Alright, good evening. Are you Cartoon addicts out there and get ready to dive into another amazing episode of the Cartoon Rewind Podcast. Of course, I am your host Frank and joining me as always on My Partners in Crime. And guess what? Today's theme is Rocky and Bowenco of the show. I had to go with Rocky and Bowenco, man. Alright, you guys decide who's who. Of course, you know I'm talking about Roli and the walk in the cycle, freedom of all cartoons, toys and just useless information.
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Now speaking about where to watch your podcast, we do have a new home and it's not just a new home but it's also our toy store and you can find us at CartoonRewind.com. Roli, how are we doing today, buddy? I'm doing amazing. I'm trying to remember Rocky Buuwinkel. Rocky was the squirrel, right? Rocky's the squirrel, flying squirrel. Yes, flying squirrel. Buuwinkel was a moose. Yes, the moose. But I only know Rocky. So I'm sorry, I only know Buuwinkel.
Hey Rocky, if you want to watch me pull it, wrap it up in my hat. Oh my God, that's right, that was the phrase. That's right, I forgot about that. But technically we all know that in this case Dwayne's the... He's Buuwinkel. He's Buuwinkel. Yes, he's Buuwinkel. How am I Buuwinkel? Yes. How am I Buuwinkel? Well, you're the tallest. Again, we go back where you're taller, I'm smaller, I'm shorter. Yeah. That's how it is, man. It's okay. Rocky's a little lighter skin. Rocky is great.
I forgot about Buuwinkel, he's darker. Rocky was great. He was great. I said lighter skin and then say white. Exactly. All right, so Roli, what are you watching today, buddy? So today we are watching Starcom, the US Space Force. You know, I don't remember the cartoon. I don't remember a cartoon at all. I know that Toy Guru has some information, but this was a very small series. Started airing back, so the first episode air in September 20th, four days ago, but in 1987.
And it only lasted for a whole 13 episodes. So the show was cancelled after poor ratings. It's pretty quick back then. Obviously, the tones did terrible down here, buddy. Yeah. Obviously, it was produced by my favorite cartoon company. Yeah, it's the Deak Animation, yes. And distributed by Coca-Cola Telecommunications. Yes. Coca-Cola apparently had a telecommunication company back in the 80s. Did not know that. Yeah, it was really weird.
Now, you were saying, yes, here it never was successful here in North America, but like you mentioned, from what I can read here, Europe and Asia is very popular. Yes. Why? Does anybody know why it was popular? I'm assuming because people overseas are not as picky as we are. I don't remember because what I remember from the toys, the vehicles were somewhat cool, but the figures are kind of like, eh. The figures were this big. Were they? Okay. I thought they were tiny.
I was thinking masked, but I wasn't sure. Like masked. They were like three, maybe two inches. Two inches like that. Yeah, they were small. The feature of the thing was you can take the vehicles and stick them to your magnetic stuff. You can stick them to the fridge, stick them to doors. Oh, nice. I don't remember that. I've never had any of the toys. Never. If you play one of the commercials, you'll see it. And I actually thought that this was the ones where you shot at the TV.
I was thinking the same thing, really. I was thinking the same thing. That's where you can shoot at the TV. That's what I thought, but no. Captain Faw, where the leader of the rebellion is the dude who was honest, watch nigger look alike as one of the power people. When we get the commercial scenes, we'll go. But let's start the car through now. Okay. We have a plot for our listeners who are not familiar with it. So just a plot of the whole series.
So the adventures of American astronaut per gate as they fought off an attempted invasion by shadow force, a nasty collection of humans and robots led by the nefarious emperor, dark. Sometimes they call them darky. Or darkness. Mr. Dark and the ladies, you know what the ladies called them? Sexual chocolate. I would say dark chocolate. Dark chocolate. Dark chocolate. Isn't that the nickname? Dark chocolate. No, his nickname is sexual chocolate. That's why you got confused.
