1984 was probably the best fall season for television ever. So many landmark shows premiered, Cosby show, punky Brewster, who’s the boss, Miami vice, hunter, Jeopardy, Murder she wrote, transformers, gi joe, orbots, gobots, muppet babies, snorks,
Orbots took its inspiration from an already existing show. After the first season it was sadly sued into nonexistence. If it had been allowed to continue I have no doubt it would have been huge.
South Korea actually got an action figure set before the show was cancelled, but few units hit the stores. It was made off toys from the "God Mars" series the animation designers copied, which didn't help in the lawsuit. I am friends on Facebook with Taiwanese comic book artist E.j. Su who said he saw those MO toys as a kid but only rich kids had a prayer of getting them.
@@angeltheautobot5797 Other than the "God Mars" suit, Tonka also sued saying the word "Orbots" in the title was too similar to "Gobots." Unique toy prototypes apart from "God Mars" repaints with promotion materials were lined up to be in stores before all of this hit the fan. Photos exist online.
@@stephenbyrne2170 I’m going to guess that you aren’t familiar with the robot/mecha genre, though - which existed significantly before Transformers in Japan, and continued to thrive in both countries in the decades after. Saying Orbots is a Transformers knock-off would be like saying “Notting Hill is a You’ve Got Mail knockoff” cause you didn’t realize it exists as part of a Rom-Com genre of hundreds of other trivially similar pieces of media. And plus…both of these shows started airing in the same month.
@@stephenbyrne2170 wdym a knockoff there were a ton of combining mecha back then also this was 1983 before Devastator or the scramble city combiners came in like Superion during 1985
And impressed you should be! This was animated by the Japanese studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha under the direction of Osamu Dezaki, who was the director for the original "Astro Boy" anime in the 1960s. :O
la BACKGROUND MUSIC de este cartoon fue hecho por "YUJI OHNO" de verdad, en los creditos finales aparece su nombre, y ya escucharlo me suena que es su estilo de musica, y en ese año que era 1984, ya trabajaba en LUPIN III, un anime de TMS, el estudio de animación de este cartoon, y en MACHINEMAN, un tokusatsu de TOEI
I don't remember Tonka suing over Gobots, i believe it was Bandai suing over the obvious reuse of their combining robot God Mars as the main character.
TONKA: Our TransFormers pastiche comes first, get in line. HASBRO: So Kenner/Parker Brothers owns Tonka? No need to sue, just wait... (Hasbro later buys Kenner/Parker Brothers)
@@toolala3908 It was Tonka. Their claim was that Orbots sounded too much like Gobots, taking attention away from their market. Bandai probably didn't sue because GodMars and Mighty Orbots were produced by the same company, TMS. Orbots even aired in Japan, I think a year after it's U.S. run.
unlike volton which was a "butchering" of the original Golion, Mighty Orbots or Maiti ōbottsu as it was called in Japan was a joint venture that was a colaboration between TMS entertainment and American TV producer Fred Silverman to create an animated series that took the "best of both worlds" of both Japanese and American animation and have it apeal to both Japanese and American children. There was very little edited out in both versions was the series was quite good with good humor with good action and suspense. I really enjoyed this series as as little kid and have fond memories watching this series was a little kid.
The problem was, TMS reused God Mars designs to do this, rights they didn't own and had no permission to use. While TMS did make God Mars, they didn't OWN it. But they acted like they did, sold this show to ABC and everybody got angry. The owners of God Mars went after TMS, Tonka in the US went after the name of the show, Bandai got angry at everyone and ABC was left looking stupid for buying a show with more lawsuits than episodes. The show was a failure on US TV so ABC just let the show die and then nobody needed to fight in court where judge would say TMS was a bunch of criminals. This wasn't the first time they stole IP they didn't own and made a new show.
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My god, man. Me too! Me tooooo! To this day I still get a rush when I hear that song and see him flying close to the surface of the space ship, and then flying through space with the rocket exhausts on his elbows! Wooo!!!! Yes!! Power!!!!!
Thank you for the longer intro. Great stuff. First saw the cartoons as an adult and still find the idea unique and fascinating. Go Mighty Orbots! Gobots, phooey!
