Eh, I say we just pump a few more hundred thousand tons of junk up there and check back in a few thousand years when Earth has it's very own ring. We could colloquially refer to it as "Trash Ring", really make a name for ourselves in the the universe, a travel destination if you will.

Check your town charter, it's against the rules

I think it's foolish to link cartoons with toy lines as some display of quality or of a viewers love for that show though. It's very much an 80's way of thinking, so I wouldn't refer to that time as a 'golden age' at all. Golden age for toys maybe, but kids don't care as much about toys anymore, they have the internet.

My kid finds all sorts of cartoons to watch that I think are completely obnoxious. As an animator, I always pay attention to what cartoons are on, and very few 'new' cartoons have any sand whatsoever. Regular Show is one of the few new shows I've seen that I find captivating, if only from an…

Golden age [of broadcast animation]. And either way their wrong there, I'd call the 90's a golden age of cartoons and the 80's a golden age of toys

My introduction to Adventure Time was that very first short that he did for whatever festival, before he was given a show. It's appeal to me was that it was 'silly for silly's sake', but as a series it gets old, and I don't think the show ever really captured the same appeal the original short did, but that's only…

Those are 'prime-time' cartoons and for some reason fall under a different jurisdiction than 'after school' or 'saturday morning' cartoons. Either way, the 90's was a hay day for both

Well, not for me at least, I did both in tandum

Maybe 'golden age of broadcast' cartoons would be a more accurate name. Your examples, and others like Tom and Jerry and Micky Mouse are theatrical shorts.

I think there's one point you missed as to why the cartoon industry suffers nowadays, competition. Back in the 80's, and more to my realm, the 90's, your options were to watch whatever was on the 15 channels you had, or go outside, or read comics, or you know, have friends. Kids get their entertainment from the…

Because the show isn't on so they can't deconstruct all the hidden things within the new episodes so they have to speculate on what's coming next.

Not even 5 years ago the Hollywood motto was 'trilogy', everything stopped at the third, nowadays not so much. Amazing Spider-man is out for 4, so I could see an Iron Man 4 in phase 3 that would kind of put into focus what his ongoing presence will be in the future. RDJ would be in his early 50's by the time Avengers…

I honestly missed the 'ancient title' bit when I was watching the movie. And I whole heartily hope they don't make an Iron Man 4. The first one is the only really good movie, the second wasn't great, and I liked the third, but RDJ is getting old. Not too old to play the part, but his presence as the center guy is…

Hey, at least he wasn't Khan.

Is it just me or is io9 becoming a propaganda front for the anti-feline/pro-canine agenda?

What are ya, a Red sympathizer???

I'm not saying don't work at it. Okay, so I went to an animation school, and I around year two I started to notice the percentages of my classmates. Way I figured, 1/4 of the class was people who just got it, found what they were good at, it came naturally to them and they put the time and effort in as well. Held…

No, nothing like that. I'm simply appreciating the role that genetics has in it all. It's one thing to aspire to be like Einstein, and study and work hard and clime your way to the top of your field, but that doesn't mean that with enough work you can be a genius like Einstein. It could just be that you may be as…

Someone else mentioned that, I was saying that I'd be interested in seeing a study where they keep track of a pool of individuals and record their eating habits, lifestyle, interests, stuff like that, and take a brain scan once a year for a couple decades and see how the brain responds to certain conditioned habits…

It's really not a question of accomplishments though, or overcoming limitations. What I'm saying is that there are natural athletes, born and built and raised to do it well, and there are people to train all day and work their hardest to be the best, but in the end, the elite, top tier athletes, who also train and…