I was 12 years old when this came out... Just off of the previews I stayed up every Friday night into Saturday morning to make sure I didn't miss the episode... It still stands up to this very day! 👍🏾 ✊🏾 💪🏾 💯 😎
We all need to petition Yuji Ohno to release the music he composed for this show!!! The theme is amazing but the rest of the sound track is flat out amazing. The tapes have to be around somewhere.
I turn 50 this November and this scene make me feel like a kid sitting on the floor with a bowl of cereal on a Saturday morning once again. Man, it went so fast…
So go get some cereal and watch some cartoons on Saturday morning. Nobody says you can't. I do it all the time. You don't stop playing because you get old. You get old because you stop playing. Cocoa Pebbles were and still are my cereal of choice.
This show is available on DVD. Totally worth it. Watched it with my 9 year old. Felt like watching it for the first time all over again. An underrated gem!
I was around 6 years old when I found "Battle of the Planets" on early morning Saturday cartoons. Later found it was "Gatchaman" in Japan where it came from. My first anime. I've not stopped loving anime ever since. "Mighty Orbots" is a unique creation between American writers and Japanese anime artists.
@chuckmorrissette It's wild how people actually try to hate on this brilliant work. Modern animators are so jealous of this stuff that they can't even stand to bring it up in a conversation without spitting venom. Ironically this masterwork is what got THEM into animation. Although it is not often admitted it is understood that this era produced the GOLD STANDARD in animation. It touches people in a way no animation can rival. Not even close.
The sequences, screenplay, storytelling through the animation is all top tier. But you're right, for obvious reasons, a lot of animation series' in the genre couldn't come close.
I remember running through the streets as a kid pretending that I was rob transforming into the orbots commander! This was one of my favorite shows as a kid along with Galaxy Rangers!
Man, I miss the 80s! A magical time to be alive! So much imagination and intelligence seemed to go into every genre back then! I won't restate the obvious about the current generation we live in.......ugh.....
For context this post was written at the time of or just before the premier of Avatar: Legend of Korra and Gravity Falls so... this opinion might be trash.
I had it in my head that this was Fred Silverman's ("InterMedia") attempt to make up for the debacle that was "We Got it Made" - a series so bad that one cast member bailed by the fourth episode, subsequently striking gold in a cop show
This is how you make Saturday mornings great. The show had so much potential. If it wasn't for that frivolous lawsuit from Tonka, it would've been one of the greats of the 80's. The visuals were excellent & animesque seeing as how one of the production companies & main animation studio was TMS (In Japan).
I will always love the look of 1970s and 1980s mecha. I sometimes wonder where the attraction came from. Was it because my mom owned a 1985 Nissan Maxima, and the interior was loaded with gadgetry? Maybe I was born to like certain Japanese goods? When I was watching G-Force (Lame Gatchaman translation) at age 11, my dad said it reminded him of how much he loved Godzilla films when he was 11.
Omg..this song is so on point..even down to the horns and the japanese sound effects..lol..from late 70s to 1989 cartoon intros were so soulful..I'm 43 and i still get hype when I here this and voltron transformation music..honestly this transformation will give the lion voltron and car voltron a run for the money...
Seriously! This show was SO the shit.. I'd trip down the damn stairs trying to get to the TV on Saturday mornings just to watch this. My parents always laughed at me. "why don't you like things normal girls like" BECAUSE ORBOTS YOU SHUT YOUR FACE >:/ xD
This cartoon was one of my all time favorites I still sing this tune even though I'm nearing 50 years of age.. In my heart I'm still a kid.. : ) I'd gladly run down the block and shout... Orbots unite!!! Lol... Let's play mighty orbots.. Wanna know the best part... My name is Rob!!! What's funnier ... There was a kid up the block from me in the mid 80's with a knight rider big wheel.. Guess what his name was... Yup Michael lol.. So i'd get on my dirt bike and we spent many an afternoon playing Knight rider.. And mighty orbots
terrorhawks,transformers,mighty orbots,voltron, i could go on and on!!! no playstation,no xbox or internet, just straight imagination and fun with neighborhood friends!! man the generation now missing out big time!! oh well!!! thank you god for blessing me the life of being a 80s kid!!
