Thunderdome 8 Announced!

[davi]

Your wait is finally over.

Thunderdome 8's topic will be, Redesigning classic 1980's cartoons.

The entries will be judged on these four scales:
Re-Design (Originality, Functionality, overall badassness)
Presentation (How well is the artwork)
Fan Value (does the work credit the characters)
Judge's Tilt (The judges will be able to push a few points to their favorite entries)

Some examples of classic 1980's cartoons are:
Adventures of Johnny Quest
Transformers
He-Man and the masters of the universe
Fraggle Rock
Jem and the holograms
Jetsons
Dungeons and Dragons
Duck Tales
Real Ghostbusters
She-Ra
M.A.S.K.
and MANY more.



Guidelines:
This is NOT fan art. There must be a visible redesign to cartoon.
One entry per artist, yet you can have multiple designs in one image.
NEW ART ONLY, if you designed transformers before.... and submit it as your entry, it will be declined...trust me it will be known if it's older work.
The Cartoons must have been in an animated forum and popular to SOME DEGREE( meaning they weren't some local nerd cartoonist that no one ever saw his work. )

Judges:
Not yet set.

Due Date: October 31st(Halloween)

Prizes:
First place, 1 Free CA workshop admission + CA T-shirt
Second place, Original artwork from Marko Djurdjevic + CA T-shirt
Third place, CA T-Shirt

Hopefully we can ring along some other prizes along the way, but we would really like to get this rolling.

[Marko Djurdjevic]

Wow,

now that's what I've been waiting for.
I'm up for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

Here some first sketches:

http://djurdjevic.de/img/He-Man.jpg

Real entries follow soon!

cheers
Marko

[Marko Djurdjevic]

Just throwing some more ideas in for you guys:

Thundercats
Inhumanoids
Visionaries
Galaxy Rangers
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
Captain Planet
Bionic Six
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
COPS
Brave Starr
and MANY more


M.

[al-x]

http://www.80scartoons.net/

[young paddy1]

I see you are a connoisseur of classic cartoons Mr Djurdjevic, ahhh the good old days with out the teletubbies and barney the giant purple ponce.

[Schlo-mo]

such a nice topic, this should pull in quite a few entries

[RETEP]

this is going to be great :D
-is everyone against each other or are people going to pair off like the last thunderdome?

[AnarchyAo2]

Is G.I. Joe one of them? I can't remember because I was in the 80's for only 3 years. lol and carebears?

[al-x]

The GI Joe sure is...

That was one of my favourites as a kid. Storm Shadow is the coolest ninja ever, period!

[cotron]

gummi bears vs pound puppies, with guns!

[steak-tron]

Danger Mouse!
Voltron!

or...

Heathcliff and the junkyard gang
Snorks
Fat Albert
Toxic Crusader (maybe early nineties?)
Muppet Babies(?)

This is gonna be great, Marko already set the bar.

[young paddy1]

count duckula and danger mouse, pity trapdoor's a claymation, pole position, jayce and the wheel warriors, and the dodgily titled Bots Master. Samurai pizza cats, that thing where two cats flew around in a jet fighter (Tomcats or something) biker mice from mars.


hmmmm what to choose

[HugeHarHar]

Mmhhhhh...Space Ghost, Mario Bros. Legend of Zelda.

[davi]

this is NOT a challenge thunderdome, it is set up as an over all contest like the ones all before 7.

[Matt Smith]

Damn cartoons were so much better back then... Look at the crap kids have to grow up with now, pokemon and all of those wannabe cartoons like pokemon. But I guess if you gotta catch em all, you gotta catch em all. So many choices in cartoons, I duno what to pick yet. Anyone know if jabber jaw and grape ape were 80's cartoons, they werent up on that 80's cartoon site.

[Groover McNab]

My commy smurf redesigns will OWN you! Ok not really...

Some other stuff (I'm pretty sure these were 80's)

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Sky Commanders
Centurions
Silver Hawks

COOL TOPIC!

[davi]

does anyone have a site of ronan warrior images?

there were samurai`s with mech suits...wasn't very popular... but god i loved it.

[EVIL]

w00tage, this is a cool topic.. I'will definatly try to measure myself to you top artist's I need to know where my place is :)

[Matt Dixon]

Clarification please, Thunderdome gods -

Redesigning classic 1980's cartoons

So far all the cartoons mentioned have been TV shows. Does the topic also include feature films, printed media etc.? In other words, can we redesign any '80's cartoon..?

[davi]

they can be a cartoon movie or tv show, basicly anything animated is what we are getting at.

[Carnifex]

oh YES! TURTLES!TURLES!!!YEEHAAWW! :tihi: :tihi:

[Prometheus|ANJ]

What cartoons were there in Sweden on gov television at that time? I can't remember a single one, except one about an ufo, some kids and a robot with a drawer in the belly. There were some plant men too that captured them and tied them up to a table :G

[OLSEN]

Prom, i think the only cartoons on swedish TV in the 80's were Disney, Bamse, and some russian crap.. and Hanna Barbera of course.. Flintstones and Scooby Doo..

We had a cable TV though, so i got to watch all the other stuff too.

Hmm, I'm definitly doing the smurfs.. love those little blue critters. Got some wicked ideas for Gargamel and Azrael..

[skrubbles]

does anyone have a site of ronan warrior images?

there were samurai`s with mech suits...wasn't very popular... but god i loved it.

Of course I remember Ronin Warriors... I was actually considering doing them.... That or Thundercats or Silverhawks. I just can't decide.

I'm sure you'll find some Ronin Warrior sites... I searched for less then a minute and found a RW webring. Only five sites are on the list though, but come on I only searched for a minute...
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6301/rwebring.htm

[schmu_20mol]

hmmm ... are

Tom & Jerry
Charlie Brown & Snoopy

classic 1980s cartoons?

[Marko Djurdjevic]

Prom,


DUDE!!!
That robot was Microbi!
And he was teh coolest robot ever!!!

[Noah Bradley]

w00t. :)

TMNT are mine. ;)

[Red_Rook]

hah this is so amazingly awesome :D

[skrubbles]

...that thing where two cats flew around in a jet fighter (Tomcats or something)...

you're thinking of SWAT KATS

was that from the 80's? I guess I'm just getting old (22 tommorow :)

[Lauren Short]

sweet! when i saw this i was like :O -> :} -> :D




"Akira" all the way

or robotech, go 80's!

[Layil]

WOW! this is SO cool! I remember when i was 4 i dressed up like she-ra for my first halloween.... i worshiped her! and the thundercats..... hrm, im definately gonna have to take part in this........

*goes to research 80's cartoons and plot*

[nardfrog]

dude ronan warriors was such a sick show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but, seeing as that i have the a big black thundercats emblem tattood on my shoulder, i should probably go with thundercats...

[Matt Smith]

Yes i liked ronan warriors too, but there are so many choices, its so hard to pick! IM FREAKIN OUT!!!!!!!

[Prometheus|ANJ]

Hey Marko! That might be it! The only site I could find though was this (http://www.branchenundfirmen.de/videokatalog/Deutsch/Microbi.htm) but I don't spreche der deutche too well (which might put me in trouble as I'm going to Köln in a few days).

[Atmospheria]

Cool subject!
I'll go with Robotech or Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs.
But it's surely "Robotech"
awesome animation!

