Ok, here are a just a few links to some of my personal favorites that I grew up with in the 70's...yikes!!

http://www.starblazers.com/home.html

http://www2.angulang.org.uk/

http://www.speedracer.com/home.htm

http://www.gigantor.org/

Hope you like them as much as I have for so many years.

Absolute FANTASTIC choices you have made here MEGA!

I love classic animation and these are some of the 'best back in the day'

Do you remember Marine Boy??
I wish they would release that again... I remember waking up early saturday mornings in Australia to watch that along with stuff like Johnny Cypher, Speed Racer, etc..

*sigh*

(showing his age)

Sure do. There is one that I cant remember. Something about a ring and a character (no, not Frodo) diving under water, but falls through and lands on his feet. Then using his ring to be, or fight, a dragon. I saw this well over 20+ years ago!!!!! Loved it.

My wife bought me a replica of the Mach 5. Sweeeeeet.

Then in the 70's we got....

"Doc Bruce Banner belted by gamma rays....turns into the Hulk." That was fun.

Tony

Whoa. Thanks for that link.

Unless I was watching reruns which is quite possible... I would have been 3 or 4 years old when it was released.

That probably wouldn't have been too much of a stretch though as I still remember getting up around 5AM to see my cousins off to the school bus and just having time to see "The Lone Ranger" before they left. I would have been 4 or 5 at that time.

Many of the themes really grabbed the attention of children.
We imagined we were Johnny Socko and we had a robot all of our own.

Hehe. Fun times.

Nice model Bill! My wife got mine from a web site called exotic cars...something or other. The model even comes with a buzz saw under the car hood. Who needs the Batmobile!

<That sounds sooo familiar..aarrghh!! Was it a Japanese production or US show?>

Japanese production. Yep, I remember Princess Knight.

I also have a model/replica of Gigantor. Nearly flipped when I saw that. Great thing about living in NY!! Find anything if you dig enough. For my fellow NY'ers, down by Houston and Broadway (around the corner from Tower Records, there is, (was? I havent been there in a year) , a store called Anime Krash. Amazing selection of anime models, videos and whole bunch of great stuff.

Also, on Bleeker, basement store, there was, is?, Kim's Underground. Again, amazing stuff. Wow. I have to make a trip to lower Manhattan soon. Have to catch up. It's anime heaven around NYU campus.

Tony

Gettting back to Gigantor,

A new movie coming out this year in Japan:

http://www.tetsujin28.jp/


YAY!!

"gigantor, the space-aged robot"

oops...Japanese theme is totally different!

Fantastic! Now to get it to play in the USA...

I watch all my Anime shows on G4TTV. I kind of like "R.O.D. On The TV." *shrugs*

Guys,

Not to toot my own horn, but I created Omoshiroi Anime specifically for anime fans like you. I have reviews, quicktime previews, cross links for creative staff (so you can find other titles by the same director, etc), links to other sites for anime, recommendations and even a keyword search for when you can remember one element (girl riding on a whale) but can't remember what title that was from.

I have over 500 titles in my collection/library and over 1,200 volumes. I haven't been able to enter everything yet but I am making steady progress.

You can also see my anime-tinged space contest entry on a hidden link (it's in my footer here) there as well.

http://www.omoanime.com

Hope it inspires others,
Paul M.

Thanks Paul!

Very nice website and I have visted it before but that was awhile back so thanks for pointing the way back there!
I am currently browsing your list of reviews!

By the way, just one thing - with Cutey Honey.

It's New Cutey Honey. Although the classic 70's original has not been officially released, I went to have a look at your review thinking maybe that was what you were reviewing.
Nothing big mate!

As I said, great site! Love the way you sorted the reviews out too and the presentation of information !

See ya!

WOW! I think I've been there, too. Thanks for pointing it out! It rocks!

Whoa! R.O.D. is on your top action show when you search by reccomended! I must have good taste!

After reading this thread, I feel like quite a poseur just liking Robotech.

LOL. It's okay.

I loved Star Blazers, I think I watched that in Jr high/High School in the 80's, and I was a HUGE Speed Racer fan in the 70's as a kid. I remember there was some controversy about it being too violent and at one point my Mom didn't want to let me watch it but she relented.

Anyway, along the Star Blazers line...

http://www.cornponeflicks.org/harlock/harlockmain.html

I loved this during high school.

Per the Mach 5 - that car is built on a Corvette frame IIRC. You could order them, I think they were like 100k but I'm not 100% sure. Back before the toy explosion, having anything Mach 5 related was like having a gold. There were a few models out that were very hard to come by. Now you can get tons of stuff.

Definitely a car on my modeling list...once I get the skillz up

Yay to captain Harlock

They used to play Galaxy Train (Galaxy Express 999) TV series on the ABC here in Aus at some time - at least i think I think it did...no body else here remembers it every showing.

Maybe its just a figment of my imagination hehe

And all those cool Japanese based toys that came out and made a huge whole in parents pockets in the late 70's / Early 980's called Shogun Warriors (which i think was really a Nagai Go anime...can't rememer...or maybe Starvengers..or something...)

Oh, I saw the live action version of Gigantor (Tetsujin28go) at a cinema in Shinjuku).
Not bad actually, better than alot of comic-cum-movies i have seen previously though it isnt set in the 1930ish as the original was.