The OBSCURE 80’s Cartoon Iceberg EXPLAINED [1/2]

there's a video about the Wuzzles and how for some strange reason disney were competing with themselves through gummie bears on a different channel. Wuzzles was extremely popular in the UK and considered a relative success

Ring Raiders were so blink and you miss it, but here in New Zealand we were lucky enough to get the car series which played in its entirety over five Saturday mornings in early 1990… I know this because I meticulously taped all the episodes onto one three hour VHS cassette back when I was 10 years old. My younger cousin had been gifted the first episode on VHS when the toys dropped as it was part of a pack that you could buy with one of the sets of toys, so we already had seen the pilot so when it aired on TV, I was quick to record it. For some bizarre reason the characters have grey fingernails in the pilot episode, which is something that always bugged me 😂 but like so many of the titles featured here that had an absolute banger of an intro theme… right up there with jayce and the wheeled Warriors, pole position, galaxy rangers,mask and sky commanders

Where is Pryde of the X-Men?

Drop Turbo Teen down a tier (You cant even find a quarter of the cartoons as they are lost media) and move Galaxy High up one and the list is good.

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors had the best theme song. Lightning strikes!

Huh. I assume Mask is gonna show up in part 2, but I would have figured it was maybe less obscure than Starcom. I loved the starcom toys but never saw the show. Mask I loved the toys, despite having seen the show.

I'm also hoping that Pirates of Dark Water (which was freaking amazing) and the short-lived localization of Dragon Warrior are down near the bottom of the iceberg. The latter I can't find much about online. It was a partial localization of Dragon Quest: Legend of the Hero Abel, and, uh, that's about it.

I'm a little surprised tier 1 didn't include Dungeons and Dragons, now that I think about it. I think that one was pretty well-known, if not very popular.

Oh, and Tranzor Z definitely comes up as a "fever dream" show from time to time. Mazinger Z is pretty well-known in Japan, I think, but the partial localization did not go over big here.

Wouldn't Belle and Sebastian be tier 1 also? French-Japanese animation about a boy and his dog in the mountains. Made bread look absolutely delicious. I absolutely did not understand the political context of that show.

Sweet lord, that description of Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors makes me want to watch it even more, and I was already a huge fan!

Ring Raiders lunch box core memory unlocked

@13:00 – Is there any connection to the Michael Martin Murphey song "Wildfire" from 1984? It was also about a woman and a horse.🤔

New kids on the block cartoon

There were only a couple of these that I didn't recognize. In that era, if it aired on Saturday mornings or weekday afternoons, I saw it. I kind of miss a lot of these. And I definitely miss the Saturday morning cartoon era.

Still my absolute Favorite YT channel! I hope to meet you one day and I hope you keep doing this forever! absolutely fantastic job.

I actually liked the Ruby Spears Superman cartoon. It wasn't nearly as good as the DCAU one that came out a decade later, but it was a step up from Superfriends. It was also the first adaptation to portray Lex Luthor as an evil billionaire rather than a mad scientist, and had fun little segments after the main story about Clark's childhood.

I can't believe Jayce and the Wheels Warriors was so high…..I wonder where The Pirates of Darkwater will show up

Ulysses 31 has an absolute banger of a theme tune, highly underrated series. Pretty dark at times too, probably due to being made for French TV.

This was cool, more than a few on here I've never heard of. Look forward to Part 2.

I had a wuzzle. Bumblelion. My brother had one, too. The kangaroo-elephant thing. And Sectaurs is one of the BEST toy lines EVER. We had a bunch of them.

I will say that a lot of the ones in the tier 3 are indeed obscure though I also lived in a town to where they did try to regulate on some of the channels as to what was being shown and when. Channel 4 (cbs), 5(abc), and 8 (nbc) being mostly the only ones that didn't get much changed for Saturday mornings, and USA getting away with the cartoon express (which was where I did see some shows like turbo teen)

So the only one in tier 1 I never saw (but did know of when I grew up), was Rubix. That show was back in 83 and I likely missed it because at that time I was mostly watching stuff on the CBS block like the D&D cartoon and Saturday Supercade (which is also why I knew that one when mentioned later)

on tier 2 I already mentioned Saturday Supercade but there was a few more (kidd video on nbc, wuzzles on cbs , turbo teen and pole position on usa cartoon express. monchichi I knew from commercials but never watched it). The rest I either never heard of. Same goes on tier 3 except for five of them.

I am waiting to see eventually some shows that may be in tier 4 and below that I did know of, but can only watch by skipping school, as all weekday cartoons (except the Disney afternoon) that often did show in my town was often at a time to where you'd be in school otherwise (for example, a show like sailor moon and the power team was often on at 11 am or noon on the channel it was on, which if I remember right was WGN)

I watched so many obscure cartoons growing up.

It's wild how many of these I'd never heard of, considering that I was pretty familiar with a bunch on each tier. Maybe regional differences in syndication? Was Tiger Sharks on The Comic Strip anthology show? I thought it was, but maybe in reruns? Good stuff.