwreck being dragged down a hallway by grey goo that used to be his friends" and "Optimus Prime dying".
For me, it was "The Creeping Horrak" from He-Man! Just the concept of them having a super aggressive black, gooey moss that took over your house and tried to swallow and smother you was so scary to me
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The release of Decompose in the first episode was severely disturbing, even by today's standards. It was freaky, but AWESOME! Inhumanoids and Exo-Squad need reboots SO BADLY! Such great stories.
I remember bringing D'Compose to my third-grade show and tell. I'll never forget the shocked reaction from the teacher and some of my classmates, including cries of "Gross!" A little too metal for mainstream tastes, I guess.
So glad I grew up in the 80s. We had the best toys and shows. This show was awesome. Essentially Cthulhu for kids. Too bad it didn’t stick around but glad that they later made shows of other adult brands I loved like Rambo and Robocop
INHUMANOIDS felt like a Bert I. Gordon cartoon. Heros in Iron Man suits fighting giant monsters. The long narrative storyline was great. Sandra Shore was very nice.
This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. It was almost like a cartoon for adults with the drama and storylines (IIRC). I loved the toyline even more. Unfortunately I didnt take very good care of my toys when I was a kid and I beat them up pretty bad. Inhumanoids are fetching big money. Much like most of the toys from my youth. I was a child of the 80s.
The show was really good. Still holds up. We did get a great deal of cool toy based programming and movies as 80s kids. You probably were rough on them like many kids, but the Inhumanoids were notoriously bad for breaking and having issues. Problems with plastics getting brittle and some of them getting weird residues. Much of the 1980s plastic didn't hold up great, but Inhumanoids is almost as bad as Dino Riders and Silverhawks for having extensive damage that was the fault of the materials. That is one of the reasons they fetch so much on the secondary market.
Actually, The Inhumanoids did make an appearance on Jem. In one episode, Decompose is seen raging on TV. I'm not sure if they meant him to be a cartoon character in the Jem universe, or if Decompose was in the midst of detroying a city while an oblivious Jem and the Holograms performed vapid pop songs.
Or it could have just been sloppy editing. 😂 Sunbow was stretched pretty thin and their outsourced studios were not always meticulous about quality control.
I _absolutely loved this show._ I watched as many episodes as I was able to find, and got as many of the figures as I could find. I still have Redlen the Redwood on my windowsill so the light pump catches the sun. Shows like _Inhumanoids_ and _Spiral Zone_ were two of my absolute favorites as a kid, and actually helped save my sanity and make me feel like _I wasn't alone_ out there. Shows like these genuinely made me feel like there were actually _other kids out there like me_ and I wasn't all alone... there were other kids somewhere out there with similar interests, or they wouldn't be making something like this, other kids who were interested in something darker and with more of an edge than just more goofy garbage like _Filmation's Ghostbusters._ Just a few years later I would discover Lovecraft and Arthur Machen and William Hope Hodgson and other Horror writers, and things like the _Call of Cthulhu_ Role-Playing Game, and it finally clicked that I _wasn't_ just a lone freakish weirdo the way I'd always felt while I was constantly being mocked and beaten up in school... I finally realized that I was actually part of a _whole community of freakish weirdos,_ and we _definitely weren't alone!_ 😁 It certainly didn't stop the mockery or the beatings, but it did give me some comfort in knowing that I wasn't all alone.
I loved Inhumanoids as a kid. I had a bunch of the toys too, but Decompose was the best toy ever! Underneath his ribcage was this soft red plastic that felt like literal guts. There's been nothing like Inhumanoids ever since. It was a legit horror show for kids that refused to pull its punches.
I remember seeing the Decompose toy at a Toys-R-Us when I was very little. Some other kid had opened the package it was in and left it standing like it had broken itself out. That sight scared the crap out of me.
Not only did I never never know this was a thing as a kid, I dont even remember the toys on the shelves .... but also I still have never watched it even after learning about this a decade ago so I think i'm gonna spend the next few days and watch both this and Jayce and the wheeled warriors and see what I missed as a kid.
I always compare Inhumanoids to the Centurions as both shows featured a group of scientists that wore body armor exo suits to fight evildoers, AWESOME!!
My childhood was the 80s and I'm so happy it was I still collect transformers and he man but I had these as a toy and had a blast! Such a great time to be a kid!! I wish they bring these back again!
Loved this cartoon, the story was mindblowing for me as a kid. The mixture of creatures and alliances to fight against a greater evil, the role of greedy and power hungry humans helping that same evil, it was just too good to last. I still love that the series has a closure wich is more than all other cartoon series ever had!
