h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It was called heroes because it made the mistake of arriving in the middle of the paranoia about tv and kids. If you look at all the marketing ploys...sorry, I mean cartoons of the time (Thundercats, He man, all that nonsense), the amount of actual violence is minimal, lest little Johnny copy the idea and smack little Eddie with the broom handle thinking it had the power of Numbskull. If you look at the credits you will also find that without exception every single one of those shows had a 'Child Psychology Advisor'. Gleefully missing the point that what had made Tom and Jerry' fun was the near psychotic levels of violence.

I also understood that the new version was much more in line with Kevin eastman's original comic strip. This isn't strictly a re-make, but an attempt by Eastman to put his original vision on the screen.

It arrived in time for Christmas and has much merchandising!

I must confess the original cartoon seemed like an aberration, but then again I'd discovered the original comic books a few years earlier (via the rather good role-playing game).

Am I misremembering, or was Shredder's mad scientist sidekick white in the cartoon but black in the original comics? Well, anyway, they killed him off quite nastily in the cartoon, which impressed me slightly. And wasn't Shredder working for an Utrom alien or something? It was a long time ago.

But I haven't forgotten working next to the pizza counter of a well-known supermarket in the middle of a turtles-related promotion - the same three episodes on a tape loop for ten hours! They wouldn't even get away with that in Camp X-ray.

At least you had the same funky theme tune over and over!

Oh yes... 198os.. the Mattel age!

Turtles, He-man, Transformers...