Look: the heroes have their own fortress which also resembles a cat. The villains live in some sort of dank, benighted pyramid where a gigantic, muscular hooded corpse comes lurching out of the shadows and starts screaming directly into our faces. You can tell the corpse is evil because of all the lightning and yelling.
Ad — content continues below. The original Transformers series, for example, was brought to life by Toei, a studio which had already animated such domestic hits as Devilman and Mazinger by the middle of the 80s.
And, like rival series He-Man, ThunderCats was a collision of sci-fi and fantasy — a good-versus-evil battle between the agile heroes Lion-O, Cheetara, Panthro, Tygra and so on and the Mutants of Plundarr. The intro also featured the requisite anthemic theme-tune, this one written by Bernard Hoffer. To save costs, excessive character movement had to be kept to a minimum, while cunning techniques like looping cycles of frames — or, cheaper still, panning the camera across a static image — were often employed.
These opening sequences, on the other hand, gave animators the opportunity to let their imaginations run riot. As a showcase for pure technique, the original ThunderCats opening is arguably the best of its era.
You only have to look at its pedigree to see why: it was animated by TopCraft, a studio which created the aforementioned Nausicaa and contributed to the likes of Lensman , the Macross movie Do You Remember Love and Gatchaman better known here as Battle Of The Planets before its closure in Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!
So ThunderCats does have a footprint in Japanese animation. Among the animators who worked on the ThunderCats opening was Masayuki Yamaguchi, whose other credits reads like a tick-list of the best anime of the 80s and 90s. All but one of their escape ships was destroyed. Only a small group of Thunderans Thundercats remained.
With only half engine power, the group, which was led by Jaga, had to set a course for the nearest planet.
Jaga commanded their ship while the other 7 were in their stasis tubes. Jaga died on their journey to Third Earth and their ship crashed there. Soon they made friends with various groups in the area and they designed a fortress. Mumm-Ra the centuries-old embodiment of evil, along with the mutants that destroyed the rest of the Thunderans are a constant threat.
But Lion-O, the new leader of the Thundercats, with his weapon the "Sword of Omens" will help the Thundercats to have a standing chance. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia The first season was actually completed in , but was not publicly shown until two years later. Quotes [repeated line] Lion-O : Thunder Alternate versions When shown on BBC television all scenes showing Panthero using his nunchakus were cut. The BBFC also cut the nunchakus from the video releases.
The DVD releases are uncut. Connections Featured in Deception of a Generation User reviews 48 Review. Top review. These were the days of good cartoons. It makes me feel a little sorry for kids today who have to watch "Pokemon" or "Barney. Sure, it had its flaws, and sure the dialogue was often corny. But it did not make a difference in the presentation of the show as a whole.
Mumm-ra was an excellent villain, the Thundercats were amiable heroes, who were really role models, and the reptiles were the comic relief.
Heck, Snarf was okay too. The damage to the ship means the journey to their original destination is not possible, instead having to journey to " Third Earth ;" which will take much longer than they had anticipated. The eldest of the ThunderCats, Jaga , volunteers to pilot the ship while the others sleep in capsules. He himself dies of old age in the process, but not before ensuring they will reach their destination safely. When the ThunderCats awake from their suspended animation on Third Earth, Lion-O discovers that his suspension capsule has slowed rather than stopped his aging, and he is now a child in the body of an adult.
Together, the ThunderCats and the friendly natives of Third Earth construct the "Cat's Lair," their new home and headquarters, but before long, the Mutants have tracked them down to Third Earth. The intrusion of these two alien races upon the world does not go unnoticed, however; the demonic, mummified sorcerer, Mumm-Ra, recruits the Mutants to aid him in his campaign to acquire the Eye of Thundera and destroy the ThunderCats so that his evil might continue to hold sway over Third Earth.
To see a full list of merchandise, go here. The series continued as the comic book series from Wildstorm. Released on DVD in with limited bonus material. Interviews with grown up fans on the first series, then very little until the final six disks. Therein was a complex system of jumping between disks with features turned on for specific scenes for clues. Throughout the process there is a trivia challenge with interviews from Leonard Starr, Peter Newman and Gerrianne Raphael.
These are the "Keys" to the final puzzle. To skip them, just enter the code to view the special tribute to Mumm-Ra and voice actor Earl Hammond. ThunderCats wiki Explore.
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