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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When I was 6, I dreamed that Superman was showing me his new car. And in the dream, as a six year old, I was thinking, “Why do you need a car?”

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Writer Cary Bates says that the Supermobile was created as a promotional tie-in for the Corgi Toys toy line: "In my opinion, whenever merchandising needs are dictating story content, the odds of any real creativity or inspiration are severely compromised".

Yah, we could tell...

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In the '80s that was reversed. Most of the cartoons were created to sell toys

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You mean the teenage mutant ninja turtles, trained to operate in the shadows, didn't really need a blimp??

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago

About as much much as Rainbow Brited needed a horse

Or Liono needed a sword

Or the Silverhawks needed existence

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Two things.

1: People hardly ever look up

2: They had access to the water mains, and probably spiked the city water with LSD before they took the blimp out.