It's been said before, but it's so fitting that the most powerful weapon in the universe summoned cats by firing a laser pointer in the air.

The opening sequence animation for the original Thundercats is still badass even by modern standards. I mean for an everyday cartoon, that opening sequence is incredible.

"Born in the 80s... refuses to go away while simultaneously refusing to reach its full potential." I feel like this could describe Thundercats or just me personally.

The designer of the logo and logotype deserves extra praise. You know it’s an amazing design when they keep using it for almost everything that ever came out. Such a great design.

I enjoyed the 2011 reboot, it's a shame we didn't get more.

The 2011 reboot didn't just fail it was sabotaged by CN. It was green lit just before a change in management for the network and the new managers wanted to focus on the under 7 audience exclusively. However they had some of this show made so they needed justification to cancel it. It was put into a crappy time slot to lower the ratings. They also didn't advertise the toys(which the show was made to sell) during the show. Rather stupid that they forced the crash and burn when they could have made it much more successful if they had handed it over to Adult Swim.

"Sword of Omen. Give me sight beyond sight...... Oooo, a Toy Galaxy video."

2011 Thundercats wasn't given a solid shot. It only aired once a week, with no chance to catch up on a missed episode. I don't remember seeing very many commercials for it. I think they also moved the action block it was in around a lot, too. Cartoon Network did the same thing with the 2002 He-Man.

Was sad about Thundercats 2011 being cancelled. Thought it was well done and, like the Netflix Voltron, you could tell the creators were true fans of the original. My daughters and I loved it. Though, due to the show, my wife finally figured out that my nicknames for my daughters, Kat and Kit, were for Wilykit and Wilykat, not the Kit-Kat candy bar.

I'm 42 years old, and that Cartoon Network reboot in 2011 was great!! I wished they would have done a season 2 for it.

I have the mind of a 13-year-old in the body of a 46-year-old. Am I a Thundercat?

Thundercats = the greatest 80’s cartoon intro of all time. The animation quality, movement, pacing, effects, and music - truly superb. Many shows have tried to replicate its greatness but, of course, fall short. Try watching the X-MEN cartoon intro right after the Thundercats intro. Yikes. I love this channel! Outstanding research and writing! And your intro isn’t that bad either. Cheers.

The reboot of the series in 2011 was really good. It was sad to see it get cancelled. I knew some freelancers that had worked on the design side of it.

It's crazy that Transformers: The Movie was a boxoffice bomb yet is still better than the 37 blockbuster live-action Transformers movies.

When they Cancelled the 2010 series , CN was dead to me lol.

The most ingenious thing about Thundercats was their method of naming villains. You take what type of animal they are, add a hyphen, then insert man. Vulture-Man, Jackal-Man, with Monkeyan as the wild card.

1:39 “they are a family...” Bionic Six say “hold up that’s our thing!!!”

15:06 I see you sneaking in live action Panthro

Thundercats 1985: A masterpiece of 80’s animation Thundercats 2011: An underrated gem Thundercats Roar: AN ABOMINATION! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Still feeling the magic and hearing the roar, even almost 35 years later! As a 7 year old boy, I wore a winter glove in summer and stuck a plastic Sword of Omens toy into the back of it, like it was the Cat's Claw gauntlet (underappreciated part of Lion-o's gear, if you ask me), leaping about the house and shouting "Sword of Omens! Give me Sight Beyond Sight!" driving my poor family nuts. I've loved Thundercats from their very beginning, and despite a shifting time slot, I struggled to remain with them to the end. I have the 2005 releases on 24 DVDs still in their boxes with the lenticular art on the covers, and an online suggested viewing order ready to go. I also have the DVD releases of 2011's reboot, and thought it was fantastic when old Lion-o VO artist Larry Kenney played Claudis, passing the torch to 2011 VO Will Friedle (making Will a teenage revamped version of TWO timeless superhero icons, which rocks). Also, last note... I love Blundercats. Bless KZfaq for having it. "What the F&@k is a sammo-flange?!"

