The Repeated Failures of Silverhawks: Thundercats But Birds & In Space

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In the mid-1980s, Silverhawks burst onto the animation scene as the latest offering from the same team behind the wildly successful Thundercats. With a similar premise of heroic humanoid animals fighting evil, this time in outer space, Silverhawks seemed poised for greatness. But despite its high-flying action, flashy visuals, and star-studded voice cast, the show never quite took off in the way its creators had hoped.
In this video, we'll look into the reasons why Silverhawks failed to capture the same cultural zeitgeist as Thundercats and the other attempts to reboot the franchise and bring it back to life with varying levels of success.
Silverhawks retains a devoted fanbase to this day, with many fans nostalgic for its unique blend of sci-fi and animal heroes. So join us as we take a closer look at the fascinating history of Silverhawks, and try to uncover the secrets behind its enduring legacy.
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@rjramrod Год назад

A lot of people talk about Silverhawks as a colossal failure, but I personally liked it as a dumb child, and here on the internet that means it was a spectacular & unprecedented success by any objective measure

@singaporesammy Год назад

I was an even dumber child. I liked Tigersharks.

@pmgerard Год назад

Tigersharks, now THERE was a colossal failure. 😉

@Solidus78 Год назад

@@pmgerard oh COMICS STRIP, now those cartoons were still entertaining.

@brianjl7477 Год назад

@@singaporesammy I enjoyed Tigersharks. It was definitely the stand-out on Comic Strip. It's too bad it wasn't a standalone product like Thundercats & Silverhawks. Maybe one day we'll get the three-way team-up that we all NEED to see!

@CarlosLopez-oc9nh Год назад

LOL so did I @@singaporesammy you're not alone

@johnwyatt429 Год назад

Silverhawks represented some of the most beautiful toy designs of the era. No one ever made vac metal pop like Kenner.

@Stygian360 Год назад

So true

@Lazrael32 5 месяцев назад

And now with budget cuts most people won't even consider it

@achtungbabyblog Год назад

I adored this show and the theme 👏🙌

@jakofallandthatisall5506 Год назад

Best theme song ever

@EarJuice Год назад

Yeah I know what's going on ere. I guess I would adore a deer person show as well so......

@ridamark Год назад

i still go back and watch the upscaled versions on YT all the time. love it

@owie4070 Год назад

So did I. Unforgettable.

@saiberunato Год назад

Me too. Will always be a deeply cherished part of this middle aged man's youth. Never cared for Thundercats. But will always love Silverhawks!

@unum1979 Год назад

I cannot say how much I loved this show as a kid. That theme alone made every episode epic.

@shel0016 11 месяцев назад

Yep I rem silver hawks a hit in both england and jamaica and usa. Cant believe it didnt run for years

@wstine79 Год назад

I loved Silverhawks even more than ThunderCats. The space setting, villains, and designs were cooler. I'm sure many boys were fascinated by Steelheart's.... wings.

@DragoonMS Год назад

Steelheart was an even sexier badass than Cheetara, and that's on Mary had a bicycle, it was painted red as fire...and whenever Mary wanted a ride, it always had a flat tire!!

@jeremysmith4620 Год назад

Man, Steelheart has some full, voluptuous wings. Who said these weren't educational toys.

@brianjl7477 Год назад

I agree, I loved the sort of hard-boiled 1930's schtick they would use with the mobsters and Stargazer. Like whenever it would show the casino it would hit that one tune, you know? It was all very slick and well-done.

@DragoonMS Год назад

@@brianjl7477 I always had the headcanon that Melodia was old man Stargazer's bitter, crazy ex. And it suprises me that at least Stargazer, Quicksilver, and the twins didn't play some poker on their downtime.

@handznet Год назад

I disagree. It was way less exciting visually. Thundercats had more variety in character design and the setting was more pleasant to watch

@ruthun Год назад

The adverts in the breaks, the retro ones for the shows, take me back to such a happy place in my life. No internet. Friends coming over. Getting excited for dad to bring home Pizza Hut and maybe a tape from the video store.

