7/4/2023 0 Comments Battletech cartoonThis was also the time when American toy producers were looking for the next big thing.and given the growing interest in anime/manga, toy companies were looking for a way to get their foot in the door. Computer ownership would be on the rise, and all of this greater computer power was combined with the technology being cheaper, allowing for the greater use of CGI effects, as seen in BattleTech: the Animated Series and Babylon 5. While the 1980's were the birth of personal computer, the 1990's would see the introduction of CD-ROMs and greater computer imaging technology along with beginnings of internet. Science Fiction as a whole was enjoying popularity, the genre had its own network, along with computer gaming. I was a senior in high school in 1994, and I can tell about the world of 1994. After all, Saban had experience with dubbed anime imports as well. Saban, which had made animated series like Lazer Tag Academy and the fucking Power Rangers, saw a ready-built mecha series with a built-in fan base and well developed universe to expand and capitalized on. It was also thanks to the animated series Exosquad and its line of toys, that Saban Entertainment saw a market. All of this lead to the decides that give birth to BattleTech: the Animated Series. This was also a time when the hungry American toy market was searching for the next GI Joe or Star Wars. There was also books and continued RPG product being rolled out. FASA expanding the game into miniature, while Activision had the line of highly successful DOS MechWarrior games along with Virtual World Entertainment's mech-simulator centers. From some sources on the internet, 1994 was an era of expansion for the Battletech brand as a whole. While Battletech had been around for years, it's popularity was growing with an attack on all fronts. Then the Battletech series could been an success with an locked-in audience of mecha-hungry fans. After all, the "Giant Robot Crazy" of the late 1970's and the 1980's, had run its course, and it seems to me that FASA missed the best time to have animated mecha series.That time when Battletech cartoon should aired was soon after ROBOTECH. Timing can be everything, and it always seemed to me that Battletech: the Animated Series had missed the boat by the time it aired in the mid-1990's.
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