Tagged “cartoons”

Transformers: The Toy Line That Was Built Backwards From a Cartoon Contract

Hasbro didn't design a toy and then make a show about it — it licensed two unrelated Japanese toy lines, then commissioned an entire fictional universe to sell them together.

Video & TV

Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Weekly Ritual That Got Kids Out of Bed

For roughly three decades, American children woke up at 6am on Saturdays without being asked. The television was the reason. The cartoons were waiting.