Dave Newman

I feel like that title was just lazy. Not cheap and lazy, just lazy.

What do you know about Mighty Orbots? Not a lot, but I’ve got the DVD of the series, always meant to watch it. I guess now will do. Let’s watch.

Read moreGo! Mighty Orbots!

“You’ve looked at Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines and Inhumanoids, are you going to look at Robotix and Jem?”, I was asked.

“Sure!”, I replied. Let’s start with Robotix. Jem might be a little further off as I’m not as familiar with it because it was a “girly” show (even though I loved She-Ra, and more on that on Wednesday), but I’ll get there. We’ll have to get through Visionaries and Dino-Riders before that, though.

Read moreWho puts the future in your hands? Robotix!

Yesterday’s review was of Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines, so as Inhumanoids originated from that same Super Sunday block and there were some comments about vaguely remembering it, I thought I’d have a look at the five-part mini-series that was shown in smaller chunks (quite obviously, as we’ll get to) alongside Bigfoot and the others.

Read moreSuper Sunday! Inhumanoids – The Evil That Lies Within!

Seeing as it got brought up in the MLG thread, here’s Mean Gene doing what he does best.

Read moreOur dear, close, personal, long time friend…

I’ve recently been transferring some shows from video to DVD and this is one of them. My own history with it is seeing the trailer for it on a Transformers video as a kid, but never seeing or getting it fully myself. Then a friend of mine picked it up when we were in our teens and we watched it to make fun of it, mocking some of the voices and plot contrivances. As an adult, I picked it up on tape and was able to enjoy it more as what it was intended to be.

This is effectively a “movie”, although it only runs for 53 minutes. Sunbow produced it as a series of small parts to be included in a block they had with Robotix, Inhumanoids and Jem. Inhumanoids went a bit further and Jem went a lot further, but Bigfoot and Robotix didn’t develop beyond getting their “movie” collections of all the shorts stitched together.

Read moreSaturday Morning Cartoons! Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines!

Let’s have a look, as requested in a previous review, at some tag team wrestling from World of Sport.

Read moreBest of British – Tag Team Turmoil!

Tomorrow I’m going to do a tag team turmoil review, with matches including the likes of Owen and Bruce Hart, William Regal and Robbie Brookside, and Rocky Moran and Fit Finlay, but today I thought I’d have a look at this documentary featuring Finlay and his family talking about their history in wrestling.

Read moreBest of British – The Fit Finlays

I was planning on looking at Spider-Man: Blue today for my comic review, but when I went to the bookshelf to pull it I remembered I had this put aside and hadn’t properly looked at it, so today I’m going to read and review Jim Cornette Presents Behind the Curtain: Real Pro Wrestling Stories.

Read moreWednesday Is Comics Day! Featuring JIM CORNETTE?!

The recent reviews of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, including featuring appearances from the X-Men, prompted me to have a look at the 1989 pilot for a new X-Men show from Marvel Productions that didn’t get taken to series, Pryde of the X-Men. The single episode ended up being released on VHS, which is where it’s probably more widely been seen. It’s never been on DVD and isn’t on Disney+, so YouTube is the place to go for it now.

Read morePryde of the X-Men

Here’s retiring sumo wrestler John Tenta, who looked 53 at 23, talking about leaving one sport and getting into another. Who would’ve thought this nice, humble guy would be a man who almost ended Hulkamania?

A little bit late today with my cartoon review. Time to look at the new Transformers show on Netflix. Spoilers ahead, I will be discussing events that occur in the show.

Read moreTransformers – War For Cybertron: Siege

Teen Titans Go recommendation yesterday? Sure, as long as I can throw in some Brave and the Bold too!

Read moreTeeny Teen Titans Go and Bonus Brave and the Bold!

One more day in tribute to Rollerball Rocco.

Read moreBest of British – Maniac Mark Mania!

Back one more time to the Spider-Friends. We’ve looked at the individual origin episodes, we’ve looked at the first season, now we’re going to finish up with the final season, from 1983.

Read moreSpider-Man and His Amazing Friends – The Final Season!

“Is this guy gonna do Teen Titans?”, I was asked. Sure! Let’s have a look at Filmation’s Teen Titans segments from the sixties, Teen Titans from the noughties, and Teen Titans Go from the last few years.

Read moreTeen Titans… Go!

Seeing as the review yesterday of some of Maniac Mark Rocco’s matches were enjoyed, I thought I’d have a look at some more of his matches from Screensport, which was a satellite channel in Europe. Most of the matches are from the North Staffs area unless noted. There’s a bit of a WWF and American influence with interviews and little angles and a bit of “bedlam”. The announcers are Vince Miller and Maxton G. Beesley. Neither actually had a wrestling background, Miller was a pub singer and comedian and Beesley was an actor (his son, Max Beesley, ended up becoming quite famous in the nineties for a cup of tea), so they’re a bit ropey at time. Rocco was running an angle with them where he was threatening to and would sometimes beat them up, mainly focussing his ire on “NB” Beesley (NB for Nancy Boy) for wearing a pink bow-tie.

Read moreBest of British – Rollerball Rolls On!

I was asked yesterday about whether I’d thought about reviewing any Justice League Unlimited and coincidentally I had just that day. Justice League Unlimited, which ran for 39 episodes, followed Justice League, which ran for 52 episodes, of which the majority of stories were either two or three-parters. JLU had more “one-off” episodes, but there was a bit of a serial aspect, especially up to the end of season two. The DVD boxsets collect season one and season two as Season One, with season three collected as Season Two. I’m going to look at three random episodes from that final season, which saw the introduction of a certain band of villains.

Read moreJLU and the Legion of DOOM!

I was sorry to hear that Mark ‘Rollerball’ Rocco has died. Pretty much a legend in British wrestling, he fought all over the world, including in Japan (and MSG) as Black Tiger. His dad, grandad AND great-grandad were wrestlers. By the time I got into wrestling he had just packed it in as his heart was failing him. In fact, one of the first wrestling shows I ever went to, in August of 1991 at a seaside theatre in Rhyl, had a programme that detailed his heart surgery. Sorry to see him go, but nobody lasts forever as we’re getting to realise more and more. I thought I’d have a look at a selection of his matches with some stars we all know of.

Read moreBest of British – R.I.P. Rollerball Rocco

The first Batman show to follow Batman: The Animated Series was The Batman, and it was not met with a warm reception. Between the character designs (Jeff Matsuda from The Jackie Chan Adventures brought a big influence to the show) and the effects of the Bat-Embargo (this show got to use all the Batman villains except for any to be used in the Christopher Nolan movies for a while, meaning Justice League Unlimited went very much without) and then just being something different and new to something that was so beloved it met some harsh criticism and really had to earn praise, which started to come a little by the end of season one but wasn’t fully achieved until the end of the series.

I’m going to look at one episode from each season today.

Read moreThe Batman