Just watching this video and seeing the 5 different areas where the Mighty Orbots emerge from they're recharge chambers reminds me a lot of the Lion Voltron series where they show the 5 Lions emerge from they're hidden lairs well with the exception of the Black Lion that sits atop the Lion Monument in front of the Castle of Lions whereas the Blue Lion rests at the bottom of a lake,the Red Lion rests inside a volcano,the Green Lion rests inside a tree deep in the forest around the castle and the Yellow Lion's lair is deep in the desert where it's lair is shaped like and it actually looks like one the Yellow Lion's lair is shaped like a Sphinx.
The sad part is that the people of Evilon had been in the middle of a massive PR campaign to counter prejudice against them based on their homeworld's name.
I alone have probably added a 100 views to this video. I remember watching this on Saturday mornings.This transformation sequence has so much eye candy. An absolute banger.
@ShingoEX This cartoon was actually produced by TMS, the very same people who made "Bionic 6", like "o82774" said. They also made "Galaxy High", as well as worked on animation for other companies, such as Filmation's "Zorro", Sunbow/Hasbro's "Visionaries", some episodes of "Tiny Toons" and "Batman:TAS", and so much more.
We all need to petition Yuji Ohno to release the music he composed for this show!!! The theme is amazing but the rest of the sound track is flat out amazing. The tapes have to be around somewhere.
I couldn't remember the name of this show for years after not seeing it since it aired when I was maybe 4 or 5years old. I thought I was losing my mind. Glad to see all of the comments in my fever dream.
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!
The toy will NEVER happen. Besides Tonka threatening to sue over the Orbots name, the actual Orbots mecha was wholesale stolen from Godmars, a show TMS was hired to animate but didn't own. Nonetheless, they stole the design, made a few changes and used it again for Orbots. Bandai owned the toy rights to Godmars and was extremely unhappy with TMS about this. The actual IP owners of Godmars were livid. There was so much bad blood from this, the companies involved barely ever worked together again. They would have sued too except the lawsuit threat in the US, and poor ratings, took the show down anyway. Bandai is probably still angry about this 40 years later. TMS ripped them off. Not a surprise. They have a history of borrowing IP they don't own and daring anyone to stop them.
Warren Stanyer is the vocalist for the theme. I know it because I was in contact with Steve Rucker (who told me) and I was the one who updated the info on the Wikipedia page and IMDB.
Also was, I hate to point out, a blatant rip-off of a Japanese anime called "God Mars." If you search for images of the God Mars toys, they strongly resemble the Orbots with different heads and colors. The combined robot especially. In fact, a boxed set of the toys was repainted and sold in South Korea as the only MO toys to hit the market. The God Mars people had their own lawsuit, along with Tonka, which helped pull MO off the air in America.
God how I love how excessively animated this whole sequence is, the moment each Orbot is revealed you can immediately tell their personalities, Thor is big and powerful and just smashes right out of the rocks, Bo and Boo are graceful and expressive the way they spin and loop in the air, Bort starts out as a plane and then transforms, and Crunch, well, he's in a space scrapyard, and look! He's still eating while he's flying off!
Yeah, you can't see it until later, but Bort was so versatile he couldn't make up his mind on his shape, especially when he wanted to impress the girls. As Tor said later: "You've got a built-in identity crisis!"
This animation is divine. It is too magical to exist in today's era of entertainment that is driven by low quality and degenerate standards. The aesthetics that exists in this show (and MOST 80's cartoons) was so highly creatively developed that these works represent a cultural miracle that cannot be duplicated, mainly because it is totally beyond the abilities of fully grasp. This was the closest thing tv came to art and pure animation. Tv for brilliant children and adults with imaginations.
+MrGarchyn _Protecting The World From The Shadows Of Evil & Doom!_ _Champions Of Justice & Truth!_ _Soar - Mighty Orbots!_ _Attacking The Tower Of Darkness With One Fighting Force!_
@@BryonYoungblood *_Mighty_*_ Powers To Fight Anywhere!_ *_Orbots!_*_ (These) Heroes Will Never Be Scared!_ _Bright Lights Shining Together As One!_ _Orbots! Protecting The World For Both Me & You!_ And A Few Years Ago I Was Only Getting To Know This... I Was Born In The Late 90s While This Was Around In The Mid 80s
I loved the animation on this show, and while I thought certain elements were cheesy, the combination of the music (starting with the key change at 1:53) and the "giant robot double biceps" pose still gets me. (No coincidence that my single favorite shot in "Pacific Rim" is the Gipsy Danger kung fu salute.)