Boy, do i miss this short-lived Cartoon! The opening music, the ahead-of-its-time animation, the story lines and the characters, were all fun to listen to and watch as a kid. Thanks to the Tonka toys industry, they had them cancel the series for legal matters. it only lasted one season.(13 eps.) I hope, one day, they go back in the archives, get in touch with the original writers, and bring back to life to this 80's gem. At least, release it for fans on Blu-Ray or something! One of my brief favorite Saturday morning treats, (next to coco pebbles). lol.
Because cartoons these days have the hideous new millennium aesthetics, which looks cheap, lazy and amateur; Not like the '80s in which the cartoons look expensive, laboring and professional. Sadly, traditional, hand-drawn cartoons is virtually a lost art.
@@cliftonsmith4013 Which would be..... what exactly? When this is an original animation made exclusively for North American audiences. Oh, one could, I suppose argue that it has many similarities to "God Mars", but then that can also be said of a lot of shows resembling other shows as well. 0_o
+TheCastellan Tokyo Movie Shinsa animation arm. Orbots is how I found out about them. Nothing like it at the time technically. Starblazers and the first third of Robotech was certainly narratively much better. BUT Orbots were pure fun and great eye candy for it's day. Killed off by the Go-bots Tonka Toys lawyers tho. Sad.
TMS also did animation for Ulysses 31, Visionaries, Bionic Six, and the better-looking episodes from the first season of DuckTales. Their work usually stood out because of its high quality.
I was thinking about this the other day, I remembered a show with a robot that are metal that was it, toy galaxy sent me this way when their review of the mighty orbots jogged the remainder of that memory. Good god growing up in the 80s was amazing looking back from 2020
Hello, _Kim Possible_ , _Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir_ , _Steven Universe_ (even though I think it's a pile of misandristic shit), _The Secret Saturdays_ , plus countless others? It hasn't gone away.
@@Neville60001 Well, to tell you the truth, I'm an old codger, and I've never seen any of those (except a couple of episodes of Secret Saturdays, mainly because of the 'Johnny Quest' feel of it ^_^)
@@MrChupacabra555, *_START_* checking them out (skip _Steven Universe_ ; as I said, it's misandristic crap that just ends up creating more supporters for people like Trump to be POTUS, and it has hateful toxic fans that almost caused a young girl to commit suicide [www.dailydot.com/parsec/steven-universe-fanartist-bullied-controversy/]); they're all great shows.
2 things really need to happen here: (1) an official release of the whole Mighty Orbots series on Blu-ray or DVD and (2) a Bandai Soul of Chogokin release of Mighty Orbots in toy form. I would gladly buy both offerings. This was such a great show. It really needs to see more love!
I've been trying to locate the complete series for years, to be honest. If you know anyone who deals in obscure videocassette releases from the United Kingdom or Japan, let me know.
GX-40 God Mars is as close as you would get. Supposedly the thing that triggered the God Mars lawsuit was they planned on distributing a Mighty Orbots recolor of a Taiwanese Bootleg God Mars toy. Of which there were many in the 80’s. Which is strange. The actual God Mars show was rather meh. Depressing and barely remembered. But the Popy God Mars toy is the stuff of legend.
Totally forgot about this one. The animation coming out of Japan back then was SO much better than all the pointy, angular crap that they're spitting out now.
You and me both. Tons of tapes of stuff I used to watch. Now, just to find them again. Lol! We had a new vcr at that time so we were taping EVERYTHING. Lol.
I remember that I saw this series on TV when I was in the senior year of High School! and I still do to this day! Here are my favorite quotes from "Mighty Orbots": 1. Robert Simmons: Orbots, unite! 2.Robert Simmons: Orbots, separate! 3. Robert Simmons: Crunch, separate, and chow down! I love Rob Simmons in his outfit as the Orbots commander! That's its inspiration!
It’s one Cartoon that has anime-ish style and totally epic sadly it has short episodes, I really liked this .Yet it’s a toy advertisement disguised as a cartoon nonetheless
+Allie-RX Well, I'm pretty sure it was specific to this series, so you could probably assemble a complete version if you edited the soundtrack from several episodes together.
