That was on Cartoon Network for about a month or so spring of 2001. My roommate and I watched it religiously when it was on CN, reliving old memories. Then we went home and tried desperately to dig up our old action figures. That was an awesome show. And even though it seemed like it was designed to be “ThunderCats From Space”, strangely I loved this show but was never able to get into ThunderCats. Go figure.
Loved Orbots even more than Robotech. Call me a blasphemer if you will but I was young and it was easier to understand. What I couldn’t understand was how the heck did those bots grow so big that the Human and Ono could fly a car into the chest of the mega-bot? Brain…hurts…
Max: robot viagra.
Anyone remember the TV show Goldar. A family of robots that turned into jet planes and lived in a cave with an old man.
This goes back a little further than the 80s
Ah. Orbots. A lovely spot of my childhood. (Robotech, Voltron, GI Joe, Astroboy and Transformers fill the rest of my ‘Oh, my GOD, I loved that show as a kid!’ list. Too bad that Robotech’s the only one of the bunch that still seems brilliant now. Haven’t seen Orbots since I was a kid, though. Not sure if I want to risk ruining a childhood memory like I did with the others, though.)
Goldar sounds familiar. was it an epic series where in the last episode the big bad guy is fought and killed?
Then you need to get the DVD’s! Rhino did a great job with them; each one includes 2 episodes of “Battle of the Planets,” one of the episodes as “G-Force” (the Turner re-packaging that was a little more faithful to the original Japanese version but dull as toast), and then the 2 episodes of “Gatchaman,” the original Japanese version.
Actually, I was a little disappointed. Once you get past the far superior theme song, and the fact that they’re called “Science Ninja Team,” which is just about the coolest thing ever, the Japanese episodes are straight ahead 60’s TV anime. And most disappointing, they’re actually coherent. For years I’ve had so much respect for Japan for giving us Ape Escape and “Iron Chef” and Samba de Amigo and “Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ” and Super Monkey Ball and more that I’m forgetting – and then here it turns out that all the wacky stuff I remember from “Battle of the Planets” was added by an American!
The real show didn’t have completely nonsensical plots and gratuitous Star Wars rip-offs; that was all added by Sandy Frank.