Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 256 - X-Bomber a.k.a. Star Fleet Volume 1: Save the Earth!
Hosts: Jeremy, Lee from Rather Odd Productions
This is about a dude with an afro named Hercules, Brian May from Queen and Eddie Van Halen, and Go Nagai.
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Video and pics after the cut.
Here's the US VHS equivalent. It's kind of terrible looking.
Here's the UK DVD set.
See? Japanese puppet Star Wars.
Japanese language opening.
Japanese language closing.
English language opening.
English language closing.
Awesome Brian May from Queen and Eddie Van Halen and friends version of the closing theme.
Here's the whole Brian May + Friends album.
Interview with Go Nagai.
And here's the ships combining into the Dai X giant robot!
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Comments
5 comments postedMuch like you Jeremy, I only heard of the show c/o the same tapes I saw at a Family Video location in the late 90's. I think they only had one of those on the shelf and I bothered to rent it (it was a "Free Kid Vid" section). It was during a period when I bothered to comb through the kiddie section for any unusual animated stuff to watch (preferably from Japan but I was open to other countries anyway). Didn't even know about Go Nagai creating it until sometime later, but didn't realize how big it was in the UK simply because they got to watch it on TV (something the show didn't get on at all stateside besides home video), a lot of interesting shows often become hits in Europe while America simply doesn't know. I can see how they would try to do as much with Star Fleet over there such as the comics adaptation Lee was talking about.
I think the show that Lee was talking about with the elves/gnomes in space was called "Bobobobs". That was another tape I found at Family Video too! This show was produced by the same studio Dogtanian and David the Gnome, and much like the Gnomes book, was adapted from a book by authors Henk and Nerida Zwart. Here's an episode!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdPxD9OW8So
I created the series 'The Bobobobs' in the 1980s. Any questions? I'd be pleased to answer them.
So the Japanese would outright lie (allegedly) and say they lost their data or it got wiped out in a fire-- rather than say no? Which is more polite??
It's certainly a quagmire!
I don't know what you guys mean by the Japanese masters missing - they're still perfectly there. They've been released on Laserdisc in the 90's and then on DVD Set in 2003 (out of print and extremely rare). I have burns of the Japanese DVD from a friend of mine. I gotta rip them and post them on YouTube at some point.
I think you misunderstood Louis Elman in the Making of Documentary. When he said they didn't even have the original Japanese voices - it was just that - they were just given SFX/Music tracks from the Production company - apparently in bad condition (I don't know what they mean since it seems I hear sounds from the Japanese version in the English one where no music covers up the Japanese sounds).