cereal:geek TV - CREATING Tex Hex! 

I'm glad you enjoyed the video - I had GREAT fun putting it together! :)

GREAT call on "Tex But No Hex" - There's a rather fascinating backstory with regards to that episode that, at some point, I'd love to showcase on this channel! :)

@@cerealgeekTV that would be an interesting story for sure. Always been a fan of character driven storytelling. Especially the back story of a great villain. Speaking of great villains, the puppet master, Stampede was brilliant. By the way I am “Michael Barry”.

Oh, it's you, Michael! :) - And yeah, Stampede was awesome - I always wanted his design to be retroactively used for Horde Prime! :)

They really, REALLY were - Wait until you see some of the other sketches of characters that never came to be! :)

Thank you for the kind words, Tyler! :)

Glad you enjoyed it, Jazyl! :)

There's been very little outside of the German DVDs, which sadly don't have the English audio like they often did!

It was released on DVD in America twice! Once by BCI Eclipse (now out of print) and again by Mill Creek Entertainment, the Mill Creek one may still be in print, but I'm not sure.

I did see an English language DVD set on eBay only last week - Good luck on your quest! :)

In Filmation's Ghostbusters, Tex Hex, like all of the villains on that show, would've been a comedic villain...no edge...no real threat...

My pleasure - In time I hope to showcase all the other characters designed for BraveStarr...AND She-Ra! :)

Even though Skeletor was a demon from another dimension, Tex Hex (with the presence and power of Stampede) always felt more connected to his demonic powers than the Lord of Destruction! :)

@@cerealgeekTV I think that coming 2 years after Skeletor allowed him to be darker. Parental TV rules seem to have laxed as the years went on & villains were finally allowed to be actual villains, not just laughable bunglers causing mischief & being mildly annoying, though rarely dangerous. Just look at the difference between Filmation Skeletor vs MYP Skeletor. He was an outright dangerous villain, throwing his own brother off a cliff in the first two episodes! If Filmation Skeletor had come out a few years later than he did, he'd have probably been closer to his minicomic version & a great threat for some awesome battles between him & He-Man

BraveStarr shows how FAR Filmation had come with regards to the level of detail - The line art had a real weight to it...it wasn't always clean...you could really feel the artistry that had gone into each and every frame - I think it's a large part of why the animated movie is one of my favorite things that Filmation ever produced! :)

I think there's a chance Tex Hex came first, as they were developing him (as I say in this video) long before the show itself! :)

I LOVED Thunder Stick...especially that voice that Pat Fraley gave him! :)

I have a BraveStarr episode commentary popping up in late September...you have been warned! :)

I probably could make more videos about the designs of certain characters...:)

Those DO indeed sound like rather interesting villains! :)

It was a wonderful show with FAR more potential than was ever tapped into - I loved working on those DVD sets because it gave me a purpose to rewatch the series again - And, as I always say, that movie is a thing of PERFECTION! :)

It's such a crying shame that he doesn't get as much love as many of the others...:(

Rightly so! :)

The Peter Cullen role that I couldn't believe for the longest time was Eddie...because that high-pitched voice is SO far removed from Optimus Prime! :)

@@cerealgeekTV Yeah Eddie, Brat-A-Rat, and Haunter were headscratchers for me when I found out it was Peter Cullen. (Or Mario on Donkey Kong in Saturday Supercade!) Found it weird that Jake's voice actor Patrick Fraley only got on GI Joe (Ace) but not Transformers. I think he would have made a good Transformer voice.

That's a good point...it's odd that Fraley wasn't on Transformers! :)

And rightly so! :)

At some point maybe! :)

I just adore the visuals for the scene...animating someone as a puppet must be SO bloody tricky! :)

One of my favorite uncredited Charlie Adler roles is in an episode of The Real Ghostbusters titled "Janine's Genie"...it's SO obviously him (and years later, thanks to voice director Marsha Goodman, I learned that it was indeed him)! :)

Yeah, as much as I dislike Filmation's Ghostbusters as a series, it DID have some things going for it...mainly the visuals! :)

Sadly, none of the artists are credited for their work - It was rare for people to get credit for concept illustrations...just one of those things...:(

That's a GREAT shout! :)

I DO want to make a video all about WHY Filmation's Ghostbusters is not my favorite show - I think I will make a pretty good argument for why it fell short...:)

@@cerealgeekTV 'cept for Futura, she was the show's one saving grace!