Oh, it's sex chocolate, my bad. That's why you got confused. So just FYI, it's September 20th, 1987. If you guys keeping track, that was 37 years ago and four days to the tea. So Dwayne, do you know what the number one song in Europe was? Rick Ashley. It is Rick Ashley. Yes. They were going to give you up by Rick Ashley. Exactly. It was popular. Frank, number one song in America. Oh, that's easy. That's really, you did that really well. That's what I say. Yeah. I have no idea. I have no idea.
I have no idea. I think it was Hollywood. That's a good guess, but no. It's Whitney Houston. Didn't we almost have it all? No, no one? No. Okay. All right, but that was it. Just want to let you know this cartoon is actually 37. Just turned 37 years, four days ago. So you mean just Orlando? No, I'm 38. So I'm a little older. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Just a little. All right. I was 38 five years ago, so I got it, buddy. That's a lie. Yeah, it is.
All right, so you guys ready to watch the cartoon? Yeah. All right. So let's make it happen, Captain. Let's hit play. So it's Buck Rogers. You know, one thing I noticed, one thing I noticed, one thing I noticed from the recent, a previous cartoon podcast. If it's a cartoon we never watch, we don't really talk. I know because we're paying attention. You guys are there like the inhumanoids.
That barely, it's barely any cartoon because that once I removed all the silence, it was only a 15 minute, it was only a 15 minute cartoon. That's because we got into it, man. I know you got to stop to do that. But you got to admit so far, their graphics look good on this thing. Don't get fooled. Don't get fooled. Really? It's not one of those words of freaking, what's it called? Don't get fooled. The intro is better than the actual cartoon.
Yes. The intro is where you spend most of the money on it. That's why we last 13 episodes. And the ship looks cool. No, the ship looks awesome. I'm assuming the ships and since you were saying the figures look cool too. Now do the ships combine together? As I remember, they kind of do but not in the way you think. It doesn't look just as good as the intro, correct? It did not look as good as the intro. That's why they spend it on the intro.
It's not as bad as what I was expecting, I was expecting it to look like for freaking Gem. No. Gem was the ship, alright? No. You guys are absolutely right. Gem is ship. No. The ship. Stop sporting. We're going to have to do it. No, no, no, no, look. I'm going to drop those things on you, those mines. I'm going to add another Gem on our two watch list. And I can easily delete it. So I don't know what you're hating on poor Gem. It's just truly outrageous. Space mines. Is that what that is?
A space mine with eyes? And it looks like a face too. Look at that. Yeah, he's zooming in and everything. That's a smart mine. The smart ball. It is a very smart mine. As I say, let's see. And it evens got missiles dude. How cool is that freaking mine? I don't think it's a mine. I think it's like that robot from freaking Star Wars. Another one with the long legs. Oh, I know what you're talking about. I don't know the name, but yes. Yeah, me neither. Look at that. Well, the pole going.
It destroyed the station. So I'll take it to the state. Jellyfish. I guess this takes place in the future. Yeah. Time to go. Because they got freaking sea animals in the air. And not too distant future. The animals will belong in the air. Oh, and there's the mom freaking thing with Jackie protecting the kids. Jellyfish. Jellyfish, that's what it is. Check out the gilf. The gilf. That's his sister. And his mother. Right. I was having another one with the gray hair. That's the mom.
You've been watching too much. You've been visiting their website too much. Just with the gilf statement alone. The mom is good looking, man. She looked hot with the gray hair. This was your age. Unlike MJ. Even wasting his old age now. Yeah, unlike that Spider-Man cartoon when you call for MJ acuity. MJ is acuity. She's also like 12 in that cartoon. Stop it. She wasn't 12. I can tell and I can say something. I can say a small dog is cute. It's a little cutie. Oh my God, actually. She's so cute.
There's nothing wrong with that, man. You're just turning it into something wrong. Someone's offended. You got issues. Somebody's got a little defensive there. And someone's offended. All right. So this is a good news. This is one of those season one episode ones of the series where you did. There's no, they're not trying to retell the story. Nope. This is not what I figured this was the one that's going to that's going to introduce. Nope. This is the introduction to those four.