I was absolutely a member of the target demographic for The Inhumanoids. I remember this series quite fondly. It is one of my favorites. Every time I read a GI Joe or Transformers comic I also like to imagine that The Inhumanoids are still out there somewhere lurking just below the surface ready to rise again some day.
Inhumanoids is a series that I missed out on in my childhood but discovered and loved as an adult; I have a lot of respect for how shocking this show was (made even more powerful by the excellent animation) and how much it still holds up. The three main monsters are such great characters and play off each other so well that I would have been fine if they had been the protagonists of the show instead of the humans!
My only experience with Inhumanoids was a three episode cartoon VHS video. The episodes were G.I. Joe/Action Force series 1 episode 25 Where the Reptiles Roam. The Inhumanoids episode cannot remember been over 35 years seen I have seen it. The Transformers episode series 2 episode 46 Starscreams Brigade. All cool episodes filled with action and adventure. So after watching this video I will be taking Dan's advice and find those episodes of Inhumanoids.
I loved the Inhumanoids as a 5 year old child and I STILL have my Tendril toy on an old toy shelf at my dad's house. I am amazed I was able to hang onto it.
Loved the Inhumanoids! I had a lot of the toys and hated that it got cancelled. The first pitch looked super interesting with D. Compose as a hero? I watched the show again not too long ago and I was still impressed by the story and the how dark it got. Still love it and it fits in with shows like Spiral Zone too that had a bit more going on with it than normal
I cannot stress how much I loved the Inhumanoids as a kid. The toys were rarely seen in the UK but I rented the VHS of the 'movie' relentlessly from the local rental shop in my home town....and bought it when the place shut down! I still have it!
Oh yeah, I remember watching this as a kid. The toys were much bigger than the Toys R Us catalog would have you believe. The show was indeed disturbing and scary at times, but I always looked forward to watching it even though I can’t really remember anything specific about the plot. 😅
I was in that target demographic, and one of those who were traumatized by Decompose mutating people. Man even the logo scared the heck out of me! I was really afraid that a monster hand would break through cracks in the pavement and grab me.
Oh, I haven't forgotten -- I own the DVD set. This has got to be the most horrific cartoon ever sold to kids, and it's freakin' cool. It was nifty to see that thanks to scuzzy reporter Hector Ramirez, this cartoon exists in the same universe as G.I. Joe, Transformers, and Jem.
I mean Transformers proved that. Cobra Commander appearing in season 3. Plus the character of Merissa Faireborn being canonically the daughter of Flint and Lady Jaye from GIJoe.
I actually just rewatched this series recently, and it's surprisingly way more interesting and dark for a kid's show than I remember. I quite liked it and loved the monster designs from it.
I never saw the show, but I scored a Redsun figure from a school raffle. I was mesmerized by the eyes. First time i had ever seen (what would be known as light piping) in a toy. The bright, emerald green was like looking into another world to my 7 year old eyes.
Just went to start watching the show after enjoying This video and there Really is alot of Screams, Yells and Battle Cries in just the first episode alone, looking forward to the rest of it. 😄👍
This show freaked me out as a kid. I already had an irrational fear of giant monsters, and add in one of them that can turn you into a monster really hit me right in the fear.
Very well done! I loved the Inhumanoids show and if there ever was a series that needed a new modern toy re-release it would be Inhumanoids. With all the advances in toy making, a new Inhumanoids "classics" line would be epic. Thanks again.
Sometimes while watching these videos they get to the end and I'm instantly overcome with the feeling of "what? It's already over?" Thankfully at this point there's getting to be enough episodes that I can't remember what is in all of them so I can always just look for an older one I haven't watched enough to remember completely. 😄👍
I was an enthusiastic fan of the show, toys, and the Marvel/Star comics. My mother worked at Sears and I remember taking every opportunity to go to the toy aisle to check out the big Inhumanoid triumvirate as it topped my holiday wish list. They also retailed for about $15 each. As a kid I thought that was a pricey ask for the list but the toy cancellation led to very steep discounts (maybe down to $10). I got the majority of the line under the tree that year sans Liquidator ( the only one every other kid seemed to have). Years later, I found out that with her employee discount and the subsequent holiday dump into the Sears bargain bin they picked up the toys and vehicles for $5 each or less- Inhumanoids was the last toy franchise of my childhood as that I played with en masse. By the end of the school year that same bargain bin was filled with Robotech toys. I picked up a couple, but subsequent holiday gifts consisted of comics and skateboards and more teen-leaning interests. Ninja Turtles dropped the next year, but I had no desire for them as I had outgrown toys as a whole…..
One of my favorite shows as a kid. I remember saving my pocket money to get a Herc Armstrong figure. Decompose was next as he was a favorite character then Tendril and Liquidator. Such an excellent toy line
Man I remember watching this with my parents Sunday mornings (that’s when it aired for us). I had Tendril, got him for $3 at a local garage sell and gave him to my younger cousin when I grew up. Kinda wish I still had it. Awesome video!
