Thundarr The Barbarian (4 Disc)

Thundarr is everything I hoped for. The packaging is nice and the discs are perfect. I highly recommend getting this.

So, there are only two reasons for you to be reading this review. Either (A) you are a big fan of the classic Thundarr cartoon and you want to know if this DVD release will live up to your expectations, or (B) you just stumbled across this item and you have no idea why there are so many 5 star reviews for a cartoon that you've never heard of. So, I'm going to break this up into two sections. Feel free to just read the review that you can relate to... Cuz who has time to read a review that talks about stuff that you already know?Never heard of Thundarr? Okay, picture this: You're 8 years old, it's Saturday morning and you're sitting in front of your TV eating a bowl of Frosted Flakes. After a few hours of Casper, Scrappy Doo and something called "Fred & Barney Meet the Schmoo" (not kidding), suddenly you're bombarded with images of the Earth being torn apart by earthquakes, tidal waves and general destruction. Then a voice basically tells you that 14 years from now, you, your friends and everyone and everything that you know will be dead.How's THAT for a cure for attention deficit disorder??That was basically the premise of Thundarr. The world has been destroyed and thousands of years later, life evolves, only now the world is some bizarre mix of dragons, mutants, wizards, robots, aliens, werewolves and descendants of the human race. I won't get into the specifics (there's alot of cool info on wikipedia and other sites) but lets just say that this cartoon was DECADES ahead of it's time. Just about everything that you can compare it to actually came AFTER Thundarr. Not only was this show original (forgiving the few things they borrowed from Star Wars), but as a Saturday morning cartoon? A cartoon with no talking dog or grinning monkey or wacky sidekick? This was a show where characters were actually threatened with death-- most of the time the word "doom" was used instead, but the intent was still there. This was a show were every episode featured recognizable landmarks that were now in burnt out, rusted, bent up, post apocalyptic ruins. In between all the other sugar coated, generic crap of the early eighties, how the heck did this show get on the air?? Well, somebody correctly assumed that kids (and teenagers) were smart enough to understand these stories... solid well written stories full of action, cool villains, excellent voice work and AMAZING cinematic music. No need for goofball characters or a half hour "lesson" to be learned. And no last shot of all the characters all standing around laughing like idiots. Okay, I think that happened on ONE episode of Thundarr... but hey, you gotta lighten the mood some time.This was a very different type of Saturday morning cartoon. And for the most part it still holds up. Character designs still look good, the animation doesn't make you cringe, and the stories are still interesting. In comparison, another early 80s cartoon, Spiderman and his Amazing Friends (which I used to love back in the day) is pretty much crap now. Old episodes of that show still air a few nights a week and they're just goofy now ("Video-man??? WTF?) But Thundarr is still, to this day, one of the boldest, most mature shows to ever hit Saturday morning. And yes, if you love animation, you need to get this DVD.As for you Thundarr fans, you're probably wondering the same thing that I did when I heard that this kick @$$ show had finally been released on DVD. I was thinking "what's this recordable DVD crap? Where's the REAL official release?" Well, rest assured, this is actually really well done, and if I didn't know any better, I would think this was any other professionally made DVD. I'm not a big fan of the cover art, but otherwise, it looks pretty good. The first menu you see is really generic but when you get to the episode list, you see the original title screen from each episode. That's pretty cool. So far, these appear to be the complete episodes-- no missing scenes or new replacement music. As someone else said, this is as good as it gets until Hanna Barbera figures out that we really need a remastered deluxe version of this series. There are some specks and dust that show up on several frames here and there (especially noticeable when I'm watching this on my PS3) but it's not enough to ruin the experience. This show will always be one of my favorite old school animated cartoons. Thundarr and Dungeons & Dragons were two of the few cartoons that were consistently well done, from one episode to the next. Several guys from Marvel Comics (including the King of comic illustration, Jack Kirby) originally worked on this show behind the scenes and you can see their dedication in every episode. Well, besides "Trial by Terror"-- I don't know if everybody was smoking weed or what, but that one episode looks goofy and cheap. And the evil wizard looks like a tool. But every other episode is 4 or 5 star.A friend once told me that any rich jerk can drive a BMW, but it takes someone who loves cars to drive a fully restored 67 mustang. I'll add to that, anyone can say that they love Transformers and GI Joe, but someone that REALLY has an appreciation for old school 80s animation knows, appreciates, and owns the complete series of Thundarr.So don't be a jerk. Get some Thundarr!

