Set in the twentythird century, mighty orbots relates the adventures of rob simmons, a scientist, and his robots called orbotstur, bort, beau, crunch, and onoall members of the galactic patrol, the earthbased futuristic police force. These are not my videos, but is just a compiled list of what i could find. From this barebones set up, mighty orbots, offered a fast paced, lighthearted, and most memorably, a beautifully animated cartoon of futuristic robot adventure. Mighty orbots is an americanjapanese animated series coproduced by abc, metrogoldwynmayer and tms entertainment that aired in 1984 on saturday mornings in the united states the 23rd century is a time of robots and aliens. The mighty orbots, robots, orbots, ono, ohno, robot, cartoon, cartoons, animated, tv, series. Its the 23rd century and earth faces a threat from the shadow, robots lead by a fiveeyed cyborg named umbra. The complete series episodes of mighty orbots on dvd. Mighty orbots cartoon intro theme video dailymotion. It was directed by veteran anime director osamu dezaki and features character designs by akio sugino. Mighty orbots full transformation sequence youtube. Reportedly the ratings were favourable but nowhere near good enough to keep it going apparently it was losing out to both muppet babies and smurfs shown at the same time on rival stations. The mighty orbots tv series 1984 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The mighty orbots debuted more than a week before transformers but considering how many months of development an animated series goes through before the public actually sees it on the tv screen, thats about like saying they started at the same time. Mighty orbots 1984 tv show behind the voice actors.
Shadow creates a robot named tobor who is a dead ringer for the mighty orbots in their giant robot form. All i remember about it was a war between humans and a race of giant brainlike creatures driving around in odd looking vehicles in an animation style similar to that of orbots or at least thats how i remember it. There were plans for a mighty orbots toyline, but a lawsuit from tonka note and the shows cancellation put a stop to any nationwide release. Long story short, i enjoyed jungs fanfiction so much, i hired an artist and produced a nonprofit fan comic based on the story. Mighty orbots complete series dvd movie video at cd universe, earth the 23rd century, a time of robots and aliens, and of destruction and terror, can the galactic. Last week i appeared as a guest on the latest episode of the title pending movie podcast to talk about g. Why am i the only one who seems to remember this show. A coamerican and japanese production, it was created by barry glasser, based on an idea from television producer fred silverman the man behind such tv shows as all in the family. And i have a question about a cartoon i vaguely remember watching as a kid. When tokyo movie shinsha released orbots, the transformation sequence was exactly like godmars, and there was the subprocess of where the robots. To break the lock, rondu himself must confront drennan in a psionic battle which will determine the fate of the galaxy. In the us, tonka had the rights to the bandai robot toys which they were using for the gobots line. Join us as we once again save the world from this weeks most dangerous force, the leader of shadow, umbra.
Mighty orbots on imdb mighty orbots on wikipedia mighty orbots on toy galaxy. See more ideas about cartoon, saturday morning cartoons and anime. Mighty orbots fanfiction archive with over 14 stories. There used to be a mighty orbots fansite called ark norths mighty orbots page. Watch full episodes of mighty orbots and get the latest breaking news, exclusive videos and pictures, episode recaps and much more at. Umbra has created a duplicate of mighty orbots called tobor, and sends it on a destructive rampage, causing warrants to be issued for the real orbots arrest. The full epic transformation sequence as each of the robots combine to form the unfeasibly large mighty orbots. Set in the twentythird century, mighty orbots relates the adventures of rob simmons, a scientist, and his robots called orbots tur, bort, beau, crunch, and onoall members of the galactic patrol, the earthbased futuristic police force. He is kept in check only by a team of specially created robots called the mighty orbots. Prototypes do exist and were even advertised in at least one toy catalog. Mighty orbots was a futuristic abc cartoon series produced by fred silverman yes, the same guy who was president of all three networks. Mighty orbots anime english intro opening theme hd youtube.
Similar to voltron and later iterations of power rangers, the orbots were a team of six robots who combined to form a superbot who. The series aired from september 8, 1984 to december. The mighty orbots primary robot did form like bandais god mars toy or godmars, depending on who you ask, but that was possibly intended as a way to bring god mars to the us, and the comment regarding the similarity is appears to be independent of and irrelevant to the lawsuit. It is a sad irony that the mighty orbots show was brought to its untimely end in part by the toy company tonka, which sued its creators, the collaborating companies tokyo movie shinsa, intermedia entertainment, and mgmua television or metro golden mayerunited artists, alleging the series was based on its own 1984 giant robot cartoon. Japanese coproductions, this series lasted only a single season due to the huge success of transformers. Mighty orbots ran for only a single season in 1984 on abc, and then was cancelled. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. On a 23rd century earth beset by the otherworldly menace of lord umbra and the operatives of shadow, our last line of defense is genius inventor rob simmons and his six remarkable robotsohno, tor, bort, bo, boo, and crunchthat can merge into the allpowerful mighty orbots, in this shortlived but enduringly remembered americanjapanese coproduction that aired saturday mornings on abc. But hasbros air raiders, jem success continued below. The sadistic warden may also be an agent of shadow.
The focal point of the program is their battle against shadow, a sinister planet of evil whose leader, umbra, seeks to control the universe. Synopsis set in the twentythird century, mighty orbots relates the adventures of rob simmons, a scientist, and his robots called orbotstur, bort, beau, crunch, and onoall members of the galactic patrol, the earthbased futuristic police force. Framed for crimes committed by tobor, the orbots are sentenced to prison on devils asteroid. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. The orbots need to escape devils asteroid and clear their name with the help of rob and ono. Can the galactic patrol, defender of the united planets, stop. Comic adaptation of the mistaken identities orbotstransformers fanfiction. I never watched voltron as a kid, but i did watch plenty of mighty orbots. In order to uncover the shadow conspiracy, rob and rondu allow the orbots to be convicted and sentenced to devils asteroid for 999 years at hard labor.
Mighty orbots, directed by osamu dezaki, premiered on saturday september 8th 1984 on abc. The orbots subsequently also escape, but until drennans mental lock can be broken, mighty orbots is powerless to prevent umbra from moving the shadow star to centris and taking control of the entire galaxy. Mighty orbots complete series dvd video dailymotion. Where can i find mighty orbots episodes to download. Although a mockup mighty orbots action figure distinct from the godmars has been seen in old advertisements from 1985, the actual toy that was produced in taiwan back in 1985 was simply a godmars figure repainted to match the orbots colors. This site is dead now, but on it there was a link to a mighty orbots transformers fan fiction called mistaken identities by robert jung. Homage to mighty orbots and at the end a shout out to survivors in egypt from the palm sunday attack. Noelle north, gary owens, robert ridgely, osamu dezaki.
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