I had never heard of these until my Aunt gave me a Tendril (long fang version) for Christmas. As a kid I was super impressed by the look and size of the toy. I never got any other Inhumanoids, but Tendril battled many of my other toys until one of his rubbery tendril arms broke off.
I loved this cartoon as a young kid, I couldn't wait. It was actually episodic, you had to see them all or you were lost. I loved that as a kid, I always wanted continuity in everything even at like 8 years old
I was 9 when this show came out and I remember being PUMPED! I loved the gore and the guts and the style of the show itself. I remember having an issue or two of the comic, but I definitely remember the 12 inch D-Compose I got for Xmas that year. I LOVED that thing. I remember seeing it in the Sears catalogue and it looking so badass. I was psyched to open it that morning. I weirdly remember it having a funny smell, but I loved the texture of its rubber guts underneath the rib cage. I'll have to see if the show lives up to my memory.
Since I was just a toddler at the time, I only remember being terrified by this show. But I also apparently had a lot of the toys, so I must have liked it.
I think I was 10 back then when both Inhumanoids and Visionaries were aired in my country. I didn't mind the horror aspects of the Inhumanoids back then but the whole giant monster thing got me hooked in the show considering my fascination towards giant monsters such as Godzilla, King Kong and Gamera was the reason I like the show.
I remember this thing it was gruesome but I just had to watch each episode because I wanted to know what will happen next. I even remember one thing that had a crystal stomach and people could be seen getting dissolved by the acid.
I can't believe I don't remember this at all. I was 8 in 1986 and this is exactly the kind of thing I would have loved, and still do. I'm a little bummed out now but thanks for the video.
Whaaaat? I have a little Pocket Monster sized figure from when I was young but it's made with a different type of rubberized plastic and I always just assumed it was Swamp Thing but now I think I just realized it's Tendrill from the Inhumanoids cartoon. I even turned it into a little charm that you can attach to a phone, handheld device, USB drive or anything you want it to hang from really. 😅👍
Inhumanoids was awesome. Somehow my brother and I ended up with several episodes on vhs. We rewarched them until the tapes fell apart. We always wanted the toys but only ever saw them for sale once at a local Sears. I had the yellow guy and my brother got the green one. The were awesome figures.
Inhumanoids was unforgettable! Loved it as soon as it came out! It was unlike anything else and the toys were stand outs. I was the target audience in 1985 as I was 6 years old. This was awesome thank you for giving us a follow up. I hope to see Inhumanoids toys in the store.
My bro and I had most of this series! He had the Earth Core dudes, and Decay. I had Magnacore & Tendril😎. We loved this toyline & cartoon show. Really was disappointed it didn't last😔. Could've been another legacy.
Inhumanoids! Inhumanoids! The Evil that lies within---- Down in the fiery depths of the earth where nightmares begin!" Who can stop 'em? Earth Corps, I hope!" Inhumanoids! Inhumanoids! The Evil that lies within
I enjoy your channel so much. I’m not truly familiar with Inhumanoids except for a few other videos I have seen on UA-cam. The toys look amazing and the series sounds really cool too. I will definitely look it up in the future. Looking forward to seeing your next post!
What I remember the most was in one of the last episodes. The villain is sure the plan will succeed and when he sees the Russian hero charge says, "He can't stop us now." and his trusted minion replies, "No, but he's going to try." That stuck with me, to try even if it looks like you'll fail.
I live outside the US I was only 3 years old when the Inhumanoids came out, but my aunt from the States sent me VHS recordings of Saturday morning cartoons in the early 90's. Inhumanoids was one of the cartoons I saw in those VHS tapes and it made me feel uncomfortable as a child because of the horror elements.
Yep I was in that core demographic as I was 5 years old when it came out. I never got any of the Inhumanoids, but I got Magnakore for Christmas in 1985 and Redsun, Granok and Her Armstrong too. I eventually got the Terra Scout vehicle on clearance at Toys R Us for 99 cents also lol.
I loved Inhumanoids. I barely remember the cartoon but I loved the toys, my uncle got me a Tendril when I was like four and kept it until passing it down to one of my young cousins when I was in high school.
Goddamn, I love Inhumanoids! The world lost something great when it was axed. I keep hoping for someone to revive it, but really, I'm sure it would suffer the same fate as most reboots. They'd "gritty" it up too much, and make it even darker, and it would fall out of the weird sweet spot between superhero camp and horror that made it so great.
Inhumanoids was broadcast by Super Channel somewhere in the 80's/90's in their Supertime cartoon/kid's show program. It was completely different to the rest including G.I. Joe, Robotech, Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years, Photon, Macron 1 and the like.
