#tundro

[chernobog13]

Hanna-Barbera's Saturday morning superheroes by Steve Rude:

Tog; Mightor; Birdman; Avenger; The Galaxy Trio - Meteor Man, Gravity Girl, Vapor Man; The Herculoids - Gloop, Dorno, Tara, Gleep, Zok, Igoo, Tundro, Zandor; Frankenstein Jr.; Buzz Conroy; Jan; Jace; Blip; Space Ghost; The Impossibles - Fluid Man, Coil Man, Multi Man.

[acmeoop]

The Herculoids Pitch Art & Model Cel (1966/67)

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Herculoids: Tundro

Art by Steve Rude

[the-gershomite]

The Herculoids by Lord

[nstile]

Glazzio Sential Brick Look Porcelain Tile

[devildomsimeon]

A question for you:

How was it like recording your unit song, Question Love?

-🐺🪶

Hmm.. it was fun! Although, I accidentally went overboard with the autotune. Luke was showing me and I forgot all about it..

Despite that, it was still enjoyable to sing. And I love how it turned out!!

Also. I forgot to name you last time you asked! So I'll do that now.

Maybe you're going for a foresty vibe? Or an animal focused one? I'm thinking Timber. Maybe just Wolf. But the feather would have me thinking something less focused on that. Tundro. Maybe just skipping the two altogether and naming you Coyote? Ethio?

I'm sorry if you don't like any of these.. I tried! Please tell me if you liked any of these.. or if you want to be called something else!

[sublimedestructivevoid]

This is a great rendition of the Herculoids...

...but why the heck is Tundro so tiny? Her name is literally Tundro the Tremendous. Maybe it's a baby Tundro?

Still loving the art though.

[artofjoshuaclarke]

KAIJUNE DAY 13: Tundro

It came raining boulders.

Scouts searched desperately for where exactly the bombardment was coming from. Reports from outside said that strange stones charged with glowing green energy were raining down, stones that did not merely shatter on impact but burst apart with tremendous force. Explosions be damned this was tons of rock hurtling in every direction at high speed, it was cleaving through the buildings that remained, further hammering our meagre shelters - and threatening the Genesis Engine.

Before we had countered every theat, our own crafted champions were defending the city at this very moment. Between the low booms we could hear the high pitched screech of the Steed and the burbling howl of the Krakenwulf, the grinding thrum of the Highway and the bellowing scream of the Hunter Killer. Blood and Ichor flowed and light flashed. But it was not enough, even if our own defeated the howling titans outside we could scarcely expect them to assail whatever it was that shelled us incessantly, especially with the recently revealed looming danger of the Shade.

Word came of something in the hills outside the city. A living rock, chewing stone and bombarding us with energy infusing what passed through its internal systems. Aerial support is what was needed here. Something that could traverse the distance at speed, and distract Mortarus while our own wounded titans closed the distance and brought the fight to it directly. The damage was mounting, it was clear that there would need to be repairs to the Engine after this, and something else had become paramount, we needed to be able to move the Genesis Engine somehow. But for the moment we were scanning our files. There had to be something that could fly in our arsenal. We had several options on file but not a bird of prey was compatible with our available volunteers. But there, a single match - it would not be a bird but a bat.

Sparks flew and rubble had begun to fall from the ceiling. We almost hurled the academy volunteer into the engine and engaged the Genesis Engine. Circuits blew and fires erupted, the lights went out, and a thrumming bellow echoed from the Engine.

And a titan on leather wings took to the sky.

[omniversalobservations]

Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure (1982?)

Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure featuring the most fantastic collection of spectacular super heroic stars ever assembled! They will take you on adventures in space, meeting strange creatures, to exotic lands and fantastic flights of fancy, to jungle planets and mysterious invaders, to prehistoric times and super forces, to honored and winged avengers, to giant, terrifying creatures against primitive power. In space, land, sea and air, it's a variety of stars – mighty, musical, athletic, extraordinary – from funtastic to the fantastic where amazing weapons, men and robots meet in combat in the far-out reaches of the universe. Dedicated to protecting the peace, these fantastic heroes defend the weak, right the wrong and battle against the forces of evil everywhere. And now it's take-off time for the gathering of the greatest…Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure! Source: Wikipedia

This image was painted by Bob Singer in 1973. The heroes shown here are Birdman, Shazzan, Frankenstein, Jr., Human Torch, Coil-Man, Fluid-Man, Young Samson, Goliath, Space Ghost, Superman, Mighty Mightor, Wonder Woman, Batman, Thing, Zok, Tundro, Zandor, Gloop and Gleep. Source: SuperFriends Wiki

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"NO ONE WAS USING THESE CHARACTERS AT THE TIME I PAINTED THIS" -- THE HANNA-BARBERA UNIVERSE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a piece titled "Hanna-Barbera Heroes" (2001), artwork by Alex Ross, and created for the Warner Bros. Studio Stores as a tribute to the most notable superhero types of characters from Hanna-Barbera’s extensive library of cartoon shows.

