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It's time to revisit SilverHawks with the newest line of action figures from Super7. A new set of SilverHawks ReAction Figures has been unveiled, and Cbr has the exclusive first look.

Four figures are included in the first wave of the Super7 x SilverHawks ReAction figure line: Quicksilver, Steelheart, Bluegrass, and the galactic mob boss Mon*Star. All four figures, which are 3.75" scale figures from Super7's ReAction Figure family, come with a suggested retail price of $25. They look fantastic, though it's noted by the company that due to the vac-metal finish of the Quicksilver, Steelheart, and Bluegrass figures, they should be "handled with care and posed delicately to avoid chipping or cracking." Descriptions of each figure, along with first look photos, can be seen below.

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After the runaway success of their Thundercats revival, Dynamite Entertainment is set to breathe new life into the Silverhawks. Created a year after Thundercats and designed to be a companion show, Silverhawks never quite achieved the same level of success, but still became a cult property. The Silverhawks'cartoon, like many others of its era, was accompanied by a wave of merchandise, including action figures, clothing, as well as a comic book series from Marvel.

Now, nearly 40 years after it premiered, Silverhawks will be returning to comics courtesy of Dynamite Entertainment, as part of their larger deal with Warner Brothers/Discovery. Dynamite has paired each book with a top-tier creative team, and Silverhawks will be no different. Ed Brisson, known for his work on Marvel titles such as Predator and Alpha Flight, will be joined by artist Georgoe Kambadais for Silverhawks. Brisson was gracious enough to speak with ScreenRant about his childhood love of Silverhawks,...

Warning: contains possible spoilers for recent issues of Thundercats, as well as Thundercats: Apex!

The “lost” Thundercats are getting their own series that promises to expand the franchise further. Earlier this year, Dynamite Entertainment revived the Thundercats to critical and fan acclaim. The publisher has promised even bigger and better things for the book’s second year, and today the publisher announced the next title in the line: Thundercats: Lost, which shines the spotlight on some of the franchise’s more obscure characters.

Ed Brisson will also write Dynamite's revival of the Silverhawks.

Dynamite Entertainment announced Thundercats: Lost today, and the book will be the next entry in a line consisting of the mainline Thundercats book as well as the soon to launch Silverhawks. Thundercats: Lost will be written by Ed Brisson, who penned the recent, game-changing Apex one-shot. Thundercats: Lost reunites Brisson with Rapha Lobosco, who drew Apex.

After the runaway success of Thundercats, another 1980s cartoon is making a comeback, courtesy of Dynamite Entertainment. Dynamites relaunch of the Thundercats franchise has connected with fans old and new, helping make it the biggest debut in the companys history. Now, as part of the publishers deal with Warner Brothers/Discovery, the Thundercats sister property, Silverhawks, returns in 2025 with an all-new, ongoing series.

Dynamite Entertainment announced Silverhawks ahead of this weeks New York Comic-Con. Silverhawks, whose first issue goes on sale in January, will be written by Ed Brisson and drawn by George Kambadais, and will ship with a variety of variant covers.

Silverhawks will bring the beloved property into the modern era, and Dynamite has promised the book expands on the existing mythos, filling in backstories that went neglected in the 80s. Speaking with Dynamite, Brisson had this to say:

When Nate reached out to me to write ThunderCats: Apex,...

"Solar Opposites" is back for season 5, and the show is as funny as ever. The adult animated sitcom created by Mike McMahan and disgraced animator Justin Roiland continues to blend the sci-fi lunacy of "Rick and Morty" with classic family sitcom tropes without veering too much into a single territory, keeping audiences on their toes as they watch. The stories about this alien family reluctantly coming to love planet Earth despite how much they complain about it, choosing time and time again to stay here when it's a detriment to their mission, are funny. Still, it's in the B-plots where the show truly shines.

The first of these B-plots is The Wall, a recurring segment taking place in a terrarium of one of the alien kids, who continuously shrinks random people against their will when he feels they wrong him, and puts them in the terrarium. After a while, The Wall became a full society,...

ThunderCats and SilverHawks rocked, but TigerSharks struggled due to underwater hero theme and lack of originality. Each show featured a unique ecosystem and species-specific heroes, with ThunderCats and SilverHawks stealing the spotlight. Despite a unique premise and cool transformations, TigerSharks fell short due to lack of viewer interest and market saturation.

In the 1980s, Rankin/Bass Entertainment had a lot going on. They'd been creating hit animated movies like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and The Hobbit (1997) but now they were trying to create a series of three animal-hero-based syndicated cartoons. The first, and most well-known, was ThunderCats, then came SilverHawks. These two shows were much loved by children in the mid-1980s.

However, the final show that rounded out the three was TigerSharks. It followed a similar formula, tried it just a bit differently, and missed the boat. It's a shame because the show had great potential and never really...

"Firefly" was one of those shows I'd sometimes stumble upon late at night — like "Stargate: Sg-1" over on the SyFy channel or "Silverhawks" — that really stirred up my love for space operas/westerns. I never did sit down to watch the show in order -- at the time I was beholden to whatever episodes were being aired, although I did end up catching multiple viewings of "Serenity." Back then I had no idea that "Firefly" had barely lasted a season on air before being canceled in 2002, or that the film was Joss Whedon's last-ditch effort to keep the series alive in some form.