@grapeshot Год назад

I always liked the intro to this cartoon.

@HaohmaruHL Год назад

Of course. Both this and Thundercats intros were animated in Japan, hence the quality.

@mrfld Год назад

I loved the intro. I never actually watched the show.

@mksolid82 Год назад

The intro is an 80s dream but the show is so dull and boring.

@McHaro0079 Год назад

🎶 SIL--- VER--- 🎵 HAWKS!!

@SeroCloud Год назад

Thundercats, Silverhawks, and Bionic-6 had the most memorable cartoon intros in the 80s.

@SteeringWheelOperator Год назад

Galaxy Rangers: "Am I a joke to you?"

@CptJistuce Год назад

MASK has entered the chat.

@wwetnabamafan194 Год назад

What, Mighty Orbots didn't want any of that?

@TheMsLourdes Год назад

@@SteeringWheelOperator Just a quick note, the artist who did the Galaxy Rnagers theme just posted it like two months ago in its original form on youtube :)

@tmrevenge Год назад

Tmnt wins

@wstine79 Год назад

🎵 "Wings of silver, nerves of steel Silverhawks! Partly metal, partly real Silverhawks!"

@Solidus78 Год назад

😎

@DragoonMS Год назад

"Soaring through the highways, of the heavens in the night... SilverHawks!! A rainbow in the skyyyyyy!!"

@HangGrenade01 Год назад

Silverhawks absolutely had the superior theme song and the giant Tally Hawk toy was awesome.

@JoybuzzerX Год назад

Not sure I'd say it was superior to Thundercats, but I'd consider it equally awesome

@vinh777 11 месяцев назад

The silverhawk theme song is awesome

@Pewpewpew182 Год назад

I always thought the toys were so cool when kids brought them to school. I never had one, but loved the idea for the show.

@jeremysmith4620 Год назад

I always brought mine to school. They were so rad. I'm glad there were other Silverhawks kids dragging them to school to try and get other kids to appreciate their metallic awesomeness and letting them play with them.

@patrickaker4380 Год назад

I brought mine to preschool too. An amazing toy line.

@travis4700 Год назад

me too until the super 7 versions wave 1 and 2 are now fully out and I have them. The ones I ordered. Monstar in his armor is huge.

@crapstirrer Год назад

Yeah. We were kids. Chrome finish easily impressed us.

@FoxeyeValkyrie Год назад

When I was a kid I absolutely LOVED this show. My family was poor and couldn't really afford much so my mother made some figures out of cardboard for me to play with! Loved running around with them haha.

@Solidus78 Год назад

I had fond memories of this show, this was my childhood. 😎

@j.rileyindependentproductions Год назад

I know it wasn't as successful as Thundercats, but I loved it. As did my kids when I purchased the DVDs and we watched them together.

@RockNerdRadio Год назад

Man, I loved the Silverhawks. That theme song is such an 80's sound piece. Every time I hear it, I can picture watching this show on my parents old tube TV

@sawtooth808 Год назад

One of the characteristics was a green haired lady with a keytar…A Keytar, you cannot get more 80’s than that.

@MaximumWarp2099 Год назад

Always saddened me that the show never lasted very long. It was fun and cool in a lot of ways.

@brendanfeeney7568 Год назад

Thanks for this episode guys ! I have very fond memories of this cartoon. It's fascinating learning about the history and background -This really is a quality channel 👍

@ramonantoniodejuanbennett6239 5 месяцев назад

I'm 45 and i remember waking up early Saturday mornings to watch these cartoons. I loved Transformers, G.I. Joe, Jem & the Holograms, Thundercats, He-Man , She-Ra and Silverhawks. Man the 80s were awesome!