Kind of a bummer that this 1980s theme song was forgotten. It rocks out fairly well. Sure, it might not have shredded as hard as Thundercats or Transformers 1986. However, it is great. I loved the look of 1970s and 1980s mecha. Sometimes I wonder if I was born to love it. Other times I wonder if it was because I loved the interior of my mom's 1985 Nissan Maxima. I think about how I got a burning desire to visit Japan in 1989. The Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo went on sale and it sounded like magic to me. I saw pictures that I now realize included Shibuya Crossing. I loved robots and tech gizmos. Maybe it makes me wonder how people didn't get the desire.
This feels like something Alan Moore would give a dark twist to. Like the Orbots each have a human brain in them, like Umbra killed them or whatever and the Galactic good guys installed them in prototype robo bodies. Probably sounds stupid.
You.know it's weird with those 5 robots that before they combine they are all human size but after they unite as Mighty Orbot they are as big as a house or a small mountain now that is crazy to say the least.
Theme songs of this era have yet to be surpassed.
I kind of agree with you. Mighty Max and King Arthur and the Knights of Justice are top tier 90s
The art on this show was fantastic! STILL looks good in 2022!
Seriously. I got a nostalgia itch just now and was so disappointed it doesn't seem to be available for streaming anywhere.
Definitely ahead of its time to say the least!
The main theme for shows like Orbots and Voltron is that bigger challenges can only be tackled by people when they come together and work as a team.
Ah, rest in peace, Gary Owens :D It's so cool this show had him as the narrator!
My favorite Gary moment was the Devil's Asteroid episode. "Not even Mighty Orbots can get through those doors!" CRASH! "Huh. I guess I was wrong."
@@cneterer That was immediately where my mind whent when I saw @BryonYoungblood's comment! 😆
Man I used to love that cartoon and that theme song is bangin
Duke Wolf Hell, I forgot the cartoon after all these years, but not the theme song! I even remembered the name roll call. Lol!
1984 was probably the best fall season for television ever. So many landmark shows premiered, Cosby show, punky Brewster, who’s the boss, Miami vice, hunter, Jeopardy, Murder she wrote, transformers, gi joe, orbots, gobots, muppet babies, snorks,
@Kevin Geaslin life was good!
Voltron as well
What about knight rider? Or how close was knight rider to this ?
@@Scientists_dont_lie 1984
It was the best Saw Punky Brewster live in Fall 1984
😏😎Thank you 1980's for the best year's as a kid in memories because of cartoon's, toy's, music, food, and just overall fun!
It's a shame this show is so obscure. It has the kind of aesthetic some people would love.
Orbots took its inspiration from an already existing show. After the first season it was sadly sued into nonexistence. If it had been allowed to continue I have no doubt it would have been huge.
South Korea actually got an action figure set before the show was cancelled, but few units hit the stores. It was made off toys from the "God Mars" series the animation designers copied, which didn't help in the lawsuit. I am friends on Facebook with Taiwanese comic book artist E.j. Su who said he saw those MO toys as a kid but only rich kids had a prayer of getting them.
@@angeltheautobot5797 Other than the "God Mars" suit, Tonka also sued saying the word "Orbots" in the title was too similar to "Gobots." Unique toy prototypes apart from "God Mars" repaints with promotion materials were lined up to be in stores before all of this hit the fan. Photos exist online.
It may be obscure, but at least it had one kick ass finish; the same can't be said for more well known shows like Galaxy Rangers or Wheel Warriors!
One of the rare cartoons where the background moved as well as main characters.
Just a copy of Transformers to me.
@@stephenbyrne2170 Maybe
@@stephenbyrne2170 I’m going to guess that you aren’t familiar with the robot/mecha genre, though - which existed significantly before Transformers in Japan, and continued to thrive in both countries in the decades after. Saying Orbots is a Transformers knock-off would be like saying “Notting Hill is a You’ve Got Mail knockoff” cause you didn’t realize it exists as part of a Rom-Com genre of hundreds of other trivially similar pieces of media.
And plus…both of these shows started airing in the same month.