I know everyone mentions how they increase in size when they unite. I have wondered about that as the size difference is always apparent. What I found interesting is that an obese robot and a skinny robot became blocky legs and the female ones became jointed blocky arms. Suspension of disbelief is required to enjoy this show and that I did growing up with this show. It may have lasted one season, but I have so many fond memories of this show. The song ROCKED!!!! The activation of the Orbots got you thrilled!!!! And just seeing them merge together got you pumped up as you knew they will save the day.
DAMN. The animation here just shat all over Gobots AND most of Transformers G1. And this show was hilarious. I shed tears of sorrow. Who owns it now anyway? They need to get their DVD money stat.
1:11 - Can we just take a moment to appreciate the brazenness of the 80s that allowed for a robot to blast off into space using ignited gas from his ass?
This was the beginning of the "Transforming Robot" era of cartoons. The Mighty Orbots, Transformers, Voltron, The Big O and the live action series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It was a great time to be a kid or at least, a kid at heart! Fun shows and excellent animation.
Summer/Fall of 1984...I saw the commerical for this and knew it was on...I was 12/13 years old...Saturday Mornings @ 0900AM were a magical time...Orbots........Unite!!!!!
Sadly, as awesome as the theme is, I don't think they ever played the full song at one time. This one cuts out most the final chorus except for the last line - you can hear the abrupt cut at about 2:13. Another episode - I forget which one - has the final chorus, but cuts the "Five lights shining together as one" bridge. The opening is the most abridged version, cutting out most of the song to squeeze in a "Robot roll call". I'd love a soundtrack album, but I doubt it after all this time.
Orbots, Unite!! Taking me back to Saturday mornings, 1985. Eating cereal or if i was lucky, my pops would get me a couple of sausage Crossiandwiches from Burger King. After dropping Mom off to work. Good times to be a kid, lol😂
I was in my early 20's .I worked during the week but got up for this every Saturday mornings. Yeah, it aired only 1 season. But, it has a good story line that culminated in the defeat of Umbra.
Since MGM distributed the show and its pre-1986 library were sold to Turner Entertainment, the show is likely held by Time Warner. We can only hope that Warner Archive will release it. Considering that they've been digging out several forgotten gems, and that "Orbots" has a sizable following, I'd say it's very likely.
I remember September 1984 like it was yesterday. Looking at robot animation and transformation was unlike anything else everyday of the week except Sunday. Lol. Voltron, Transformers and this. Not many people talked about the Orbots then as they did Voltron, Gobots and Transformers but they probably did on Saturday morning. All the kids back then wanted to watch nothing but the cool serious looking stuff. The funny comedy stuff like Rocky and Bulwinkle on Saturday morning just prepped us for the stuff that started at 8am until 12 noon. After that, the day just got boring and it was time to clean up or go outside or to the mall. 🤣🤣
I have an unofficial copy I got at a 'con. Unfortunately the quality looks like it was ripped from youtube. Agreed, they really need to do a good release. I have a suspicion it's a rights issue- the same reason it went off the air in the 80s.
+INFERNO95 You know, it just hit me. Mighty Orbots is a cross between Voltron and The Mighty Heros from the 1960s. Because Torso Tor makes a perfect Strong Man
Or better yet, a Blu-ray release. With animation quality like this, it deserves to be seen in HD. I've seen a lot of old anime and classic cartoon films on Blu-ray and they look amazing.
At first i thought this was going to be another generic 80's cartoon with sub-par animation, but it turned out to be pretty badass. OVER BADASS in some parts though.
Why are the classic cartoon themes 80's-early 2000's so awesome They put so much effort into it But today's themes just sound so generic like they have to have one
i agree, the only theme songs i have liked recently was the avengers fight as one theme, and the iron man armoured adventures theme, it as close as you can get to the eighties.
+snake yeah, I think another difference is how Engaging they were to an audience I mean this theme gets me pumped Where as the other day I listened to ben10 theme and there was no connection or getting pumped
Julian Taylor the eighties was the best era to have experienced , from tv shows, movies, music, cultural movement and videogames, it was quite possible the greatest era ever!! I still remember the first time I heard Saturday morning theme songs!!