This show was AMAZING when I was a kid. I didn't have any channels that ran it, so when ever I could see it I would soak it up. The intro was magic. Bought the entire original series when I became a father and made sure both my kids watched all of it. There was no way they where going to go through my own traumas for not having Thundercats in their lives.

From what I understand, the 2011 series didn't fail due to lack of interest/toy sales, but because CN kept changing the time slot. So, fans were still very much interested, they just never knew when new episodes were set to air. Really wish they'd finish the 2011 series; what was leaked about it would have been no doubt entertaining.

The actual lore of Thundercats is still brilliant. It really deserves another DECENT reboot. Even a faithful film franchise would be amazing- if it stuck to the lore of the original

As a kid I saw a handful of episodes before it vanished... sad my days was every morning looking for that amazing animation. I'd stare at the tv guide for hours trying to see thunder cats.... I taught myself to read just so I can read the tv guide to find it.... I'm not sure I ever really cared much for the most of the story so much as I admired the animation. Made me take up art early.

The movie did exist uncut at one point. The only reason I know this is because when I watched the episodes I always noticed extra scenes. WNYW (I think thats the station's call letters) premiered the Thundercats movie (They called it "Thundercats Ho") uncut (except for commercials) in prime time. I remember my parents recorded it for me and I watched it occasionally till sadly my vcr ate the tape in 2004.

They need to do what they did with SAMURAI JACK and bring back the 2011 series and finish it.

Loved watching Thundercats on Toonami back in the 90's. Such an amazing intro. 2011 series was great too, just wished they had not canceled it.

Wait, an animated series not featuring Frank Welker? I'm in shock

Although I liked the serious reboot, I was a bigger fan of the flashback stories with Mumm-Ra as the intergalactic Emperor searching for the Infinity Gems (that was essentially what he was doing). I liked seeing original characters who were based on the classic characters but not rebooted versions. Plus the Silverhawk & Tigershark cameos were awesome, but still too brief. Also great are the Return and Dogs of War comics that take place in the future of the original series.

I think the uncut version of Thundercats Ho IS the 5 episode version. The standalone movie version WAS released as TV movie and later a VHS, and I feel that's more or less what we would have seen in theaters. (Perhaps with a cool added on opening title sequence similar to the ones produced for the movies of G.I. Joe, Transformers, and much later on, Mask of the Phantasm. Instead of the standard theme with Thundercats Ho the Movie hastily thrown on it that that version has.) But the 5 episode one ACTUALLY has MORE footage than the movie version, which makes me wonder if the producers added that AFTER it was split up to pad the length, and bring it past the accepted 90 minute cut-off for an animated theatrical movie of the time. You'll also notice that most of the commercial breaks and between episode cliffhangers go back about a minute after the fade-out. Probably for more padding but mostly to kinda sorta keep the flow and the idea that it was all meant to be continuous.

TC '11 deserved so much better. It was obvious how much work and passion went into every aspect of that show, and even though it re-imagined the lore, it played like a love letter to the original series.

The 2011 reboot was awesome. Deep episodes and animation was kick ass

They need to release the complete series on Blu Ray. I wasn’t about to pay $100 for only the DVD Set last year, I might pay that much for a BD set tho. The LJN Toys were probably my second fave LJN Line after AD&D. And that’s really saying something cuz LJN made some awesome Action Figures. The Star comics were also great. I personally don’t really wanna see a live action movie, if the long standing rumours of one are to be believed. Thanks for yet another great video guys. The 80’s are now more than ever, a safe haven of very happy childhood memories for me and many others. Thundercats Forever. Hoooo! Stay safe everyone.