@@stephenbyrne2170 wdym a knockoff there were a ton of combining mecha back then also this was 1983 before Devastator or the scramble city combiners came in like Superion during 1985
@@Dairobo10 Enough! I get the point, I'm sorry alright? It's not a knock-off and I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions.
Awesome animation, fun writing and non stop action. Orbots was way ahead of its time.
Anyone else here after watching Thundercat on Hot Ones?
Of course
Me
This guy!
Not really.
Watching with my DragonBall durag
"Orbot, the defender of the universe!"
Voltron: "What? Am I a joke to you?"
Yes.
Orbots was an american original while voltron just took golion and turned it american
Iol. Most all of the 80's robot show are Champions of the Universe. So take a number.
Orbots had better animation and is also a American Japanese collaboration it's also older than Voltron
lol
This is some damn good animation for early 1980's!
And impressed you should be! This was animated by the Japanese studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha under the direction of Osamu Dezaki, who was the director for the original "Astro Boy" anime in the 1960s. :O
@@LunarArchivist It's also very anime for a cartoon that you could say Mighty Orbots was one of the first "American anime".
la BACKGROUND MUSIC de este cartoon fue hecho por "YUJI OHNO" de verdad, en los creditos finales aparece su nombre, y ya escucharlo me suena que es su estilo de musica, y en ese año que era 1984, ya trabajaba en LUPIN III, un anime de TMS, el estudio de animación de este cartoon, y en MACHINEMAN, un tokusatsu de TOEI
Hell yeah!!!
Can someone translate please
THE MUSIC IS SOO CATCHYYY!!! This is one of my fav cartoons ever!
Man Saturday mornings were the best in the 80s. How I miss them......😭😭
jerbojones Yeah they were!!!I don’t know what kind of cartoons they have today!!Todays cartoons can not touch our cartoons back in the day!
They sure were, u'd look forward to it every week
Absolutely fucking right yo!
Me too.
good news to all mighty orbots fans the complete series of this show is coming to dvd on 4/17/2018
Loved this show when I was a kid.
A lawsuit like this would have made it nowhere today . This show had nothing really in common with gobots beyond the word bots
I don't remember Tonka suing over Gobots, i believe it was Bandai suing over the obvious reuse of their combining robot God Mars as the main character.
@ASS KRAKAN True
TONKA: Our TransFormers pastiche comes first, get in line.
HASBRO: So Kenner/Parker Brothers owns Tonka? No need to sue, just wait...
(Hasbro later buys Kenner/Parker Brothers)
I'm glad the Transformers franchise destroyed the go-bots.
@@toolala3908 It was Tonka. Their claim was that Orbots sounded too much like Gobots, taking attention away from their market. Bandai probably didn't sue because GodMars and Mighty Orbots were produced by the same company, TMS. Orbots even aired in Japan, I think a year after it's U.S. run.
Omg. I haven’t seen any of these since I was a kid. I LOVED this cartoon! I even remember the theme song!
unlike volton which was a "butchering" of the original Golion, Mighty Orbots or Maiti ōbottsu as it was called in Japan was a joint venture that was a colaboration between TMS entertainment and American TV producer Fred Silverman to create an animated series that took the "best of both worlds" of both Japanese and American animation and have it apeal to both Japanese and American children. There was very little edited out in both versions was the series was quite good with good humor with good action and suspense. I really enjoyed this series as as little kid and have fond memories watching this series was a little kid.
The problem was, TMS reused God Mars designs to do this, rights they didn't own and had no permission to use. While TMS did make God Mars, they didn't OWN it. But they acted like they did, sold this show to ABC and everybody got angry. The owners of God Mars went after TMS, Tonka in the US went after the name of the show, Bandai got angry at everyone and ABC was left looking stupid for buying a show with more lawsuits than episodes. The show was a failure on US TV so ABC just let the show die and then nobody needed to fight in court where judge would say TMS was a bunch of criminals. This wasn't the first time they stole IP they didn't own and made a new show.
@@LatitudeSky Ouch
Who said Voltron was a butchered Golion?😂😂 It was a hit. A franchise until now is well known and is still making money
My heart was always racing whenever I saw the introduction to Mighty Orbots! The theme song was filled with power! I miss watching this show on TV.
