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Leaving a ceremony where he has just been award a Nobel Prize for his work with 'matter structures' the Doctor has just enough time for a humorously stilted conversation with a science groupie before jumping into a hover taxi headed to the airport. It was of course composed by Shuki Levy and Haim Saban themselves, two men who together created virtually every kids cartoon theme of the 80's.įollowing much the same plot as Goshogun's premier the story unfolds of Dr William Bridger a brilliant scientist. The Voltron-esque introduction sets up the plot, even employing Peter (Optimus Prime) Cullen as the narrator, and the tune is fairly catchy, constantly ordering that you "feel the powerrrrr!!!" of "mah, mah, mah, Macron 1". Snegoff assembled an impressive collection of voice actors from the instantly recognisable Cam Clark, a man who counts Leonardo of the Ninja Turtles, Liquid Snake and even He Man amongst his long list of credits, and most of the cast of Robotech (another of Snegoff's later works). The dubbing and script writing was handled by Gregg Snegoff a now well established name in the American Anime world who would go on to form an important part of the company Streamline, themselves responsible for the translation of many of the west's biggest Anime hits such as Vampire Hunter D, Golgo 13 and the now legendary Akira. Although Goshogun has been distilled through the Video Transition-a-tron 2000 -the fictitious 1980's computer that single handedly gave the decade it's look through the creation of 'star wipes', 'image flipping', 'tiles' and other futuristic effects- it still works quite well as a straight translation of the source, albeit one aimed solely at kids. Macron 1 is surprisingly well made, annoyingly so considering I just planned to make fun of it.
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While Macron 1 was shown primarily on TV in the US and Europe (where it was actually a direct translation of Goshogun) in the UK like so many of it's contemporaries it found it's way straight onto the video shelves where it's prey were unattentive mothers sent to the video store for Transformers or Thundercats. The robot is powered by a new energy source found in meteorites, Beamler which an evil Crime Syndicate (is there any other kind of Crime Syndicate?) called Docougar wants, no doubt for evil means, as well as the heroic team's teleporting fortress Good Thunder. The Goshogun of the title is a giant robot piloted by a team of three young soldier's lead by Sabalas, a scientist and Telly Savalas look-a-like. The Goshogun footage makes up the vast majority of Macron 1 with Srungle's donation comprising a sub-plot added in a later series, and missing entirely from the 'international version' seen outside the USA and found on this tape. Both shows were produced by Kokusai Eiga-sha but are otherwise unconnected.
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The component parts of Macron 1 are the 1982 TV series Sengoku Maijin Goshogun ( Warring Demon God Goshogun) and brilliantly titled Aku Daisakusen Srungle ( Space War Srungle).