Ron Ron (Hana no ko Lun Lun) Cartoon Opening Video

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Ron Ron (Hana no ko Lun Lun) (1979)

Long ago, plant spirits and fairy-like creatures lived in harmony with mankind, but gradually humans began to rise toward greed and cruelty and the plant spirits immigrated to another world they dubbed the "Flower Star". However, their legacy remained in people who truly knew the meaning of love and kindness. A talking dog and cat pair, Nubo and Cato, were sent to Earth to find one such person to find a magical flower, the symbol of the Flower Star's ruling family, so that a new ruler could ascend the throne.

In France they meet LunLun, a young orphan who lives with her grandparents who own a flower shop. In Lunlun's 15th birthday party, they ask Lunlun to join them, and she accepts. They travel all over Europe in search of the flower, helping people every step of the way.

Lunlun, Nubo and Cato are followed by a bumbling pair of villains, the selfish fairy Togenishia and her servant Boris, who want to steal the flower and rule the Flower Star. Whenever Lunlun and her friends attempt to help people, Togenishia and Boris try to get them back on the road by force, only to fail. They're also aided by Serge, a mysterious photographer who gives the people Lunlun helps packets of flower seeds which symbolize the lesson they've learned in the "language of flowers." For instance, thistles, which signify independence, when the son of a farmer vows to follow his own dreams and leave home.

These people all send flower seeds to Lunlun's grandfather, and in the end the magical flower is found growing in his garden from the kindness of all the people. The photographer turns out to be the prince of the Flower Star, but secedes the throne to his younger brother so he can live on Earth and marry Lunlun.

Lunlun is gifted at the start of the series with a magical pin from the King of the Flower Planet. This pin, when a flower is reflected in its mirror gives Lunlun a new outfit fit for the purpose, such as mountain climbing. About halfway through the series, the pin is broken when Lunlun falls from a branch overhanging a waterfall whilst trying to attract attention after being caught in the Dark Wind, Togenishia's main form of attack). Whilst she is lost in the river, a new pin is given to her in the shape of the royal crest, with the warning that if it is ever lost of broken, her life on Earth will end and she will be unable to return to the Flower Planet. The words to activate this pin are "Fu Flay Lu Fey Lora".

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Fangface Cartoon Opening Video

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Fangface (1978)

Highly derivative of Scooby-Doo (which was also created by Ruby and Spears), Fangface features four teenagers — Kim, Biff, Puggsy and Sherman "Fangs" Fangsworth who transforms into a werewolf named Fangface whenever he sees the moon or an image of the moon — who drive around in their convertible called the "Wolf Buggy" and solve spooky mysteries involving ghosts and ghouls. Fangface usually immediately attacks Puggsy upon transforming, before taking a moment to recognize his friend (he's not very bright in either form). Whenever Fangface hears a food-related word, or a word or phrase that sounds like one (e.g., "let us," which sounds like "lettuce"), he tries to eat Puggsy; when this happens, Biff and/or Kim rubs Fangface's foot to calm him out of his "feeding frenzy." Also, if Fangface happens to see his image in a mirror, he goes into a hyper frenzy, complete with running circles on the floor. The sight of the sun (or a picture of the sun) transforms Fangface back into Fangs.

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Inspector Gadget Cartoon Opening Video

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Inspector Gadget (1983)

Inspector Gadget is an animated television series about a clumsy, absent-minded, and oblivious detective, Inspector Gadget, who is a human being with various cyborg "gadgets" built into his anatomy. Gadget's main nemesis is the mysterious Dr. Claw, leader of an evil organization known as MAD. This was the merchandising company DiC Entertainment's first syndicated cartoon show, and ran from 1983 to 1986 in syndication.

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Shirt Tales Cartoon Opening Video

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Shirt Tales (1982)

The Shirt Tales are characters that were created in 1980 and were featured on Hallmark Cards greeting cards. The animal characters wore T-shirts upon which a greeting card's message would appear. The Shirt Tale line of greeting cards were among Hallmark's best selling cards at that time, which led to the greeting card company teaming up with Hanna-Barbera Productions to adapt the Shirt Tales into a Saturday morning cartoon, which premiered in 1982.

