Inhumanoids: Part 1 - Kid's Entertainment Goes to H**L 

Inhumanoids has very Lovecraftian theme

Hands down the one of the best shows Sunbow Productions made in that era. I really pushed the limits of what you could do in a American cartoon.

In humanoids: The Movie. Hollywood...get on it!

All I can say is that actor Chris Latta must've had some incredibly strong vocal cords. Playing bad guys like D'Compose, Starscream and Cobra Commander had to be murder on his voice!

D-Compose always scared the Hell out of me when I was kid

I loved the Inhumanoids! I wish it wasn't the "forgotten" Hasbro property.

Kid Rhino really dropped the ball bu not releasing the whole series. Instead of just releasing it all in one fell swoop, they tried to milk money from customers.

I'm so surprised this show has not made it to movie screens yet in a live action remake.

I loved this show! as a kid. I was able to get volume 1 on DVD a few years back before the prices skyrocketed. I still don't have volume 2. I loved the art style lore and the Earthcore suits. This show is need of a modern toy update. I would love to see what modern toy makers could do with these designs.

So do you really find someone rich and powerful getting a slap on the wrist for absolutely horrible crimes that hard to believe.

Tbh, that Statue of Liberty bit still seems less dumb than the Weeping Angel version from "Angels take Manhattan."

To this day i haven’t forgotten that poor lady (Sandra?) screeching “I AM ONE WITH D’COMPOSE!!!” 😱

"Liquidator" reminds me of the Kids in the Hall sketch "Eradicator." 😂

"Hasbro heard them and said , Hold My Beer!" Hahaha... Amen to that! Great review of a bonkers show!

I like the comparison to Ghostbusters but minus the comedy.

Poor Michael he’s watched that cartoon so much he’s started to imagine things

I absolutely love The Inhumanoids cartoon. This, The Mighty Orbots & Tigersharks are totally underrated 80's shows. I had Liquidator, and some the smaller monsters, because we couldn't afford the larger ones. Great video & wonderful channel.

Tendril Always reminded me of Jeff goldblums final transformation in “THE FLY” ( The Space Bug) . it took me 25 years of searching to find out what he was after seeing him in the background of the Tree house Den in “The Monster Squad “ being from the U.K. it wasn’t a big thing here so I never knew what it really was, I always thought it was a model kit from The Fly.... I never realised it was a kids toy line 😂

This show honestly kinda scared me as a kid.

Another enjoyable video, Michael! Yes, it is annoying the complete series wasn't released on DVD here in the US. I bought the partial set when it was released and eventually bought a ... questionable ... complete set. It's fun to pick out the shared voice actors from other shows. Wally Burr was an awesome voice director. The story line itself was quite unique.

I just binged this series and idk why people would think any of these characters are unlikable. Aside from maybe Blackthorn and Mauler. The Earth Core team is a great team of old friends who can throw jabs at each other and just laugh it off with a bit of snark. The Redwoods and Granites are strange but very human creatures who prioritize peace and self preservation over violence and rash actions. The magnetic brothers (never could get their names right since the audio of this series could be clearer) have polar opposite personalities which suits them well. The inhumanoids, while villains, have such colorful and distinct personalities ya cant help but to love em. And honestly, the relationship between Metlar and the Statue of Liberty is probably one of the greatest pieces of television history.

This was one of my ALL-TIME favorite shows! The voice acting was epic, the storyline was so nuts it was AWESOME, and the toy line was pretty good too. I really,,,,, REALLY,,,,, wish they would release the series on DVD! Great video!

Another great video. Inhumanoids was on a news broadcast in a episode of jem also! Did want to point out inhumanoids DID get a dvd release in america by rhino. However they only made 2 volumes. The last volume with the final episodes never got a dvd release do to low sales. They released them on vhs also. Uk got all the episodes on dvd but inhumanoids was released on dvd in america. They are of course out of print and high priced!

I still can't believe that no one at Hollywood ever tried to make a movie out of Inhumanoids. Even directors like Michael Bay would have fun making it.

