Re: A question for us old-timers

Posted by woods01 from 139-142-113-152.islandnet.com on February 26, 1999 at 00:57:18:

In Reply to: A question for us old-timers posted by graml on February 25, 1999 at 09:37:29:

: Greetings fellow Indy-backers (makes us sound like MPs),
: I have a question for those of you who,like me, were alive and somewhat
: coherent in the early 1980s. I don't remember an Indy Saturday
: morning cartoon, and I am inclined to believe that there never was

Well Raiders of the Lost Ark was a movie aimed at adults but proved to
be popular with kids and ever since then Hollywood has been trying to
make action movies than appeal to both kids and adults to try to rake
in the bucks Raiders made. I was one of those kids who was lucky enough
to see Raiders and while I loved Indiana Jones I don't remember hearing
anything about those Kenner toys or the ones for TofD, Indy simply was
never marketed as a kiddie movie.

: one. My question is why not? If you remember the glut of Saturday
: morning cartoons (which is now a lost art) in the 1980s, it seems
: logical that one of the most successful movies of that time would have
: a cartoon counterpart. Just like Star Wars and countless other movies
: (some of them REAL bad, if my memory serves me correctly), Indy should

Hey I loved those Ewoks and Droids cartoons! But it takes a year or more
to make a cartoon series and since Indy wasn't exactly burning up the
toy stores why make a cartoon? In the 80s cartoons became a way to
create 22 minute toy commercials.

: probably keep my posts shorter. Just my two cents.(Back in my day,
: you could get THREE packs of Pac-Man cards for two cents!)

Haha, I remember those Pac-man cards. I even have a couple still kicking
around in my card box.

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