Talk:ThunderCats (1985 TV series)/Archive 1

message: I strongly doubt that Larry Kenney supplied the voice of Lion-O in the latest episode of Robot Chicken.  It sounds very much like Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane... in fact, I'm almost certain that it's him, since he frequently uses that same irate monotone voice on both of his shows.  Could someone confirm this?  M.Neko
: I have marked that statement in the article as requiring a citation.  - Seinfreak37 15:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is Seth MacFarlane. Here's a link Bluesmanjay (talk) 15:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voice of Lion-O 

message: It is truly a travesty that this page lacks any mention of the Robear Berbils.
Fixed. Jack Cain
In addition, the article says that it was due to the Ro-Bear Berbils that Tygra could build Cat's Lair so quickly, but Tygra wasn't the only ThunderCat to build it. The episode clearly states as such. The article should read that it was due to the help of the Ro-Bear Berbils that the ThunderCats were able to build Cat's Lair so quickly. --Bentonia School 13:26, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robear Berbils 

message: How did the Thundercats intend to repopulate the planet with other thundercats wen there was only 1 female? Not very good planning. Chris H - UK.
Same goes for the Smurfs, really. Good lord! I theorize that some of the others (Smurfs, not Thundercats) were less-obvious females..
:Actually, there are two females, Wily-kit is also female. Of course, she's also a little young ;) --Wilykit 15:15, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
:The Smurfs are all males, actually.  Smurfette is an artificial creation of Gargamel, not a real Smurf.  Why do I know things like that? - 67.191.254.83 18:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: With.. humans? *shrugs* It was just one of those little plot things they put it, most likely. Like most early cartoon shows. Disinclination 03:21, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repopulation 

message: I recently saw the first episode of thundercats again and it never mentions that lion-o's pod malfunctioned.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Duokenshin (talk • contribs) 20:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: i jus saw it too, and the explanation given there is not that it malfunctioned, but that ageing did occured on the pods.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.113.116.135 (talk • contribs) 17:55, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  first episode 

message: I know there are webpages out there that say Season 2 was 1986-7, but I remember when seeing the episodes air a few years ago (2001 to be precise), the copyright date at the end of some of them was 1987 and for others 1988. I remember seeing somewhere that Thundercats went into a 1 season hiatus for the 1986-7 season while 65 episodes of the cartoon series Silverhawks were aired (a show which featured some of the same voice actors as Thundercats). The only Thundercats episode/s produced in that span was Thundercats! Ho!, a 5-parter which introduced the 3 other Thundercats. That may have been first released as a video before being broken up into episodes for syndication. 
Episodes with 1987 in their credits span from "Mumm-Ra Lives! Part I" to "Vultureman's Revenge". Episodes with 1988 in their credits span from "Thundercubs Part I" to "The Book of Omens". I've seen some sources say from "Return to Thundera Part I" to "The Book of Omens" were aired in the 1989-1990 season. I'm not sure what that is about, though it might be possible they filled their remaining episode order in terms of production in 1988 and just held half the episodes over to make another season out of the episodes made (A 5th season of Futurama aired even though there were only 4 seasons of production. That "season" was made from several unaired episodes from previous seasons). 
By the way, a lot of webpages out there operate on certain assumptions with cartoon series. They assume 65 episodes will be aired 5 episodes a week for 13 weeks without any mistakes in airing or delays in production of some episodes. These cannot be considered reliable because we don't know if the webpages actually confirmed the airdates or just looked for the first Monday of September and started counting off air dates from there on out. What I'm saying is we don't know for sure if the episode airdate list is correct and has been generated by looking at actual data or if it is just a theoretical list of when episodes most likely aired. In the case of Thundercats, it is known to be false. 
And many series have 65 episode orders but don't air all 65 episodes over a single season. Transformers for example, aired 16 episodes in Season 1 and 49 episodes in Season 2 (16 + 49= 65) and G.I. Joe produced two 5 episode mini series in 1983 & 1984 before getting a first season and that season had 55 episodes (50 if you count the 1985 Mini-Series as separate from the 1985-6 Season). 
I would ask for the 1986-7 data to be confirmed. If it cannot be, then the wiki page should state the lack of certainty regarding when the second half of the series aired.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.67.201.239 (talk • contribs) 21:35, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct, the "original airdates" commonly listed online are untrue. ThunderCats HO! aired in '86 , first showing one Friday night as a full-length movie, later split into 5 parts that were cycled into regular episode rotation.  Then Silverhawks came to air in 1986-87, bumping ThunderCats by a half-hour. Mumm-Ra Lives (1-5) aired (again, first as a full-length movie) one weekend afternoon in 1987. (...I actually have that page from the old TV guide listing clipped out, somewhere. One couldn't help notice that the tone of the show had skewed younger/dumber from this point.) At the time, apart from recording all those original airings, I kept a personal calendar record of day-by-day episode listings (which I still have...somewhere) because in that age before such information was made available through the magical internet, I was trying to figure out for myself the official episode chronology (and also because I was cartoon obsessive :p) but soon discovered that station airings were inconsistently ordered in any event. Of the remaining Season Two episodes, Cat Fight up until Ravage Island came scattered between rerun episodes throughout 1987-88, and sometime later (after still more reruns of all of those) followed by the span from Time Switch to Vultureman's Revenge, as I recall.  The episodes from Thundercubs (1-5) onward didn't show up until the 89-90 season,  when the show had moved from weekday afternoons to an early morning timeslot. ~ 172.144.130.85 17:22, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seasons? 