The animated Shirt Tales cartoon featured Tyg Tiger, Pammy Panda, Digger Mole, Rick Raccoon, and Bogey Orangutan. They all wore shirts which flashed various brightly lit messages reflecting the characters' thoughts. They lived in Oak Tree Park, and spent their time teasing Mr. Dinkle, the park ranger, and battling crime in and out of their hometown of Mid City. They zipped around the world in a vehicle known as the STSST (Shirt Tales' SuperSonic Transport) which could operate as a car, jet, boat, submarine, and just about any other form of imaginable ride.

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The Lone Ranger Cartoon Opening Video

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The Lone Ranger (1978)

The Lone Ranger animated series ran from 1966 to 1968. The show lasted thirty episodes (invariably split into three separate shorts, with the middle segment being a solo adventure for Tonto, so that there were 90 installments in total). The Lone Ranger was featured, along with Zorro and Tarzan in "Adventure Hour" cartoon shorts in the early 1980s, produced by Filmation. These episodes featured William Conrad as the voice of the Masked Man, though he was listed in the credits as "J. Darnoc" (Conrad spelled backwards). Conrad starred in the original radio version of Gunsmoke as Marshal Matt Dillon and was the announcer/narrator for the cartoon escapades of Rocky & Bullwinkle. This time he had 14 episodes, split into two adventures at a time, for a total of 28 stories.

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Starzinger Cartoon Opening Video

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Starzinger (1978)

Starzinger, also known in Japan as "Science Fiction Journey to the West Starzinger". In the US it is referred to as Spaceketeers, in the UK it is referred to as Sci-Bots, and in the Philippines it was aired as Starzinger.

The story revolves around the Princess of the Moon, Aurora and her three cyborg companions (Kugo, Djorgo, Haka) who must travel to the Great King planet and restore the Galaxy Energy. The universe is becoming more and more unbalanced as the Queen of the great Planet grows older. Their adventure includes battling the starmen who are transformed from the unbalanced minerals and planets.

The cartoon series aired in the Philippines on IBC channel 13 as Starzinger. After its initial broadcast, the show was an instant hit. Starzinger bootleg merchandise soon followed; these included t-shirts, stickers, and various toys made of cheap plastic. Each of the three main characters in the cartoon series featured special weapons, which were also made available as toys. The most popular toy was the Starzinger leader Jesse Dart's Astro-lance, which looked very much like the one Jesse uses in the cartoon. It was a white colored staff about 2.5' long, battery operated and had flashing lights on both ends of it. There were Starzinger toys made in Japan, but were quite rare to find in Manila. Most parents at the time had to go to Hong Kong to purchase the real Starzinger toys for their kids. These were the original toys that were made by popular Japanese toy manufacturers such as Popy and Bandai.

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Getter Robo (Getta Robot) Cartoon Opening Video

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Getta Robo (1974)

Getter Robo is a Super Robot manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, as well as an anime series produced by Toei Animation. The series had a total of 51 episodes. Getter Robo is often credited as the first combiner robot in anime history, although the Astroboy series featured combining robots in a few episodes in the previous decade.

The plot involves three strong-willed teenagers from the same high school: soccer player and martial artist Ryoma Nagare, rebel loner Hayato Jin and Judo master Musashi Tomoe, who pilot three specially designed combat jets which can be combined together in different forms to form three different kinds of giant robots, Getter-1 (used for aerial combat), Getter-2 (for land-based conflicts), and Getter-3 (for undersea battles). They were assembled by Prof. Saotome, who conceived the Getter Robo project as a means of deep-space exploration, but became instead Earth's first line of defense against the Dinosaur Empire, which is a civilization of reptile-like humanoids, who evolved from the now-extinct dinosaurs that roamed the earth millions of years ago. They have lived many years underground, and they now want to reclaim the Earth as theirs and destroy humanity.

