I'm 43 now and I'm so freakin grateful that I was a 80s kid. I don't think I'd want to be a kid in any other decade then the 80s. Saturday morning cartoons, REAL breakfast cereal (With cool toys inside the cereal boxes) and the NES was invented. That's all a 80s kid ever needed. If you were a 80s kid you know exactly what I'm talking about, one more thing King size candy bars were fuckin king size (Just Sayin)
Looks like the music was mentioned, (link below), seems this is only a clip of the full footage. & agreed, the music was a massive part of the show and it's success. 😉👍🏼 m.th-cam.com/video/LKtg5Bwzupg/w-d-xo.html
I'm 86 and I still love... grilling steaks? What are we talking about again? Whenever I go to Tim Horton's, they are always out of beef chow mein. What gives?
ThunderCats was my thing every weekdays at 4:30 pm in the eighties. He-Man and whatever could care less about, but I always needed to watch ThunderCats.
This convinces me that the less resources you have, the more care you give to your product, and the better it ultimately is. They had to tow in a newspaper cartoonist!
and the fact that thundercats was only on for 4 seasons but iti felt like it was on my entire childhood ........ I mean yeah 4 seasons 130 episodes!!!! Now a days they w ant t o order 1 season of 10-13 episodes. And they are t o quick to cancel. No one cares cause it may only last 1 season. My fondest memory of Thundercats was t hat i g ot t o watch a new episode EVERY SCHOOL DAY! ..... none of t his once a week and then dozens of r eruns kids these d ays g et. I t hink thats how they r uined it with the reboot they tried to give it a reoccuring plot.......and it just should of stayed random and mass produced. Alternatively thats w hy i l ike the tv s how big brother compared t o shows similar because of the fact it's on 3 days a week. I can stay more involved. more tv shows need 50 episode seasons. Expensive? yes, but they need to find a way to get the costs down so it's not a million per episode per cast member.
@@johndorian4078 if you're talking about the 2011 reboot, it actually had decent viewership IIRC. What actually killed it is the underwhelming performance of the merchandise, particularly the toyline.
Made the sword of omens hilt/eye of thundera from a frozen pizza cardboard disk. Attached it to a small piece of lumber. Hoooooooooooo!! Still remember it like yesterday. :)
@@derekcreative2811 yup.. me too.. sword of... i mean sort of... i used a broken off mop stick attached cut out cardboard in the shape of the hilt taped onto the stick and my friend drew on cardboard the eye and taped it on one side of the mop stick and then he drew the shadow panther head on another piece of cardboard and attached it onto the other side. so all I had to do was turn it around for thundercats ho! we also made a second sword for when it was small.. with the hilt curled downwards and two eyes on each side
I always thought Mumm Ra was the coolest villain out of the 80s cartoons. In the Lion-O Trial episode, they call him an ancient devil priest, something you wouldn't expect to hear on a cartoon for kids. He was 5 seconds from victory on the Last Day episode.
@@mrg466 Because something like 90-95% of cartoons that came out in the 70s, 80s and 90s were made specifically to sell toys to kids. Adult animation existed, but it was very niche and incredibly hard to find in most cases as there weren't Redboxes on every corner or online video streaming to upload pirate copies so if the local video store didn't have a title you were looking for, you either had to send an order form and money to a dodgy catalog company (and pray you actually got the tape two months later) or just not watch it. There were some exceptions like Tom & Jerry and some of the more controversial Looney Tunes shorts that could be enjoyed by adults and kids alike, but those weren't made solely for adults and were considered "family entertainment". It wasn't until the late 90s and early 2000s that animations meant for broadcast started to take the adult demographic seriously, and even then it was only because the kids who grew up in the 70s-90s were getting jobs as writers and animators and wanted to make cartoons that they would want to watch as adults. Even then, it was something of an uphill struggle as the creators had to constantly fight with the older corporate studio heads and justify that cartoons made for older audiences could be successful and profitable. TV programming blocks like Adult Swim and such helped prove the viability of adult-oriented animation but yea, for the better part of a half-decade, cartoons were either aimed directly at kids or meant to be watched by the whole family. The concept of "adult animation" was still finding its place even well into the new millennium.
38 and this show still gives me chills just freaking awesome. I think Mummra was one of the best villains of all time. That voice is Timeless R.I.P. Earl
My Godmother got me Lion - O, and Mumm - Ra for Christmas the year they came out. She's almost 70 now and if she calls and asks me to do something, I always go back to that moment in time and the emotional high I was on. She manipulated me well, because if I even think of saying "no", I say "well, you were the only one on the block on Christmas day with Lion - O and Mumm - Ra lighting their eyes up at night for your friends". lol 39 years old, I'm still watching Lion - O's anointment episodes, which were my favorites.