My first encounter with The Inhumanoids was when the UK Transformers comic ran the short-lived Inhumanoids comic as a backup strip. It was adapting the original cartoon miniseries but was cancelled after like 2 issues and ended on a cliffhanger of D'Compose transforming Sandra into a monster (which was pretty scary to 8-or 9-year old me!). They swore blind in the Transformers letters page for months that they'd resolve the cliffhanger but obviously they never did. The cartoon eventually aired on a satellite TV station a year or two later and I finally got to see how the story ended. The toys were never released over here, to the point that when one is seen in a shot in the Tom Hanks movie Big, a bunch of people wrote into Transformers UK to point it out...
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Do the never ending story the animated series
So, if the trademark ran out, does anyone own the Inhumanoids still? If not, is it going to the public domain anytime soon?
Where can I stream allepisodes on UA-cam, anyone has a link?
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De-Compose turning people with a touch was mind blowing as a little kid. Very disturbing.
A neighbor kid owned Tendril and De-Compose's huge oversized action figures, they were so cool!
I remember that freaking me out.
@@markcastellanet9672 I loved the episodes that included D'Composes' undead underworld along with those creepy ass skeletal giant bats! Chris Latta was one hell of a voice actor btw.
I remember my cat was terrified of Tendril.
D’Compose was an alligator monster profiling Curly and a zombie army attached.
Inhumanoids was like an 80's death metal album cover come to life
😂🤘
Seems about right
Look up d'compose by engorged
Hell yea dude🤘
"you know what kids love? Cthulhu Mythos!!" Decompose is on the list of "cartoons that scarred me" along with "Shipwreck being dragged down a hallway by grey goo that used to be his friends" and "Optimus Prime dying".
oh man that synthoid reveal was serious nightmare fuel.
For me, it was "The Creeping Horrak" from He-Man! Just the concept of them having a super aggressive black, gooey moss that took over your house and tried to swallow and smother you was so scary to me
I sort of remember the shipwreck one is the clip on youtube?
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I loved the dramatic scene in that episode when his wife and daughter betray him and he gets so emotional. They even censored that part for a while, I guess to not traumatize kids, but they made it cheaper by Shipwreck entering and Polly already destroying the syntoids (and seeing the uncensored scene now, it isn't as dramatic as I remembered but still, they tried to put drama and it was nice.
The release of Decompose in the first episode was severely disturbing, even by today's standards. It was freaky, but AWESOME! Inhumanoids and Exo-Squad need reboots SO BADLY! Such great stories.
Yeah, I loved this show, especially dcompose. It was the kind of stuff kids actual want, gross scary stuff.
I totally agree about both shows!
I loved Decompose, because Starscream
Pacific Rim reads pretty exactly like an Inhumanoids movie without the license.
Exo-squad! I caught it so rarely early mornings, but I loved it.
Woke up screaming one night in 1986 because of watching Sandra Shore getting D'Composed. This show still hits something primordial and deep in me.
Yeah flint dille is really into traumatizing kids.
I remember bringing D'Compose to my third-grade show and tell. I'll never forget the shocked reaction from the teacher and some of my classmates, including cries of "Gross!" A little too metal for mainstream tastes, I guess.
Lame :p
Glad to hear this. Brings back vivid memories of my own!
Had the Inhumanoids VHS from 1988 until it was eaten by the VCR in 2013. Pity.
Inhumanoids and Visionaries are two of the most underrated cartoons of the 80's from Sunbow.
The Inhumanoids opening theme has been living in my head rent free from the moment I first heard it!
Me to
The thumbnail triggered it for me😂
Absolutely agree 100%
Inhumanoids! Inhumanoids! The evil that lies wiiiiiiiiiiithin!
Really hope this makes a comeback someday--the premise has serious potential, even for modern times.
I loved my Inhumanoids toys. These guys & the western Spiral Zone... they were awesome!
So glad I grew up in the 80s. We had the best toys and shows. This show was awesome. Essentially Cthulhu for kids. Too bad it didn’t stick around but glad that they later made shows of other adult brands I loved like Rambo and Robocop
INHUMANOIDS felt like a Bert I. Gordon cartoon. Heros in Iron Man suits fighting giant monsters. The long narrative storyline was great. Sandra Shore was very nice.
Wasn't she voiced by Lady Jaye?
Noone can simply describe the intoxicating smell of a brand new, out of the box Earth corps figure. It was great!
This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. It was almost like a cartoon for adults with the drama and storylines (IIRC). I loved the toyline even more. Unfortunately I didnt take very good care of my toys when I was a kid and I beat them up pretty bad. Inhumanoids are fetching big money. Much like most of the toys from my youth. I was a child of the 80s.
