Himechi | 15 points
http://links.snahp.it/681.power.on
Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future was a live-action children's tv show made with surprisingly mature themes and stories. The show followed a band of human survivors fighting machines in a future devastated by nuclear war. The story editor was J. Michael Straczynski, who 4 years later would create space opera Babylon 5 and hired some former Captain Power staff to work on it. The show was created by Gary Goddard who directed [Masters of the Universe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe_(film)) and who has since turned out to be not such a nice guy.
Useless trivia: the show co-starred Arnold Schwarzeneggar's old buddy Sven-Ole Thorsen as Lt. Michael 'Tank' Ellis. They emigrated to the US together.
What you get:
- all 22 episodes
- 94 minute documentary "Out Of The Ashes" with interviews with cast & crew
- 8 minute featurette describing the planned second season
- 94 minute movie "The Legend Begins" made from a selection of episodes
- the trailer that was first used to sell the show at a toy industry trade fair and to television stations
- rip of the 2012 soundtrack release in 320kb/s mp3 (no booklet scans, sadly)
Captain Power - Future Force Training video that came with the toys.
1988 interview with star Tim Dunigan.
1988 interview with production staff.
[-] supamonkey77 | 3 points
Thanks for the memories(and nightmares :-(, it was a fucking dark show)
[-] OtochimarU | 2 points
Thanks, I remember watching this as a kid, in spanish. Now for the first time, I'll watch it in english thanks to you good friend.
[-] SgtDetritus42 | 2 points
The toys for this series were amazing when you considered that they interacted with elements from the television show.
[-] sleeperninja | 3 points | Mar 04 2018 18:48:40
I was amazed at how deep the story was for this series, despite the heavy attempts to market it towards ages 8-12ish (I was 9, and I was enamored by this, despite not being able to catch the whole series)
Huge thanks!
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[-] supamonkey77 | 2 points | Mar 05 2018 01:43:42
It was not for children and I think that's why it didn't find the ratings. I had nightmares about being digitized by that pterodactyl thing for weeks. The story was about the last of humanity, so much agony, betrayal and loss.
What were they thinking showing that stuff with the weekend morning cartoons?
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[-] sleeperninja | 2 points | Mar 05 2018 03:09:31
I think there was a story there that they couldn’t find a way to tell, so once there was a way, they took it? It happens, there are a lot of tales that fail to get the chance they deserved.
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[-] Himechi | 2 points | Mar 05 2018 15:08:02
It was like the show had multiple personalities. It was written for adults but the title didn't help it, the ads for the toys didn't help it and the controversy about showing it to children... that might have helped it a little. I wonder what we would have gotten if it had been more focused and aimed solely at adults.
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