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  • I remember watching this after school when I was supposed to do homework.

  • Good lord, I remember watching this on Nickelodeon in the early Am before school.

  • Damn :( ,, I feel I am getting old

  • As a kid I always thought this song was the same as Toto's rain in Africa..

  • Old school Nickelodeon at its best!!

  • its funny... I used to watch this all the time when I was a kid and I have absolutely NO idea what it was about. I'll have to check it out on Netflix. But I definitely remember that intro... what a crazy intro... coming from Outer Space and shit!! How it must've shaped my young mind...

  • Loved it ... still love it on Boomerang!

  • I was sent here by DeStorm and I'm happy I came :D

  • why, why, WHY was i born in the nineties and missed this amazing looking cartoon?

    I gotta learn how to speak freacnh.....just so i can watch this!

  • 23 people found silver!

  • @SuperBIGTEL Ironically I just wear silver but I loved this show as a kid. lol

  • I nostalgia'd so hard watching this, I went out and bought the entire series on DVD. Me and my 8-year old nephew have watched the first 5 or 6 episodes together, and he's hooked - already knows the theme song. Quality never gets old.

  • Its taken me years to find this. Thanks hulu and youtube! Try explaining this cartoon to ppl when you can't remember the name of the show. lol

  • The show is now on Netflix. Im enjoying it all over again with my sons.

  • This is why I love youtube, clips of classic stuff I can get all nostalgic about :)

  • Ever since I first saw him playing Tennis, I've imagined Rafa Nadal looked like Estaban as a kid.

  • this was one of my faves as a kid, loved the show.

  • I would love to watch a video of my youth and feel the joy and wonderment of even the simpliest of things I had then. As you get older, life sucks

  • @IzzyWizzy1982 That is so harsh, but ALL so very TRUE. I'm an 80s baby myself ('82 to be exact) and I remember this theme like it was just yesterday, but I must admit I didn't catch very many of the episodes, but this theme was/is so darn catchy that is has stuck with me for 15 years now. Smh, lol Awwwwwww, the memories and oh how I miss my moments in my childhood... :-D ---> :-(

  • @Dizkord I actually saw this again on a mashup of cartoon intros - i had seen it before but completely forgot about it till then.

  • @ChrisAshtear Really Chris? I wonder if they air it somewhere out there in TVLAND. lol I'll keep an eye out for it because there is NO MISTAKING the lyrics, music, or song. I really liked this show when I was younger, but it did not stay on the air for very long in the late 80s.

  • I just heard the theme today again! Don't even have any memories of watching these as a kid (26 now)...sooooo catchy!

  • i remember being gutted if i missed an episode. felt like it went on for years back when i was a kid. think ill need to buy it on dvd!

  • sometimes i get drunk and sit on you tube and watch this in some nostalgic memory

  • @sacrificialtotem I thought it was just me who does that! ha ha ha ha.

  • I remember watching on Nick when I was a kid

  • i remember this was my fav cartoons at the time but we got the french version with portuguese subtitiles....

  • I was about 4 when this was broadcast in the 80's and I can only remember the tune and the odd parts of the intro bits...but the tune was that good that I used to sing it to myself and today I still remember it from back then. I had to look it up now Im 28 and I still love the intro tune. Cool. :)

  • I am pretty sure I had to watch this before duck tales came on when I was a kid. 2 hours of searching and I finally found out what this show was. Random memories can be annoying.

  • Did they ever find it?

  • @TheJosborn7 Yep the eventually find it but a weird race of Alien highly advanced in technology controls them and at the end it all melt into the sea....or something like....It's been a long long time.

    No joke, I'm not making anything up. This cartoon was weird at time.

  • heard a guy cover this song in quebec once at a bar, claimed to have no idea what i was talking about when i brought up the cartoon.

  • @aimlessfaces Seriously? That is so weird. He probably was embarrassed or subconsciously stole it and thought it was his own

  • seems the generic song flows better in french

  • @kazpmk Ouaip, le boutte ou c'est supposé être "Esteban, Zia, Tao, les cités d'or" sonne poche en anglais.