The show was really good. Still holds up. We did get a great deal of cool toy based programming and movies as 80s kids. You probably were rough on them like many kids, but the Inhumanoids were notoriously bad for breaking and having issues. Problems with plastics getting brittle and some of them getting weird residues. Much of the 1980s plastic didn't hold up great, but Inhumanoids is almost as bad as Dino Riders and Silverhawks for having extensive damage that was the fault of the materials. That is one of the reasons they fetch so much on the secondary market.
As a kid I remember thinking scary but interesting this show was. The people changing would blow mind.
Yeeesss! The only toy line I actually wanted turned into a movie franchise! Just imagine the kaiju sized CGI horror of Decompose!
Man, the show used to creep me out. I absolutely loved how it was a horror cartoon, which was way more fun than just a Sunday morning half hour.
I was just old enough to understand what it means to decompose when I saw this show, and that made it so much more terrifying.
Actually, The Inhumanoids did make an appearance on Jem. In one episode, Decompose is seen raging on TV. I'm not sure if they meant him to be a cartoon character in the Jem universe, or if Decompose was in the midst of detroying a city while an oblivious Jem and the Holograms performed vapid pop songs.
Or it could have just been sloppy editing. 😂 Sunbow was stretched pretty thin and their outsourced studios were not always meticulous about quality control.
I like to think it's the second one because I just think the idea of two completely different genres happening in the same world to be interesting
Imagine if someone made Inhumanoids into a videogame, Done right it would amazing could play like Monsterhunter with a dark cosmic horror vibe.
Or another version of Rampage but with Mortal Kombat dreams
Imagine it in a style similar to Transformers War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron.
I _absolutely loved this show._ I watched as many episodes as I was able to find, and got as many of the figures as I could find. I still have Redlen the Redwood on my windowsill so the light pump catches the sun.
Shows like _Inhumanoids_ and _Spiral Zone_ were two of my absolute favorites as a kid, and actually helped save my sanity and make me feel like _I wasn't alone_ out there. Shows like these genuinely made me feel like there were actually _other kids out there like me_ and I wasn't all alone... there were other kids somewhere out there with similar interests, or they wouldn't be making something like this, other kids who were interested in something darker and with more of an edge than just more goofy garbage like _Filmation's Ghostbusters._
Just a few years later I would discover Lovecraft and Arthur Machen and William Hope Hodgson and other Horror writers, and things like the _Call of Cthulhu_ Role-Playing Game, and it finally clicked that I _wasn't_ just a lone freakish weirdo the way I'd always felt while I was constantly being mocked and beaten up in school... I finally realized that I was actually part of a _whole community of freakish weirdos,_ and we _definitely weren't alone!_ 😁
It certainly didn't stop the mockery or the beatings, but it did give me some comfort in knowing that I wasn't all alone.
I loved Inhumanoids as a kid. I had a bunch of the toys too, but Decompose was the best toy ever! Underneath his ribcage was this soft red plastic that felt like literal guts. There's been nothing like Inhumanoids ever since. It was a legit horror show for kids that refused to pull its punches.
I remember seeing the Decompose toy at a Toys-R-Us when I was very little. Some other kid had opened the package it was in and left it standing like it had broken itself out. That sight scared the crap out of me.
Not only did I never never know this was a thing as a kid, I dont even remember the toys on the shelves .... but also I still have never watched it even after learning about this a decade ago so I think i'm gonna spend the next few days and watch both this and Jayce and the wheeled warriors and see what I missed as a kid.
It was on Sunday mornings. And for a short time.
It's possible that you either lived in a market that didn't air it, or you didn't watch local indy stations on Sunday mornings when it was on.
I always compare Inhumanoids to the Centurions as both shows featured a group of scientists that wore body armor exo suits to fight evildoers, AWESOME!!
My childhood was the 80s and I'm so happy it was I still collect transformers and he man but I had these as a toy and had a blast! Such a great time to be a kid!! I wish they bring these back again!
5:55 Jem and The Inhumanoids
Finally something to rival "Barbenheimer".
Inhumanoids was barely on my radar back then, but really enjoy seeing them show up and learning about it now. Thank you!
Loved this cartoon, the story was mindblowing for me as a kid. The mixture of creatures and alliances to fight against a greater evil, the role of greedy and power hungry humans helping that same evil, it was just too good to last. I still love that the series has a closure wich is more than all other cartoon series ever had!
I was absolutely a member of the target demographic for The Inhumanoids. I remember this series quite fondly. It is one of my favorites.
Every time I read a GI Joe or Transformers comic I also like to imagine that The Inhumanoids are still out there somewhere lurking just below the surface ready to rise again some day.
