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Published: 2011-08-18 23:17:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 32340; Favourites: 703; Downloads: 3554
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If you happen to be a child of the 80's, I'm sure you could name dozens of characters from your youth that captured your imagination on Saturday morning cartoons. To me, they're a part of why I consider the 80's to be the greatest decade of my life. They were all about flashy effects, rock 'n roll themes and promoting toys. I wanted to honour that era with a massive group shot of characters from over seventy of your favourite shows. This took two weeks to do - the longest I've worked on any single picture.This image was inspired by the cover of Capcom Design Works . The title in the top-right is the theme song of The Raccoons . I feel it best represents the spirit and energy of 80's animation, and it's something I used to listen to a lot while working on this pic. Someday I hope to draw an adjoining picture with characters from 90's cartoons. Two points to bear in mind: there are no anime shows featured (otherwise the pic would be twice as big as it already is) and there are no British shows. Even though I'm a Brit myself, I will happily admit that my country's own animation is utter pump. I mean, c'mon. Jimbo? Bananaman? Superted? Gimme the frickin' SPACE BATTLES!!
IF YOU NEED TO KNOW WHO'S WHO, YOU CAN CHECK A REFERENCE IMAGE HERE , BUT TRY AND GUESS AS MANY AS YOU CAN FIRST.
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and comment i will post will fail to compere with this awesomeness so i will not even try
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I love this massive crossover and it was a treat to see and try to pick out all the characters I used to watch (expecially Genghis Rex as Dinosaucers is so under-appreciated). Also you forgot to mention the most awesome of 80's British cartoons: Count Duckula.
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awesome image. reminds of another thing the 80s gave us; The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
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Now this is one big Trip down memory lane for me.
You know when I look back on all the cartoons I watched when I was a kid, and then look at the utter shit kids today get to rot their brains away watching... Im glad I was born in the 80s.
Brilliant work!
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This is fun run on memories lane!
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What? No Garfield?
Just kidding... that's rather impressive, down to even remembering that Mario's overalls were a different color back then.
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(sigh) The 80s was a mystical decade.
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there just a few that i cant recall. man; we the 80ยดs generation are really lucky.
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I have no other word to describe it other than EPIC!
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now this is one hell of a pic
all of the best of the best are here
and you did awesome job
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Amazing work! Fave parts are the turtles riding in the car and optimus prime holding the little girl 
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WAGGS!!!
Ahem...I always considered "The Biskitts" to be one of the best cartoons of the 80's
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Now, now: the UK gave the world Danger Mouse and Duckula.
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I just love this kind of crossover between several cartoons! Congratulations! Great idea, great realization! I love the fact of the Transformer holding a little, it is brilliant!
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Whoa! Awesome artwork. I think I actually (very fondly) remember more than half of these cartoons. :-D
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Brilliant!
I spot Alvin and the Chipmunks..
Alot better than the New CGI Ones
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Crikey, I'm not going to draw every character from each series. Pac-Man's already there.
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You cannot have Pac-Man without Pepper! It's madness! Also, draw Pac-Man from the old show, looking surprised at what he looks like in the new show.
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I took me all of five seconds to spot the Cobra Commander! Nonetheless, awesome work!
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This is AWESOME!! All my favorite stuff from when I was a little girl!
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if any of you younger fans were wandering why bart simpson is there, he debuted during the tracy ullman show in the late 1980's just his show came in the early 90's.
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You do have a point, but I was thinking more about the pilot episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", which aired in December 1989. It's still an 80's cartoon!
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good god it my entire child hood in front of me i swear to god i have seen 99.99% of these toons.
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DUDE! i recognize that yellow nugget boulder robot thing at the far right but i don't know what it is! i think it's gold though because i had the action figure. it's like a little gold rock with little fold-out arms and legs with cute little square hands. i got the toy from a garage sale so i have no idea from what cartoon it came from.
-Kawai Tei-
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And you'll never know who he is or what cartoon he came from, Teisisushi. (Just as long as you don't check the reference image in the description.)
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Stupid dA and its dark green text. By the way, you're never gonna stop calling me that are you? (LOL)
-Kawai Tei-
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Waaaa... You bring back my child hood... I remember watching all this cartoon shows!! Looks great! Good job!
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........Okay I massively fail for not getting 13,15, and 66. Dear god D:
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*takes a breath* Transformers, The Littles, Inspector Gadget, Heathecliff, Voltron, Gummi Bears, Mario, He-man, Denver the last Dinosaur, G.I Joe, Alvin and the chipmunks, Rainbow Brite (<333333), My Little Pony, Ninja Turtles, Rescue Rangers, Beatlejuice, Jem, Legend of Zelda, Captian N, Simpsons, Ducktales, Winnie the Pooh, The Racoons (I thiiink), Bearenstien Bears, Get Along Gang (god, I hated that show so much XD), Teddy Ruxpin She-ra, Care Bears, Legend of Zelda, Snorks, Muppet Babies, Thundercats, Bravestar, Smurfs, Pac-man...and..I see someone that looks like Underdog, though I don't think I'm right, annnd I thiiink I see the villain from Mighty Max.
:< The others I'm blanking on. Dang! I thought I'd be able to to get them all without having to look. XD
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Uh.. I don't see anyone that looks remotely like Skullmaster. Besides, Mighty Max is from the 90's, not the 80's. You also don't get extra points for naming the Legend of Zelda twice.
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I had a derp moment and thought the guy on the black horse was from Mighty Max. XD
HA. Did I really do that? Go me!
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Dungeons and Dragons badguy you mean....and you forgot to mention Copper form Silverhawks (time for another lesson about our solar system), the Pole Position car, and the semi-truck from MASK.
I remember the little knight running behind the ShirtTales panda, but I forget what he's from...and I don't remember the big pink caddie.
Would loved to have seen some from C.O.P.S., Wuzzles, Alf & Alf Tales (a great, funny couple of cartoons), and Robotech. Don't get me wrong....I'm not complaining...this is freaking awesome. Great job.
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Yeah, after I saw he from from D&D I felt even more retarded. I -knew- he had looked familiar, but my mind decided that MM was a good answer.
I wasn't familiar with the others. ;^;
<3 Wuzzles! I loved that show.
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Just saw your reference link...Wheeled Warriors...totally. My rack-mate (guy on the top bunk...I'm on the bottom) in Marine Corps boot camp was named Jace, and that cartoon is how I'll always remember that name. IS the pink caddie her car in Galaxy High?
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The pink caddie belongs to Rude Dog in the driver's seat.
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I can see inspector gadget, He-man, bart simpson, mario, ghostbusters ghost (forgot the name), transformers (duh) and the pink panter, and also those little bears, forgot the name again.
though, I wasn't born in the 80's with HE-MAN or anything like that, I wish I have, sort of, because transformers are epic.
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