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1980sactionfigures · 7 days

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Soaron Beam Deflector - Captain Power (Mattel)

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vintagegeekculture · 1 year

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arcadebroke · 1 year

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#Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future #Captain Power #print ad #video #scifi #science fiction #80s #1980s #80s scifi

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stone-cold-groove · 7 months

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Captain Power #1 - October 1952.

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scifiction · 1 year

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https://scifiction.com/exclusive-conversation-with-captain-power-actor-timothy-dunigan/

#tv #80s #captain power #actor #interview #scifi #A Team #davy crockett #science fiction #conversation #Timothy Dunigan #nostalgia #pop culture #media #original

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gijoe-forever · 2 years

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#captain power #lord dread #custom #gijoe

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annlarimer · 1 year

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1987 Captain Power Power Jet XT-7 commercial

These commercials actually scared the living shit out of their young audience. I have no idea whether the toys even worked, but the show itself was pretty great. You could probably make better SFX on a good phone now.

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comicbooksaregood · 10 months

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Captain Power and the Soldiers of The Future

Volume: 1

Issue: 2

Writer: J. Michael Straczynski, Neal Adams, Peter Stone

Penciler: Neal Adams

Inker: Neal Adams

Colourist: Eva Grindberg

Cover: Neal Adams

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flamingpudding · 4 months

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You need an adult. - I am an adult!

Danny in human age is an adult. He was a 24 years old adult that only recently started working in the Arospace Department of Wayne Enterprise. Human wise he was by all means an adult, with the paper trail to support it.

The only problem was. His ghost form.

Despite his human side having aged just fine and giving him a fine, build like a Brickhouse, body that came close to Dan's hulking ghost form. His ghost side was still stuck on looking like his fourteen years old self, small and build like a twig. Pandora, Frostbite and Clockwork had tried teaching him how to manipulate his own ectoplasm so he can finally adjust his ghost looks. But so far... that was a skill he has yet to master successfully.

Now, usually, that wouldn't be a problem. But considering he only recently found out two of his bosses also worked with the Justice League who happened to know him as Phantom, it spelled problems.

Because the Justice League was convinced he was a forever 14 years old dead ghost hero who is using one of his many powers to appear like a human adult. He only went human on them like twice for undercover missions. He saw no problem in them knowing about his human half. Ancients all his rogues and the entirety of the Infinite Realms knew of it already anyway.

But you make one to many jokes about deadly situations or act just a bit to childish one to many times with them and you are seen as child forever! Go figure why Danny had so many problems with authority figures is whole life.

They were the once thinking his human half was just another power! He never said it was!

And now here he was, sitting in the office of one of his bosses. Faced with the two of them trying to clear up the misunderstanding of a decade. Ancients they are convinced his paper trail is fake just because Phantom had Tucker on his team. A team that had already established their talents years ago, when they worked with the JL for the first time.

Wait.... why was Bruce Wayne pulling out adoption papers?

I dont need an adult! I am an adult!

#danny fenton #danny phantom #dp x dc #dpxdc #crossover #dcxdp #tim drake #brue wayne #dannys ghost form is stuck at 14 #human wise he is an adult by all means tho #the justice league is just convinced he is a forever 14 years old ghost #like they only knew of his ghost form until for an undercover mission he went human infront of them #they are convinced that his human form is a power #think of it like a reversed Captain situation #they think he needs an adult #but danny is an adult #human wise at least #Dan and Ellie are laughting at this newfound missery of denied adulthood

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cryver · 1 year

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subjectively-objective · 1 year

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Power On! Analyzing Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (Part 1, Intro and overview)

Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future was a science fiction television series that aired its last and only 22 episode season in 1987.

As with all children's television series in the 80s, Captain Power had a toy line. I couldn't find much on it (and don't care to), but they appear to just be a couple of action figures and ships. Though, they do have an interesting gimmick where the episodes of the show (or three different VHS tapes, $14.99 each) can interact with the ships, even causing the toy to 'blow up and eject pilots when all points are lost'. Kinda neat, but I'm not here to play with toys. I'm here to watch the commercial for those toys.

And that commercial is an odd one. It's about, well. . . I'll let the intro do the talking.

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Yeah. As you can see, humanity fought in the "Metal Wars" against machines, and "machines won." Now Captain Power and his crew have to use their power suits to fight Lord Dread and his "bio-Dread empire" to save the world.

Besides the (pretty dark) exposition dump, you may also notice a startling amount of, let's call them 'experimental', computer effects.