You weren't the only one who felt it :)
@@tyrfree5733 Glad 😊 to hear that!
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@@tyrfree5733 Okay!
My god, man. Me too! Me tooooo! To this day I still get a rush when I hear that song and see him flying close to the surface of the space ship, and then flying through space with the rocket exhausts on his elbows! Wooo!!!! Yes!! Power!!!!!
Awesome theme song!! Really pumps you up
When animation had depth. People worked hard with those hand-drawn cells to make the animation so good.
Truth, the days when i was a kid, the good ole days
ROB: "Now, I'm gonna reprogram you into saying 'Oh, yes!'"
OHNO: "Oh, no!" [Runs away.]
Never even occurred to me in 20yrs to think this. Now I will never stop for another 20. Lool
OHNO, yuji OHNO, in the end credits? xd
This show needs a DVD release.
and its coming to dvd as a complete series set on 4/17/2018
Courtesy of MGM!!!
And so your wish is now granted. = - )
They have one.
Perfect: 10/10
one of best animation TV show of all time.
Great MGM and TMS.
and its coming to dvd on 4/17/2018
Thank you for the longer intro. Great stuff. First saw the cartoons as an adult and still find the idea unique and fascinating. Go Mighty Orbots! Gobots, phooey!
Glad you enjoyed it. :D
Guess the decision of Hasbro aducting Tonka was a wise desicion
Boy, do i miss this short-lived Cartoon! The opening music, the ahead-of-its-time animation, the story lines and the characters, were all fun to listen to and watch as a kid. Thanks to the Tonka toys industry, they had them cancel the series for legal matters. it only lasted one season.(13 eps.) I hope, one day, they go back in the archives, get in touch with the original writers, and bring back to life to this 80's gem. At least, release it for fans on Blu-Ray or something! One of my brief favorite Saturday morning treats, (next to coco pebbles). lol.
i have no news on a blu-ray but i do have good news that the complete series is coming to dvd on 4/17/2018
Man that narration music was tight!
Darian Nickelson totally!!!!
Gotta love smooth jazz
I think the "Master Key" was named as a hat-tip to the composer, Yuji Ohno.
This show was a revelation - real animated figures amongst the Care Bears of the day. Great stuff!
The artwork back then was awesome. Bo and Boo were my favorites.
Hard to believe this from 1984. Holds up pretty well
Because cartoons these days have the hideous new millennium aesthetics, which looks cheap, lazy and amateur; Not like the '80s in which the cartoons look expensive, laboring and professional.
Sadly, traditional, hand-drawn cartoons is virtually a lost art.
The cartoon it's based off of is from the 1970's
@@cliftonsmith4013 Which would be..... what exactly? When this is an original animation made exclusively for North American audiences. Oh, one could, I suppose argue that it has many similarities to "God Mars", but then that can also be said of a lot of shows resembling other shows as well. 0_o
Yes !!!
This cartoon is from the ' _80's_ .🙄
The same animation studio went on to make Akira and Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.
Wooooww!! You just dropped some serious info. No wonder they're so successful!
+TheCastellan Tokyo Movie Shinsa animation arm.
Orbots is how I found out about them. Nothing like it at the time technically.
Starblazers and the first third of Robotech was certainly narratively much better. BUT Orbots were pure fun and great eye candy for it's day.
Killed off by the Go-bots Tonka Toys lawyers tho. Sad.
also transformers movie!
***** cool! I figured because of the glossy coloring !
TMS also did animation for Ulysses 31, Visionaries, Bionic Six, and the better-looking episodes from the first season of DuckTales. Their work usually stood out because of its high quality.
I loved this cartoon and it ended in 85!
but you can get it on a complete series dvd set on 4/17/2018
I had completely forgotten about this one.
I was thinking about this the other day, I remembered a show with a robot that are metal that was it, toy galaxy sent me this way when their review of the mighty orbots jogged the remainder of that memory. Good god growing up in the 80s was amazing looking back from 2020
The Greatest Irony is that Hasbro(whom Tonka should've gone after in the lawsuit ended up OWNING(literally) Tonka in the end!