EPIC. As a 7 y/o kid, the presence of the characters was so overwhelming! I felt they were moral giants, so upright and honorable, I loved it. The music was on point too. I have nothing but good memories.
I loved Thundercats growing up, my favorite was always Panthro, he had that kinda attitude that "we'll get it done no matter what" like hardly anything phased him. On top of that he was a martial arts master and used a bad ass set of nunchaku that had hidden weapons in the paws, an extending chain, and if memory serves he added a communicator into all their weapons that he could, dude also ran around in tabi boots before most non martial artist knew what they were. Also he built the freaking Thundertank...the second coolest car in US cartoon history..and when number 1 is the Batmobile, second place ain't bad.
37 years old - woke up wanting to listen to the Cheetara theme tune, that turned into Panthro's, then Tygra's, then Jaga's after that I discovered this vid! It's amazing how powerful the feeling of nostalgia is- I know I'm gonna have a great day! Thanks so much for uploading this! Thundercats Ho!!
For real... started playing theme song for song and they ignored it. I started running around the house...saying , thunder thunder thundercats hoooo! Got a tear in my eye :)
I was a huge Thundercats fan growing up. I loved drawing the characters, and my notebooks would be filled with Thundercats sketches that drove my mum nuts because there wouldnt be enough space for me to write down my homework, and she'd have to buy me additional notebooks. So eventaully she figured she had to buy me a drawing book for my hobby. 😁 Thundercats was the best. And yes, better than He-Man. lol
Wow.. talk about nostalgia overload! Here I am at 40 years old.. all these many years later and I still love the Thundercats! So glad I grew up in the last truly great generation!
They will NEVER, I repeat, NEVER make a cartoon as special, immersive, thoughtful, fun and engaging as this series until the end of time. This was truly lightning in a bottle.....right place, right people, right time, right voices. The reason it remains classic and popular to this day is a testament to its brilliance. How many cartoons can you say that about that lives on decades later and gets bigger over time. Top 5 cartoon series of all time, and easily the best of the 80s where it had intense competition. A masterpiece for all times.....
The 80's had an amazing cast of shows, from Voltron to Transformers to J.I Joe but for me, Thundercats and Silverhawks were my favorite. The story, the characters, the MUSIC, was just so amazing and inspiring. It heavily influenced my imagination and ultimately my art as a whole. I honestly can't even imagine how my life would of been without watching these shows, but I could be sure I'd be less of an artist and a person as a whole. I'm very happy I grew up with amazing shows like this made by such talented people.
Well frankly, nothing can't be destroyed if it's already been established, I wish folks would stop giving power to lazy, modern day performative activist who has infected pop culture, these individuals whom will never have respect for the franchises of it's originality, all they are leeches of the world, bark at everything and produce nothing imaginative of value, it's just ashamed these corp "giants" allowed them to get this big, and they have themselves to blame, but they won't let blame the consumers., wash, rinse, cycle and repeat the same game since 2015 which worsen after 2016.
Big love from Greece.I was born in 80's and this cartoon was my favorite.I had the sword with the light button toy back then and i remember i was taken one of my mothers leather glove and use it as a sword hand-case.I look silly for the elders but i was Lion-o only for me.I was a hero.I realy wanted the thunder tank toy so bad back then...I even had a hallowen Lion-o costume...Anyway what im trying to say is....Thunder...thunder...THUNDERCATS....HOOOOOOOOOO. Thank you guys for all the great memories of our youth. I wish you the best to you and your families. ....from a Greek child borned in 80's.♡
@@damonmilline9227 None of us, are born a racist. It is something which is taught by others. If you have been conditioned to be a racist, (and to be clear,... anyone, of any race can be a racist) never the less, if you are unable to get away from, or even want to get away from what someone else had to teach you (and notice a said teach you, because we are not born that way) then maybe you shouldn't watch the show, or any others, that have other races in them . But that choice is yours to make.
Man...Thunder cats had me hooked like a crack fiend. When I first saw that intro I was sittin in front of the TV mesmerized. Those days in the 80s were so precious.
This show was all around classic and legendary. One of the best intros ever. I always loved how the music and scenes in it are nicely and perfectly timed together especially when you watch how Wilycat drops the bombs and where the music and hook hits at. Or Cheetara running thru the mutants, to name a couple examples. So much perfect detail.
The Best Cartoon EVER!!!! Damn. I still kinda get an adrenaline rush when I hear the "Thunder Cat Ho" muntra like I use to get as a kid. Love this cartoon.
I’m a teacher of 6 and 7 year olds and each year, I build up to an awesome Thundercats Week. You should see some of the stories and artwork that they produce... just incredible. The Thundercats are so inspiring. 👌🏼
Kind of ironic that most animation in the States during the 80s was outsourced to Japan but now most of it is outsourced to South Korea with a small part of it being done in India.
