Cool Vintage Russian Sci-Fi cartoons

If you follow us on YouTube you would have seen these before, but if some of you losers do not, here are some really cool vintage Russian animations based on Ray Bradbury stories. If you don't speak Russian, hopefully you're familiar enough with the stories to at least follow along. Thanks to whoever first put these into the digital universe, we are but a vessel.

Trailer For Arnold Schwarzenegger's NEW Animated Series "The Governator"

YES! I hope this is real.

Everyone, Stop What You Are Doing and Watch The Trailer For Sean Connery's Comeback Movie "Sir Billi"

Great job, Sir Sean!

Malice in Wonderland (1982)

This truly frightening animated short directed by Victor Collins makes Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland look like Little House on the Prairie.

9, 10 never sleep again...

(via Extracurriculars)

He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special (1987)

Watch as Skeletor learns about the true meaning of Christmas...Jesus....I'm serious.

The Ninja Turtles are more awesome in Japan

In Japan, awesome things are never awesome enough apparently. That, or every person who makes decisions over there are on life-long drug binges. And why does everything in Japan have to turn into a giant robot? And why are their intro songs so...retarded?

SUPAAHHH MUTATION!

Classic Halloween Cartoons

They really don't make 'em like they used to. I was originally only going to post "The Skeleton Dance" as my all-time favorite Halloween cartoon, but I couldn't let it go with only that. Get pumped! Classic Halloween cartoons with Mickey, Porky, Popeye, The Beatles, Betty Boop, the original Tom and Jerry, Sylvester, and Donald. Not in that order.

And check out this sweet Disney history of Halloween treat!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25 Years in video!

Cowabunga dudes! The world’s beloved shellbacks turn 25 today, and even though I am convinced that franchise was created by the secret National Get Kids to Love Pizza committee, I’m super excited that /Film is reporting that there's a new live-action film on the way for 2011! While many may groan and whine about this ruining their childhoods, there's been a ton of Turtles crap released since the original films. There was the live-action series, animated series and CG film, which I personally have had no direct experience with (though I have seen that the live series introduced a female turtle named Venus deMilo, hawt, though the original creators kind of hate her). I think this news is great; the turtles haven't really ever left popular culture, and this could be a great chance to revive the franchise a third time. Adults who grew up loving the turtles can bring their kids and get them hooked.

If you’ve had some recent turtle exposure, let us know what you’re digging about the newer films or series. And until the 2011 film hits, allow me a moment to be the Rufus to your Wyld Stallions and take you back in tyme through the TMNT timeline, in video form:

Ah the series that started it all, including me trying to take out my brother with flying kicks and invisible nunchucks.



With absolute perfect timing, New Line released the series of live action films, the third one completely blowing chunks. Note the non-Japanese accented voice on Shredder in this trailer for the first film:



And who could forget the hit song by Partners in Kryme...







All three films are up on youtube, but are readily available on DVD. Holy hell, how did they make those awesome turtle costumes?! Here's how:



Extra treat: Barbara Walters interviews the heroes in the half shell:



I remember seeing the MGM Studio show in Orlando as a kid...



...but much more impressive in my mind, is that our very own Clarence caught them on tour with their bitching rock band! The costumes evolved tenfold by that point...



The next television series, the Next Mutation, apparently followed film continuity though it was never explicitly stated as such.



This series was followed by a second successful animated series in 2003, with a couple incarnations, including them time traveling, of course. And most recently, the dudes were in 2007's cgi TMNT to somewhat mixed reviews. I’m going to go ahead and skip those videos in favor of using this space for the first film poster. I remember seeing this for the first time and nearly pissing myself with anticipation. My mom surprised my brother and I by taking us for an opening day matinee after school, our homework could wait! God I miss that kind of childhood anticipation.



Sorry to tease you guys earlier with the Partners in Kryme video, but I figured at this point in the post, you’d either have given up and left or are ordering a shitload of pizzas and calling your friends over to watch the movies. If you’re in the latter group, play this for your friends when they arrive, instant party!

Partners in Kryme - Turtle Power

UPDATE: Thank You Clarence! He has painstakingly scoured the webs to bring you the same joys that he felt as a young prepubescent boy, ie here is the companion album to the Out of Their Shells Tour, link below! This album really has all the qualities of various early ‘90s pop music styles mixed with pizza and ninja lyrics shat out into 10 ridiculous tracks. Is it just me does that opener sound like a lost Bon Jovi tune?

TMNT - Coming Out of Their Shells (1990)

TMNT - Coming Out of Their Shells (LIVE!!!)

We could easily talk for days about all things Ninja Turtles, I gladly fed the original arcade game so many precious quarters of mine, but we’ll save that for another time.

Fire & Ice (1983)

This epic animated piece from Ralph Bakshi, of Fritz the Cat fame, rolled out during the barbarian craze of the early '80s. It's kind of just an extended episode of He-Man, but with a ton of butt cheeks. Example below:



The animation is pretty sweet, actually. Bakshi used a lot of rotoscoping and little to no shading which kind of makes the characters float gracefully over the painted backgrounds, neat. His career never really took hold on mainstream audiences, for which he blames George Lucas:

“I was doing Wizards for Fox at the exact same time George Lucas was doing Star Wars for Fox. Wizards was originally called War Wizards and George asked me to drop the word "War" from my title. I said that of course I would. Lucas opened up Star Wars three weeks after I opened up Wizards and he ended up in all my theatres. It didn't affect my career, it ruined my career. I think Star Wars is the world's greatest movie but I wish he had done it at another studio at another time”

Bummer. Sweet cover art though.



buy it here or you can find it all on youtube here