+snake I reckon the 80s-90s and parts of the early 00's were the best and most influential times in terms of Culture, tv, video games ect I was born in the early 90s but my siblings were born in mid 80s so I got the best of both worlds
Man this bring back memories, I loved Mighty Orbots especially the theme Go! Mighty Orbots! This clip I loved when played the extended theme. Had one of the best theme songs there was, very underrated cartoon. Wish they brought it out on DVD or HD!
Can we take a moment to appreciate how good the music was for this show? It still hypes me up all these years later.
Absolutely!
How many cartoons rock enough to put what amounts to an MTV music video for their own theme song into the show?
Most 80s cartoons had great title themes. I think about the Thundercats and Ninja Turtles as examples.
I was 12 years old when this came out... Just off of the previews I stayed up every Friday night into Saturday morning to make sure I didn't miss the episode... It still stands up to this very day! 👍🏾 ✊🏾 💪🏾 💯 😎
We all need to petition Yuji Ohno to release the music he composed for this show!!! The theme is amazing but the rest of the sound track is flat out amazing. The tapes have to be around somewhere.
I turn 50 this November and this scene make me feel like a kid sitting on the floor with a bowl of cereal on a Saturday morning once again. Man, it went so fast…
Crunch Berries were the culinary choice of my misspent pre-adolescence....mmmmmm
So go get some cereal and watch some cartoons on Saturday morning. Nobody says you can't. I do it all the time. You don't stop playing because you get old. You get old because you stop playing. Cocoa Pebbles were and still are my cereal of choice.
Preach
@@Dorelaxen LOL! I still watch cartoons!!!
Same here
I’m in my 40’s and this animation still gives me goosebumps
Tell me about it!!!
Sometimes feeling old isn't so bad :-)
Same here!
I think I will always love the look of 70s and 80s mecha.
I hear you, me to, would like to see Mighty Orbots continued.
"What their getting is Mighty Orbots!" What a fucking Legend.
That time when Donatello built a giant kick-ass space robot. 😄
That transformation sequence has always been epic
Man would be great to get just the music from this transformation sequence. Mighty Orbots deserved a second season.
This show looks amazing. Jeez, one more reason to love the 80s, I swear.
The interplay of the individual orbots is the great attraction of the series. This sequence with its full theme song is FAN-tastic.
This show is available on DVD. Totally worth it. Watched it with my 9 year old. Felt like watching it for the first time all over again. An underrated gem!
I was about age 3 when this was airing. I couldn't appreciate the amount of work that went into the animation back then
I was around 6 years old when I found "Battle of the Planets" on early morning Saturday cartoons. Later found it was "Gatchaman" in Japan where it came from. My first anime. I've not stopped loving anime ever since. "Mighty Orbots" is a unique creation between American writers and Japanese anime artists.
@chuckmorrissette
It's wild how people actually try to hate on this brilliant work. Modern animators are so jealous of this stuff that they can't even stand to bring it up in a conversation without spitting venom. Ironically this masterwork is what got THEM into animation. Although it is not often admitted it is understood that this era produced the GOLD STANDARD in animation. It touches people in a way no animation can rival. Not even close.
Devolution
@@angeliquaserenity5009 We're all Devo!
The sequences, screenplay, storytelling through the animation is all top tier. But you're right, for obvious reasons, a lot of animation series' in the genre couldn't come close.
And people complain about Transformers changing size sometimes...that said, I do love it. This show has an ending, and was actually quite neat.
I remember running through the streets as a kid pretending that I was rob transforming into the orbots commander! This was one of my favorite shows as a kid along with Galaxy Rangers!
Both had great theme songs.
preach!
I had to have been 11 or 12 when I watched this. loved Galaxy Rangers too
Galaxy Rangers.... not many know of that fucking nice!!
Man, I miss the 80s! A magical time to be alive! So much imagination and intelligence seemed to go into every genre back then! I won't restate the obvious about the current generation we live in.......ugh.....
i miss the 80's too super big time
For context this post was written at the time of or just before the premier of Avatar: Legend of Korra and Gravity Falls so... this opinion might be trash.
Such quality is lost forever.. Sad. Only in the 80's did cartoons capture imagination in such an innocent way but still maintain sophistication
The ironic Justice in this is that Tonka ultimately became absorbed into Hasbro.
@@seantape6628 I'm surprised IDW hasn't done a crossover comic with them yet then!
