I just found another thing to put in my letter.Thank you so much! I never saw this before, and I wish they could do this again.
) for the masses to see! All I can tell you for now is that the content I've stumbled upon so far is great, and has yet to be uploaded by anyone. Off of the top of my head, this is what I recalled seeing months ago: And to think that there still might be MORE on some of the later tapes (I hope). I pray that I'll be able to share all of this goodness with all of you in the near future, but it'll be a long, painstaking and delicate process (considering I lack any hardware to even transfer this stuff to another medium, much less upload them to the 'net) so now that I've dropped this bombshell of an announcement, please remain patient and well........stay tuned for updates.
)DAMNIT! Looks like I'm a day late. Oh well, I guess it's the "thought" that matters......
This week not only marked three long years since I first registered here at the "Toon Zone" forums, but more importantly marked three years since I created this great thread. Over the last couple of years, and I'm honestly not trying to "toot my own horn", this thread has had somewhat of a big role in developing the prescence and documentation of the "Old-School", '90's Cartoon Network; specifically its "technical" side such as promos, commercials, station idents, bumpers, programming schedules and whatnot. Through the efforts of myself and many who've regularly (and irregularly) frequented this thread over the years, we've also helped clean up or add to some of the inaccuracies of pre-existing sources for old-school CN such as "The X Bridge"'s "Toonami Timeline" and the Wikipedia article on Cartoon Network. Most notably, and coinciding with the advent popularity of YouTube and the like, long-lost CN promos, ads and ID's that haven't been seen since the 1990's were once again available for the masses to view, and some big proponents of this has been guys such as "Kevin" "abwayax" (who later created his own old-school CN site, "Operation Time Capsule"), "rksexy2finger", "cbsfan" and others I can't remember off the top of my head. Not to mention, it was early on in this thread that the famous CN "10th anniversary tribute" video originated (I forgot who was it that provided it, but that post has long since been deleted from what I see), which I subsequently uploaded to YT one of the first videos on my "SuperAdventures" account. Two years and over 300,000 views later, its safe to say that its been a success.
Long story short, a lot of great things and a lot of great discussions and reminiscing both occured and came from this thread, which in turn led to people achieving and contributing more great, old-school CN-related things outside of it and so on and so forth!!! And whether on this thread, on Toon Zone or anywhere else over the 'net, I hope that the era of old-school CN continues to be documented and preserved. And its been done so up until now, thanks to...........no, sure as hell not me (I'm just the trivia/programming schedules guy), but to all you guys! Now, for the "announcement" which I may or may not have brought up here already:
As I've previously mentioned (to some), I've managed to acquire VHS recordings of all 85 episodes of "G-Force: Guardians of Space", which was CN's first-ever anime. All of these episodes were recorded off of the show's first and second runs on Cartoon Network, from January-July 1995. Better yet, a good chunk of these 11 tapes that I've acquired contain MANY TV commercials from not only that time period (although the selection of commercials that aired on CN at the time were really limited and repetitive) but..........you guessed it, from Cartoon Network themselves. That means promos, bumpers and ID's, many of which have yet to surface over the 'net! I bought these tapes off of an acquaintance back in February, and glimpsed through some of them throughout the month of March (albeit not much, considering each tape contained HOURS of recorded footage and commercials), but soon shelved them due to college obligations. Now that I've just come off a strenuous, yet very successful college semester, I'll have a few more obligations to tend to on my off-time, but will hopefully (and soon) begin the process of not only "cataloging" all of the footage and commercials I see from these tapes (seeing as "G-Force" never did contain any episode numbers or titles), but then find some way to record anything CN-related off of these tapes (and I assume that there's still quite a lot that I have yet to discover!) and upload them to YT (maybe even strike a deal with OTC
- promos for two of CN's then-new action cartoon acquisitions; "G-Force" and "James Bond Jr.", both of which premiered on January 2nd, 1995.
- a promo or two for CN's late-Friday night "Toonapalooza" block
- show-specific promos for CN's Saturday afternoon (and over-night) action blocks, first known as "Super Adventure Saturdays" (later re-named to "Power Zone", as seen on some of my later tapes)
- A handful of promos touting the now-legendary "World Premiere Toon-In" simulcast on President's Day 1995
- weekly, show-specific promos for the then-new "World Premiere Toons"
- various CN ID's and misc. promos, including some of which are already up on the 'net ("shifting checkerboard")
Man, I was on cloud friggin' nine while watching all of this stuff.
With that said, here's to a happy 3rd anniversary for this great thread, and thanks so much to the board mods of TZ for once again making this a "sticky" thread!!! (You guys won't de-sticky it anytime soon..........right?
wow, thats awsome, really!!! You are a lucky guy and good person to make this thread
Is on those tapes a "The Centurions" commercial/promo and a "Swat Kats" commercial/promo aswell ??
An obvious joke. I never even had the chance to see the show myself until a year or two ago when Hanna-Barbera put some episodes up on their online service, and I can tell you, that's one show that sure isn't award-wothy.
I'd look it up and give it to you if I wasn't so lazy, but last time I checked, Hanna-Barbera's offical website has or at least had a handful of classic cartoon s on there, ranging from everything from The Flintstones to Jabberjaw to Jungle Girl to the afore-mentioned Goober & the Ghost Chasers.What online H-B service are you talking about?? And how can there be an online H-B surface if H-B dissolved into WB like 7 years ago??
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Yeah, the deaths of both Hanna-Barbera founders are indeed tragic, isn't it? Also, I wish Turner would've stayed independent of TW, so CN might've continued their legacy as an all-ages animation network
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And not to mention the fact that TW tends to treat Turner like the plague! For instance, they make CN pay a hefty fee for any usage of Looney Tunes, Superman or any of their other assets, even though they're both under the same corporate umbrella. And to add insult to injury, TW also thinks of animation as some children's entertainment medium, even though it was meant to be enjoyed by everyone. There's really no point in having any ownership of Turner what so ever, if TW won't make any use of the assets they've acquired by gobbling them up
) to make it easier for new visitors to the thread. And I don't think I ever will, as Wikipedia has since beaten me to the punch. Besides, its very difficult to try and organize old CN events and programming, as we fans have only been able to go by VHS recordings and archived internet posts.Hey guys, I just finished a much-needed re-vamp of this thread's opening post, and made a few corrections to my other posts on the first page. Initially I was against editing years-old posts, as I felt that everything in this thread should remain "as is", but I figured that it's the least that I could do after this thread was once-again re-stickied (and I hope it remains that way!
Looking back, I remember how I initally began work on a '90's CN timeline that was inspired (yet to be more accurate and detailed) by "The X Bridge's "Toonami Timeline". I only ever got up to write about 1992-1994, and promised to continue the timeline the day after.......but never did.
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