The Flint Dille Collection

(Updated 12/03/22 to include Five Faces Of Darkness outline, scripts and other material)

In late 2020, Sunbow Productions alumni Flint Dille began auctioning off items from his nearly 40 year career in animation, RPG and computer game writing.  Listed below are the items that have been contributed by owners to the Sunbow Marvel Archive.

If there are owners of relevant auctioned items not listed here that wish to contribute.  Please let me know via the following email: simon.letch42@gmail.com

Listed in chronological order.  Click on the links below to be taken to the relevant show page.

Mister T (cartoon, Ruby-Spears)

Mystery Of The Forbidden Monastery full script

Bigfoot And The Muscle Machines

Ron Friedman 15 segment version - first outline, character descriptions, additional story ideas, plot and characters breakdowns by Elise Goyette

Ron Friedman 15 segment version - second outline, additional story premise by Doug Booth

MP 700 The Transformers, Part 1

35 Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2 - Additional Material section storyboard

MP 700 The Transformers, Part 2

Five Faces Of Darkness partial outline (parts 3-5)

86 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 1 full script, model sheets

87 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 2 full script

88 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 3 full script

89 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 4 full script

90 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 5 full script, call sheet

MP 5206 Inhumanoids

05 The Evil Eye full storyboard (final revision, missing pages 101-106)

06 Primal Passions full storyboard (final revision, complete)

870108 Visionaries: Knights Of The Magical Light

Show Bible

Unproduced script 01: The Magic Unloosed

Unproduced script 02: The Powers Bestowed

Unproduced script 03: The Dark Hand Of Treachery

Full scripts:

01 The Age Of Magic Begins

02 The Dark Hand Of Treachery

03 Quest For The Dragon's Eye

07 The Overthrow Of Merklynn

10 Trail Of The Three Wizards

11 Honor Among Thieves

November 2021 Update

870108 Visionaries: Knights Of The Magical Light

With thanks to the Mapes brothers, the archive now hosts the following material for Visionaries:

• The show bible
• 3 unproduced scripts by Flint Dille, for an intended 5-part miniseries (later cut down and adapted to three parts)

Produced scripts for

• The Age Of Magic Begins
• The Dark Hand Of Treachery
• Quest For The Dragon's Eye
• The Overthrow Of Merklynn
• Trail Of The Three Wizards
• Honor Among Thieves

Website update

Site maintenance update affecting the following pages:

MP 600 GI Joe part 1 

MP 600 GI Joe part 2

MP 700 The Transformers part 1

MP 700 The Transformers Part 2

MP 900 Defenders Of The Earth

For ease of navigation and page loading.  All episodes of the above shows that have been officially released on YouTube - by Hasbro and King Features Entertainment respectively - will be linked via central playlists for each season or miniseries.  Where possible, these playlists will be maintained in production order.

October 2021 update

 

Other companies

Another item found by Flint Dille during clearout of his storage last year and auctioned off.  Now permission has been granted to post by it's new owner.  His first script for animation: Mystery Of The Forbidden Monastery, an episode of the Mr.T animated series produced by Ruby-Spears in 1983.  Co-written with future Sunbow alumni Steve Gerber and Martin Pasko.

September 2021 update

 

MP 700 The Transformers. part 1

Linked via the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel.  All 65 episodes of The Transformers season 1  and 2 are now available to view in full, next to their respective scripts and other production material.

MP 5206 Inhumanoids

With thanks to Jim Sorenson and Nathan Stacy, full storyboard sets for The Evil Eye and Primal Passions are now available for viewing.

It should be noted that The Evil Eye contains some scenes that were not deleted by Marvel producers, but were removed from the finished episode in post-production.  These scenes were clearly deemed as going too far, even by the standards of Inhumanoids.

The episode was also one of many across multiple shows being produced in mid-1986 that had it's runtime cut to around 19 minutes.  We can now see that this decision was taken by Marvel in LA, before the episode was sent to Toei.

Don Jurwich 1934-2021

From Will Meugniot's facebook: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3127071174246062&id=100008296299260

Marvel Productions alumni Don Jurwich has passed away at the age of 87.  Among his many credits in a career spanning nearly 50 years, he was:

Director

G.I Joe The Movie

Supervising Director
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends

Producer

The Incredible Hulk (1982)

Robotix

Bigfoot And The Muscle Machines

Supervising Producer

G.I Joe: A Real American Hero (all 95 episodes)

Voice Director

The Incredible Hulk (1982)

G.I Joe: A Real American Hero (The M.A.S.S Device and Season 1)

The Sunbow Marvel Archive wishes to offer condolences to all who knew him and all who enjoyed his work.

June 2021 update

 

Various odds and ends added to the archive this month

Commercials

Added a new section covering animated commercials that don't come under the umbrella of properties with full-length shows.  Including Battle Beasts, Ninja Warriors, Secret Wars and a Captain America PSA produced on behalf of the US Department Of Energy in 1981

MP 500 Muppet Babies

Adding model sheets from various episodes from the 1988 season.  Will likely be expanding throughout the month.