As a kid who grew up on this, as well as the generation 1 Transformers, G.I. Joe, etc. the so-called morals of the shows were something that we never gave a flying fig about. Who ran around the neighborhood or the playground acting out the moral of the story? Swords, lasers, fighting moves, and blasting the crap out of the bad guys was all that we cared about.
oh I played out their morals... started wearing a tight leotard, tried talking to my grandfather's ghost for advice, unburied mummies to re-kill them, my all-boy neighbors trying to share the only girl - to her credit she ran fast just like Cheetarah... and we forced the only black kid to dress like a panther with a leash-collar. sick. the police were all "lemme guess... Thundercats?". so we hopped in the squad car and Cheetarah had to run twice as fast. ho! (long tail on that kite I know)
To this day I consider Thundercats one of my top 5 cartoons of all time and the intro is definitely my #1 choice. What an amazing show was this for kids. I remember the 80s fondly and I feel sad the kids today don't have something like this. And it is so good to see the faces of the voice actors and the rest of the production team talking still so passionately for their word.
I loved and still do love thundercats since I was a kid. Even the short lived reboot from about 7 yrs ago. Was really good. Not the teen titans inspired ver. I wouldn’t give that the time or day
Hollywood will be busy raping your childhood memories, LionO will be a young emo teen with troubled background used by aliens that did experiments on him...
I hate that the makers of the Thundercats DVD collection hide this documentary within the collection where you had to go through a task to basically unlock it. Why couldn’t it have been accessible at the DVD main menu section?
@@NarwahlGaming I don't think you understood correctly. He's talking about the part where a real child psycholigist was used as an advisor on the show's stories to make sure there was something positive to teach kids.
Boy if you were playing outside as a kid, and as soon as thundercats is about to start, man you drop all playing an run just to go watch thunder thunder cats. Booy if life could rewind us back into those days!!
I’m 60. Don’t hate on my age. Can’t help it if this cartoon came out in 1985! 😜 Technically, I grew up on Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and Scooby Doo. I got interested in this because my ex’s younger brothers used to watch it. This is the first program that I ever recorded on my new VCR. First I tried a few minutes as a test. Success, yay! Then I set up the timer to record an episode while I was in a class in college. SUCCESS, YAY!!!! I was a Teacher’s Assistant during these years. I remember writing to the company that made this cartoon asking for freebies that I could use as incentives/prizes for the 2nd grade students that I worked with. Yeah, I passed out the usual stickers. But if you got a perfect score in a Spelling Test, you got a full sized Thundercats poster from me. The company hooked me up with about 50 of those. What can I say. Thundercats got me through college. 😂
Thunder Cats, Dungeons and Dragons, He-Man, Ulysses 31, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, Defenders of the Earth, BraveStarr, Inspector Gadget. Watched all of these and more when I was younger, there were some fantastic animated series for kids in the 80's, you were spoiled for choice.
The animation, storyline, moral lessons and epic sounds track and Background music solidify this Cartoon and set a standard for 80's cartoon. A job well done to who make this team efforts.
THIS & my guy *Inspector Gadget* will always be my favorite cartoons of all times. I have the entire series & I still watch them. As a child (especially being a Leo born on August 1st) you could not have told me that I wasn’t Lion-O ***Lord of the ThunderCats***. Thanks to my parents, I had all the toys too. Later I fell in love with Scooby Doo, The Real Ghost Busters, DarkWing Duck, Power Rangers & Sailor Moon! Love being an 80’s baby.
I’m 39 yrs old and there will never be a great tv show like this.Thundercats is one of the greatest cartoons ever made
batman animated series, the avatar. xmen, spiderman. just to name a few
Same here. I even traveled 4 hours to meet Larry because he came nearby to a con. If only the others did shows.
Batman the animated series and Avatar exist but okay
Yup!
I'm 43 now and I'm so freakin grateful that I was a 80s kid. I don't think I'd want to be a kid in any other decade then the 80s. Saturday morning cartoons, REAL breakfast cereal (With cool toys inside the cereal boxes) and the NES was invented. That's all a 80s kid ever needed. If you were a 80s kid you know exactly what I'm talking about, one more thing King size candy bars were fuckin king size (Just Sayin)
will never forget! 40 years old and will never forget our era. Thundercats! ho!
Manuel Alvarez yeah cartoons had morals to the story's.Yo bro we old.
Count me in!
37.5 years old.
Justice, Truth, Honor, Loyalty!
Manuel Alvarez i'm 24. i'm going to give it a shot right now
Hoooooooooooo! And thank you wonderful, brilliant people for pouring all your heart and soul into one of my all-time favourite cartoons.