The series was groundbreaking in the anime mecha genre: for the very first time, it introduced the concept of separate machines combining to form a Super Robot. Using three jets, Getter Robo could combine in three different ways to create three different versions of Getter Robo for different conditions and situations. This idea was originally discussed during the creation process for Mazinger Z (the first Super Robot to be piloted internally), but was dropped and then developed for Getter Robo.

This combination idea proved to be a very powerful concept that has been used in the super robot genre ever since. Also, by adding three pilots to the robot was able to add an element of teen drama, probably influenced by the already popular anime sci-fi team show Gatchaman or G-force (better known in the U.S. as Battle of the Planets).

The cartoon series aired in the Philippines on IBC channel 13 in 1978 as Getta Robot, but did not last very long, and many have said that the last episode was never shown before it was pulled off the air. Although the series was not as popular as Mazinger Z, Daimos, or Voltes V, there was a lot of Getta Robot bootleg merchandise in circulation from the late 70's till the mid 80's. The included various robot toys, shirts, and even sari-sari store cheese snacks, tex cards, and candy.

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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Cartoon Opening Video

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King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1979)

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is a Japanese anime series based on the Arthurian legend. Produced by Toei Animation, it consisted of 30 half-hour episodes released between September 9, 1979 and March 3, 1980. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table retold the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It featured Arthurian characters such as Lancelot, Guinevere, Tristan, Percival, Merlin, Uther, and Igraine, and other familiar items like Camelot and Excalibur.

This classic anime series was aired in the Philippines around 1981 on IBC Channel 13. Although most kids wanted to be Arthur during playtime, Lancelot was also a favorite character as many kids were fascinated how he would use his harp as a bow to shoot his arrow. The popularity of the series brought about King Arthur snacks, Tex Cards, and other King/Prince Arthur bootleg toys including toy swords and helmets that were sold at Divisoria.

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Gummi Bears Cartoon Opening Video

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Gummi Bears (1985)

The main characters were seven anthropomorphic bears, although some human characters also featured. The series is set in medieval times in the once populous Gummi Glen; the main Gummies' neighborhood is inhabited only by seven gummies. The world has other gummies. The Great Gummies are refugees elsewhere awaiting a signal to return. Other gummies live in Ursalia. Allies of the gummies include the people of Dunwyn (Princess Calla and Cavin), other kind humans, and other Gummi Bears. Their main nemesis is Duke Igthorn, who aims, with the aid of ogres, to rule Dunwyn. The theme song, "Bouncing here and there and everywhere", was written by Michael and Patty Silversher.

The Gummi Bears gain their temporary ability to bounce by drinking Gummiberry Juice. If the juice was consumed by humans (or ogres) they would gain temporary superhuman strength, although on humans, the effect would only work once a day and tended to wear off after about a minute. It also serves as fuel for various Gummi devices, especially flying machines. For these reasons the bears kept the recipe secret. A fruit juice drink called Gummiberry juice was for a short while retailed in the United Kingdom, Germany, and possibly other places. During the late 80's there were a few PX import marts in Manila selling Gummiberry juice bottles. Regina's in Shoppesville, Greenhills sold a variety of Gummi Bears merchandise, but unfortunately the elusive bottles of Gummiberry juice weren't part of the store's inventory.

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Pac-Man (TV Series) Cartoon Opening Video

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Pac-Man (TV Series) (1982)

The Pac-Man TV series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which aired in 1982, based upon the Pac-Man arcade game by Namco. The cartoon series followed the adventures of the title character Pac-Man (voiced by Marty Ingels), his wife Mrs. Pepper Pac-Man (voiced by Barbara Minkus), and their son Baby-Pac (voiced by Russi Taylor; he is actually called "Pac-Baby" in this series).

