We could even do some Japanese anime and European cartoons eventually like The Moomins, Vicky the Viking, Star Fleet/X Bomber etc.
I’m all in for “Vicky the Viking”! :biggrin
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I downloaded episodes 1-52 the other week from YouTube. I remember recording a few episodes of it when I was younger over the summer holiday mornings along with Inspector Gadget and He-Man. It was rather fun cartoon. Did you know it had a CGI series a few years ago along with a live action movie.
Also Did you know there is a live action Gatchman/Battle of the Planets movie? I recall you mentioning BOTP a while back.
Speaking of animes, the reviews of the live action Ghost in the Shell movie are not very good.
I have memories of Vicky The Viking from about the summer of 1991, I think it was shown over here. I can’t remember a lot about it, but it would probably come flooding back if I did see it. Rather like King Arthur And The Knights Of Justice, which I saw a year or two later, when I looked it up at first, I only vaguely remembered a couple of episodes or so, but when I watched it all through, a lot more came back to me.
One other thing about the DuckTales title sequence - I forgot to point this out yesterday, but if you watch it, you’ll notice that only one of the nephews is ever shown individually in the titles, and that’s Huey. I have no idea why this is. Especially as a couple of the sequences with him and not the others were not actually in any episodes!
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Vicky might have been shown in the UK a year or so earlier but I definitely 100% recall watching and recording it during summer 1991 as it was on the same tape as the mid/later season episodes of The New Adventures of He-Man. That’s another show we should cover after the Filmation He-Man series. 
Speaking of KAATKOJ last year I got a good look at the action figures from the show, that were made by Mattel and they built to the same design aesthetic (an re-used some toys) of the He-Man MOTU toys. I only got to see a couple episodes of the cartoon on TV here. Regardless of the TV show though if I had seen the toys at that time know I would definitely have been wanting them since they were like MOTU toys and actually looked like knights. 
As for Huey perhaps the animators thought red stood out better against the background.
Well, in the only bits from an actual episode, he’s only in his usual attire in one clip, and is scrambling up a reddish rocky cliff, while in the other he’s got some sort of page boy’s uniform on.
The other clips he’s in alone, which weren’t in the show, are the custard pies sequence with Scrooge and the Beagle Boys, so there’s plenty of red already there. The remaining one, he’s in the spaceship with Gyro.
I suppose I should have actually watched the intro again before I said that. Perhaps then the animators just thought the red would work better with the background.
Never noticed that! Maybe the people who picked the scenes to include in the title sequence just looked at the “action” scenes from those first episodes and Huey just happened to be the one in such scenes? Just guessing.
The point was, half of the Huey-only sequences weren’t from any episodes!
Ah, I see. Well I think I have a sort of logical and likely explanation for that. The colors of the outfits of the three nephews changed a lot from their inception until now. There was a time in the 70s when all three dressed only in red. This was changed in the 80s to red, blue and green.
So my guess is that the non-episode sequences were made by animators very early on, before the tri-color was established for their look in the DuckTales cartoon, and hence they used only red since it would be the color of all three nephews.
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A bit like how they used the TMNT comic images to promote the games and toys and cartoon when they all wore red instead of the four different colours.
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Exactly!! Even the cover of the NES TMNT game shows all the four turtles wearing red bandanas when in fact in the game they are all wearing the cartoon colors.
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Oddly enough on the previous video game they used a cartoon accurate piece of art work. It wasn’t as cool looking but it was a vastly superior game.