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Immortal Starscream wrote:ya, i found that at walmart not too long ago. the anime was made in some brittish guys basement, with himself and a couple of buds doing all the voices.

however, it is not an old concept, for many animes were brought overseas, and basicly were remade into new shows, by splicing several diffrent shows together. however, very few put many different toons into one episode or movie.

best example of this is robotech

all 3 series of robotech being completly difrent animes

voltron, was 3 diffrent shows too

battle of the planets, g-force, and eagle riders, 3 diffrent american shows, all one anime series.

and then of course shows like transformers and gobots, were toylines taken, and put to american cartoons.

if ya dont know, the lame gobots come from the cool getter robo.

tmthor wrote:

Immortal Starscream wrote:ya, i found that at walmart not too long ago. the anime was made in some brittish guys basement, with himself and a couple of buds doing all the voices.

however, it is not an old concept, for many animes were brought overseas, and basicly were remade into new shows, by splicing several diffrent shows together. however, very few put many different toons into one episode or movie.

best example of this is robotech

all 3 series of robotech being completly difrent animes

voltron, was 3 diffrent shows too

battle of the planets, g-force, and eagle riders, 3 diffrent american shows, all one anime series.

and then of course shows like transformers and gobots, were toylines taken, and put to american cartoons.

if ya dont know, the lame gobots come from the cool getter robo.

Acualy the Go-Bots come from Machine-Robo
Tonka licenced MR from Bandai in '82
Tonka thought that The Anime for MR was to violent so they hired Hanna-Barbara to create a Show for children.

Also in defense of the shows (yes I know they do suck) but they were only a dollar & my younger kids love them. In one they have a Gundam/Mazinger that conects to a flying train that has to fight a Red Raydeen. Also all of the villans ships look like the Gundam ships plus the badguys use Zaku Robots as well.
Also don't put Starbirds in that mix although a bad dub it is the Daimos movie. Also same with Space Pirate. some how that company got the rights for both of thoise

tmthor wrote:Sometimes they are Remeber "Clash Of the Bionoids" I heard that was legaL A Horendis dub but still Legal Also the Starbirds Dvd was the same one they used to air on Showtime & HBO in the 80's I beleive some of these are that old The Phoenix may not even be a KO Of TF inferno but of The Diaclone Inferno. I also have seen toys for the Phoenix they are always oversized & always from Korea.

Emperor Primacron the 1st wrote:

tmthor wrote:Sometimes they are Remeber "Clash Of the Bionoids" I heard that was legaL A Horendis dub but still Legal Also the Starbirds Dvd was the same one they used to air on Showtime & HBO in the 80's I beleive some of these are that old The Phoenix may not even be a KO Of TF inferno but of The Diaclone Inferno. I also have seen toys for the Phoenix they are always oversized & always from Korea.

I think I still got a copy of Clash of the Bionoids somewhere.

Was confused how that and the macross series worked togather.

Duke of Luns wrote:

Evank_Horizon wrote:Well... ever noticed the resemblence between our dear Optimus Prime and RX-78 Gundam?

That must be why the american Gundam in G Gundam was a like a football player in red and blue.

A lot of stuff about G

Evank_Horizon wrote:Well... ever noticed the resemblence between our dear Optimus Prime and RX-78 Gundam?

That must be why the american Gundam in G Gundam was a like a football player in red and blue.

bvzxa wrote:

Evank_Horizon wrote:Well... ever noticed the resemblence between our dear Optimus Prime and RX-78 Gundam?

That must be why the american Gundam in G Gundam was a like a football player in red and blue.

Actually...

the RX-78 has the festive Gundam colors, which in itself is in every Gundam series (U.C. Timeline)accept Char's Counterattack, becuase the RX-93 was black, white and yellow.



Also the RX-78 is from thew original Gundam series, Mobile Suit Gundam: 0079...and there is zero resenblence between the RX-78 and Optimus Prime.

Prime's colors are from one of the diaclone Convoy sets.
http://www.toyarchive.com/DiacloneOptimus.html

Evank_Horizon wrote:Anyway if you were to name the G1 transformer that looks the most like a gundam who would it be?

Duke of Luns wrote:

Evank_Horizon wrote:Anyway if you were to name the G1 transformer that looks the most like a gundam who would it be?

I just have to answer this, cause I've notice a similarity recently(last year) between the Gaplant and Cybertron Starscream. First of all, bear in mind that the colors are completely off, however the overall shape and part of the transformation is similar. Also bear in mind that the mobile suit I compare it too, the Gaplant from Zeta Gundam, was made around 20 years ago:





If you flipped Starscream's fins up behind his head, the similarity would be moreso.





Like I said, it's not exact, but there's more than a passing resemblence. There are probably others, maybe I'll look into some more.

Duke of Luns wrote:

Evank_Horizon wrote:Well... ever noticed the resemblence between our dear Optimus Prime and RX-78 Gundam?

That must be why the american Gundam in G Gundam was a like a football player in red and blue.

Nah, the reason why Gundam Maxter was like a football player with giant magnums is because it was because of the American sterotype that we are a sports-centric society that loves to shoot things. And the boxing could have been influenced by the Rocky movies:




It wasn't limited to America, like the "Tequila Gundam" from Mexico for example:



Or how Gundam Rose looks like Napolean Bomeparte:



And the Matador Gundam from Spain focused on the Bull Fighter motif:



And Prime's resemblence to the RX-78 is passing at best, in my opinion. They share similar qualities, but remember, both are of Japanese origin.

And there's a whole website that lists a lot of other movies that the company behind "Phoenix King" also did, but I can't seem to find it. It had a whole bunch of really bad ripoffs, like Ninja turtles piloting the Gobot power armors, a KO Overlord with Starsaber head, etc. Anyone got a link?

Emperor Primacron the 1st wrote:

Raph looks coked-up.

tmthor wrote:

Emperor Primacron the 1st wrote:

Raph looks coked-up.

I just saw the new figures looks like both Casey & April went on the coke diet no we know who thier supplier is