"No one was using these characters at the time I painted this.  They weren’t even in regular rotation on Cartoon Network at the time. I talked Warner Bros. into letting me do this huge image, even though I was unfamiliar with many of the characters."

-- ALEX ROSS (American comic-book artist/writer/painter) on his "Hanna-Barbera" piece

Now, for one of the greatest roll calls I've ever posted on here, so here goes:

The Blue Falcon and Dyno-Mutt ("Blue Falcon & Dyno-Mutt"); Blip, Jan, Jace, and Space Ghost ("Space Ghost"); Shazzan, Kaboobie, Chuck, and Nancy ("Shazzan"); Tundro, Gleep, Igoo, Gloop, Zok, Tara, King Zandor, and Dorno ("The Herculoids"); Samson and Goliath ("Samson & Goliath"); Jayna, Gleek, Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, Zan, Samurai, Marvin, Wendy, and Wonder Dog ("Super Friends"); Mightor ("The Mighty Mightor"); Avenger and Birdman ("Birdman"); Vapor Man, Meteor Man, and Gravity Girl ("The Galaxy Trio"); Raseem, Bez, Fariik, Prince Turhan, Princess Nida, and Zazuum ("Arabian Knights"); and Jana ("Jana of the Jungle").

Resolution from largest to smallest: 3552x2688, 3476x2400, 3183x1571, & 1280x1222 (2x).

Source: www.illustrationhistory.org/illustrations/hanna-barbera-heroes.

[frankendykes-monster]

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, two former animation directors for MGM’s Tom & Jerry theatrical shorts, all but revolutionized animation on TV. By focusing on character models and backgrounds and limiting actual movement, Hanna-Barbera were able to create dozens of hours of television cartoons. They began with kids comedies like The Huckleberry Hound Show and Yogi Bear; then they transitioned to primetime sitcoms like The Flintstones and The Jetsons. Eventually, beginning with Jonny Quest in 1964, they’d also do action series. By the end of the ’60s, H-B gave audiences possibly the weirdest of these series: The Herculoids.

Jonny Quest proved you could do action animation without much, well, action or animation. The series got by on its amazing, comic-book-like designs and tableaux. While Quest only lasted one season in primetime, it proved the studio could appeal to a young audience in the market for action, adventure, a little bit of horror, and science fiction. Hiring character designer and eventual series creator Alex Toth, H-B gave the world Space Ghost and Dino Boy, a half-hour timeslot made up of two mini-episodes of Space Ghost and one of a much less interesting show, Dino Boy in the Lost Valley. Toth would similarly create Birdman and the Galaxy Trio.

In both instances, Toth’s talents created a superhero series with unique and offbeat villains fighting a stalwart hero. Whether patrolling space or Earth, Space Ghost and Birdman were typical superhero-types fighting against various baddies. But The Herculoids, which premiered in 1967, the same year as Birdman, was different. It was almost like Toth wanted to see if he could make a series entirely about character design, with hardly any world building or “rules” as such.

The show’s opening narration bears this out. Its first line—spoken by voice actor Mike Road, who voices basically every adult male and creature on the show—is exceptionally vague. SOMEWHERE OUT IN SPACE LIVE THE HERCULOIDS.

That’s it! That’s all we know before we get a rollcall of characters.

"Zok, the laser ray dragon; Igoo, the giant rock ape; Tundro the tremendous; Gloop and Gleep, the formless, fearless wonders; with Zandor, their leader, and his wife Tara and son Dorno. They team up to defend their planet from sinister invaders. All strong, all brave, all heroes. They’re…The Herculoids!"

That is literally all we ever get in terms of who or what the characters are. Zandor, Tara, and Dorno are all humans who look vaguely like Robert E. Howard barbarians. But those other weirdos?! They don’t look like they’re from the same planet, much less the same team. Zok is just a dragon. You know dragons. Igoo is a gorilla made of rock. Tundro is a six-legged mix of a rhino and an armadillo who shoots energy balls from its horn. And Gloop and Gleep are just blobs of stretchy goo with two black eyeballs. Certainly very iconic designs, but not of a piece in any way. We don’t even know what a “Herculoid” is and why this group are them.

