Non-Disney Disney cartoons you grew up with?

[MegaHiro91]

When I scout for VHS cartoons for my collection I often stumble on what you could call "knock-offs" of the popular tales most of us grew up on from Disney, Warner Bros, Don Bluth, and other big names, like Thumbelina, Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid etc. But considering none of these studios invented these stories, it really ain't right to call other iterations "knock-offs". They have just as much a right to excist just because they weren't made on a million dollar budget.

But this is what I really wanted to ask and what the topic infers: Did any of you grow up with these "knock-offs"? Because as popular as the Disney, WB, DB etc versions are, I find it fascinating to think of those who didn't grow up with those versions. Those to whom the "knock-offs" are the real thing. Those who are nostalgic for the "knock-offs".

 

[bjork]

I feel like in the US, kids who got these generally received them as gifts from relatives who just weren't aware that it wasn't Disney's version. "It's a cartoon tape and it says Aladdin, that's got to be the one" kind of a thing.

I didn't personally have any of these, because I generally just watched whatever was on TV instead of VHS, but: in the mid-80s there was that period where you had a cartoon for Ghostbusters, and then The Real Ghostbusters. Apparently the original Ghostbuster was some British thing that I'm fully unfamiliar with, but their cartoon had like a gorilla and a car that could convert in weird ways or something? Anyway, it was vastly different from the one with Egon and Slimer or whatever, but I watched them both at the time. Which one is a bootleg, or is sharing a name simply a coincidence? Who knows

 

[jon2]

The Adventures of Peter Pan and The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli, both by Nippon Animation, also Kimba the White Lion (somewhat similar to the Lion King but came out first)

Especially Peter Pan, the local dub of the anime was more popular than the Disney version

 

[rugal]

did grow up with vhs
the hunch back of notre dam 1986 its not a disney version

Porwanie w Tiutiurlistanie one of the main character dies and remember the scene where they torture the cat character

treasure of swamp castle
captain of the forest

 

[tigg]

G.I. Joe, He-Man, Transzor Z (Mazinger Z), Battle of the Planets (Gatcha), and so many more I can't recall the names for

 

[MegaHiro91]

I feel like in the US, kids who got these generally received them as gifts from relatives who just weren't aware that it wasn't Disney's version. "It's a cartoon tape and it says Aladdin, that's got to be the one" kind of a thing.

I didn't personally have any of these, because I generally just watched whatever was on TV instead of VHS, but: in the mid-80s there was that period where you had a cartoon for Ghostbusters, and then The Real Ghostbusters. Apparently the original Ghostbuster was some British thing that I'm fully unfamiliar with, but their cartoon had like a gorilla and a car that could convert in weird ways or something? Anyway, it was vastly different from the one with Egon and Slimer or whatever, but I watched them both at the time. Which one is a bootleg, or is sharing a name simply a coincidence? Who knows

We had a Snow White cartoon that borrowed ideas from other cartoons, like how when the dwarves first find Snowy they think that "goldielocks has broken in again". In this version she is a terrible cook meaning that the dwarves often eat out at Burger Queen, and the mirror, which is the best thig about the film, is a wise cracking comedian.

 

[Captain Murphy]

Rankin Bass had some lit cartoon and stop-motion animation films going on up until their dissolution in the mid 80's. Just finished watching, 'The life and Adventures of Santa Claus'. The tone of the film is undeniably strange, almost ethereal and yet it is quality stuff.

 

[Graw]

I remember having a couple of those weird knockoff cartoon tapes and watching a few of them on tv but it feels kind of like a fever dream because i'm trying to find any that I remember on the internet and the only one I managed to find was this one:

It actually wasn't too bad. Or at least I remember liking it well enough as a kid that we watched it more than once. It was supposed to be a sequel to snow white or something but with women dwarves instead of men. I don't remember anything else about it except for that. It also has a higher ranking on IMDb than the new snow white movie.

 

[ATenderLad]

I feel like in the US, kids who got these generally received them as gifts from relatives who just weren't aware that it wasn't Disney's version. "It's a cartoon tape and it says Aladdin, that's got to be the one" kind of a thing.

I didn't personally have any of these, because I generally just watched whatever was on TV instead of VHS, but: in the mid-80s there was that period where you had a cartoon for Ghostbusters, and then The Real Ghostbusters. Apparently the original Ghostbuster was some British thing that I'm fully unfamiliar with, but their cartoon had like a gorilla and a car that could convert in weird ways or something? Anyway, it was vastly different from the one with Egon and Slimer or whatever, but I watched them both at the time. Which one is a bootleg, or is sharing a name simply a coincidence? Who knows

There's a little bit of a funny story to that. The Ghost Busters was a 70's CBS comedy that everyone forgot about, but Ghostbusters (1984) wound up having to license the name once some lawyers reminded them. The name owners also wanted their company to produce an animated show, but it was handed off to a different company instead. Soooo they went ahead and made a cartoon sequel to the 70's show largely out of spite! The confusion was actually intentional.

 

[Antilocal123]

I was quite fond of Invader Zim, I heard Walt himself made that! /j

 

[Elwiwi]

SpongeBob , ben 10 and the Simpsons along with a lot more

 

[Skeetos]

My sister used to have this set of movies with shit like Swan Lake on it. The Swan Lake one is all I remember but there were a few others like Snow White and Rapunzel on it.