In all honesty I never thought Battle Force 5 was bad, I just could never get into the whole “Power Rangers in cars” thing the show had going for it. It had some pretty nice computer animation, though. The whole BF5 vs WR/Acceleracers thing is just too funny.
Also I heard we were supposed to get 4 more movies, and one of the plot points involved transforming cars (which were repurposed into Battle Force 5 and its toyline), Banjee Castillo and other World Race drivers like Alec Wood and Dan Dresdon being Silencerz, and meeting Porkchop’s Mother.
Aw that would have been really interesting. I remember watching the Speed of Silence, which was the last one and being weirdly upset at the cliffhanger it ended on. As in Vert's dad being the leader (?) of the Silencerz.
I'd be down for meeting Porkchop's mom.
Oh to mourn what could have been,
Also I get the changing of times and all that, but Hotwheels cartoons for kids now are just painfully generic looking. I genuinely pity them for any kids into Hotwheels will think of that as definitive Hotwheels media. Hell, I pity kids for all the cartoons they’re growing up watching now. You never know how good you had it until it’s gone.
Same really. Miss the days when cartoons were just telling stories or, if you wanna get cynical, toy commercials. At the very least, there wasn't some agenda shoved in your face.
On a lighter note, I'm thinking of the Michel Vaillant series. It's a French comic from the 50s about a Formula 1 driver and the drama that comes with that.
It got a cartoon adaptation in the 80s, I think that got slapped with the Hot Wheels brand in the English dub. Always found that pretty fun trivia.
Ooooo that's one I love too! The nostalgia for this one is strong.
Man I miss old Toonami.
At least they're using non-binary in a way that makes sense, him being a shapeshifter and all.
Excuse me, it's THEY!
I kid, I kid. But I am also thinking of the weird pride month comics, Marvel did which was all kinds of wtf.
Why was it important to establish that Wolverine was in a poly relationship with Phoenix and Cyclops?
That aside, what do people think of Liberty's Kids?
I personally love it. It had a lot of balls for a kids cartoon and didn't bullshit around for anything, whether it was tense relations with Native Americans or slavery or death or executions, or the ambiguity of war.
But considering what it was about, it would be insulting to sugarcoat it.
