Tobin Wolf's animated TV series in 1985 "Thundercats" was very, very strange bever. The titular characters were with supernated humanoid/Felinski foreigners from the planet Tuna, who live indefinitely in history. The plot follows the thunder after the destruction of the Tundara and their subsequent relocation to a distant world called a third country. The third country is rarely populated by a well -intentioned Teddy bear called Burbills, but is also home to occasional ASTSVERS and monsters. In a distant cave resting a mammal (Earl Hammond), an incredibly ancient mummy that aims to take over the world with magical spells. It is able to turn a muscular wrestler for short spans.

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The six thunderstorms have built a huge mechanical castle on the third country, leading the royal prince Leo-O (Larry Kenny), who is armed with a mystical sword of an omen and magical claw glove. Its subjects include the fast running of Cheetara (Lynn Lipton), engineer Pantro (Earl Hayman), spiritual Tigra (Peter Manuman) and twin twins and vicaton (Lipton and Manumman). They also possessed a whine oposum as a Gramlin named Snarf (Bob McFaden).

The series follows the quarrels of Thundercats with Mumm-Ra and its miniatures. "Thundercats" has been one of the many taethic shows since the 1980s, making huge amounts of money from selling trade. Despite the premise of Bonkers fantasy and unusually abandoned setting, "Thundercats" was a hit, running for 130 episodes (!) During his four seasons. Ended on the run in 1989.

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Children of the 1980s probably remember the controversy over the Thunder. Like many era shows, Tandkas was focused on toys, with spirits, tied his characters and vehicles to already produced toy products that children could buy. Consumer reconciliation groups have cited "thunder" (and many more) how they erode children's imaginations, preparing them to be toy consumers, not enriched human beings. Even Ronald Reagan got involved. Controversy has helped encourage "thunderstorms" to cancellation.

From the early 1960s to the early 1980s, it was illegal to market children directly. However, Ronald Reagan began with unfortunate loosening of regulations throughout the private sector during his administration and began to look at another way when toy companies like Hasbro began performing toys based on marketing directly to children. Specifically, the head of the FCC, Mark Fowler, actually did the dirty thing. Advertisers wanted deregulation, but the children suffered, they were offered shallow, action shows that essentially functioned as toy ads. Fowler has also deliberately reduced the grants for educational programs or any educational content. "Captain Kangaroo" and "School Rock" were beheaded. The 2020 article in the medium describes The wildlife of the 1980s party deregulation.

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In 1990, when Bill Clinton was in office, many regulations were re -established. The 1990 article at Yorkyor Times Details of pressure and dragging between advertising advertisers and parents of parents' buning groups, worried about money -based emissions. The efforts to establish new regulations were led while the "lightning" were still in the air. In 1990 It was legal to lead "thunder", but it rose and fell during a hot debate on the nature of children's programming. After a while, it seemed that the fight wasn't worth it.

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It should also be noted that "thunder" is expensive to do, mostly because it was so fruitful. The first season was a daily show that ran 65 episodes (common at that time) during just two months. His continuous presence on television was popular, but that pace of production proved difficult to maintain. For its second season, the networks have decided that it is more economical to reduce the number of episodes to only 25 and cover stories in a series of five parts minits. This scheme was held for the third and fourth season, but with only 20 episodes each.

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The first five episodes of Season 2 were released on VHS in 1987 as a film directly to the video, called "Thundercats-Ho!", Which was originally planned as a theater feature. The film was returned to television episodes, however, after Movies like "Transformers: Movie" And "My Little Pony: The film" was moving to the box office. It seems that Kidos just loved their toy ads at home; Why pay extra to see how they write big?

After four years and some exchange tides on the market, however, "Thundercats" became less popular, both with the studio and with the audience. It was canceled when the ratings fell, unable to justify the cost of it. Until the 1990s, the animation began to be mutated, but with self-conscious shows such as "Little Adventures of Tone" and creators-based comedies such as "The Ren & Stimpy Show". The age of the original "lightning" ended.

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A few years later, we can see that branding worked. A generation of children, now adults, still remembers "thunder" with Nessubov. The series was restarted in 2011 and then again in 2020. A new movie can still be in works. For some of us, we have never learned to lower our toys.