[Fozzybar]

How about some guidelines for the presentation...maybe a picture of the original cartoon would be helpful, just to have something to compare...color, action, background? etc...

Will there be a td8-forum with wip-threads? Only finished images in a thread? etc...

Very cool subject btw... :wink:

[Helium Macaroni]

Sweet zombie Jesus! Where did I put my neon fanny pack and hyper color shirt?!

[EVIL]

You can do anime to? As long was it was from the 80's?

cool EDIT: not cool, cuz it makes the list even bigger

EDIT2, NEVERMIND, cuz I am picking: *drums* GUYVER :D - bio booster armor

the anime is from 1989, so woot that was a close one :), but it seems that there was 1986's Guyver: Out of Control and the '89 series was a cut up version of that movie from 86, so its cool

[RAMÓN]

Cool! I'm in!

[Skank]

im so in
this is gonna be good!
theres alot to choose from!!

FUN!

[EVIL]

Dammit, this will be so cool, I cant wait to see everyone's entry's and I wish you all good luck

Cuz you will have a damn hard time to try and beat me! MWUAHAHAHA!!! :P

:bashful: :cheerleader:

[|NTeRN]

does anyone have a site of ronan warrior images?

there were samurai`s with mech suits...wasn't very popular... but god i loved it.

dear god i loved that show. i was so pissed when the time slot it was on got replaced by bananas in bajamas :frustrated:


what happens if Marko gets second place?

[EVIL]

I think its more of a general .. thunderdome 8, exitement discussion thread

[sone_one]

cool topic! ... when i read it i first thought... yeah he-man! his design was so gay (imo at least)... but then markos sketches somewhat frightened me hehe...

well whatever... im definitely in!

[rambhat]

http://www.80scartoons.net/

Check out this link guys. Some good stuff on there.

Herculoids sounds pretty pimp. If I have time, I'll try and do that.

[|NTeRN]

im SOO doing the Snorks :dur:

[karma militia]

well it looks like i cant do teknoman or swat kats (it was shown in 93 paddy1, biker mice were too i think. its a damn shame.). so i call transformers. thats right, no-one else can do it :devil:

ps. i love where your taking heman marko

[davi]

dear god i loved that show. i was so pissed when the time slot it was on got replaced by bananas in bajamas :frustrated:


what happens if Marko gets second place?


BANANAS IN PAJAMAS, ARE COMING DOWN THE STAIRS
BANANAS IN PAJAMAS ARE COMING DOWN IN PAIRS
BANANASSSSSSSSSS IN PAJAMAASSSSSSSS ARE CHASSSSSINGGGGG TEDDDDDDDY BEEEEEEEAAAAARRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSS

[davi]

btw anime is fine, as long as it was in the 80's and you keep it to the guidelines of redesign.

[Hanuka]

this topic is absolutely awesome.
id like to go with saber rider and the star sheriffs - they seriously kicks ass. i guess therell be several shows with more than one participant (like 3 people doing TMNT etc.), is that okay?

this is gonna be a blast

[Helium Macaroni]

Karma Police.. I'd glady take on anyone who wanted to battle it out over Transformers. I have to defend my childhood hero's, I still cry at TF:The Movie when Prime dies. *sob*

[young paddy1]

karma: you're right and when you're right, you're right, and you, you're always right. (sorry spaceballs fan). both 1993 and I thought I saw them before I moved in '91.

[Hamsta]

Fraggle Rock? wasn't that a puppet show? would'nt claymation count as well?
Not that I know what (if) I'm gonna do, but to clear things up

[Joeslucher]

COPS was the most badass kids show ever. That one guy had a giant baseball glove on his hand, how cool is that. The super fat plumber...so many good characters

[metaphysiks]

inspector gadget? dont know if it counts, might be interesting.

[I.was.ink]

Inspector gadget sounds great! Was that in the 80's? :confident

[Hanuka]

yep, inspector gadget was 83-86, cool series

[Hamsta]

I call dibs on "my little Pony" - that way u can't say I messed a good design up :teeth: no seriously, I plan to make something badass out of it

[Carnifex]

what makes me wonder though is that we don't even have the results of the last one...trying to deflect the users from something? :P

[0kelvin]

I'm deciding between Inspector Gadget and one other cartoon I shall not name. I told myself I had to take part in the next Thunderdome no matter what. And I couldn't have asked for a better topic.

This is going to kick all sort of ass.


0kelvin

[Molly]

80's cartoons!!!
Aw, lemme think...

Battle Of The Planets!,
Thundercats,
He-Man,
Terrorhawks - (does anyone remember this?)
Fraggle Rock
Trapdoor - (I think this was UK only...)
Godzilla
DangerMouse

- I'm in!

Mollyx

[jermainevl]

Does someone know what those little bears that could shoot rainbows from their bellies were called (I only know what they were called in Dutch)? They were from the 80s right? I used to watch that show....even though I am a boy...and a very tough and cool one mind you!.....:P
Inspector Gadget was my favourite one though, and he-man and MASK, but I remember little of that. Oh, and there was one with the dudes going back to the dinosaur-age! What was that called?! You know, the one with the lizardmen as the bad guys.

[Schlo-mo]

carebears, jermainevl?

[davi]

Fraggle Rock? wasn't that a puppet show? would'nt claymation count as well?
Not that I know what (if) I'm gonna do, but to clear things up

fraggle rock was a cartoon for a few years...very short lifespan

[jmascho]

Optimus Prime.

[JoshuaTheJames]

MARKO YOU BASTARD!!!!

You got to He-man First! :(

Ah-well...

But, your Orko sucks he's not supposed to be some creapy ghoul. :P


Anyhoo this T-dome sounds fun!


-Joshua James

[Helium Macaroni]

wait.. are we suppoed to call and reserve a particular series or characters? I would imagine that more than one person can interperate such characters/series a number of different ways.

[N D Hill]

If that's not the case, I'm calling Shredder from TMNT

[Helium Macaroni]

Well, say some of us wanted to do transformers, but do a whole slew of them.. I'd redesign all the major characters I suppose.. so i dont see the point in reserving any particular characters. I'd imagine that the contest would be very interesting seeing the many many variations to be gotten out of several different characters, done by any number of different people. That really hasn't been specified, so sorry to be stepping on any toes, but I'd like to do several TF redesigns.

[JoshuaTheJames]

A few of my Favorite...not already listed.


Brave Star

the Lost City of Gold

the Littles

Galtar and the Golden Lance

Turbo Teen

Grape Ape

Bionic Six

Dinosaucers

the Monchichis

Laser Tag

Inhumanoids

Kidd Video

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors

Shirt Tales

My Pet Monster





-Joshua James

[N D Hill]

Just remembered something.

how could we forget this? (http://www.arrrr.com/dinoriders.shtml)

edit: for the record, I'd like to do the Rulon's T-Rex with all the mechanical fixins.

[Schlo-mo]

doh, I hoped no one would remember Dino-riders.. Im halfway through my entry

[squirpy]

I was considering dinoriders. I never watched it (I was born in '86), but I saw it on that site of 80's cartoons.

[Hamsta]

Correct me if I'm wrong - but there's no limitation on what 80's cartoon you take, or which characters. However, someone will probably look for something exclusive, which is why people are saying what they plan to do, plus, it gives something to look forward to :)
If memory serves me right there's only one final image, which may contain any number of characters

[bhuddistmonk]

Will there be a red lantern prize? Like in the Tour de France, the last person to finish gets a red lantern. Maybe here you could give away a t-shirt. (if this happens, Ill prob get it, and thatd be awsome!)