Hoooooooooo!!!
No mention of the music? I think the music of that epic intro was also part of the success of the show.
The Intros was much better in the 80's.
Totally agree! It used to echo in my mind for hours after watching the cartoon!
Looks like the music was mentioned, (link below), seems this is only a clip of the full footage. & agreed, the music was a massive part of the show and it's success. 😉👍🏼
m.th-cam.com/video/LKtg5Bwzupg/w-d-xo.html
My favorite cartoon growing up, till this day I still listen to the movie soundtrack it's awesome and I'm 44yrs old
@@shaunrene1 Me too, I'm just turning 44, 80's kid 4 life!
THUNDERCATS ~ HOOOO! 👌😺
I'm near 40 and I still love this cartoon
I'm 86 and I still love... grilling steaks? What are we talking about again?
Whenever I go to Tim Horton's, they are always out of beef chow mein. What gives?
Ditto! It's rad. I miss the 80s.
i think we're all near 40 years old.....lol
@@Drgroomes
yeah. this was a great show....
the mumm-ra voice in spanish was much better than in english....i dont remember the others....
ThunderCats was my thing every weekdays at 4:30 pm in the eighties. He-Man and whatever could care less about, but I always needed to watch ThunderCats.
One of the BEST cartoons EVER made!!! You can totally tell the people behind the scenes were so committed !!
This convinces me that the less resources you have, the more care you give to your product, and the better it ultimately is. They had to tow in a newspaper cartoonist!
I think there is actual research that proves this to an extent.
i have heard this before - technology has made people lazy
and the fact that thundercats was only on for 4 seasons but iti felt like it was on my entire childhood ........
I mean yeah 4 seasons 130 episodes!!!!
Now a days they w ant t o order 1 season of 10-13 episodes. And they are t o quick to cancel. No one cares cause it may only last 1 season.
My fondest memory of Thundercats was t hat i g ot t o watch a new episode EVERY SCHOOL DAY! ..... none of t his once a week and then dozens of r eruns kids these d ays g et.
I t hink thats how they r uined it with the reboot they tried to give it a reoccuring plot.......and it just should of stayed random and mass produced.
Alternatively thats w hy i l ike the tv s how big brother compared t o shows similar because of the fact it's on 3 days a week. I can stay more involved. more tv shows need 50 episode seasons. Expensive? yes, but they need to find a way to get the costs down so it's not a million per episode per cast member.
Aslan9
Depends
If people try to push what technology is limited, new things happen
Allot of people are just settling what we have now
@@johndorian4078 if you're talking about the 2011 reboot, it actually had decent viewership IIRC. What actually killed it is the underwhelming performance of the merchandise, particularly the toyline.
My parents never bought me any of the action figures nor the sword of omens, so I used my imagination and used a broom stick as the sword.
I used a collapsible curtain rod :)
Made the sword of omens hilt/eye of thundera from a frozen pizza cardboard disk. Attached it to a small piece of lumber. Hoooooooooooo!!
Still remember it like yesterday. :)
I had the sword of omens. I used a broomstick as a staff like Cheetara and a jump rope for nunchucks or bolo whip.
@@derekcreative2811 yup.. me too.. sword of... i mean sort of... i used a broken off mop stick attached cut out cardboard in the shape of the hilt taped onto the stick and my friend drew on cardboard the eye and taped it on one side of the mop stick and then he drew the shadow panther head on another piece of cardboard and attached it onto the other side. so all I had to do was turn it around for thundercats ho! we also made a second sword for when it was small.. with the hilt curled downwards and two eyes on each side
property markers made great swords back in the day
Heck I was in High School at the time and nobody would've called you out for watching TunderCats. Everyone was watching it. The show just rocked.
Yes girls and boys and even adults
The creator is turning over in his grave at the preview of the shitty upcoming reboot!
@William Hayden I was in elementary & Jr high before they cancelled it boy was I sick😷 when they did that.
Jamal Vines What does the black community have to do with it?? Kids are kids if its good its good everybody will watch no matter what race you are
Nostalgia....😍😍
I always thought Mumm Ra was the coolest villain out of the 80s cartoons. In the Lion-O Trial episode, they call him an ancient devil priest, something you wouldn't expect to hear on a cartoon for kids. He was 5 seconds from victory on the Last Day episode.
Why do people always say cartoons are for kids?
