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  • 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.

  • Hahahahaaaaaa...

    Everything was always "tron" or "on" or "bot".

  • The planet what?

  • This show looks amazing. Jeez, one more reason to love the 80s, I swear.

  • The theme song freaking rules D: 

  • I loved this show. I even had a crush on Boo. Too bad it lasted so short.

  • Can you say "Transformers rip-off"? Oh well, it's still cool.

  • @thevisualboy37 Look up Godmars if you want to be less of an idiot.

  • I was surprised that Barry Gordon, the voice of Donatello of 80's TMNT, also did the voice Rob too.

  • I remember this series, It had a very short run for whatever reason but I knew it was very special and that I have never seen anything like it before. I also knew I had to tape it on vhs so I can watch it over and over, and until this day I still love to come back to it.

  • Loved this cartoon!

  • Does anyone know where to download the full song I know theres more then the intro song???

  • Is it just me or does Rob sound EXACTLY like Fry from Futurama?

  • @Kalatos I was thinking the same, heh.

  • @remoteviewer6 I looked it up. It's a different voice actor.

  • This is a ripoff of Japanese robot cartoon series of the 80s. It was a co-production of MGM and TMS Entertainment.

  • damn...if the show wasn't so stupid...it could have been a true mecha show. You can tell where that the mecha animation is strictly japanese drawn and where the american animation is done. It doesnt match. The whole show was poorly executed with stupid one liners. Not one of the best 80's show out there.

  • Awesome theme!

  • eternalwing89 and o82774@: Best Coments ever! You really have the feeling of the nostalgic animated series of our childhood. Even the new Thundercats can't surpass the quality of the 80's animation intro. Full with dynamism and the most importat thing: "The Touch"

  • All right gang lets go back to the sewer lair and have some pizza! Thumbs up if you get the obvious reference.

  • I just like the full theme song of the mighty orbots

  • We'll never see this kind of programming again.....sigh.

  • 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!

  • 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.....

  • Transformers G1's animation was great in the beginning; great color values, etc.. then got sloppy..it looked too simple flat colors, ugh..what happened? did they change animators?

  • Unlike Voltron, Megazord, Dragonzord and other uniting machines, the Orbot giant was a midget, compared to the others. But, it beat the bigger enemies.

  • @14DaveHunter Actually when united the combined form is about the same size as superion or devastator

  • @14DaveHunter You got a point. Mighty Orbots seemed to always be fighting robots/critters FIVE TIMES bigger than itself. I'm still wondering how 5 human-sized robots form something in which a spaceship can easily fit, with room to spare. I guess that "bling" or "flash" makes them expand.

  • elegently put o82774, you sound as if you took a media culture class at some point, or just like to look into the more detailed designs. granted the older, hand drawn designs are much more detailed work then what we see now and the stories seem more riveting with their sometimes subtle moral put into them.

  • @o82774

  • I think we all went a little crazy in the 80s, acting so blasé; just stashing our robots in glaciers like we'd never run out of them.

  • @OvaltinePatrol

    Yup. Whoda thunk that after this era was over that these wondrous creations would stop being made. It is ashamed this stuff is not cataloged enshrined and celebrated as the unduplicatable masterpieces they are. This level of aesthetic energy and yes even refinement (without looking processed and overproduced like modern cartoons) is simply not possible today. These shows were not cartoons. The were pure ANIMATION working within the idiom of cartoons. Amazing.

  • @o82774 Actually, I was just making an environmentalist joke...But sure, what you said sounds true.

  • @OvaltinePatrol

    Haha my bad...got carried away and missed that lol

  • #Winning

  • Two words:

    gratuitous animation

  • @mazimadu

    Isn't it MARVELOUS. So superior to the barely animated over-produced totally under-drawn drek of today's cartoons (and I'm talking about the stuff I LIKE lol).

  • @mazimadu

    Two words:

    PURE BRILLIANCE

    Two More Words:

    SUPERHUMAN FEAT

  • 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.

  • The 80's cartoon theme songs rocked.

  • 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.

  • @o82774 The same cannot be said for the writing and storytelling of most of those shows...

  • @harry426

    The writing and storytelling of those 80's shows were vastly more creative, intuitive, artistic and just plain more alive than modern cartoons which are mostly exercises in banality and mundanity. I am always amazed that storytelling that was so close to narrative fine art ever existed on tv as part of pop-culture. These shows need to be studied to be truly understood.They're that rich.

  • @harry426 Ya got that right! It's like the producers of 80s cartoons never heard of a continuing story arch. That and then there's the inherent lack of very real drama. Good animation, poor application! Today it is inching a wee bit in the opposite direction. Still, sacrificing animation for better emotionalism was not the way to go.

  • @o82774 mmm the phenomena in the 80s, a trend was starting, animation made entirely in japan, the story and voices were made in the u.s, but after that , yeah the animation is far superior than nowadays animation, a constant in this series, a simple plot, the evil one were defeated after fighting the good guys

  • @efeboabel

    Exactly right sir.

    BUT

    I think the stories are underrated. There was usually a very layered and DYNAMIC character interactions that ran the whole gamut of the emotional spectrum. The "simple" label is often applied due to the extreme coherency of every aspect of the narrative. People often confuse the incoherent muddiness of todays shows with "complexity" when actually it's just HORRIBLE writing.

  • @o82774 Ever seen Bionic Six? It's VERY comparable in animation quality, especially the intro. Even to this day, I don't see a need for animation to be any better than this.

  • @ShingoEX

    Bionic Six was one of the crown Jewels in the history of animation and storytelling. It's so good they refuse to release it for fair of exposing the lameness of todays "animation". B6 was done by TMS (Tokyo Movie Shinsei) and an American preproduction crew hybrid just like Orbots.

    The animation in B6 Mighty Orbots and MOST of the 80's Anime/American hybrids represents the pinnacle of animation as a medium.

  • @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.

  • @o82774 truely my friends and how sad that so many will never understand its pure awesomeness cartoons today are just to sad for me to let my kids watch. they love the old ones :)

  • @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.

  • @o82774 At least the remakes of He-Man and Thundercats are pretty good.

  • @GuyverU01

    True. If the originals didn't exist they could be considered superlative. These remakes also easily surpass their contemporaries.

    That being said if they are ever compared to the originals by any serious animation connoisseur the remakes

    will get RAPED lol.

  • @o82774 Actually I do prefer the new He-Man over the 80s version. Yeah I liked the story and the plot, but the animation was kinda...blah. It reminded me of the Scooby-Doo style animation from the early to mid 70s. I think it might be because it was made by Filmation whereas stuff like Thundercats, Silverhawks, and such were made by Rankin/Bass.

  • @GuyverU01

    The methodology for Filmation's purely american animation (the last fantasy animation done ENTIRELY in the US) and the Rankin Bass Japan/US hybrid was VAST. For me pone was not superior to the other. They both did different things (like a helicopter and a jet,  jazz and rock). The Filmation He-man was a masterpiece in illustration design, tone, rhythm, and mythology. Closer to art than entertainment. The new He-man was still the bomb though.

  • @o82774 That post was BEAUTIFUL! I feel the same *salute*

  • @o82774 Just like back there are many diamonds in the rough. One Piece for example. But I do agree something is missing from most cartoons today.

  • @Zignoff

    True on both counts sir.

    Modern shows are too over produced and micro managed to allow for the sheer creative and skillful freedom of these shows. These shows were made by small cadres of superhuman draughtsmen and brilliant writers willing to follow their lead and create stories with the lyricism of a beautiful IMAGE all working under pressure. Nowadays it's a legion of well financed low talent technicians sticking slavishly to scripts. These conditions rarely produce magic.

  • @o82774 Hell don't watch many anymore, One Piece, Gurren Lagann, and Needless have been some of the latest, and there all ACTUAL Japanese Anime, but today's american cartoons.. whew, if they can be called that, I mean seriously this cartoon back the 80's is hand drawn with what looks like what 3 levels of shading? That was almost unheard in that time with those cartoons. Just the artwork alone had many levels of care.

  • @Zignoff Let's not even mention the intro and theme song is completely epic and has more then JUST one word over and over again, like He-Man and Go Bots. There is actual lyrics in this. I like to hear what animetal would do with this an see what it could be like now.

  • @Zignoff

    You see you have a level of visual literacy that is quite possibly near non-existent not among modern animation audiences but modern animation CREATORS. This may be the crux of the disparity between this animation and modern cartoons. In addition to the shading The LINE QUALITY is OFF THE HOOK. This is love this is FEELING what ur drawing.

  • Ahhh.... the late cartoon robots. they never tell you how the heck their robots gotten so big or change shape after combination, they just do.

  • @eternalwing89 You might ask Megatron about that.

  • @eternalwing89 Modern robots shows never tell you how they go from banged up robots to unscratched sports cars.

  • @eternalwing89

    If one is a shapeshifter, then that may account for the size increase. Doesn't stop Mighty Orbots from being badass.

  • Mighty Orbots had the best quality animation for Saturday mornings back then and Galaxy Rangers had the best weekday animation.

  • It always bugged me how the individual robots were human sized, and the combined form was GIGANTIC, large enough for the space ship to fly inside.

  • @UncleDeluxe

    You are a imaginative guy. Clearly some form of dimensional manipulating mass shunting/mass adding hyper-science was involved. The transformers used the same super science. This is the brilliance of this show. It is a fully articulated world of naturally occurring phenomenon that cis well...phenomenal.

    Those with no creativity cannot even try to watch this show. It is too overwhelmingly briliant and beautiful for mundane minds.

    Put this in a museum.

    You have great taste.

  • @o82774 yeah, and if you watch the transformation sequence carefully you do see an outter, boxier armor appear over each of the robots, so they must materialize additional armor/mass for themselves.

  • @daiklaive

    Very astute sir.

    All hail the 80's connoisseurs!

    haha

  • 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.

  • Is it just me or does Rob Simmons sound like Razor from Swat Kats does... he sounds just like Razor, go Swat Kats!^_^

  • @CuteNekoHibiki: Both characters were voiced by the same guy.

  • @TheEllipsis i remember him more as the voice of Donatello than Rob or Razor

  • wow i remember this

  • have u seen Rokushin Gattai God Mars ?

  • OH THE MEMORIES!!! THANK YOU, BBA!!!

  • Ah, the memories...

    I loved this cartoon, and especially the song.

    Thanks for uploading this.

  • All I can say about this cartoon is that I loved this show like I loved most 80s cartoons. These shows were the best Western animation had to offer in terms of anime style. Sadly however, the cartoons of the 80s lacked a continuing story arc. I had to wait until Sonic Sat AM premiered on ABC before I could watch good American animation with real depth that allowed me to identify with the characters on a visceral level.

  • @activecitizen2007 That, and there was a profound level of simplicity with 80s cartoons that all American cartoons suffered from because of the misconception that animation was for children only. Unlike their Japanese counterparts, American cartoons had this almost condescending look down your nose at their young audience feel where their protagonist were literally an extension of the arrogant 'city on a hill' mentality of polarized good vs evil. There was never a gray area.

  • @activecitizen2007 In short, children have more depth and cognitive understanding skills than adults give them credit for or for that matter, the creators of most older cartoons gave them credit for. Show without substance is pleasing to the eye but can tire an audience out quickly.

  • Cartoons today need more montages of robots flying off to action to the tunes of 80's music!

    "Go, Mighty Orbots! They're joining together to fight for what's right everywhere!"

  • Cartoons used to be soooo awesome. They're pretty lame now.

  • I have been looking for this for years. I like this show waaayy better than Voltron!

  • Achei as robozinhas desse video bastante sexy (^_^)

  • This ... is... SOOOO AWESOME!!

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