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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · Jul 8

Animation model sheet galleries:
www.imgchest.com/p/xny85lw5ybl

Updated & revised every now and then. :)

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 8h

[accidentally doubled the 2nd pic]

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 8h

For decades there was a mystery surrounding the name of a TMNT character - the gray rock soldier. It was assumed it was Granitor (I believe the name came from video games) whilst audio version of Archie Comics adaptation called him Morg.

Well the storyboard showed up and it sez... it's Morg.

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 14h

Take a look at how wretched Cartoon Network UK is:
www.tvguide.co.uk/channel/cart...

Cartoon Network schedule & listings for today and tonight | TV Guide

Today's Cartoon Network TV schedule. Check out what's on Cartoon Network today, tonight and beyond with our TV guide.

www.tvguide.co.uk

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 15h

Look, either fight back or just bend over and keep taking it.

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 23h

Hasbro just needs to get through their thick skulls that tanks aren't the only military vehicles:

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/shorts/vx93f...

The Real Ghostbusters - Flirting with Egon?!

YouTube video by cerealgeekTV

www.youtube.com

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 1d

In 2000's it needed to be argued that this was the best look of Megatron. You'd think it's obvious, but not to some... Thankfully despite those people this look pretty much managed to become default look of the G1 version.

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

a man with a mustache wearing a black hat and vest

ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a black hat and vest

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

Weirdly American looking.

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

With Marvel you could always tell the quality of an artist by how on model they drew TF's. The more on model, the better the artist. 😎

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 3d

Trouble with Tron movies is not just the scripts, but also them obsessively making world of Tron look more and more mundane. Wanna dazzle the audience? Maintain the surrealness, the alieness of that world:
youtu.be/yN5TYdSqYVg

Tron 1982 | Tron and Yori hijack the Solar Sail simulation |

YouTube video by Binary Retro Clips

youtu.be

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 4d

Article on Battleram Blog was written on 40th anniversary. Main point is that it addresses the fake "birthday".

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 4d

Eeeexcept that it doesn't: battleramblog.com/he-man-in-th...

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 4d

Ain't the case of snobbery, but of a destructive psycho.

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 5d

BTW, go to 19:30 to see Cullen crack up everyone with an adlib. 8]

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 5d

Before Peter Cullen hit it big with voice acting, he was doing lots of live action gigs:
youtu.be/WHQkTjDgLAE

Young Peter Cullen | The Buddies (1968)

YouTube video by Not found

youtu.be

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 5d

And both considered for the use on the show. Probably why final Optimus ended up with an all-red cab in truck mode.

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 5d

Remember that drawing of toy Bumblebee in Marvel US issue 16, on the splash page? Weeeell it's up on Heritage Auctions.

comics.ha.com/itm/original...

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 5d

Yup.

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Dani @daniexists6.bsky.social · 6d

I think it's funnier that someone got this signed by the original Turtles.

the ad from above, but signed by Renee Jacobs (April O'Neil, with a "guess not...", Barry Gordon (Donatello, with a "YEAH RIGHT!"), Townsend Coleman (Michelangelo, with a "Still here!"), Rob Paulsen (Raphael) and Cam Clarke (Leonardo, with a "Crystal Ball, anyone?")

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 5d

Thankfully her reign of terror fizzled out in the 90's. Alas, there are still those who unawarely parrot her words. Especially when 80's cartoons are being talked about.

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 5d

She was so obsessed that she dragged studios and toy companies to congress. For example: www.google.rs/books/editio...

Children's Television Programming : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-n...

www.google.rs

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 5d

She claimed that she's fine when products are based on a show/movie - but that was BS as well. As evident by her going after Thundercats (THAT was the case of toys being based on the show). Went after it even before it even aired:

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 5d

In the 60's she obliterated sponsorships in kid shows: archive.org/details/alma...

Many of which had to cease productions as the finances dried up. This also led many animation studios to start outsourcing overseas as they could no longer afford doing it all domestically.

Almanac Extra: Children's Television (1987) Part 1 : KTCA-TV Channel 2 Minneapolis/St. Paul PBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Special program on Children's television, national, international and local. Featuring reports, commentary and discussions with educators, advertisers and...

archive.org

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 5d

Real menace were the watchdog groups. Like Peggy Charren's Action for Children's TV. For decades she went on to DESTROY animation industry under pretense of "commercial bad" and "VIOLENCE!!!!".

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