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This Saturday morning, Joseph and Chris watched Battletoads, from 1992. This was suggested by Habanero Prescott, via Instagram. Thanks, Habanero!
The story served as a prequel to the video game franchise. Set in Oxnard, California, it stars three junior high schoolers. The trio is given the ability to transform into anthropomorphic toads with superhuman strength and the ability to change their arms and legs into weapons in techniques called “Smash Hits”. They are charged with protecting Professor T. Bird and Princess Angelica from the Dark Queen, who wants to steal Angelica’s magical amulet for her plans of universal conquest.
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The Battletoads being humans actually isn’t quite exclusive to this series. That concept was also done in a Battletoads comic that appeared in Nintendo Power around the same time the first game came out. Except in that comic, Battletoads is a virtual reality video game, and the three humans are testing it and end up being trapped in the game, which turns out to be a portal to a parallel universe that the Dark Queen used to rule over until the Battletoads were created.
I agree with you guys 100% about this pilot, and it’s very easy to see why this show never got picked up. But, if I had to say something nice about it, at least it’s not the Bubsy pilot.
I mentioned it last week, but I’m really glad to hear you guys give such a glowing recommendation to the new Battletoads game. That game got a lot of undeserved hate when it first came out, so it’s nice to hear it has its fans. I hope they do make a cartoon show out of that Battletoads reboot, or at least another game.
It is a shame that the Toads never got a more serious cartoon that was closer align with the original concept and game. Did you know that the Rare team actually wrote an official movie script and Novel detailing their concept for the Battletoads Franchise? You can find it and other Battletoads goodness on our Discord channel https://discord.gg/JddT7ZxW in the Archivists section. Anyways please keep up the great work!
Woah, I did not know that! I’ll have to check out that Discord channel. Thanks for the info and the kind words!