On 8th November 1985, auditions were held for the My Little Pony n' Friends series. The following actors auditioned for the main human character Megan Williams, replacing Tammy Amerson who voiced her in the 1984 and 1985 specials, as well as the 1986 movie:
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Monday, 19 May 2025
My Little Pony n' Friends audition audio, part 1
Thursday, 17 April 2025
New secondary blog: Animated 80s
Within the last week, I have launched and am currently building a companion blog to the Sunbow Marvel Archive. One which will house production material from cartoons of the 1980s not produced by either Sunbow or Marvel Productions: Animated 80s
This site will feature scripts and storyboards that have come my way whilst in the course of pursuing material for the Archive proper. These currently include:
- The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
- Blackstar
- The Smurfs
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
- Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
- She-Ra: Princess of Power
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
- G.I Joe: A Real American Hero (DiC)
Saturday, 22 February 2025
The Transformers: The Movie: storyboard files reduced
As part of space-saving and general housekeeping, storyboards for all 31 final sequences of The Transformers: The Movie, as well as Peter Chung's early sequences, have been put through OCR and greatly reduced in file size. Additionally, the 1600+ page full storyboard book is available to download at 175mb (down from over 1gb).
To view all of the storyboards, head to The Transformers: The Movie
Saturday, 13 July 2024
Transformers: The Secret of Omega Supreme storyboards
Thanks to Larry Houston for saving them from likely destruction back in the 1980s and thanks to Rich Helscher for making them available, the Archive now hosts the tenth full Transformers storyboard set: The Secret of Omega Supreme.
View galleries for all ten sets, as well as partial storyboards for ten more episodes at the Storyboard Viewing Gallery Index
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
My Little Pony: new storyboard galleries
New galleries are up for the following My Little Pony N Friends storyboard sets:
- Revolt of Paradise Estate, Part 2
- Partial episode storyboards: Baby, It's Cold Outside and Would-Be Dragonslayer
Saturday, 4 May 2024
Transformers: Blaster Blues storyboard and 150 model sheets
Thanks to Ryan King, the Archive now hosts material found by Marvel Productions storyboard artist/producer/director Larry Houston.
Firstly, the full storyboard set for Transformers episode Blaster Blues. To view the boards, head to the Blaster Blues storyboard gallery
Monday, 8 April 2024
My Little Pony: Revolt of Paradise Estate storyboard
The Archive now hosts the full storyboard set for David Wise' My Little Pony episode Revolt of Paradise Estate, Part 2. Where, thanks to a can of magic paint sold to naïve pony Paradise by evil wizard Beezen, the furniture of Paradise Estate has come to life and driven the ponies out of their home.
To view the storyboards, head to My Little Pony N' Friends
Friday, 23 February 2024
The Brothers Flub: two full storyboard sets
The Archive takes a trip to Sunbow Entertainment's later years, with storyboard sets for The Brothers Flub episodes "Family Outing" and "Sidekicked". This series was produced on behalf of German company Ravensburger Film + TV and aired on Nickolodeon from the start of 1999 to the start of the year 2000.
To view both sets, head to Sunbow Round Two 1991-2000
Friday, 26 January 2024
Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends: A Firestar Is Born storyboards
With thanks to Webhead at http://spider-friends.com, the Archive now hosts the storyboards for Act II of the 1982 Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends episode A Firestar Is Born.
Drawn by Larry Houston, see what happens as Angelica Jones recounts the trials and tribulations of growing up with superpowers, then joins with Spidey, Iceman and the X-Men to defeat their unwanted house guest Juggernaut.
View the storyboards and more material from Amazing Friends, The Incredible Hulk and Pryde of the X-Men at: Marvel Superheroes 1981-1989
Monday, 25 December 2023
2023 Year in Review
2023 was an interesting year for the Sunbow Marvel Archive. Thanks to the various contributors, material from a wider variety of shows is now available and also helped in demystifying a series that has previously been considered "lost media."
In terms of general organisation, the website has been streamlined to collect the material for 24 shows on 6 pages.
For Transformers, the march towards series completion continued with full or partial storyboards for another 10 episodes, over 100 audition sheets from voice director Wally Burr's collection, plus various model sheets, backgrounds and the script for The Killing Jar.