That's why the, that's why the, what'd you call that thing? The theme was for. I like the short offense for the uniforms. Oh boy. There you go. Look at him. It's a good thing. They did that in Star Trek too. Making a sexual. I'm just calling out something into there. Yes. In Star Trek, they also made the guys wear the skirts too. No, they didn't. Yes, they did. I can this in this in the 70s. No in the 80s. Oh, yeah. Back in 1987. You need to go get this.
So who's shooting missiles at this freaking man array? So I'm a little confused with like, does this whole episode just going to be about these sea creatures? No, they're not sea creatures. They're air creatures that look like sea creatures. No, I see the creatures is what I said. Oh, see. I thought you meant S E A. And how many missiles does this little Android carrier with them? It's more than one. That's right. They did drop like a hundred. I shitloaded them.
Yeah. Those missiles are powerful. No care. Yeah. Those jellyfishes. Those jellyfishes look more like tampons. There you go. So what's making a sexual? No one has sex with tampons. I bet you deal with that. You don't care. What's going on here? Those things are fast. I thought that lady said they were unarmed. Apparently not. That's not a weapon. That's a hard pool. Is that what that is? Yeah. Look at that. You know what she called it? Anantek is sleigh ride. That's what she got it.
Right in the vagina. There it is. It's going to move the base. I don't know what to call it. Jellyfishes. Those air creatures. Look at that. You're riding the waves, man. That's what you call anantek is sleigh ride. Yeah. Look, look, the base is going to fall apart. Half of it is. Of course it is. It's not supposed to go that fast. Yeah, these little jellyfishes can move. Yeah, no shit, dude. I don't know what to call it. Oops. Oh, well, we didn't need that piece. Yeah, you did.
That's the beacon. That's something in the case. There's our pool. At least it's realistic here. That's realistically what would happen. I don't know how they did that. How when the part of the base fell off and it just like. The robot. Yeah, the slow motion. Too bad there's like another hundred of those little robots. And poor grandma. Right. Grandma fall in. She messed up her hip. No, they lost power. They're surfing in the cloud. They're drowning in the cloud. Great time for a commercial.
I don't have a commercial yet. No, no. A cartoon commercial. Oh, How does it stand up in the air? The magic of writing. Trying to. Learn some logic in this thing. Now I know what an antagonist lay right is. I guess. You guys later if you guys need to know. Is it something. Is it something. Is it something. Is it something. Is it something. Something. Something. Something. They got no power. Well, the pace. I mean the base still has a little bit of power where. It's maintaining life support.
They are in. Gravity. That gravity is the opposite. Oh, they have gravity on a spaceship. Yes. Look at they have an iPad. Oh, it's one of those that bends, bro. That's flexible. Oh, the new, the future, the OLEDs. Yeah, bro, look at that. That's paper. Nah, the future, they don't use paper. I don't see one tree there. She knows. Oh, they only have an air for a day. That's it? Yeah, they don't have life support. Your brother is psychic. Hey, no, it's dark. No, it's not dark. That's not dark.
Is it darkness? No. It is not darkness, it's dark. Oh, it's dark. I thought it was dark. He looks more like, he looks like, what's that guy from the red pack? Sammy Davis Jr. Oh, Sammy, oh, no, yes. You look like the shirt one. Yeah, Sammy Davis Jr. You're going to say Sammy Davis Jr. Sammy Davis Jr. You're going to say Samuel Jackson, dude, all black people don't look alike. You said I was looking like, man, I can't believe it. Come on. See, I told you.
Okay, so this has to be freaking Space Force because they got the uniforms. There's an apple watch. So William was the first half all about the freaking, what's it called? The space station? Yes. Yes. That's why it was... Whatever this episode sucks, man. Yeah, that's why it was the last episode. You see why? Here we go, the spaceships on the moon. The wings fall down. What? Oh, they heard about those robots with the eyes. Yeah, he says the robots are slow, but the missiles are fast.