And this is what happens when you give 1980s-era TMS a Hollywood-size budget.
I had it in my head that this was Fred Silverman's ("InterMedia") attempt to make up for the debacle that was "We Got it Made" - a series so bad that one cast member bailed by the fourth episode, subsequently striking gold in a cop show
Such fond memories of Mighty Orbots. I watched every one until the end.
Saturday mornings in the 80s were....EVERYTHING!!!
I have watched this for years 100s of times. Thanks for loading this classic treasure.
No 80s cartoon compares to this opening! One of my favs 4evs
This is how you make Saturday mornings great. The show had so much potential. If it wasn't for that frivolous lawsuit from Tonka, it would've been one of the greats of the 80's. The visuals were excellent & animesque seeing as how one of the production companies & main animation studio was TMS (In Japan).
Childhood memories to the max. Love this cartoon. Kids nowadays just don't know what awesome was. Orbits unite!!! 50 but feel like a child in the 80s.
I will always love the look of 1970s and 1980s mecha. I sometimes wonder where the attraction came from. Was it because my mom owned a 1985 Nissan Maxima, and the interior was loaded with gadgetry?
Maybe I was born to like certain Japanese goods? When I was watching G-Force (Lame Gatchaman translation) at age 11, my dad said it reminded him of how much he loved Godzilla films when he was 11.
Omg..this song is so on point..even down to the horns and the japanese sound effects..lol..from late 70s to 1989 cartoon intros were so soulful..I'm 43 and i still get hype when I here this and voltron transformation music..honestly this transformation will give the lion voltron and car voltron a run for the money...
Voltes V was pretty good and Ninja Science Team Gatchaman otherwise G Force music was awesome too
Who else wanted to see a Might Orbots and Voltron team up?
This song rocks so hard. I loved this show as a kid, and I was so disappointed when it was cancelled ;_;
You aint lying 80's cartoons were the best!!!!! beings back so many memory (That theme song was hot)
Seriously! This show was SO the shit.. I'd trip down the damn stairs trying to get to the TV on Saturday mornings just to watch this. My parents always laughed at me. "why don't you like things normal girls like" BECAUSE ORBOTS YOU SHUT YOUR FACE >:/ xD
@@frostwitch7234 nice.
Those opening horns though!!
This cartoon was one of my all time favorites I still sing this tune even though I'm nearing 50 years of age.. In my heart I'm still a kid.. : ) I'd gladly run down the block and shout... Orbots unite!!! Lol... Let's play mighty orbots.. Wanna know the best part... My name is Rob!!! What's funnier ... There was a kid up the block from me in the mid 80's with a knight rider big wheel.. Guess what his name was... Yup Michael lol.. So i'd get on my dirt bike and we spent many an afternoon playing Knight rider.. And mighty orbots
I really loved this cartoon, you can tell it was made with love! Beautifully drawn and animated, gems like this didn't come around often.
terrorhawks,transformers,mighty orbots,voltron, i could go on and on!!! no playstation,no xbox or internet, just straight imagination and fun with neighborhood friends!! man the generation now missing out big time!! oh well!!! thank you god for blessing me the life of being a 80s kid!!
Just watching this video and seeing the 5 different areas where the Mighty Orbots emerge from they're recharge chambers reminds me a lot of the Lion Voltron series where they show the 5 Lions emerge from they're hidden lairs well with the exception of the Black Lion that sits atop the Lion Monument in front of the Castle of Lions whereas the Blue Lion rests at the bottom of a lake,the Red Lion rests inside a volcano,the Green Lion rests inside a tree deep in the forest around the castle and the Yellow Lion's lair is deep in the desert where it's lair is shaped like and it actually looks like one the Yellow Lion's lair is shaped like a Sphinx.
The 80's cartoon theme songs rocked.
who would have guessed that the bad guys would be hiding out on planet Evilon? 😆
Well, they sure fooled ME. I thought they’d be on Rottenicus or Corrupticon.
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@@keeblergraham211 LOL! Bring the series back to fight evil on those 2 orbs!
The sad part is that the people of Evilon had been in the middle of a massive PR campaign to counter prejudice against them based on their homeworld's name.
As a young boy, I had no idea why 0:49 was my favorite part.
After over 30 years, I think now I might have an idea!
How many miss Saturday morning cartoon lineups?