[Schlo-mo]

I thought no one would remember Dino-Riders, then id post my image and everyone would be like OMG DINO RIDERS... My plans are foiled!

[N D Hill]

I was considering dinoriders. I never watched it (I was born in '86), but I saw it on that site of 80's cartoons.

you don't know what you missed. The human space-hippy Valorians (led by Questar) were fighting the evil mutant Rulons (led by Krulos) when they went back to the time of the dinosaurs in order to escape. Of course the Rulons followed them ended up in the mesozoic erra too. So when they were all finally there, they were like, "hey. Wouldn't it be cool if we took all the futuristic junk we brought and made dinosaurs wear it?...And we could like ride the dinosaurs and fight eachother and shit" And everyone else was like "yeah, that'd be sweet! We'd sell a ton of toys too!" So that's what they did.

Season 1 ended with all of them trying yet again to escape and instead they went to the ice-age with saber-tooth tigers, wooly mamoths and cave-men. They released a whole new series of toys to go with the new "season 2" setting but for some strange reason season 2 never came. I was only five years old and when I got up early on that particular Saturday morning expecting to see Dinoriders. I truly felt robbed when something else had replaced it. That was when I knew without a shadow of a doubt that humanity could not be trusted and would try to screw me out of my favorate cartoons at every possible chance.

[HugeHarHar]

If we're allowed to claim stuff, I claim Little Nemo. If we're not claiming stuff, I'm still doing it.

This rocks for real.

(EDIT) DOH!! The original comics we're made in like 1902, the books were made in 1986, the game was made in 1990, and the movie was made in 1992. Dammit. So there goes that.

[hurricane]

im doing a redesign of skelletor, please someone else do him too, would be fun :) (but i guess he-man is popular so i guess there will be plenty more)..

have fun...

ps. i might do something else later also.

[young paddy1]

Is bucky o'hare eighties or early nineties, what about paw paw bears and the ewoks?

trapdoor was way too short, but berk, boney and drut have got to be some of the best characters ever.

[Schlo-mo]

haha exo, that brought a tear to my eye.

[Hamsta]

A ton of ponies with porn star names, and almost no pictures of the girls in "My little pony" bah! What's redesigning ponies good for if you don't have bitchs to ride them! >:D sorry in anyone's offended (wussies)

[HosStyle]

Td8 = Omg Wtf?????

[deschamps]

Thunder, Thunder, THUNDERCATS... ho!!!!

ah yes.... my sketchpad awaits them.

[prostate sunrise]

thunder cats HOOOOOOOOOOlllishieeeet!!

[N D Hill]

haha exo, that brought a tear to my eye.

me too. Out of all the 80s cartoons that only lasted three months, Dino-riders was by far the best.

[flex mathews]

has anyone mentioned voltron? i was a huge voltron fan growing up. i loved the intro music.

[HugeHarHar]

Space Ghost. I mean he even got his own talk show, he has to rock.

[Happy Camper]

Sweet! An opportunity to relive my childhood... so many favourites...

Super Ted

Legend of Zelda (I was obsessed and they only ever showed it once a week :\ as apart of Mario Brothers.... that was good too)

Mighty Mouse! Danger mouse was good too but not as good as M&M.

Dinoriders... I must have rewatched the first season several times over. I had alot of the episodes on tape as well... I watched them so many times they got streched and were thrown away.

Voltron! When I was a todler I had a Voltron Booster seat for the car, I kept it 'till it fell apart, I loved the damn thing.

Samurai Pizza Cats is 1990... otherwise that would be awesome :[ altho production was 1989... does that still count :^^;:

Mr.T!.. Roflmao... I never watched it but I thought it would be worth mentioning.

Garfield... probably better than the new 3D version except it doesn't have Jeniffer Love Hewitt :P.

Inspector Gadget - But I guess everybody here liked that show

Scooby Doo when Scrappy became a regular character... I used to find him funny when I was a kid.

... now I'm going to go to e-bay and see if I can find any Voltron Toys :bashful:.

EDIT: Can't forget Transformers, it was awesome, still love it.

[LiL QoH]

HELL FUCKING GEAH! I'm doing rainbow brite :D

[squirpy]

Exo: All that story needs is a stirring soundtrack. I felt that way when Batman Beyond ended (my favorite non silly saturday morning cartoon ever).

[davi]

q-bert was made into a cartoon? on the shame...


anyways, it's offical i am going to be doing Ronin Warriors.

[I.was.ink]

Hey Davi, is inspector gadget cool? Im not sure if the cartoon was in the 80's.

[Hanuka]

@ i.was.ink:


yep, inspector gadget was 83-86, cool series


:}

[Form]

Astroboy is all mine. ALL MINE

Tag, your it!

[DRESDEN]

HE-MAN ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEEEEEHHAAAAAWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

This is going to be fun!

One question, the final doesn't have too be cartoony right?

[Hamsta]

Pirates of Darkwater
Garfield and Friends
Beetlejuice
Biker Mice from Mars
Ewoks
Fat Albert
Flintstones
Jetsons
Yogi Bear
X-men - although whats the point in doing something that was made from an exisiting series wether it be live action, movies, comics etc.. if there are already a thousand redesigns of something, i would say to choose another topic.
woody woodpecker
X-men
Robocop
Q-Bert
snoopy
popeye
yogi bear

I think a lot of those were missed.. im not sure

Pretty sure that:
Biker Mice from Mars, X-men
are 90's
while:
Flintstones, Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Woody woodpecker, snoopy, popeye
are older (now googling ;) )

[donkeyslayer]

captain bucky o'hare!

[Schlo-mo]

haha, Whenever someone mentions another title I keep getting these weird mini-flashbacks and like faded images in my head.

[bOne]

Nobody mentionned COBRA ??????????? With his laser arm... He is the coolest !


Marko your He-man sketches are great !!!! Can't wat to see more :)

What a great thunderdome it will be !!!!!!! I'm so happy you choose this subject

[Happy Camper]

I'm totally taking Voltron :confident I don't care if anybody else does it but I'll be redesiging the entire main cast along with their bots... it was either Voltron or Zelda and Voltron seems to have more patential.

[Skank]

:ao: :am: :ag:
how is it NO ONE has mentioned....The SMURFS!

thats right..get ready :O

[kapturowski]

Oh, COBRA was great!

I'm doing Starzinger (Spacekeeter for you englishspeaking people) my all time favourite cartoon.

[Schlo-mo]

Starzinger sounds like a crazy new KFC burger!

[N D Hill]

Holy crap! I can't believe what I found. After an obsessive google-crazy dino-rider search, I found this. The pilot episode (http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics4/dino-riders.rm) in realmedia format available for download. If you've never seen it, you're in for a treat. How could you not instantly fall in love with cartoon with lines like "we mean you no harm, my huge friend!"

[deschamps]

Skank ...good luck with that one. How could you possibly make the smurfs more fun?! La La LA la LAAA. :^^:

[Groover McNab]

I actually mentioned the smurfs in the previous page. Might actually do em too. Good to see someone else might be crazy enough also ;)

[Jebus]

Macross <3

[Schlo-mo]

Whoa, That Dino_riders episode is awesome! I watched the entire thing in all its Majestic, Pixelated Goodness. Youre right, that bit is amazing, the bit where he says "we mean you no harm" and his telepathy crystal glows and the Dino smiles and puts him on his head.

