The fleet is attacked by the Thundereans’ enemies, the Mutants of Plun-Darr, who destroy most of the starships in the “ThunderFleet,” but spare the flagship hoping to capture the legendary mystic Sword of Omens they believe is on board. The series plot begins with the dying planet Thundera meeting its end, forcing the ThunderCats (a sort of Thunderean nobility) to flee their homeworld. ThunderCats follows the adventures of the eponymous team of heroes, catlike humanoid aliens on a planet called Third Earth. This was the ThunderCats poster that introduced me to this awesome show. Seasons 2, 3, and 4 followed a new format of twenty episodes each, starting with a five-part story.
THUNDERCATS INTRO SONG MOVIE
Season 1 of the show aired in 1985 (65 episodes), followed by a TV movie entitled ThunderCats – HO! in 1986. The animation for the episodes was provided by the Japanese studio Pacific Animation Corporation, later acquired in 1989 to form Walt Disney Animation Japan. The series, for which Leonard Starr was the head writer, follows the adventures of a group of catlike humanoid aliens. “ThunderCats is an American animated television series that was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions (the same that created the SilverHawks, TigerSharks, and The Comic Strip) debuting in 1985, based on the characters created by Tobin “Ted” Wolf. The team was Rakin/Bass, and the cartoon was Thundercats. Today we’re going to talk about something that was produced by another team. Earlier on many of the cartoons we spoke about were created by the Hanna/Barbera team. This poster was like nothing I had ever seen before and I was positively hooked from the moment I saw it. In the very back of a comic book I read was a poster for what someone explained to me was a new cartoon series that was available in the US, and had not come to Trinidad and Tobago yet. I’m going to talk about those later, but today I’m only making reference to that to highlight how I was introduced to this next inspiration. Well I’ve always been reading them, but in the early 80s I started reading them with a passion. In the early 1980s I started reading comic books.