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MorbId had this to say about Pirotess:
It reminds me of Eva.
Agreed.
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MorbId stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
It reminds me of Eva.
Yes.
It's not something people hear about.
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Mr Gainsborough was naked while typing this:
Agreed.
quote:You look familiar.
Roll the dice to see if Led is getting drunk!
That is freaking me out, bigime.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
His name is Umbra, and he is the major villain in the show The Mighty Orbots. He's basically like an EVA unit. He's part biological, part mechanical; but he's all computer, obsessed with bringing the entire galaxy (and perhaps the universe) under his control. He always appears as some giant 5 eyed ball-like creature inside a liquid chamber.
He controls a rather large Dyson Sphere called the Shadow Star (it is essentially his "body", and he has miles upon miles of memory banks inside as well as a lot of defensive systems to protect himself) and runs The Shadow, an evil terrorist organization that seeks to rule the galaxy. In Mighty Orbots, his main goal is the destruction of the giant robot. However, every one of his schemes has been thwarted by Mighty Orbots or the Galactic Patrol. [ 06-21-2003: Message edited by: Kennatsu ]
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Ford Prefect had this to say about pies:
Mighty Orbots? I've never heard of it before now. Looks a lot like a Transformers clone show. Apparently it never caught on, at least not in the U.S.
It couldn't stay on long. They only had one season. Tonka Toys sued the company producing Mighty Orbots because they believed the robot show was threatening their Mighty Gobots toy line (even tho there were no toy line for Mighty Orbots and the theme was different; Mighty Gobots had robots turning into vehicles ALA Transformers, whereas Mighty Orbots was an animated Sentai show using robots instead of spandex)
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Kennatsu had this to say about (_|_):
It couldn't stay on long. They only had one season. Tonka Toys sued the company producing Mighty Orbots because they believed the robot show was threatening their Mighty Gobots toy line (even tho there were no toy line for Mighty Orbots and the theme was different; Mighty Gobots had robots turning into vehicles ALA Transformers, whereas Mighty Orbots was an animated Sentai show using robots instead of spandex)
Orbots! Dude I still have episodes of that on videotape somewhere and I hoard them away, watching them only once per year. The animation on the series, for the era (keep in mind this was like early to mid-80's), was mind blowingly good (like... "Better than Robotech/Macross" good), the characters were great (I had a crush on Boo and Bo, and Crunch always cracked me up...Oh-No was the only one that annoyed me), and most importantly in a GOOD sentai series was the fact that they didn't immediately go to the big "Mighty Orbots" mode, and frequently even after they did go into the big guy mode, they'd disassemble to play on the individual strengths.
The world would have been a much cooler place (not likely to have had Power Rangers, for one thing) if Orbots had gotten a foothold. But I think they only made like 8 episodes (not even a full season) before getting canned for the reasons Kenn mentioned.
Bravo, Kenn. Thanks for reminding me of one of those lost, great moments of my childhood. 
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
