The Big Picture: Trolling The 90s

[altdoom]

I always hated the troll dolls I thought they were fuck ugly.

 

[roushutsu]

I remembered seeing these troll knock offs as a kid when I was at Toys R Us, but I missed out on seeing the shows, mostly because I didn't know about any of them.

As for the original Trolls themselves, I had like 2 or 3 and that was it.

 

[NinjaDC]

This puts Bobby Hills obsession with troll dolls in a new perspective....
Wait, how did that not get brought up in this episode?

 

[Something Amyss]

My personal favorite of these attempts was Hasbro's Battle Trolls, which reworked whatever boy-toy theme they could think of into Troll form. See: Count Trollula, Sergeant Troll, Trollclops, Punk Troll, Slapshot Troll, the Trollminator, &c.

And now, MLP fan artists are doing that with ponies...

As if MLP needs it. What little boy doesn't want to be an equine princess?

 

[Artemis923]

Fucking STREET SHARKS.

The nostalgia...IT BURRRRNS....

 

[Endocrom]

"Our stones of power glow!"

Catchy.

Your opinion has been objectively proven wrong by science:

How dare you mock a hard-working licensed contractor.

 

[MB202]

...I freaking loved Street Sharks. Still do.

Street Sharks... now THERE'S a TV series I watched like Hell as a kid... So much so I want to buy all the episodes on DVD or iTunes or whatever, but I can't for the life of me find any.

You're in luck, my friend.

The entire series was recently put on Amazon DVD. [http://www.amazon.com/Street-Sharks-Complete-Episode-Series/dp/B00AQ590IC/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=17OQGCK8OH0XW&coliid=IRH2P01J2UWCG]

Aww sweet, thanks dude!

I like how the moment Bob mentioned Street Sharks, the ENTIRE thread/topic lit up.

 

[Littaly]

I used to love Street Sharks. Also that other Ninja Turtles knockoff which was basically the same but with dinosaurs.

I haven't seen it since I was a kid, it was probably terrible, but ah the memories

 

[Robot Number V]

Um, Bob?

...Do you just KNOW these things? And if so, HOW THE FLYING HELL DO YOU JUST KNOW THESE THINGS???!!!

 

[Strazdas]

come on street sharks were AWESOME.

 

[Milanezi]

SHIT! I just remembered a most awesome cartoon, I'm not sure about the title though. I THINK it was called Pirates of the Dark Seas or something, it was a pirate-themed cartoon in a fantasy setting, there was this dark water that pull down and destroy every ship it touched and all, and then there was the good guy and I think he had some sort of magical sword or something. I first came to know by means of a SNES game, and then I saw it in either Cartoon Network or Globo (a HUGE Brazilian network)

 

[LetalisK]

O_O Holy shit, I remember the wrestling troll. I think my friend had one when we were really little and I loved how it had a gem on the front. Oh my god, this feeling of nostalgia is weird. Is this how MovieBob feels all the time? <.<

 

[Raikas]

I clearly did not spend enough time watching TV in the 90s, because I've never heard of 2/3rd of this stuff!

I grew up in the 90s and I barely remember Trolls. I know my sister had a few of them but she's 15 years older than me so she was hardly the target audience at the time.

I think the traditional-looking ones were marketed as some kind of collectable thing though - my mother had three of them at one point.

 

[Roxor]

What is it with cartoons and ear-splitting voices?

 

[evilneko]

The title really should have been "Trolling in the '90s" if not only to get a reference to that song.
Trolls. Why'd they get popular? Who knows. There's a few lurking in the depths of my basement waiting for their chance to strangle me. As they have been for a good two decades now.

What I immediately thought of....

 

[Trisha Nomorey]

It was called The Pirates of Darkwater. It was and still is my favorite cartoon.