[DVD Review] ‘Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future’

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Posted by David Harley on January 16, 2012 @ 9:40pm
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It’s amazing that twenty-year-old marketing still works. I’m twenty-six, and I want an interlocker. My name is David, and I have just become a fan of Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future.

Gary Goddard – head of Landmark Entertainment at the time – had a strong rapport with Mattel during the mid-80’s after directing Masters Of The Universe. Realizing that soldiers were “in” as far as toy/cartoon properties went, as was evident by the success of He-Man (“old world” fantasy) and GI Joe (modern day warfare), he thought that using the same sort of formula in a futuristic setting might be the next big thing. Captain Power – a name everyone was astonished to learn was NOT copyrighted – was conceived as a live-action show where humans fought CGI villains, which was revolutionary in 1987 since children’s programming had primarily become cartoons in recent years and CGI was a brand-new thing. READ MORE

[DVD Review] ‘Skeleton Warriors’

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Posted by David Harley on January 10, 2012 @ 4:19pm
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THE GLORIOUS DARKNESS!

After Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future failed to take off (which is a shame, considering it was the most ambitious children’s show OF ALL TIME), Landmark Entertainment went back to working on the great theme park attractions they’re known for while secondarily thinking up new concepts to pitch to the networks. When Gary Goddard brought his godson to see the final performance of the Conan stunt show at Universal Hollywood back in 1993, the three-year-old was enamored with the skeleton soldiers onstage. Since Goddard had fond childhood memories of Ray Harryhausen’s work in Jason And The Argonauts and similar warriors resonated with his godson who was a few generations younger, the skeleton imagery seemed timeless and powerful. Thus, Skeleton Warriors was born. READ MORE