Our second Bracket Madness tournament is here! Join Ray (@rasslingrenade), Stacey (@geeky_vixen), Tim (@oldschool80s), Gary (@MileHighSamurai), and Jason (@RD80s) as they determine the champion of 1980s cartoons. 16 cartoons will be entered into the tournament CONTINUE READING…
A few years after American Greetings had a big success with Strawberry Shortcake and her friends, their artists got back to work creating more iconic cartoon characters. The Care Bears came in a variety of CONTINUE READING…
It’s another new streaming service day! Woo hoo! Peacock, NBCUniversal’s entry into the field, had a soft roll out Tuesday night and is officially available today on many but not all devices. There are three CONTINUE READING…
Last week, Nickelodeon announced a CGI reboot of The Smurfs will be coming to their channel in early 2021. The original cartoon was an NBC Saturday morning staple from 1981 to 1989. I also remember CONTINUE READING…
In this episode of Wax Pack Flashback, Jason subs for Mickey and opens a pack of Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures trading cards from 1996 by Upper Deck. Several special inserts including pop-up and heat CONTINUE READING…
“Farther. Faster. Furrier.” With that, the animal-based Olympics begin. Meant to tie in with the 1980 Winter and Summer Olympics, there is a lot happening within and around this forgotten animated movie. Whether you remember CONTINUE READING…
RD is a detention “lifer” at Memory Meadows High. He passes the time in detention by discussing his favorite things with you… a fellow detainee. All the while, he tries to avoid getting into any CONTINUE READING…
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. CONTINUE READING…
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 CONTINUE READING…
As two new Pokemon video games were released this month it’s fitting to take a look back at the first movie of this absurdly successful franchise. While I was in my early twenties when this CONTINUE READING…
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