Newsgroups: alt.tv.swatkats
Subject: Video Stuff:"Kat-Traptions?"
Date: 6 Jul 1995 01:38:41 GMT
Just picked up the three 'Kats videos from my Mega-Movies - but had
to rent them as they didn't stock any for sale (Rogers either). There's
a different cover for each video, reflecting the villain contained
therein, and the titles break down like this:
"Metallikats Attack" (H1162/ISBN 1-56039-373-4)
"Strike of Dark Kat" (H1161/ISBN 1-56039-372-6)
"Deadly Dr. Viper" (H1160/ISBN 1-56039-371-8)
Other package art is taken mainly from the "Merchandising Guide" of
which I'll soon have a copy, and has a reasonably lame description of the
"SwatKats" concept that reads thus:
"From the spectacular television cartoon series comes an awesome new
animated action-packed video. Join the daredevil Swat Kats as they take
on the forces of evil with a wild array of kool kat gadgets. From the
super-charged Turbokat jet fighter to the radically racy Cyclotron
motorcycle, they transform ordinary objects into krazy kat-traptions in
the on-going crusade to protect Megakat City."
Also, character descriptions with character poses from the marketing
guide - T-Bone sitting on a 45 Gallon drum with a toothpick stuck in his
puss, and Razor sitting on a stack of tires giving the "thumbs up" (I'll
have full-size versions of these pics to put up on the FTP site in about
a week or so). The descriptions go like this:
JAKE CLAWSON: "Jake has a ball inventing wild and dangerous gadgets to
keep the SWAT KATS' arsenal stocked."
CHANCE FURLONG: "Easygoing and self-assured, Chance is always a magician
when it comes to any type of vehicle repair."
Pretty cool, but the episode(s) description (2 eps on each cassette)
are somewhat lame. Oh yeah, for a real yuk, check out the logo for
"Turner Home Video", it's some kind of Atlanta Plantation-style mansion
straight out of "Gone with the Wind".
"Frankly Ted, I don't give a damn..."
(*NOT* currently available on LD, sorry.)
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"...$%#!!_at_!!, does EVERYTHING have to occur at the speed of MTV?!"
- George Lucas on the cancellation of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles",
after hearing that viewers expected constant action, rather than a
"gentle history lesson"
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"...$%#!!_at_!!, does EVERYTHING have to occur at the speed of MTV?!"
- George Lucas on the cancellation of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles",
after hearing that viewers expected constant action, rather than a
"gentle history lesson"
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Received on Wed Jul 05 1995 - 21:43:40 PDT