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.

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.

July 2019 new additions

Here are the new additions to the archive for this month

Transformers, part 1

• A modern reproduction, created by TheRoboplasticApocalypse and posted with permission, of the original Marvel Comics treatment for The Transformers.  Written by Jim Shooter, this treatment would form the foundation for both the comic and the cartoon.
• A transcript of Marvel Productions' internal correspondence from story editors Bryce Malek and Dick Robbins, to Margaret Loesch and Lee Gunther, detailing their development work on the main Transformers series as of April 30th, 1984.
• A second version of the Transport To Oblivion script.  This computerised revision on June 8th, 1984 preceding the handwritten final revisions on 22nd June, 1984.

Transformers, part 2

• A transcript of The Eye Of The Beholder, one of five premises submitted to Sunbow by Cary Bates and Greg Weisman in April 1986.  None of the premises were taken forward to the outline stage.  Bates and Weisman would make their television writing debut on the Jem episode Video Wars.  Written likely in spring 1987, aired February 1988.

Once again, I invite all those viewing this blog:  If you have production material and wish to preserve it for posterity, please get in touch.  Especially interested in....

• Premises, outlines or full scripts
• Storyboards
• Voice actor call sheets
• Dialogue scripts.  Including those that contain all original dialogue that can replace "as broadcast" copies
• Memos and internal correspondence

If Sunbow Productions commissioned it and/or Marvel Productions produced it, it is welcome here.