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Do you know any Space animated films?

If we're including TV shows, you might give Exosquad a try. Hulu has the full series up.

http://www.hulu.com/exosquad

Epic animated space opera, that Hollywood will hopefully finally make a live-action film of once they're done mining Transformers and GI Joe etc.
 
if you want tv series, try Transformers: Beast Wars and the sequel series Transformers: Cybertron?
Battle Planets was epic
there was this 80's toon, was the U.S. Marines in space, evil aliens had the triforce as a flag, been trying to hunt that show down
 
Yeah, the animation was bad. But I overlook that in favor of the story serialization and story-arcs that were extremely sophisticated for a kids show(heck even most adult shows at that time).
 
^Yeah, I could do that to an extent, but at the same time, the good writing just threw the horrible animation into relief and made it more frustrating to watch. Especially when the writers would make good use of their astronomical literacy by featuring real solar-system locations and the background artists/animators would totally screw it up by rendering these real places in totally wrong, totally idiotic ways (like Olympus Mons as an impossibly narrow needle of a mountain or Enceladus as a squarish slab of rock). I mean, seriously, didn't they know how to do research? Didn't anyone tell them that Mars and Saturn are real places they could learn about rather than magic fairylands they could make up random crap about?

ExoSquad is one of three early-'90s (or thereabouts?) shows where I loved the intelligent, mature writing but loathed the horrible animation, and the only one that wasn't from Hearst Entertainment; the others were The Legend of Prince Valiant (which I believe shared a lead actor, Robby Benson, with ExoSquad) and Phantom 2040. Sometimes I wish all three shows could be remade with the same voice and music tracks but new, better animation (and maybe better sound effects; one thing that made ExoSquad hard for me to enjoy was that I got deathly sick of hearing the exact same "hydraulic whirr" sound every single time one of those exoframes moved in any way whatsoever).
 
^^^
Yeah, I know, I've seen it. Guilty pleasure.

(Already have Land of The Lost, Space Academy, Ark II, and Jason of Star Command on DVD. Hypernauts would help complete the theme for me.)
 
Hypernauts was a live action show, with CGI effects...;)

That's right. And it was made by many of the same people who were behind Babylon 5, including the CG effects company.

Am willing to sacrifice as many small mammals as it takes for this series to be released on DVD.

Now I imagine the following disclaimer on the box for the eventual release.

"No small mammals were harmed in the release of this series to DVD."

I'd probably put that disclaimer on the box of any DVD I released, just to see if anyone reads the packaging.
 
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