[Joeslucher]

MIKECORRIERO- Pirates of Dark Water was 1991-92

[Skank]

Skank ...good luck with that one. How could you possibly make the smurfs more fun?! La La LA la LAAA. :^^:

lol, who said anything about FUN??!
lol

[EVIL]

Harr! Evil Smurfs!

[HugeHarHar]

Just another random idea, Chip and Dale's.

[fukifino]

I'm so doing Thundarr the Barbarian. I remember really loving that show as a kid, dispite the fact that if I saw it now I'd probably throw something at the TV. So, I'm gonna take my fond memories from childhood and try to combine them with my grown up sensibilities and rework the idea. Besides...it's post-apocalyptic...with magic...coolest thing evAr!

[Standing]

Excuse me all,

Please forgive my ignorance - I've been luking on these boards for donkey's years, but rarely post.
To 'enter' the Thunderdome, do we just post our art on the thread when it becomes available, or do we actually make some form of formal entry?

I think that I'll be having a crack at Ulysses 31.

[Skank]

Excuse me all,

Please forgive my ignorance - I've been luking on these boards for donkey's years, but rarely post.
To 'enter' the Thunderdome, do we just post our art on the thread when it becomes available, or do we actually make some form of formal entry?

I think that I'll be having a crack at Ulysses 31.

you just hafta enter your art in the thread whenever they get it put up.

[xia]

thunder cats HOOOOOOOOOOlllishieeeet!!

Can't wait for this kid to pull out some sick ThunderCatz shit!

[JeffZNY]

Haha, I too was sitting on Dino-Riders...greedily hogging it for myself. I have the first season on old old VHS, so, muahahaha. From now on, I'll get in the spirit of sharing. In that vein, I was thinking of some awesome 80s cartoon movies...Secret of Nimh, Land Before Time, and ah, I can't bring myself to reveal the last one! It's just too cool and I need all the help I can get;-) Someone mentioned Dinosaucers also, and that was another short-lived, by very cool cartoon.

Question though! There are so many cool ideas I have, the hardest part of this competition might be narrowing them down! It says one entry per artist, but multiple designs per entry are allowed. So can we for example get a Shredder vs. Skeletor vs. Mum-Ra battle going, or do rules require that we limit our concept to one show/film? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Hamsta]

Will there be a WIP thread, if so, will WIP's be rudimentery?

[xia]

Hey Lord DAVI !!!

Does "Space Adventure Cobra" count? It was HUGE in 1982 in Asia. esp Japan.
I am not sure if anyone familiar with this one, but I was a BIG fan.

Sample:

http://anime.uport.ru/images/video/cobra.jpg
http://www.manga-news.com/IMG/jpg/cobra_01.jpg
http://www.jamesanime.ch/manga/images/cobra70.jpg

[jermainevl]

Dino-riders!! That's it! I couldn't remember the name but it was one of the first things that came to mind!

[Dougbot]

I'm thinkin' Smurf's or Snork's. Possibly The Monchichi's. Can two people do the same idea? I know someone else called out the Smurf's already, but it's my first choice.

Although Spartakus and The Sun Beneath the Sea, or Galaxy Ranger's would be coo' too. Dammit...tough decisions.

[Form]

atm im working on astroboy (80's version, not the original)

i really wanted to do a 'dire' or evil thomas the tank engine - with mutilated bodies in the window and so on.....but i dont know if it was ever a cartoon as such - and claymation/stopmotion doesnt count. can anyone fill me in if this was ever a caryoon series??

danke

[Groover McNab]

I'm thinkin' Smurf's or Snork's. Possibly The Monchichi's. Can two people do the same idea? I know someone else called out the Smurf's already, but it's my first choice.

Although Spartakus and The Sun Beneath the Sea, or Galaxy Ranger's would be coo' too. Dammit...tough decisions.

I don't think anyone can officially "call" anything as far as I know. Or maybe someone can correct me?

[Skank]

I don't think anyone can officially "call" anything as far as I know. Or maybe someone can correct me?

nope, its not in the guidlines...do whatever the hell you want to! sides, itll be cool to see different renditions of the same subject

smurfs is gonna be hard!

[Bretton]

Dang, i had no idea Rocky and Bullwinkle was so old.

"Rocky & His Friends, which aired on ABC between 1959 and '61"

but... "It was re-packaged for Saturday mornings in the mid-1980s"

does this count, or no?

[Phuzion]

Crap! I'm sick and sleeping for a day and you launch Thunder Dome 8! AND Marko hits He-Man right off the bat!

He-man was always my favorite as a kid... that and Gi-Joe.
Don't forget Hong Kong Fui!
Atom Ant? Was he in the 80's? Or was he 70's?
Well Marko, I'm getting in on that He-Man action!!

[Sok N. Wett]

OHHH SNAP!! If Marko and Phuzion are doing He-Man I'm up for that as well. This is going to be so fun.

[brkofdon]

ive been waiting for such a project from ca!!! and now its here!!! i love them cartoons, i kinda wanna throw down on some smurfs, i just recently downloaded a couple episodes.

i think i'll have time to do this!!! IM IN!!! never entered the thunderdome before. ;)

EVERYONES GOTTA DO THIS!!!

[brkofdon]

new kids on the block and mc hammer didn't they have a cartoon.. i know mc hammer was more 90s..

hmmm?? just thinking...

[Sapphire]

Thunderome80's! Ooooohman, SUCH an awesome topic. I'm getting a huge flood of memories just reading people's posts, and just as many ideas on recreating some of my favorites.

I've got a few obscure ones I'm hoarding and not sure I'm going to use... :D Whoever is doing the smurfs, I know we can expect some truly wacky stuff.

By the way, there was this cartoon I barely remember from my childhood... don't remember the title or anything but I watched it a lot. There was a human girl, and two koala bears, a pink girl one who floated in a bubble, and a bigger boy koala, and they had magic adventures...am I just imagining this show and hallucinating?

[JeffZNY]

That would be the Noozles, if I'm not mistaken:)

[Sapphire]

OMG, you just solved one of the Great Mysteries of my childhood... thank you!!

[Dished]

Man funny how i know most of these cartoons even though i wasnt even born during the 80s! This is gonna be soo fun!!

Beetle Juice!! :needle:

btw, wasnt SWAT KATS in the 90s??

[digitalgannon]

Thunderome80's! Ooooohman, SUCH an awesome topic. I'm getting a huge flood of memories just reading people's posts, and just as many ideas on recreating some of my favorites.

I've got a few obscure ones I'm hoarding and not sure I'm going to use... :D Whoever is doing the smurfs, I know we can expect some truly wacky stuff.

By the way, there was this cartoon I barely remember from my childhood... don't remember the title or anything but I watched it a lot. There was a human girl, and two koala bears, a pink girl one who floated in a bubble, and a bigger boy koala, and they had magic adventures...am I just imagining this show and hallucinating?

I think the Kola Bear Cartoon was called The Nozzels, I remeber watching it when i was sick from school on Nickelodeon.

