Anyone Remember....

tech_hunter

Exo-Squad?



I know it was kind of a robotech rip off but the show had a good story I think, dealing with slavery and stuff.

Anyway I found this guy

When going through some stuff in storage, good memories, so anyone else like exo-squad?



oh by the way..first thread

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Echo

Hmm... did it also have a cartoon? The blue guy had flying suits, the green guy underwater suits, the yellow guy land-based suits?

denihilist

I liked exo-squad. I remember the toy company releasing their old robotech molds under the exo-squad banner and had very mixed emotions about it.

denihilist

Echo wrote: »

Hmm... did it also have a cartoon? The blue guy had flying suits, the green guy underwater suits, the yellow guy land-based suits?

You're thinking of Centurions.

Knob

What was that show with the guys that had all the holes in their futuresuits, and they had all this modular gear that fit into the slots

Like the blue guy had all this equipment that basically turned him into a human jet fighter, and the green guy was aquatic and looked like magnum pi


i always get it confused with exo-squad, but i liked it as a kid and the toys were rad

Knob

hot shit, it isn't just me!

lostwords

I am still waiting for a dvd boxset with the complete series. I don't think I ever got to the end. Pretty mature and intense stuff for a cartoon aimed at selling toys.

denihilist

Guys I watched a lot of cartoons in the mid-to-late 80s.

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denihilist wrote: »

I liked exo-squad. I remember the toy company releasing their old robotech molds under the exo-squad banner and had very mixed emotions about it.

At the time I was stoked, because it meant i could buy more robotech toys.
My nostalgia clouded memories of the show tell me it was good, but then up until recently I also believed that Transformers was something other than a 30 minute commercial.

PiptheFair

God I loved Centurions when I was younger

Knob

denihilist wrote: »

Guys I watched a lot of cartoons in the mid-to-late 80s.

you and me both brother

all huddled under the blankets with a bowl of cookie crisp

praying for armageddon and the splitting of the moon



just so i can hang out with ookla the mott

Knob

Manifest wrote: »

denihilist wrote: »

I liked exo-squad. I remember the toy company releasing their old robotech molds under the exo-squad banner and had very mixed emotions about it.

At the time I was stoked, because it meant i could buy more robotech toys.
My nostalgia clouded memories of the show tell me it was good, but then up until recently I also believed that Transformers was something other than a 30 minute commercial.

i can't speak for exo-squad

but i can verify that robotech (the first two seasons at least) stand up to the test of time fairly well

Drano

the guy with the water suit got screwed

lostwords

The neosapien dudes were pretty cool dudes too. Except the main bad guy dude was kind of a dick.

GABBO GABBO GABBO

Knob wrote: »

Manifest wrote: »

denihilist wrote: »

I liked exo-squad. I remember the toy company releasing their old robotech molds under the exo-squad banner and had very mixed emotions about it.

At the time I was stoked, because it meant i could buy more robotech toys.
My nostalgia clouded memories of the show tell me it was good, but then up until recently I also believed that Transformers was something other than a 30 minute commercial.

i can't speak for exo-squad

but i can verify that robotech (the first two seasons at least) stand up to the test of time fairly well

Everything up to Southern Cross. It's one of the few cartoons I watched as a kid that I can still stomach today. Although every time I go through my dvds I end up wanting to punch Minme in the throat.
But then Robotech/Macross wasn't written with the intent of selling toys.

t deni: I also watched an assload of cartoons during that time. A couple years back I bought a bootleg set of Bionic Six episodes. Halfway through the tapes the episodes just stopped, and Silverhawks started playing. Apparently the guy had recorded over the bootlegs that weren't selling as well.

denihilist

Man why would you replace the bionic six with silverhawks? That's fucking awful. "It's like Thundercats, but in space! We'll even use the same voice actors! It'll be great."

denihilist

Hey did anyone watch The Galaxy Rangers? I remember the show being awesome and it recently came out on DVD but I don't really trust my 8 year old self.

Galric

Exo-Squad and the Highlander animated series were my favorite cartoons of the time, though now if I mention them I just get blank looks. Damn this thread brings back good memories.

denihilist

Knob wrote: »

you and me both brother

all huddled under the blankets with a bowl of cookie crisp

praying for armageddon and the splitting of the moon



just so i can hang out with ookla the mott

Word. Thundarr was pretty badass.

GABBO GABBO GABBO

denihilist wrote: »

Man why would you replace the bionic six with silverhawks? That's fucking awful. "It's like Thundercats, but in space! We'll even use the same voice actors! It'll be great."