Why don't any modern day shows have such an awesome 'hair band' theme music? ^_^
Why don't modern shows even Have theme music, never mind awesome 'hair band' theme music. = - p
Hello, _Kim Possible_ , _Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir_ , _Steven Universe_ (even though I think it's a pile of misandristic shit), _The Secret Saturdays_ , plus countless others? It hasn't gone away.
@@Neville60001 Well, to tell you the truth, I'm an old codger, and I've never seen any of those (except a couple of episodes of Secret Saturdays, mainly because of the 'Johnny Quest' feel of it ^_^)
@@MrChupacabra555, *_START_* checking them out (skip _Steven Universe_ ; as I said, it's misandristic crap that just ends up creating more supporters for people like Trump to be POTUS, and it has hateful toxic fans that almost caused a young girl to commit suicide [www.dailydot.com/parsec/steven-universe-fanartist-bullied-controversy/]); they're all great shows.
Because they’d make some BS reason like “not inclusive enough” or something. Obviously this intro was drawn in Japan too.
Ahh the days when cartoon openings were fucking No.1 singles. Fuck do I miss those days.
That Disco-ish music in the intro before the intro was sooooo good, felt sooooo soothing 😍😍😍
Maaaaaan....THIS was one of my favorite cartoons growing up! Way ahead of its time.
That just summed up my childhood in 1mins 31seconds.
They're fighting for me and for you.
This was one of the best Saturday Morning Cartoons in the 80s
Thanks for uploading this! Such a badass title song, man.
No problem! Thanks for watching. :D
The day's when sitting in front of the living room TV set was heaven on earth . . #Det part . .
Ahh the memories.
With only The Orbots Intro kick asses of all-animations and live action series of the last years!
2 things really need to happen here: (1) an official release of the whole Mighty Orbots series on Blu-ray or DVD and (2) a Bandai Soul of Chogokin release of Mighty Orbots in toy form. I would gladly buy both offerings. This was such a great show. It really needs to see more love!
I've been trying to locate the complete series for years, to be honest. If you know anyone who deals in obscure videocassette releases from the United Kingdom or Japan, let me know.
good news mighty orbots is coming to a complete series dvd set on 4/17/2018
i have super cool news for you mighty orbots the complete series is coming to dvd on 4/17/2018
GX-40 God Mars is as close as you would get. Supposedly the thing that triggered the God Mars lawsuit was they planned on distributing a Mighty Orbots recolor of a Taiwanese Bootleg God Mars toy. Of which there were many in the 80’s. Which is strange. The actual God Mars show was rather meh. Depressing and barely remembered. But the Popy God Mars toy is the stuff of legend.
Makes me level up every single time.
A forgotten Saturday morning gem this cartoon was awesome
Totally forgot about this one. The animation coming out of Japan back then was SO much better than all the pointy, angular crap that they're spitting out now.
Agreed. Old school animation has its charm. :)
I just suddenly remembered this show and I'm glad I did. I used to have a video cassette tape but I have no clue what i did with it.
There're a few episodes on sale on eBay if you're interested. :)
then i have goo news for you you can get the complete series on dvd in 4/17/2018
You and me both. Tons of tapes of stuff I used to watch. Now, just to find them again. Lol! We had a new vcr at that time so we were taping EVERYTHING. Lol.
CBS 9:30 AM. The highlight of my Saturday Morning (along with a bowl of Fruit Loops)!
Mine too!
Well, it was on ABC network.
Your right l love this little show simple not complex.
Kenneth Demuchest I remember!! It was ABC, and it did come on like, 930am. Lol!
@@kennethdemuchest3367 Whoops! Thx Kenneth! I'm proud of myself for getting the time right. The good old days.
Man my memory is hella long for me to remember this
This was the good stuff!!!
RIP Gary Owens. You were a big part of this show. Does anyone else notice how the theme song singer sounds like Barry Gordon? (Orbots commander.)
Best Saturday Morning Theme!!
I remember that I saw this series on TV when I was in the senior year of High School! and I still do to this day! Here are my favorite quotes from "Mighty Orbots":
1. Robert Simmons: Orbots, unite!
2.Robert Simmons: Orbots, separate!