I have never heard of an inhumanoid but you do one hell of a job keeping my attention and explaining it with the help of your expert.

Proud to say my mom bought all of these for me! She respected my love of monsters!

This review about Inhumanoids really puts me in the mood for the October-Halloween season. I think I was only traumatized by this cartoon about a few dozen times. Not bad for a kid growing up in the 80's, eating Captain Crunch... I suppose? Haha. Glad it is on your channel... can't wait for part 2.

This was by far my favorite cartoon as a kid. I could not get enough of this story, and so wished they'd been able to continue it.

Michael and Melinda & whoever else is involved- I love what you do! Thanks !!!!

This is the episode I've been waiting for!

Inhumanoids: Part 1-Kid's Entertainment Goes to H##L I can't wait for part two with anticipation

this is great vid,i remember that this show and the first season of the real ghost busters gave me nightmares as a kid and i love it,awesome job rb

Another fantastic episode Michael!👍

can't wait for part 2. great video. keep them coming.

For some reason I'm getting some Devilman vibes with the inhumanoids designs. I'm gonna presume the guy that made this is a fan of Go Nagai.

Thank you, thank you for covering inhumanoids. Love you guys

This is one of those one season shows I saw as a kid. And I wanted more of it when it stopped airing.

Too bad Voltron wasn't popular enough to get Robeast the size of those villains.

This cartoon still freaks me out, all these years later.

The Inhumanoids were actually a really great cartoon series! Going back and rewatching it as an adult, I forgot that the show was done in an episodic format where each episode continued into the next one! I can’t really think of any children’s cartoons that followed this type of structure. The shows theme and animation was excellent as well. The series really did have a mature tone and feel. The fact that the show ends with the Earth Core Heroes becoming complete money hungry celebrity douchbags, is something you never thought you’d see in a children’s cartoon. The toy line was really cool too. The Inhumanoid toy creatures were big and imposing and the Earth Core figures were nicely detailed as well! I loved these toys growing up and I never missed an episode during its original run! I’m real happy that RetroBlasting gave the Inhumanoids some long needed love because this cartoon is criminally underrated!

@retroblasting Auger is voiced by Mike Bell aka Duke and Major Bludd.

Why did they have to put all the good cartoons on every Sunday morning!

HILARIOUS!! I got the big 3 Inhumanoids on clearance for $10 each as a kid! I thought they were great, but didn't care for any of the other figures. Also, the figures pictured in the little collection booklet that came with each toy looked WAY cooler than what we ended up getting on store shelves. Must have been prototype photos. Even so, Tendril still looked cool. I think I would have liked the whole toy line more if I had either seen the cartoon (except for the last few episodes, apparently 😬) or read the Marvel comics.

Why does the Statue of Liberty remind me of Harry Mudd's wife Stella from Star Trek? "Metlar, what have you been up to? Nothing good, I'm sure. Well let me tell you, you lazy, good-for-nothing.,,"

This was really good Michael can’t wait to get your take one the MOTU construx

Same! I was always in church and never saw the cartoon, but I use to love the commercials and when I saw them in the toy store I would daydream of playing with them but my parents never bought any of them. D compose was the one I wanted the most.

NEVER HEARD OF THIS UNTIL NOW! Thanks Michael and Matt, now I not only want to see the cartoon, but I also want to collect all of the action figures. 😁

I loved this video. Didnt have these toys but I am intrigued now

Gotta love the George Landisburg. I got these toys as hand-me-downs from my older brother, along with a bunch of weird 80s toys - RoboForce, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, all stuff that wasnt super popular. I think the only stuff he had that was popular was Star Wars toys, which he sold in the mid 90s to build a 386. He was the only child between my parents and their siblings for a few years so he got a bunch of stuff. My mom said she never really had a problem getting stuff for Christmas cuz we liked the less popular toys, even with the Star Wars stuff cuz he wasnt born til after A New Hope so they didnt have to buy an empty box with a mail in rebate for Christmas. Augur was my favorite, but the drill and helmet got lost. Tendrils fangs broke off, I think that was a common thing. I dont think I knew they were from a cartoon, along with a lot of his toys, except for Roboforce, I do remember seeing that. I didnt even know Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors was the name of that show until the internet, I just liked the trucks with the buzzsaws and spikes that the brains and little guys sat in.

