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.

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.