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Cult Classic "Thundarr The Barbarian" Revisited

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Back in the 1990s - there was another cartoon series I enjoyed on CARTOON NETWORK namely Thundarr the Barbarian. It was sometime before the 1981 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon. Just take note that's before the very bloody Conan the Barbarian (1982) adult film. I'm going to revisit this cartoon for the heck of it. It's a very old cartoon as evidenced by the lower budget animation style. The story is set in a ridiculously distant time in 3994 A.D. In 1994, a runaway planet caused a drift and the world supposedly ended in 1994. Talk about the funny thing that I was watching it in the 1990s! The series created a world that combined science and sorcery. Who says you can't have both science and sorcery? I never thought that the show became before He-Man . In a way, Thundarr's design inspired He-Man's design. He-Man also combined science fiction to the sword and sorcery genre. The show only had 21 episodes. I mean freaking only 21 episodes. I decided to...