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War For The TV Toon Empire is here!
Rise and Fall of the 80s Toon Empire was just the beginning. After the toon crash of the 1980s, the rise of the new order began: The Disney Afternoon, Fox Kids and Warner Bros. Television Animation. But who would come out on top – the powerhouse Disney with its seemingly unbeatable slate of cartoons, or would Fox and Warners team up to challenge the Mouse House?
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War For The TV Toon Empire: How Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Battled For The Future Of Kids’ Television (Rise and Fall of the Syndicated Toon Empire):
"Fantastic book with insight to the television animation of the late 80’s and early 90’s. From the race cars, lasers, and airplanes of DuckTales, by way the sewers on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with an adventure with Mario, only to finish up in the"
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Rise and Fall of the 80s Toon Empire: A Behind the Scenes Look at When He-Man, G.I. Joe and Transformers Ruled The Airwaves (Rise and Fall of the Syndicated Toon Empire Book 1):
"A damn near perfect history book. It explains how these cartoons came about, why they were significant, and takes them at their own terms. Biographies are often hatchet jobs or hagiographies. Same is true with cultural histories, but this avoids that"
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Rise and Fall of the 80s Toon Empire: A Behind the Scenes Look at When He-Man, G.I. Joe and Transformers Ruled The Airwaves (Rise and Fall of the Syndicated Toon Empire Book 1)
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Many thanks for your insightful and thoughtful review. I hoped 80s Toon Empire would be informative for kids of the 1980s as well as those who hadn't
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“Basically, it was the equivalent of Star Trek II adding in a quick scene of Spock mind melding with Dr. “Bones” McCoy while saying “Remember” as a lifeline to resituate the doomed Spock in the third Star Trek movie, to tell audiences that there was a possibility of life after death for their fallen hero.”
― Rise and Fall of the 80s Toon Empire: A Behind the Scenes Look at When He-Man, G.I. Joe and Transformers Ruled The Airwaves
― Rise and Fall of the 80s Toon Empire: A Behind the Scenes Look at When He-Man, G.I. Joe and Transformers Ruled The Airwaves
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