3. Robert Simmons: Crunch, separate, and chow down!
I love Rob Simmons in his outfit as the Orbots commander! That's its inspiration!
I love it too.
Love Mighty Orbots !!!!
One of my favorites as a kid.
Loved this cartoon.
Haven’t seen this since it aired back in 1984.
It’s one Cartoon that has anime-ish style and totally epic sadly it has short episodes, I really liked this .Yet it’s a toy advertisement disguised as a cartoon nonetheless
The GREATEST cartoon that God in His wisdom allowed mortal man to create.
I was watching this shortly before Transformers and Voltron aired.
Now that I look back, Umbra must have been an organic computer and, like the Mighty Orbots and the children of Primus, was NO MERE MACHINE.
Watch this exciting intro makes ya wanna grab a bowl of cereal with ice cold milk.
Some of that original animation looked like it took time.
It DID!
Yeah, one animator/animation expert I showed it to said the animators were showing off. ;)
Finally watching and I remember this.
Underrated cartoon
OH NO!
TOR!
BORT!
BO!
BOO!
CRUNCH!
CRO-O-O-OW!!
GO! Mighty Orbots
Wow.. this took me back.
I remember this Saturday morning cartoon. Too bad there wasn’t toy versions of em
I know, I would have liked to have one.
There was a prototype made and a Godmars repaint as an unofficial release.
@@kennethdemuchest5171 There was a prototype made and a Godmars repaint as an unofficial release.
My all time favorite Saturday morning cartoon then one day it was just gone
I absolutely loved this show!
A forerunner to getting into anime…
Man, if only I could find that music in the beginning.
+Allie-RX Which music specifically?
LunarArchivist The one right before the intro, where the narrator is speaking.
+Allie-RX Well, I'm pretty sure it was specific to this series, so you could probably assemble a complete version if you edited the soundtrack from several episodes together.
Toy galaxy sent me
Keep ALL the tech of today…Being a kid in the 80s was AWESOME!! Saturday mornings ruled
I remember getting charged up as the theme plays!
I always wondered where Dexter's Laboratory got the inspiration for "Go, Dexter's Family, Go!" theme. And I'm pretty sure it's this theme.
Yeah, Thomas Chase & Steve Ruckers did music on the theme song.
That intro bangs hard AF.
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant
I always thought that Rob Simmons could have been Cobra's younger brother.
Kind of a bummer that this 1980s theme song was forgotten. It rocks out fairly well. Sure, it might not have shredded as hard as Thundercats or Transformers 1986. However, it is great.
I loved the look of 1970s and 1980s mecha. Sometimes I wonder if I was born to love it. Other times I wonder if it was because I loved the interior of my mom's 1985 Nissan Maxima.
I think about how I got a burning desire to visit Japan in 1989. The Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo went on sale and it sounded like magic to me. I saw pictures that I now realize included Shibuya Crossing. I loved robots and tech gizmos. Maybe it makes me wonder how people didn't get the desire.
Criminally overlooked show.
At least it had a series finale, which was a rarity for a cartoon back in the 80's.
This feels like something Alan Moore would give a dark twist to. Like the Orbots each have a human brain in them, like Umbra killed them or whatever and the Galactic good guys installed them in prototype robo bodies. Probably sounds stupid.
My favorite Saturday morning cartoon...
that old daft punk video always reminded me of this lol
Hmm, somehow I can see both Orbots and Voltron teaming up
A rare for a cartoon to finish the series in the 80s. They defeated there enemy.
Exactly! It was unique in several ways
You.know it's weird with those 5 robots that before they combine they are all human size but after they unite as Mighty Orbot they are as big as a house or a small mountain now that is crazy to say the least.
1:17 gotta love that Smash Bros run
Theme song perfection.
Loooooved this show as a kid!!
Happy 40th Birthiversary, Mighty Orbots.
Yup....I miss this kinda creative quality.
Kid: Can we have Voltron?
Mom: We have Voltron at home.
Voltron at home:
So? This is actually pretty cool!
TMS is favorite is my Favorite anime studio of anime.
They are way better than Toei.
Robots and aliens 💕❤️💚
Ppl don’t realize a lot of 80s cartoons were Japanese animation this, thundercats, transformers etc