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Forgive me if this has already been discussed, I'm new here, but do any of you remember She~Ra -- Princess of Power?  That cartoon ROCKED!  It was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid and I still would love to watch the re-runs.  Children's shows in the 80s were wonderful; children's shows now suck!  Sponge-Bill Square Pants...what the hell?!
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I think the target audience for Sponge Bob Square Pants is a little different to that of She-Ra by about five to six years.  :)

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Forgive me if this has already been discussed, I'm new here, but do any of you remember She~Ra -- Princess of Power?  That cartoon ROCKED!  It was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid and I still would love to watch the re-runs.  Children's shows in the 80s were wonderful; children's shows now suck!  Sponge-Bill Square Pants...what the hell?!
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I remember that show. It was a spin off of He-Man and Masters of the Universe. And I agree, kids shows in the 80's were better than what is on TV today.

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I always had the beginnings of an opinion of what the whole deal with She-Ra was but i'd never managed to articulate it.  I was looking at a site about kids TV of the past and whoever wrote the piece on this cartoon hit the nail on the head, something like:

Well, they saw how much money they were making from He-Man merchandise and thought 'How can we expand the market?....That's right, we can alter the product so it appeals to girls too.'End Quote

as far as i recall, my husband told me that was the writer of Babylon 5 that created He-man. Back then the guy was unknown, or something like that. Not sure about she-ra

Quoting:Well, they saw how much money they were making from He-Man merchandise and thought 'How can we expand the market?....That's right, we can alter the product so it appeals to girls too.'
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btw, i think they thought the contrary! SHe-ra had some very short skirts! LOL and He-man maybe was what the girls were looking for? hahah probably not, he was too muscular

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Eh?  Even as a kid i didn't look at cartoon characters like that...
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Eh? well I was just sort of joking a bit, but whatever works for you >:(

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I always had the beginnings of an opinion of what the whole deal with She-Ra was but i'd never managed to articulate it.  
Well, they saw how much money they were making from He-Man merchandise and thought 'How can we expand the market?....That's right, we can alter the product so it appeals to girls too.'
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OK, I asked my husband about this and he said that it's because they made a market research that showed that 30% of He-man's viewers where girls. The staff was surprised with this result, so to appeal the cartoon even more to these this audience, they created she-ra.

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I wish Cartoon Network would put the old He-man and She-ra cartoons back on instead of a new adventures of He-man.  :'(
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I'd agree with that. We seem to be plagued nowadays by poor remakes of classics- perhaps we should start a thread for "poor remakes of 80's classics"- in fact I'd start it myself if I could get the option to 'Start new topic' on my screen... :)

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"She-ra she-ra! ta da da da da da
She raaaaa ahhhhhhh SHE-RA!
(song theme)

I liked She-Ra better than He-man!
my fave cartoons from the 80s:

She-ra & He-man
Thundercats
Dungeons & Dragons
Jem
Beverly Hills Teens
Honey-Honey
Smurfs

my husband on the other hand liked Transformers & Robotech.
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We could have hung out as kids. I liked He-Man, Thundercats and Dungeons & Dragons. Too bad Dungeons & Dragons did not have a long run.

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Yes In remember She-Ra and thought she was a brilliant antidote to He-Man, which my brother was obsesssed with.
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Does anyone remember if She-Ra used to have the same 'enemies' as He-Man (eg. Skeletor, Grizzlor etc??), also, does anyone in the UK remember the TV adverts for He-Man figures (i.e. small plastic dolls-type things)?? My brother and I used to spend ages laughing at Moduloc on this advert- he was a crazy mixed-up type of guy!!  :D