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oldfuturisticrebel · 4 months
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1-800-GLOW
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gingerbaci · 2 years
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 Isabella Rossellini photographed by Norman Parkinson, 1982 - via x
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moodyskeletonart · 29 days
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Lupin III screenshot redraw
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astromechapunk · 10 months
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David March Fleming Tron Cosplay
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therobotmonster · 30 days
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What do you get when the 6 Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman decide to pull a Brady Bunch and a Johnny Quest at the same time?
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You Get the Bionic Six.
Impossible to find streaming in high quality anyplace, but a bunch of eps in pretty decent quality hit archive.org.
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Decent animation, an earworm themesong that I am so frightened of I muted it while taking its screenshots. The Bionic Six is a lost 80s gem. Not like, a diamond or a sapphire, but like, at the very least a citrine, or a really nice tiger eye that's all polished up in a riverbed? Anyhow...
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I joke about the premise. It's not Steve Austin, it's Jack Bennett. It's not Jaime Sommers, it's Helen Bennett. It was a serial number filing but it absolutely is someone's 6MDM and Bionic Woman fanfic where they got married and both had and adopted a bunch of bionic kids.
The story, however, involves Jack (already bionic) and his family getting irradiated by an alien spaceship (the 80s was a hell of a drug) in the Himalayas, with the family going comatose except for Jack, thus requiring the family's upgrades.
This explains why a bunch of children would be turned into cyborgs, but it does not explain why those upgrades came with superpowers. That seems to be down to the grandpa-figure of the group, Professor Dr. Amadeus Sharp Ph.D, which, I gotta say, that's a chef's kiss cartoon character name right there.
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Putting both Professor and Doctor in front of your name is exactly what I'd expect from a guy that's like "these children are comatose... I think I'll give that one the magnetic repulsors..."
As for the family proper, you've got Bionic-1/Jack Bennet, the literal team dad who suspiciously has all the bionic powers you'd expect from Steve Austin, with a touch of Reed Richards gray on the temples.
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You have, ahem, Mother-1/Helen Bennett, who doesn't have the Bionic woman's powers because they'd be redundant. But she is a lady in an 80s team cartoon so she's got... say it with me folks... psychic abilities!
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Also, if I had a nickel for every brunette be-bobcuted supermilf in a red jumpsuit named Helen I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it does lead to some obvious crossover concepts that the r34 community have thus far failed to provide. I'd commission something but, as established, I've only got the two nickels.
She also stands out by having a codename that is calculated to make villains deeply uncomfortable with using it, thus putting them on the back-foot. Just takes every deathtrap situation to a weird place.
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Their (at least initially) biological children, Sport-1/Eric Bennett and Rock-1/Meg Bennett establish the pattern of there being a bionic kid for every interest. Sport-1 has magnetic attraction-repulsion powers, and uses lamposts like baseball bats all day, every day.
Rock-1 was literally designed to be cartoon Cyndi Lauper and has speakers built into her shoulders for sonic attacks. She is also super-speed runs the fastest.
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IQ/J.D. Corey is adopted, and doesn't do the normal naming convention. He's an unusual character in 80s toon terms, as he's both the smartest member of the team (per the codename) but also has the most powerful super-strength. You don't get the smart AND strong combo that often, and you'd expect the Sport-1 to be physically strongest but it seems he's more the Mario of the team.
Karate-1/Bunjiro "Bunji" Tsukahara is a foster kid who got dragged into all of this, and has both the most greatly enhanced super-agility and also actually knows how to fight without powers.
They also have a robot ape named F.L.U.F.F.I. who wasn't in every episode.
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The story structure is an 80s toyvertoon take on Johnny Quest, with the whole family having toyetic super-powers and vehicles, and instead of a cavalcade of one-off baddies, you get a recurrent cast lead by Dr. Scarab, who is Sharp's brother, and is after Sharp's superior bionic knowledge.
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Mad science, not even once.
I have vague memories of Scarab's pursuit of 'trionic' technology, which assumed both that the 'bi' in bionic was for 'two' (reasonably understandable assumption) and that that if two was good, three was logically better, while never really establishing what third thing was being mixed in (baffling even to my childhood self).