[trevor]

jem is soooo truly outrageous that i have to do her aja shana kimber
and all the misfitz too and lets not forget rio jems beau
and since as a child i had a crush on aja and she had the best hair heres my first sketch
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/trevorclaxton/aja2.jpg

she also had that sweet star guitar
oh and lets not forget synergy ROOOOOCK

[Phuzion]

OH! Don't forget Madballs!
And does anyone remember the name of those hand puppet goblin guy? They came in a carboard cage with plastic bars... I can't remember what they were called...

[Aly Fell]

Can we have shows that were broadcast in the eighties? I feel strangely drawn to Penelope Pitstop... :bounce:

[davi]

xia, yes cartoons from other countries shown in the 80's are fine

Poshspice, i would perfer if the entries were of 80's cartoons.... there's a huge selection to choose from. there's gotta be rules to make this interesting, sorry.

[Jaku]

Saint Seiya, no doubts :cheerleader:

[NoUseFrAName]

trev' I'm doing Jem too! I'd get even more pwned if I tried to redesign creatures, lol.
aaaand I started with Aja too, lol.
she most definitely needs a cooler guitar yet, and well....other coolness all around!
Looking forward to seeing the rest of the crew!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v245/NoUseFrAName/Aja.jpg

-Rob

[Jaku]

Some doubts...
Since there are animation series redesings, are there the desings limited to this field (animation)? Or the hypothetic end doesn´t care (...2D animation series, 3D, games, film,....)?

I ask this because the look of the final images is very diferent if they´re polished and clean lineart like a traditional animation model sheet or if it would be used as concept desings for 3D models or film, game,....?

Just wondering......

[lowpolymatt]

I SO wanted Chorlton and the wheelies...but its 76' to 79' :(

I don't know if all of these fall within the 1980's...Im checking...

The Clangers
Count Duckula
The Flumps...do stop frame animations count? I'm assumig they do if Fraggle Rock is ok?
Transformers...
Ulysses 31
ahh wow....Trap Door!!!
Mysterious Cities of Gold...classic
Terahawks (puppets?)

I think I'll be doing one of these...Dominion Tank police and appleseed are calling me....If thats deemed ok..davi?

Dominion Tank Police (4 oav's in 1989, Japan) Dunno if or when it was aired..but I had all the comics..still have most of em too...
or
Bubblemn Crisis (1987-90, USA)
Appleseed (OAV in 1988)...like to do this one too...
The Moomins? 80's?
Willow the wisp....I think this is the one for me if I cant do Dominion....
Dogtanian...classic

Oh and also...do The Thunderbirds and joe90 etc count? Because I'd love a go at them...

[lowpolymatt]

Can we have shows that were broadcast in the eighties? I feel strangely drawn to Penelope Pitstop... :bounce:

If stop motion and puppets are allowed (dunno) then lady penelope might stir your brain juices...

[Meme]

Well guys i'm doing Kaneda's bike from Akira :painting: :bounce:

[Aly Fell]

If stop motion and puppets are allowed (dunno) then lady penelope might stir your brain juices...
Sadly, Thunderbirds is '60's... :(

It might be a problem to 'police' this one. Eg. Scooby Doo is seventies, but Scooby and Scrappy is Eighties. So does that mean Scrappy could be re-designed but not Scooby? Or am I making it to complicated...? :^^;:

[deschamps]

The Wuzzles.... anyone?

[rothgar]

argh, too many choices, thinking I'll take a stab at the fraggles

[t y l e r]

Amazing coincidence that I just finished this piece last night. I'm not sure that it qualifies as a redesign, but I thought I'd put it here anyway. I'll probably work up some other designs before too long.

http://www.tylerwalpole.com/boards/venger.jpg

Question. If you're only allowed to post one image per user in the "final images" thread, does that men we should pick just one main character to focus on or something? Or just lump all designs into one pic, I guess.

Also, here's a great link if you're looking for ideas.

http://www.80scartoons.net/

[Aly Fell]

Interesting link for eighties animated *movies*:

http://www.cartoonresearch.com/movies.html

[t y l e r]

Interesting link for eighties animated *movies*:

http://www.cartoonresearch.com/movies.html


Oh man, I'd forgotten about this--> STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN

I loved that movie! Now I'm gonna have to try and track down a copy.

[Vodnik]

Here's a couple I havnt seen mentioned:
Blackstar
Flash Gordon
Herculoids(new episodes made in the 80's)
Inhumaniods

[Hamsta]

Who can do Hip-hop better than a frog can?

:teeth: would love to see that

[redehlert]

Sweet!
Can't wait to see what peeps come up with.
As for myself....sheeeeet....I think it may be the Herculoids of the Space Stars series. I'm toying around with some Thundercat action though...but how can ya improve on greatness?!? Hmmm....ponders....ponders....
:blahblah:

Cheers!
Dave

[redehlert]

Would somebody contact Spinefinger outside of CA.org to get his punk ass in on this? I'm thinkin' he'd do so mad redesign of Transformers. I'll email him too....the more pressure the better.
Cheers!
Dave

[Tetsuo]

Galaxy Rangers...YOU ARE MYNE!!!!

GOOSE owns....

[PhilHolland]

Woof! Well I watched way too many cartoons in the 80's.

My initial thought was G.I. JOE, but there is no way I can redesign enough of that in the time frame given.

Then I was like "HE-MAN!". That got the blood pumping. Then I saw Marko's post.

Then there was a dramatic pause followed by this dialogue.

Dammit.

I'm still doing He-Man.

Phil

[Sok N. Wett]

Woof! Well I watched way too many cartoons in the 80's.

My initial thought was G.I. JOE, but there is no way I can redesign enough of that in the time frame given.

Then I was like "HE-MAN!". That got the blood pumping. Then I saw Marko's post.

Then there was a dramatic pause followed by this dialogue.

Dammit.

I'm still doing He-Man.

Phil

That's what I thought....I was like SHIT!, and then was like ALRIGHT!, then kinda thought on it for a second then I was like BRING IT ON, and now it's like cool. Can't wait to see your design on it as well, so I counted 4 people for He-man so far, Me, you, Phuzion, and Marko, am I missing anyone, cause I wanna see everyone's take on it.

[Half Calf]

Can you re-design something already as cool as Star Blazers? It will b fun tio give it a try. I'm sure Derek Wildstar could use a more durable suit than that white cotton jumper he's wearing. Looking forward to all your entries.http://www.starblazers.com/images/artwork/1_thumb.jpg

[Schlo-mo]

fuck. McNallyisms joke entry has already crushed my real entry =o/

[Dougbot]

Sadly, Thunderbirds is '60's...

It was, but Thunderbirds 2086 wasn't. :wink:
Thunderbirds 2086 (http://www.sfxb.co.uk/animated/tbirds2086.html)

Doesn't matter for me though, I think I've decided on the Snorks. Especially since my Smurf tree city looked like that wookie city in episode III. :dur:

[lowpolymatt]

So come on Davi...
Can I do one of these or not....

Bubblegum Crisis
Dominion Tank Police

They were both Made into cartoons in the late 80's...but weren't on prime time tv really...I dont think...are they classic? well thats subject to opinion...I think Bubblegum Crisis was...

If not I'll have to find something else...

PM me buddy

[Dennal Floss]

Hahahahaha

This is going to be quite the challenge 8) .

