Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

[ComicKaze]

Does anybody remember this series from 1993? I have to say, in the face of all the cartoons and anime I have ever seen in my life, nothing quite grabbed my attention and really stays as one of the best series I have seen out of everything. Seriously.

The animation was spectacular (might have been a Japanese studio, the composer was certainly Japanese), the music was awesome, and the story was really gripping and pure science fiction. Does anybody have copies of this on tape? I'd die for it, there were only 13 episodes produced which is quite sad but there is a comic book that it was based upon.

It's set in the Xenozoic era, 600 years in the future in an era where ecological disaster and human wars have really messed up the earth. Civilization is separated by rising seas and knowledge of technology, science, etc. have been mostly lost. Huge ancient metropolis's are covered in vines and growth and somehow, the dinosaurs have returned. In this era, people are still relatively modern but they have little knowledge of what happened in the past and why the earth is like how it is now. They constantly finding the technology of the ancients and misusing it or trying to simply survive in their giant cities with little knowledge of how they were run. In this time, a mechanic named Jack Tenrec operates his own shop/base where he has a passion for rebuilding ancient cars (Cadillacs in particular) and is joined by a beatiful woman who was an ambassador from another continent, trying to make contact with lost cities. They fight Dinosaur poachers, Sharnhorst - corrupt officals in the large totalitarian military cities, and generally try to survive in an insane ecology and environment, or prevent ancient technology (satellite weapons, ancient dormant robot armies, biological weapons etc.) from being misused to obtained by the madmen who rule the cities.

[Jemstone]

Yes. I have between 2 to 4 episodes on tape and the old Sega CD game. It was one of the better shows released that year (next to the under-rated Mighty Max). I'd love to ahve all the epsiodes but I can see how the setting would make no sense to people tehse days. Never read the original comics which I heard could be pretty graphic at times.

BTW the Mayor of that city really was a woman, huh?

Edited March 29, 2005 by Jemstone

[JELEINEN]

It was also a tabletop RPG from GDW. I believe it started out as a comic book.

[Duke Togo]

Was a comic, awesome cartoon... went nowhere because it was too good.

"WOW, this cartoon is AWESOME! We should put it on either at 6 AM Saturday morning, or 12:30 PM in the afternoon! Yeah!"

[Gui]

I saw a french edition of the comic book a while back and found it was rather funny and original Didn't know there was a cartoon though...

[zeo-mare]

i used to like the arcade version of this from capcom, kind of a final fight spinoff, i do not remember the cartoon to much however.

chris

[Hoptimus]

Yeah I loved this series and the game by Capcom.

[Fort Max]

I saw one episode some years ago, the base had a cool mecha drawbridge and lava cannons. And that's about all I remember.

If you think it did badly in America it was all but non-existent here in thr UK.