@consensus949 23 дня назад

What's up with those cartoons having to be so early goddayum

@gridman887 Год назад

the "those are two different shows, can you imagine??" bit is such a dad joke i freakin love it

@johncliffalvarez6513 Год назад

There was something incredibly amazing from the chrome and just the overall cyborg/bird aesthetics that really pulled me to this series. Silver hawks definitely holds a special place in my childhood and soul.

@taurincochran3398 Год назад

When I was a kid,I loved the reruns of this cartoon. However, at the time, I had 3 friends with Silverhawk action figures, and between them they had all of the figures,many of them with a fair amount of chrome chipped off,sadly.

@nobodyimportant2470 Год назад

Sadly that was the big problem with the toys. The chrome plating just didn't hold up if you played with them. If they had just gone with colored plastic it would have held up better but you can't deny that they looked cool as hell new.

@NiblingoBazinga1975 Год назад

As a child I had the entire Thundecats action figure series and a few Silverhawks AND Tigersharks. When I played, all the characters interacted with each other, thus placing them in the same universe. I was delighted to briefly spot Mon-Star and Mako in the Thundercats reboot, but I’m going to credit my 8 y/o self with coming up with the notion of a shared universe, lol.

@glenjennett 7 месяцев назад

They were all created by the same company, so of course they were part of the same Universe. You didn't create that concept.

@NiblingoBazinga1975 7 месяцев назад

@@glenjennett Thanks, genius! I guess you set me straight on that one 🙄

@TwilightRonin Год назад

Highkey, its intro is in top 3 best cartoon intro theme. Such an underrated gem

@ameliadiaz8040 Год назад

@@astormofwrenches5555 Jayce

@andrejg4136 Год назад

having a woman with a lower register sing the theme was an inspired choice and more cartoon themes should have then, and still should, take advantage of that

@christopherrichardson8972 Год назад

I love the random comedy riffs that are getting spliced in more frequently, like the jumpsuit guy cutting to boba fett crashing ... classic

@QuestionMan Год назад

Oh Steelheart, I'll never let you go.

@seancallaway5204 Год назад

Silverhawks were so rock & roll! Mon*Star was a kick-ass villain.

@jacobfoster9185 Год назад

Are silverhawks, Thundercats, and bravestar all in a shared universe ? He man?

@BulletsAA 2 месяца назад

silverhawks, thundercats and tigersharks are all in a shared universe.

@patriciaturnham453 Год назад

My son and I watched this together. Even today, in his 40s, it's one if his fondest childhood memories.

@nerdfatha Год назад

Thoa! this brings back some core memories from childhood! I had Quicksilver with Tally Hawk and Mon-Starrr with his flippy head action. I even had the boxed Silverhawk costume and loved wearing the Madalorian-esque mask. Before I moved out of my parents house in my 20's I found the very battered, but much loved little Tally in the back of a dresser drawer. Thank you, Galaxy, for this video.

@MCastleberry1980 Год назад

I had a Silverhawks lunch box and thermos when I started Kindergarten. Its funny how that was such a very specific window for me to get into that show and get that.

@Larry Год назад

I did used to get Silverhawks mixed up with Eagle Riders as a kid. Especially as I owned this Silverhawks rollercoaster hotwheels type track set.

@wwetnabamafan194 Год назад

Then check out the history of Saban's Eagle Riders here, which is their own version of Japan's Gatchaman II (what would have been season 2 of Battle Of The Planets.)

@ikazuchioni Год назад

Childhood memory unlocked! When I was in elementary, stores near my school sold some snacks but had bootlegged free toys. One one of them was a bird that "flapped" it's wings. It's only today that I discovered they were meant to be Tally-Hawk's imitation toys. they were dirt cheap too, they were equivalent to 6 cents converted from Philippine pesos, plus you have a snack!

@HeadCannonPrime Год назад

Can you imagine getting 65 episodes of ANYTHING in 1 year these days! PS. Solar opposites is probably dead in the water too being that Justin Roiland is persona non grata these days.

