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When the GoBots Brought Their Battles to Saturday Mornings

Challenge of the GoBots arrived in the middle of an eighties toy boom, a scrappy little robot show trying to hold its own beside Transformers, He‑Man, G.I. Joe, and Voltron, giving kids a world where even the underdog machines got to be heroes.

GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords

Brian Cave

In 1986, a movie came out featuring giant transforming robots traversing the cosmos, they search for a threat that could possibly mean the end of the universe. That movie, of course, was Gobots: Battle of the Rock Lords.

Eternia Playset: The Crown Jewel of Masters of the Universe Toys

Mickey Yarber

Eternia was the crown jewel of Masters of the Universe, a towering three tower battleground so massive and rare that it became playground legend, the ultimate prize most kids only saw in catalogs and dreams.

Earth’s Betrayers: Arkeville and Braxis

Brian Cave

There are a lot of similarities between the 80s’ biggest bot changers. Both are alien species from metallic worlds, they convert their robotic bodies into vehicles (among other things), and they’re split into two factions

What Makes a Sidekick?

Brian Cave

The word sidekick is different in cartoons than it is in comics. Sidekicks in comics tend to be characters who act as younger versions of the main character, like Robin to Batman or Speedy to

10 Best Cartoons of the 80’s

Adam Pope

Cartoons were inescapable in the 1980’s. Saturday mornings, weekday afternoons and even on cable TV, colorful animated characters were everywhere we looked. While the majority were shoddy productions conceived as part of carefully constructed marketing

Looking Back at the WildC.A.T.s Cartoon

Kevin Decent

WildC.A.T.s is a half-hour animated television series based on the comics series of the same name.

Unicron Attacks

Brian Cave

Unicron, the Monster Planet. Cruising between two suns, the ringed planet drifted through space before setting his sights on Lithone. As he approached, he opens the many teeth on its surface, shining a beam of

Toys That Had the Best Gimmicks

Brian Cave

Toy manufacturers have been able to squeeze in all sorts of features into our GI Joe, Transformers, and He-Man figures throughout the years. Spring-loaded missiles, lights and sounds, chips, battle-damage armor are just a few

My Christmas Memories: 1984

OldSchool80s

As you should already know, I can’t get enough ’80s nostalgia the whole year, but Christmas is an especially nostalgic time for me. In the past, I shared My Christmas Memories from 1980 and also My

Transformers Collaborative Wish List

Brian Cave

With Hasbro finally giving us a full-fledged GI Joe/Transformers crossover with their Megatron/HISS Tank and Baroness set, it feels like a great time to be a fan of both toylines. We’ve got some toys that

BraveStarr: The Legend Review

Brian Cave

In my last post here, I stated that I think BraveStarr is one of the best 80s cartoons to adapt to a movie. I’ve long felt this way, so it came as a surprise to

When Toys ‘R’ Us Came To Spartanburg, SC for Christmas 1985

Jason Gross

If you were a kid in 1985 and lived near Spartanburg, SC, the excitement of the holiday season had to be intense! While flipping through Google’s Newspaper Archive recently, I happened to notice that “The

Cullen and Welker: Beyond Transformers

Jason Gross

For children of the ’80s, there are two voices that bring the most nostalgia to our ears. For over three years, Peter Cullen and Frank Welker greeted us every weekday afternoon with a reverberated struggle