I think my inner child just shed a tear
😂
Very clean and detailed transformation coupled with the music was so awesome!
I alone have probably added a 100 views to this video. I remember watching this on Saturday mornings.This transformation sequence has so much eye candy. An absolute banger.
Good Lord, that 1984 animated sequence was SUPERB in quality!
@ShingoEX
This cartoon was actually produced by TMS, the very same people who made "Bionic 6", like "o82774" said. They also made "Galaxy High", as well as worked on animation for other companies, such as Filmation's "Zorro", Sunbow/Hasbro's "Visionaries", some episodes of "Tiny Toons" and "Batman:TAS", and so much more.
We all need to petition Yuji Ohno to release the music he composed for this show!!! The theme is amazing but the rest of the sound track is flat out amazing. The tapes have to be around somewhere.
I couldn't remember the name of this show for years after not seeing it since it aired when I was maybe 4 or 5years old. I thought I was losing my mind. Glad to see all of the comments in my fever dream.
That music is pure 80s.
Ah! Back when cartoons were art! I'll NEVER watch TV again!! NOT until TV gets back to where it was!! AN ART!
Ah, the memories...
I loved this cartoon, and especially the song.
Thanks for uploading this.
Why is this making my inner child cry.
Because it was epic!
I feel so bad for kids today. We had the best era with cartoons in the morning
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!
good news the complete series is coming to dvd on 4/17/2017
The toy will NEVER happen. Besides Tonka threatening to sue over the Orbots name, the actual Orbots mecha was wholesale stolen from Godmars, a show TMS was hired to animate but didn't own. Nonetheless, they stole the design, made a few changes and used it again for Orbots. Bandai owned the toy rights to Godmars and was extremely unhappy with TMS about this. The actual IP owners of Godmars were livid. There was so much bad blood from this, the companies involved barely ever worked together again. They would have sued too except the lawsuit threat in the US, and poor ratings, took the show down anyway. Bandai is probably still angry about this 40 years later. TMS ripped them off. Not a surprise. They have a history of borrowing IP they don't own and daring anyone to stop them.
This show shouldve gone the distance!!! Amazing mecha, great voicework and fantastic animation.
One of the greatest cartoons of all times.
That Times and that Childhood my friends. Thanks.
Great music, great graphics, great plots! This was an awesome show!
Warren Stanyer is the vocalist for the theme. I know it because I was in contact with Steve Rucker (who told me) and I was the one who updated the info on the Wikipedia page and IMDB.
You wouldn't happen to know where the full theme could be downloaded would you?
@@BradLad56 Steve Rucker does not have it, I've tried twice over the years. It's probably lost to time.
What an epic giant robot transformation
Another reason to hate Go-Bots: it's why Mighty Orbots was taken off the air.
Go-Bots sucks. ORBOTS way better
I still don't know how in the hell they were able to win their case?
I didn’t need another reason, but thanks anyway. Gobots blow ass
Also was, I hate to point out, a blatant rip-off of a Japanese anime called "God Mars." If you search for images of the God Mars toys, they strongly resemble the Orbots with different heads and colors. The combined robot especially. In fact, a boxed set of the toys was repainted and sold in South Korea as the only MO toys to hit the market. The God Mars people had their own lawsuit, along with Tonka, which helped pull MO off the air in America.
Right on Go Bots suck big time
God how I love how excessively animated this whole sequence is, the moment each Orbot is revealed you can immediately tell their personalities, Thor is big and powerful and just smashes right out of the rocks, Bo and Boo are graceful and expressive the way they spin and loop in the air, Bort starts out as a plane and then transforms, and Crunch, well, he's in a space scrapyard, and look! He's still eating while he's flying off!
Yeah, you can't see it until later, but Bort was so versatile he couldn't make up his mind on his shape, especially when he wanted to impress the girls. As Tor said later: "You've got a built-in identity crisis!"
This animation is divine. It is too magical to exist in today's era of entertainment that is driven by low quality and degenerate standards. The aesthetics that exists in this show (and MOST 80's cartoons) was so highly creatively developed that these works represent a cultural miracle that cannot be duplicated, mainly because it is totally beyond the abilities of fully grasp. This was the closest thing tv came to art and pure animation. Tv for brilliant children and adults with imaginations.
Back in the 80's there were so many US/Japanese collabs in Saturday morning animation. What a time be a kid then.
