Gatchamania.net - Print: What were they thinking????

Gatchamania.net (http://www.gatchamania.net/index.php)
- [Speak Up!] (http://www.gatchamania.net/board.php?boardid=500)
-- General Discussion (http://www.gatchamania.net/board.php?boardid=2)
--- What were they thinking???? (http://www.gatchamania.net/threadid.php?threadid=3678)

Posted by amethyst on 07-09-2011 at 05:24:

quote:

Originally posted by lborgia88

This robot is from that pic of the dozens and dozens of movie and TV robots, and one that seemed really familiar to me but I'm still drawing a complete blank as to where it's from.

Anyone else know?

It looks like something from Hanna-Barbera of the 60's or 70's possibly from a Jetsons special or something.

__________________
Perspective Alters Reality

Posted by Transmute Jun on 07-09-2011 at 14:02:

quote:

Originally posted by lborgia88
Seeing Zark's plight, I found myself thinking that he really needs to be more like this robot, and then he could cope:

I don't watch the show, but isn't it a Dr. Who Dalek? I think i recognize it from some of Sosai Tim's stuff.

__________________

Posted by Transmute Jun on 07-09-2011 at 14:05:

Okay, I Googled, and it isn't quite right. This is the Dalek.

__________________

Posted by lborgia88 on 07-09-2011 at 15:48:

I managed to find a mostly-complete list of all the robots in the "Where's Wall-E?" pic, and have learned that this robot is "Gog."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_%28film%29

I've never seen this movie at all, but I swear I recall seeing some cartoon with a robot that's supposed to some sort of super-efficient multi-tasking worker robot, with multiple arms like this one...

It's going to bug me until I remember it!

Posted by Transmute Jun on 07-09-2011 at 16:26:

I haven't heard of that film either. Shrug

Okay, for today's 'What were they thinking?' I have another horribly colored cover...

__________________

Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 07-09-2011 at 22:08:

It says something when Jinpei has the most accurately-colored outfit. I'm not sure what it says, though.

__________________
Benefits, not features; benefits, not features

Posted by clouddancer on 07-09-2011 at 22:25:

What is Princess holding? Is it some sort of sensor? Why does she need two hands to use it? At first I thought it was her 'cycle, until I had a closer look.

__________________
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Posted by Becky Rock on 07-09-2011 at 22:52:

Oh, that hurts the eyes. Pitiful on their part. Obviously, there was no quality control.

__________________
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers so far...

Posted by lborgia88 on 07-09-2011 at 23:31:

Yeah, and surely it wouldn't have been that hard to keep the people who did the colouring apprised of the correct colours to use for each character!

I'd allow for the odd mistake -even the Tatsunoko animators sometimes, briefly, got a colour wrong -but this is the cover illustration where you'd think the most attention would be given!

I have to say, though, that someone got to have some fun coming up with alien creatures for the team to encounter, since they weren't facing the every-alien-looks-human limitation that Sandy Frank's people did.

What the heck are all the gadgets that they're holding, I wonder? Zark's latest inventions in planetary surveying equipment, no doubt...

Posted by Transmute Jun on 08-09-2011 at 00:32:

The gadgets are all equipment for surveying the planet.

Jason and Tiny are *close* to their right colors. Jason has helmet trim and gloves issues, while Tiny's suit is the only thing that is the wrong color. Keyop just has an orange cape but WOW, does it ever hurt the eyes! Princess and Mark are the ones that are totally wrong.

I agree with LB: you'd think the'd have a reference as to what the characters were supposed to look like and pay some attention to the accuracy on the cover!

__________________

Posted by lborgia88 on 09-09-2011 at 02:57:

quote:

Originally posted by Transmute Jun
The gadgets are all equipment for surveying the planet.

I think their gadgets need a setting to detect encroachments by giant dashiki-wearing green aliens! They seem to have been caught off guard -I guess Zark is currently too overwhelmed with incoming messages to keep a vigilant eye on them?

Posted by littlewolf on 09-09-2011 at 06:57:

Their like a cross between Draconion (movie "Enemy Mine" 1985 Dennis Quaid) and a very old horror comic I read refering to a sub-human/ neandertholic species that the towns people were afraid they were descendant from (called "Droggs"?)
or Troglodyte -a cave dwellier, esp one of the prehistoric people thought to have lived in caves

have to search shed for comic cause it's going to annoy me till I find the name they used

__________________
May the bad things get lost on the way to you door!

Posted by Becky Rock on 09-09-2011 at 21:48:

Actually, those 'aliens' are ugly. And they have claws. Watch out!

__________________
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers so far...

Posted by Transmute Jun on 14-09-2011 at 14:54:

Okay, here's a good one for a laugh. Even in the comics, Zark is the butt of the joke....