"Space Stallions": a brilliant love letter to '80s adventure cartoon clichés

As darkness is covering the multiverse, far away in the galaxy of the wild stallion, a spark of hope is born.
Guided by the light of Mother Mustang, the Space Stallions must defeat the Demon of darkness, Destructo... 

This is a student project by Thorvaldur S. Gunnarsson, Jonatan Brüsch, Ágúst Kristinsson, Arna Snæbjørnsdottir, Esben J. Jespersen, Touraj Khosravi and Polina Bokhan of The Animation Workshop in Denmark. And it is totally awesome. But be warned: it is more homage than parody.



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Obligatory Honda CR-V Matthew/Ferris Post

Like many of you, I have already seen this on AdFreak and elsewhere. I'm just posting it so people stop sending it to me.



It's a really great piece of '80s homage, and is really kind to the source material as well as the actor's dignity. Well done, RPA.

More background info here and here.

It's not that I'm not also fascinated by the Super Bowl advertising orgy of conspicuous budget consumption. I just hate to be overly "me too" on this blog.