Why every cartoon, the black gentleman always needs to have a dark voice. I don't know. Just because you're black, you're going to talk like this. Yeah. You know, they stereotype back in the 80s big time. But you also, they have drinking moat liquor. Yep. Smoking on U-port. Going into black people smoke U-ports back in the 80s? I don't know. I don't smoke U-ports or how the fuck would I do it? Did you not have black people back in the 80s when you were growing up? Again, I don't smoke.
They say you do, but I thought maybe you would know. I see white people smoke U-ports. What are you talking about? Yeah, but they think they're black. That's why I'm asking the question. You can answer it and I'm not black. The answer is yes. Oh, okay. I went to McNichol and Highlander High. So yes. I don't know. No one knows what that means. That's okay. I do. All right. So they were in the moon, right? And they went to Jupiter. They were because that's where their station is at.
Okay. And they went to Jupiter. But they got there. Technically, they were taking like seven years or something. No, not with these ships, man. But they all have the same ships though. That's what I don't like about that. About this. They're all the same. It's like, who do I know who's who? You know what I mean? They remind me of the ships from Space Above and Beyond, the Hammerheads. Oh, great show, man. Great show. That is a good show. I would rewatch that if I had access to it.
Yeah, they're hard to find. Oh, so disappointed when they canceled that show. Why? Because it was a good show. Yeah, it was just getting good too. Yeah, you're getting destroyed. They're really huge ships though. I like the plasma beams. You know what? Their missiles are fast, but so are ours. Oh, shit, you get the catchphrase? That's it. Space Force. You're a muller. Damn, one bomb? That's it, bro. It's all the chains. We're Space Force. Oh, there's always a cowboy. Always.
There's always a westerner that talks like this. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, oh. Civil Hawks. Yep. Galactic Rangers. Oh, the guns are backwards. Oh, look, you saw that? The plasma guns turn around. And there's always a whip. There's a whip. There's always a whiner. Yeah. It's kind of hard to fly when your eyes close, bro. Open your eyes. Thank you. I don't think you got a fixed end. Don't worry about it. It's kind of a breakdown. All right, combine together. When do we see the giant robot?
The giant robot. Wait, the airplanes all get together and make a giant cannon. A giant? A giant what? A giant cannon. There you go. And they all got no more missiles. Their ships look like they attached. There's something missing to their ships. But that's what you need. I need to get a gun. Get a gun. Get a gun. Get a gun. You're gonna die. You die comfortably. Oh, man, what if something happens that you need to be able to run? You don't care if it's an emergency. You don't care? Yeah, it does.
Guess what? They want medicine in companies. Look, now they're out of oxygen. Just they're wearing their space suits. Oops. Hey, who makes a space station with no emergency regularity? The US. The US. The US. The US. The US. The US. The US. United States. Look at that. Look at that. Those freaking dark helmets. Freaking destroyed that. There are only hope to get rescued. They have two hours of oxygen left. Damn it. It'll be one. You were all. You're smart. You're smart.
It's a lot of huffin' and puffin' right now. Exactly. You're wasting oxygen. Oh, one of the, which we'll call it, Space Forces is the son. We talked about this when you called it, her's mom. Yeah. Oh man, all these, these cartoons look alike. That's the gimmick. So how they got attached to the magnet. That's the gimmick of the toy. Yeah, that's what deal was saying. Yeah. Take them out. Oh shit, there's a lot of probes. Yeah, that's a lot. So I wonder, they're running out of gas.
Yeah, nothing except for plasma rifles. Man, I'm so, the anticipation. I'm so excited. Here they come, here they come, here they come. Good thing they don't miss. Or somebody is shooting at it. Oh, somebody has a shooting. Oh, it's another ship. It's another Space Force. Oh, man. Oh, there's a bigger one. There's got more guns. Maybe they combine with that one. You and your kind of combining. Yeah. You still want to, you want to combine. I don't know why. Yeah, get the state on the brain.