  • omg they have a golden falconzord awesome!

  • Fucking YESSS!! 3 new seasons of 26 episodes are suppose to be coming out this year(2011)!!!! Wiki...

  • @asia911 - they had their funding pulled.

  • Is there a golden condor add on for MSFS2004?

  • I have this in HD on my channel ... dont know how long before it gets banned though. lol

  • @chickensayboo what channel?

  • @starsweet4 - *sigh* Seeing as I said that I have it on my channel in the post that you replied to, I guess that means it's on my channel ...

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  • this is back when Nickelodeon had balls...

  • i have all episodes on dvd! fantastic i remember getting up early to watch it

  • Happy days, i forget the cartoon cause its so long ago and it was never replayed on tv, but never forgot that classic song good post man, memories from when i was small in the 80's. . .

  • I loved this cartoon so much! I never got to catch the final episodes, so I don't even know how it turned out.

  • omg this is one of my favorite cartoon ever suddnley i remembered it and searched for it now i want to watch the eps again i miss this cartoon

  • this was probably one of my favorite cartoons of all time!! Here I am, 31 years old and before I even found this cartoon theme song, I remembered the tune!! It was definitely memorable. :)

  • EL DORADO ! THE MAGNIFICENT (AND GOLDEN) ONE THOUSAND YEARS AGOOO ! EL DORADO, EL DORADO, EL DORAAAAAAAADOOOOOOO !"

  • think about me. this was my favourite cartoon, at the time I was only 8. and suddenly I had to stop to watch it.

    a war in Bosnia begun....

    but the war couldn't kill a child inside me. I'm still addicted to this song and cartoons of 80s.

  • SERIOUSLY needs an ITV(1)/BBC(1) REPEAT!!

  • yay crazy conspiracy theorist..blah blah...but really this has illumination related topic raped on youtube debunker like material..symbolism..yay im stupid..or perceived wrong

  • Every day or night, with the condor will fight.

  • I own the special DVD box set of the complete series. It's great. Always loved it.

  • @jcpadmore OH MY GOSH! I want to borrow it. LOL  Are there any more?

  • This is one of those cartoons of the 80s cartoon had an ongoing script- that was so seductive. This cartoon in particular was so inspirational, which offered an educational based theme.

  • This intro song stays with you for life. Child of the 80's and i can still humm the tune to it anytime, anyday.

    Pure Magic.

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  • 80s cartoons were much better than today's rubbish.

  • @stepheng1483 couldn't have said it better myself.

  • Doo doo doo doo doo-doo, AAAAAAHH!

  • My favourite cartoon of all time. Incredible. This theme tune provides me with such a nostalgia trip.

  • I am glad they are adding to this series. New cartoons are PATHETIC. I grew up with this show, and it may not be a well-known series, but it definitely showed what a well-made animated show can do. Educational and entertaining: tMCoG will live on FOR-EV-ER.

  • thumbs up if you would give anything to go back to your childhood and fly the golden condor!

  • @thehoff1982 hell yeah

  • @thehoff1982 OH GOD, YES!!!

  • Do you ever vaguely remember something you watched when you were 7 but only remember bits and broken pieces of it and then feel really weird and freaked out by the fragmented nature of that memory, like that part of your brain is just in tatters and slowly dissolving? Whenever I rediscover one of these things, I feel really weird and unsettled. Maybe I'm just nuts.

  • @Xezlec Yes but when you re-discover that show that you only remember bits and pieces of, the magic of it all starts again and you're transported back to your childhood and relive how you felt when you watched it that first time. I've been searching for shows that I watched when I was a a kid...stuff I only remember bits and pieces of (sometimes only a name of a character or a scene that stuck with me) Pirate bay helped alot with that search.  My 35 yr quest is finally over:)

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  • I have got this on DVD!!! I used to love watching this show when I was little! I agree, the cartoons nowadays are not as good!

