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03/29/2004: Gummi Bears Toy Commercial.

Working on a new article now, should be up late this afternoon. Meantime, here’s some stuff to keep y’all occupied. For like two whole minutes.

Hey now, it’s the Gummi Bears. You remember the Gummi Bears, I’m sure. Pioneers of the “Disney Afternoon,” these furry folk fought giant ogres by drinking juice and making twboingky sounds as they hopped. It waddn’t no Duck Tales, but the show served its purpose. Merchandise ran the usual gamut, but probably the most popular items were the above shown plushies, by Fisher Price. Just your standard stuffed animals — no wacky light-up eyes or internal battery-operated voice boxes, but come on, Gummi Bears didn’t need to sink to such levels. Leave that shit for Goof Troop. Click here to download the commercial!

A handful of older X-E articles plucked for your perusal: Double Dragon Movie Review - Return of the Jedi Play-Doh Set - Hulk market, Hulk smash - Vending Machine Toys Feature

UGO and Columbia Pictures are doing a pretty cool contest for Hellboy — Click here if you’re into it. Grand prize is a vacation, a shitload of electronics and more Hellboy swag than should possibly be allowed to exist. These contests are legit and you don’t get spammed or frigged with, so I’ve got no problem sending traffic its way. Good luck, X-E usually nails one or two winners when I link this stuff.

The thing I liked about the Gummi Bears (whose theme is now stuck in my head) was that the guy did the voice of Rapheal did the voice of the artsy Bear (who lived in a cave away from the other bears)

I agree that Gummi-Bears was a decent cartoon, but it was another one of those that end the same. It’s all over when they pull out the Gummi Juice. Like He-man…It’s all over when he pulls out the sword. And my fav: Voltron - Bad guy menace. They five poeple investigate. Get whupped. Go back and get the lions. Get whupped. Turn into Voltron. Get Whupped. Vutlron pulls the sword, slices bad guy and half. Roll Credits.

Popeye: get pushed around, eat spinach, whup ass.
Pac-Man: get pushed around, eat energizer, whup ass.
Mighty Hercules: get pushed around, put on ring, whup ass.
Killer Duck: get pushed around, channel avian spirit through platinum feather, whup ass.
Tale as old as time….

Voltron sounds alot like power rangers. Monster comes. Rangers whupped. Rangers pull out superweapon. Monster whupped. Monster super sized. Rangers get zords of the month. Rangers get whupped. Rangers form the big man zord which is called whatever it is called that season. Rangers get whupped. Rangers get uber-sword swing it in the general area of the monster. Monster explodes. Lame joke. Roll credits

Originally Posted by Spiffy McKracken: "Voltron sounds alot like power rangers.":

The first time I saw an episode of Power Rangers I couldn’t believe that they had made a live action version of Voltron. Then I realized that it wasn’t a daring homagé. My anger knew no boundaries.

I was uber into Voltron. Does anybody remember the short-lived Voltron spin-off cartoon where all the humans had cars that transformed into a Voltron-like character instead of lions? If I remember correctly, it wasn’t a cheap rip-off, it was (in)directly connected to the original Voltron cartoon. Pass along any info if you remember….

OMG Pudding pops are back??? I can die a happy woman. Seriously, these are like my all time favorite confection. Awesome.

Look up Dairugger XV. Or Voltron of the Near Universe. Lion Force is Thousand Beast King GoLion. Now, I’m off to save the world again! (jumps into SlugZord and slimes away)

The first season of Power Rangers used an old show from Japan for the fight scenes. The yellow ranger (if you look closely) had a dick. Guess Trini was a transvestite

(hits patch of salt, skids out of control at 2mph, smacks into pretzel wagon, Zord dissolves into goo) ^&%$&*$ stupid second-rate sentai knock-off mecha!

Have to say, I was a big fan of The Gummi Bears. Always thought the show was kinda cool.

I can’t believe that pudding pops are back! I’m so happy! Why did pudding pops ever disappear? I missed them.

I wonder if there’s a guide to all the Japanese shows they mashed together to create the various seasons of Power Rangers. I always wondered about that.

