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News Credits: 4 · by **General Magnus** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:03 am

I saw this series and i think it´s amazing. Firt off it has a huge bodycount (through the series wou see hundreds of casualites from both sides), it has a credible war, even the characters are well written, i even simpatzied with some of the villans specially General Shiva near the end of the war (got to admire the loyalty of the guy and he´s death scne despite his convictions was touching) , and Thrax, the fighter pilot. overall one the best cartoons i ever saw.

News Credits: 1 · by **Venomous Prime** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:07 pm

I'm actually watching that right now.

I haven't seen it since I was a kid, I love this show

News Credits: 23 · by **Prime Evil** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:14 pm

It's funny that this topic is posted today. I was just talking to my buddy last night about how we should have bought the season on DVD when we were at Wizard World Philly this year.

I love this series. One of the best cartoons to have come from the US. (it's US right?) I just wish that there would be an official DVD release, but I just don't see it happening.

by **Ericus Prime** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:22 pm

I saw it as a kid too. It's been too long since I seen it, it should come on Boomerang.

YOU HEAR ME, BOOMERANG, YOU GOTTEN STRIKE ONE FROM NOT BRINGING G1 ON, DON'T GET STRIKE TWO!

by **Phenotype** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:01 pm

I used to love this series as a kid, the first few waves of toys were kick ass but then they started getting ridiculous and making them look like football players and samurai's.

by **Goribus** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:43 pm

I loved the series as a kid, and I vaguely remember that before it was canceled it looked like they were going to cross over with Robotech, but I could be mistaken. We are talking about a cartoon I haven't seen in over a decade. Now when you say you just saw it do you mean it's been released on DVD or you saw it somewhere like youtube?

by **Rogue.** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:05 pm

I loved this series and the toy line. Unfortunately I no longer have the toys or VHS tapes of the first season. I did buy the Laserdiscs a few years ago, but those only cover the first 9 or so episodes (out of 13) for season 1. Even worse is that I don't have a Laserdisc player... :lol:

It's a crime that it hasn't been released on DVD. There's a Myspace profile that is trying to rally up support for a DVD release. I helped a bit by contacting Will Meugniot through his ebay account and asking him if there was something effective the fans could do to get Universal to consider a DVD release.

by **Darth Screamer** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:27 pm

I love this show.

It was well done and well written.

The toys were fun as well.

News Credits: 4 · by **General Magnus** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:12 am

Some parelels with WWII can be found when you think about it.

Phaetom - Hitler (not too hard)
General Shiva - (Rudolph Hess maybe? Carl Donetiz)
Thrax - Rommel? (Loyal but not maniac like the others)
Homeworld Resistance ( WWII Resistance)

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:20 am

So ehat's it about? And pics ore something would be nice.

by **ChromedomeMK2** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:26 am

I loved the series as a kid. I like the exosuits too.

by **Rogue.** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:26 pm

Dead Metal wrote:So ehat's it about? And pics ore something would be nice.

Check out that Myspace profile I posted. I don't think you need a Myspace of your own to check it out... there are lots of pics and links to the episodes there.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:17 pm

Oh yea!
That is what I've been remembering althis time and couldn't think of the title!
Man it's awsom, the old day were cartoon were still cool!
I'll sing that petision!

by **zorian** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:44 pm

I did a google search for exo-squad about a year ago and found a site that had amoung other things the contact info for the company who owns the rights to the show. It have advice on how to word a letter as well as does and don'ts. Such as net speak , and other forms of bad grammar. I sent them an email and got a response saying that they don't have plans at this time ,but are considering it. So maybe if alot of people wrote them...who knows.

Here is something I just found ,its contact info for the right people at various networks who may show it.

http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~pdanner/resolute2.shtml

News Credits: 1 · by **Heavy B** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:32 pm

Kintaro wrote:I saw it as a kid too. It's been too long since I seen it, it should come on Boomerang.

YOU HEAR ME, BOOMERANG, YOU GOTTEN STRIKE ONE FROM NOT BRINGING G1 ON, DON'T GET STRIKE TWO!

boomerang tends to just show hanna barbara cartoons. so the best we can do is gobots :sick:

and i loved the show. anyone eles get the toys. like the one that looked like the g1 skyfire toy that didn't transform. or am i thinking of somthing eles

by **Rogue.** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:17 pm

Slightly Less Heavy B wrote:and i loved the show. anyone eles get the toys. like the one that looked like the g1 skyfire toy that didn't transform. or am i thinking of somthing eles

Yeah, there was a Veritech (?) Fighter jet for the Exo Squad figures to sit in. There were lots of Robotech toys in the last year or so of the toy line. I forget why exactly, but the packaging for the Robotech toys claimed that someone from the Robotech universe sent in a bunch of their technology to aid the humans in their war.

I don't have much of my old Exo collection anymore ( :sad:

) but I do have the small-ish, red, rounded Robotech guy with green clawed hands, and the larger grey version with shoulder cannons that seated an Exo Squad figure. Their names escape me... something like Invid Fighter?

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