Speedracer!!
 

Dr*audios Clyde Crashcup thread got me thinking about this!

Surely you guys loved Speedracer as a kid! My fav. toons as a kid were Speedracer, Johnny Quest....and the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Hour!

Watched SR all the time as a kid and who can forget the Speedracer theme song? Admit it......you're humming it as you read this! :D

Back in the 1980's there were plans on a live action Speedracer movie....Charley Sheen was supposed to be Speedracer but the whole project fell through apparently. Who knows, mighta sucked....mighta been good.


Russ

Along with Gigantor,Kimba,and Astro Boy,probably Americans first exposure to Anime.
Its funny that you should mention a live action version:John Singleton,the director of 2Fast 2Furious has said in interviews that he used Speed Racer as an influence when shooting the racing scenes in that movie.
Jimmy

MY all time favorite was Star Blazers! Who could forget the adventures of Captain whats-his-name travelling to the planet Iscandar to fight off Desslok and the evil blue guys to save the earth in a Japanese battleship equipped with a wave motion engine! :)

I always wondered why they didn't bring Speed racer back in reruns a long time ago. Space Ghost and the Hurculoids were good as well.
Had to watch Rocketship 7 (from Buffalo) before going to school. I guess every kid had a local morning show that they watched while getting ready for school

Man, Russ...I forgot about Johnny Quest. That was Saturday mornings at about 8 AM. With doughnuts my dad brought home for me and my sis. Hadgi, the sidekick, Bandit, the faithful dog, and was Race Bannon in that one?

Also, I think the opening soundtrack for Dan Patrick's ESPN radio show, is the Speedracer intro music :yes:

Don't forget Marine Boy! Thinking back, damn, I watched a lot of TV cartoons! Speed Racer, Marine Boy, Gigantor, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Space Ghost, Bigs Bunny-Roadrunner, Max Fleischer Popeye cartoons, Fireball XL-5, Thunderbirds, Magilla Gorilla, Flintstones, Jetsons! It's a wonder my brain works at all or that I remained normal!
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I LOVED the Max Fleischer "Popeye" cartoons...Remember Popeye was always mumblin'-& it was always a hoot? Loved the ones w/Eugene, the majical Jeep...the one where Popeye gets captured by this 2 headed monster, & he ends up getting the 2 heads into a fight w/each other? Nowadays, cartoons either have to teach the kiddies a lesson in Brotherhood or some crap, or -more likely- they're just one long commercial. Bullshit. Gimme Popeye & Bluto beating the Tar out of each other, any day...

I collect 16mm, and 35mm movies. I have literally HUNDREDS of cartoons in the collection. Up until about 10 years ago, I had a set of Starblazers shows (52 episodes) and a set of Speedracer shows (also 52 shows!)

Go, Speedracer, Go-o!

Wish I still had them, sometimes...

Yes, Race Bannon was the pilot in "Johnny Quest".

Speaking of pilots....remember "Roger Ramjet"? :D


Russ

Oh, yeah-Roger Ramjet-mid-60s affair, kinda crudely drawn, planes sorta but not really reminded me of F104s.

Roger Ramjet was an airborne "Dudley Do Right"! Same chin, same attitude only he wore a flightsuit. :D

Actually the "planes" reminded me of F-5 Tigers or T-38 Talons!

Russ

Yeah, come to think of it, they WERE more like T-38 Talons...

How about Woody Woodpecker? you never see that on anymore... I used to watch a japanese sci fi show as a kid called Ultra-man... it was dubbed in english ... did i know that at the time? heck no... hiotta

I have a question for you loony tunes people.. i remember seeing a cartoon as a kid there was a couple of guys hunting and the one guy says to the other... " Hey Homer did ya get one? " duh yah and hes got antlers like this.... he puts his hands up... BLAM!

I have been trying to find a copy of Gunsmith Cats.

Speaking of Max Fleischer, there was an interesting thing about the Betty Boop cartoon... Big Band leader Cab Calloway* was filmed dancing for Minnie the Moocher. One of the cartoon characters was animated by drawing the cells over the frames of Cab dancing in a process called Rotoscope. So, the animation reflected Cab's actual movement. The Rotoscope process was invented by the Fleishers.

* For you younger guys, Cab Calloway was the custodial engineer at the orphanage in the original Blues Brothers movie... who later in the movie sang his band's theme song onstage "Minnie the Moocher" with the Blues Brothers band.



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