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Space Thunder Kids (Animation)

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Those of you who are familiar with Joseph Lai's body of work, this is Thunder Prince IN SPACE!. A Humongous Mecha pseudo-anime released in 1991 about three children that can pilot giant robots trying to defeat the Big Bad and his army: the Dark Empire. There are also some Space Opera elements thrown in with advanced space stations and dogfights going on in space.This decidedly weird animated film is a result of Joseph Lai buying South Korean cartoons on the cheap and editing them to make "new" features. The result is a Frankenslation after putting all the different shows together.The film was edited with footage from Savior of the Earth (not a ripoff of mecha anime, but instead the movie TRON), Defenders of Space - Phoenix-bot Phoenix King, King Robot, Protectors of Universe - Super Express Mazinger 7, Solar Adventure, Space Transformers - Micro-Commando Diatron-5, Super Mazinger 3 and Iron Man Trio. All of the aforementioned movies are also ripoffs of other anime like Mazinger Z, and even robot cartoons that gained fame in America, like Transformers, Voltron, and even Mighty Orbots (and all but the last were separately dubbed by Joseph Lai as well).Has nothing to do with UFO Robo Grendizer's Finishing Move.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Kim Il-sung, as the evil general working with the aliens. A lot of the incorporated movies had villains who were thinly-veiled analogues of the North Korean military, but the movie that character came from (Solar Adventure) was especially blatant.
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Inexplicably Identical Individuals: The lines of civilians running away from the buildings being leveled by Neon Light Godzilla.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: The back of the cover describes the entire movie from start to finish, because otherwise we'd never know what we were watching. Apparently somewhere during the hour-and-a-half of tanks and explosions is the plot about saving a scientist.
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Padding: In one scene, an animation cycle of rolling tanks was looped for 5 minutes straight.
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Aborted Arc
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Aborted Arc: A lot of these, thanks to it being stitched together from pieces of around 9-10 totally unrelated movies. Lots of threats are set up but never paid off, because those plot beats were left in their original movie.
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Compilation Movie: As noted, it was made by splicing together bits from a plethora of other Korean knockoff anime with no rhyme or reason.
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Covers Always Lie
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Covers Always Lie: None of the characters on the cover are actually in the movie. Unless they look completely different in the film proper, of course, which could be the case given this film was made by splicing together other cartoons.
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Space Is an Ocean
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Space Is an Ocean: Speeds are called out in knots. Not even hundreds or thousands of knots, as would be the case for spaceships if they didn't just use MpH/KpH to begin with, but tens of knots, as if they were going at nautical speeds. Other parts have passingly realistic space motion.
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Frankenslation: It combines no less than seven different Korean cartoons.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: The space station that was attacked by the meteors at the beginning were never seen again. Either that or the space station was drawn differently from there on out. Who knows?
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Random Events Plot
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Random Events Plot: Due to the film being somewhat haphazardly cobbled together from a bunch of other films, there is a lot of jumping between several completely unrelated plot points with only token attempts at telling some sort of overarching story with them.
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Recycled Animation
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Recycled Animation: Taken to a whole new level with this film. The animation of the entire film was taken from several other Korean cartoons and stitched together into one big thing.
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Strong Family Resemblance
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Strong Family Resemblance: Inverted doesn't even begin to describe it. Apparently the seven foot tall one eyed blonde space pirate badass vixen has a sister who is a one foot tall robot pig creature named Sandy. note  It isn't explained any better in the movie that part comes from, Savior of the Earth.
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Child Soldiers
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Child Soldiers: The main characters, since the movies being incorporated were ripped off from anime where kids or teenagers piloted mecha against alien invaders.
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Decoy Protagonist
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Decoy Protagonist: Who are the Space Thunder Kids? There's a random focus on at least three different space-traveling groups, but none of them do anything of importance, and none of them ever last longer than a scene or two. Eventually it becomes impossible to discern who are supposed to be the bad guys and who are the heroes, because all the ships are equally generic and what setup the various space battles got was left in their source movies.
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Epic Flail: Some of the giant robots of the Dark Emperor fight with these in space, Newton's laws be damned.
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