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'80s Aartoons are Returning to Action

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Following revivals of "Transformers" and "G.I. Joe," some other familiar animated heroes are coming back.

"Kids today, with their newfangled cartoon movies and television shows.

Just take a look at the projects in development, which include a third film about robots that change into vehicles called "Transformers" and a second film about an international strike force called "G.I. Joe." There's also a cartoon called "Thundercats" about cat-like warriors from a planet called Thundera, and a cartoon about mechanical lions that combine to form a robot named Voltron. Craziest of all, watch for a film about elf-like blue creatures called Smurfs that are all named after adjectives and use the term for their own species as a verb.

What happened to the wholesome animated entertainment of, say, the 1980s? Shows like, well, "Transformers," "G.I. Joe," "Thundercats," "Voltron," and "Smurfs"? Where are these crazy ideas of 2010 coming from?

Obviously, 1980s popular culture is playing a gigantic role in..."

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