The Mysterious Cities Of Gold

Spence · Post by **Spence** » Thu May 11, 2006 2:06 pm

I've just bought and watched all the episodes of the Mysterious Cities Of Gold. I've just got to say that when I was a kid this animation really transported me to another place and time. Now I'm older and a freelance animator I can see the amount of work this must have taken. Theres over 16 hours of animation, mind blowing.
What I've come to notice is how strong the story is. It's actually factual and at the end of every episode they play a video of actual events where the animation is set (South America)
Kids cartoons are shite today. They have no real story. They just seem to scramble them out as soon as they can make them. The mysterious Cities was revolutionary, I wish someone had the budget and time to do the same today.

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Patmals · Post by **Patmals** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:46 am

I absolutely agree with you.

Sequent · Post by **Sequent** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:33 pm

That's because it seems most of those kids cartoons nowadays exist solely as a marketing vehicle.

I'll have to check out Mysterious Cities of Gold - it sounds pretty cool.

Bones3D · Post by **Bones3D** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:21 pm

This isn't that show with that earworm "dance of arcadia" song in it with that weird anteater looking thing bouncing around, is it?

Make it stop!!!!

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:38 pm

When was that on television? I think I vaguely remember it.

-vern

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Bones3D · Post by **Bones3D** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:15 pm

heyvern wrote:When was that on television? I think I vaguely remember it.

-vern

If it's the show I'm thinking of, it was shown in the mid-to-late 80's on Nickelodeon along side other programming popular at the time like "You Can't Do That On Television" and "Mr. Wizard's World" with Don Herbert.

I forget if some of the other Nickelodeon cartoons like Danger Mouse, Count Duckula, Banana Man and Inspector Gadget were shown back then alongside it though.