Awesome look into the history of this obscure monster truck cartoon. Maybe it's just me, but I find those tasteless innuendos hilarious. And the fountain of youth being in Florida 😘. I would've been too young to catch it in 1985, if it even aired in Canada. We did have Jem in the 80s, so it's possible. I love anything Flint Dille or Wally Burr has done, both of them are characters. Going to give my signed copy of Dan Gilvezan's book another read after I binge the BigFoot cartoon!
You may be interested to know that when Flint cleaned out his storage in 2020, there was more to this show than anyone knew about. Much like Transformers The Movie, Ron Friedman did the initial development and had two attempts at writing a 15 segment outline, both of which were complete messes. The project was taken off him and given to Flint, who only kept the drivers' names, but otherwise completely started over on his own 9 segment outline.
Now I remember why I forgot watching it as a child. Oh boy it was pretty bad, and when you back at some of the cartoons back then, there were a handful of others that were even worse. That would be a cool feature one day...all the 80's cartoons that failed. But aside from the failures, you really detailed everything about the cartoon with facts I bet many didn't know about. Amazing!!! 😎
Bigfoot is the name of the first monster truck. Some countries have just called all monster trucks “Bigfoot trucks” but Bigfoot is a specific truck made by Bob Chandler (the company he founded has made over 20 Bigfoot branded trucks since the late 70s)
Great review! Can't wait to see the cartoon! Maybe not one of the best things to come from the 80's, it's still definitely a period piece
@14:02 Good ol Deputy Enos!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
All I remember is that the muscle machines were big, bad, dirty and mean! Bigfoot was a cool toy.
Awesome look into the history of this obscure monster truck cartoon. Maybe it's just me, but I find those tasteless innuendos hilarious. And the fountain of youth being in Florida 😘. I would've been too young to catch it in 1985, if it even aired in Canada. We did have Jem in the 80s, so it's possible.
I love anything Flint Dille or Wally Burr has done, both of them are characters. Going to give my signed copy of Dan Gilvezan's book another read after I binge the BigFoot cartoon!
You may be interested to know that when Flint cleaned out his storage in 2020, there was more to this show than anyone knew about. Much like Transformers The Movie, Ron Friedman did the initial development and had two attempts at writing a 15 segment outline, both of which were complete messes. The project was taken off him and given to Flint, who only kept the drivers' names, but otherwise completely started over on his own 9 segment outline.
Now I remember why I forgot watching it as a child. Oh boy it was pretty bad, and when you back at some of the cartoons back then, there were a handful of others that were even worse. That would be a cool feature one day...all the 80's cartoons that failed. But aside from the failures, you really detailed everything about the cartoon with facts I bet many didn't know about. Amazing!!! 😎
Time for a live-action reboot!
I liked Bigfoot in the cartoon the power team, the one the truck is sentient and talks lol
Only the length about three episodes of a cartoon, eh? Where's this thing's theatrical showing?
theatrical showing? It was never in theaters...?
It was released on VHS as a “movie” afterwards
@@toywarp Oh, I was referencing the Transformers G1 Cartoon episodes that were put in theatres recently.
@@Henners I havent found any proof of that
Wait, so like, Bigfoot is just the one truck? I thought you Americans just like, had a thousand of those big trucks laying around.
Bigfoot is the name of the first monster truck. Some countries have just called all monster trucks “Bigfoot trucks” but Bigfoot is a specific truck made by Bob Chandler (the company he founded has made over 20 Bigfoot branded trucks since the late 70s)