D&D General Poll: Did you watch the D&D cartoon when it was new?

[Sacrosanct]

Most of them, yes... effective toy ads, too, unfortunately for my parents.

You should have grown up poor like me, and you wouldn't have to worry about getting those toys

 

[ezo]

You should have grown up poor like me, and you wouldn't have to worry about getting those toys

LOL, well I wouldn't say we were rich by any standard... but my dad worked all the over-time he could get and it helped pay for my toys. Great guy.

 

[GreyLord]

Simple, random poll question.

If you watched any part of any episode of the original Dungeons & Dragons cartoon during its original run in your home country, the answer is yes.

If you've only seen it after its original run in your home country - in syndication, on home video, online, etc. - the answer is no. (If you've never seen it at all, the answer is obviously also no.)

Feel free to elaborate on your first impressions of the original D&D cartoon below!

Is this a subtle way to see how many old people are on this forum???

On the question...I actually really loved the show. Even as an adult I enjoy Cartoons, and though I wasn't as old as I am not, I still enjoyed it. (To be honest, I enjoy some cartoons as an adult, others I found rather boring. During that time period I remember I wasn't all that keen into some of the Japanese oriented cartoons that came out in the West such as G-Force, and I found the original He-man run extremely droll even though the idea appealed to me, so I suppose that can put it somewhat into perspective in that I still enjoyed the D&D cartoon despite other cartoons not exactly entertaining me).

Call me wierd, but I still enjoy a good cartoon today!

 

[DarkCrisis]

Yup. But it was just a cartoon to me. I wasn't aware it was part of a larger product.

 

[Zardnaar]

LOL, well I wouldn't say we were rich by any standard... but my dad worked all the over-time he could get and it helped pay for my toys. Great guy.

Rich kids got the big ones. Omega supreme, Metroplex.

 

[JediSoth]

At the time, I absolutely loved it. I never missed an episode if I could help it, even if it meant skipping other things I might otherwise have been interested in (like a Cub Scout outing to an Air Force Base). My friends and I invented stats for the weapons of power. My ranger HAD to have an energy bow!

Not that we knew what we were doing, or what game balance was, or gameplay and story segregation for that matter...

Watching it again now, as an adult, it's chock FULL of '80s cartoon cheese and doesn't hold up as well as some other cartoons of the era (and earlier), but it's still enjoyable. At the time, it was the ONLY D&D media out there apart from the Endless Quest choose-your-own-adventure books (which I devoured like addictive candy).

 

[ezo]

Rich kids got the big ones. Omega supreme, Metroplex.

Or middle-class kids with hard-working parents and who did summer jobs to make money for themselves?

My avatar of lawn mowing is accurate for when I was a kid as well as now I'm an old man.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

FYI: for the purposes of this poll, if you watched it when it first aired in the UK, that would be a "yes".

It was on the TV in the common room when I was at boarding school, but I was in the sixth form and had my own study, so I didn't really sit down and watch it. I was aware of it.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

With the arrival of the videogames the toy industry hasn't been the same. LEGO and Playmobil have could survive better because they aren't too linked to only one franchise.

I would bet Hasbro wants a reboot of the show, this time with that Japanese-origin cleric.

One of its virtues is the relative originality. Each episode was like to be in a different zone, and there was more diversity of villains and monsters. There was a level of surprise I can't remember in other cartoons.

The cartoon show of Conan was to sell Hasbro's action figures.

Before Michael Bay's productions the franchise transformers was relatively forgotten.

Hasbro has got some experience in the animation industry. The reboot of "My Little Pony" worked very well, even better than G1.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I enjoyed it well enough at the time, but I was a kid and my tastes were different than they are now. To me it doesn't really hold up, so I don't any nostalgia or other benefit from it being returned to prominence lately. From my perspective it's just another marketing gag.