Great Stuff! I think it’s madness that in an age of video games, that the two/three franchises that are trying to figure out how to stir interest in their properties, still rely mostly on television series and animation alone, while Transformers has several (and has had several previous) well liked and well received _video games,_ where their grown up audiences _are...._ The fact that a Thundercats and Masters of the Universe game in the style of Transformers: Devastation (from the same developer that made a Turtles _and_ Korra game) has never crossed anyone’s mind today, is mind boggling in itself. Also, in the age of Call of Duty, Fortnite and PUBG, there’s _still_ no proper G.I. Joe FPS on _any_ platform. Thundercats could _guest star_ in the hinted at Injustice 3, ala TMNT, perhaps? Or a mobile game... I spent days to months in Transformers F2F, and I haven’t even mentioned Earth Wars. Even _Nintendo_ is on mobile. I play Pokémon Masters _daily,_ and I don’t even need to mention Pokémon Go! Or the Harry Potter game from the same developer of the previously mentioned... The action cartoon _lives_ on the gaming platform, today, is what I’m saying... That’s where the audience went.

i really miss Thundercats 2011. It was actually really good and deserved to have it's story complited. But now sadly we have trash that is Thundecats Roar instead.

The sword of omens is just a giant laser pointer to get other cats to chase it.

They need to finish the 2010 series it was so good!

It was always rumoured as kid that TC, SH,TS existed in a shared universe what would’ve been dope back then was to see hints of it in each series or dope crossover but atleast the 2011 version of TC brought it to light

This is the favorite 80's animated series of the youtube channel Laura Legends (the host). I remember this from when I was in elementary school, but have not watched it since. It is so unique it would be unlikely people would forget about the series. Thank you for making the video.

I'm actually really glad you clarified the cat food was for your cats. I was a little concerned for a second. :)

Great work, however, Gerianne Raphael was the voice actor for Pumyra and Chilla, not Bob McFadden. I believe Bob McFadden was the voice of Snarf and Slithe. ALL of the voice cast played multiple roles throughout the series with Lynne Lipton voicing every single female character in the first 60 episodes with an admirable amount of variation.

I loved Thundercats when I was a little kid

I was in 6th grade home from school with a high fever,saw a commercial for the premiere,the premiere of the movie (first 4 episodes),was coming on in a couple weeks,on a Saturday. I was so convinced I hallucinated the whole thing,I said nothing to anyone,was so relieved when it came on,loved it from that first fever ridden commercial.

God, I remember watching an almost full series marathon of the og Thundercats hosted by Andrew WK the day Thundercats 2011 premiered. That was a deep dive into such a classic series I'll never forget

"They are attacked along the way by an evil group of mutants called... The Mutants!" That was creative! 😂😂

Thundercats Roar just plainly sucks, I can’t stand the new series just give the original series along with the second season of the 2011 Thundercats

Thundercats Roar was some straight GAHBAGE!! The 2011 version should have never stopped.

Thundercats 2011 was actually pretty good, I watched it whenever I could. The problem was, CN couldn't stop changing the times when it would air making it almost impossible to watch the damn thing.

I loved the 2011 reboot. I watched the OH show sparingly as a kid so I didn’t know much about it until I watched the reboot. I don’t understand the hate that the reboot gets at all. I think it would have done much better on Netflix like Voltron did. Oh well.

Just glad Roar is gone

Thanks, I enjoyed the video. I worked on the original series final season, including designing secondary characters and wrote two episodes "Shadowmaster" and '"Well of Doubt", I highly recommend the David Crichton's book Hear the Roar: The Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to the Hit 1980's series for a deep dive in the making of the original series. He covers the 2011 and Thundercat Roar, also. One humorous item about Warner Bros and the T'Cats, related to me by a former Rankin/Bass producer. When WB first thought of acquiring the rights they cold called Rankin/Bass, and my producer friend had to tell them they already owned it, as part of buying Lorimar/Telepictures. WB just had no idea they own it for years. D'OH! Also, when I was working at Warner Bros. on Ozzy & Drix (2003-2004), as a storyboard director (Daytime Emmy Award nominated), I met Joaquim Dos Santos who was working on the Justice League animated series. He was big Thundercats fan and make a presentation package of great redesigns of the T'Cats for a new update. WB passed on his version. (I still have a copy of his presentation package. I'll have to post it to my youtube channel, soon) Dos Santos went on to be an Annie and Emmy Award winning producer/director of Avatar: the Last Airbender (2005) and The Legend of Korra (2012), and other shows. When we were finishing Ozzy & Drix, I was part of a meeting about exploring a doing a Thundercat's series with my producer Ron Myrick and DC comic writer Mark Waid. Again, nothing came of that meeting. One last item, when DC.Windstorm did the Thundercat comic, the first issue included my Shadowmaster character and several props I designed for the original show. It was fun to see that. I hold out hope that if they do a movie. Shadowmaster will be make a appearance. Again, thanks for the video.

