I remember loving this show as a kid but you're absolutely right, it does not hold up. This is the series that established for me that 80s kids cartoons weren't allowed to have characters die--unless it was from a drug overdose. The War on Drugs was so important in the Reagan era, it was worth scaring kids shitless to get across the message, "drugs are bad, m'kay". (But guns, missiles, plane crashes and killer robots are totally awesome you guys!) The only show from that era that holds up for me is G.I. Joe, and mostly because the writers clearly knew how ridiculous their plots were, and frequently lampshaded it.
The only exception was Robotech, which (as per the anime series it was redubbing) had several deaths of key characters.
Urh said:
L'Oreal? What the hell would a cosmetics company want with an animation studio?
CORPORATE AQUISITIONS
ARE
WEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDD!!!!
Around the early 90s, neoliberalism slithered its way into governments around the world, and the traditional regulations on corporate mergers and acquisitions were gradually relaxed, so you ended up with liquor companies buying music companies, movie studios merging with internet start-ups, home electronic giants buying movie studios, ten guys controlling all the news in the English-speaking world, etc.
Did you know L'Oreal is owned by Nestle? Those magnificent bastards! After their chocolate gives you acne, you'll have to buy their coverup!