[billebllunt]

If you pick up a comic book from the last 10 or so years, all the chicks are hot! I mean, even the ones who aren't supposed to be hot, like Storm from Xmen, are still smoking. Well, her flat top self wasn't so hot in the 80s. Now that I think about it, none of the female characters from the 80s were hot at all. In fact, they were kinda downplayed and dike-ish. April O'Neal anyone? Boyish to say the least. How bout the Joes; Scarlet, Lady Jay, the Baroness...I'll pass. The boy on transformers didn't have a girlfriend, but in the new movie he does and she's hot. MOTU's teela, evil lynn or sorceress? Nope. Thundercats cheetarah? Wasn't she a dude? The secretary from Ghost Busters? Yuck! Princess Lea from Star Wars was just average to me in the movies, but her figure was less than average attractiveness. Why was that? Does anybody remember any female characters that were at least do-able?

[billebllunt]

Ever fantasize about Firestar from Spidey & His Amazing Friends? Me neither. Sad.

[Jason Abbadon]

We know you skipped innocent Firestar and went straight for sinful ol' Aunt May.

[Crazy Jetty]

I don't think you know much about what you're talking about.
One, almost everything you've stated is nothing but personal opinion.

Two, Spike had a girlfriend. Her name was Carly, and she appeared in a pretty good chunk of the TF cartoon, and when it jumped to the distant future of 2005, was revealed that she was married to him and they had a son, Daniel.

Third, who said Storm "isn't supposed to be hot?" She has always ment to be been an increadibly glamorous and beautiful lady. She was gorgeous throughout all the time she's been in X-Men. Especially in her first appearances in Giant Sized X-Men. Why is she "not supossed to be hot?' Because she's african?

Also, you're looking back and judging characters with a fasion sense honed in the twenty teens. every decade has a different fasion sense. And thirty years from now things will change, and someone will be asking "Why was every woman in 2012 a skank?"
Do I think cloths from the 70s or 80s were attractive? No. But I do make an effort to understand that'w what they thought was "hot" back then.

And when you're looking at cartoon characters from the eighties like Cheetara or April O'Neil, these were CARTOONS. the women were not sexualized the way they are now. They were not ment to be sexy or "hot."

[tlasjr]

...okay...

1. Why are you watching childrens television for fantasy maerial?

2. Was Storm on sabatical in the 80's?

3. You're comparing comic books now with kids programming in the 80's and wondering why one is sexier?

4. The hottest cartoon/comic woman in any decade is Taarna the Taarakian.

[billebllunt]

Women have been sexualized since the beginning of time. Old 20's burlesque or whatever with frumpy women in their bloomers were racy for the time. Having grown up in the 80s, everything 70s or older doesn't turn me on. All that stuff was like pre-trim. 80s is when women became modernly sexy. I never really liked Madonna, but she looked good in the movie Who's that Girl. All those 80s tit flicks...the style was sexy. I can remember getting wood from the movie Best little whorehouse in Tx as early as about 4 or 5 yrs old. So why weren't any of the female characters sexy? I never remember gettin wood from any female cartoon characters. But nowadays, just about every female character looks good. The Winx club, even Disney movie princesses have gotten hotter. All I'm saying is name 1 who was at least "good looking" in the 80s...ya can't! All I get is Aunt May.

[Crazy Jetty]

I don't think you have a very firm grasp on reality, mate. And I don't think your posts are terribly appropriate for a forum dedicated to toys.

And again, beauty is subjective. Your definition of "hot" is exclusive to you. As is mine to me, as is Donald Trump's to him.
I find Megan Fox to be skanky as all get out, while I think Freema Agyman is one of the prettiest women in existance. But I'm not going to hold that to anyone else, or to any other decade. And as I've gotten older, I've likewise come to realize that a lot of women from the 80s, 70s, 60s, and so on were absolutely beautiful. Women I never thought were before, like Annie Potts. She was gorgeous in the eighties and early ninties. But I'd never thought much about it before.
People's tastes change. And they are subjective and inclusive only to themselves. Yours do not, nor should not reflect anyone else.

[billebllunt]

This forum is for the "discussion" of toys. Well, I'd like to discuss why all the 80's toy female figures were flat chested and boyish. Just name one hot one and the discussion is over. If you can't name any, I'd consider it an anamole. Why does todays storm look so sexy and the 80s mohawk version look so blah? How about the Baroness? Hot in the newer movie, terrible in the 80s cartoon. I'm just sayin'...

[Tiberius]

Gotta love how everyone's giving Bill a hard time.


Welcome to Toyark, billebllunt!!

[yourfacehere]

Quote:

Originally Posted by billebllunt

Ever fantasize about Firestar from Spidey & His Amazing Friends? Me neither. Sad.

Hah! Says you!

