• LordMayor@piefed.social
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    12 days ago

    It’s also one of the weirder/dumber cartoons from any era.

    Sword-wielding barbarian hero, spaceships, scary skeleton villain, green tiger. It feels like a toy company took a bunch unused action figure ideas and said “make a cartoon out this so we can sell them.”

    Why not Space Ghost? That would cooler.

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      It feels like a toy company took a bunch unused action figure ideas and said “make a cartoon out this so we can sell them.”

      Literally what they did.

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        12 days ago

        Omg that makes so much sense! I was always like “wtf is this place even meant to be?” - though it does kind of have the vibe of 80s Flash Gordon.

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      That is literally what it was. It was commisioned by Mattel to sell the toy line after the FCC relaxed regulations on marketing to kids.

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      Yeah I had no idea there were spaceships in this until I saw the trailer. I assumed it was basically a kid friendly Conan