#cheetahmen

[funky-vg-beats]

did i mention i like to cheetahmen action 52 ost...?

remix source [ x ]

[jeffgerstmann]

It took a little over six hours, but I played and ranked every one of the 52 games contained in Action 52 for the NES. It was a bad time, you should check it out.

[ntn-arts]

And now...

[wevelocityteampresents-blog]

When I was younger, I came across this stamp on Deviantart that was based on some popular web animation at the time. The most notable thing about it was that it featured the Cheetahmen from the notorious Action 52.

Sometime in 2020, I managed to find the source of the animation on Nico Nico Douga.

This is probably one of the best looks I've seen anyone give the Cheetahmen. The song is kind of nice, too.

[nightwere-mojo]

Here's the second weekly sketchbook post, but now focused on the weird and very vivid dream I had about a sketchbook that doesn't exist! I thought it would be neat to try to sketch as close to the ideas as I could in real life.

Snake was actually a lot less detailed in the dream - he had more fluid brushstrokes with less details and a more ethereal look? I tried to emulate that a little on the side (but still doesn't look quite right).

The cheetahman in my dream was more like a comical realistic cheetah head pasted on top of some tiny karate suited body. For some reason I decided to do better than that. I looked up that game again and remembered they were distinct characters? I figured Apollo was the closest to what I saw, since in the dream he had no distinctive features like the other two. I drew him referencing a pose from "The Pose Archives" on DA.

Who would have thought I'd be drawing Cheetahmen in 2023...

Then there was some fuzzy guy (cartoon caveman? IDK??) riding a bird and exaggeratedly screaming over the bird's head. There were a lot more illustrative lines & dot details in the dream that I didn't feel like putting down.

There were mushrooms and moths that were both growing around my house and sketched in this book. The mushrooms were very tiny, all black, and had narrow shaped caps. The moths that perched on the shrooms were even tinnier, changed color when they "breathed" (even though moths don't work like that) but on inhale were all black with a blue stripe.

[dsdraws]

Sketchdaily - Free Draw Friday

[boredkaiju]

Apparently Action 52 had a commercial. I don't know how I feel about this.

[selachidon]

I just think it's weird no one has attempted to just, take the Cheetah men and make something with them.

I mean, they got enough nothing, that you can add your own twist to it, paint them up nice, and still have it connect to the original game.

[searching4rinoa]

Searching4Rinoa Plays - Action 52 FINALE and BONUS GAME

(Sings) “Don’t you know that we’re the muthafuckin’ Cheetahmen?”

[adokle]

And now, The Cheetahmen. And Prof Pickle's Assistant.

[bestofmidi]

submitted by @381181 !!! it's a Touhou themed rearrangement as part of that big Nicovideo fad of doing Cheetahmen theme remixes in the mid-2000s

arranger comments from original web page:

音源の変え方が分かって俺歓喜。そんなノリで作りました。 ブラスの音がちょっと東方ぽくなって嬉しかったんです。 　東方豹人録「チーターマン２」 2007.10.26

original midi at https://web.archive.org/web/20120324055517if_/http://www42.tok2.com/home/samidaremidi/midi/smdr03_cheatah.mid

[firestormmaidenanddragon]

Me: (suffering on Doom TNT because it sucks)

My Brain: …the Angry Video Game Noir.

Me: …what?

My Brain: (shows me Noir in an AVGN cosplay, pulling an angry face)

Me: ...I mean, funny, but why?

[dannykmusic]

I have a new remix out on my Youtube! This time of the infamous Cheetahmen Theme! Action 52 may be notorious in the gaming landscape but this theme goes hard and I wanted to try and emulate that here!