Monstarr was cooler than Mumm-Ra!
if you still are around and want more of mum ra, read the comics thundercats the return AND thundercats dogs of war, you wont be dissapointed
Mumm ra was raping pumiyra and vulture man and Rataro joined in when they captured her on castle rock mountain
@@mrg466 Because something like 90-95% of cartoons that came out in the 70s, 80s and 90s were made specifically to sell toys to kids. Adult animation existed, but it was very niche and incredibly hard to find in most cases as there weren't Redboxes on every corner or online video streaming to upload pirate copies so if the local video store didn't have a title you were looking for, you either had to send an order form and money to a dodgy catalog company (and pray you actually got the tape two months later) or just not watch it. There were some exceptions like Tom & Jerry and some of the more controversial Looney Tunes shorts that could be enjoyed by adults and kids alike, but those weren't made solely for adults and were considered "family entertainment".
It wasn't until the late 90s and early 2000s that animations meant for broadcast started to take the adult demographic seriously, and even then it was only because the kids who grew up in the 70s-90s were getting jobs as writers and animators and wanted to make cartoons that they would want to watch as adults. Even then, it was something of an uphill struggle as the creators had to constantly fight with the older corporate studio heads and justify that cartoons made for older audiences could be successful and profitable. TV programming blocks like Adult Swim and such helped prove the viability of adult-oriented animation but yea, for the better part of a half-decade, cartoons were either aimed directly at kids or meant to be watched by the whole family. The concept of "adult animation" was still finding its place even well into the new millennium.
I honestly don't know how can anyone dislike this video... This is history and this is our childhood!
I'm 35 almost 36 an I'm still greatful for the show
I'm 40 and I'm very grateful for this show!
Turning 38 and still amazed with the intro.
The power is yours. Hack the planet!
Matthew Mckinney I'm 14 and I love the Show
81 likes for 37 year olds lol
51 years old...Thundecats was part of my after school routine...
Priceless...
i miss you original thundercats!!!
what a fantastic documentary, found this purely by accident. Thunder cats was a huge part of my childhood that I'll always treasure!
In my 40's now.. Watching the whole series again! YES!!!
38 and this show still gives me chills just freaking awesome. I think Mummra was one of the best villains of all time. That voice is Timeless R.I.P. Earl
Earl "The GOAT" Hammond
i m 38 years old from malaysia.. fans of thundercats since 1985.. hooooo
hanizamjerai I am 34 from Malaysia too. I remember the Thundercats has KFC advertisement in between, rite?
Arun Kumar KFC is bigger in east Asia than in the US
You are wrong !! In 1985 we have return of ultraman & toriton. Thundercat are shown in Malaysia in 1987.
Wrong Again...actually it was in 1985, when the private tv station TV3 was 1 year old
And Trebor brought us M.A.S.K
As a child of the 80's this never will get old. I have the DVD boxset of every episode.
I just got the dvd box set. Been watching it with my 11 month old son. He loves it
In before all the "Thundercats: Roar" comments start pouring in. This was lovely. It's great to get a peek into the artists' creative process.
Seeing this makes me like "Thundercats Roar" even LESS....
I always believed tygra was sexually touching wylie kit and kat and it was a secret until lion-o seen then in plunn da Bay
@@DeathReviews if that is possible. Roar sucks.
When I heard him say " a Thundercats Revelation" . I was thinking keep Kevin Smith away.
@@allenfowler1886 Roar isn't that bad. It's at least better than Teen Titans Go. Besides, don't all reboots get criticized for not being the original?
This show fired my imagination as a child, LOVED IT!
My Godmother got me Lion - O, and Mumm - Ra for Christmas the year they came out. She's almost 70 now and if she calls and asks me to do something, I always go back to that moment in time and the emotional high I was on. She manipulated me well, because if I even think of saying "no", I say "well, you were the only one on the block on Christmas day with Lion - O and Mumm - Ra lighting their eyes up at night for your friends". lol 39 years old, I'm still watching Lion - O's anointment episodes, which were my favorites.
I grew up watching Thundercats, He-Man, Transformers , Centurions (just to name a few).. Those were the days..
There's more cartoons to watch
man what legends. Good to know that the people who voiced and created my childhood icons were actually nice and humorous people
EPIC. As a 7 y/o kid, the presence of the characters was so overwhelming! I felt they were moral giants, so upright and honorable, I loved it. The music was on point too. I have nothing but good memories.
Thank you for bringing this cartoon to my childhood in the 80s. It wouldn’t have been the same without Thundercats.
I loved Thundercats growing up, my favorite was always Panthro, he had that kinda attitude that "we'll get it done no matter what" like hardly anything phased him. On top of that he was a martial arts master and used a bad ass set of nunchaku that had hidden weapons in the paws, an extending chain, and if memory serves he added a communicator into all their weapons that he could, dude also ran around in tabi boots before most non martial artist knew what they were. Also he built the freaking Thundertank...the second coolest car in US cartoon history..and when number 1 is the Batmobile, second place ain't bad.
