Dungeons & Dragons - The Complete Animated Series (5-Disc Set) (DVD)

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Goozex Posted: 11-10-2009 12:03 PM

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Mitchellfamily replied on 11-10-2009 12:34 PM

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Wow, 5 discs!!!!! Didn't realize it was on that long.

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Hexpane replied on 11-10-2009 12:49 PM

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Still haven't cracked the seal on mine

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timpysan replied on 11-10-2009 1:55 PM

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I remembered this being so awesome when I was a kid.

Then I saw it again a couple of years ago. Obviously, I had no idea what awesome was back then. This cartoon has not aged well.

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Hexpane replied on 11-10-2009 3:31 PM

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timpysan:

I remembered this being so awesome when I was a kid.

Then I saw it again a couple of years ago. Obviously, I had no idea what awesome was back then. This cartoon has not aged well.

It's pretty corny, but still better than any D&D movie

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Maskim replied on 11-11-2009 9:11 AM

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I had such high hopes for the D&D movie, too.  When it was all said and done, I walked out of the theatre just feeling bad for the guy who played the main character, who was Jimmy Olsen in Lois and Clark, because he had put so much of himself into the project, self financing when needed, because it was his baby and his dream to get it on screen... and it just came out so garbage. 

Like Timpy I loved this toon when I was a kid.  Watched a couple episodes a couple years ago, and as is the consensus, it did not age well, at all.

Thundercats is another one like that, to me.  Like the first season of Thundercats is still decent, but now I wonder how this group who was stranded on an unwelcoming planet, battling for their very survival, with little technology, all of a sudden got working spaceships back, and why Liono became an intergalactic cop out of nowhere, and everyone just forgot about Mumra...

As much as I like Transformers, it too isn't as cool as I remember.  Optimus was such a push over in the series.  It wasn't until the movie, when he died, that he ever actually bested Megatron in a fight, and he usually sounded the call for retreat as soon as the Decepticons fired a salvo.  Somehow, in my mind, he was this total robotic bad ass though.

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Hexpane replied on 11-11-2009 1:30 PM

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Maskim:

I had such high hopes for the D&D movie, too.  When it was all said and done, I walked out of the theatre just feeling bad for the guy who played the main character, who was Jimmy Olsen in Lois and Clark, because he had put so much of himself into the project, self financing when needed, because it was his baby and his dream to get it on screen... and it just came out so garbage. 

Like Timpy I loved this toon when I was a kid.  Watched a couple episodes a couple years ago, and as is the consensus, it did not age well, at all.

Thundercats is another one like that, to me.  Like the first season of Thundercats is still decent, but now I wonder how this group who was stranded on an unwelcoming planet, battling for their very survival, with little technology, all of a sudden got working spaceships back, and why Liono became an intergalactic cop out of nowhere, and everyone just forgot about Mumra...

As much as I like Transformers, it too isn't as cool as I remember.  Optimus was such a push over in the series.  It wasn't until the movie, when he died, that he ever actually bested Megatron in a fight, and he usually sounded the call for retreat as soon as the Decepticons fired a salvo.  Somehow, in my mind, he was this total robotic bad ass though.

I liked D&D way better than Transformers and GI Joe, I just didn't quite "get" the "toy cartoons"  they seemed like obvious commercials to me.   GI Joe and the millions of laser shooting machine guns.. .yet no one ever dies drove me nuts.

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timpysan replied on 11-11-2009 2:25 PM

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Hexpane:

I just didn't quite "get" the "toy cartoons"  they seemed like obvious commercials to me.

Blasphemy. GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man, and Mask were staples of my childhood.

Star Blazers owns all, though.

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Maskim replied on 11-11-2009 2:49 PM

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Robotech and Voltron were way cooler than Star Blazers.

The one thing that really blew me away about the D&D cartoon, as I got older and looked back, was that it managed to last as long as it did as a saturday morning cartoon on a major network (I think it was CBS?).  Back when the media and church groups were in an uproar that it was the devil's game, and people freaking out some gamers got hit by a subway train they thought was a dragon, and instead of them trying to find out where these people were psychologically deficient to cause the action, it was much easier to blame it on the evil game they played.

In that regard, this cartoon was amazingly successful.

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timpysan replied on 11-11-2009 2:57 PM

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Maskim:

Robotech and Voltron were way cooler than Star Blazers.

Dear Maskim,

I regret to inform you that I have been forced to add you to the rapidly growing list of people who are now dead to me.

Yours,
Timpy

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Maskim replied on 11-11-2009 3:03 PM

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Dude... Robotech was f-ing mind blowing back then!  I think I was like 3 or 4 the first time I saw it when I had woken up way early, around 5ish, and snuck out to the living room and turned on the tv instead of going back to bed.

Since I'm dead to you, take this as a message so important I had to cross the veil in order to tell it.  There was no cartoon more bad ass than Robotech in the early 80's. 

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Hexpane replied on 11-12-2009 12:19 PM

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timpysan:

Hexpane:

I just didn't quite "get" the "toy cartoons"  they seemed like obvious commercials to me.

Blasphemy. GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man, and Mask were staples of my childhood.

Star Blazers owns all, though.

Starblazers was my fav, I hated GI Joe mostly because I saw the potential.,  I watched it because it could have been awesome, like dark and mature.  Snake Eyes was MEANT to kill people assassin style.  It frustrated me.

Transformers just sucked, robots are cool, VW Bugs as robots is not cool.  :) the stories were awful.

He-Man - another "should have been awesome" the original he man toys came w/ an all original comic book.  And that comic was dark, epic, but way too short.  Very strong art, and layered storyline.

Then the cartoon came out and it was cheese and nothing like the "mature" comic I read.  So I got into that "wow this should be so much better, and it COULD be, I read a comic proving it"

So He-Man cartoon was like Batman Forever to me.  Insulting to the "source" material.

I think I remember loving Voltron too but I can't remember which one that was, is that the robot w/ dogs as arms and legs?

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Maskim replied on 11-12-2009 3:05 PM

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Hexpane:

I think I remember loving Voltron too but I can't remember which one that was, is that the robot w/ dogs as arms and legs?

Lions, but yes, you're remembering it.

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Hexpane replied on 11-12-2009 4:24 PM

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and it had that trope of Leader guy, big/fat guy, little kid, girl who likes the leader...