This brought back good memories, they should have put the first four
eps in order.

I first discovered Jayce and the WW when I was a fresman in college and found it, to my surprise, very engaging and fairly mature for a "cartoon".

Most are not aware, including me at the time, that it was penned by Mr. J Michael Strazynski himself and he imported a few of his ideas from this series into Babylon 5.

http://www.wheelies.net/wwb5/secretsymbol.html

I think all B5 fans should begin to lobby "The Animation Station" to release the whole series on DVD in order. If nothing more than to be able to experience JMS's work early on in his career.

This series of cartoons is absolutely genius and certainly one of the best cartoon series I remember from the 80's. It centures around Jayce and a few pals fighting a maniacal group of plants that turn into vehicles toting chainsaws known as the monsterminds in their set of cars with special abilites a bit like the ones in M.A.S.K. "Thundering across the stars Jayce searches for his father to unite the magic root and lead his wheeled warriors to victory over the changing forms of SawBoss. Wheeled Warriors explode into action, lightning strikes.... "Very Cool"

I loved this cartoon when I was little specifically because it did not talk down to it's audiences. It assumed that we would be interested in and then capable of following along a complex storyline.

Yes (like many cartoons in the 1970's and 1980's) there was lots of tie-in-merchandise for us to bug our parents about. But this series was always so much more than a transparent toy commercial. It is a powerful tale about humanity, biology, science, ethics, technology, and justice.

Audric is a scientist, but one of his experiments goes bad and creates the Monster Minds. Led by the psychotic Saw Boss, these machine-plant hybrids are bent on world domination. Taking over Audric's lab, the Monster Minds subsequently make it their lair.

Meanwhile Audric must reunite with his son, Jayce if the Monster Minds are to be defeated.

Audric created a magic root to defeat the Monster Minds, but it was split into two halves and his son has the other. If the world will be saved, that root has to be reunited.

Jayce is only 19 years old this season (and still acts brash) but he demonstrates considerable maturity in the face of everything he has to deal with on a regular basis.

Jayce is aided by Gillian (the technowhiz who designed the vehicles and the pragmatic pacifist).

Flora is Gillian and Audric's experiment which turned out right. She was literally born of a plant and thus can communicate with plants and animals. This also means that she can sense when the Monster Minds are near--and it is time for battle. Jayce and the other people think of her as a little sister, but she really has a pivotal role in this series. Because I was around her age when the series originally aired, she was my favorite character.

Other than the bad people (who we're supposed to not like) I don't hate anybody on this series. There is some violence, but it is generally mild compared to some of the other 80's 'battle cartoons' and certainly mild against some of today's offerings. Made at the height of broadcast cartoon popularity, this series is one of the few which really can draw in viewers of all ages.

It's neat seeing the first episode of this series and remembering how the Lighting League came into being, but I think season DVD sets should be released.

I remember this, though I wasn't a "child" I was a HS freshman or something, but I still loved it.(It is better than Cowboy B. S. which is clownish) The dialogue is kiddish, but it is to be ignored for the excellent stories and those odd-sounding cars which I told my Dad were "rotary engines". My bro thought it was a Star Wars rip-off Jayce(or "Jace" as I misspelled in my own commic books I wrote about him for fun) winned like Skywalker about his father and sounded like a ninie. The Herc Character(yes Han Soloesque so sue me!) was my favorite and had more personality than the others in this series. The guys were witty and the girls were pretty, what more could you want? Better than the PC bull-- out now. I am not a fan of Aname but liked this and the Thunder Cats as well as the Hobbit(yes it was anime too.)