LMAO just remembered that a whole bunch of Hard-R 80s movies got adapted into kids cartoons in order to sell toys and am now picturing the inevitable TV-PG Game of Thrones vehicle. pic.twitter.com/fAe9SC2us5
— Zeddediah Springfield (@Zeddary) May 5, 2019
Too old to remember those cartoons, but George R.R. Martin says there’s at least three don’t-call-them-spinoff series in production. I’m assuming there will be, at the least, some extremely expensive Lego sets and a special Mattel GoT Barbie available by Xmas… although those won’t actually be aimed at kids.
Walker
I believe it is well established that this happened because Gen X (the kids during this time period) was such a small generation that the R movie audience was more financially viable than the kids only audience.
tom
So is he going to finish the books?
bmoak
Don’t recognize the cartoon in the bottom left, and I usually have an ecyclopedic knowledge of toons from my childhood.
Citizen Alan
One of my most cherished possessions is the DVD for the Complete 1st Season of “Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos.” Of course, there was no 2nd Season, and the first was only five episodes. It is gloriously bad. It makes GI JOE look like it was written by Tom Clancy. It also has that curious 80’s characteristic of shooting for diversity but in a thoughtlessly racist way. (Ala the addition of characters like Apache Chief to the Super Friends.)
caphilldcne
Is that toxic crusaders thing a spinoff of toxic avengers? Cause seriously I rented that movie (on a rented vcr in a red plastic casing) and made it through 15 minutes before the violence made me physically ill and had to go back to the store and turn the whole thing in. And we were like horrendous 20 year old heavy drinking assholes. Jeez.
NotMax
The Red Wedding Lego playset will be a killer.
japa21
@tom: Based on the last two in the series, might be better if he didn’t. They were, quite honestly, pathetic.
bmoak
@NotMax:
How about the Ramsey Bolton Dungeon Playset?
Gravenstone
@bmoak: Conan the Barbarian.
Gravenstone
@caphilldcne: Toxic was the first movie that actually made me turn away from the screen. Came when he dispatched one of the bad guys in a gym near the end of the film.
bmoak
@Gravenstone: That doesn’t look like Conan at all.
Suzanne
@bmoak: I would buy that Lego set. Of course, I found the actor who played Ramsay Bolton to be really hot, so I am rather broken.
Martin
Woo! Game of Thrones Holiday Special here we come! Jefferson Starship is still out there performing for rehab money, no?
Jay
LEGO’s The Wall Expansion Playset,
Which when opened, contains two ice cube trays,……..
caphilldcne
@Gravenstone: I barely made it 15 minutes in with the car scene. Made me physically ill. Glad I’m not the only one. Even my kinda hard boiled friends seemed pretty icked out.
Jay
@bmoak:
You are thinking Arnold, but that would probably have required royalties for his image, so a generic beefcake was created.
These shows were done cheap.
Jay
@Martin:
Which Holiday?
Which Gods, the Old, the New, the Seven, the Red?
Does Arya kill Santa and save the Holiday?
chopper
@Citizen Alan:
as bad as the mr. T cartoon? that was dreck.
Joe Falco
“Oh no, Adrian! Looks like the Reds are polluting the city lake! What are we going to do?”
“We’ll call the Watchmen!”
Steeplejack
@bmoak:
If you’re talking about the picture with the machine guns on what looks like a jeep, that’s a short-lived Rambo cartoon from 1986. The one above it is clearly labeled “Conan,” for chrissakes. Why would @Zeddary put in two pictures from the same cartoon?
tarragon
@Steeplejack:
He meant the one on the bottom left that is *NOT* labeled Conan depending on how the browser crops it.
It’s almost like people have different experiences sometimes.
Groucho48
Well, if you open the link, to see the whole picture, it IS labelled Conan.