  • I feel bad for kids nowadays for not having cartoons as good as this to watch now. Memories.

  • i remember the theme

  • This is the only cartoon me and my mom watched as a child. I will never forget this cartoon because my mom being as busy as she is actually watched the whole series with me. I will always love this cartoon because of that. =)

  • 20 ppl will never find the cities of gold

  • Oh god! This show! How could I have forgotten it!!? Man I used to haul ass so much after school just to manage to catch this show in time<3 Good times. Good show. Even if it was a bit exaggerated in "avoid violence" sequences.

  • I regret it so badly that I watched this series after I matured. Great memories.. and a pretty interesting storyline and story elements comparing to the recent Japanese crap. But sadly, it is so childish. :( The evasion of violence is also often exaggerated.

  • The first 37 seconds of this are awesome, but I can't stand the rest of it. Pretty solid series, however. I never really appreciated it when I was little, but now I'm getting into it again.

  • Memories! Wish I was 12 again ( sometimes ) no bills, no stress, just cartoons and living forever............

  • @deanblaze2000

    It's not the bills that bug me about adulthood, it's the ideological challenge. When I was little, I had no trouble believing that all the things I loved in life were good and positive and worthwhile, and all the people who disagreed were just "bad guys". Now, I feel like those "bad guys" are mostly smarter than me, and I don't know what to think. So yeah I have to agree, 12 was good.

  • ohhhh Childhood! this was my favourite cartoon 20 years ago! "ahhhhh ahhah someday will find thee city of Gold.."

  • @KMmedia mine too im 21 :P

  • I remember this! Quality.

  • I have actually got this as my ring tone :) myself , my brother and sister use to love watching this! oh how i miss it! Pity my daughter now doesn't get the same quality cartoons!

  • @Rachellelawley they are making more episodes gonna come out in 2011

  • The condor, yeeeaaaahh kick ass

  • omgosh. so glad I found this. i remember the words too, and can't help but sing along. now to see if they have dvds available....

  • Here in Canada MCOG was in french only, but I still watched the entire series although I don't understand french.

  • i loved this cartoon so much, amazing. 28 now and can still remember the words to the tune :)

  • this is one of my earliest cartoon memories - i must have been about 4 or 5 when it aired in the uk - and i never forgot the theme tune ha ha

  • So badass. This is too hardcore for the kids of today, their feeble minds just couldnt handle it. ah i still remember the words to the theme...

  • Of all the animated series I watched as a kid, MCOG has stayed with me with all these years. Nearly everything about the series was perfect: the story-line, the characters, the music and the little documentaries that used to appear at the end. I think every kid from the 80s who watched like me will agree - it was something special.

  • @LepantoElReal

    Well said! It's a series I'm glad I got to experience at a young age.

  • Oh my! I didn't see it for almost 20 years... Watching this video has triggered in my soul something that I cannot name. Now I see that this show has it's role in defining myself.

    This series was aired in Poland in 90s. I loved it! Damn I want the old times back.

  • EPIC!

  • i recently bought this on dvd.. i was only little when this was shown in australia and i forgot how good it was. and everybody hated those damn olmecs. estebaaaaaaaan!

  • I loved this show. I would be soo upset if i missed an episode on tv lol

  • Philipinoes, Americans and Intalian are coola

  • brilliant... takes me back over 20 years

  • Oh how I have missed this cartoon. Good memories.

  • this music is something else!!

  • @BoSmrh the music is like those we hear in Peru,Bolivia, Equador.

  • does  anybore know the name of that song?

  • I loved this show. But back when you were a kid, you didn't know what "colonialism" was. Cool show though.

  • Brings a tear to my eye

  • OH MY GOD!!! I forgot all about this cartoon. oh wow i absolutely loved this cartoon. The intro was one of those you sang to school lol

  • Awesome show!

  • cant wait for sequel

  • Best theme tune ever!

  • @inunabe82 Without a doubt one of the best.

