We got all the way to post #20 and no one has mentioned G-Force yet? Come on, where’s the love?
I came in here to mention Bravestarr, but I looked it up first and was amazed to find that it was a Filmation production. Between the setting and the gun blasting man-horse, I thought for sure it was Japanese.
ETA: make that a cyborg man-horse.
:dubious: Is that seriously a movie about heroic guinea pigs? It took me a minute to figure it out, I assumed it was a remake of the anime series. Hadn’t heard of that before.
TraaaannnsssMUTE!
I spent some time in Pittsburgh as a kid. They ran Robotech weekday mornings at something like 8:30. So, you’d see it all through the summer but never see anything that aired during the school year.
-Joe
Mighty Orbots!
I loved that show. (Too bad there was only one season.)
Also Robotech, of course, though I still wonder how Southern Cross ended before Macek cut it to fit between Macross &* Mospeada*.
If we’re counting Western stuff, yes, Disney’s Gummi Bears was actually cool. And there was a French cartoon that had some neat ideas, Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.
I never saw BraveStarr, but the name always confuses me, because I dimly remember Blackstar, which was a sort of prototypical Masters of the Universe.
Really? I do remember quite a bit of their usual sheenanigans, the looped material etc.
The Mysterious Cities of Gold. The music was haunting, it had a real story arc (being a 39-part miniseries and not some written on the fly, episode-by-episode toy commercial), and captured a sense of wonder and the adventure of exploration and discovery of ancient secrets… Not that I didn’t love the robotic shoot-em-ups as a kid too, but MCoG was a thing apart.
They just came out with the entire series on DVD a few weeks ago, and my kids are captivated too!
What do you mean? Zor Prime blows the reactor of the Masters’ final mothership as they’re trying to exploit the crash site of the SDF-1.
(Names obviously totally inaccurate since we’re talking about completely different shows)
It ends with the bad guys blown up and the good guys winning. What makes you think there was an ending past that?
-Joe
Well, for one thing, Southern Cross, unlike Macross and MOSPAEDA really was changed significantly, so assuming what happened in the original has anything at all to do with what happened in Robotech is a bad bet.
I’m not actually sure how Southern Cross ended, so I can’t answer the original question, but it’s actually possible the original ending is closer to what happened in Robotech than what you describe - Seifreit (the character who became Zor Prime) attempts to destroy the flowers, but succeeds only in releasing their spores, so the planet becomes covered in them. This would have been as bad a thing for the humans in SDCSC as it was in Robotech (for a slightly different reason).