Joe: A Real American Hero beat them to the punch, along with the first unabashed success of the model, Filmation’s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, which set the stage for daily episodic comic-books-come-to-life adventure that earlier generations had to settle for once a week, on Saturday mornings. The Transformers wasn’t the first toy line to get a weekday, Monday-through-Friday syndicated time slot on stations across the country Sunbow Productions stablemate G.I. But when I was eight years old, I lived through something just as terrifying – the real 1984! As it turned out, it was only terrifying if you were an adult, helplessly spectating as evil corporations engineered the greatest propaganda machine with the most heinous ends imaginable – persuading your children to purchase toys based on cartoons they watched on TV.Īnd let me tell ya, the corporations won that battle, thank god!
But there was more than meets the eye…especially if you were in the target audience.Įndless war, brainwashing, the surveillance state…it sounds like Orwell’s 1984. You thought it was a giant toy commercial, and it was.
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