#80s cats Wakko

[mintitacos]

80s, 80s, 80s CATS!

A very fluffy and very huggable looking Wakko. Everyone say THANK YOU ANIMANIACS SEASON 2!

[zecheeseh]

Jellicle manie!

Honestly, I don’t even know why, but the thought of the Warners cosplaying as the Cats characters is weirdly fun. So…

After 10 hours, over 80 layers and 8362 strokes later, this is what I conjured up. :)

- Yakko as Rum Tum Tugger

- Wakko as Bill Bailey/Tumblebrutus

- Dot as Victoria

So that’s that. I can’t really add anything up, other than, that you can see the reference pic in the second slide. XD

[thewarnerbrothers]

yax ask: what shows/movies would they watch together? (besides their own :b)

good question! funny enough i was writing a one shot the other day that touches on this! specifically what max and yakko might be watching around '95

i think the warners would watch literally anything. (no parental supervision + their insane energy = i doubt anyone could stop them if they tried.) yakko wakko and dot constantly reference new and old movies in the show so i feel like watch films together often. i can see max watching anything the average teenage boy in the 90s would watch. might pass on or be squeamish about horror (based on him being a scaredy-cat in goof troop). i headcanon max's guilty pleasure is sappy romantic films, being a disney toon and all.

as for what yakko and max would watch together specifically? hm

i think max like movies the average amount but is nowhere near as plugged in as yakko. yakko insists on 'fixing' this. the two probably sneak into movie theaters, buy (or steal) cheap VHS tapes from the bargain bin, rent stuff from the local video store, borrow older films from the library, etc.

i imagine a wide variety of genres and ratings. they've seen most of the major blockbusters from the past 10 or so years. (so late 80s to early/mid 90s.) any time they watch a disney movie, max gets teased =)

as for specific examples? pull up a list of 90s box office hits, mash it together with popular direct to TV/home video releases, and there you go!

at least, thats my personal headcanon for how events would play out lol

[tallphonse]

nowhere in my post did i say “dot warner is in her thirties.” and that’s not something i believe anyway. if you’re referring to me saying “she doesn’t act like [a 9 year old] at all anyway … i wouldn’t be surprised if they aged up the warners,” i still don’t see how that would translate to me thinking dot is in her thirties. a lot of numbers are between 9 and 30. personally, i was thinking that she’d just be in her late teens at this point, so still not an adult.

i see what you’re saying about the screen shot, and that does make sense, however even way back in the animaniacs bible ruegger states that the warners are teens/ageless. as long as they follow the format of youngest-middle-elder. the only reason i use him as a source is because that’s what everyone else does for the 9-11-14 ages. otherwise it’d just be cherrypicking.

you’re also giving me an opinion of your own when you say that she “doesn’t come across as older than 12,” because i know a bunch of people that would disagree with that. i have a younger brother that’s in the age group people assign to dot and he is in no way on the same maturity level she is. wakko, absolutely, but not dot. like you said, though, she’s a cartoon, so she was made with a set personality regardless of her age.

i’m not sure what point you thought i was trying to make, but the reason i made this post is because i felt that people were freaking out over something that might not even be an issue. i mean, seriously, if she really WAS a 9 year old in the eyes of the crew, why would they give her the body of a teen/young adult? TWICE? anime dot also looks like a teenager. i didn’t bring this headcanon up because i wanted an excuse to lewd her, if that’s what you’re thinking; i simply want to ease people’s fears by suggesting that maybe the “canon” age of dot ISN’T canon after all.

also, 80’s cats-dot absolutely does NOT have huge tits. she’s muscular and happens to have boobs. boobs that didn’t even stand out to me until i saw how much people were shitting on the design. legit my first thought when i saw those designs was “ugh, why are their normal faces on humanoid bodies?” because it looks uncanny. breasts are not inherently sexual, and not once was there a focus on them in the clip.

ok this is a hot take that might get me cancelled but anyway.

what if.

what if.

dot is being drawn like that because she isn’t 9.

i mean think about it….that was a piece of information mentioned ONCE on a podcast by the guy who isn’t even running the show anymore. also, even if she was 9 in the OG show, she doesn’t act like it at all for the reboot. at least in my opinion… i wouldn’t be surprised if they aged the warners up at all. it would certainly explain the…design choices they’ve made 😅

anyway yeah. idk i feel like we should take those ages with a grain of salt. because tom has also said that their ages can range from 8-36, depending on the skit. and he ALSO talked about dot in a very adult setting on reddit a couple years back. i’ll find screens if anyone is curious.