  • Hey I remember this. it used to air on Nickolodeon. Anyone remember a cartoon that aired around the same time that had a boy and a great pyereens dog? I have vague memories of it and I don't remember the name.

  • think you mean belle and sebastian. There are episodes on youtube, just found some.

  • Belle and Sebastian ???

    that is also coming out on DVD too... Awesome hey !!!

  • @Lonelnuyasha this is palying on cable tv in australia at the moment my kids are loving it

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  • They dont make em like this any more. Hanna bloody Montana does not have a touch on this stuff!!

  • I bought the dvd today,,cant wait til it comes..gonna relive my childhood lol

  • yea im really fuckin pissed they made this so dam hard to get a hold of on dvd as well

  • im so pissed that they made ppl stop posting the episodes ....but they stopped produceing it....ive been trying to buy the dvds but cant get them anywhere....freakin jerks......

  • Holy cow, I aint seen this for about 20 years and I just sang it word perfect lol

    Esteban, Esteban!!!!

  • Cartoons arnt like they used to be theres no fun and imagination aspect to them now

  • its all sex now and shit.

  • The Illuminati's trying to dumb everything down that's why!

  • @BermudaEntrepreneur

    The illuminati are Jews.

  • @brendasally That's because your not a child anymore.

  • I got the whole series of this last year & watched the lot in one go over a few days LOL. Made me feel sad that I will never be 8 years old & running home to watch Mysterious Cities Of Gold again :(

    After watching the series as an adult I realise it was poorly edited, poorly dubbed & it was really the theme tune I was running home from school to listen to :D Love it!

  • This was anime too?!! Noozles was anime too!!! Was my own whole childhood just more and more anime even though they act like watching anime is so bad and horrible and too much now? They didn't mind it so much when they were stealing it from Japan and just not telling us.

  • holy shit! cool name, dude!

    shinobi phoenix... sounds like a really cool mystical ninja

  • I loved this song hehe

  • aaaaaa a-aa a-aaaaa

  • This had to have been one of the more original cartoons ever...too bad it didnt get the recognition it very much deserved. it was educational as well. I remember this cartoon coming on at 6AM when i was a kid. I remember getting upset everytime I woke up late.

  • @ASD8199 You woke up at 6am just to watch cartoons? Sheesh, and I thought I was a cartoon fanatic!

  • @ASD8199 I was that kid too. Didn't it come on Nickoloden right After A&E when off the air for the day?for those who don't know "yes A&E and Nickoloden shared the same airwave, so 9 oclock pm(or was it 7) Nick went off the air and then came on A&E's Monty Pythons Flying Circus", and from there in the late 80's and early 90's became Nick at Night, and from there on I stopped watching cause The Donna Reed Show didnt' add up to Monty.

  • @smilleydunc oh shit i forgot all about that! i remember that when Nick at Night first came on, if you didnt pay extra for it, then the channel would blur out after Nickelodeon would end for the day....we're talkin around 1989-90. thanks for the flashback though man.

  • fuck,for ages I was typin in "children of the sun"..turns out I even remember some the lyrics ha ha..priceless.. how come cartoons have got so preppy and dumb? this was the good stuff!

  • that tv show come out in 1989 or 1990 i use watch it on tv

  • thought it was before that, probably 89 tho

  • lol, it did not come out in 89 or 90. It came out in 82

  • OMG! I used to run home after-school to watch this show when I was little! I could always vaguely remember this show in my mind- THANK YOU YOU TUBE...this brings back good memories!

  • HA! u used to watch this on nickelodeon..at one point in my life i thought i had made it up ..but here it it is..i knew this song for a reason lol

  • Oh, wow!

    This show was awesome!

  • Ha! I bloody loved this. I remember watching it after school with my sister who's nine years older than me, she had a job and everything!

  • I'm Australian and used to watch it as a kid. Where was this made? The animation looks a bit Japanese.

  • Country: France, Japan, Luxembourg it's info form imdb. Original title: Taiyô no ko Esteban

  • Cheers.

