Space Stallions!

[A Black Falcon]

It's supposed to be a parody ABF, not meant to be something you take seriously. As a parody, it captures all those old shows very well. Maybe you'd see all those perfectly captured ridiculous details a little better if you'd been allowed to watch anything but Transformers as a kid.

We didn't own a television until mid 1990, remember. I wasn't watching TV in the '80s apart from on vacation.

That doesn't mean I didn't watch any '80s shows -- I certainly loved the Ninja Turtles and watched a lot of the original Inspector Gadget show, to name a few -- but stuff like this, with groups of characters like that? No, I didn't watch those. Ninja Turtles was as close to that stuff as I got. Ninja Turtles, Inspector Gadget, DuckTales, some other cartoons I remember watching sometimes in like 1990-91 like BraveStarr or Count Duckula, not to mention the older classics like Tom & Jerry or the Looney Tunes... that stuff I watched. (And on that note, the Looney Tunes are unquestionably the greatest animated series ever, in my opinion; I've probably said it before, but I still believe it.)

Even with He-Man and Transformers, I liked the toys, but hadn't watched more than a bare minimum of episodes of the TV shows as a kid. I didn't watch the Transformers movie until my first year of college, for instance, and still haven't watched much of the TV series. But I did have some of the toys when I was little, and He-Man too, and liked them for those at least... Transformers toys were cool. :) The few episodes of He-Man I watched more recently weren't that great though...

Anyway, returning to these "group of heroes" shows, similarly, in the '90s, I had pretty much zero interest in the Power Rangers. I thought they were lame Ninja Turtles knockoffs but worse, pretty much. I also have never cared about superhero comic books. The few comic books I bought as a kid were mostly Disney comics stuff. Uncle Scrooge Adventures and Duck Tales were my favorite ones, I think. :)