Transformers, gijoe, gobots---power masters! Who? It is a failed mask meets gijoe like toyline that got a cartoon mini series. The cartoon with voices from transformers and gijoe including the voice of optimus prime himself! It only aired once. Only one person in the world tapped them and it was raining so he only got pieces of two episodes. Ep 1 and ep 3! It has no wiki page, no imdb page and no vhs or dvd release!
Does anyone have this show full? It's a missing 80s cartoon based on a toy.
Okay, this needs to be found! Nothing better than a good old fashioned 80's action cartoon with transforming vehicles, people with advanced technology and a future Earth setting, right?
Probably unrelated but I saw some generic line of toy robots a dozen years ago with the M.A.R.S. name surrounding it. The name of that Power Masters tank merely made me think of it.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it's possible the Power Masters only failure to get as popular as He-Man or G.I. Joe was maybe it was introduced into the market too late? The height of popularity for action cartoons and toyline tie-ins with the military and advanced technology theme was probably the mid-1980's. Yes, the TMNT are the exception except they are mutants and mutants seemed to have been something that was a 90's thing.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it's possible the Power Masters only failure to get as popular as He-Man or G.I. Joe was maybe it was introduced into the market too late? The height of popularity for action cartoons and toyline tie-ins with the military and advanced technology theme was probably the mid-1980's. Yes, the TMNT are the exception except they are mutants and mutants seemed to have been something that was a 90's thing.
Not just simply being at least half a decade late to the party compared to most of those kinds of shows from the time, but a lot of it also had to do with, at the time, many parents' groups, along with entities like the US Congress and the FCC, were beginning to put pressure on the childrens' television programming industry, as most kids' shows of the time, especially cartoons like He-Man, GI Joe, and Transformers, were merely 30-minute commercials for their respective toy lines and other products, and complaints were coming from parents about how little educational value was to be had from most Saturday morning programming of the time. In 1991, Congress passed the Children's Television Act, which was then enforced by the FCC, in which the childrens' television programming industry finally started seeing some regulation, and most cartoons and kids' shows had to be made with at least some educational material in their episodes and not be blatant commercials for things like toys. Of course, many producers of such programming found loopholes and other ways around these regulations, but for the most part, the 1980's boom of 30-minute toy commercials was pretty much dead.
I know you're only talking to keep the silence out Maybe you should listen and leave some room for doubt You're just handing out bad reputations Why don't you shut your mouth? -Motorhead, "Overnight Sensation"
The uploader Professor Doc has "Episode 1 act 1", "Episode 1 act 3", "Episode 3 act 2" & "Episode 1 act 3" on their channel but it's been a year since they posted anything. Perhaps reaching out to them could get this lost media found.
No post credits were tapped! We don't know the cast! We do know optimus prime peter cullen voices the robot bike and starscream Christopher Charles Collins voices one of the two main bad guys.
Edit--
Christopher Charles Collins voices redeye
peter cullen voices duke!
Released 1987 from other sites thanks to tv guide listing.
Went ahead and submitted it to imdb myself. Don't think they will take it with so much info missing like the studio that made it! We don't even know who made the show!
After some digging it appears that there's a rotten tomatos page for the series. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/powermasters They synopsis fits pretty well with what other sources have said the show was about. There a few cast and crew listed. It was pretty obvious to me that the animation was done by a Japanese studio, rotten tomatos sites Yasuyoshi Mikamoto as the director. He directed a lot of anime such as Super Dimension Century Orguss along with Yasuyoshi Mikamoto.
Worthpoint also had quite a few "original negatives" from the cartoon. I'm not familiar with what these are specifically but I'm guessing they're like little comics that maybe came with the toys or were printed on the boxes. www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/16-pages-original-negatives-power-4623672330
After some digging it appears that there's a rotten tomatos page for the series. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/powermasters They synopsis fits pretty well with what other sources have said the show was about. There a few cast and crew listed. It was pretty obvious to me that the animation was done by a Japanese studio, rotten tomatos sites Yasuyoshi Mikamoto as the director. He directed a lot of anime such as Super Dimension Century Orguss along with Yasuyoshi Mikamoto.
Worthpoint also had quite a few "original negatives" from the cartoon. I'm not familiar with what these are specifically but I'm guessing they're like little comics that maybe came with the toys or were printed on the boxes. www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/16-pages-original-negatives-power-4623672330
According to one of the comments on the videos from someone that worked on the show it was TMS Entertainment who animated the show and it sure looks like their work.
Someone on another site said they had 3 episodes of this tapped with ads on vhs as a kid--and tapped over it to record saturday morning cartoons.
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
Well that sucks to hear, curious what saturday morning cartoons they recorded though, cause i'm willing to forgive them if they taped something else lost like Kidd Video or Wolf Rock TV.