Sep 9, 2026 · 42 min · 11 segments
This week we're looking at Robotix, Marvel's adaptation of a 1980s Hasbro property that desperately wanted to be the next Transformers. The comic is better than the cartoon, but it is missing the rad…
Mike ThompsonHostJessica FrazierHost
So we have talked about this before, but Marvel had an animation division back in the 1980s.
They, they opened a Los Angeles animation studio under the name Marvel Productions, and the studio had actually been around since the '60s under the name of DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, but the company went under, and its owners sold the studio to Marvel, but they were known for some pretty iconic work, like the animated intros to the Pink Panther movies.
And Marvel acquired the studio in the '80s, and then they were responsible for some of the most iconic cartoons of the decade.
Some of the series that they did were on their own, some were done in conjunction with other studios, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna read you a short list of their catalog, okay?
So we have talked about this before, but Marvel had an animation division back in the 1980s.
They, they opened a Los Angeles animation studio under the name Marvel Productions, and the studio had actually been around since the '60s under the name of DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, but the company went under, and its owners sold the studio to Marvel, but they were known for some pretty iconic work, like the animated intros to the Pink Panther movies.
And Marvel acquired the studio in the '80s, and then they were responsible for some of the most iconic cartoons of the decade.
Some of the series that they did were on their own, some were done in conjunction with other studios, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna read you a short list of their catalog, okay?
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