I'm gonna do some research and nail down what I wanna do. I'll be posting shortly.
I can't wait to see all those new smurf designs.....I'm all gitty.
It's like some childhood fantasy come true !!! :D

[JeffZNY]

I think it's time someone asked who's stroke of genius this contest was. was it you, davi? seriously, i could do like 7 entries for this contest, i am so juiced.

[trevor]

anyone taking on appleseed dominion or bubblegum crisis is insane
its not an easy thing to improve on such great work
it just seems a waste. its already amazing
you should take something lame or dated and make it awesome....theres a challenge for ya

[DragonGX]

Does someone know what those little bears that could shoot rainbows from their bellies were called (I only know what they were called in Dutch)? They were from the 80s right? I used to watch that show....even though I am a boy...and a very tough and cool one mind you!.....:P
Inspector Gadget was my favourite one though, and he-man and MASK, but I remember little of that. Oh, and there was one with the dudes going back to the dinosaur-age! What was that called?! You know, the one with the lizardmen as the bad guys.



DinoRiders! I was thinking about doing them.

[DragonGX]

D'OH! I shoulda read the whole thread.. I didn't know DInoRiders would be so big.. :( I still haev the first movie on VHS.. man that brought back some memories..

[Nero's Master]

Might have to get in on this action, if time allows. Going for Captain N here. Oh, yeah. :teeth:

[Soupy]

dunno if any1 linked to this yet. It's every show:

http://www.80scartoons.net/toons/index.html

Peace!! :bashful:

[arghmisfit]

this sounds great!!! im defiantly doin TMNT ppl

[cheeks-74]

thanx for the invite! i'll see what i come up with.... so a REdesign huh.... okay.... where do we post the entries? on this thread? thanx for the help!

[Skank]

thanx for the invite! i'll see what i come up with.... so a REdesign huh.... okay.... where do we post the entries? on this thread? thanx for the help!

theres a finished work section in the thunderdome forum

[Dennal Floss]

I thought maybe Goldorak but I think he's too old...so maybe TranzorZ. It'd be nice to have a remake of those.
Thundarr the Barb..(heheh can't keep a straight face even while typing) is a turn on.
Popeye comes to mind.
But I keep coming back to the Wonder Twins and their monkey mascot.
I'm outranked for HE-man so I guess i'll just enjoy the show.
Even Tarzan seems attractive.
Stuff like robotech seems tempting....but the design is already so thought out and perfect.....nope, won't touch the stuff.
Shit what else....so many..............aaarrrghh, I think I'll sleep on it.

[lowpolymatt]

anyone taking on appleseed dominion or bubblegum crisis is insane
its not an easy thing to improve on such great work
it just seems a waste. its already amazing
you should take something lame or dated and make it awesome....theres a challenge for ya


I have some mad visions of uber hi-tech 'filmesque' takes on them all....Dominion...I just SO wanna do a remodel of that mini tank....

and the BGCrisis girls......think of the possibilities!!!

Yes I'm mad..but it might just work!

[lowpolymatt]

ok then...IF dominion and BGcrisis are out Im doing Battle of the Planets.....

[Aerythes]

Gundam, anyone? :}
I think I'll do Macross too. Kudos to whoever thought up of this Thunderdome topic. Uber creative and motivational stuff!

[Meme]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/meme2004/Kaneda_bike.jpg
This is going to be my Akira bike concept :confident

[lowpolymatt]

This is going to be my Akira bike concept :confident

Its a bit square with a red x...might want to check that link ;)

[EVIL]

hey, nice bike man, A friend of mine is doing kaneda and bike to for this TD..

can't wait to see your's finished :)

[Meme]

My bike is going to be black :devil:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v498/meme2004/Kaneda_bike_00.jpg

[Redmond]

There were alot of cool cartoons, but many of them didn't last long, were hard to keep track of schedule wise and so on. It wasn't that much better than now I think...

[Dennal Floss]

O.k. I made up my mind..... I'm sure I'm not the only one who'll do this one.
It was a close tie with Babar the elephant and the Wonder Twins.
But it's gonna be........Caaaaptain CAAAAAAAveMAAAAAN !!!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v380/91011/002.jpg

Yup, beats the crap outta Dinoriders fer sure :confident

[Skank]

oi..man..smurfs..i got nothin for the smurfs...
so, i think im takin "The Secret of Nimh"

imma have fun with this one :pirate: :muscle: :moon: :cheerleader:

[N D Hill]

O.k. I made up my mind..... I'm sure I'm not the only one who'll do this one.
It was a close tie with Babar the elephant and the Wonder Twins.
But it's gonna be........Caaaaptain CAAAAAAAveMAAAAAN !!!!!

Yup, beats the crap outta Dinoriders fer sure :confident

Themz fightin words. I guess we'll see, won't we. :evilmustache:













:moon:

[Schlo-mo]

you dare take on the dinoriders posse?!

[JeffZNY]

Secret of Nimh...great movie and some great opportunities for character designs there.

I think Dinoriders is right up Exo's alley, so I'm looking forward to that.

[Dennal Floss]

YEAH....watch me pull shit outta my fur
(.....wait that doesn't sound right :\ )

MOOOOHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! :madchef:

[young paddy1]

Being 23 and watching an innordinate amount of telly means all the cartoons sort of merge through from the eighties to the nineties and the ones I wanted to do are very early nineties, which is, well annoying to say the least.

NOBODY CHOOSE THESE THEY'RE NOT 80s,
captain simian and the space monkeys,
pirates of dark water,
SWAT KATZ,


so I'm gonna have to go for Thundercats I guess, can't compete for HE-MAN.

or possibly defenders of the earth, with the phantom and his power of ten tigers which usually turned out to be 6 or 7.

the really disturbing thing about this is that I still know most of the theme tunes

[Dougbot]

I think I've decided on The Inhumanoids! Fun monstery goodness.

[brkofdon]

i totally forgot about captain caveman! man i want to do so many of these cartoons!! uugghh :perv:

[Bretton]

I'm going to go with Beetlejuice (just barely 80's!)

Is there going to be a Thunderdome 8 WIP thread or anything? I'd like to see the progress and rough sketches of some of these I'm sure.

[Thunder Blossom]

Hm... might try my hand at this... drawing for one of my favourite movies, The Last Unicorn.

... Uh... dun have any idea what I'm gonna do for it yet, though. :bashful:

[Vyle]

Has anyone taken Grandizer? (aka goldorak) if not I am a taker since lowpollymat already took my fav (battle of the planets). If you already have please answer!

[Dennal Floss]

Vyle-I checked out Goldorak and it aired in Japan between 77-79.
But it was bought and aired in america in the 80's....... does that count ???

MikeCorriero-WHAT ???? Nobody's doing smurf ???? I was looking forward to a smurf showdown !! Wasn't Groover talking about smurf's ??

[Matt Dixon]

Battle of the Planets is not an 80's cartoon.

'Battle of the Planets' first aired in the US in the late seventies, and the original Gatchaman I series on which it is based was produced between 1972-74.

Bah. This Thunderdome is really making me feel my age - all the cartoons I remember from my childhood were produced in the 70's or earlier... :grandpa:

[Aly Fell]

Being 23 and watching an innordinate amount of telly means all the cartoons sort of merge through from the eighties to the nineties and the ones I wanted to do are very early nineties, which is, well annoying to say the least.

Tell me about it Paddy! Being an old fart, I remember '70's cartoons :afroboy: of which I think, Captain Caveman is.

