Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 130 Side B - Vintage Toy Advertisement Collecting
Hosts: Jeremy, Steve from Roboplastic Apocalypse
At long last, here is the second part of my chat with Steve, or if you prefer, Evil King Macrocranios.
Click [HERE] to speculate on obscure American releases of Japanese cartoons in the '80s.
Oh yeah, and here's the youtube clip where director Michael Part commented about working on 3B Productions' version of Daitetsujin 17, Brain 17.
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9 comments postedJust looking at that picture while the show downloads. That catalog picture perplexes me. It has Generation 2 Starscream fighting Generation 1 Dinobots.
Does not compute.
Don't get too worried. The initial releases of the G2 Dinobots looked just like the original Dinobots except they had tampo printed G2 Autobot logos on them.
Oh man. I watched Technopolice 21C this weekend at it really was awful.
Yeah, but it's a fun kind of awful.
I found a copy of that movie at a goodwill like almost 3 years ago for .99 cents, and ive only seen like the first five minutes of it. Its funny because as soon as i found out Suzuki worked on that as one of his first projects i wanted to get it, then found a copy within a week.
Now that you mentioned that anime in this podcast, i have every reason to dig that off my shelf and watch it soon. I think at the time I told myself i would finish it but never did, but this was after i watch one of those horribly bad korean anime at walmart i picked up and went "Hey, this cover looks cool." I have like 4 of them that have been sitting there, with no desire to watch them.
I did pick up Clash of the Bionoids recently, but some reason on my VCR it looks warped looking, not sure why because my VCR doesnt do that on any other tape i have.
I think in your discussion of Go Nagai you guys overlooked the underlying issue of whether it is actually inherently better to have your work reach a greater audience or to have your work reflect what you personally want. I think it's something that ultimately should be decided by the creator, and as a composer, to me the relative importance of those two things is a slider that I constantly adjust as I go along. I don't find it fair to press this perception of Go Nagai as somehow too selfish or stubborn or even foolish for deciding to forgo greater popularity in favor of Mazinger Z reflecting more accurately what he wanted. Artists making works that aren't attached to a toy line are almost invariably lauded for making that decision. Should he be exhalted for his artistic bravery? Probably not...but I think he should be given a little more respect for his choices than, say, George Lucas, Master of Retcons.
I didn't want to get into it too deep about artistic integrity because that wasn't what the podcast was about. Also I didn't know what Go Nagai did or did not do in regard to getting his works to American shores, but I did not really agree with the guest that Go Nagai did anything to prevent it. I like Go Nagai's works being crazy and I doubt it was his fault Mazinger Z didn't come to America until the '80s, as I said on the podcast. What cartoons were showing on American TV in 1972? http://www.tvparty.com/sat72.html
Hint: No giant robots.
Go Nagai is a dirty old man and his comics are full of the grotesque and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Word.
Fine work on this installment. Niiiiiice.