Everything is cool when it combines like that, man. You know, you can't just sit there like that. You know, it's not it. It's not it. That's not a sister. That's not a sister. And the one in the gray suit is the brother, right? That's a brother. Yes. And that's his mom. And I don't want to talk about what they do afterwards. I don't want to talk about the publicity cat. There you go. There you go. All right. There you go, man. It's over. It is over. It went by pretty quick.
It's got it's got land vehicles too. Look, look, look, look, look, that one shift came off the main one. So remember the gap there. The gimmick is that they get the same amount of space. So remember the gap there. The gimmick is that they get magnetic. So they're going to they're going to they're going to touch somehow. Yes. So the most unusual aspect of the Starcom toy line was its use of magna lock technology. The action figures had tiny little magnets implanted on their feet.
Not only did this allow them to stand on the vehicles and place it without the falling off, but also activated devices on the play sets. For instance, one place. If one place a figure on the elevator. Okay, Dwayne wants to show you instead of me talking about it. They're fighting to save the earth. The Shadow Force has a new airborne threat. The Shadow Parasite Attack Fighter. A one man gunship with a weapon system that can blast anything out of the air.
Almost anything. Starcom's new F-1400 Starwulf can knock it down. Starwulf high speed high performance fighter that powers open to take on anything. Shadow can ditch out. Shadow Parasite Fighter and F-1400 Starwulf don't even need batteries. Figures and vehicles need full separation. I'm going to add this one into... Starcom in deep space. The Starman Explorer and Captain Ripple owner under fire from the evil Shadow Force.
The Starmax attacks enemy positions before returning to Starbase to refuel and rearm. Using Machina power and energy so advanced it works without batteries. The Starmax bomber part of the massive Starcom Battlefleet. From Coolico. Come on, that's... Don't tell me that was... That's not cool. Yeah. Especially now that I know that freaking thing in the back is for missiles. The bomber. The thing was a bomber. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I knew that when I was looking at the picture.
You can see there were holes. You thought it was the engine? I thought it was an engine, yes. But did you see when you press a button, everything opens up? How the canopy goes over? Yes. So again, I think that's just the slow opening spring mechanism. Yes. I'm going to agree with you on that one, buddy. And it pops slowly open. And that's what's so cool. But in the 80s, I would have loved that. So don't be surprised if Frank is screwing eBay for Starcom toys. He already did? He did.
I'm talking about buying. I'm not going to buy any. Once he saw my 100 bucks, he's like, yeah. That's a lot. He could probably get one for like 40. That's a lot. One of the smaller ones? Small ones? Yeah. You could get it for 40. Stop yelling in front of me. I'm going to go. If I'm going to buy this, I'm going to buy the... I'm going to do this right. I'm going to buy the bomber. That was a great selling thing. They don't even need batteries. Exactly. They don't need batteries. So, all right.
And I was looking at the toys. They're not that bad either. It's just the figures I don't like. The figure because they're so tiny, they're actually pretty good. And you put the mask on, they have accessories. He just didn't catch on. I like the six shooter vehicle. Share my screen for all of our YouTube watchers. And again, thank you for watching. There, the last one. It's only in Europe though. Oh, is it? Yeah, only came out in Europe. It's nice. I see why they call it six shooters.
They have three cannons in the front. Plus, technically, they mislabeled it because there's three there. And then it has duals in the back. Now, I'm wondering, does it all open up? Because that'd be kind of cool. I know though. I know that one part by the way, that's in the middle of the wings behind the cockpit. That opens up. Yeah. So, I don't think there's a lot of pictures now. But that's kind of cool. And it's a... That's cool. Vehicles too. I know. I'm sorry, land vehicles, I should say.
Yeah. So, the standard ship is this one. It looks like. Yes. Poor guy barely fits in it. And we saw the commercial where it all opens up completely. So, you can close it up. The wings fold. I think it runs on springs. Just wind it up and it goes? Well, no, you fold it and it locks in. And you push a button and it opens up slowly. I think. This is the one we just saw right now. That was in episode. Yeah, that one was cool. The bomber.
