To repeat myself: it’s only recently that I have started to connect fully with the huge family of ThunderCats aficionados – thanks largely to Buddha, Nick Carver and Egmond Du Plessis. As you can see on the ‘ThunderCats & More’ link, I’ve been posting short blogs about some of the writers, the production team, studio crew and, of course, various SuperFans.
I’ve reached out to as many people as I can. A couple aren’t interested – which is fair enough and I’m not about to hustle anyone. But there are many more of you out there for whom I have no contact information. You range from the Japanese crew – sorely missed on these pages – through the New York contingent, to this huge international world of ThunderCats and SilverHawks aficionados. There are so many more of you than I could ever have imagined – and TigerSharks supporters too.
PLEASE… IF ANYONE OUT THERE WANTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS ON-GOING STORY – CONTACT ME. (SEE ‘CONTACTS AND LINKS.’) I’LL BE HAPPY TO POST ANYTHING THAT WORKS FOR US!
If and when I run out of ThunderCats material, I’ll switch to SilverHawks and then to some of the other shows I’ve been involved with.
By the way – and speaking of the fanbase – I recently lectured at a Colombian university, intending to talk about our loss of empathy and metaphor and the strangling of originality by AI and the monstrous corporatization of ‘creativity.’ However, I opened by saying I’d be happy to divert to any other subject – and immediately ThunderCats came up. Remember, this was a group of 18-22 year olds. And Colombian. How the Hell would they know about a show that aired 40 years ago? Well… they did. They were excited and I was happy to share whatever I had. For an hour out of the two we were together.
Just another astonishing example of the reach of the show. We must have done something right. I’m not sure what that was – but happy and proud to have been a part of it.