message: I have heard a bunch of rumors about a new Thundercats series being developed for Toonami? Does anybody know if this is true? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.101.81.251 (talk • contribs) 01:00, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: copied relevant section: "Warner Bros. is also working on securing new licensees to re-launch the ‘80s animated series, The Thundercats. Warner Bros. has the classic as well as new licensee to develop product for children, including an updated Thundercats look and collectibles for early fans."
This does state nowhere that a new series is in the works, it states that WB wants the liscencees (which it may not get). It mentions collectibles and new look, but not a TV series. A relaunch might be just a comic book series. --Anibas 19:00, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New series? 

message: This section needs expanding, I dont have time to do it right now, but mafetet appears briefly for one episode and gets half the section, whereas the warrior women havnt even been mentioned, their queen and another warrior woman are among the major supporting characters in the series. Discordance 11:12, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Natives of Third Earth 

message: I recall in Part 5 of Thundercats Ho! The Movie, Tygra grasps Bengali's hand and shoulder, saying "Brother".  Now, after that, it was NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN during the remainder of the run of the show.  I don't believe that it was ever intended to have Tygra and Bengali as "brothers" in the blood sense.  Rather, it was probably meant to mean Tygra and Bengali as "brothers" in the sense of being from the same "tiger clan", for lack of a better term.  I reiterate...it was NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN in the show.  Does that constitute them being blood brothers or clan brothers? - The One and Only 23:51, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bengali and Tygra...brothers? 

message: *Material added
Do we have citations for any of this? - brenneman {L}  08:56, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material 

message: Both the insignia and the jewel embedded in the Sword of Omens were referenced as the "Eye of Thundera".  Check the episodes "Snarf Takes Up The Challenge" and "The Ghost Warrior".  In "Snarf Takes Up The Challenge", Tygra comes upon a crystal labyrinth with carved Tygra heads.  As he looks at the door, emblazoned with the ThunderCats insignia, he goes..."The Eye of Thundera?".  In the episode "The Ghost Warrior", when Grune is attacking Cat's Lair, Lion-O takes out the Sword of Omens and proclaims "Your fate will be sealed by the symbol you betrayed, Grune...the Eye of Thundera!"  Two on-screen and canonical pieces of information for ya! - DrachenFyre > YOU! 22:48, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey I don't have the DVD's so I can't check the episodes, but I'll take your word for it. Technically though "The Eye of Thundera" is the jewel embedded in the Sword of Omens, and the Insignia is really just exactly that, an insignia which identifies Thundercats. --NeilEvans 22:54, 17 August 
2006 (UTC)
Well as the jewel embedded in the sword of omens changes its appearence from the cats eye to the insignia when ever Lion-O uses it to call the Thundercats I would say it was reasonable to refer to both images as the Eye of Thundera. Elaverick 14:56, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insignia