The day after Rio Olympics 2016 opening ceremony I posted this to a NC furs group August 6th. Even if you not care about sports at all, Animalympics is a very interesting work to study with its early history as part of formation of furry fandom and the fact some who worked on the film went on to do famous works such as Lion King and The Simpsons. Plus there Gilda Radner who voiced the Barbara Walters parody character Barbara Warbler and she continued to parody Walters on Saturday Night Live until died of ovarian cancer in 1989. Then course this being one of the early works Billy Crystal was on, we all know him from Disney movies and anime dubs among lots other movie types.

With the Rio 2016 Olympics really fully getting started today August 6, want to remind furries of Animalympics, which was made by Steven Lisberger in 1980, 2 years before made Tron, which happens to be the exact year the modern formation of the furry fandom started in 1980. Animalympics was made to go along with NBC covering the Olympics in 1980, but as NBC canceled their coverage do the boycotts of those Russian Olympics, which a whole separate conversation on its own of political history, the airing of Animalympics was cancelled and the work along with Lisberger got screwed. There been no legal way to buy it since 1980's VHS release and a 2007 German DVD release, was shown on HBO in 1980's and Disney Channel 1995-1996, but there tons of uploads of it in places online as I watched it again this past Thursday from YouTube, really wish could buy it legally for reasonable price. As all furries of the 1980's should know of this, if you never heard of the Animalympics, it basically a parody of TV coverage of the Olympics in that era with anthropomorphic animals. Will put links to the Wikipedia and Wikifur entries along with a picture of the VHS release cover and title. Could talk for hours about Animalympics and its history in furry fandom, such as it being shown at first furry party at Westercon in 1985, as tons of non furs love this work too and talk about it online when Olympics happening. The intro song is what I most often randomly hum at times. last a random technical fact is this was one of first films to be have the sound done in Dolby Surround.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalympics
https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Animalympics
https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/History#The_1980s
https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/1980s