Moreover, all they do is fight off planetary invaders. But why these interlopers want the planet (which is either called Amzot or Quasar depending on the episode) is never established; it looks for the most part like a primeval world full of jungles and rocks. It’s not until the ninth episode that we even see other people on the planet, as the Herculoids help some villagers who are under attack from raider apes. Sometimes there are castles on the planet, sometimes just grass huts, other times no signs of life at all.

And the villains are all, for the most part, way better equipped. Invading armies or robot death squads, each with armor and laser guns. And yet a man with a shield and a slingshot (yes really) and his gang of weird beasts that don’t talk always win. Each of the 18 episodes of the series consists of two usually unrelated adventures. There’s nothing like a central narrative at work throughout any of them, and each adventure is pretty much the same, save for a new villain or threat. Only one baddie ever even recurs. You can essentially watch any episode in any order. And yet, all of these very strange disparate elements totally work for me. This was a show designed to keep kids engaged for 20 minutes at a time and it’s fully watchable as such. In its gorgeous Blu-ray edition from Warner Archive, I can just throw on a disc and hit “play all” and just enjoy myself while I do other things. It’s got monsters fighting robots and stuff, man! What more could you want?!

The Herculoids gained a fervent cult following over the years, mainly due to its undeniably cool character designs. In 1981, Hanna-Barbera brought them back as part of their Space Stars block along with Space Ghost and two additional space-themed hero shows. I remember my dad being so excited to introduce me to The Herculoids when we got Cartoon Network in the ’90s; this was the peak of animated action when he was growing up.

Toth was a lot like the Jack Kirby of animation. He let his imagination run wild with characters and designs, and for several years, he was the king. If nothing else, The Herculoids occupies a special place in the history of Hanna-Barbera animation in the pre- Scooby-Doo 1960s. And without The Herculoids, Hanna-Barbera offshoot Ruby-Spears Productions would never have produced Thundarr the Barbarian, and that show absolutely rules. Oh wait, that’s right; Kirby and Toth designed those characters too.

[chernobog13]

Birdman and the Herculoids by Steve Rude.

[male1971]

The Herculoids (1967) CBS

On the planet Amzot, the space barbarian family Zandor, Tara and son Dorno fight alongside their giant pets the Herculoids—laser dragon Zok, space rhinoceros Tundro, rock ape Igoo and the shape-shifting Gloop and his son Gleep—to keep their planet safe from invading robots, mad scientists and mutants.

Painting by Alex Ross

[geekcavepodcast]

Dynamite Reveals "Herculoids" Creative Team

Dynamite Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery have revealed the creative team for the previously announced Herculoids comic book series. Joining writer Tom Sniegoski will be artist Craig Rousseau. The comic is inspired by the Hanna-Barbera cartoon/

The Herculoids are "composed of father and leader Zandor, his wife Tara, and son Dorno team up with Zok the laser-shooting dragon, Igoo the rock ape, Tundro the rhinoceros, and the shape-shifting Gloop and Gleep. ... The legendary planet of Amzot sits in the far reaches of deepest, darkest space. It's a planet of extreme riches, but those who seek it out are routinely struck by untold disaster and terrible fates. Anyone who manages to survive to tell the tale speaks of horrific, imposing guardian monsters that protect it. Yet raiders and explorers continue coming, only to meet the Herculoids again and again!" (Dynamite Entertainment)

The Herculoids #1, rated Teen, goes on sale in February 2025. The comic sports covers from Francesco Mattina, Dan Panosian, Byorn Barends, Joseph Michael Linsner, and Mike Mignola.

(Image via Dynamite Entertainment - Dan Pansoian's Cover of The Herculoids #1)

[summer-solo-day]

44/?? Childhood TV Shows You Should Watch

Title: The Herculoids

Episodes: 18 (original) / 11 (revival)

Run Time: 22 Mins

Original Air Date: September 9, 1967 - January 6, 1968

Synopsis:

On the planet Amzot (renamed Quasar in the revival), the space barbarian family Zandor, Tara, and son Dorno fight alongside their giant pets the Herculoids—laser dragon Zok, space rhinoceros Tundro, rock ape Igoo, and the shape-shifting Gloop and his son Gleep—to keep their planet safe. The Herculoids themselves possessed human-level intelligence, understood human speech, and often displayed various emotions.

My Rating: 8/10

My Reasoning:

I always liked this show. I remember watching it with my dad a lot. I mean it wasn't my favorite show, but I did enjoy it. I remember always thinking the setting was interesting and the characters seemed so unique (well the Herculoids anyway lol). Gleep and Gloop were my favorites. They didn't speak but were adorable and I just really liked them.

As far as superhero shows go I think it's pretty good. Check out for yourself and I think it will probably reel you into watching all the episodes.

[the-gershomite]

Herculoids by Aaron Lopresti