@@FaytLinegodSomething I would *LOVE* to bring back if I get the chance, myself. 😊
0:44 She has the best beautifully animated intro of them all.
Bo kicked ass! A robot version of Storm from the X-Men. A shame they never had a chance to develop her further.
Crunch was always my favorite!
Doesn't this deserve a reboot?
i feel old but one more time!!!
Go! Mighty Orbots!
They’re joining together to fight for what’s right everywhere
+MrGarchyn _Protecting The World From The Shadows Of Evil & Doom!_
_Champions Of Justice & Truth!_
_Soar - Mighty Orbots!_
_Attacking The Tower Of Darkness With One Fighting Force!_
@@bencarolan9569 Mighty Orbots!
Guarding the planets and shielding the good from the bad!
Orbots!
Courage that shines like the sun!
@@BryonYoungblood *_Mighty_*_ Powers To Fight Anywhere!_
*_Orbots!_*_ (These) Heroes Will Never Be Scared!_
_Bright Lights Shining Together As One!_
_Orbots! Protecting The World For Both Me & You!_
And A Few Years Ago I Was Only Getting To Know This... I Was Born In The Late 90s While This Was Around In The Mid 80s
Holy @#%! Was that the voice actor for TMNT's Donatello taking the lead in the series?
Yes that waa in fact Barry Gordon who also happened to voice Razor of the Swat Kats
Actually, this was Godmars repainted. I loved it when i was a kid. I just recently started watching the Godmars series and it's really good too!
While I wouldn't call this a repainted God Mars, the inspiration is clearly there.
I love this tune. I go back to this video so I can hear the full song and lyrics.
I loved the animation on this show, and while I thought certain elements were cheesy, the combination of the music (starting with the key change at 1:53) and the "giant robot double biceps" pose still gets me. (No coincidence that my single favorite shot in "Pacific Rim" is the Gipsy Danger kung fu salute.)
I know everyone mentions how they increase in size when they unite. I have wondered about that as the size difference is always apparent. What I found interesting is that an obese robot and a skinny robot became blocky legs and the female ones became jointed blocky arms. Suspension of disbelief is required to enjoy this show and that I did growing up with this show. It may have lasted one season, but I have so many fond memories of this show. The song ROCKED!!!! The activation of the Orbots got you thrilled!!!! And just seeing them merge together got you pumped up as you knew they will save the day.
2day is my 52nd birthday, and everytime it comes around i watch this video.
DAMN. The animation here just shat all over Gobots AND most of Transformers G1. And this show was hilarious. I shed tears of sorrow. Who owns it now anyway? They need to get their DVD money stat.
1:11 - Can we just take a moment to appreciate the brazenness of the 80s that allowed for a robot to blast off into space using ignited gas from his ass?
This was the beginning of the "Transforming Robot" era of cartoons. The Mighty Orbots, Transformers, Voltron, The Big O and the live action series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It was a great time to be a kid or at least, a kid at heart! Fun shows and excellent animation.
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@@mauromesa78 you forgot ROBOTECH.
Summer/Fall of 1984...I saw the commerical for this and knew it was on...I was 12/13 years old...Saturday Mornings @ 0900AM were a magical time...Orbots........Unite!!!!!
I grew up in the 80’s and watched almost every cool cartoon possible, how do I not remember this.
Sadly, as awesome as the theme is, I don't think they ever played the full song at one time. This one cuts out most the final chorus except for the last line - you can hear the abrupt cut at about 2:13. Another episode - I forget which one - has the final chorus, but cuts the "Five lights shining together as one" bridge. The opening is the most abridged version, cutting out most of the song to squeeze in a "Robot roll call".
I'd love a soundtrack album, but I doubt it after all this time.
They sure got a lot of mileage out of that song, didn't they? Loved this show as a kid.
Despite its name, Evilon is actually considered one of the best summer vacation resort planets for families with children under 12.
The Cal-arts generation might be in charge now. But they'll never be remembered nearly as fondly as the 1980s Saturday morning cartoons.
Orbots, Unite!! Taking me back to Saturday mornings, 1985. Eating cereal or if i was lucky, my pops would get me a couple of sausage Crossiandwiches from Burger King. After dropping Mom off to work. Good times to be a kid, lol😂
AHHHH! THE MEMORIES!
but they never did explain how the orbots went from regular human size to giant size
I believe Rob had it programmed into their hard drives on those CD and their CPU'S
I was in my early 20's .I worked during the week but got up for this every Saturday mornings. Yeah, it aired only 1 season. But, it has a good story line that culminated in the defeat of Umbra.
