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ThunderCats: The Rise of an After School Legend

ThunderCats felt like a world waiting for you to leap into it, a bold, electric mix of heroes, monsters, and imagination that turned ordinary afternoons into adventures on the wild, mysterious plains of Third Earth.

Thundercats Roar! Review

Kevin Decent

From the destroyed planet Thundara and hurtling through light years of space and thirty earth years, it’s the return of the Thundercats! But, these aren’t your father’s Thundercats. Therein lies the problem and the solution.

Drak Pack: The 80s Cartoon With a Halloween Vibe

Mickey Yarber

Drak Pack brought classic movie monsters into Saturday mornings with a spooky, superhero twist, turning Dracula, Frankenstein, and Wolfman descendants into unlikely cartoon heroes.

He Man And The Masters Of The Universe: The Cartoon That Helped Build A Toy Empire

Mickey Yarber

The 1980s He Man cartoon became a landmark in toy history, created to support the Masters of the Universe line after FCC rule changes allowed shows built around merchandise.

Bottom Feeder: How T-Ray from the Tigersharks Failed to Become a Legendary 80s Villain

Brian Cave

In the vast catalog of 80s animated villains, you’re bound to find bad guys better than others. Some are cooler than others, some are richer or more powerful, smarter or funnier. The differences could be

When the GoBots Brought Their Battles to Saturday Mornings

Mickey Yarber

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.

The Saturday Morning Magic of The Smurfs

Mickey Yarber

The Smurfs turned quiet forest adventures into Saturday‑morning magic, a gentle blue world that shaped childhood long after louder shows like He‑Man and Thundercats faded, proving kindness could be just as thrilling as any battle.

Bone Age: The Toy Line That Turned Fossils Into Fantasy

Mickey Yarber

Bone Age arrived like a prehistoric oddity in a decade of robots and muscle heroes, inviting kids to snap together skeletal beasts and build wild Stone Age machines in a toy aisle crowded with louder worlds.

Supernaturals: The Hologram Heroes and Villains of Our Childhood

Mickey Yarber

In the fall of 1987, toy shelves were glowing…literally. Amid the neon slime, transforming robots, and sword-wielding warriors of the decade, Tonka introduced a line that felt like it crawled out of a haunted comic

Toy Collector’s Wishlist: Ultimate Figures I Yearn For

Brian Cave

In the last few years, my collecting has shifted from Transformers (specifically Megatron) to collecting up-scaled villain figures from all my favorite cartoons of the 80s and 90s. Along with the Masterpiece Megatrons I previously

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