Average, and it's iron. Whether the air was once too fresh, or my mindfulness was still on the starting line, but the first time I watched Hephaestus' Helpers as a child, I liked it. Now, on a more sober look, you realize that this cartoon can not be called successful. Trying to seem like something educational, in fact, he remains a mocking joke about how a person depends on iron.
Yes, the voice Alexander Filippenko really tells something interesting. Viewers can learn for themselves that modern (well, that is, from the era of the 1980s) horns can reach the height of 30-storey houses, some machines process the iron of the blast, and Peter I worked on the first metalworking machine in Russia. All this is great, but the cartoon tells about it somehow abstractly, focusing mainly on some visual jokes, especially those related to Hephaestus. No other ancient god has ever appeared before us in such a frivolous way. That’s not a drawback, but more attention should have been paid to scientific content. Surprisingly, much later cartoon projects like "Fixics" or "Smesharikov: PIN code" cope with the training of viewers much better, because everything is presented in them much more interesting.
Taking into account the weak script and the same weak educational basis, the “Helpers of Hephaestus” do not justify themselves at a long distance, and now they already look somehow poor even in visual terms. The picture is dull, the drawing is not very high quality. The only things that still make you smile are animated Renaissance pictures and a walking bronze statue. Yes, for that respect. But for unserious and not a drop of unreliable extinct animals there is no respect. The horned animal spotted by the prehistoric version of Hephaestus is who? Dicynodont, dinocerate or someone else? The fact that such animals became extinct long before the appearance of man, I do not want to remind you again. A shame, especially for 1987.
In general, the cartoon is quite mediocre. A couple of good jokes, a couple of good animations, and nothing more to praise.
6 out of 10