Great review! I never got to see this show growing up even though I was the prime age at the time (now in my late 40's).

Excellent video! 👍🏻👍🏻🖤👏🏻

A cool livestream and a excellent video on inhumanoids....did Christmas get moved to September 26th this year.

Great video!

I saw Part 2 first and that convinced me to collect the Inhumanoids toy line. Once I saw the Statue of Liberty situation in this episode I changed my mind. It took about twenty minutes to go from “I’m collecting Inhumanoids.” to “Nevermind, I am not collecting Inhumanoids!”.

This is so good. I remember watching like 4 episodes of inhumanoids, all disjointed though. Never had any of the toys... My parents thought they were too hideous. Ok time for part 2.

A I remember about this show is Auger throwing his shoe at the television whenever he got angry. Not to mention all I remember from the commercials is, "after that overgrown octopus". Hell seeing this 2 part video. I feel caught up on the whole series.

I always loved the bizarre creature designs.

Inhumanoids has always intrigued me but I never took the time to watch the cartoon. Thank you for the thorough breakdown, perfect.

It was almost as if someone at Hasbro saw the popularity of Madballs and said, "I'll see your gross out, horrific toys AmToys and raise you Cthulhu, a rotted dinosaur carcass, and the devil himself."

I loved every second of this show. Luckily all 13 episodes are on youtube

"He only gets 5 years?!" Yeah he's a rich guy. This is the most realistic thing about the show.

FANTASTIC ENDING!!!!! I think your on to something for a new video series...

Incredible stuff

Great video of a show and toy line I still enjoy. Never considered Earth Corps likened with the Ghostbusters before...that's pretty cool.

That. Looks. AWESOME!

I thought you guys had talked about the inhumaniods before, but he ill be happy to hear more.

I love the Inhumanoids! My sister and I watched this as well as HB’s Godzilla. Shlock is the name of the game.

another great vid!

In his book, Flint Dille attributes a lot of the erratic craziness of the show down to him writing the episodes during nicotine withdrawal after having just quit smoking.

I fell in love with Inhumanoids after the first episode. Sadly, tone week later it got banned in my country.😭

i recall the news caster also appearing in real ghostbusters, asking what kind of emergency is a real thing (example air traffic controllers ask whats the nature of the emergency as well as 911 operators) the problem here is phrasing

Loved this show growing up.

I loved this show. Decompose was my favorite character. Wow nostalgia. I was so mad when it stopped coming on.

Dang and to think that was marketed towards kids! Honestly, the concept is rather nightmare inducing for a kids show when you think about it. Basically, lovecraftian monsters that emerge from underground to reek havoc on mankind. The scene where D’compose turns Sandra into a giant monster was definitely an example of how dark this show was. Honestly, people said Sonic Satam was a dark show, but I think Inhumanoids manages to too Sonic Satam in darkness, effectively making Sonic Satam look like a light hearted comedy.

I don't think we ever got the toys of this in Ireland, my first exposure to Inhumanoids was when the Marvel comic got reprinted as a backup strip in the UK Transformers comic - which adapted the pilot miniseries and got cancelled very quickly, so it ended with the scene where Sandra got turned into a monster and was never continued (despite a note in the reprint saying it would be). Maybe a year later the TV show wound up on a satellite TV channel we got and I finally got to see how the story continued. I remember the depiction of Sandra's monsterisation being very creepy in the comic - the scene stuck with me for quite some time, probably egged on by the unresolved cliffhanger - but it didn't seem as bad in the cartoon.

That MST3K bit at the end made my day.

H.P. Lovecraft for kids. They even had the balls to air on Sunday mornings.

Inhumanoids, Satan's favourite cartoon!!! Wow either that shoe is made of cast iron or that tv is made of cardboard! Awesome video, looking forward to part 2.