@Morgil27 Год назад

I never saw a single episode of the show, but when I was in kindergarten, I had a pair of Silverhawks pajamas with cloth wingflaps under the arms.

@Summertimeblues28 Год назад

Loved Silverhawks slightly more than Thundercats even. The Kenner Toys were great & the cartoon is a classic. Great video guys.

@anthonycerulli1423 Год назад

Yeah I had the toys too. I loved them!

@UnReQuited93 Год назад

As a child, I owned a SilverHawks cassette tape called The Origin, which featured the first two episodes of the show in audio format. Along with it, I had a makeshift picture book that complemented the story. I still remember the pilot episode by heart to this day. I also collected ColorForms, which were thin rubbery stickers that could be placed and removed from different glossy backgrounds printed on cardboard. I had a nearly complete sticker book of them, and a complete sticker book of ThunderCats that took multiple trips to the grocery store and a considerable amount of money to acquire. Looking back, it was a great time to be a kid.

@ZeroKhaoTiKz Год назад

I have fond memories of Thundercats, but Silverhawks felt like a better show.

@JazGalaxy Год назад

I was just about to say that. I don’t know why but it felt more solid.

@estebanavelar4118 Год назад

I liked it more. Guess its because Im more into cyberpunk.

@wesleystreet Год назад

No Snarf = Better show.

@Therianthrope76 Год назад

@@wesleystreet A non-verbal chrome-plated cyborg hawk is objectively cooler than a tubby cat-lizard-nanny any day of the week. At least the bird didn't CONSTANTLY repeat it's own name while bitching about everything single thing it experienced.

@dennisgraham9444 Год назад

Yes

@beck620 Год назад

When I was bored at my 1st job (in 1998) I came up with a whole live action Silverhawks cast... Joseph Gordon Levitt as Copper Kid, Pierce Brosnan as Quicksilver, Natasha Henstridge as Steelheart, Howie Long as Steelwill, Dwight Yoakam as Bluegrass, Bruce Willis as Stargazer, Jeremy Irons as Mon-Star

@JohnH20111 2 месяца назад

that’s a badass lineup for the cast

@bigdude1982 Год назад

I just love my childhood. All the series, shows and toys

@jonus04 Год назад

8:45 another great Boba Fett edit. I always adore these and they always catch me off guard. 9:05 and this on-going joke also.

@ffreed Год назад

I liked both Thundercats and Silverhawks, but I was seldom in a position to watch the shows when they were on. Ironically, the Rankin-Bass Thundercats-esque show I was able to watch the most consistently was TigerSharks. Sure, it was the least well-remembered of the three, but it came on when I was getting ready for school. And like Thundercats and SilverHawks, I was at the right age to enjoy it.

@Roadpigjohn Год назад

Silverhawks was one of favorites of the 80s cartoons, even more than Thundercats 😀💡✌️

@powerbadpowerbad Год назад

Both shows had stellar intros also.

@kevindavis4456 Год назад

Loved Silverhawks as a kid. Had some episodes copied onto VHS, and a couple of the figures, Quicksilver and Copper Kid. I really miss the Rankin/Bass art style.

@rhuttrho88 Год назад

I know I had Quik Silver. I can't remember if I had others.🤔🫡

@thehussar5604 Год назад

I have very fond memories of watching this back to back with Thunder Cats before bed with my mom. My very first exposure to the NES was when the commercials would come on. I miss those days.

@justinberlak6879 Год назад

I’m shocked that you hadn’t covered SH’s already. This one is right in your wheelhouse! I was a total mark for this as a kid, and would’ve sworn that it ran for years. I appreciate the deep dive into it; great job Dan, and crew!!

@ajatathemu Год назад

I really have a Mandela effect with them already doing this. 😂

@NewYork975 Год назад

Enjoyed watching Silver Hawks as a kid had several of the toys too. The show and the product was good.