The biggest Transformers-related item saw release in August. Three years since it was found by Flint Dille and scanned by Jim Sorenson, the very first script for The Transformers: The Movie is available to the public.
G.I Joe saw its first newly-revealed scripts in over a decade, with Flint Dille's Skeletons In The Closet and Doug Booth's My Favorite Things
An unexpected surprise came in the form of over a dozen My Little Pony storyboard sets, sold from the estate of artist Wendell Washer. Including the first special Rescue At Midnight Castle and a selection of episodes from the main series, spanning from the first episode Ghost Of Paradise Estate to the final one The Prince And The Ponies.
Beyond paper material, a selection of dialogue reels from various Marvel Productions' series came to light. Among them was audio from The Young Astronauts, Marvel's ill-fated series about space exploration that was cancelled in mid-production due to the Challenger shuttle explosion. The reels covered dialogue for the episode Ghost Ship, as well as auditions for the series narrator, featuring a who's who of 1980s voice actors.
Friday, 29 September 2023
Transformers: storyboards, unused premises, briefing material and more
Added to the Archive this month is a plethora of Transformers material, with storyboards from the following:
- Unproduced pilot miniseries/Season 1 intro sequence
- More Than Meets The Eye, Part 2
- More Than Meets The Eye, Part 3
- Transport To Oblivion
- Roll For It
- The Ultimate Doom, Part 3
- Countdown To Extinction
- Unproduced Season 2 intro sequence
- Unproduced commercial bumper
- Autobot Spike
- The Immobilizer
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
The Transformers: Webworld storyboard
Thanks to tfwiki mod Monzo, the Archive now hosts storyboards for Act III of The Transformers episode Webworld.
Co-written by comics legend Len Wein and Diane Duane, this episode sees Cyclonus make the reluctant decision to have his unstable leader Galvatron committed to psychiatric care on the planet Torkulon. Only to find that the methods employed by his "carers" are far more insane than the Decepticon leader ever was.
Head on over to Webworld storyboard gallery
Monday, 29 May 2023
Storyboard Animatics, Part 3
As an interlude while I prepare to make the next homegrown storyboard animatics, I have uploaded the five that were available on Shout Factory's 2011 Jem And The Holograms DVD box set.
Jem music video storyboard gallery
Jem theme (first draft)
Artist: Will Meugniot
Artist: Will Meugniot
From MP 5205-36 Music Is Magic
Artist: Keith Tucker
From 5205-50 Mardi Gras
Keith Tucker
From MP 5205-59 The Stingers Hit Town, Part 2
Artist: Will Meugniot
Monday, 22 May 2023
Storyboard Animatics, Part 2
Using the storyboards available at the Archive, I have been producing some more storyboard animatic videos.
Jem
View music video storyboard gallery
The Bands Break Up
Jem And The Holograms
Getting Down To Business, Version 2
Storyboards by Mike Vosburg
Jem And The Holograms
We Can Change It, Version 2
Storyboards by Larry Houston and Will Meugniot
Sunday, 19 March 2023
Storyboard animatics
A couple of home-made animatics I have made using recently-revealed Transformers storyboards, combined with episode broadcast audio. If these pique your interest, then please follow the links to the full storyboard galleries.
Firstly, Attack Of The Autobots.
Monday, 13 March 2023
Transformers: Deleted dialogue audio vs storyboards: S.O.S Dinobots
In 2016, the Mapes brothers found an assortment of Marvel Productions cassette tapes containing dialogue recorded in the summer of 1984, principally Season 1 of The Transformers. Deleted dialogue from those tapes is available on the Transformers At The Moon YouTube channel.
At the time of the recordings being found and made available, only one episode had a complete storyboard set available: Heavy Metal War. Animatics utilising the deleted dialogue from that episode were created and presented by Chris McFeely for TFNation 2017.
Since then, the number of full episode storyboards available online has grown to seven. Including a second episode for which a dialogue tape is available: S.O.S Dinobots.
To view the scenes in full context, head to: S.O.S Dinobots storyboard viewing gallery
Below is the video containing deleted recordings, along with the relevant storyboard pages and time indexes.