This show was amazing because it was a sharp contrast to what came before it. It was dark, complex, and yet at the same time popcorn for the brain. The characters didn't have set rules, so seeing them ignore faction lines was really refreshing. Literally nothing like this existed on tv at the time, so anyone who saw it was transfixed. You might want to look into the unreleased prototype figures for season 2 that surfaced a few years ago by Spinmaster I believe.

I totally remember using Inhumanoids as a PLURAL NOUN in MadLibs! This always created absurd stories that cracked us up beyond belief when we were kids. That one Inhumanoid Decompose was freaky with the ability to catch people in his fucking RIBCAGE!!! The theme song has been kicking around in my head for DECADES!!! INHUMANOIDS! INHUMANOIDS! THE EVIL THAT LIES WITHIN! DOWN IN THE FIREY DEPTHS OF THE EARTH WHERE NIGHTMARES BEGIN!!!!

Also, Nightcrawler scared the CRAP out of me, honestly he still freaks me out!

I loved the mini series as a kid, they played it alot up here in CT. back then. I never new they actually made a full season until i saw it a few years ago. Those episodes must hace been buried in some crappytime slot after parents saw what the show was about

I remember the commercials very well.

This show absolutely puzzled me as a kid for all the reasons you described. I had no idea who I was supposed to be ‘rooting’ for, who the good guys actually were (if there were any), and the show seemed to provide no clear resolution. This has gotta be one of the most bizarre kid’s cartoons ever to be made.

I remember the toys. I rarely watched the cartoon. I can't wait for part 2.

I remember the only reason I even got to see the cartoon back in the 80s was because my cousin had a satellite dish (the old giant TV station grade ones, not these new tiny ones) and so he could tape all the feeds sent to UHF stations, including ones they'd choose not to air. I kind of wish I'd been able to afford the giant monster figures so I could have them fight my Joes and Transformers the way I did with the Clash of the Titans Kraken and my Rodan.

This show was great and the theme song freaked me out as a kid.

I was hooked up Around ‘87 with this Cartoon. In the ‘80 Puerto Rico had an unsung Hero on TV that pushed for these cartoons like Mazinger, G Force and Inhumanoids. I got to earn Metlar at 9 years old because I worked hard to the point that my parents couldn’t refuse to get it.

I remember watching the inhumanoids during the mid-80s on Sunday mornings I loved the cartoon! I thought cartoons on Sunday was pretty cool considering we had cartoons on Saturday as well

seriously this like COPS sounds like a great concept that needs to be remade. this show sounds cool. i'm going to look into this show on RU-vid.

This show really scared me as a kid. The first time I saw if was on Betamax. We rented it at a place called BETA BANK. Someone from the States recorded it on TV, then sent it to my part of the world and rented it out. Decompose scared me the most. There were times I was afraid to take a shower because, I would imagine Decompose comming out from the ground and into my bathroom. I took showers as fast as I could. The show really scared me, but I still watched it. I really wanted to know how the story will end.

I can recall watching all the cartoons from that Sunday morning block. We didn't go to church. I loved this cartoon. But I also loved the Robotix cartoon. Which honestly was way better than the building toy line. And the best thing about that toy line was the amazing sci fi art on the boxes. Never had any of the toys for the cartoons from that block except for the Bigfoot truck. Mom wouldn't buy the Robotix or Inhumanoids stuff. But that was only because of the cost.

I heard that line too often "kids entertainment is going to hell." But now I'm sad I missed out on this craziness

To this day that dude melting in the pollution is seared in my mind

Interestingly enough, Flint Dille, the writer for the Inhumanoids, was trying to quit smoking during this, which might account for the darkness. Dille has bemoaned the current state of people glued to their smartphones, so it seems each generation’s critique comes full circle...

I had this on VHS as a kid. I've been searching for a dvd release for years

awesome show!

Great opening

I first saw this when I was around 5. I remember going to kindergarten and running around while playing yelling, "D'Compose! D'Compose!". The teacher was equally impressed and confused that I knew that word lol

Dr. Bright? Holy crap this must be the rough draft of SCP