Why do cartoons “made solely for selling toys to kids” have more heart and soul than everything crapped out today?

>>making cartoons out of lust,

Does that include all the lesbo ship cartoons we have now?

Get better taste. Modern stuff is just “DUDE THIS CHARACTER IS GAY“, retarded lore, bad life lessons, and bad storytelling.

Because it wasn't calarts

>retarded lore, bad life lessons, and bad storytelling.

You sure you're not describing 80's cartoons?

Gravity Falls destroyed cartoon

I still believe it’s all CNReals fault

nostalgia
they were shitty cartoons then and they're shitty cartoons now

>Toyetic designs need to be physically appealing and interesting to sell toys
>Characters have very well-defined archetypal roles
>Pure good vs evil worldview, while not how things work in the real world, makes everything feel epic, and the villains can truly be despicable in a fun way
>Combining magical fantasy elements with futuristic sci-fi elements makes it feel like anything can happen
>Although they had poor animation, the human characters were realistic-looking anatomically
>Although they weren't really violent in the sense that people were rarely hurt or killed, characters wielded guns and swords which is a no-go now
>Men were manly, women were feminine (although they could still be badass)
>Positive role models who kids could look up to
>Racial diversity without politicizing it

They weren't any good though

Comic book writers from when comic books where good wrote the backstories, giving the cartoon writers a good template. They often used simple troupes filled stories that allowed characters to shine and sell figures

because your nostalgia googles are weld into your skull, only Beast Wars managed to be toyetic and be a good show at the same time at least in the west

Because they were made by people and for networks who were still convinced that deregulation was going to be reversed and that there would be a strong educational requirement in children's tv again in future. They needed shows that were about something other than just the preposterous toys and wrote them on that basis in the hope that, if Reagan lost in '84 and ACT was repealed, they wouldn't have to stop broadcasting suddenly or take a huge hit on advertising revenue for lack of modern content and smaller audiences.

Again, especially toward the end of Reagan's second term it looked very much like he'd shit the bed and things might flip to a Democrat president. As it was, Bush senior got in, but both houses ended up Blue, the traditional way US voters ensured that they didn't get too fucked by the two party system. By then it was clear that some of these shows were harmless - ACT wasn't great, but it hadn't created a nation of drooling moron children - and very popular, and as a result good for the economy. So ACT stayed, more or less, but the cartoons eventually drifted away from where they'd been in 1981.

>Combining magical fantasy elements with futuristic sci-fi elements makes it feel like anything can happen
I remember thinking the first Ben 10 series was doing it right, like a classic Saturday Morning cartoon, with villains of the week. It had magic, aliens, mutants and who knows what else without wasting time explaining everything.

Positive. Name one bad life lesson from G.I. Joe.
I'll wait.
I'd argue it was AT.

Positive. Name one bad life lesson from G.I. Joe.
I'll wait.
I'd argue it was AT.
I wasn't born in the 'Eighties. I was born much later on. I have no nostalgia for those cartoons,

Nonsense from 40 year old nostalgiafags with bad memory. I'm 45 and I distinctly recall thinking that these shows were shit when they were coming out. I mean you don't have to be blind to notice the difference between the animation in the Macross movie and the transformers TV show

>I have no nostalgia for those cartoons,
then you have a chronic case of shit taste with symptoms of delusion

because kids play with toys... and the shows are just ideas for a narrative to initiate playing?

jfc it's not rocket science. kids aren't exactly great at coming up with good plot ideas on their own but they are great at parroting what they see.

my own son is 4 now... he does it and so did I back in the 80s.

>the animation
Transformers was still more fun, and the show was more fun than the movie.
Also didn't remember an episode of the show, rewatched it recently and it was alright until the movie.

>T.likes Steven Universe and Owl House

This. Simple, positive stories. Good vs evil, good wins. Positive role models, without being hysterical or overtly political.

Except I mentioned Beast Wars in a previous post, which is a good show
Also the only good thing about most of the show's in OP's pic were the villains which were more cool than the heroes

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>have more heart and soul
They don't. Go rewatch them.

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