The creation of Nightcrawler scared the shit out of me when i was a kid. I loved it.The toys were dope to boot.
The Gagoyle was chilling for me!
Inhumanoids is a series that I missed out on in my childhood but discovered and loved as an adult; I have a lot of respect for how shocking this show was (made even more powerful by the excellent animation) and how much it still holds up. The three main monsters are such great characters and play off each other so well that I would have been fine if they had been the protagonists of the show instead of the humans!
My only experience with Inhumanoids was a three episode cartoon VHS video. The episodes were G.I. Joe/Action Force series 1 episode 25 Where the Reptiles Roam. The Inhumanoids episode cannot remember been over 35 years seen I have seen it. The Transformers episode series 2 episode 46 Starscreams Brigade.
All cool episodes filled with action and adventure. So after watching this video I will be taking Dan's advice and find those episodes of Inhumanoids.
I had the exact same vhs as a kid. I had no idea what Inhumanoids was but it was far more dark and graphic than the other two shows!
I loved the Inhumanoids as a 5 year old child and I STILL have my Tendril toy on an old toy shelf at my dad's house. I am amazed I was able to hang onto it.
Loved the Inhumanoids! I had a lot of the toys and hated that it got cancelled. The first pitch looked super interesting with D. Compose as a hero? I watched the show again not too long ago and I was still impressed by the story and the how dark it got. Still love it and it fits in with shows like Spiral Zone too that had a bit more going on with it than normal
Oh _Hell_ yes, _Spiral Zone!_ _Inhumanoids_ and _Spiral Zone!_
I love the creepy designs of the INHUMANOIDS.
I cannot stress how much I loved the Inhumanoids as a kid. The toys were rarely seen in the UK but I rented the VHS of the 'movie' relentlessly from the local rental shop in my home town....and bought it when the place shut down! I still have it!
Oh yeah, I remember watching this as a kid. The toys were much bigger than the Toys R Us catalog would have you believe. The show was indeed disturbing and scary at times, but I always looked forward to watching it even though I can’t really remember anything specific about the plot. 😅
It was a good thing this show was programed for Saturday mornings or i definitely would have had trouble sleeping if it were in the evening!
I was in that target demographic, and one of those who were traumatized by Decompose mutating people. Man even the logo scared the heck out of me! I was really afraid that a monster hand would break through cracks in the pavement and grab me.
Oh, I haven't forgotten -- I own the DVD set. This has got to be the most horrific cartoon ever sold to kids, and it's freakin' cool. It was nifty to see that thanks to scuzzy reporter Hector Ramirez, this cartoon exists in the same universe as G.I. Joe, Transformers, and Jem.
And 'RoboCop'!
I mean Transformers proved that. Cobra Commander appearing in season 3. Plus the character of Merissa Faireborn being canonically the daughter of Flint and Lady Jaye from GIJoe.
Right. And D'Compose made a cameo on a news program on tv in a tv shop on Jem and the Holograms
@@dinosoid2000 Yeah, but that was just two shows. Hector tied ALL FOUR shows together.
@@derekmason1881 Yeah, but that was just two shows. Hector tied ALL FOUR shows together.
I actually just rewatched this series recently, and it's surprisingly way more interesting and dark for a kid's show than I remember. I quite liked it and loved the monster designs from it.
A series truly ahead of it’s time. Not a day goes by that I don’t wish it is brought back.
I never saw the show, but I scored a Redsun figure from a school raffle. I was mesmerized by the eyes. First time i had ever seen (what would be known as light piping) in a toy. The bright, emerald green was like looking into another world to my 7 year old eyes.
Light piping is *still* pretty damn cool and not used enough!!
Yeah, I love the effect. Especially in the star wars power of the force jawas eyes. Agreed, it should be incorporated more in toy designs.
When I was a kid I had the Metlar and Magnacore toys. The cartoon helped foster my love for monsters that I've never grown out of.
Just went to start watching the show after enjoying This video and there Really is alot of Screams, Yells and Battle Cries in just the first episode alone, looking forward to the rest of it.
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This show freaked me out as a kid. I already had an irrational fear of giant monsters, and add in one of them that can turn you into a monster really hit me right in the fear.
Bring back Inhumanoids!
BUT give them better heroes PLEASE
Very well done! I loved the Inhumanoids show and if there ever was a series that needed a new modern toy re-release it would be Inhumanoids. With all the advances in toy making, a new Inhumanoids "classics" line would be epic. Thanks again.
Sometimes while watching these videos they get to the end and I'm instantly overcome with the feeling of "what? It's already over?" Thankfully at this point there's getting to be enough episodes that I can't remember what is in all of them so I can always just look for an older one I haven't watched enough to remember completely.
