With all the little icons they have, you'd think they could have at least 1 ThunderCat!  I changed mine from the Stargate earth symbol to Stitch.  Mainly because I think Stitch is cute and I loved the original movie.  The tv cartoon is okay and I didn't see any of the sequel films.  But Stitch rocks.  I would, however, rather have a ThunderCat.  I find the selection of icons to be somewhat lacking as it is and there's no way to link to your own if you wanted to.

I also wish there was some rhyme or reason to the level icons.  Like right now I'm at level 14 which is "Autobot."  Which, as I recall, comes from Transformers.  I don't recall all the previoius icons, but there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason.  I do remember the Regal Beagle icon was a dart board.  How is a dart board related to a Regal Beagle?  How about a picture of a beagle?

So I'm just in the mood to gripe at the moment.  I had a long and tiring day.

I bought the season 1, volume 1 box set of He-Man over the weekend.  I remember liking it as a kid.  I think I wasted my money.  It's not nearly as good as I remember.  Maybe She-Ra's better.  I remember being given She-Ra toys as a kid, my favorite being a sword I could hold which glowed in the dark.  But He-Man isn't like ThunderCats.  I can still watch ThunderCats and totally love the show.

There are other cartoons I would like to see on DVD from the 80's.  SilverHawks being a big one.  It was done by the same people who did ThunderCats and I know they had some of the same voice actors including Larry Kenney (Lion-O) and Peter Newman (Tygra).  I'd love to see the Rainbow Brite cartoons, however, there were so few of them.  I thought there were more, but when you're a kid I guess you don't notice those things.  Maybe if they had a hodgepodge DVD set of several 80's cartoons that had only a few episode each.  That could be cool.

Other cartoons I grew up watching are Shirt Tails, Monchichi's, Get-a-Long Gang, The Real Ghostbusters, My Little Pony (which had several versions as I recall), The Littles, Leo the Lion, Care Bears, to name a few.  Although ThunderCats was and is my ultimate favorite cartoon, so I'm happy it's out on DVD.  The 80's really were the best decade for cartoons.  I can't stand the cartoons they're making today.  Not only do so many of them lack animation quality, the scripts are annoying.  I don't like South Park or Spongebob.

I also liked Transformers as a kid.  I saw that they have DVD sets but I wasn't sure if they were the original or the newer cartoons.  I guess I'm also afraid they'd turn out like He-Man and I'd find I don't like them as much anymore.

Through no fault of my own, some of my submissions get duplicated.  As a result the duplications get denied and it adds to my number of rejections.  I don't think this is fair.  I only ever hit the submission button once.  There's no way I can stop if if it wants to send in a duplicate submission.

I played around today with some screen caps I had made and created this new banner.  Spent a little more time on it than the last one which was nothing more than copying and pasting a few images to make a banner.  This one took more editing.  I'm happy with it for the most part.  I underestimated how high those tabs would go, I didn't expect them to cut off the lower part of the ThunderKittens chins, but at least everything that matters about their faces are there.

Panthro was a bit of a challenge because I wasn't able to get the same type of image of him as I got of Tygra, Cheetara, and the ThunderKittens.  They were all from the same episode which is why their quality is all the same.  Panthro looks a little more out of focus to me, but the expression is right for what I was wanting.  I don't recall what episode I made that cap of Lion-O, but I really liked it.

I used the gradiant tool for the background to fade it from black to red.  Though that makes it a little tougher to see the cat symbol.  I'm okay with that though.  Overall, I like it a lot better than the first one I had made.

Saw the new Pirates of the Carribean movie today.  It's a lot darker than the first and one thought kept entering my mind throughout the film. . . "This is a Disney movie?"  It seemed a little too dark for Disney.

As it is, I didn't particularly care for this movie.  I was especially disappointed with Elizabeth's character.  The fight on the water wheel seemed way too over the top.  And just overall I thought the sequel didn't live up to the hype.  The first one was far better.