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From Saturday Morning to Thirst Trap: Leave Our Cartoons Alone

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There’s something strange happening to a generation of men now in their 40s and 50s. The same guys who once sat cross-legged in front of a woodgrain television eating cereal while watching cartoons on Saturday mornings are now scrolling online and turning those childhood characters into objects of adult fantasy. Characters that once represented adventure, humor, heroism, and innocence are being filtered through a lens of endless sexualization. And honestly? It’s depressing. Somewhere along the line, modern internet culture convinced people that everything must be sexualized. Nothing can simply exist…

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New post Lights, Camera, Yo Joe!

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By: R.A. Rayne Here we go again! Do we really need another live-action film? We all know what happened with the other films. Unfortunately, Hollywood studio executives usually don’t listen to fans. In March, it was announced that Paramount had rejected a treatment by writer Max Landis and that Danny McBride is developing a script for a new G.I. Joe film. Yes, I did say Danny McBride, the same Danny McBride who has played wild and unusual roles in Hot Rod, Tropic Thunder, and Pineapple Express. Okay, before you start…

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1986: The Figures, Part 1

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By Destro Designs – Viper Den Studios As my deep dive into all things G.I.Joe 1986 continues, I am going to rap about the figures first, and then the playsets and vehicles. As for the figures, I am going to sort of sidewind all over, but I will leave my favorites for last. One of the more important, but simple, figures is General Hawk. With his release, I was able to saddle him into the base that was comprised of the Bivouac, Machine Gun Nest, and various dio pieces I…

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When the Harlem Globetrotters Visited Gilligan’s Island

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Story by @GIJoeRepairShop I have a strange memory from childhood. I know that I’ve watched the Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Harlem Globetrotters were everywhere. They were even on Scooby-Doo. Indeed, they’re still everywhere. Just last month, they had Pope Leo XIV spinning a basketball on his finger! So, their appearance on the show alone isn’t that surprising. As an adult, I have to question how the entire Harlem Globetrotters organization managed to get onto, and then off of, Gilligan’s Island so easily, while…

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You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Summer: How Jaws Changed Movies Forever

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Before Jaws swam into theaters in 1975, summer was not considered the prime season for major movie releases. Studios often saved their prestige pictures for the fall and winter. Then Steven Spielberg unleashed a great white shark on Amity Island, and Hollywood learned a very important lesson: summer audiences were ready to line up around the block for thrills, chills, and unforgettable movie moments. Jaws did not just become a hit. It changed the way movies were released, marketed, and remembered. Based on Peter Benchley’s novel, the film told a…

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No Case Too Small: How Chip ’n Dale Became TV’s Tiniest Big-Time Detectives

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Before they were solving mysteries in Hawaiian shirts and bomber jackets, Chip and Dale were already Disney veterans, causing chaos in classic animated shorts. But by the late 1980s, Disney television animation was looking for its next big afternoon hit. DuckTales had proven that kids would race home for high-quality animated adventures, and Disney wanted another show that could capture that same magic. Out of that search came an idea that was not originally built around Chip and Dale at all. Early concepts reportedly centered on a mouse adventurer named…

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G.I. Joe, 1986: Houston, We Have Lift-Off

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By Destro Designs – Viper Den Studios To understand 1986, the nexus point of G.I. Joe, I think it’s important to understand what the line had in mind when it came to the brand as a whole. A major change was afoot at Hasbro’s brain trust, and they were pushing the idea of a new leader for Cobra to emerge in the G.I. Joe Movie. Starting a ground campaign for this was the five-part mini-series that kicked off Season 2 of the Sunbow cartoon: Arise, Serpentor, Arise. Anyone who knows…

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The Toys Every Kid Wanted… But Never Actually Saw in Stores

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In the 1980s, some toys became “shelf ghosts” not because kids imagined them, but because the toy aisle worked against them. A figure like G.I. Joe Sgt. Slaughter was not originally a normal retail release at all; YOJOE notes that he was available through Hasbro Direct mail order in early 1986, then only returned “on and off” from 1987 through 1989. Larger toys had their own problems: Snake Mountain was a big villain headquarters playset, the Technodrome was a huge 1990 TMNT playset at the height of Turtlemania, and Dino-Riders’…

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SUPER FRIENDS PREDICTED THE AI APOCALYPSE IN 1973 — AND NOBODY LISTENED!

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In 1973, long before the internet, smartphones, or ChatGPT, the legendary animated series Super Friends delivered a surprisingly eerie warning about artificial intelligence. The episode “Professor Goodfellow’s G.E.E.C.” may have looked like harmless Saturday morning entertainment, but beneath the colorful animation was a chilling prediction about machines gaining too much control over humanity. The episode centers around Professor Goodfellow, a brilliant scientist who creates G.E.E.C., an advanced computer system designed to help mankind. At first, G.E.E.C. appears to be the perfect invention. It can solve problems instantly, process information faster…

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Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Recap

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By: R.A. Rayne When Marvel brought back Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home, fans of the Netflix series Daredevil were thrilled. His portrayal of the blind vigilante lawyer of Hell’s Kitchen was pulled directly from the comics and exactly what fans had hoped the character would be. But Marvel didn’t stop there! A short time later, Marvel surprised audiences by bringing Vincent D’Onofrio back for the Disney+ series Hawkeye, further cementing the legacy of the Netflix Marvel series within the MCU. D’Onofrio’s portrayal of Wilson Fisk,…

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