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I was an enthusiastic fan of the show, toys, and the Marvel/Star comics. My mother worked at Sears and I remember taking every opportunity to go to the toy aisle to check out the big Inhumanoid triumvirate as it topped my holiday wish list. They also retailed for about $15 each. As a kid I thought that was a pricey ask for the list but the toy cancellation led to very steep discounts (maybe down to $10). I got the majority of the line under the tree that year sans Liquidator ( the only one every other kid seemed to have). Years later, I found out that with her employee discount and the subsequent holiday dump into the Sears bargain bin they picked up the toys and vehicles for $5 each or less- Inhumanoids was the last toy franchise of my childhood as that I played with en masse. By the end of the school year that same bargain bin was filled with Robotech toys. I picked up a couple, but subsequent holiday gifts consisted of comics and skateboards and more teen-leaning interests. Ninja Turtles dropped the next year, but I had no desire for them as I had outgrown toys as a whole…..
One of my favorite shows as a kid. I remember saving my pocket money to get a Herc Armstrong figure. Decompose was next as he was a favorite character then Tendril and Liquidator. Such an excellent toy line
“Jem and the Inhumanoids” has the potential to be the greatest cartoon of all time!! 🎸 💀
As I well know, can't stay in a rock band forever. Need to go onto that second career. 😅
Man I remember watching this with my parents Sunday mornings (that’s when it aired for us). I had Tendril, got him for $3 at a local garage sell and gave him to my younger cousin when I grew up. Kinda wish I still had it. Awesome video!
I had never heard of these until my Aunt gave me a Tendril (long fang version) for Christmas. As a kid I was super impressed by the look and size of the toy. I never got any other Inhumanoids, but Tendril battled many of my other toys until one of his rubbery tendril arms broke off.
One of the most daring cartoons and storylines. It's my jam
I loved this cartoon as a young kid, I couldn't wait. It was actually episodic, you had to see them all or you were lost. I loved that as a kid, I always wanted continuity in everything even at like 8 years old
Love learning about cartoons and toys that came before my time. Thanks for all the great videos!
Good lord, I watched this at age 5, screwed my imaginations up. Then I come to class, no one else seems traumatized as I was.
I want to watch now haha
I was 9 when this show came out and I remember being PUMPED! I loved the gore and the guts and the style of the show itself. I remember having an issue or two of the comic, but I definitely remember the 12 inch D-Compose I got for Xmas that year. I LOVED that thing. I remember seeing it in the Sears catalogue and it looking so badass. I was psyched to open it that morning. I weirdly remember it having a funny smell, but I loved the texture of its rubber guts underneath the rib cage. I'll have to see if the show lives up to my memory.
I loved this cartoon!!!! It was gone too soon. I was only 8 years old but I grew up on 80's horror flicks and I thought it was just awesome.
Never forgotten by myself. I still love this toy line.
Sadly I never had any of them. If I did the big monsters would fight He-Man or the Centurions
Oh god, the theme tune to that show became a screensaver for my mind for many years
Since I was just a toddler at the time, I only remember being terrified by this show. But I also apparently had a lot of the toys, so I must have liked it.
The show was insane in all the best ways
Somehow this one flew right under my nose, I don’t recall ever seeing them. Looks pretty badass though.
Loved the show. It was first true move into horror stories and I loved it.
I think I was 10 back then when both Inhumanoids and Visionaries were aired in my country. I didn't mind the horror aspects of the Inhumanoids back then but the whole giant monster thing got me hooked in the show considering my fascination towards giant monsters such as Godzilla, King Kong and Gamera was the reason I like the show.
I vividly remember the Inhumanoids. I was in college, but my friends and I definitely noticed it. We wondered how on earth it even got made.
Discount and liquidation stores were blowing these toys out at three to ten dollars. Bravestarr, Wheeles Warriors, Laser Tag, and much more too!
I remember this thing it was gruesome but I just had to watch each episode because I wanted to know what will happen next. I even remember one thing that had a crystal stomach and people could be seen getting dissolved by the acid.
I STILL have my Tendril and De-Compose in a box in my closet LOL. I always wanted this and SPIRAL ZONE to cross over! Coulda been LEGENDARY!
I loved Inhumanoids! It was one of my favorite shows during it's run. I was so upset when it ended.
5:09 So D. Compose was originally the name of a good guy. Very interesting.
I can't believe I don't remember this at all. I was 8 in 1986 and this is exactly the kind of thing I would have loved, and still do. I'm a little bummed out now but thanks for the video.
About time someone did something about my all time favorite toy when I was a kid inhumaniod thank you
Look at Dapper Dan all suited up and matching beard to shirt!
Never knew of this show when I was a kid in Sweden, but would probably have liked it.