[Fozzybar]

What about the drawing style?

I mean cartoons are normally cellshaded or with a less amount of smooth shadow to keep the workflow optimized...now a presentation with fully rendered and shaded figures like we do most time over here at ca.org could distract from the functionality and make comparison harder...

So shall we draw in cartoon-like rendering/coloring?

[JeffZNY]

no, we shall not.

[trevor]

fozzy...
im trying to make the comparison as hard as possible heh

jem really wasnt a good show
plot holes plot holes plot holes hahahah

[Lono]

SECTAURS!

BIOTCH!

mine...

-Lono

[jetpack42]

I've already set my heart on the TMNT. That show was my favorite...I liked it even more then He-Man.

Cowabunga!

[Reotharmus]

ok this is excellent turns out my youth wasnt wasted on the cartoons before blockbusters after all thought of a few that arent on (for give if some are 90's)

Dog tanion and the Muskahounds
Top Cat (made earlier im sure but aired 80's???)
Honk Kong Phewey (this too early too??)
has some one said captain planet?
Alvin and the Chipmonks
Orsons farm ( bits between garfield shows!!!) wade the duck kicked ass.

[Reotharmus]

what about the wombles? i know there was a cartoon mid 90's (blasphemous!!!)

jamie and his magic torch??

[Zafio]

Would be a collaboration between two members ok as an entry?

[GraphicGeek]

Wow, just stumbled onto this. is it too late to get started? Can we choose any 80's cartoon or is it first come first serve?

Man, the ideas are flying *heh*

-Freddy

[Vyle]

Well, I am with you on that one Matt Dixon... The whole cartoon thing makes me feel like a very old man...

Dennal Floss: Hell yeah it counts!! Goldorak was played in France for a bout 15 years almost non stop. And started in the late 70's. So it had to be playing in the 80's
Well, I guess no one took it, so IIIIII take it. Venusia HERE I COOOME. this is going to be fuuuun.

[Skank]

Cetain people seem to think there are certain rules.

As far as I know.. You can't CALL a topic.. everyone can do what they want, there can be 20 people doing he-man.

Also, I believe you can do these realistically or cartoonish or whatever you want, just because your redesigning a cartoon doesnt mean that you have to draw it in that style.

If im wrong..please correct me.

btw- I didnt say no one was doing smurfs, i just saw that some people said its gonna be too hard. I think smurfs are the best characters to go with since there is a lot you can do with them. The whole subject of smurfs is fantasy related anyways. I'll have to do some real research into the original concept of it all though.

good luck on that mikey :confident
i was gonna try smurfs as well, but just wasnt gettin anything i wanted to work with, but im sure you can do somethin worthy!!
at anyrate, this topic is great, LOTS of subject matter, cant wait to see some of these designs!

[Hamsta]

... :dead:
http://img38.exs.cx/img38/6346/mlp1.jpg
What am I thinking

[EVIL]

I am suprised noone mentioned Teddy Ruxpin, and Bravo to the guy who thought up this TD topic, its brilliant

[young paddy1]

the six limbed caterpillar thing just freaked the shit out of me, what about proffesor snuggles, or magic roundabout, it's stop motion and it's been airing for about 40 years.

[Sinix]

So, it can be any cartoon, anime, or puppet show from the 80s? I'm guessing puppet show.. since I saw fraggle rock. I'm gonna have to remember something good.

[Wart]

Crap, being born at the tail end of the eighties is now suddenly making me very sad. Where the hell were cool programs like Dino-Riders when I was/still am growing up??? You lucky bastards.

This topic still rocks.

[Atreyu]

thx for the infos mike!
i was going to work on a popeye redesign, but i just had to face it. definetly not 80's. so my second choice, the smurfs, will be my entry. if im not too late...(?)

[xia]

"BATTLE OF THE PLANET" Yes!

Vyle>> I would love to see GrandiZer from you! It would rock so much ass!

[rick_hershey]

I can't decide what I want to do. . . the dungeons & dragons cartoon, or Rainbow Brite, any suggestions?

[Nero's Master]

May sound like a stupid question, but are we supposed to re-design just one character, or all the main chars, or just whichever we decide? :[

[Sok N. Wett]

I can't decide what I want to do. . . the dungeons & dragons cartoon, or Rainbow Brite, any suggestions?

Hmm no one mention Dungeons & Dragons, you should definately do that, just cause no one is doing it, or not, i don't know do what your heart tells ya to, or your gut feeling, or that click you get in the head with the light bulb.

[defcombeta]

what about the european version of actionman, that had the shadows with there red uniforms and cool helmets(anyone remember the black major), z force etc. i prefer them to the cobra version that came out in the 90s. dibs on these if they pass ( they had one series in the uk and ireland)

[Happy Camper]

So, it can be any cartoon, anime, or puppet show from the 80s? I'm guessing puppet show.. since I saw fraggle rock. I'm gonna have to remember something good.
No claymation ,Stopmotion or puppets. Fraggle Rock also had a cartoon hence it is allowed.


May sound like a stupid question, but are we supposed to re-design just one character, or all the main chars, or just whichever we decide? :[

You can do the full cast of your cartoon if you like. Your allowed more than one character (from the same cartoon) just keep it to one image only. You can pretty much do whatever you like with your image just keep it below 1500 pixels.

[t y l e r]

Hmm no one mention Dungeons & Dragons, you should definately do that, just cause no one is doing it, or not, i don't know do what your heart tells ya to, or your gut feeling, or that click you get in the head with the light bulb.


Hey there, now! Actually, one of the only pictures in this thread is from the D&D cartoon.

[jetpack42]

was captain planet in the 80s? i always felt sorry for the poor bastard with the "heart" ring.

[trevor]

hey the d&d cartoon pic is great but what about the jem pic..hmmmmm
ive heard shes truly outrageous
check out my othe holograms designs here

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31158

theyre also truly truly truly outrageous
im gonna get girls in my town to dress like my chars for halloween

[Layil]

i have the thundercats character sheets should anybody want or need them.
PM me and ill email em to ya.

in return, anybody got some good TC research links? im doing my own, but every bit helps...

good luck to everyone! i cant wait to see what you all come up with!

[Aly Fell]

Another good link for Hanna Barbera stuff:

http://www.wingnuttoons.com/Hanna_Barbera.html#1980

[Hamsta]

I'm dropping My Little Pony for Street Frogs (as if anyone cares)

[Rusty]

Might have a go at "Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers"
I can just remember it,had some wicked animation on that show,specially tha intro..goose(my fave character),Zach,Doc and,uhh, cant remember that bitch`s name,the one with the Psychic powers....

what year was "Samurai Pizza Cats" made?..

Hey Davi...Is Don Bluths "Dragons Lair" counted in this?.I dont know if you remember it,but i remember it more than anything from the 80`s..I consider it more an animation than a game..
It was made in `83,im gonna have a go at that one if its allowed.
link here (http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/pages/lair.asp) to spark some memories of this classic.

my other faves r probably gonna be pimped to death ,Thundercats ,Transformers,G.I.JOE,HE-MAN,D&D,TMNT

nice and challenging topic,looking forward to seeing the finished stuff.

Jace

[N D Hill]

was captain planet in the 80s? i always felt sorry for the poor bastard with the "heart" ring.

It's sort of like the wondertwins. One of them would turn into something cool like a Polar bear or a dragon, while the other one always seemed to turn into a bucket of water.

