Saturday, February 10, 2007

On today's Cartoon Saturday we want to mention Silverhawks. It was produced by the legendary Rankin Bass, the folks behind almost every noteworthy christmas special except A Charlie Brown Christmas. They also did Thundercats, which was far more successful. We honestly don't remember watching Silverhawks and we don't remember what it was about (although cybernetic bird people in space seems to be the answer). We did enjoy some of the action figures, which tended to be marked down a lot. The villains in particular were conveniently of a size that made them fun to pit against the World's Greatest Super-Heroes that made up the Super Powers action figure line.



That green guy, offered as part of a lot with some mule-man, was a favorite. Not that the JLI didn't take him down, of course (but Super Powers Green Lantern had to be careful around the spinning blades...they are yellow you know).