The family lives in Pac-Land, a place in which the geography and architecture seem to revolve primarily around spheres and sphere-like shapes. The Pac Family seems to spend a lot of their time outwitting their only known enemies, the "Ghost-Monsters:" Blinky, who was constantly nervous (voiced by Chuck McCann), Pinky, the hardcore street thug ghost (also voiced by Chuck McCann), Inky, the requisite dumb one of the group (voiced by Barry Gordon), Clyde, the main ghost-monster (voiced by Neilson Ross), and Sue, the only female (voiced by Susan Silo). Their leader is Mezmeron (voiced by Allan Lurie), a mysterious Darth Vader-esque figure whose sole mission in life is to obtain the "Power Pellets" which give Pac-Man and the other inhabitants of Pac-Land their chomping abilities.

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Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors Cartoon Opening Video

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Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors (1985)

Thundering across the stars to save the universe from the Monster Minds. Jayce searches for his father to unite the Magic Root and lead his Lightning League to victory over the changing form of Saw Boss. Wheeled Warriors explode into battle - Lightning Strikes!

The show featured two duelling forces. Lightning League which drove white and silver vehicles with assorted weaponry, and are led by Jayce. The Monster Minds led by Saw Boss are organic green vegetable-based creatures who tend to take the shape of black and green vehicles. They travel via large green organic vines which can grow in and across interstellar space, that sprout seeds that rapidly grew into other Monster Minds.

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Groovie Goolies Cartoon Opening Video

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Groovie Goolies (1971)

Created in 1970, Groovy Goolies was a take off of Filmation's wildly popular The Archie Show with a monster bend. Combined with another show featuring a character directly spun off of The Archie Show, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, the Goolies were a group of hip monsters, many of whom were, in look and sound, pop-culture echoes of the classic horror-film monsters created in the 1930s and 1940s, mostly by Universal Pictures including Frankie (Frankenstein's Monster), Wolfie (The Wolfman, who talks like Wolfman Jack), Mummy, Drac (Dracula), Batzo and Ratzo (two mean green-skinned kids), Boneapart (an animated skeleton that might have been Napoleon Bonaparte), Dr. Jekyll & Hyde (bicephalous, a reference to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Hagatha (a witch), Bella La Ghostly (who looks very much like Drac and like Lily Munster), Broomhilda, Hauntleroy (an often whiny, goody-two shoes kid patterned after Little Lord Fauntleroy), and Orville (a take on the man-eating plant from The Little Shop of Horrors).

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Spiral Zone Cartoon Opening Video

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Spiral Zone (1987)

The world's five most elite soldiers called the Zone Riders, fights a renegade scientist named Dr. James Bent - code named Overlord, who has invented a mind-control bacteria that has taken over half of the world with bacteria-infested spiral zones. Overlord uses a hijacked space shuttle to drop his deadly Zone-producing Generators across half of the Earth.

Millions of people are trapped in the dark mists of the SPIRAL ZONE and become transformed into Zoners with lifeless yellow eyes and strange red patches of Zone Bacteria growing on their faces. Because they have no will to resist, Overlord makes them his slave army.

His followers known as Black Widows and those were: Bandit, a one-time terrorist of Middle Eastern origin; Duchess Dire, a well-known reputation as a criminal and troublemaker, wanted in half a dozen countries for blackmail, grand theft and other crimes; and Razorback and Reaper, basically a couple of run-of-the-mill criminals who saw an opportunity for power. Thanks to another one of Overlord's inventions, the Widow Maker, the Black Widows are immune to the hypnotic effects of the Zone. However, due to prolonged exposure to the Zone, their eyes have turned yellow and their bodies are covered in Zone Bacteria. Inside the Zone, skies were always dark. The humans were marked by yellow eyes and lesions on their skin (animals were also effected) and there were also such markings on buildings. His other plans were: Destroy the forces of good selected to fight them and conquer the world by bringing everyone under their control with the Zone-producing Generators. The Zones fed off human energy which was why Beck did not kill anyone inside.

With major cities Zoned, the nations of the world put aside their own differences in order to fight off Beck, now called the Overlord, and his Black Widows. However, only five soldiers using special suits to protect themselves from the Zone could do it. While easy to destroy, Zone generators were impossible to capture as they were booby-trapped. There was also the fact that Overlord would drop more generators onto remaining military and civilian centers and thus the Zone Riders had to stop those plans, forcing a long and bitter standoff.

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