Link to the video: The Cheetahmen Theme (Action 52: EDM Remix) - YouTube Character art created by WavePrism/Autumn, check them out on their socials! Twitter: diddy (@WavePrism_) / X (twitter.com) Tumblr: autumn on Tumblr

[awfulmidis]

Lost Media Found! I knew my cousin vin and said he found this game that was said be buried in sadam andler's closet. an unknown gem, known as nedm. people, and omong gamesters, know this today as "not even doom music", as stated to be a hidden pilgrim of the Meme. But in truth there has been no real answer what nedm stood for. I say it is Nintendo Entertain Dumbo Mondo! Because it was told this was one of those games id software sold their engine to and made a s****y super nintendo shooter!!wtf!?! but in truth it was just a bootleg port for the it made from New Germany. Well anyways we dug a bit deeper on this conntecting the schemy publisher of the bootleg beeing SlyEye, a third-party coop. Ties with Segtendo, idk, idc. Point being they owned the dev team GIGABAD Studio, a colleges dorm squad formed in florida. Know a guy know a guy situation between John Carmack and and Tommy Tallirico (what a bambino!) Vin played the game on Lint.tv and some of the original devs showed up! They talked about how they sold the license to the game for fucking 50k euros. I'm American so I can't get those numbers working at the moment but that's a wallop of fondue! They legit moved onto working in the industry on the side, like the type of guys you'd see in the credits but in the smallest of all texts scrolling by after a 70$ AAA game. They did mention that the bootleg is a complete botched port and the original game made for DOS-MS was vastly different in everywway, so far as saying it's as good as DOOM was but more. This was sort of a small team trying to make it big but gets swindled by the last minute type of crud. Somehow no different than the Action 52/Cheetahmen situation. They even said they had a whole comic that came with the game it was supposed to be shipped with, saying it was like a 1-to-1 story mode as the game goes on. Not a lot info spread aferwards, the stream got cut due to a DMCA takedown from the band Jerry Flintstone from copyright infringement, which alas was just a false auto flag. very luckily i was recording cousin Vinstripe, The Mafia Gamer play this game and paused to listen to the music. This was said to be the final boss's theme song or one of many. the dev said they don't know who made this. they only went by the intitials. A.M.

[ excuse the quality my roommate was downloading deadlock on steam without the thottling so it sounds like an aol.voice chat =[ ]

[fly-pow-bye]

The Lost Blossom Shampoo Commercial

During my very early days on Tumblr, I was loving all the GIFs and I wanted to join the community. Along with my love of video games, I love animation and I love Cartoon Network, and I wanted to contribute even if my main Tumblr, which is all that I had back then, wasn't animation focused. I wanted to give something that nobody else has posted. I knew non-American commercials have unique animation not seen anywhere else, so that felt like a good idea. I decided, to add some unique Cartoon Network GIFs to Tumblr, to look through various Cartoon Network commercial reels on YouTube and Vimeo. One of the videos I found on Vimeo was this reel from Brendan Rogan, a producer at Cartoon Network Latin America. I found a clip of the Powerpuff Girls I had never seen at 0:32.

Wait, is this...a shampoo commercial? Seems really fitting considering the Blossom hair wave scene in The Mane Event, and I shouldn't be surprised someone decided to use something inspired by that scene in advertising. Not going to lie: I was intrigued.

After the break, my entire history of my attempt to track down this commercial.

Right after this part of Blossom that I made the GIF from is this clip of three superhero-like mascots flying around three different bottles of different hair products. The one on the left has a bubbly hairstyle that is the same color as the bubbles shown in the Blossom part, suggesting that these two clips are from the same commercial. I did not want to believe it at first, but it did fit pretty well. The Powerpuff Girls are 6 years old at the most, and they could still be using baby shampoo.

After my searches went nowhere, I e-mailed Brendan Rogan back in 2015, who was pretty much my only lead at the time, about it. Rogan asked me why I wanted to see the "full spot". I immediately recalled one YouTube video about people trying to find the guy from Active Enterprises of Cheetahmen infamy only to be met with an all caps "WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION" and no further replies, and I was hoping it was not going to end like that video. I did e-mail him with honesty, saying I just wanted to see the context of the full spot, and I'm a big Cartoon Network and Powerpuff Girls fan.

Rogan did not reply back.