It was close with regards to concepts...but Hordak and Horde Prime came first! :)

@@cerealgeekTV any plans to do a commentary on any episode of Ulysses 31? In my humble opinion, no animated series, including MOTU, deserves a remastering, re-releasing and/or a reboot more so than Ulysses 31. I just love the intro. Gets me all teary eyed.

No immediate plans...but I do want to make lot of Ulysses 31 content in the future...especially given the material for the pilot that I have access to! :)

@@cerealgeekTV you never disappoint, James 👍😇👍

Nice theory...but...Thirty/Thirty was designed alongside Tex Hex and his steed, and the initial look (for what would become the toy) was pretty much already in place! :)

@@cerealgeekTV ah ok, so then they had similar concepts for each steed simultaneously. I see.

@@cerealgeekTV BTW, one of these days maybe you can go in depth about the Equestroids, provided you have any materials on the subject?

I'm not sure I do to be honest...:)

@@cerealgeekTV ah i guess that bit of Filmation lore is still pretty sparse eh? Maybe some of your old Filmation contacts remember a thing or two perhaps?

Those visuals in which Stampede resurrects Tex Hex and transforms him, as a possible Keldor/Skeletor moment, would've been worth it - Even though I cannot stand the entire Keldor/Skeletor idea - I like my Lord of Destruction to be simply a demon from another dimension...not an Eternian citizen or family relation! :)

@@cerealgeekTV I felt the same as you mate. But I grew to accept it because that entire concept as a package deal with the to me most interesting batch of minicomics across the entire run aka the Bruce Timm built up for Eternia's past. It's not even that I think it would have been the best stories in the series ever, but the build up was amazing and got me very interested. This get's only amplyfied to me since I''ve always been a sucker for good origin/ancient history stories. So while I didn't like Keldor to be Skeletor the feelings of "but this is interesting, I need to know more" was much stronger which is why I had an easier time accepting it. Funny thing is, that before the 2002 reboot, I actually wrote a story concept on how all those things with Skeletor coming from Infinitia, him being an apprentice of Hordak and him being Keldor who was also in Preternia could make something of sense. But nope, then the fantastic cartoon came along and I had to adjust it. And then the Netflix He-Man cgi series came out where Keldor suddenly was a regular human (as I originally envisioned) and I had to throw things over again.^^ I realize by now that I will never write the story but the concept still stands strong within my head with minor adjustments.^^

Yeah, I have a nice scan of that BraveStarr piece by Moebius - However, for the series, a couple of artists were doing their best Moebius impressions stylistically...:)

I like it! :)

@@cerealgeekTV yeah, it makes sense; they're both energy sources.

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure how I could make a lengthy video all about Skeletor's eyes...but stranger things have happened! :)

@@cerealgeekTVIndeed. :D It would probably be more about what studio(s) worked on the show perhaps? I'm still amazed that Jon Talpur figured out that Artmic was one of the studios involved in New Adventures' production. Probably it was written on some model sheets or storyboards that he found?

I think he learned of Artmic's involvement during one of his "research missions"...he stumbled upon all the shows that they had contributed to...like MASK! :)

@@cerealgeekTVInteresting, that he did 'research missions' AND the fact Artmic worked on MASK as well. Perhaps they helped with some of the more detailed scenes on the show? Who knows.

Well, Jon wrote that article for cereal:geek and, if I recall correctly, Artmic were responsible for a lot of vehicle designs... - It's been a good few years since I read the article - I really should give it a re-read! :)

In order of appearance it goes...G.I. Joe, Mighty Mouse, She-Ra, Jem, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Zorro, Galaxy High School, Mighty Orbots, Dungeons & Dragons, The Transformers, Galaxy Rangers, The Real Ghostbusters, Centurions, The New Adventures of He-Man, ThunderCats, He-Man, Battle of the Planets, MASK, Inspector Gadget, The Incredible Hulk, ThunderCats, BraveStarr, ThunderCats, Filmation's Ghostbusters, ThunderCats, Project A-ko, Dogtanian, She-Ra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Transformers! :)

Except when it shows up (as a water crystal) in the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special! :)

YAY! :)

Tex Hex is rather awesome! :)