Castle Grayskull Statue

[FramFramson]

I got a mix of 70's and 80's material, being just over the line. Most of Scurv's list (Fat Albert was a special favourite from the list above, hey hey hey) minus the live action, plus the usual others, like Scooby-Doo etc.

In Canada, we also got two sets of weird things as well. One was a couple of Canadian-made incredibly low-budget cartoons: Mighty Hercules...



(Mostly known for Newton the centaur's constant calls of "Hey Herc! Hey Herc! Hey Herc!" and the villain Daedalus' evil rubber-jawed laughter.)

...and Rocket Robin Hood, which was insane. It was made in the late 60's with the quality of a terrible cartoon made in the 50's. But we loved it! It was just so insanely ridiculous! Even at 10 or 11 years old you knew it was total crap. So we all adored it. And the theme song! I've never heard a more inspiring tune in my life. To hell with national anthems!



One of the most surreal experiences of my entire life was later in college, when I was 20, turning on the TV half-drunk, at 4am and seeing Rocket Robin Hood IN SPANISH on. I think I watched that all night.


Anyway, besides super-cheeseball Canadian cartoons, the other thing the US kids didn't have were these translated east European and French animated shows. Only they weren't cartoons, they were stop-motion animation. So many of those shows are totally lost to me, because I have no idea what they were called. They were very beautiful and must have had thousands upon thousands of hours of work put in. The one that my brother and I DO remember in full was the biggest one, "A Bear Called Jeremy" or, as it was called in France and Europe "Colargol".

Colargol was the first really epic adventure we'd ever seen, at eight or nine years old. Colargol's friend was kidnapped by a wolf and the entire series turned into an incredible sustained chase across the world, using a robotic suitcase that could transform into various vehicles.

Finally, I think it was Teddy Ruxpin that put me onto the nerdly path of fantasy around when I was twelve. Yes, I confess, that was my first big "Fantasy series". To this day, I want to make a piece of tabletop terrain that looks like Tweeg's tower.

[FramFramson]

They used to have these incredible character vignettes too. For every single one of my friends of the same age, the "Friar Tuck Eating Scene" is a permanent part of our collective childhood:



 

[Ninja]

Well this is awesome if someone gets one please take lots of pictures with miniatures for scale!

[white knight]

Seconded! If it fits, I'll buy one!

[SBRPearce]

Scurv, I think we're close contemporaries. "Battle of the Planets" was the after-school cartoon of choice, which introduced me to the world of Japanime, and Saturday morning was the domain of Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner, stars of all those sly, subversive, violently absurd cartoons that self-righteous people have since decided warp children's brains. First the "Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Show" got cut from 90 to 60 minutes, then it went to "The Bugs Bunny & Tweety-Bird Show", then it was canceled.

(I *hate* Tweety Bird. Smug, fake, hypocritical, lying little piece of yellow fluff.)

And we owe Ren & Stimpy a debt of honor for restoring the spirit of Tex Avery to our viewing schedule.

[Smith]

He Man and Cities of Gold tie for the the best cartoon ever.

Quoted for exceptional truth. However, I've had the pleasure of rewatching some episodes of these again recently, and I was very sad to see that He-Man wasn't as good as I remembered. Mysterious Cities of Gold, however, was brilliant, and I picked up the complete DVD set... 

[white knight]

I've recently rewatched Mysterious Cities of Gold and both the 70's and 80's Captain Harlock shows and they were still good. 

[Justizius]

He-Man is also my biggest childhood hero. Although the tv series was never on the programme over here in Austria I had a lot of the toys and some comicbooks. Sadly most of the toys didn`t survive all these years. 
But this Castle Greyskull is really cool! 

Thanks for the hint, Limaike. I take a look at the Hasslefree homepage regularly, but I missed this lady.

Does anybody know some other minis in the fashion of the MoU heroes and villians?

[white knight]

Tin's bits:




http://www.shop.battlefield-berlin.de/index.php/katalog/showarticles/26460-1-tins_bits.html

[beefcake]

Heresy miniatures does this miniature of that little sorcerer annoying thing that turned up later in MoU
Norko
http://www.heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_18_17&products_id=14

[hjorhrafn]

Thanks for the link White Knight.  Much obliged. 

[Justizius]

Thank`s for the links gentlemen!

[obsidian3d]

The castle does look really good, and is probably pretty close for scale based on the guy's hand when he moves it around. It's a little pricey, but I couldn't make one for myself...

[palaeomerus]

A castle the size of a...two story garden shed?

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

As for Ren and Stimpy one of my awseome life moments was due to them.
 

Spongebob Squarepants is by the same guy.