The Thundarr The Barbarian was a rare cartoon and can't be found on streaming. All of The DVDs on that collection was perfect except the final DVD. The final DVD had some imperfection in graphics of some of the cartoon. So it's good that it was under $20 including taxes or I'd be very unhappy with the purchase of it.

Blast from the past anyone who grew up in the 80's knows the routine a bowl of cereal and cartoons on abc starting at 6:00 am Best time in a kid's life. Can't Go wrong with 1980's cartoons

It took me over a year to sit down to watch this set and to my surprise???It had no sound?I thought it was my player, so input in other blu rays it played all of them fine. No sound on the thundarr set.I have never seen anything like it, too late to get an exchange or a replacement. So I am back on the hunt for a different set of this legendary show.

Awesome show, always wanted whole season

Yes, you see it. Five stars. Why five stars? Is this perfect? Was Thundarr the best animated series ever? Well the answers are no, it's not absolutely perfect and no, while it is among my favorite animated shows ever there are a couple that I'd be able to name off the top of my head that I do love a bit more dearly - but when you hover over rating four stars it says "I like it." Hover over five and it says "I love it." I cannot tell a lie in a review, thus I must click five stars. I. Love. This. Show.I watched the hell out of Thundarr The Barbarian when I was a kid. This was one of my Saturday Morning favorites. I don't think the image of the cruise ship sticking up out of the ground ever left my addled mind. Sorcery and super-science found their way into my imagination, and as I got older I discovered games like Dungeons and Dragons (another favorite cartoon, incidentally) and Gamma World and used a lot of what I recalled from Thundarr in those games.The animation is typical of the Hannah Barbera fare from this time period, but it has the same eerie beauty - especially in the background paintings - as some of the classic art from the old Scooby-Doo and Herculoids shows where the character designs were simple, but their world had amazing detail. The voice work in this show is quite memorable, with the late Bob Ridgely as Thundarr tossing out lines I still use in conversation to this day, like "Demon Dogs!" and "Ariel! Ookla! RIDE!"I have watched the entire series twice over now with my son, who will be four in June. He's probably the only kid in his preschool who knows who Thundarr, Ariel and Ookla are. He's also a big fan of He-Man and She-Ra, and watches the D&D cartoon with Daddy. I really appreciate the fact that this DVD boxed set allows me to spend part of my Saturday Mornings reliving my own childhood Saturdays with my son. The show holds up for me where some others don't - I can still watch it and enjoy it just as I did when I was in the single-digits of age.My only complaint is that there was a "Making of Thundarr" feature contained on a cartoon compilation disc that had only one episode of Thudarr on it, along with Mr. T. and several other cartoons. Why wasn't it included here?

This is one show, as a kid, I never missed. Even if they reran episodes. I always felt cheated because there were fewer episodes in the Second Season then there were in the first. After many years off the air either Boomerang or Cartoon Network aired them. I had recorded all the episodes on VHS. After seeing them release the series on DVD I had to get that as well.The episodes are all there and in Broadcast order. The quality is very good. At first I though some of the episodes were missing as I was binging the series. Then I noticed that there was an arrow on the bottom to select additional episodes on the disc that were not displayed when the menu screen first came upGreat series. Pick it and relive childhood memories.

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excelente lástima que no viene en español latino

bello, in inglese ma senza sottotitoli, nemmeno in inglese.

One of the few shows I liked as a kid that are still enjoyable. The writing is great, the plots are inventive, and the backgrounds especially are great.It looks amazing on Blu-Ray, and THERE IS NO REGION CODING, by which I mean I am able to play it on a Region B device.

The DVD set is perfect. I loved Thundarr when I was a kid. I am happy that I can share this series with my little daughter.