• @ByteJunk
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    151 month ago

    Writer Cary Bates says that the Supermobile was created as a promotional tie-in for the Corgi Toys toy line: “In my opinion, whenever merchandising needs are dictating story content, the odds of any real creativity or inspiration are severely compromised”.

    Yah, we could tell…

    • jawa21
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      1 month ago

      In the '80s that was reversed. Most of the cartoons were created to sell toys

      • @SkyezOpen
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        121 month ago

        You mean the teenage mutant ninja turtles, trained to operate in the shadows, didn’t really need a blimp??

        • jawa21
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          61 month ago

          About as much much as Rainbow Brited needed a horse

          Or Liono needed a sword

          Or the Silverhawks needed existence

        • @Bytemeister
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          1 month ago

          Two things.

          1: People hardly ever look up

          2: They had access to the water mains, and probably spiked the city water with LSD before they took the blimp out.