I did not e-mail him again because I did not want to pester someone about a baby shampoo commercial, and I was holding onto the hope that it'll appear in a upload of commercials on YouTube so I do not have to test my anxiety. Of course, it'd be in way higher quality if I got it from someone who worked on the commercial rather than a VHS recording of commercials, but I was not thinking of that at the time. At least he indirectly confirmed a full spot exists.

Years later, I found a promotional reel based on the Toonix era of Cartoon Network Latin America, dated to 2011. It advertises The Amazing World of Gumball and Johnny Bravo Goes To Bollywood, both from 2011, so I can believe the year. It seemed to be made for investors and advertisers, showing off Cartoon Network's programming, and how they can have synergy with other brands. This includes a bunch of cross-promotion. Showing up at 4:52, to my surprise, is the Blossom ad. It was almost the exact same clip seen in the Rogan reel. The keyword is "almost." I got out my video editing software, and this is what I can see:

The Cartoon Network reel does have more of the commercial we did not see in the Rogan reel, though it's just more of the mascots flying in from outside of the frame and a little bit less of Blossom waving her hair around. This does confirm to me that neither reel was showing a single clip from the full spot, but two clips from different parts of the spot, showing the Cartoon Network character and showing what that Cartoon Network character was advertising. It also reconfirms that what I am looking for is not a Cartoon Network promo, but a baby hair product line commercial.

I also notice that even with these two different appearances, we only have 2.5 seconds of what could be a 15 or 30 second commercial. That alone does make that intriguing even with the possibility that Blossom only appears for that one second and the rest is just a generic baby shampoo ad. I hope that's not it, but it would explain why the full spot was not uploaded.

I did find one other piece of this campaign. It's not from the commercial, but it is related. Maybe it was an extremely lucky Google Image Search, or I just somehow stumbled across it in one of my searches. This was from a company named Bau Print, who specializes in different kinds of printing, including printing on vehicles, and, hey look!

There they are! It's even a photo taken from a camera that wasn't edited, meaning I could see from the metadata that it was taken in April of 2010. That does narrow down the beginning end of my search, though I had no doubt that the spot was at least post-Powerpuff Girls Movie. It also made me realize a bit of lore about these three super obscure mascots: they each represent the three different kinds of intense hydration: shampoo, conditioner, and combing cream. There are no Powerpuff Girls, showing either these superheroes were not just made for the commercial, or they wanted to use them without having to contact Warner Bros. or Cartoon Network.

This picture does prove that this campaign, at the very least, got to the point where it was advertised on trailer trucks. I did have a feeling this was a part of a scrapped campaign; maybe Johnson's got cold feet for having their clean baby shampoo brand be associated with girls that have beaten monkeys, criminals, talking dogs, and clowns to a pulp. However, wouldn't it be false advertising if a campaign that fell through ended up in a video that seemed to be made for advertisers?

And that's where my search runs cold. I have searched a lot of Cartoon Network Latin America commercial breaks on and off over the years, and I even used Filmot to search YouTube's subtitles for phrases that could be a part of it, like that "salud es belleza" tagline on that truck, and the full spot remains elusive after years of searching. I guess I could just imagine what the rest of the commercial could be.

The City of J&Jville, where our heroic trio responds to a dis-tress call: Blossom, superheroine of Townsville, is having a bad hair day and won't have the confidence to beat up Mojo Jojo and stop his "turn everyone into chickens with his chicken ray" plan. Lather, Rinse, and Repeat are called to action, and with their ultra-cleaning powers, they go into Blossom's hair as she stares at the mirror, and her hair magically turns luscious again. With her newfound confidence, Blossom flies to Mojo Jojo, and knocks his teeth out, bruising him with all of her techniques, her flurry of punches, her eye lasers, and the dreaded ponytail whiplash! The day is saved thanks to Blossom, and Johnson's Baby Hidratación Intensa! (Warning: Baby shampoo will not give your baby superpowers, do not let them fight crime.)

...okay, maybe that violence wouldn't have happened, but there is only one way we can find out for sure, and I can only wish I could find that way. So uh, here's another shampoo ad starring Hanna-Barbera characters that appears to be unrelated. Yes, the Powerpuff Girls are technically Hanna-Barbera. Bye.

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