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* The formula was copy-pasted for the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', which included "ooze" and featured humanoid creatures covered with garbage and insects. |
* The formula was copy-pasted for the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', which included "ooze" and featured humanoid creatures covered with garbage and insects. |
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* Similarly ''[[Swamp Thing]]''; both were kid-washed animated versions of violent comics. The latter succeeded only as a toyline, since only five episodes were made. ''Toxic Crusaders'', of ''The Toxic Avenger'' fame, got a slightly better deal with 13 episodes. |
* Similarly ''[[Swamp Thing]]''; both were kid-washed animated versions of violent comics. The latter succeeded only as a toyline, since only five episodes were made. ''Toxic Crusaders'', of ''The Toxic Avenger'' fame, got a slightly better deal with 13 episodes. |
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* ''[[Mighty Max]]'' was created as a toyline specifically to cash on that trend, although its animated version was toned down with a graphic style closer to ''[[Batman |
* ''[[Mighty Max]]'' was created as a toyline specifically to cash on that trend, although its animated version was toned down with a graphic style closer to ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''. |
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* ''Creepy Crawlers'' was also spawned from a toyline, this time without the stylish look upgrade for the cartoon. |
* ''Creepy Crawlers'' was also spawned from a toyline, this time without the stylish look upgrade for the cartoon. |
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* Initially, ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' cashed that cow too, with many of their adversaries looking like Otto Mann's acid dreams (Rita Repulsa probably took lessons from Rob Zombie himself). |
* Initially, ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' cashed that cow too, with many of their adversaries looking like Otto Mann's acid dreams (Rita Repulsa probably took lessons from Rob Zombie himself). |
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* ''[[Goosebumps]]'' is not far from that. |
* ''[[Goosebumps]]'' is not far from that. |
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* ''[[Tales |
* ''[[Tales from the Crypt]]'' and its animated series were kind of the sophisticated version of that. |
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* The ''[[Mutant League]]'' games are a nice example; they even spawned a cartoon that lasted more than one season. |
* The ''[[Mutant League]]'' games are a nice example; they even spawned a cartoon that lasted more than one season. |
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* The [[He-Man and |
* The [[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|Masters of theUniverse]] villains, the Evil Horde, got an entire playset based around this concept, the Horde Slime Pit. A claw would reach up to ensnare an action hero, and then a dinosaur skull would open its jaw to drop the official "slime," a green semisolid that came in a canister, similar to the Ghostbusters product above. |
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