[saleintothe90s]

301. Some stuff my dad found in storage from 1996.

I think I’ve mentioned the storage unit before in previous entries. My whole childhood, teenage years, and early 20s until the Summer of 2005 is in there. We put everything in storage when we moved out of this huge house that was too expensive that Summer. Most of my things from the 80s and 90s were put in there and I thought I’d just see them a few months later. It’s been 12 years. 

(there were some toys from when I was real little in the bags too. I gave them a bath.)

I guess mom got a decorating bug this weekend because dad took some furniture out and brought me home three garbage bags full of things. If memory serves me correct, I shoved this stuff in those bags when we moved out of my childhood home in 2000, and into the house that was too expensive. 

First off, I found this backpack in one of those garbage bags: 

This wasn’t my backpack in middle school. Uh, JanSport all the way, Eastpak was simply a knockoff to me. I found it in the trash during locker clean out day the last week of 7th grade and bought it home, and spent the Summer sewing clothing scraps to it. I hid all my notebooks and scribbles in the backpack that Summer from the previous school year. To me, my scribbles were kind of controversial, they were doodles about my crush, so I was afraid to throw them in the trash in my bedroom. So I kept all my crumpled up scribbles in this. It’s 2017, I think its safe for me to throw them all out. 

I was ob-sessed with my social studies teacher that year. In retrospect I should’ve gotten help. Guidance should’ve shipped me off to the loony bin. I used to think my teacher hated me though, so to get his attention? I wrote that he hated me on my binder? Uh. That’s not how you get his attention, dumbass. 

These notebooks never lasted a month. The cover always tore off of them. You’re probably wondering why “Kristen was here” is all over that. I wanted that to be my nickname SO BAD in middle school. I think wanted to be my American Girl doll, Kirsten Larson that badly.

Back then, at Coliseum Mall, there was this Sanrio kiosk. I had to go there every time we went to the mall that year. Always got pens and stickers. I suspect I drew this Hello Kitty on a Saturday when we didn’t go anywhere. 

For some reason, this was a project we had to do in ... Science class in November of 1995. Where are my glasses. I was fat. Not a good job drawing me, me from 1995. I named the hamster after my social studies teacher and I think my science teacher said “that’s enough!” when I tried to read it out aloud in class. 

Anybody remember these? I don’t think schools make them anymore! I made honor roll only three times in school, 2 times in seventh grade, and final semester my senior year of high school in 2001. My mom didn’t like these bumper stickers because she thought they were braggy. I think she was just sad she didn’t have one. I tore up the first one I got because I thought they were braggy too. I think I was just secretly jealous because I never had the attention span and I had too much anxiety to do well in school.

This is what I got for Christmas in 1995. The Vans were too big, and I don’t know what I did with the nail files. 

Computer is way down at the bottom, which is upsetting. That was the year we got an IBM PS/2 from some guy at dad’s work. It was good for playing Wolfenstein on. It ran Windows 3.0.

Mom gave me the Norman Rockwell album when I was in elementary school. I didn’t take pictures back then though. So years later in 7th grade I put my stickers on the cover. I should’ve made it a boss sticker album. There’s more sanrio stickers from that kiosk at the  mall. 

I had a massive Garfield collection back then. By 1996, kids of the 1980s were dumping their Garfield stuff left and right at the thrift store, and on military discount day mom would come by and scoop it all up. This is homemade. It may or may not make an appearance on my etsy someday. 

There was a big hologram boom around this time too. It didn’t all start with simplynailogical. Here is a sad lil holo pen I found in the backpack. Check out that sweet barely used Nike planner too. Got that at Woolworth’s in Anchorage, Alaska on my first trip up there. I had been searching ebay for one but now I don’t have to! 

I have NO clue where this Hello my name is Box of Cholate Chocolates label came from. I think a friend put it on my teddy bear backpack purse?

This was on the last page of my sixth grade planner from 1995. pretty sure that Wakko sticker came from Sun Maid Raisins. School was so-so-so boring that year. We had a horrible verbally abusive teacher who we were stuck with in the mornings. You can see why I doodled a lot. 

It was a fad back then to tear the shiny part of your planner cover off so you had a canvas to draw stupid stuff on. 

This was my cover in 1996. Why did we put the Cat in the Hat hat on everything that year? I forgot. The magazine cut-outs were from Sassy. I don’t know why I drew an octopus girl on skates. 

I forgot one thing! I had a transcript I made of when Lisa said goodbye at Mr. Bergstrom at the train station! 

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