In 1997, the Eastman and Laird cash giant known as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reached its zenith, and the popularity of everyone’s favorite “heroes in a half shell” waned almost overnight. Much of the audience that fueled the Turtles meteoric rise through animation and action figure domination, now teenagers, had outgrown the characters. Meanwhile, […]
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr. is a pop culture and movie fanatic born and bred. He's a lover of all things horror, admires Superman, loves to listen to classic rock, drowns himself in nineties nostalgia on his free time, and has been writing for almost twenty years. His writing can be found on various online outlets including Crave, Joblo, and Beyond Hollywood; He's also currently running his own movie review website, Cinema Crazed.
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One of the highlights during Nickelodeon’s classic Nicktoon era, Hey Arnold! remains one of the best coming-of-age animated series that the network ever aired… and unfortunately could never quite re-capture again. A mix of comedy, adventure, and occasional drama, Hey Arnold! stars Arnold, an optimistic and clever kid with a football shaped head, who attends […]
Tagged with: 90s, animation, Craig Bartlett, Hey Arnold, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons
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Animated series that revolved around teams were huge in the seventies, eighties, and most of the nineties. Not only were they fun, but they allowed a wider cast from which an audience could pick and choose their favorite characters, not to mention better diversity for a larger fan base. For toy lines, team cartoons also […]
Tagged with: 80s, animation, cartoons, Saturday morning, Silverhawks, Thundercats
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Back in the eighties and nineties, many companies sought out to “youthify” their most popular properties and, presumably for the same reason, Warner Bros. gave their Looney Tunes brand a fresh new series… which made no sense considering one of the best shows on the ABC Saturday Morning Line Up for years was The Bugs […]
Tagged with: 90s, animation, FOX Kids, Looney Tunes, Pinky and the Brain, Tiny Toons, Warner Bros.
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With the end of Batman: the Animated Series and Superman, the DC Comics/Warner Bros. animation golden boy of the 90s, Bruce Timm, was called upon once again to create another hit Saturday morning series. This time it would a series geared to a much younger audience, full of futuristic technology and action packed, and it […]
Tagged with: 90s, Batman, Batman Beyond, Bruce Timm, Justice League, KidsWB
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(Re)Animations: Rocket Power (1999)
In 1999 the Nickelodeon network underwent a reboot of a sorts, where they started introducing more hip and edgy programming that zeroed in on the entire X-Games generation. One of the more vocal series was Rocket Power, an animated sports comedy that is maligned by many Nickelodeon fans as pandering, vapid, and stupid. While I […]
Tagged with: 2000s, Aah! Real Monsters, animation, comedy, Klasky-Csupo, Nickelodeon, Rocket Power
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There’s a lot to be said for 80s animation and children’s entertainment. It was a time where pretty much nothing was off limits and studios spent an odd amount of resources trying to tailor adult properties to kids. Violent characters and cult films like Rambo, The Toxic Avenger and Conan the Barbarian were turned into […]
Tagged with: 80s, animated, cartoons, Rambo, RoboCop, Saturday morning, Toxic Avenger
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In the 90’s, DC Comics decided to build an imprint within their company called Milestone Comics. Bringing aboard top notch talent like the late Dwayne McDuffie, Milestone featured a large roster of minority superheroes and villains, many of whom would cross over with the DC Universe every so often. Though the label failed and eventually […]
Tagged with: cartoons, DC Comics, Saturday morning, Static Shock, superheroes, Warner Bros.
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The 90’s were about dinosaurs, dinosaurs, and more dinosaurs. Thanks mostly due to Jurassic Park, the interest in dinosaurs was renewed among the public. Especially kids, many of whom had to have everything revolving around dinosaurs. I fondly remember digging up whatever I could find about dinosaurs and borrowing a huge stack of dinosaur books […]
Tagged with: 90s, cartoons, cavemen, Cro, dinosaurs, Free Willy, Jurassic Park, Saturday morning
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How do you adapt a hit video game like Double Dragon that’s based around beating up bad guys with your fists, bats, whips, and assorted blunt instruments? Easy! You build the cartoon around mystic, non-violent laser blasting swords and give those to your heroes instead. Not only does it prevent any of that “nasty” hand-to-hand […]
Tagged with: 90s, animation, Batman Beyond, cartoons, Double Dragon, Mortal Kombat, Saturday morning