The late 80s were. . . odd. Computers had permeated throughout society but had yet to singularitize into the Internet (at least, the websitey Internet we know and loathe today). They were powerful enough to create and render digital images, but were far from being able to effectively do so beside real-life footage. Yet this did not deter everyone with a computer, a camera, and a $1 million an episode budget from trying their hardest. Captain Power et al. was one such attempt.

But if you look past the Birdemic-esque CGI, and the Power Rangerian synopsis, does the meat of the series hold up? I've never seen it, so let's dig in.

So, the intro starts and we see our eponymous captain followed by a very 90s explosion. There's some exposition told over backdrops of ruined cities. So far so awesome.

This particular ruined city was odd to me. The other shots were of dense cityscapes, but there are only a few small buildings in this one. Sure they are mostly rubble, but the foundations are still there and none of them could have had more than three floors. The street between them isn't even paved! This brings up a lot of questions. Was this some small town that was destroyed because the machines did a full genocide? Was this a recreation western town that was destroyed because the machines can't tell the difference between a real and fake town? Either way, opening your Saturday Morning children's toy commercial with literal shots of the apocalypse is metal as hell (and probably a bad idea).

Speaking of shots of the war-torn future Earth, the name for that war is the Metal Wars; it's kind of a lame name, but it works.

There's not much else to go on, but I assume it was a war between robots (metal) and humans (fleshal). There's also the issue of "Wars" being plural. Odd that the genocidal machines would sign a peace treaty. Guess they let their Attrition meter get too high. At least Narrator Guy tells us who won in the end; I would never have figured it out otherwise.

After that bit of narration, we get our first non-Power character.

I guess they're a bio-Dread? The toy ad earlier says they are "Sauron, Sky Sentry" (I feel like I recognize that name from somewhere. . .). It looks really cool. Wings, bird head, sassy hip arm pose thing, everything you'd want in your 'monstrous creations that hunt down human survivors and digitize them.'

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We get a glimpse of what that means in the intro, but it doesn't explain much. Bird-bot shoots a beam, and a lady turns into pixels.

Seems painful, and the scream was a bit frightening for a children's show.

We then get a shot of Volcania which is where our villain lives.

It looks really cool. An industrial wasteland surrounding a giant dome spewing chemical fumes like a volcano. Very robot, much punk.

We also get a shot of Lord Dread.

He looks like a Borg wearing Darth Vader's armor. It's kind of neat but not very original. I know that Lord Dread predates the Borg by about a year, but 'cyborg with one robot eye and one human one' was a concept since Doc Terror in '86 at the earliest. Either way, it wasn't groundbreaking then and it isn't interesting now.

After that we get our first shot of the future soldiers (standing in front of a large explosion of course).

And here they are. The soldiers of the future. The armor looks super toyetic, but it definitely oozes 'f u t u r e'.

It then spins some more exposition on who these people are. Nothing really noteworthy. We have a pilot (Pilot), a spy (Scout), a gun dude (Tank), jetpack guy (Hawk), and 'master of the power suits' (Captain Power).

The flying effect on Hawk is hilariously awful. My man just looks like a toy on a string.

I also have a question about how Scout can do espionage. They are fighting robots. If he disguised himself as one as shown in the intro, they would know because he would have a heartbeat, or not be connected to the system or something, right? Granted, that could be where the 'bio' part of bio-Dread Empire comes in.

Either way, we get one final group shot and title card and the intro is complete.

If I'm being honest, a very strong albeit boring intro. It told me what I need to know about the series, but didn't really make me interested in watching it. There are tons of 80s shows about groups of people using their toys unique powers to fight a bad guy. Though, I am curious to see what the heck digitizing someone means.

Overall, the most noteworthy aspect of the show's concept so far is the fact that the hero's have lost the battle and are on the defensive. Most Saturday morning toy shows at this time had a more equal conflict between two groups (like Transformers, G.I Joe, or Inhumanoids). That and the fact that it is not animated makes it look much darker than its peers. Something that could make it stand out among a sea of mediocrity, or have it form the seabed.

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1980sactionfigures · 2 months

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Interlocker - Captain Power (Mattel)

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vintagegeekculture · 1 year

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In the first season of “Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future” in 1987, it was mentioned that tough guy Tank was produced at a genetic engineering center known as “Babylon 5.” This was the first ever mention of this name on air, as episode writer Joseph Michael Straczynski would get the series made several years later.

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bluegiragi · 1 year

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