@i.am.not.herbert Год назад

The only Silver Hawk toy I had with the great big bird that the main guy could fly with it clipped to his back or whatever. The missile launching claw snapping Wing slicing hawk thing. Had it for so many years. I might still have it in the garage I'm not sure

@JohnH20111 2 месяца назад

Quicksilver and Tallyhawk

@i.am.not.herbert 2 месяца назад

@@JohnH20111 yeah I never had the action figure that was the main guy that went with it though. I just had that giant bird vehicle version toy. That thing was cool.

@semicharmedlife311 3 месяца назад

I would say the love shown for Silverhawks by its fans defies the label "failure".

@Liberty-or-Death-1776 Год назад

I really liked the show as a kid. So it didn't fail to entertain me. Had all the action figures too. Centurions is another one few people talk about, yet I had all the figures for that too.

@pmgerard Год назад

Super7's designers have given several interviews over the last month. I believe they said their plan at the time was to solicit wave 4 in May and wave 5 in September. Brian Flynn has also teased the Miraj ship as a vehicle for the figures in development. Their designer said that everyone in wave 4 had a vintage toy, I believe? But that they're aware of demand for Yes-Man and Melodia. I believe their designer said they simply sometimes remove licensees from the website when there are no products for a long time because they have so many licenses. We will see over the next week! I now have waves 1 and 2 in hand and I'm fairly happy with them, even though I think Quicksilver is the weakest figure in the line.

@JazGalaxy Год назад

The creativity and design of these shows is amazing.

@a27dub Год назад

I was only 5 years old and i still remember these toys and that BK commercial is classic.....

@6sKi6z6 Год назад

I remember watching this as a real little kid. I had the MonStarr action figure with the flip up head and I thought it was the coolest toy…until Ninja Turtles introduced me to the Shredder.

@jasonhubbard6775 Год назад

That musical footage is the most 80s thing I have ever seen.

@brainchild8626 Год назад

My older cousin was 4 years older than me(When I was born, these cartoons were in their twilight years)... So he introduced me to Thundercats and Silverhawks... I fell in love with both immediately... I low key hoped they would've gave Silverhawks a reboot with the 2011 Thundercats reboot... 😂😂😂

@cybermawon7637 Год назад

That episode where they & the Tigersharks cameoed was pretty much setting that up. Probably would've needed to be wildly popular for a Tigersharks reboot, but Silverhawks could've easily happened if Thundercats didn't get the axe.

@brainchild8626 Год назад

@@cybermawon7637 I completely agree.. In my opinion they canceled The Thundercats reboot because they aimed for the wrong demographic.. They wanted to sell toys, but the main viewers were adults.. Lol

@jonasbrothersrockist 9 месяцев назад

Nice.

@willwidrick8039 Год назад

I love 80’s & 90’s super hero cartoons, I’m ashamed to say I’ve never watched an episode of Silver Hawks, that’s going to change

@BrimsHL Год назад

Thundercats used so many still frames and repeat frames for their cartoon. It was difficult to watch because the characters wouldn't move around at all as much and there would be repeated frames from the characters that would do the same things as in previous shows. Versus silverhawks everything was fresh, everything was new and the characters were always moving around. Silverhawks was a much better show. Just based on that. Thundercats cut way to many corners with budget.

@hardnine Год назад

Technical ok silverhawks was better but aa far as story's and characters go silverhawks was just a thundercats remake

@BrimsHL Год назад

@@hardnine I was overseas at first. I saw Silverhawks before I saw ThunderCats. And, I continued to watch Silverhawks because I could not stand Thundercats. You might as well be reading a comic book where the characters aren't really moving around. The animation on that show was so cheap. Don't get me wrong, Thundercats was an ok show. But, I only watched it every now and then. I just couldn't stand how the characters would not move around with their facial expressions and a lot of how they talked was a repeat from previous episodes.

@robd1329 Год назад

Nobody beats Snarf Snarf!

