You ever wondered what a tv show would be if you combined, Gundam with the Running Man? And add a little bit of Speed Racer by way of Robot Jox? Give it to the Mainframe people by way of some of the premiere action animation talent of the late 90s thru the 2000s? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRy3...

I have been reminded of This Garbage, which IS Nacelleverse-tier schlock. It's not "what would these ideas bring to a wider shared universe", it's pure Vessel For Introducing Brand.

Ralph Bakshi. Young animation fans, if you've only heard the name by reputation? You really have to see just how hard he swung the sledgehammer 🤘

From my own experience, I had white saviors tell me not draw white cartoon gloves or draw the rubber hose style. Why? Because both were racist to Black people... Like, they don't know that Black artists like me LOVE that art style from old cartoons. We know the history, but we enjoy that art style.

This one scene from Fritz the Cat will always be relevant to me. Mostly because folks like me had run-ins with white saviors, who shouldn't speak on our behalf.

‘Make Daddy Die’ Whispered Into Build-A-Bear

jam session (ft. @sixthstationtrio.bsky.social)

2014. No contest.

Power Rangers is older than ICE. VR Troopers is older than ICE. Beetleborgs is older than ICE. Masked Rider is older than ICE. Super Sentai is older than ICE. Kamen Rider is older than ICE. Metal Hero is older than ICE. Tokusatsu as a whole IS A LOT OLDER THAN ICE.

New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits.

“Hobi-Wan never told you what happened to your mother…“

Pay attention to this bullshit rhetorical debate trick: you present someone with examples of what happened, and they "refute" it with imaginary examples of what DIDN'T happen but should've. Social media apps should have a button that allows us to fling rotten lunchmeat at people who do this.

also the ONLY source on Gina Carano getting her job back is herself... and these people don't think she might be lying?

She made Holocaust jokes right in front of his face. HE AIN’T BRINGING HER BACK.

Like I said: She made Holocaust and transphobia jokes in front of her boss and costar. SHE AIN’T RETURNING.

Nearly caught up in the YouTube releases of Kamen Rider Kabuto

The Razzies rightfully get a lot of shit for their nominations, but they can't hold a candle to the now-defunct Stinkers.

Heard that I HATE YOU was supposed to be a reference to Anakin vs. Obi-Wan and now I’m kicking myself for not getting it earlier

They made him an ace reporter in the 80s Saturday Supercade cartoon. Yep.

diversity of thought on cartoon twitter

ChatGPT is down

Dude quoted me and blocked me from seeing his quote. Well, I'm sure it was insightful. Though what I initially responded to was just a simple reaction to his snark.

No way not Chud

Trigger's SSSS Gridman is both a love letter to the original Gridman series AND Superman Samurai Syber Squad. Yes, it stands for Special Signature to Save a Soul, but bruv, that was looking for words to fit an abbreviation.

YOU LOST MY MEDIA?!

Another proof that Jonathan Frakes Thunderbirds movie was not that bad

Wtf I didn’t know this existed

Good god this is 90s coded to hell and back

Now this is something I love and appreciate. This isn't some hastily-cobbled slop art generated by some cheating machine programmed to make puke a platter. It's a Peanuts parody/homage that respects the source material because an artist lovingly drew it. It feels authentic, and I dig it.

You know Nacelle does Star Trek toys now, right? They acquired the license back in late 2024 and they started releasing them in 2025. And they look great. www.nacellecompany.com/press/new-st...

And again That's Trigger putting in the effort to make Syber Squad part of the modern Gridman franchise. Keeping the love for it very much alive.

Laser Circus Amp, Tanker Cannon, Forrester Fire Extinguishing Missile, Sydney Super Adhesive Missile, Lucky Smoke Screen That's all for of the Squad, with Sydney getting *2* attacks, and them even referencing LUCKY of all people. Gridman remembers the members of the Syber Squad.

And in a weird way... I wonder if the Neon Genesis Junior High Students are Trigger's way to hint that maybe Syber Squad is canonical to Gridman The names Tracto Max, Borr, Vit/Vitter are all taken from the support mechs of Syber Squad Tracto, Borr, Vitor

There are SO MANY references to Syber Squad in this series Attack names, CHARACTER NAMES, cripes the only thing we were missing was someone named Sam interacting with Yuta. To Trigger, Syber Squad was just as vital to the memory of Gridman as the OG series was. And that's some love right there.

And in Syber Squad's case, that was intentional. It WAS made by Tsuburaya as an Ultraman style series with elements of Super Sentai's combining mecha. (I didn't learn its connections til years later) And for all its faults, Syber Squad HAD an impact.

Bouncing back to this hours later Let it be known I LOVED Syber Squad, for the same reason Alien Fighters caught my attention: It reminded me of Ultraman:Towards the Future, my first jump into the toku genre. Giant heroes fighting monsters was my jam in the early 90s.

and 2. Syber Squad ran for more episodes than Gridman The word on the street was that DiC was counting on Tsuburaya to make the next series, Gridman Sigma, to use for their remaining episodes ...except that never happened. Sigma got regulated to a magazine scan/photo story.

Now... recycled footage was because of 2 specific reasons in SSSS.... 1. Flipping the footage at the start of every episode helped not only pad out the run time, meaning less footage to shoot, it also added "more fights" since Gridman lacked Sentai's foot soldier fights before the big bad.

The lack of Matt Lawrence means no Sam, so they build the plot around getting Tanker to become Servo and reuse the fight footage from the first episode. This last episode was made on a budget of a Happy meal.

"Take a Hike" has 1 set from the show, Malcom's room. The rest of the episode takes place outside, the ONLY EPISODE TO DO SO Matt Lawrence only appears in flashbacks, and word is that it was a stand-in voice replacing Tim Curry as Kilokahn for the scenes he's in.

OH, and one more dunking on Syber Squad's budget They back half of the series recycled all the previous footage that had already been used *AT MINIMUM* 2-3 times in both normal episode plot AND the pre-plot fight at the start of every episode. And then there's the last episode....

I think had TTAFfBH had stuck to either going serious, or entirely as a straight faced parody, it could've actually done better. Hell, it could have gone better if it had used the team's ACTUAL NAME of "The Galactic Sentinels"

And here's the thing, it was NOT the lowest budget toku series at the time. It had more sets and original footage than Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad by a LONG mile. SSSS got away with it because it could hide its 3 sets behind the stock footage ...which it often flipped and repeated MANY TIMES

It at times tried to take itself seriously, and at other times poked fun at the toku genre and its tropes. An entire episode about the team trying to be the BEST FRIENDS, and realizing they kinda hated each other There were GOOD ideas to be found in the show if you could get past its low budget

Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills is.. a low budget mess, but in an era where a kid was thirsty for more toku-style shows, it was a glass of water when you craved a pepsi. Harmless, kept you hydrated, but left you a bit unsatisfied flavor wise.