The History of Inspector Gadget: From Super Popular to Kinda Forgotten

They should continue the franchise with Penny as the protagonist as a Scotland Yard Detective or as an MI6 spy type, Brain as her Q, and Gadget interjecting off and on as an Old Man Gadget type, still bumbling but sharper now . She could fight Talon, as an agent of CHAOS or some such and run into CIA type friends all over the world.

Just a thought…..

13:40 why does tge doll look like Trent Reznor?

I remember the McDonalds Inspector Gadget toys where each Happy Meal came with a separate part of an Inspector Gadget action figure with moving parts. Parents could never afford McDonalds enough for me to own more than a piece or two.

I loved the original Inspector Gadget as a kid, but I had no idea any of the other series existed until I got curious and did some research one day in college. It's still weird to think there were so many other versions that slipped by me unnoticed.

to this day, if i am looking for something, you will find me humming the inspector gadget theme song. i know! i'm weird.

Inspector Gadget is one of favorite shows of my childhood, but something is true, is despite of the good amount of years that has the show, still is very know by the person to see that was one popular cartoon in the ‘80s and the ‘90s that was formed part of a generation that grew up with cartoons that tended to equilibrate very good to offer entertained and comic cartoons with offer stories that they adjusted with the likes of the people of these times (note that I was born in 1986 and I saw various cartoons of the ‘80s that were normal that would reruned and the cartoons that were very popular in the ‘90s and marked my childhood, too).

DiC the silver logo of childhood

Penny is just soooo hot. She drives me wild. ❤❤❤❤. It was an honor being a part of her special fan club.❤

The Gadgetmobile was modelled on a Tolbot Matra

Wow man, this show premiered on my actual birthday and I would never have known that if not for this crippling sleep disorder!

Ulysses, Ulyseees going cross the galaxiiiies, that theme song goes so hard.

I can watch these all day

My older sister watched it on TV 5 days a week. Penny was "Sophie" in the French dub. The neighbors sold Inspector Gadget toys at a yard sale in 1994. They made some "extra cash".

Wow! I'd been a Inspector Gaget fan ever since I watched the episodes back when it was aired on Nickaloden! That being said, this was the first time I saw what Doctor Claw looks like when you showed his action figure! I'm speechless!

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I was born far enough into the eighties that my cognisance is best associated with what I interpret as a 90's baby but intents and purposes people mean something a little different in the way they often use "90's baby"; I didn't think of myself as a baby any time in the 90's but my earliest memory of lucidity- in comprehending a plane flying over my grandparents home jn Rexdale -wasn't removed especially from watching Inspector Fadget while my grandfather got up in the morning, doing retired successful north Anerican adult things – building a golf course in his pristine backyard and rolling cigarettes lol. I wasn't hugely interested in da Inspector but it was a good intermediate between my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle interests lol. I didn't realise the show was on so early but I remember a lot of association with the 1980's and that Had to be part of it; I remember so many components of the 1980's as being "still culturally valid" around Toronto but definitely not 'of my time'. I thought for a longer time that millennial must be babyies born younger than me, the ways I first heard the qualifier used in the later 90's. What a show, lol, I remember my mom telling me at some point that Power Rangers and Beetleborgs were made to sell toys but engineering is right – that's way more "readily associated" with Inspector Gadget.

I found another trade advertising from 1993 about Gadget. Notably the ones that said:

Gadget Uncovered! Exposed!

Summer 1994 Live Action Movie directed by Ivan Reitman’s Northern Lights Ent. (Ghostbusters I & II, Twins, Beethoven, Dave) and released by Universal Pictures.

Television

Daily syndication & Cable Network Specials

Over 100 Licensed Products!

Master Toy Licensee – Tiger Toys

Aladdin Industries, Inc.

Lunch Kits

American Arts & Graphics

Posters

Azeroth Software

Computer Software

Bakery Crafts

Cake Decorations

Burger King

Fast Food Promotion

Collegeville/Imagineering

Halloween Costumes

Harley, Inc.

Apparel

Henry Gordy International

Toys

Hudson Soft, USA

Super Nintendo Games

Innovative Time

Watches and Clocks

Milton Bradley

Puzzles

Merit Software

Computer Software

Quaker Oats

Cereal Promotion

Suave Shoe

Footwear

Toys N' Things

Toys

Troll Publishing

Activity Books

Tulmar Corporation

Candy Containers

University Games

Boardgames

Wormser Company

Pajamas

According from "Toy & Hobby World International" in June 1993, they are a promotion for an upcoming IG movie from 1994 and a new DIC cartoon called Hurricnaes. I was sure since it's the classic IG, but I figured to add it here since the live action movie has been in the works since 1993. I thought the ad is very interesting since the live action movie was supposed to be from Universal Studios back in 1994, meanwhile 5 years later we got a movie from Disney. I often wonder what was the reason why Universal Studios dropped it. Kinda weird that they annouced it beforehand.

I saw a trade advertising from 1993 about Gadget. Then it has bullet points. Most notable the ones that said:

**Power Points**

Television/Theatrical Exposure

Theatrical *Scheduled For live action movie 1994

NBC Special **Gadget Saves Christmas

Syndication *Syndicated Daily Beginning 9/92

*92% Coverage of Household Average Across the U.S.

Cable *Family Channel Daily Coverage

Television Advertising

*Tiger Toys National TV Ad Campaign

*Azeroth Inc. National TV Ad Campaign

*Hudson Soft TV Ad Campaign

Promotional Support

*Burger King

*Quaker Oats Life Cereal Campaign

Licensees:

*American Arts & Graphics

*Azeroth Software

*Bakery Crafts

*Burger King

*Chienco

*Collegeville Flag & Mfg. Co.

*Harley Inc.

*Hudson Soft USA

*Henry Gordy International, Inc.

*Impel Marketing Inc.

*Milton Bradley Co.

*Merit Software

*Quaker Oats

*Spring Industries

*Suave Shoe Corpoation

*Tiger Toys

*Toys N' Things

*Troll Publishing

*Tulmar Corporation

*University Games

*Wormser Company

I found another trade advertising from 1993 about Inspector Gadget. Then it has bullet points. The notable ones that said:

●DIC's very own character is ten years old!

●Live action movie planned for fall 1994 release by Universal Pictures and directed by Ivan Reitman Productions.

●Spokesperson for the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children.

●Network Specials Planned.

●Master Toy Licensee Tiger-Toys.

●National Mall Tour Featuring the Top 100 Malls on Safety For Kids. Estimated Exposure 25 Million Consumers!

●Daily Syndication & Cable Airing!

●Over 100 Licensed Products.

●Video Release by Buena Vista/Walt Disney.

Inspector Gadget's Secret Agents:

●Aladdin Industries, Inc.

●American Arts & Graphics

●Bakery Crafts

●Buena Vista/Walt Disney

●Chienco

●Collegeville/Imagineering

●Harley, Inc.

●Henry Gordy International, Inc.

●Hudson Soft, USA

●Impel Marketing Inc.

●Innovative Time Corporation

●Suave Shoe Corpoation

●Tiger Toys

●Toys N' Things

●Troll Publishing

●University Games

●Wormser Company

I grew up on the show in the late 1980's. Glad it stayed popular in syndicated reruns through the 1990's.

Can you do a vid on the Littles!?