Posts Tagged ‘cartoons’

It's amazing to me that a cartoon that so totally misses the point of the Thing could garner as much love in my heart as these do. I'm always a sucker for those rocks flying in to surround that scrawny kid, and cheer silently when the right shoulder finally completes itself. Thing Ring, do your [...]

Of course not! But that doesn't make this bit of viral marketing any less inventive and fun, kind of like the way we had "top secret" clips of Insecticons and Dinobots surface online to promote the first Transformers flick.
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I absolutely loved Hong Kong Phooey as a kid. It was easily my most favoritest cartoon, to the point where my dad had to give me The Talk when it went off the air, explaining to me the harsh reality that sometimes the TV shows we love the most are canceled and no longer shown [...]

I'll admit it - I paid to see Transformers 2 over the holiday weekend, despite thinking that the first one was a steaming load. What happened is that I happened to have a few hours to myself and Andrew had mentioned that he'd actually gone to see it opening weekend and that it was pretty [...]

In a move that's surprising to absolutely nobody who's paid attention the last few years, 7-Eleven has announced that they'll soon be offering limited edition G.I. Joe themed Slurpees. The cups will feature Baroness, Snake Eyes, Stormshadow and...Duke? Ok, then, moving on to the flavors. Sugar fiends will have a choice between "GO JOE" Energy [...]

Despite my general aversion to buying things that could totally kill my happy childhood memories and my newly acquired aversion to buying "things" in general, especially DVDs, there's something undeniably lustworthy about the newly announced G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero Complete Collector's Set. It'll run you a cool $145 and can either be [...]

If any animation studio tried something like this today, we'd have months and months of lawsuits and news stories. Instead, thanks to the simpler times we once lived in, we have a YouTube oddity.

Planning to indoctrinate your kids into the wonderful world of G.I. Joe by way of this summer's live action movie (which we've all been waiting for, nay, anxiously anticipating for the better part of 20 years)? Well, you probably won't be wanting to start just yet. They've just announced the release of the first figures [...]