Did I actually grow up on this?It seems like only yesterday!Time goes by so fast.
37 years old - woke up wanting to listen to the Cheetara theme tune, that turned into Panthro's, then Tygra's, then Jaga's after that I discovered this vid! It's amazing how powerful the feeling of nostalgia is- I know I'm gonna have a great day! Thanks so much for uploading this! Thundercats Ho!!
Themes? Where?
For real... started playing theme song for song and they ignored it. I started running around the house...saying , thunder thunder thundercats hoooo! Got a tear in my eye :)
I remember saving my allowance to buy thundercat action figures. My first purchase was cheetara had a major crush on a animated female cheetah
Clicked on the video for a walk down memory lane. Was not disappointed.
So sad what they're doing with Thundercats Roar now.
I've just seen thundercats roar, absolute shit. I still tell my kids about the original. my sword of omens helped me out of my first fight ha!
man I came here just to say that!
@@Lumbersnacks82 me2
We do not speak of Thundercats Roar.
that show should NOT be mentioned here!
I was a huge Thundercats fan growing up. I loved drawing the characters, and my notebooks would be filled with Thundercats sketches that drove my mum nuts because there wouldnt be enough space for me to write down my homework, and she'd have to buy me additional notebooks. So eventaully she figured she had to buy me a drawing book for my hobby. 😁 Thundercats was the best. And yes, better than He-Man. lol
32 yrs old, I remember watching the orignal back in the late 80's.
Nothing but respect for these older guys.
Back in the day I used to randomly scream HOOOOOOOO!!! for no reason every now and then.
who didn't lol
K
HOOOOOOO!!!!
Thundercats was great then and it still is.
Thank you for this great show, the toys and the memories!
Glad I was a kid in the 80's.
Wow.. talk about nostalgia overload! Here I am at 40 years old.. all these many years later and I still love the Thundercats! So glad I grew up in the last truly great generation!
37 and the 80s and 90s were great times to grow up
@@Johnlindsey289 youre only saying that just for cartoons. What about the bad sides?
Why dont you never bring those up
Its not the LAST great generation you fool
always been my fav, still get shivers when i hear the theme tune,,,,,
I'm 43 years old. And every time I do dishes, I think about Lion O saying the line , " soap...I'm glad it's on our side".
They will NEVER, I repeat, NEVER make a cartoon as special, immersive, thoughtful, fun and engaging as this series until the end of time. This was truly lightning in a bottle.....right place, right people, right time, right voices. The reason it remains classic and popular to this day is a testament to its brilliance. How many cartoons can you say that about that lives on decades later and gets bigger over time. Top 5 cartoon series of all time, and easily the best of the 80s where it had intense competition. A masterpiece for all times.....
@Retro Nerd - Not only was SilverHawks the better show, ThunderCats stole A LOT of its concepts from Masters of the Universe!
that was my childhood in the 80's and part of the 90's
and my childhood in the 90s and early 2000s. this thundercats was amazing.
Me too
WOW That's AMAZING. It's like Buried Teassure. I love this video :)
panthro voice is done by the grandfather on the cosby show wow
The 80's had an amazing cast of shows, from Voltron to Transformers to J.I Joe but for me, Thundercats and Silverhawks were my favorite. The story, the characters, the MUSIC, was just so amazing and inspiring. It heavily influenced my imagination and ultimately my art as a whole.
I honestly can't even imagine how my life would of been without watching these shows, but I could be sure I'd be less of an artist and a person as a whole. I'm very happy I grew up with amazing shows like this made by such talented people.
Yeah we had the best of it all
There was another really cool show at the time called Galaxy Rangers...say what you want, these cartoons were made also for adults...lol
@@villedocvalle even our nightly tv shows were awesome.
Best childhood ever growing up with these shows. Reminds me of better years.
To all the people responsible for making this fantastic cartoon show...
THANK YOU!!!
Well. Learning that "grampa Huxtable" was the voice of Panthro just blew my mind.
Talk about trivia.
Let us all preserve this cultural treasure. Guard it's integrity and honor.
80's ThunderCats was the best and you learn from it too :)
I saw clips of Thundercats Roar and I felt anger.
Ah yes, actual passion and respect. Sorry to see this mans product getting destroyed now :(
Let's pretend it's not getting destroyed. I even refuse to watch thundercats roar
@@troyandrew6154 Thundercats Roar is dead. Long live Thundercats.
Well frankly, nothing can't be destroyed if it's already been established, I wish folks would stop giving power to lazy, modern day performative activist who has infected pop culture, these individuals whom will never have respect for the franchises of it's originality, all they are leeches of the world, bark at everything and produce nothing imaginative of value, it's just ashamed these corp "giants" allowed them to get this big, and they have themselves to blame, but they won't let blame the consumers., wash, rinse, cycle and repeat the same game since 2015 which worsen after 2016.