Eventually, Universal acquired the rights from Fox but refused to approve the over 100 million budget that was estimated to make it, recommending the production move overseas. But Whedon managed to convince them they could make it locally and under budget — which was set at 40 million. To put that into perspective,...

Exclusive: Author and actress Jenny Mollen will see her debut novel published by the Nacelle Company, which also has retained the book’s film and television rights.

City of Likes is the first work of fiction for Mollen, who penned a memoir and a book of essays in the 2010s.

The novel centers on Maddie, an unemployed thirtysomething copywriter whose career has taken a back seat to motherhood. When her family moves to New York, she meets the enigmatic and gorgeous Daphne Cole – an Instagram mommy influencer with millions of followers and a soft spot for Maddie. Maddie finds herself with an unlikely new best friend, getting a taste of the access, fame and unlimited chickpea puffs that power Daphne’s life. But soon enough, Maddie begins to suspect this world isn’t as picture perfect as it seems to be. Will she be able to pull herself out of...

Whoa! You'll have to excuse me for a moment while I recover from a nostalgia overload after hearing some wild news. Are you ready for this? The Nacelle Company is plotting a Silverhawks revival! Now, I know what you're thinking. Who? First of all, thanks for making me feel old. Second, Silverhawks was a classic animated television show developed by Rankin/Bass…...

The Nacelle Company is reviving Silverhawks, a sort of space-themed ThunderCats from the mid-eighties.

Silverhawks was a classic animated television show developed by Rankin/Bass Productions and released in 1986. The show consisted of 65 episodes, with a concept that revolved around a team of 29th Century heroes with metal bodies and wings who were tasked to stop an organized crime ring and protect the citizens of the Galaxy of Limbo, which had been overrun by the show’s antagonist, Mon*Star. He ran a mob featuring some interesting characters, including a shapeshifter, a robotic card shark and a man with blades for arms.

The team at Rankin/Bass likely intended to turn the high-concept idea into a space-themed extension of their already-successful ThunderCats, but the show did not enjoy the success of its predecessor.

See the original show’s opening below.

Nacelle produces Disney+’s Behind The Attraction, Netflix’s The Movies That Made Us,...

From Bananaman to Grange Hill, join us in a spot of TV nostalgia as we celebrate 50 great 1980s kids' TV theme songs...

There comes a time to turn away from the horrors of the world and retreat underneath the soft, comforting duvet of nostalgia. That time is Friday. That metaphorical duvet is below.

Here are fifty of the best kids’ TV theme songs (spread over two pages and in arbitrary order) of the 1980s. Some, like Alan Hawkshaw’s distinctive Grange Hill intro, are unarguable classics of the era, while others, like Mike Harding's Count Duckula, only started in the late-eighties and spent the rest of their run in the next decade.

Obviously, there being only 50 on this list, we may have missed out your favourite (deliberately or otherwise). Let us know if so, but remember that links may take a while to appear in the comments thread because...

Following the success of ThunderCats, Rankin/Bass released another animated series called SilverHawks. In this show, bionic policeman Commander Stargazer recruits the SilverHawks, a team of heroes who are "partly metal, partly real." They fight the evil Mon*Star, an escaped alien mob boss who transforms into an enormous armor-plated creature.

SilverHawks ran for 65 episodes in first-run syndication in 1986. The voice cast features many of the same talents who starred in ThunderCats. The cast includes Peter Newman, Adolph Caesar, Earl Hammond, Bob McFadden, Maggie Wheeler, Doug Preis, Peter Newman, and Larry Kenney.

The second and final volume of the animated series has just been released as part of a four DVD set. You can purchase all 33 episodes in SilverHawks: Season 1, Volume 2 or you can try to win a copy here. To enter, you need to merely post a comment below. You can...

Three hipster doofuses and one awesome Tommy Lasorda-esque older man took to the stage to unveil new footage of Cartoon Network's reboot of ThunderCats.

The older fella was legendary voice actor Larry Kenney who brought chills to the crowd by intoning "Thunder! Thunder! ThunderCats! Hoooooooo!"

Sadly, nothing in the following reel had any of the oomph seen in Kenney's stage presence.

The teaser opened with an image of Thundera and I thought, "oh, how cute - they are opening with the old show before they show us the new."  No.  This is the look of the new show.  I won't go overboard and say the animation looks exactly the same as the 1980s.  I'll give credit and say it looks like perfectly good animation from the 1990s.

In the teaser we saw the ThunderCats riding light blue beasts, Lizard creatures attacking a fortress with catapults of fire and...

Steve Perry wrote for comic books from the 1970s and was one of the original writers for the cartoon adventure series Thundercats in the mid-1980s.

Perry was born on December 12, 1954. He became interested in writing at an early age, and was penning science fiction tales for publication by the early 1970s. He soon teamed with artist Steve Bissette to produce comic stories for the independent anthology Abyss in 1976. Perry wrote for the Marvel titles Epic Illustrated and Bizarre Adventures later that decade. He and artist Tom Yeates created the Native American science fiction comic book series Timespirits for Marvel’s Epic imprint in the early 1980s. Perry also wrote for the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents revival and the Blackthorne Comics jungle adventure Salimba.

He began writing for Thundercats in 1985, and contributed to the Rankin/Bass animated production Silverhawks. Perry also wrote comic book adaptations for both series for Marvel.