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On top of his drone robots, called "Cyphrons" (not Cylons, Battlestar Galactica Lawyers, cyphrons), Scarab had a host of modified goons, most of whom where combinations of dumb, strong, and ugly.
The main stand out being Madame-O, who is a cartoon femme fatale of the classic variety, who punctuates her sentences with 'Darling', uses a harp to shoot energy blasts, and can disguise herself as other people, because why be good at one thing when you can be confusing at several?
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The animation is pretty good for the time period (It was a TMS animated show!) and it has that weird mix of self-aware and totally earnest that makes 80s cartoons fun.
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It was, like most of them, an advertisement for action figures. In this case from LJN, the gimmick of which was they were G.I.Joes that were mostly made of die cast metal. A lot of the characters were pretty chunky, to the point that a FLUFFI could be bring down an assailant if you chucked it at 'em just right.
Oh, and the whole family could join hands to pull of Deus Ex Machina bullshit. It's a trip.
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Go watch ya some cartoons.
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gazzarrigirl87 · 5 months
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I hate myself for lovin’ you 💔🎸
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alewave17 · 7 months
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ARISE, RODIMUS PRIME
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lightspeedhunter · 9 months
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WHAM! Photoshoot for The Face (november 1982)
Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael
"Encouraging unemployment, badmouthing mariage, which sacred institution will WHAM! assault next ?" (Marek Kohn, The Face november 1982)
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mikeneedsadrink · 11 months
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I've had '80s Noir and Cassette Futurism on my mind a lot lately, so why not make a retro game of it?
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You're a private investigator for a large security firm. A client is receiving death threats after witnessing crimes committed by very high-profile people. The firm's job is to keep this witness alive and gather evidence to support their story. You've been assigned as the lead investigator, and as such, your life may be in danger as well. Your employers have permits and licensing for a variety of NFA items. Basically, if something is sold to law enforcement agencies, your employer can get it for you.
Choose your weapons for this role: sidearm(s), long gun(s), any specialty weapons you might think are relevant. For the aesthetic and spirit of this scenario, they need to have been made or imported in the 2020s and a continuation or reintroduction of a weapon produced and available in the 1980s. What modern upgrades and accessories would you add? Custom work is encouraged.
Examples: ARs, AKMs, CZ 75 series, Beretta 92 series, and many revolver models all predate the 1980s and are still made and sold, so their modern versions are all on the table. Likewise the GP100 and SP101, Glock series, and the Desert Eagle were all released in the 80s and still made today. Similarly, the Lionheart LH9 is a currently made pistol based on the Daewoo K5 (itself released in 1989) and also an option. These are just some examples and many more options exist.
Choose your weapons, grab a pair of shades, pop that collar, and keep your client alive. List your choices or go full writing prompt if you want.
Tag some friends and use the "gunblr game" tag so we can see your post.
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drewbadger68 · 1 year
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Labyrinth. 1986. ♥️♥️♥️
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oldfuturisticrebel · 4 months
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thegroovywitch · 1 year
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Jimmy Page performing with Santana at Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany on July 1, 1980.
Led Zeppelin played the same venue on June 30th and had a day off before travelling to Manheim as scheduled on their 1980 Tour Over Europe.
bootleg: (x)
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gingerbaci · 2 years
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Cybill Shepherd - via x
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deepdreamnights · 1 year
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Safari City Rocks (1987)
A Buzby-Spurlock show from my childhood that lasted for a single season, which got into syndication thanks to each episode being chopped up into three parts and served up as a single programming block with Milon's Secret Castle and old reruns of Arnie Dillo as "Arnie and Pals"
Sadly, much like Kidd Video, Safari City Rocks will likely never be seen in streaming releases due to music licensing.
You all should know this by now. It'sa Midge!
Prompt: a <animal species> anthro wearing 80s teenager clothing, < hero or villain>, high-tech lair in background, from 1985 cartoon animated series, Sunbow animation, TOEI and AKOM, in the style of 1 9 8 0s saturday morning cartoons, cel shade, animation still screencap, vhscore, in the style of Thundercates (1986) and Jem & the Hologramss
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chiakikarasuna · 6 months
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