In order to achieve their goal, the Mutants ally with an evil entity known as Mumm-Ra. However, they are closely pursued by their arch enemies, the Mutants, who seek to obtain the Eye of Thundera, the source of the ThunderCats' powers. The show centers around the ThunderCats, a group of heroic humanoid cats who, after the destruction of their home planet Thundera, are forced to look for a new home, which they find on Third Earth.

Psychological Consultant: Robert Kuisis PhD.

Project Development: Leisure Concepts Inc.

Based on Characters Created by: Ted Wolf.Animation by: Pacific Animation Corporation.Executive Producers: Arthur Rankin Jr.Lion-O: Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats, Ho These 'themes' utilised a number of different but distinct musical instruments in order to make each theme as unique as possible e.g 'Cheetara's Theme' is played mostly on flutes whereas 'Tygra's Theme' consists of mostly trumpets. He composed and recorded a number of leitmotifs for each of the main characters, vehicles and locations as well as for certain situations. The music for Thundercats was scored by American composer, Bernard Hoffer. After the animation was done, the completed episode would be sent back to America to be broadcast. The script writing and voice recordings were done in America and these would then be sent to PAC to be animated. Since the show was targetted at an American audience, special attention was given to make sure that the look of the show did not resemble 'Anime', which was very popular in Japanese animation. Thundercats was animated using the traiditional '2D cel animation' technique. The head of PAC was Masaki Iizuka, who supervised the production of Thundercats. Like most of the animated shows produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, the animation of Thundercats was done in Japan by the company Pacific Animation Corporation (PAC). Peter Lawrence served as script consultant while Lee Dannacher acted as the supervising producer. He is the man responsible for creating the iconic Thundercats logo which consists of a black lion head inside n a red circle.

Mike Germakian of LCI provided the artwork as well as designing the characters and vehicles.

and Jules Bass, the founders of Rankin/Bass Productions, approved it and production immediately began on 'Thundercats'.ДЄcclaimed comic book writer Leonard Starr was hired as the head writer to develop the characters, stories and world of the ThunderCats. Impressed with Wolf's concept, Arthur Rankin Jr. (LCI), presented the proposal to Rankin/Bass, who were a reputed animation company, known for their animated season television specials. During the early 1980s, he and his friend Stan Weston (then President of Leisure Concepts Inc. Ted Wolf had an idea about creating an animated show based on humanoid cats.

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