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“G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero Series 2, Season 1″: You Just Hired The B Team

In 1989, Hasbro and D.I.C. Entertainment produced a follow-up series to the iconic G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero animated series helmed by Sunbow Productions. Shout! Factory has finally begun releasing this series across a few DVD sets for the hardcore Joes fans aiming to complete their collections.

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“Transformers Prime: Darkness Rising” Killer Zombie Robots? That’s Just Prime

“Transformers Prime: Darkness Rising” DVD review.

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“Green Lantern: The Animated Series”: Glows With Potential

I, like many other animation enthusiasts, have been waiting eagerly to see Green Lantern: The Animated Series.

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“ThunderCats”: A Roaring Re-Birth

ThunderCats

In recent years, popular cartoons from the 1980s have seen several successful reboots and have even become blockbuster movie franchises. Now the time has come for ThunderCats to try its luck at entertaining a new generation a good twenty years after the original series ended. I’m sure of one thing after viewing the introductory episodes, cats always land on their feet.

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“Grow Up, Timmy Turner!”: A Fairly Good Transition from Cartoon to Film

The Fairly OddParents

To celebrate The Fairly OddParents’ tenth anniversary, Nickelodeon produced a live-action feature telling the story of what happens thirteen years after the series.

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“Grow Up, Timmy Turner!”: A Fairly Odd Surprise

A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!

Living at home with no responsibilities and wish-granting fairies at one’s beck and call. No doubt about it: the life of Timmy Turner is a pretty sweet one. However, when your parents get you want ads for your 23rd birthday, …

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“Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures”: It’s not epic, but it’s not bogus

Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures

Andrew T. Hingson reviews Nickelodeon’s new comedy, Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures.

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“The Amazing World of Gumball”: Bittersweet

If it’s one thing Ben Bocquelet’s new show The Amazing World of Gumball has, it’s certainly ambition. A massive, diverse cast of characters, dozens of different animation styles, two seasons in production, plenty of advertising, an international production crew, and an entirely new production company (Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe) has supplemented Cartoon Network’s newest original, but is the show at the very core of the hype worth it?

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“The Looney Tunes Show”: Funny, but not quite Looney

At long last the Looney Tunes characters return to television in a new series. This time around they went with a sitcom format focused on Bugs and Daffy along with CGI shorts featuring Roadrunner and the Coyote and animated music videos called Merry Melodies. Each segment offers a very different experience and while I am not so sure they mesh that well together, the variety show style is a nice attribute.

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“Original Cartoon Title Cards” Available Now from Frederator Books

Original Cartoon Title Cards

Do you like cartoon title cards, you know those 10 second titles that tell you what episode of an animated series you’re watching? If so, Eric Homan and Fred Seibert have put together a new book filled with over 200 title cards that have appeared on different Frederator series over the past 20 years.

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