@Kooster69 Год назад

For the Silverhawks cartoon, I tuned out when the animation quality dropped from the shiny metallic to dull, flat greys.

@Maverick626 Год назад

as a kid i loved the show , managed to rewatch it as an adult , gotta admit i used to think this was better , however the premise was decent enough that maybe a remake for adult audiences could work...please?

@RudieObias Год назад

I loved Silverhawks back in the day! I was even Stargazer for Halloween when I was six years old! 😂

@loutube3374 Год назад

I loved the Silverhawks. Thanks for reshooting this series. You guys are great.

@marcosnery9884 Год назад

As Thundercats this is one of many tv shows that if I was a bilionaire I would invest in a company to adquire the rights from this kinda of shows and give them the proper respect they deserve. Loved the show and the opening and I don't even remember the plot from one episode hahaha!

@luciousthomas6141 Год назад

Silverhawks and Thundercats are both masterpieces!

@brookswilliams5239 Год назад

💯💯💯

@fade2black1982 Год назад

Those suits were awesome. The donning of the mask with the swipe of the hand, in the intro, was so cool.

@darktetsuya Год назад

Definitely one of my favorite cartoons from the 80s! Loved the toys too that shiny metallic plastic was so cool! (BUT I heard it flaked off somewhat easily, guessing that's why super 7 went with regular plastic) Shame thundercats 2011 didn't fare so well I DID see the brief cameo of the Silverhawks universe now that would've been an amazing show if they'd gotten to do it, I'm sure.

@angelmetatron00 Год назад

9:20 TIL that Thundercats and Silver Hawks had a live stage production. Thank you editor

@Dash277 Год назад

Another great 80's theme song and show. As for Thundercats, it really comes down to Mum-Ra being much better at transforming than Mon-Star.

@asilver50 Год назад

Saturday morning cartoons were the best reason to get up early on the weekend as a kid. You had to catch that block of cartoons in the morning before all the boring shows came on. I hope kids nowadays are able to look back at their childhoods and have good memories like i do being a kid. Also, that kids meal burger in the commercial was huge!

@FooMasterNarr Год назад

Still have my SilverHawks lunch box with Thermos. Love this show.

@irkalla100 Год назад

I loved this show so much as a kid!

@graefx Год назад

I didnt realize there was a rights dispute. I just remember Super7 announcing they had full rights. After Thundercats 2011, Revelation, Netflix She-ra, I'd love to see what a modern production of Silverhawks would be like. Its really weird, i cant see Super7 jumping the gun that hard, but probably more emblematic of how chaotic productions and ownership of those shows were back then. Rights chopped up all over the place, a dozen buyouts and hand changes to the point no one knows where everything is until someone stumbles across the forgotten paperwork in the back of a dust file cabinet

@LynnHermione Год назад

i loved silverhawks as a kid, the animation was so pretty and the music amazing

@thunderflight6266 Год назад

Super 7's Silverhawks Ultimates are an absolute win. Never would I have thought someone would give us these characters all these years later.

@74Grimlin Год назад

Best theme song of all time. I loved this show and I don't understand why it didn't become a hit.

@SkunkLifeMedia Год назад

Facts. and people have done some good covers of the song but none of them, good as they are, unfortunately, have the bird call in them.

@CantankerousDave Год назад

That title still belongs to Galaxy Rangers.

@faherty87 7 месяцев назад

This haunted me for like 20 years. Vaguely remembered an episode of it as a kid but had no idea what it was

@jameswelch7403 Год назад

I'm 44 all these cartoons bring back so many memories I used to have all the MOTU FIGURES THUNDERCATS GI JOE AND A FEW SILVERHAWKS AND JACE AND THE WHEEL WARRIORS TMNT BRAVESTARR. WHAT AWESOME MEMORIES THANK YOU😊

@zachbundy7026 Год назад

This is crazy timing. I recently bought the DVD collection of Silverhawks and binged the whole thing over the course of... well, April.