And there's a spot for it on the top next to the... between the cannon and the engine where the other ship can magnetize. The little gray spot. Yeah. I see it. Yes. That's a nice ship. Again, I don't know why I didn't like this toy. Maybe because by the time I realized it was out, it was already canceled. Maybe. I'm going to say the same thing for myself. 13 Sundays. Doesn't take that long. Yeah. I'm assuming this is one of the bad guys. Yeah. See, all these weapons can open up.
This is so random. This is so rare that most of these toys don't even have that many pictures. Look at the... Yeah. Look at the... This is a... Where is it? Shadow vampire with Captain Mace. You know the Star Max bomber, which is the longer one? That one's going for once a week. The longer one? That one's going for $164 on eBay. Damn. With a box? No box. No box. No box. No box. It looks like it has everything though. And it looks in good condition. Absolutely. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
Well, if you're a fan though, come on, if that was your fan, if that was your cartoon, you would have totally... That looks like a reverse his tank. It does look a little bit... It looks like the remake, the one when G.I. Joe, the live action tank, his tank came out. All right. But... You know what, I found another one that's more complete for $157. Yeah. Yeah, this one, yeah. The other one was missing something, some stuff. Look, this one is dual jets. There you go, for the twins.
Dual jets, apparently no one's on this one, because I don't see anybody sitting on that one. Motorized change, no batteries need it. I know parents love that. Coleco, Coleco vision. I don't know, I just saw that Coleco, like really, wow. And the toys were made by Coleco, and the cartoon was made, distributed by Coleco. This is, 80s was a wild time. Everyone had their hands into something. Something. All right. But I think that's it for the toys. Like I said, the action figures were okay.
Look, they all had like little accessories, they all had a backpack with a little tube, come on Frank, you love the tubes. You love the tubes. Hey, that's what makes it sci-fi and futuristic. The tubes, not in a helmet. The tubes, right? The tubes in a helmet. I thought, I think it's cool. All right. So, Frank, you're the best at this. You want to share our rating system? Of course. All right. So our rating system goes as followed.
We got rewind, which means it's a good watch, value for the episode. And for the entire series. That's what a rewind means. Then we have Fast Forward. And Fast Forward, you didn't like the episode, but you're willing to watch other ones in the series. And then of course, we had the dreadful eject, which means it is bad. We got to skip it. It's horrible. It falls down the same line as Joyce or Jesus, the world warrior in gem. You know what I mean? That's where it falls under.
So, D, what are your thoughts? Read the hat. The cartoon rewind podcast. Star com eject. Ah, eject. Like I stated in the first thing, they spent all the money on the introduction, not enough on the story. Because this could be a good cartoon if someone writes a good story. They never fleshed out the villain. They never fleshed out the heroes. They just wanted to sell toys. That's all this was. This was a cash grab toy thing that only lasts for 13 Saturdays. But it's an eject.
Sorry. Okay, now I get it, buddy. I get it. All right. Really? I'll go next. Sure. And then of course, you can close us off with the review. I actually am going to give it a fast forward. I wasn't that thrilled about the episode, but I am curious to look at another one. I am curious. And that's the only reason why I'm giving it a fast forward. That's me. Well, in the words of the great Patrick Swayze and the movie ghost, I want to say ditto.
No. So yeah, so for me, for me, I'm just like behind you. Exactly. I so more next play. Yes. So for me, it's a fast forward as well for the same reasons. The episode itself. Prating on this episode is, is not definitely not. I can't say it's a rewind, but I would want, I am interested in watching another one. I wouldn't be opposed to it. I probably watch a couple more. And then by then I'll be able to make my judgment. All right. Well, guess what that wraps. And that's a rapper today.
I should say outside my brain just went completely blank there. And that's a rapper today show from all of us at cartoon rewind. A huge thank you for remembering to show us some love with a like, hit that subscribe button and stay connected on YouTube Spotify, Apple podcasts. Or you know what, wherever you watch your podcasts, don't forget to catch us on Instagram. And tick tack for even more amazing cartoon clips. And until next time, stay tuned by cartoon. Peace.