• @neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    192 months ago

    Old school Darkwing Duck fans really owe it to themselves to check out the most recent Duck Tales animated series. It is very much made with the folks who grew up with the 1990s Disney Afternoon in mind, with many out-of-canon cameos that will make you smile and an outstanding voice cast (lead by David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck).

    It’s also very clear that the creators were begging to make a Darkwing Duck reboot all along, but Disney wouldn’t let them, so they just crammed him into the show anyway.

  • Aa!
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    162 months ago

    Pretty sure Darkwing Duck was part of the Disney Afternoon, and showed after school on weekdays

  • @shundi82@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Me back in 1990 every Sunday at 4:30 AM:

    “Wings of silver, nerves of steel… (Silverhawks!) Partly metal, partly real… (Silverhawks!) Soaring through the highway of the heavens in their flight, SilverHawks, a rainbow in the night!”

    https://youtu.be/M0MsPABRHCM

    • lemmyng
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      32 months ago

      Together with ThunderCats and BraveStarr. And Exosquad. And Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. And Attack of the Killer Tomatoes…

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    122 months ago

    I preferred the Nickelodeon lineup myself. Rugrats, Doug, Rocko’s Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, Angry Beavers, and Pete & Pete.

    Then on Sunday morning it was two hours of MST3K on The Sci Fi Channel

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    2 months ago

    **I feel bad for Zoomers. They never even had Saturday morning cartoons. They barely have any good cartoons geared toward children.

    It’s actually a bit ironic that some law preventing cartoons being made exclusively to sell merch, like Transformers or TMNT, just stopped good cartoons from being made. We would have still watched these even if they didn’t sell any toys cuz they kicked ass all by themselves.

  • Noxy
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    92 months ago

    when there’s trouble you call DW

  • @jawa21
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    72 months ago

    I’ve always heard us being referred to the Duck Tales generation, but this tracks. Born early enough to skin your knees on a Big Wheel in the 80’s, but only after Gen X had skateboards.

    • @ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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      42 months ago

      Not to mention playgrounds that still had merry-go-rounds, splintery wood structures, and flesh-searing steel slides. We had it so good.

      • @jawa21
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        32 months ago

        I broke my wrist on one of those slides!

        My jacket caught on the top loop and I flew off. I was maybe 6.

        • @ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world
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          We had a slide like that in elementary school, except it had dual slides. You’d climb up the center and go either left or right, and it was two HUGE metal spiral slides. One day, 8y/o me thought it’d be a grand idea to take a roll of wax paper and hand it out at the top of the stairs. 20 minutes later, I’m in the principals office, explaining why i did what i did, as kids are flying of of the top of each slide in the background…

          Good times.

          • @jawa21
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            42 months ago

            This isn’t a great representation of the old ones. They had multiple panels of aluminum all the way down that would scrape and burn you in the sun xD

        • @marcos@lemmy.world
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          “And none of that killed me”

          Says older person that had at least one friend die from some of that on their infancy.

          When my parents pull that line, I have to make an effort not to laugh. But at least I’m aware enough to not say it to kids nowadays.

  • @Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de
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    But Wil Wheaton has been born in 1972, so basically is prototypical GenX per definition.

    This should rather be a photo of e.g. Cirroc Lofton, aka Jake Sisko…

  • @Mango@lemmy.world
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    22 months ago

    This is not the meinhof baader phenomena… I was just showing a coworker some darkwing duck stuff yesterday…