@matthewleonmartin Год назад

When I was a kid, my mom got me the red Silverhawks lunchbox. I loved that thing. I never saw a minute of the show, though lol.

@FearlessSon Год назад

I'd never actually seen Thundercats as a kid but I *did* watch Silverhawks. I remember having at least one of the toys with the fabric wings on their plastic frames.

@christopherhelton3372 Год назад

as a kid i found an old VHS copy, i had never seen or heard of thundercats at the time so this show hits closer to home for me

@VengeDracul Год назад

Loved Silverhawks as a child. Owned all the toys too. As a kid used to sing along with the intro too.

@puzzlepupwoody6574 Год назад

I got lucky as a kid.... our school set up morning cartoons on several tvs in the auditorium....pick a table for your favorites from various channels...from 7am to 9am when classes began...then afternoon cartoons at home.....damn...why does that memory hurt my lil heart 😭😭😂😂

@captnsquashypant82 Год назад

I would run home as fast as I could after school to watch thundercats and silverhawks back to back

@furrybogard9724 Год назад

I don't know what gave me more chills in the theme song.. The screeching hawk or Bluegrass' guitar solo

@JeremeyPerkins Год назад

I loved Silverhawks as a kid from the show to the toys. Man this was a great episode.

@ChurchMouse12 Год назад

I haven't thought of Silverhawks in years, I remember having the toys and I thought they were just more interesting. Awesome video!

@MrHarris73 Год назад

4:54 - Good Lord. As an 80s kid from Philly, I spent WAAYYY too much time wasting away in front of the TV tuned into Channel 29 (which later became FOX 29) watching cartoons. What a time to be alive.

@OmarBhoo Год назад

Silver Hawks was my show. Had a bunch of figures too.

@educostanzo Год назад

I wasn't very much a Thundercats guy at the time, but for some reason I went crazy when I first watched Silverhawks, as a Brazilian child in the 80's. Personal fun fact is that I couldn't whistle at the time, but somehow I managed to come up with a grotesque imitation of the hawk scream featured in the opening credits, which I used as a whistle substitute all the time, which my siblings certainly found the most annoying thing ever.

@JonasPolsky Год назад

Man, this ad sent me down a freaking rabbithole of looking at every shirt they have on their site. I've made a note of your promo code and I'll be sure to use it when I make a purchase

@co81385 Год назад

I loved this show! I loved the toys, and I actually had those pajamas in which the shirt had "wings". My family even still has a photo of me from when I was little in which I am wearing those pajamas! Also, my parents had taken my older brother to see that Thundercats/Silverhawks live show. My Mom is even still fond, and even still occasionally belts out, the theme song!

@theelderkine Год назад

I used to draw the Silverhawks all the time. Loved this show!

@AvoidTheCadaver Год назад

loved this show as a kid. In fact, I believe i still have one of those giant Tally Hawks kicking around in storage somewhere

@robertmasaya6869 Год назад

8 year old me knew it was Thundercats in space. I wasn’t fooled! Loved the show anyway. Love your channel too, keep up the good work

@bgpoppapump3313 Год назад

I love this new “can you imagine” bit

@seankuhn6633 Год назад

Monstarrs nautilus space ship still inspires my designs to this day.

@herbertturner8808 Год назад

My favorite character on the series was Hotwing. Hotwing was voiced by actor Adolph Caesar, best remembered for his role as Sgt Waters in the 1984 film "A Soldier's Story".

@Lane311 Год назад

I had a Silverhawks lunchbox. This show was great.

@razumtazum3246 Год назад

Love how a series with a 65 episode run was considered a “failure” back in the 80s. 😅

@brianjl7477 Год назад

Yeah, but that was just one season of a syndicated weekday afternoon cartoon show. The M.O. was to fill the weeks with few repeats, then make a second season of about 24 or so, then pepper them into the rotation with first-season episodes. It covered a lot of air-time and, more importantly, sold those toys!