Ninja Turtles, the cartoon that shaped our violent lives. Part 1

 

 

It's my theory that we were spoiled with awesomeness in the 80's and 90's. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a testiment to that. While there is a new cartoon premiering on Nickelodeon this Saturday (which I promise you I will be watching, taping, and re-watching) the origional is still, far and away the best.

 

The story of 4 mutated turtles, led by a rat to fight the evil Shredder and his Foot Soldiers is just another reason to love this time period.

 

Now kids wake up on Saturday morning with virtually no cartoons to watch, and what there is is just awful! We were treated to daily adventures of 4 pizza loving teens who, with the help of Splinter and April O'neill, kicked the asses of Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady. Even though each episode was fairly repetitive (Turtles do something, Shredder wants power and destruction, Turtles foil that plan) you ALWAYS tuned in right after school to watch.

 

This series had a great run up to about 1996. The last couple of seasons were a little less interesting, as the animation style totally changed. Everything was much darker, and post apocalyptic looking. But all in all, still one of my top 5 greatest cartoons ever.

 

In the future I'll be covering TMNT more. Not just the origional series, but Next Mutation, as well as the movies, the 2003 series, and the series set to begin Saturday. Perhaps I'll do a season by season review, or episode review. I'll even be covering the toys themselves!

 

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Totally, Amazing, Excellent Find!

So I had heard rumors that the Mattel Retro Real Ghostbusters figures had been spotted for $10 at TJ Maxx. Normally these things retail from anywhere between $20 and $30. To me, while worth it, I can take that  $30 to garage sales and thrift stores, and score wayyyyy more stuff. But I couldn't resist. I had to make a trip to TJ Maxx. This is too good of a deal to pass up.

I arrived, and rushed back to the toy section. Not immediatley seeing anything on a peg, I looked a little harder, and behold, there sitting behind some other junk was this:

And to make things even better, the $9.99 price tag had been reduced to $7.00. Another awesome find.

 

These figures are actually pretty cool. They look similar in packaging and design to the old MEGO figures from the 1970's. And who wouldn't love to have this hanging in their man cave with all their other toys?

LUNCH TIME!!!

What are you having today? You know you want a happy meal.

Reasons to LOVE Halloween Day 1

Starting today I am counting down the days until Halloween gets here. While Christmas is cool because of presents, Halloween is the one day a year I can leave the house dressed as a Ghostbuster and look normal!! Below is the first reason to love Halloween. Welcome to the real "Most Wonderful Time of the Year"

I present to you, in full Garfield's Halloween Adventure. Enjoy!

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Garfield Fruit Snacks! For the fat kid inside you.

If there was anything better to have in your lunchbox in the 90's than Garfield Fruit Snacks, I don't want to know about it. These were like crack, and far better than any other fruit snack then and now.

Go ninja go ninja go!

Heard this on the radio the other day. You're damn right I blasted it and sang along while some redneck in a pick up truck gave me a strange look. ENJOY!

The ad's that made you whine and cry til you got it! Part 1

Who didn't want an Ecto-1? Lucky for me, I have 3 of them. But I thought as a quick post, you all would enjoy this. Now watch it, and go call your parents and beg for it.