@@rock21611Good. I pretend thundercats roar never existed
Thank you so much for making my childhood memorable
Big love from Greece.I was born in 80's and this cartoon was my favorite.I had the sword with the light button toy back then and i remember i was taken one of my mothers leather glove and use it as a sword hand-case.I look silly for the elders but i was Lion-o only for me.I was a hero.I realy wanted the thunder tank toy so bad back then...I even had a hallowen Lion-o costume...Anyway what im trying to say is....Thunder...thunder...THUNDERCATS....HOOOOOOOOOO.
Thank you guys for all the great memories of our youth.
I wish you the best to you and your families.
....from a Greek child borned in 80's.♡
Wait -------- A ------------- Minute, Grandad from the "Cosby Show" was Panthro?
Earl Hyman voiced Panthro. Mumm-Ra was voiced by Earl Hammond.
@@derekcreative2811 nope.
Yup yup!
They always use Black Men for the Strongest Characters!! Hell they take everything from Us!!!!!! BlACK SUPER POWER!!!!!
@@damonmilline9227 None of us, are born a racist. It is something which is taught by others. If you have been conditioned to be a racist, (and to be clear,... anyone, of any race can be a racist) never the less, if you are unable to get away from, or even want to get away from what someone else had to teach you (and notice a said teach you, because we are not born that way) then maybe you shouldn't watch the show, or any others, that have other races in them . But that choice is yours to make.
Man...Thunder cats had me hooked like a crack fiend. When I first saw that intro I was sittin in front of the TV mesmerized. Those days in the 80s were so precious.
This show was all around classic and legendary. One of the best intros ever. I always loved how the music and scenes in it are nicely and perfectly timed together especially when you watch how Wilycat drops the bombs and where the music and hook hits at. Or Cheetara running thru the mutants, to name a couple examples. So much perfect detail.
Damn.....Panthro was Russel Huxtable
The Best Cartoon EVER!!!! Damn. I still kinda get an adrenaline rush when I hear the "Thunder Cat Ho" muntra like I use to get as a kid. Love this cartoon.
I’m a teacher of 6 and 7 year olds and each year, I build up to an awesome Thundercats Week. You should see some of the stories and artwork that they produce... just incredible. The Thundercats are so inspiring. 👌🏼
Kind of ironic that most animation in the States during the 80s was outsourced to Japan but now most of it is outsourced to South Korea with a small part of it being done in India.
Apart from Filmation
i've watched this since our first Toshiba black and white screen TV..such a memory..
2019: Thundercats Roar! - Destroying a Pop Culture Phenomenon
How To Kill Nostalgia in Three Easy Lessons!: "Ghostbusters 2016", "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", "Thundercats Roar".
thanks to you guys for all the happy moments....
Thunder......Thunder......Thundercats...FOOOOO-R EVER!!!
16:35 Duck-Billed Samurai would have been an awesome villain.
Thank you for uploading this video, So wonderful to see the origins of this classic show. Still hoping they will make a live action movie.
my childhood right here , amazing work by the artists, actors and creators . Ho!!!
And even to this day, we'll NEVER know exactly what the *beeeeeep* is a "samophlange"..
Every time when I come back to watch these 80s cartoons it really make feel like crying .. What a wonderful life
As a kid who grew up on this, as well as the generation 1 Transformers, G.I. Joe, etc. the so-called morals of the shows were something that we never gave a flying fig about. Who ran around the neighborhood or the playground acting out the moral of the story? Swords, lasers, fighting moves, and blasting the crap out of the bad guys was all that we cared about.
oh I played out their morals... started wearing a tight leotard, tried talking to my grandfather's ghost for advice, unburied mummies to re-kill them, my all-boy neighbors trying to share the only girl - to her credit she ran fast just like Cheetarah... and we forced the only black kid to dress like a panther with a leash-collar. sick. the police were all "lemme guess... Thundercats?". so we hopped in the squad car and Cheetarah had to run twice as fast. ho! (long tail on that kite I know)
I stand corrected, lol. This was the best laugh I have had in days. 8-D
Exactly! They just put the morals in there for the censors. We played even more aggressive, when we pretended to be Thundercats.
So you don't have an angle, huh? Thundercats, HOOOOOO! :-D
NavySharkz \m/ :D
I got chills watching this
Those outtakes are priceless
lol, the voice actors are great.
seeing these voices actors is awesome!
lets see after the Thundercats 2019 news are a float, people come to watch this documentary
Makes me smile to watch this. Everyone is so happy with their memories. Now if only the complete Tiger Sharks series would be found and released.
