From owner-kats@sard.mv.net Wed Mar 29 18:28:20 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.9/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA16253 for kats-ll; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 18:28:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 18:28:19 -0500 From: Ratman Message-Id: <199503292328.SAA16247@sard.mv.net> To: kats@sard.mv.net Sender: owner-kats@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: kats@sard.mv.net Status: O X-Status: testing. here's a message you can try to retrieve. From owner-kats@sard.mv.net Wed Mar 29 18:31:33 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.9/mv(b)/mem-941101) id SAA16279 for kats-ll; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 18:31:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 18:31:31 -0500 From: Ratman Message-Id: <199503292331.SAA16273@sard.mv.net> To: kats@sard.mv.net Subject: here's a message... Sender: owner-kats@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: kats@sard.mv.net Status: O X-Status: with a subject this time. It never puts a subject when I mail from root. darn thing... meow. From owner-kats@sard.mv.net Thu Mar 30 06:50:10 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.9/mv(b)/mem-941101) id GAA20160 for kats-ll; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 06:50:10 -0500 Message-Id: <9503301200.AA04430@cisk> Subject: Welcome Kats fans! To: kats@sard.mv.net () Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 4:00:22 PST From: duehara@cisk.atmos.Ucla.EDU (Dana Uehara) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] content-length: 1248 Sender: owner-kats@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: kats@sard.mv.net Status: O X-Status: Greetings all on the SWAT Kats mailing list! As one of the "fathers" of the list (and yes, I'm male, in case anyone's wondering) I thought I'd start things off by asking the list members how they first got into the series, what they think of it, and any other comments they have about the SWAT Kats. I first got into the series by accident. I saw a commercial for the series, thought it looked interesting, and taped an episode. When I went back to view it, I recognized one character's -- Razor's -- voice instantly (Barry Gordon). Since I really like cats (grew up with three of 'em), I quickly got into the series, with Razor being my favorite Kat (I tend to like characters that I can either relate to or identify with). Hanna-Barbera seems to have come up with a winner as far as a series goes -- good stories and especially good animation. I'm hoping that we can muster enough support to, along with HB, convince Ted Turner that the series is worth keeping on the air. Well, let's see what kind of discussion this sparks. The list is now officially under way! -- =================== Dana Uehara (duehara@atmos.ucla.edu) ================== "Hey, what took ya?" "Did ya have to kick me so *hard*?!" -- T-Bone and Razor From owner-kats@sard.mv.net Thu Mar 30 13:21:33 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.9/mv(b)/mem-941101) id NAA21656 for kats-ll; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 13:21:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 13:19:21 -0500 (EST) From: Ratman Subject: Re: Welcome Kats fans! To: kats@sard.mv.net In-Reply-To: <9503301200.AA04430@cisk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-kats@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: kats@sard.mv.net Status: O X-Status: I got into the series by accident. I was watching my usual Sat AM cartoons, and I happened to catch it. At first it looked stupid, but I ended up liking it. Mostly because they didn't cheese too bad on the violence. And I also liked the music a lot. It was almost metal.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work: paul@mv.mv.com | Play: rat@rat.mv.com WWW : http://www.mv.com/users/rat | FTP : ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/users/rat AOL : PaulHurley | CIS : 75014,77 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-kats@sard.mv.net Thu Mar 30 17:06:31 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.9/mv(b)/mem-941101) id RAA23936 for kats-ll; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 17:06:30 -0500 Message-Id: <9503302216.AA17291@cisk> Subject: Kat Music... To: kats@sard.mv.net Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 14:16:42 PST In-Reply-To: from "Ratman" at Mar 30, 95 01:19:21 pm From: duehara@cisk.atmos.Ucla.EDU (Dana Uehara) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] content-length: 509 Sender: owner-kats@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: kats@sard.mv.net Status: O X-Status: Ratman writes: > And I also liked the music a lot. It was almost metal.... Given that the music selection relied on influences from the rock band Queen (as reported in the Fall '94 issue of _Toon Magazine_), I'm not surprised. For synth stuff, it still sounds pretty awesome, if you ask me. If anyone's interested, I can post the article from the magazine here... -- =================== Dana Uehara (duehara@atmos.ucla.edu) ================== "T-Bone... if you drown, I'm gonna kill you!" -- Razor From owner-kats@sard.mv.net Fri Mar 31 09:09:17 1995 Received: by sard.mv.net (8.6.9/mv(b)/mem-941101) id JAA28396 for kats-ll; Fri, 31 Mar 1995 09:09:16 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 06:29:41 -0800 (PST) From: Andy Hill Subject: News from Megakat City... To: kats@sard.mv.net Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-kats@sard.mv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: kats@sard.mv.net Status: O X-Status: Hiya fellow 'KATS fans. Some of you caught my crossposts to the animation groups concerning SWATKATS, and if you didn't write to Hanna-Barbera and express your displeasure at the cancellation - there's no time like the present. All the mail to H-B gets 11 copies made of it, which are distributed to 11 different departments - one of which is Christian and Yvon Tremblay. Any mail sent to H-B regarding 'KATS is used by people on our side, and the Tremblays, to bang Turner over the head with. Here's what's happened lately. I've written a bunch of letters to Ted Turner, Fred Seibert, TBS and a couple of animation magazines as well as TV Guide and Atlanta's largest newspaper - right in Ted's home turf - concerning Turner's bad faith regarding the fans, the 98 fired employees of H-B, and the Tremblay brothers. Christian Tremblay called me to say that him and his brother "feel totally drained by Turner" and that they'd "put everything they had into the show". They've got a couple of meetings a week with the Turner organization, but they keep getting the runaround from " a bunch of yuppies trying to hold onto their jobs." The good news is that there are going to be four action figures: Razor, T-Bone, DarkKat and Dr. Viper - 200,000 of them to start, and supposedly in Toys R Us and Target by July. There is also a SuperNintendo game on the way, and six episodes to be released for video being released on three cassettes. I'll have to save the other stuff for later. (P.S. I've got the Tremblay's fax and phone number - but I'm not allowed give them out, if anyone's tempted to ask. Sorry. They did tell me to let the 'net fans know that they really appreciate the fan support, and despite Ted Turner's lies, they know that there are lots of fans.) ******************** Dear Ted Turner: ********************************* :"You know, cancelling SWATKATS after advertising new eps shows us that the shoes of Messrs. Hanna and Barbera have been unoccupied far too long" : "Why's that?" :"...someone in the organization has developed 'cold feet' ".