  • It's a Japanese-French collaboration by Saban if memory serves.

    Other series include; Dogtanian and the 3 Muskerhounds, Around the World in 80 Days with Willy Fog and Ulysees 31

  • Shuki Levy (Saban) composed this. amazing musician.

  • I remeber watching it as a kid it was one of my favorite shows.

  • Joy!!! All i could remember was somthing to do with a condor... Now i know what it was called.. Good theme tune!.. Good program!..

  • God, I loved this show and I still do !... IMO This is the best anime ever.

    I first watched it when I was 7 or 8 years old in French of course...The melodious theme song brings tears to my eyes whenever I listen this...I would sing along and dance to it... Great show !

  • OH SNAP! This show is older than me, I used to watch this in French on SRC.

  • BEST SHOW i loved thi s as a kid it went on forrever haha

  • Stuck in my head forever!!!!

    Brings back a lot of memories though! I loved it!

  • Woaw, I remember watching this as a kid and loving it ;). Ah, the memories.

  • lol no way

  • WOAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

    ^^ I watched that a long time ago... in french, of course... but the song is awesome in english too!

    Haah.... brings back memories... ^^

  • Friggin hell!!! Thanks for posting this! Man I used to watch this in another lifetime lol!! Ahh such memories.....

  • OMG - I remember watching this years (decades) ago

  • HOLY .....!!!!!!! This was a GREAT cartoon I used to watch it on Nickelodeon. Awesome that this was put up.

    Thanks

  • this is it, this is the cartoon that made me the person I am today I believe. I woke up today and remember my childhood days when I was watching and following this. And I LOVED this. thanx

  • wow, how time has flown. i may come back in another thirty years and try and find this post lol, thanks

  • ah.. this show the was the best... i mean.. they pilot what might as well be the GARUDA bird

  • Ahh such fond memories :) The 80's were THE only decade from the 20th century that was worth growing up in as far as i'm concerned. I used to rush home from school to watch this and MANY other quality tv shows.

  • i used to get up early before school especially for this and watch it with my coco pops

  • I loved this as a kid, the golden condor fantastic! but now as adults, you realise that 16th centuary flight in a massive, solid gold bird was impossible, why didn't they just scrap the bird and share the profits ? There had to be millions of pounds/dollars in that thing alone! :D Rather than search for the misterious cities of gold that may/may not have existed lol!

  • M-m-m-m-Mendoza!

  • Just got the DVD and threw it on. The girlfriend gave me a funny look and went to the kitchen. Theme song started playing and she poked her head out and had a look. To cut a long story short, three episodes later and she refuses to move, all she wants to do is sit down and watch all the episodes. Says it's the best animated series she's ever seen. We're both 29.

  • "The girlfriend gave me a funny look and went to the kitchen...."LOL

  • Your comment made me want to get the series myself and relive it all again.

    And I will, come hell or high water, I will.

    Cheers!

  • I like your girlfriend already, she has SEEN THE LIGHT...the path of the setting sun. That leads to El Dorado...and THE MYSTERIOUS CITIES OF GOLD!

    I am so happy that you got the DVD and that she's now interested.

    80s ruled! BEST CARTOONS. The cartoons of today cannot HOLD A candle to the 80s. Hand-drawn, story lines, music, and legacies.

  • The 80's had the best tv themes :D

  • The 80s were the best!!

  • Amen! How true!

    Today,they play nothing but crap. I hate Cartoon Network,and sadly my cable provider does not have Boomerang.

  • man ty so much for puttin this on here. makes me sad cause they dont make stuff like this no more. im 30 and loved it then and love it now. :)

  • Great stuff!

  • The last time that CBBC broadcasted this was 1989 iirc. Nowadays of course they couldn't show it because it's just not politically correct. A great shame indeed !

  • they wouldn't show this now cos its intelligent and interesting: too advanced for the dumbed-down whelks created by the rubbish that passes for kids TV that seeks to flash non-sensical crap into their brains...