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Oh, I still love this cartoon, even if it's a bit dated now. I don't really 'do' rides, but that has nothing to do with the consequences of taking this one..
As I mentioned in a previous comment, Sheila the rogue is one of those heroines I wanted to be. Invisibility is definitely a great skill to have! I always thought something would happen between her and Hank, but - as I'm sure you know - this cartoon never made it to its final episode. It's a shame, but it also adds to the legend!

To me, the most memorable episodes have always been 'The Eye of the Beholder' and 'Child of the Stargazer' (I do own the box set these days though).

And if you care for some trivia, Sheila was voiced by Katie Leigh, who also voiced Sunni Gummi in Gummi Bears and Rowlf in Muppet Babies.

I also had the theme tune as my ringtone for a while. <3

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I'm sure it's no surprise that this show was a big favorite of mine as a kid. :) I've been using Venger as a screen name for almost fifteen years now. :P

Venger is a badass! What do I even need to say? hehe One of my favorite villains of all 80's cartoons, right up there with Cobra Commander, Megatron, and Skeletor.

Not to mention that Venger was voiced by the great Peter Cullen, Optimus Prime himself!

As a kid, I was disappointed in two major things: Why didn't at least one of the characters get a sword? What, "too violent"? But clubs and laser arrows are ok? I always thought there should have been a character with a sword, and they didn't have any cool toys for the show! A few exist (Tiamat and Warduke in particular), but are pretty hard to find. NO decent figure of Venger. Denied. :/

Watching it now, some episodes are sillier than others, but they did try to work in a lot of DnD lore into it. Creatures, spells... and back to Tiamat, who I thought was freaking AWESOME as kid (and now!), was SO totally just Takhisis from DragonLance, one of my favorite fantasy series EVER!

I think the one thing I really truly love about this show, maybe even more now than as a kid, but I did back then as well, is the music. Some of the best music of all Saturday Morning Cartoons! In particular, the music over the closing credits. Maybe it's just the massive nostalgia attack it triggers in my ever single time I hear it, reminding me of late Saturday mornings in the mid 80's, that music and the end of the DnD show meaning the end of cartoons for the day. (I remember it mostly coming on around maybe 11, 11:30-ish? I forget what came on after, but I think it was the last cartoon of the morning.)