80's Cartoons Revisited

Its been almost a week since my last post here! Been super duper hyper busy with work and other stuffs that had limited my access to the Internet.However, hopefully am back to my normal routine now.

The past week, news highlights had been filled with news about the little girl's brutal murder (get that bloody asshole and leave the parents alone) and the usual-nothing-to be-surprised-knee jerk reaction news about corruptions and misuse of powers in the country. Things are getting too stale these days from the political point of view.On the sports front, the sudden departure of Jose MOANrinho(can't resist the dig mate! heheheh) from Chelsea hogged the limelight.

Speaking of Jose Mourinho, either you love him or hate him and there is no way anyone would sit in the middle about him. I hated him to the max for his arrogant attitude. The self proclaimed 'The Special One' was humbled out in a acrimonious fashion. But on footballing terms , he is one heck of a manager. His main strength? He is a too darn good of a motivator. How many times we must've seen Chelsea going into a break chasing a game only for them to come out strongly winning in the second half. For that I salute the bloke. I surely be gutted if he ends up in Liverpool (which he almost had before choosing Chelsea in 2004) but I will approve his rating if he takes over from Steve McClown for England!

Now on entertainment front, 2 news really caught my attention! After the humongous success (I told you so!) of Transformers, work are now in progress to bring to the silver screen 2 more great heroes from the 80's - Voltron and Robotech! Wah wie.. am drooling already!

For all those 80s kids like me , this is surely a sight to behold! Like most 80s kids I grew up watching these evergreen cartoon series. Just to name a few of my favorites, in no particular order - Transformers, Voltron, Robotech, Macross, Mospeada, Thundercats, MASK, GI Joe, Silverhawks, Ghosbusters, Smurfs, Care Bears, Denver the Last Dinosaur, Inspector Gadget and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This list is inexhaustive of course.

So naturally when news broke out about the Robotech and Voltron silver screen adaptation , I was delirious about the whole prospect. I had the same feeling when I heard about the Transformer project by Michael Bay in 2004. The wait for 3 years proved to be worthwhile what with the way the movie turned out.

Coming back to Robotech, for those who cant recall what this cartoon is all about, think of those transforming fighter jets and motorcycles. Robotech is actually the convergence of another 3 Japanese anime namely Macross, Mospeada and Southern Cross. This had also spawned the ever famous video game Super Famicom - Macross Scrambled Valkyrie.News is Tobey Maguire(Spiderman) will be producing the movie and will have a key role to play in the movie as well. This will be made into a 'live action' movie just like The Transformer instead of the famous animated version. The director is not named yet, but I bet it wont be Michael Bay for sure. Whoever it is , I hope he will do credit for the original animated series.

Voltron is the other famous cartoon being made into another 'live action' ,movie. It will interesting to see how they will manage to adapt the 5 lions into the big screen. There are not much news about this venture on the Net though. One site I found had this to say 'The script, by Justin Marks, is described as '...a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico. Five ragtag survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders.'. Lets wait for further news on this.

Hopefully all this remakes do justice to the original series and keep US the fans wanting for more. I have read that more and more 80s cartoons are in the pipeline to be made into feature films in years to come.

I cant wait already