Plenty of people watched the 2011 reboot with crazy highs but it got done over

I'll never forgive Cartoon Network for cancelling Thundercats 2011.

Rankin Bass animation division also did the "The Hobbit" and "The Return of the King" cartoon specials. The animation is of the same style. Gollum and the chief frog-mutant are the most similar in style...but don't take my word for it; watch and see for yourself.

The 2011 remake for the Thundercats is actually really good, i liked it a lot. Saw it on Hulu and couldn't believe there was not a season 2.

I remember the Wildstorm comic series and loved it. I loved the storyline of The Return and the ideas it brought to the table, and hated that the follow up, Dogs of War, decided to make things a bit more goofy and kid friendly again. EDIT: You also missed the Masters Of The Universe/Thundercats crossover published by DC comics in 2016 that was extremely entertaining and well done. Edgy enough for adults, fun enough for youths. It also had Lion-O using the Sword of Omens to transform cringer into a Thundercat/Battle Cat Hybrid that looked and fought like the Mutants worst nightmare.

Watching all these I've realised my child consisted heavily of reruns. I wasn't even alive when it originally aired. Mind. Blown.

Earle Hyman (Panthro) played Russell Huxtable, the father of Cliff Huxtable, played by Bill Cosby,on the COSBY SHOW. I had a feeling Panthro was black! 👍🏿

The 2011 reboot was BRILLIANT! I was glued to every episode. Sadly CN *DID* sabotage it --- they put it in the WORST timeslots possible and cancelled most promotion for it.

That Panthro likes cruising in the Thunder-tank with the top down.

Thundercats 2011 NEEDS TO CONTINUE!

9:35 Oh man, Carrot Top really has been in show bizz his whole damn life, that ripped red menace!

I love the use of the live action Panthero thru out this episode! 🤣🤣

grew up watching Thundercats. Played in band but had a stroke. Chatted back and forth with Bernard Hoffer for months after that. Got back good, loved Thundercats for the rest of my life.

So well drawn for 1985 standards

Thundercats 2011 was actually going to get a second season, but Cartoon Network cancelled it because it was cheaper to produce the CGI knockoff Lego: Legends of Chima (the main protagonist was a red maned lion man with a magic sword)

Thunder Cats Roar was a stake through the heart for this series.

As a kid, I thoroughly enjoyed the Thundercats TV series back during the 80's. It was one of the greatest TV shows on during those times. The one major thing about that TV series is that when Rankin-Bass premiered the series, they were more concerned about selling the story of the Thundercats (explains something of why the series went a full two seasons before being cancelled and shelved because of loss of popularity.) The company that created the toy line for Thundercats was LJN.. and I gotta say.. their toys were CRAP! They looked nothing like the characters from the TV show and the accessories were even worse.

didnt even know that thundercats roar was a thing, it looks absolutely terrible

Roar should be canceled. It’s garbage. I did like the last reboot.

I loved the 2011 series. It was awesome. I was so upset that it got snubbed too soon.

I remember watching ThunderCats after school. In LA, it aired on KCOP 13 along with He-Man and She-Ra.

Hey, Dan, Hot Wheels just released in their Entertainment Series, an all new, first ever casting of the Thundercats Thunder Tank, along with the Windraider from the 80's He-Man cartoon.

I remember watching the premiere... when it actually premiered Man I'm getting old

In the 2011 Thundercats reboot, an elephant character refers to Lion-o as Lion-el which, I just now realize (from looking at the character concepts) was a reference to Lion-o's original name.

