Dec 21

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Thundercats

“Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats Ho!”
 
It’s the home stretch now, so it’s time to break out the big guns.  Thundercats ran for five seasons between 1985 and 1990.  The program followed the adventures of a band of refugees who have fled the dying world of Thundera and crash landed on Third Earth.  There they battled the evil Mumm-Ra and his allies the Mutants as well as various space pirates and other random baddies.
 
The show followed the formula of many of its ilk.  Multiple characters in order to allow a large range of toys, a main protagonist who is an inexperienced yet heroic young male,  a comedy sidekick (snarf snarf), and, while there was lots of violence, there was no bloodshed.
 
Lion-O, Tygra, Panthro, Cheetara, and Wilykit & Wilykat.  Heroes each and every one of them.  Personally my favourite always fluctuated between Panthro and Wilykit & Wilykat, but there are many amongst my generation who cite Cheetara as a big… influence on their youth.  However I was never that keen on Lion-O; as far as I could make out his entire power consisted of calling the other Thundercats to bail him out whatever trouble he had blundered into.  If I were one of the team (I see myself as a bit of a Housecatara) I’d tell his where to stick his bloody Sword of Thundera.

Apparently there will be a CGI Thundercats film released in 2008. Jolly good!

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