Oh Gummi Bears. Yeehaw. I wish I could enter the contest, but I am Canadian and apparently I am allowed to enter almost no American contests. Same thing happens with Cosmo contests. Poor Canadian me.

…So THAT’S what that show was called! I could always remember scenes from the show, but not the name itself. I also have little figurines of Tummi and the girl with pigtails lying around here somewhere…

Eyeless, yes I do remember the Vehicle Voltron series, which frustrated me to no end because their giant Voltron robot was made up of 15 (!!!) vehicles instead of the usual 5 lions. If I recall there were 5 land vehicles, 5 air vehicles, and 5 sea vehicles. It was in many ways a frustrating show because first off, you had to learn the names of all 15 of those people flying the vehicles, plus various other cast members, and also because there was a guy on the show named Shannon, and I just can’t accept Shannon as a guy’s name.

Originally of course, VV was it’s own show in Japan that had nothing to do with Lion Voltron, but evil American television people decided to dub it and rename it in an attempt to cash in on Voltron’s success. I have a very vague recollection of an episode where the two giant robots teamed up.

I loved the gummi cartoon…I brought it up with my friends a while ago and just got blank stares…i thought I was the only one that watched it

Oh and about spiffy’s comment about Trini having a dick….I guess her name was supposed to be Tranny (like transvestite) but got messe dup due to bad TRANSlation….(har har)

When I was like 2 I used to think the Gummi Bears and the Paw Paw Bears were the same show. I had the collection of the figures from the Kellog’s promotion.

Gummibears was sweet (pun totally intended) Tummy was the man, even if he was a stereo type and (here comes the cross over) clone of Hunk from Voltron (and Broadway from Gargoyles was also a hunk clone.) Now as we all know Hunk piloted the Yellow Lion, was a mechanic, and ate alot. Originally Sven Piloted the Blue Lion , but at some point he sprained his leg and decided to open a hotel with the mice.

Now as for Vehicle Voltron, I was doing a little research (after fixing my own voltron) and Discovered that Vehicle Voltron was labled by Matchbox as Voltron I, where as the Lion Voltron was labled as Voltron III. Where is Voltron II then you may ask? well aparently it’s composed of 3 smaller humanoid robots, a red a black and a green bot. Don’t worry I didn’t remeber it either.

Hellpop! - Thanks for shedding a little more light on this Voltron situation. Now that you say it, I remember that there were sea and air vehicles, they just escaped my mind. I remember the team up episode too! *drools*

Ok just now checking out stuff. I sugest finding the Voltron episode "Fleet of Doom" which actually teams up the Lion Voltron and the Vehicle Voltron!

Earlier I was really psyched about the pudding pop reappearence, so I was using that store locator thing trying to find out where I could get some pudding pops. Turns out that the closest stores are around 80 miles away. I hate Indiana.

Apparently I used to watch Voltron a lot, but I don’t remember it. I had a toy of the Voltron though, it had a yellow rubbery spear thing I chewed on. I only remember that I watched it mostly because my mom still teases me how I had a crush on Keith and would stand there repeating the name… bah, I had bad taste as a four-year-old. I wonder how good it would be, seeing it nowadays…

Now that I have successfully, though unintentionally, changed the stream of comments towards Voltron…
In second grade I used to fight with a kid named Andy about who would be Keith when we played Voltron and I guess he was a little cooler because he usually did. I remember he had hairy arms. In second grade. Weird.

I like Homies. My left stereo speaker is covered with them, including one that prays to a massive cross and one with a pet iguana.

I can’t wait to make the trip home to Louisville this weekend- pudding pops! None in Bowling Green. pout. Are they only listed at Winn-Dixies everywhere else, too?

DynaMan definition of Sentai: Five good-looking young people from all walks of life.

Agent: I wouldn’t clasify the Japanese Spiderman as a chop job, per se, since it was a completely unrelated show that just used the name and costume. If they had redubbed the American episodes, on the other hand…well, then they probably would have been better.

