This August, the Scooby Doo gang joins the ranks of Star Wars, The Hobbit, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Jurassic Park, The Simpsons and loads of other licensed brands that have received the LEGO treatment when the company releases six new toy sets based on the classic cartoon series. The sets include Mystery Mansion (75904), Mummy […]
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It’s hard to believe that Man of Action’s Ben 10 is almost a decade old already, but in 2016 the series is turning… well, 10. To coincide with the show’s anniversary, Cartoon Network and Man of Action studios are rebooting the series for a new generation of kids. While it may be a new iteration […]
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If there’s one thing we were fed a healthy dosage of during the 90s, it was the importance of being “environmentally safe.” Even cartoons went eco-friendly on us with series such as Swamp Thing, Captain Planet and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reminding kids what role they plated in keeping the Earth clean. Among these […]
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When Impel first released the megaton nuke of a card set known as Marvel Universe (Series 1) in 1990, they must’ve known that a cash cow was born because the company quickly scooped up several other major franchises for card series—all using the same general layout/designs as with MU. And while knowing is half the […]
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1994 was the year to really tune into Nickelodeon. It was a time where they’d hit their stride with programming blocks like SNICK and excellent series like Rugrats, and The Secret World of Alex Mack. It was also the year that Aaahh!!! Real Monsters premiered (October 30, 1994). Another of the many Klasky Csupo produced […]
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(Re)Animations: X-Men: Evolution (2000)
After director Bryan Singer helped revive comic book properties as bonafide moneymakers with X-Men, his 2000 adaptation of the Marvel series, the comic book team was primed for an animated reboot. Like many other companies before them, Marvel and Film Roman took the youthful approach by establishing a new continuity of the “merry mutants” in […]
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“Let’s get warty!” Premiering in the U.S. during Thanksgiving weekend on FOX Kids (1992) the Battletoads pilot episode was a clear attempt by DIC to tap into the popularity of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Based on the NES beat’em-up of the same name, Battletoads boasted a massive fan base and was ripe for an animated […]
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“No place to Hide! No Place to Run! The Mutant Age Has Now Begun!” “Pryde of the X-Men” (also known as “X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men”) is an animated pilot I mostly remember thanks to its VHS release in 1989 that my brother and I must have borrowed from my cousin a thousand times over. […]
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[Last week we asked you guys what your favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes of all time were and you picked some awesome ones. This week, we decided to invite a few of our fellow blogging nostalgists to answer that very same question. Joining us are by MANNY GALAN from Cartoon Lagoon, JONATHAN ZELENAK from […]