Shaorin Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Brite_and_the_Star_Stealer (Yeah, i'm pretty certain i'm gonna get my ass kicked seven ways to Sunday for this, but...) anyone here remember the 1985 theatrical Movie "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer" fondly? though i had not seen it during it's theatrical run (i was like, Four at the time, and hyperactive to boot...) my mother had taped it for me off HBO in the late eighties, and i recall liking the movie from the first time i seen the tape. i still have that VHS, a high-quality high-grade TDK from the mid-eighties, solid as a rock. it was my only copy of this movie for twenty years, until i found it's DVD release. after seeing it again, in high resolution for the first time, actually, it dawned on me that this movie had to have been one of my first experiences with Japanese animation. sure, Rainbow Brite itself is certainly not japanese in origin, but this movie certainly is, and everything about the actual animation, to me anyway, feels very much like 1980's Anime. pacing, visual style, you name it. anyway, since this movie is, to the best of my memory, the first Anime-like program i had ever seen, i tend to affectionately regard it as the seed that planted the basis of the serious Anime fandom of my teenage years to the present day. so, is there, by any chance, any 1980's "Neo-Maxie-Zoom-Dweebies" out there besides me that might feel the same? oh, and something of a hint at what this movie might have been like had it been made exclusively for the Japanese market? Edited January 31, 2011 by Shaorin
Kanedas Bike Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 you're doing April Fool's Day wrong. -b.
Vepariga Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 old school,i remember that shizzle. care bears were on around the same time.
Ghost Train Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 This brings me back to my playground days (pre-internet) where the prefered flame war topic was: NO HE-MAN IS BETTUR THAN RAINBOW BRITE, CAREBEARS, GIJOE, etc.
kanedaestes Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 I won't lie I did like that movie a lot as a kid, mainly cause of the Black mechanical horse. Don't remember it much anymore though.
ae_productions Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 Strawberry Shortcake could kick Rainbow Bright's ass.
Shaorin Posted January 31, 2011 Author Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) I won't lie I did like that movie a lot as a kid, mainly cause of the Black mechanical horse. Don't remember it much anymore though. "ON-X" (Onyx) i believe it was called. the thing had a series of square LEDs for a Mane that lit up in sequence every time it talked, and i recall a scene in which it's speech was glitching out, and Rainbow Brite "fixed" it by PRESSING IN one of those lights that was, for whatever reason, sticking up higher then the rest... Edited January 31, 2011 by Shaorin
SkullLeaderVF-X Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 I remember that movie. I liked Unico more.
Peabody Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 I haven`t seen the Rainbow Bright movie but I did see an English dub of a great Minky Momo film on TV in the early `90s. Always wanted to track down the original Japanese versions. Does anybody know what it was called in English?
anime52k8 Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 I've never actually watched any Rainbow Brite myself, but I had a friend in high school who absolutely love it. He also used to smoke a lot of pot.
rdenham Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 All I can remember about the film is that I went to go see it as a part of a classmates birthday party back in the day.
Keith Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 And since this thread has gone this long without mentioning Jem. Let's mention Jem! Now me, I was always pissed off we never got a proper ending for Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors!
areaseven Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 And since this thread has gone this long without mentioning Jem. Let's mention Jem! Dammit, I was just about to start a thread on that. Truly outrageous!
myk Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 Dammit, I was just about to start a thread on that. Truly outrageous! Lol, although I was more of a Misfit fan, myself...
areaseven Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 Lol, although I was more of a Misfit fan, myself... Rapture and Minx of the Stingers were hotter.
Agent ONE Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 And since this thread has gone this long without mentioning Jem. Let's mention Jem! Now me, I was always pissed off we never got a proper ending for Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors! Want me to go get her? We are FB friends.
Ghost Train Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 Rick Hunter is the most awesomest American cartoon 80's hero. With his transformable veritech fighter, She-Ra, He-Man, The Care Bears, and Rainbow Brite all cower in fear !
HappyPenguins Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 Rick Hunter is the most awesomest American cartoon 80's hero. With his transformable veritech fighter, She-Ra, He-Man, The Care Bears, and Rainbow Brite all cower in fear ! you know it
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