To this day I consider Thundercats one of my top 5 cartoons of all time and the intro is definitely my #1 choice. What an amazing show was this for kids. I remember the 80s fondly and I feel sad the kids today don't have something like this. And it is so good to see the faces of the voice actors and the rest of the production team talking still so passionately for their word.
34 here and I still wear a thundercats t shirt at least once a week
Hell go check my vid thumbnails lol
i have 2 thundercars t-shirts one is black and has the logo the other has the gang.
This was one my favorite childhood cartoons from late 80’s and early 90’s. Thundercats Hoooo!!!
Rankin-Bass contracted the animation overseas to a Japanese animation studio, the same as they did with their adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's works.
Which explains why Slithe (and Hardware) look like one of their Orcs....
Last Unicorn and Flight of Dragons too
I'm 23 and when I was a kid I'd watch thundercats. It was one of my favourite shows growing up!
I loved and still do love thundercats since I was a kid. Even the short lived reboot from about 7 yrs ago. Was really good. Not the teen titans inspired ver. I wouldn’t give that the time or day
Loved watching it as a young kid in the 90s but as an adult now I really appreciate the show
We Need a Thundercats Movie!
Ronald Wright but we need it to be good
I'll even take Michael Bay at this point! Long overdue....
Hollywood will be busy raping your childhood memories, LionO will be a young emo teen with troubled background used by aliens that did experiments on him...
Ha yeah someone is bound to identify himself as a parrot or something
no we don`t
We'd never seen anything like it in the eighties,,,,I still remember that first episode!
Loved watching the show as a kid. This makes me appreciate the show even more!
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I hate that the makers of the Thundercats DVD collection hide this documentary within the collection where you had to go through a task to basically unlock it. Why couldn’t it have been accessible at the DVD main menu section?
I guess I found where my morals came from
Same! I'm always trying to steal the Sword of Omens from the Thundercats!
@@NarwahlGaming I don't think you understood correctly. He's talking about the part where a real child psycholigist was used as an advisor on the show's stories to make sure there was something positive to teach kids.
Love that back and forth with larry kenney's jackalman and lion o. Really great.
Anime before anime was popular to the western audience. Got that right.
Not really. Those of us who grew up in big cities watched G Force, All Star Blazers, Tranzor Z, etc. Early anime classics!
Boy if you were playing outside as a kid, and as soon as thundercats is about to start, man you drop all playing an run just to go watch thunder thunder cats. Booy if life could rewind us back into those days!!
So it technically WAS an anime, but more of a collaboration since it's not dubbed
I’m 60. Don’t hate on my age. Can’t help it if this cartoon came out in 1985! 😜 Technically, I grew up on Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and Scooby Doo. I got interested in this because my ex’s younger brothers used to watch it. This is the first program that I ever recorded on my new VCR. First I tried a few minutes as a test. Success, yay! Then I set up the timer to record an episode while I was in a class in college. SUCCESS, YAY!!!!
I was a Teacher’s Assistant during these years. I remember writing to the company that made this cartoon asking for freebies that I could use as incentives/prizes for the 2nd grade students that I worked with. Yeah, I passed out the usual stickers. But if you got a perfect score in a Spelling Test, you got a full sized Thundercats poster from me. The company hooked me up with about 50 of those. What can I say. Thundercats got me through college. 😂
Awesome.. Larry Kenny seems like a really fun guy.
Larry Kenny is a great guy. I used to chat with him on a fan forum when I was a teenager. I miss those days.
Thunder Cats, Dungeons and Dragons, He-Man, Ulysses 31, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, Defenders of the Earth, BraveStarr, Inspector Gadget. Watched all of these and more when I was younger, there were some fantastic animated series for kids in the 80's, you were spoiled for choice.
You named all the classics from back in the days.
What about Real Ghostbusters, COPS, Ducktales, Rescue Rangers etc.?
Best theme song? Oh you better believe it. I still hum this and I’m pushing 40
The animation, storyline, moral lessons and epic sounds track and Background music solidify this Cartoon and set a standard for 80's cartoon. A job well done to who make this team efforts.
Humans are so amazing I really appreciate true talent
Oh man, memory lane right here!!!! Daiyuuum i love this series. Takes me back to my childhood years.
so much epicness here!
THIS & my guy *Inspector Gadget* will always be my favorite cartoons of all times. I have the entire series & I still watch them. As a child (especially being a Leo born on August 1st) you could not have told me that I wasn’t Lion-O ***Lord of the ThunderCats***. Thanks to my parents, I had all the toys too. Later I fell in love with Scooby Doo, The Real Ghost Busters, DarkWing Duck, Power Rangers & Sailor Moon! Love being an 80’s baby.