SilverHawks

See MIFE episodes 10 and 12 for more on that, the latter of which features John as a guest host.

Overgard later went on to write novels and TV scripts, including for the rank and best animated series Thundercats, one of my childhood favorites, and Silverhawks, as well as their movies The Bermuda Depths, 1978, The Ivory Ape, 1980, and The Bushido Blade, 1981.

Strangely, B. Harrison Smith, author of the book Making the Last Dinosaur...

Duly noted, Jimmy.

Uh, and he had said He-Man all the way.

So I was like, "You know what? I do have a He-Man." I've got the, uh, 40th anniversary, um, Masterverse version of He-Man because I have a shelf up above my monitor here that's just full of, um, I've mentioned them in the past, like some of the Super7 Ultimates and, uh, other six-inch scale figures like Ninja Turtles, Silverhawks, all sorts of weird stuff like that.

Uh, it's all '80s, '90s guys all just mixed together on the shelf.

So he sits on a Battle Cat that is actually, it's not the, it's not the 40th anniversary Battle Cat, it's the one from the 2000...

Mm-hmm

... where it just demolished all the Magic cards and only anybody plays Optimus Prime and the Popples and the Care Bears and that one guy from Silverhawks that's all fucking red and he comes aparts.

Oh.

Molecule.

His toy was the best.

the silver hawks had a history before the the pilot i thought that was kind of cool they weren't the first team of silver hawks they were the next team and so it was kind of neat because like you had all these references to past silver hawks you even had a couple of old guys like come back and And then right around the end of the first season, they brought in new Silverhawks.

It wasn't even the end of the season.

It was like you had new ones.

And it was just every single one of them had something different to bring to the table.

And then the toys were just the coolest things.

I think, honestly, for me, it was like, I put Silverhawks above Thundercats, above any of the other animal-based adventures.

You know, obviously better than Tiger Sharks.

... that, like, clipped on.

Silverhawks had those wings that, like, clipped on, and I was like-

Oh, yeah

... "This is a pretty good wing solution.

But if you start me down that rabbit hole, I will dig to the center of the earth.

But, you know, G.I. Joe, what's, Josh, did you watch, well, you're not old enough, but the Silverhawks cartoon, the Thundercats cartoon, they kind of had a mixed bag of the same voice actors and same with, like, G.I. Joe and Transformers had a lot of the

same voice actors.

Larry Kinney.

Sorry, Josh.

It's funny, and they even missed some that could have been on the list, like Jace and the Wheel Warriors, Sektars.

Silverhawks, Thundercats, neither of those.

Silverhawks.

beautiful

Well, my latest scores, I've been on the track of Silverhawks for a little while now, and they come up on eBay quite often, and they've either got an enormous price tag attached to them, or they are routinely incomplete, you know, missing their bird or missing an accessory, so...

When I saw a hardware come up locally here in Australia, carded, so it's complete and it is mint, and those are the criteria I have as a loose collector, I put in an offer.

It was definitely a low bull, and the guy came back to me within two minutes and said, accepted.