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Re: Unaired Pilots

Post by Daniel » July 5th, 2022, 6:45 pm

The bird cracked me up. "I don't know". :lol:

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Re: Unaired Pilots

Post by gaastra » December 2nd, 2022, 7:16 pm

Power rangers.



Early he-man animation. This commercials animaation is really the test pilot for he-man pre filmation!


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Re: Unaired Pilots

Post by Randall » December 2nd, 2022, 11:00 pm

I never got into He-Man, but that commercial is cool.

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Re: Unaired Pilots

Post by Ben » December 3rd, 2022, 4:09 am

A bit reminiscent of Heavy Metal, I wonder if Nelvana were involved? When pitching to get the series, Filmation probably got it by putting in a lower budget. Fun to see Bob Iger as the dad, though! ;)

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Re: Unaired Pilots

Post by Randall » December 3rd, 2022, 9:16 am

That was Filmation! This is according to an oral history at syfy.com, though I'm sure I also have printed sources. Doing the commercial led to Lou Scheimer wanting to do a show, though they obviously had to simplify the styles and animation quality for a lesser-budgeted (per minute) ongoing series.

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Re: Unaired Pilots

Post by Ben » December 4th, 2022, 4:32 am

Ah, gotcha. Yes, it looked similar but obviously had a commercial budget. The series ironically also resembled the toys more, which I guess was a consideration as a crossover, whereas the commercial is more about making He-Man look epic. Would have been cool if the inevitable series film, Secret Of The Sword, had gone back to this more fluid, richer style.

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Re: Unaired Pilots

Post by Daniel » December 4th, 2022, 2:17 pm

The Power Ranger pilot aired in 1999 advertised as a "Lost Episode". It was hosted by Jason and Zack's actors who talked about the history of the episode and the series in general. Still pretty fascinating. Bulk without Skull, different Trini. Everything that changed was for the better.

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Re: Unaired Pilots

Post by EricJ » December 4th, 2022, 3:54 pm

Ben wrote:
December 3rd, 2022, 4:09 am
A bit reminiscent of Heavy Metal
Yeah, I'm seeing a little bit of Heavy Metal-esque Den movement in He-Man--

Also, before Filmation, Mattel had almost literally no idea who the character WAS:
The first action figures came with his own backstory comic, where He-Man was just a lone wandering Conan-like figure with a mysterious past, who finds Castle Greyskull while defending the locals from Skeletor.

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Re: Unaired Pilots

Post by gaastra » September 11th, 2023, 11:11 am

Not a pilot but episode of the lost wolf rock tv has been found! Here is the intro only.


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