MP 600 GI Joe part 1

Added ten pages of storyboard from the first episode of the main series, Cobra's Creatures (formerly known as Hi-Freak).

MP 5201 My Little Pony

Added a new section covering MLP, containing the press pack for the anthology series My Little Pony N' Friends

MP 5204 Moondreamers

Added 22 pages of turnaround sheets for the main Moondreamer and animal cast

May 2021 update

*Updated 26/05/21*

MP 600 GI Joe part 2

Thanks to contributor Ransack The Elder, the archive now hosts on-set photos and storyboards for Griffin-Bacal's production of the 1992 GI Joe toy commercials.

After 1990, the agency dropped animated short-length advertising (at the same time as returning to full-length animation with Bucky O'Hare) in favour of serialized, live-action storytelling.   For 1992, the plot centered around a scheme by Destro (voiced by Arthur Burghardt for the final time) to kidnap and brainwash Duke into serving Cobra.

MP 400 Dungeons & Dragons

Added model sheets covering Expressions, Attitudes and Mouth Guides for the main cast members, Dungeon Master, Venger and Tiamat's Heads

Also, added model sheets for episode no.2 Eye Of The Beholder (Sir John, Sir John's Son, Blue Dragon, Escargyte and the Hyena-Like Creatures).

MP 500 Muppet Babies

Added the Construction Model sheets for all main cast members, as revised at the start of season 2.  Consisting of five or six sheets per character: Front (some with A and B views), Front 3/4 view, Side, Rear, Rear 3/4 view.  

Also replaced the existing sheets for Mouth Guides, Expressions, Attitudes, Turnarounds and Construction with better quality copies

Other shows

There is a new page at the archive for contemporary shows produced by other companies, not affliated with Sunbow or Marvel Productions.  Containing miscellaneous items, as well as production timelines I have put together as something of a hobby.  The page will also be a place for websites specializing in other franchises and companies to be linked.  If anyone knows of a website based around archiving animation production material that they feel should be linked, drop me a line on the Blogger contact form.

Shows/companies currently covered by the page are:

• Filmation 1982-1987 (He-Man, She-Ra and Bravestarr)
• Mister T 1983-1985 (including partial storyboard by Don Manuel)

• Challenge Of The Go-Bots 1984-1986.  Including (with thanks to Jim Sorenson), an early treatment for the movie, vastly different from Battle Of The Rock Lords

• The Real Ghostbusters 1986-1991
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987-1996
• Marvel Comics' Properties 1992-1997
• Transformers (as an overall franchise)

April 2021 Update

 

Toyfair Catalogues

An ongoing project at the archive for this month will be to add the relevant catalogue sections to each show page.  Links and listings will be updated here as needed:

G.I Joe (part 1)

1982 Hasbro

1983 Hasbro

1984 Hasbro

1985 Hasbro 

G.I Joe (part 2)

1986 Hasbro Pre-Toyfair

1986 Hasbro

1987 Hasbro

1988 Hasbro

The Transformers (part 1)

1984 Hasbro

1985 Hasbro

The Transformers (part 2)

1986 Hasbro Pre-Toyfair

1986 Hasbro

1987 Hasbro (contributor credit: Ryan King)

1988 Hasbro (contributor credit: Ryan King)

1989 Hasbro (contributor credit: Ryan King)

1990 Hasbro (contributor credit: Ryan King)

Robotix

1986 Milton Bradley

Inhumanoids

1986 Hasbro

Jem

1986 Hasbro 

1987 Hasbro

1988 Hasbro Pre-Toyfair (Jem removed from main catalogue)

Air Raiders

1987 Hasbro (contributor credit: Ryan King)

Battle Beasts

1987 Hasbro (contributor credit: Ryan King)

Ninja Warriors

1987 Hasbro (contributor credit: Ryan King)

Visionaries

1987 Hasbro (contributor credit: Ryan King)

1988 Hasbro (Toyline cancelled in late 1987, too late to be removed from the catalogue)

Production Material

MP 700 The Transformers

The newest addition to the archive, auctioned off by Flint Dille and scans contributed by new owner Steve Chu, are storyboards for Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2. 

Drawn by Keith Tucker, they cover the Additional Material insert that was added to Act 3 of the episode.  As Don Glut's script ran three to four minutes short of the required runtime.  This copy was sent to Flint Dille, in his role as Associate Producer of the show and was uncovered from his storage in late 2020.

NWA 6640 Biker Mice From Mars

Recently, I stumbled upon the unofficial fansite www.bikermice.com , which had lain untouched since 1998.  From the site, I salvaged and formatted two full scripts.  One for the season 2 episode Return To Mars, Part 3 and the late season 3 episode Caveat Mentor.

Biker Mice From Mars was the last show commissioned under the banner of Marvel Productions.  Solicited in trade adverts in 1992 and debuting in September 1993.  During 1993, changes within Marvel Entertainment Group saw the production company reorganised and renamed to New World Animation.  The writing of the series was reaching its conclusion at the end of summer 1994.  However, because the show remained on weekends during it's initial run and did not make the jump to weekday afternoons, new episodes kept airing until February 1996.