[Iceman]

I think what you are noticing is just improvements in technology and styling really. In the 70's and 80's all animation was done in simpler shapes because it was done by hand and now with computer animation things just look better. Fine details that would make someone "attractive" weren't what they are today. Just how we see lots of animation that is more realistic and detailed. Cheetara was a cat so there was that part of it but I've heard people say they had crushes on her as a kid.

Even still, there were animated women that were drawn to be sexy such as Fujiko from Lupin III. And comics have been notorious for drawing women in idealized ways and revealing costumes. That's going back decades but maybe it wasn't spreading into children's cartoons so much back then. The Japanese influence has helped shape the way our cartoons get animated over the years.

On the original question I can't think of anyone but I was born mid-eighties so it was Transformers, G.I. Joe, etc and there weren't too many women in those. Also, I wasn't really paying attention to the girls as I they all had cooties.

[jjk1120]

The way female characters are drawn today, every one of the women you mentioned are pretty hot.

But I can't say for sure about the Ghostbuster's secretary. The jury is still out on her...

[tlasjr]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tiberius

Gotta love how everyone's giving Bill a hard time.


Welcome to Toyark, billebllunt!!

Except Firestar.

[billebllunt]

Yeah, Taarna looked good in 1981, what happened to the rest of the 80s? Why are they all hot today, but the classic characters were not? Don't say they couldn't draw boobies in the 80s, cus Taarna dismisses that. I've thought about it long and hard and I've think I got one that's at least close...

Super Friends Cheetah....never thought that way as a kid, but she's about the best there was. The costume, accent, etc.

If kids watching cartoons are supposed to be immersing themselves into a fantasy land, and I was quite imaginative, why was there so little to fantasize about in the 80s? The 80s were great and all, every cartoon series was about fighting w/ swords, guns, etc., but couldn't they at least thrown us a bone or two?

[ToyAddict]

I'll preface my comments by saying I think this is a dumb conversation. The world was a much better place when toys, books, games, movies and cartoons intended mostly for CHILDREN were not full of sex. Just plain ol' good triumphing over evil kind of story lines. But to answer the OP:

Baroness was good looking in the cartoon. There's an episode where she's in a bikini. . .

Wonder Woman (Super Friends); or if you'll allow a reach back a little further, Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

She-Ra

And if my memory serves -- and I know this is reaching into the 90s -- but I always liked Rogue's voice from the X-Men cartoon

maybe some points for Daphne (Scooby Doo)

but the obvious choice:
Jessica Rabbit

[Jason Abbadon]

Quote:

Originally Posted by billebllunt

This forum is for the "discussion" of toys. Well, I'd like to discuss why all the 80's toy female figures were flat chested and boyish. ...

Maybe it was because the women in populat TV and movies were that way, huh? Seriously, you'r argument is invalid when you consider that "sexy" has changed a LOT since the 1980's-
Everything Wilma in Buck Rogers to Heather Locklear on TJ Hooker to Marla Heasley on The A Team (the highest rated TV show for a couple of years there) all were beautiful women without the obligatory boob jobs today's TV women sport.

And then there's women like Magro Kidder...man..by today's standards they must have been insane.

Toys reflect the pop culture of their times- biiiig suprise.

Besides, for the scale, the Baroness was stacked like a brick house, baby!
And Scarlett was certainly not "boyish" because she was dressed like, oh, I dont know...someone that was going into battle instead of a porn set?
http://www.theterrordrome.com/wp-con...k-scarlett.png

[Crazy Jetty]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

Maybe it was because the women in populat TV and movies were that way, huh? Seriously, you'r argument is invalid when you consider that "sexy" has changed a LOT since the 1980's-
Everything Wilma in Buck Rogers to Heather Locklear on TJ Hooker to Marla Heasley on The A Team (the highest rated TV show for a couple of years there) all were beautiful women without the obligatory boob jobs today's TV women sport.

And then there's women like Magro Kidder...man..by today's standards they must have been insane.

Toys reflect the pop culture of their times- biiiig suprise.

Besides, for the scale, the Baroness was stacked like a brick house, baby!
And Scarlett was certainly not "boyish" because she was dressed like, oh, I dont know...someone that was going into battle instead of a porn set?
http://www.theterrordrome.com/wp-con...k-scarlett.png

I am Crazy Jetty, and I approve of this message!

But seriously. Nicely said. Touched on a lot of the same things I tried to, but more elegantly put.

[Tiberius]

Lets just close this thread...

[LapuLapu]

Im going to start another thread " name the hottest man toy of the 80's" ( puts on fairy wings and twirls like a ballerina )

[rodimus15]

this thread makes me want to throw up on all my female figures. Just an awkward conversation to have.

[topnotch97]

aw man. i just wanna watch on how the drama unfolds around here.

[TheLoudMaster]

I knew what I was getting into and yet I still clicked...

[Joe Moore]

This thread wasn't entirely kosher from the beginning. But it's devolved further with each posting. Closed.