Warner Bros. Television
When a studio has paid out huge money to make a property into a film or a franchise, they tried to find every single avenue they can to milk it to death. There’s merchandising, international licenses, planning sequels, making a tv series and most importantly, seeing if they can make a toy out of it. And for those of us that grew up in that time, we all know that the best way to sell a toy to kids in the 80’s and 90’s was with a cartoon.
For some ideas, it was a slam dunk (Transformers, Thundercats, TMNT, etc…), but for some of the other ‘mature’ movies out there, it just didn’t really fly the way they expected it to. I mean, why make a cartoon about Rambo, if he doesn’t have PTSD and take down people in a hail of bullets. Especially when this was a kid’s first introduction to the guy. And yet, some of them had kickass toys that sold like crazy.
It did make me want some Rambo toys though. They were pretty sick.
Worldvision Enterprises
Rambo: The Force of Freedom
Saturday mornings were all about watching a show that involved a mentally unstable Vietnam vet, lead a team of heroes against global threats. Running 65 episodes in 1986, the cartoon was based off of First Blood. It had the usual 80’s themes of good vs. bad, no blood or violence, and hyper-masculine ethic stereotypes.
It wasn’t anything like the original film at all.
Joy Energizer
The toys were pretty sweet though.
Marvel Television
RoboCop: The Animated Series
This show ran in 1988, just one year after Paul Verhoeven’s original film. The cartoon made the run-down Old Detroit more technologically advanced and replaced RoboCop’s bullets with a laser gun. They also gave him a red light in his visor like K.I.T.T in Knight Rider.
Overall, it was a decent show, but without the violence, drugs and corporate corruption, it didn’t live up to the spirit of the original idea.
Sunbow Productions
Conan the Adventurer
I’ll admit, this was my first introduction to Conan. In it, he was a moral and wise hero in the vein of He-Man, and led a merry team of warriors. It was a shock when I finally saw the version with Arnie, with all the rape, bloody violence and women lamenting. First airing in 1992, it ran for 65 episodes and told the story of Conan and his family and his quest for revenge against the snake worshippers.
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