This show needs to come back and I don’t mean that crap Cartoon Network made...in fact stay out of it CN! And I hope Super 7 does good enough to keep figures coming for a long time Great video Mr Larson, Producer Greg ✌🏽👍🏽

The original 80's series lasted a lot longer than a lot of 80's cartoons.

5:50 Giving me Captain Power flashbacks there. "The TV Show WILL FIRE BACK!"

Mumra scared the hell out me changed or not as a kid, but loved his character. The animation of that show was beyond its time, just the intro gave me goose bumps. Saturday mornings with a bowl of fruity pebbles and a two pack of jaw breakers watching that show along with watching Comic Strips , Transformers, Brave Star, Gi Joe, He-Man She Rha, Denver The Last Dinosaur, My Pet Monster, inspector gadget, M.A.S.K, TMNT, Dark Wing Duck, C.O.P.S, voltron and so much more was what i looked forward to . They say a He-Man movie is coming we will see

The toys of the first reboot were amazing, among some of the best I own, such a shame it didn’t take off

Love these History segments guys!😁👍

85 to 89 was great. I don't know what the hell someone was thinking with this new version of it.

I never get tired of Toy Galaxy reviews. No matter what the topic it's always entertaining!

A “zed” x spectrum! Well done!

Wow, that Thundercats Roar thing looks horrible! 😅

Great content as always Dan. I believe that the problem with the 2011 reboot was the show was geared towards adults but the collectibles associated with it were geared towards children. It was a great series nonetheless. I would love to see Netflix finish it.

Does anyone else remember getting really excited about the reboot but they had a really dumb schedule? It was like mid evening on Friday nights. Bastards.

The 2011 Thundercats was excellent, I was genuinely devastated to find that it had been cancelled just as the story was really picking up.

“ Thundercats Live!,” was the first “ concert I ever attended. Yeah, yeah that explains a lot.

I am so glad I found this video !this has to be one of the best videos I've ever seen on the history of the ThunderCats I'm a long time lover of the show. It always bummed me out that they never came out with a Thundercats fighting game for any game console. Could you imagine having a Thundercat Mortal Kombat type game but with a Thundercat roster. I think that would be a great way of reintroducing this franchise to younger viewers .

1985 Thundercats was the greatest and there will never be another like it .!

DC did an awesome Thundercats/Masters of the Universe crossover a few years back. I could get behind a new comic at the very least. I know a lot of people want a live action movie but I've never been sure about how that would work. I mean it could go over well like Transformers initially did. But then there's that recent Cats movie....

I grew up with the original Thundercats, and I LOVED it. I was amazed by the different weapons, abilities, and personalities of the ThunderCats, and the vast array of recurring characters. I tried watching the new cartoon, but it had neither the feel nor the spirit of the original. I keep hoping for a return, and a possible unification with the Silverhawks and perhaps the Tiger Sharks as well, of the original series. Until then, I can only say one thing, "THUNDERCATS HO!"

I grew up in the 90s but I grew up POOR. By then, all the Thundercats merch was cheap as hell and available in the toys stores I went to namely Dollar General, Dollar Tree, or Family Dollar. So while the cool kids were playing with gameboy, I was still rocking Thundercats.

I love the Thundercats. Great video! I remember being so excited for the 2010 series. It's a shame it aired at 7:00 AM, made it hard to catch if you didn't have a DVR, which I didn't at the time. I think Thundercats Roar! has been on TV, there's like 16 episodes on demand via my cable provider and I have seen a few commercials for new episodes.

I remember licking the tip of that battery ring and getting a rather pleasant buzzing sensation.

Why didn't you bring up that liono might of been modeled Leto Atreides from Jodorowsky's Dune?

I just read that the director of kong v godzilla is a big fan of Thundercats and is rewriting a fanfiction that he did in 10th grade. He'll be directing it from my understanding and if kvg ends up doing great we just might get the movie we deserve.

Once again, the Wildstorm comics are absolutely superb !

Even when I watched this as a kid I couldn't stand Snarf and could barely tolerate Willey Kit & Kat. There I said it!