Yeah, I was pretty bummed.
Although Bionic Six also doesn't quite stand the test of time either. Man this is making me want to go get those Dungeons and Dragons dvds.


t knob: Ookla the Mok.

ToxicAvenger

Thunder Cats was teh shit. I don't remember Exo Squad very well though... I DID have one of the toys when I was little. I think Inspector Gadget, Ghostbusters, GI Joe, and the Ninja Turtles where the main cartoons I watched in the very late eighties. You're all old though.. so..

Whippy

I remember things

Hunter

Exo-Squad was pretty cool. The subject matter was fairly dark for a kids show and toy line. Humanity creates a race of human clones with benefits (strength, size, intellect, and ability to work in harsh climates) to terraform Mars and Venus. The clone slaves rebel and are crushed due to Human exo-frame technology. Slaves eventually gain better treatment and control of Mars. The Neosapians (ex-slaves) secretly divert funds and build a massive military complex under the nose of the humans. Trick the military/space police to chase a pirate scourge (humans who live at the edges of Jupiter and are like ex-patriots). Then the Neosapians basically rape and pillage earth and venus, basically committing genocide.

NOW BUY SOME TOYS.

The cartoon still holds up fairly well, there are a few sites with all of them listed.

Synthetic Orange

I loved it when the Centurions would just start mixing and matching their equipment, cobbling up horrible hybrid suits.

Power EXTREEEEEEME!

Hunter

The best part of centurians is when they added two more guys to sell more toys. Being out of environments, they added an American Indian guy as a stealth/commando dude and some nerdy guy as a weapon specialist/explosives/some shit guy.

NOW GO BUY TOYS

ToxicAvenger

Link plz.

Critical

Tech.. you done good kid.

Synthetic Orange

The other series that stood out from the later 80s for me was the Inhumanoids. Because the heroes in it were crap. They'd always get eaten or covered in acid or turned into zombies and generally gaining only pyhrric victories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhumanoids

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/539.html

taoistlumberjak

I don't think there has been a better first thread in a while
Thank you for this, this Christmas in April

denihilist

WhipstitchZombie wrote: »

I remember things

I remember (I remember)
when we used to play
Domino, on the porch
but now they drive-by

Hunter

Visionairies was my personal favorite. The whole show and toy line was based on "hey, holograms are cool...so let's make toys with holograms". So, they slapped holograms on knights and based a toyline and series on it. Comics too.

lostwords

I liked the Mutant League cartoon series because it had a bunch of dudes who would just fall apart playing ultra-violent sports that should be played nowadays.

Squashua

Exo-Squad was NOT a Robotech rip-off.

They were people in suits. And it was very cool.

There were hints that it was a continuation of Robotech and that they were using Robotechnology or a precursor of Robotechnology.

The line even acquired the Robotech license and produced freaking INVID.

Then the cartoon, which was fantastic, stopped.

Like, RIGHT before they were going to link it HARD into the actual Robotech continuity.

Supposedly the SDF-3 was going to arrive with Rick Hunter!

No rip-off. More like respect.

GABBO GABBO GABBO

No one called it a Robotech Rip-off jackass.

Synthetic Orange

I know it was kind of a robotech rip off but the show had a good story I think, dealing with slavery and stuff

ToxicAvenger

It was hinted. Slightly. But who cares?

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Synthetic Orange wrote: »

I know it was kind of a robotech rip off but the show had a good story I think, dealing with slavery and stuff

NOW I AM THE JACKASS.

Also, it totally wasn't a Robotech rip-off.

Hunter

Manifest wrote: »

Synthetic Orange wrote: »

I know it was kind of a robotech rip off but the show had a good story I think, dealing with slavery and stuff

NOW I AM THE JACKASS.

Also, it totally wasn't a Robotech rip-off.

NOES IT RIPS OFF TEH GUMDANSZ

Also, when the Neosapians are shooting humans into the sun when they become "undesirable" is kind of a dark subject for a kids show.

denihilist

OK so I found an episode of Galaxy Rangers on youtube. My 8 year old self is not to be trusted.

ToxicAvenger

Oh shit! I DID watch this cartoon! The dudes in those big ass things that looked like they were out of Aliens! That was nothing like Robotech!

Hunter

Yeah, e-frames are not quite robotech or gundams. Some were like suits of armor and others were more like vehicles. Still, they connected into the controllers brain via a link and were controlled by thought in certain ways. It's a very interesting sci-fi concept.