[Reotharmus]

pizza cats (according to ealier post) made 89, Aired 90 (even later in UK) though im sure we didnt get all of them over here.. and everyone i speak to doesnt remember them at all :(

there's some real good pizza cat stuff online to can access all original character sheets and everything

[Aly Fell]

...i was going to work on a popeye redesign, but i just had to face it. definetly not 80's....

Popeye wasn't '80's, but 'Popeye and Son' was! 1987.

[Sok N. Wett]

was captain planet in the 80s? i always felt sorry for the poor bastard with the "heart" ring.

LOL.....I dunno I heard he uses that ring for his own evil purposes, making hot girls fall in love with him, that bastard.

[Sok N. Wett]

pizza cats (according to ealier post) made 89, Aired 90 (even later in UK) though im sure we didnt get all of them over here.. and everyone i speak to doesnt remember them at all :(

there's some real good pizza cat stuff online to can access all original character sheets and everything

Ahh back to back post, Yeah the Samurai Pizza Cat kicks ass.

[redehlert]

I need a definitive "Hell Yeah" or "Hell No" for doing the Herculoids due to the date thingy.

The Herculoids debuted on CBS Saturday mornings on September 9, 1967, and ran until September 6, 1969. Reruns of the show were later shown as part of NBC's Go Go Globetrotters show in 1978. New episodes of The Herculoids were created in 1981 for NBC's Super Stars which also featured new adventures of Space Ghost, as well as adventures that featured the the characters of both classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons together.

Let me know whatcha think.
Cheers,
D

[dogfood]

D, we can extrapolate that the answer is:

Hell yeah!

by looking at Davi's first example, "The Adventures of Johnny Quest". This series originated in the 60's, as well, with an 80's rebirth. Somewhere in this thread, he further OK'ed anything which originally aired in the 80's. The Super Stars where newly created adventures for all of the characters involved and fall into the category "originally aired".

I have, however, no authority to definitively judge, but only look at what has already been put forth.

[redehlert]

Schwwwweeeeet!
Thanks.
D

[Dennal Floss]

Dogfood said"by looking at Davi's first example, "The Adventures of Johnny Quest". This series originated in the 60's, as well, with an 80's rebirth. Somewhere in this thread, he further OK'ed anything which originally aired in the 80's. The Super Stars where newly created adventures for all of the characters involved and fall into the category "originally aired".

I have, however, no authority to definitively judge, but only look at what has already been put forth."

Yeah, I'm all for it.
We definitely need the O.K. of a higher power but this is for fun.
The more the merrier.
I opt for : As long as it aired and was on a saturday morning line-up in the 80's.

[JeffZNY]

Aw, I don't think we should do shows that were resurrected from the 60s...Quest, Space Ghost, Herculoids...there were so many great shows from that period taht it could be a Thunderdome by itself. That said though, Davi did list Quest in his original post, so I guess I'm out voted:-P

[Sok N. Wett]

Nice work JoshuatheJames, so now we have a total of 5 peeps doing He-man.

[JoshuaTheJames]

He-Man allll the way BOY-EEEEEEEEEEEEE...

We have to comemorate his complete and utter dead with the New show.. :(

Anime has truly killed American action adventure Cartoons. The New He-man and Samurai Jack were our last. Well...it was fun while it lasted. And at least the Gargoyle Season 1 dvds come out in December!!!

-Joshua James

[Reotharmus]

was in conference with my (younger) bro about this topic last night.. he begged me to do a Rodimous Prime rework.. anyhow to the point.. what was the cartoon where all the robots had holograms? (if someones mentioned it already im sorry) and i dont mean the little Autobot and Decepticon ones... we both kinda remember it but not that well....

Cheers.

[treeboy]

oh, i'm in

soooo in

[Nekokaiju]

I'm still feeling guilty I never finished my Joust entry for the videogame Thunderdome. So this time I'm going all out. Taking a little bit of each day to work on it. Doing Thundarr the Barbarian. One of my favourites when I was a kid.
http://img4.exs.cx/img4/9494/ooklascan.jpg

[gaboartpage]

Sounds like fun to participate
just to remember the old days ahhh

well heres my anime list
for the ones who like it
i think these are popular and great
anime ovas oavs and movies
and also that may have a good
appeal for redesigning

But i think some of these are gonna
be hard for anyone cause these
are classic amazing designs
Akira - everything is great from enviros to mechanics
Bubblegum crisis - Boomers and mechanics
Wings of Honneamise - everything specially retro-nasa-stuff

1983
Captain Tsubasa
Golgo 13 The proffesional

1984
Hokuto no Ken
Nausicaa
Saber Rider and the stars sheriffs

1985
Area 88
Dirty Pair
Vampire Hunter D

1986
Laputa
Project A - Ko
Saint Seiya

1987
Black magic m-66
Bubblegum Crisis
City Hunter
Dangaioh
Little woman (Ai no wakakusa Monogatari)
Wings of Honneamise

1988
Akira
Appleseed
Vampire Princess Miyu

1989
Baoh
Dominion Tank Police
Gunbuster
Kikis delivery service
Lupin III
Dragonquest

what to choose what to choose
lets have a fun thunderdome !!!

[JadeDragon]

Dammit, where has ConceptArts.org been all my life? This Thunderdome is such a freaking brilliant and fun idea! It's so neat to see everybody all fired up, I cant wait to see what you all come up with!

My first instinct was Thundercats, been fiddling with it, but I TOTALLY forgot about THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN!! I see a couple others mentioned it. I might switch over to that, we'll see where the winds blow me (I considered Starblazers--my fave! But it's perfect as is...anybody remember Mighty Orbots? Great animation!)

Might take some time off from my daily sketches to work up something finished...

THANKS FOR THE GREAT INSPIRATION, EVERYONE! :D

Ciao!~~~JadeDragon

[maxetormer]

Dam all entries are looking so good!!!

This topic for the tunderdome is awesome
This is my first try at it, and since Thundarr the Barbarian is
my fave ill make some redesigsn for it :D
The sun sword rocks!!! this is the preliminar caracter line sketch
for Thundarr.
(I plan to make a full action painting with the three main caracters and
the wizard Gemini, this is just to get a clear desing on my head
before doing the actual painting)

Thundarr:
http://maxetormer.ice.org/scketchs/thundar.jpg

[madster]

"Tron" was a semi-animated movie from the early 80's, can we do something from that?

[brkofdon]

just curious is it ok to do more than one cartoon? i wanna do smurfs and captain caveman.. if i cant do two then ill try and just pick my best designs... blah blah blah >:D

[Aleksi]

Hey !!
I've got this recent one for inspiration.
Captain Harlock :)
http://www.aneyeoni.com/ART/Illustrations/Aleksi-CaptainHerlock01.511_800.jpg

[Sok N. Wett]

Aleski - Damn!!! I love that piece, the rendering is so inspirational, man I can't wait to see the finish product.

[Fozzybar]

Don't know if anyone has posted this, but here is a website that lists tons of 80's cartoons, in case some of you want to redesign something a little more obscure.

http://www.80scartoons.net/

oh....just about 10 times before you did :P

[Blackhawk]

LOL seriously? I'm a lazy bastard, I still haven't read through this thread. lol. I deleted it, I saw it. It was on the first page too :nohope: