Robo Force - The Revenge of Nazgar (part 1)

The long lost Robo Force one shot cartoon special that aired during the second week of December 1984. In some cities it debuted December 8th while others didn't show it until the 13th or later. Notable for being written by Flint Dille (he refers to it as his first robot show) and including many well known voice actors of the time.

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[Blackboilingrobotoil]

These were really strange toys from the early 80's, they all had section cup feet an squeezy arms. I always thought they were sorta cool. by dad had one on the dash of his old van that he wired glowing eyes up to for years.

[EvilKingMacrocranios]

Oh please Blackboilingrobotoil tell me you have pictures of the dashboard of your dad's van! I can't imagine how awesome that van was. Robo Force on the dashboard is like the robot lover's equivalent of fuzzy dice.

[EvilKingMacrocranios]

Thanks for listening to that! I always wonder who takes time out of their day to devote to listening to me talking about going to the library. I don't have any robots for sale but if you want to write about anything else my email is e v i l k i n g m a c r o c r a n i o s atsign g m a i l d o t c o m

[ssjup81]

Wow, why wasn't this made into a full-on series? Never seen this (not surprised, seeing as how I was 3 at the time), but seems this series would've had potential.

[EvilKingMacrocranios]

The Robo Force toy line was released in 1984 and got killed by the way more popular GoBots and Transformers. Usually advertising budgets from which the cartoons are made are determined by the success of the toyline. Ideal decided to cancel the toys and thus didn't pursue a continuation of the cartoon.

In a short email conversation I had with Mr. Dille he said the whole project was rushed through production so the writing may already have been on the wall by the time the episode was being made.

[damelaw]

man ive been waiting for this for 25

years.......thanks alot....but where did u get it????

[EvilKingMacrocranios]

All the credit should go to 910dohead. It's been floating around on various tape trading and torrent sites for years ever since he uploaded it.

[damelaw]

this cartoon was slept on couldve did damage in the 80s but the era was already too over saturated with this concept....dope toy tho

[MezTZO]

Thank you so much for sharing this, EKM. The toys were never sold here in the Philippines, and before the internet, I was probably the only Filipino to have ever heard of Robo-Force thanks to a commercial on my old VHS cassette of American Saturday morning cartoons.

[blackmagno]

thank you im super happy i never se this robo force special i seen the commercial as a kid years ago but i never seen it super ultra mega thank you

[drftgy67]

Hi! I have enjoyed your podcastalypses for some time. I would like to ask you about something but I don't know how to contact you. Do you have an email address for questions?

[iowacityfitness]

this show had potential to be a tv series lots of gi joe voice actors are in it...!!!

[farcher3]

@EvilKingMacrocranios Thanks for this upload. The toymakers were dumb to cancel this series and toyline. I saw this cartoon back and the day and thought it was sooo cool. I liked this and the Transformers and Gobots. Those robots looked cook to me then and now many years later.

[kakashi0176]

by any chance do you remember 'the Shirt Tales' same era, i think