RAYOS la infancia!!!! Buenisimo!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Wow - four years since I watched this. So I just replayed it - 5 times! Go Mighty Orbots!!
Wow that some unbelievably gorgeous animation. it a tragetity this show isn't better know.👏
Since MGM distributed the show and its pre-1986 library were sold to Turner Entertainment, the show is likely held by Time Warner. We can only hope that Warner Archive will release it. Considering that they've been digging out several forgotten gems, and that "Orbots" has a sizable following, I'd say it's very likely.
Ah, the joys of mass displacement in transformation before we knew it was even a thing.
I remember September 1984 like it was yesterday. Looking at robot animation and transformation was unlike anything else everyday of the week except Sunday. Lol. Voltron, Transformers and this. Not many people talked about the Orbots then as they did Voltron, Gobots and Transformers but they probably did on Saturday morning. All the kids back then wanted to watch nothing but the cool serious looking stuff. The funny comedy stuff like Rocky and Bulwinkle on Saturday morning just prepped us for the stuff that started at 8am until 12 noon. After that, the day just got boring and it was time to clean up or go outside or to the mall. 🤣🤣
Absoolutely one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons....of all time!!!
Somebody needs to get this show on DVD.
I have an unofficial copy I got at a 'con. Unfortunately the quality looks like it was ripped from youtube. Agreed, they really need to do a good release. I have a suspicion it's a rights issue- the same reason it went off the air in the 80s.
+INFERNO95 You know, it just hit me. Mighty Orbots is a cross between Voltron and The Mighty Heros from the 1960s. Because Torso Tor makes a perfect Strong Man
Or better yet, a Blu-ray release. With animation quality like this, it deserves to be seen in HD. I've seen a lot of old anime and classic cartoon films on Blu-ray and they look amazing.
MGM owns Mighty Orbots
Along with the Bionic Six
If any show that need to come back it would be this one. No reboot needed for greatness
This is the only thing I ever remember from the cartoon when I was a kid...would love to be able to watch all the episodes.
At first i thought this was going to be another generic 80's cartoon with sub-par animation, but it turned out to be pretty badass.
OVER BADASS in some parts though.
It went ultimate badass in the finale.
The animation is great...
I soooo remember this show. Makes me wonder that the robots suddenly shifts in size when combining.
Why are the classic cartoon themes 80's-early 2000's so awesome
They put so much effort into it
But today's themes just sound so generic like they have to have one
i agree, the only theme songs i have liked recently was the avengers fight as one theme, and the iron man armoured adventures theme, it as close as you can get to the eighties.
+snake yeah,
I think another difference is how
Engaging they were to an audience
I mean this theme gets me pumped
Where as the other day I listened to ben10 theme and there was no connection or getting pumped
Julian Taylor the eighties was the best era to have experienced , from tv shows, movies, music, cultural movement and videogames, it was quite possible the greatest era ever!! I still remember the first time I heard Saturday morning theme songs!!
+snake I reckon the 80s-90s and parts of the early 00's were the best and most influential times in terms of Culture, tv, video games ect
I was born in the early 90s but my siblings were born in mid 80s so I got the best of both worlds
+snake best decade also for singing karaoke
That sequence is awesome!
We need Genndy Tartakovsky to remake this series!!
This was cool I remember watching this as a little kid but the Voltron/ go lion combination sequence was much more epic
Man this bring back memories, I loved Mighty Orbots especially the theme Go! Mighty Orbots! This clip I loved when played the extended theme. Had one of the best theme songs there was, very underrated cartoon. Wish they brought it out on DVD or HD!
This is why I love combining super robots!!!!
I don't remember this show or these characters or this robot, but i do remember THIS SONG!
I loved this show growing up.
Transformers and Voltron were the best .
But Mighty Orbots were right there with them .
It still saddens me to this day that there's no way to acquire the full version of the Mighty Orbots theme.
Unless someone on TH-cam recreates the full theme
We from 90's are proud about this,for still cartoons and animes likr this are great than the animes today.
Planet Evilon. Yeah, I'd look there, too.