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The Satanic Panic of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s really targeted Dungeons & Dragons as well as other fantasy tabletop roleplaying games. Controversy and public outcry got bad at one point that there was a call for the US federal government to intervene and regulate fantasy tabletop games. How...

To be honest, I had to stop reading this TL as it was too depressing and will probably get worse. That said, I'm seeing what butterflies this TL is having on entertainment in the USA. Officially, the US federal government can't outright censor, let alone ban media due to the First Amendment...

Very good update! I'm eager to see what butterflies this has on the 1980s given more Japanese programming is being imported into the USA. The 1980s set the groundwork for anime to go mainstream in the 1990s. We had Robotech (spliced together from Macross, Southern Cross and Mospeada), Lion...

This TL has a lot of imported Japanese programming on American television. The 1970s and especially the 1980s were high points of the Japanese bubble economy; there was some anti-Japanese sentiment in the USA out of fear that Japan would take over the world. Plus lot of World War 2 veterans...

With the 1970s drawing to a close, I'm eager to see what the 1980s hold - especially if we get OTL iconic franchises like He-Man & the Masters of the Universe, GI Joe, Transformers, Inspector Gadget, Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, etc. I have two questions though. Speaking of the Transformers, do...

The Disney Renaissance never happens? Yikes. Speaking of the 1980s...do we still get Tron ITTL? Does Disney do it or does someone else (Universal, Paramount, independent, etc)? I'm eager to see what the 1980s holds since that is the era of merchandise-driven shows like He-Man & the Masters...

You mentioned Galaxy Goof-ups and the WB response to it. ITTL, does the former still get the "Space Disco" segments once per episode? Does the WB show Star-Tunes try copying that? (Bugs and Daffy dancing to disco music would be a hoot.)

Hasbro marketing the Famicom here in the USA? Cool! I take it that Atari was weakened by the 1983-1984 video game crash ITTL just as it was in OTL. In OTL, Worlds of Wonder originally helped distribute the Famicom as the Nintendo Entertainment System here in the USA; do they still go under?

I remember the Disney Channel being premium back in the 1980s and early 1990s; we got it around 1995 in my house as our provider included that in package deals. (On another note, I was lucky to have HBO back when it was premium.) Speaking of the Disney Channel, they did broadcast the...

The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe is NOT being made by the Children's Television Workshop and Bill Melendez as it was in OTL? I wonder what it will look like.

Back to legal decisions, the US Supreme Court ruled in 2005 under Roper vs. Simmons that juveniles cannot be executed for crimes committed under the age of 18. What happens ITTL with juveniles being sentenced to death? Will this butterfly away the Roper v Simmons decision? When dealing with...

We're approaching the 1980s. What awaits us for animation in that decade? I assume the Reagan era deregulation of television animation still happens meaning we 80s kids/late Gen-Xers still get He-Man & the Masters of the Universe, the Transformers, GI Joe, Voltron, Challenge of the Gobots...

We're getting into the 1970s. In a few more years, we'll be taking a trip to a galaxy far, far away... What effects will the original Star Wars: A New Hope have on the animation industry? Will this spawn lots of animated imitators? Will Disney jump on the bandwagon or even approach George...

What is going on with the Peanuts animated specials and theatrical films? Are we still getting them? By the end of the 1960s, Peanuts is hitting is stride with Marcie, Peppermint Patty, Franklin and Woodstock getting introduced to change the cast dynamic. I can't imagine Charles Schulz or...

I did want to make it clear that I'm not trying to get SirCecil to write this TL a particular way. It's just that here in the Anglosphere, we tend to idolize rogues and "La Resistance". We Americans romanticize and admire Resistance movements against tyrants - look at the American Revolution...