Trippy, Hunk was a part of a long proud tradition in anime: the Stereotypical Fivesome. Leader guy, second in command guy, big guy, little guy, and girl. From Voltron, to Battle of the Planets (where you had Mark, Jason, Tiny, Keyop and Princess) and even Speed Racer (Speed, Sparky, Pops, Spritle and Trixie).

While looking at Richard’s link, I noticed that American companies are not the only ones who chop up shows.

I used to watch gummi bears all the time. I always liked the little guy, Cubbie I think.

As far as Jello Pops go it says the market down the street from me has them. Guess where I’m going after work tomorrow. I haven’t had a pudding pop since summer of 98. My old job actually had a vending machine that sold them. Man that was a cool job.

Gummy Bears was one of those shows that, like Smurfs and Shirt Tales, just got super boring after a while. I remember watching it a lot at first and enjoying it, and then eventually dreading seeing it after a while.

Voltron, on the other hand, I couldn’t get enough of. I was a huge G Force fan, and I always looked at Voltron like the follow-up to G Force in the evolutionary chain. I never saw the cartoon with the vehicular Voltron, but I remember a friend of mine having a number of the toy vehicles for it.

Tummi was Mr. Music’s Gummi. But, who was the Bad Guy’s voice? He was the same dude who narrated the Dragon’s Lair game. By the by, I just read somewhere that a version of the game is available for playing on DVD. When researching Battle of the Planets/G-Force/Eagle Riders/Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, be ready for the bizarre truth about Zoltar/Berg Katse. Two, two, two people trying to occupy the same space!

Holy shit, Lorenzo Music got around! Rhoda, the Real Ghostbusters, Garfield, and now the Gummy Bears? Wasn’t he also one of Charlie’s Angels? Or was that Shelley Hack…

I do recall "Gummie Bears." I watched it because I love bears, but like many of you, it quickly got boring for me, especially when put up with the much better "Duck Tails" and "Tale Spin." I think it’s partially because I’m not a big fan of the type of sword-and-sorcery fantasy the show was based around. Lorenzo Music as the big, goofy bear was awesome, though. He was my favorite character on the show.

I was also a "Voltron" fan back in the day, although we never had the toys (they were majorly expensive and kind of rare in this neck of New Jersey). I liked the red driver. I always liked any character with red hair or a red outfit, because red was (and is) my favorite color.

wow, i actually had all the vehicles for voltron 2. then i put the box in my closet and soemhow lsot most of them :(.

that and a really cool board game i ahd, with ships that shot little poker chips at each other and blew up.

Homie Clowns are authentic, but they look so corny. I much prefer the Homies that Just happen to Be clowns, Like the DJ one or the guy in the wheelchair….ummm… heh, ok so he’s not a clown, but he is my favorite Homie.

Gummi Bears: Just another treasured childhood memory the perverts of the internet have sullied beyond redemption. See also: Alvin & the Chipmunks, The Smurfs

Squee4242: Don’t forget Rescue Rangers. Oh, the humiliation Gadget has gone through, in fanfic and fan art, for no reason other than her being a mildly attractive anthropomorphic animal… raped, seduced, tortured, turned into a guy or a hermaphrodite, inflated, swallowed, stuffed, snuffed, and married off to a million sweaty thirtysomethings’ "fursonas" who show their love for the character by giving her the personality of a lobotomized Stepford wife…

Nevertheless, she’s still better off than the cast of the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, which never had a chance to be sullied like RR did: the furverts jumped on it as soon as it came out. Damn them for keeping this mediocre concept alive all these years.

Do I sound bitter? I once rescued a friend from a furry convention, and part of me died that day…

I haven’t yet posted to this one, and I really have nothing to say except that I loved Gummi Bears, and I was totally bummed that there never was an NES game.

I often daydreamed about a Gummi Bears action/adventure/rpg since GB had the kind of elements that were appropriate for such a thing.

I remember this Gummi Bears episode where Gruffi somehow gets mood swings, which are indicated by sound effects. If there’s a sound of a lightning strike, he turns mean, and if there’s a sound of a cash register ("Cha-ching!"), he calms down and turns nice. At least, that’s how I remember it.

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