Whaaaat?
I have a little Pocket Monster sized figure from when I was young but it's made with a different type of rubberized plastic and I always just assumed it was Swamp Thing but now I think I just realized it's Tendrill from the Inhumanoids cartoon.
I even turned it into a little charm that you can attach to a phone, handheld device, USB drive or anything you want it to hang from really.
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Yep definitely in the demo. Heard about the show, but didn't get to see it until a few years ago and loved it.
I always remembered that scream from the theme song....at 48 years old, I'm now finding out it was Chris Latta...and it makes so much sense
Inhumanoids was awesome. Somehow my brother and I ended up with several episodes on vhs. We rewarched them until the tapes fell apart.
We always wanted the toys but only ever saw them for sale once at a local Sears. I had the yellow guy and my brother got the green one. The were awesome figures.
Inhumanoids was unforgettable! Loved it as soon as it came out! It was unlike anything else and the toys were stand outs. I was the target audience in 1985 as I was 6 years old. This was awesome thank you for giving us a follow up. I hope to see Inhumanoids toys in the store.
My bro and I had most of this series! He had the Earth Core dudes, and Decay. I had Magnacore & Tendril😎. We loved this toyline & cartoon show. Really was disappointed it didn't last😔. Could've been another legacy.
I remember this one and the spectral knights. Both cartoons entertained me as good vs evil theme battle with the world hanging in the balance.
Inhumanoids! Inhumanoids!
The Evil that lies within----
Down in the fiery depths of the earth where nightmares begin!"
Who can stop 'em?
Earth Corps, I hope!"
Inhumanoids! Inhumanoids!
The Evil that lies within
I enjoy your channel so much. I’m not truly familiar with Inhumanoids except for a few other videos I have seen on UA-cam. The toys look amazing and the series sounds really cool too. I will definitely look it up in the future. Looking forward to seeing your next post!
What I remember the most was in one of the last episodes. The villain is sure the plan will succeed and when he sees the Russian hero charge says, "He can't stop us now." and his trusted minion replies, "No, but he's going to try." That stuck with me, to try even if it looks like you'll fail.
This was my favorite cartoon as a kid. I am so mad at my younger self for getting rid of all my action figures.
5:57 I love how the "Can you imagine?" gag is still a thing on this channel, lol.
I live outside the US I was only 3 years old when the Inhumanoids came out, but my aunt from the States sent me VHS recordings of Saturday morning cartoons in the early 90's. Inhumanoids was one of the cartoons I saw in those VHS tapes and it made me feel uncomfortable as a child because of the horror elements.
Yep I was in that core demographic as I was 5 years old when it came out. I never got any of the Inhumanoids, but I got Magnakore for Christmas in 1985 and Redsun, Granok and Her Armstrong too. I eventually got the Terra Scout vehicle on clearance at Toys R Us for 99 cents also lol.
You were probably thinking of Top Cat, Dan.
I loved this cartoon/toy line as a kid! Decompose was my favorite. 😊
DE-COM-POOOSE! Loved that show growing up. Still have Redlin from my childhood toys.
The fact they were unsupervised due to "low" toy sales explains so much about the inhumanoids.
I loved Inhumanoids. I barely remember the cartoon but I loved the toys, my uncle got me a Tendril when I was like four and kept it until passing it down to one of my young cousins when I was in high school.
Goddamn, I love Inhumanoids! The world lost something great when it was axed. I keep hoping for someone to revive it, but really, I'm sure it would suffer the same fate as most reboots. They'd "gritty" it up too much, and make it even darker, and it would fall out of the weird sweet spot between superhero camp and horror that made it so great.
Inhumanoids was broadcast by Super Channel somewhere in the 80's/90's in their Supertime cartoon/kid's show program. It was completely different to the rest including G.I. Joe, Robotech, Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years, Photon, Macron 1 and the like.
I loved this series. It was on at an odd hours around us. This show was crazy. I remember seeing the toys at Sears.
My first encounter with The Inhumanoids was when the UK Transformers comic ran the short-lived Inhumanoids comic as a backup strip. It was adapting the original cartoon miniseries but was cancelled after like 2 issues and ended on a cliffhanger of D'Compose transforming Sandra into a monster (which was pretty scary to 8-or 9-year old me!). They swore blind in the Transformers letters page for months that they'd resolve the cliffhanger but obviously they never did. The cartoon eventually aired on a satellite TV station a year or two later and I finally got to see how the story ended.
The toys were never released over here, to the point that when one is seen in a shot in the Tom Hanks movie Big, a bunch of people wrote into Transformers UK to point it out...
I remember that happening. I was terrified as a little kid reading that backup strip. I was quite the mini controversy at the time.