#doozy bots

Never forget.

Never stop being thankful someone pulled the plug before its 1991 debut.

Feel a bit sad those kids weren’t shown Victory Gundam and got to see Tomino at his most Tomino.

But for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, behold the Doozy Bots.

So, a few months ago, during culinary class, my friend Brandon pointed me in the direction of this... thing...

(credit to Carlos Obregon for uploading this)

It’s a trailer for an un-aired American Gundam series called Doozy Bots.

Admittedly, I don’t know too much about the Gundam franchise. I’ve watched the original Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, and heard great things about Iron Blooded Orphans, but that’s as far as my experience with the franchise goes as of now. I mean, it’s been around since the 70′s and it’s still going strong. But thanks to the Gundam Wiki, I managed to get some information about this series. From what I’ve gathered, this seems to be a heavily 90′s American attempt to create a robot series. It was based on SD Gundam and was an attempt to bring the series over to Western audiences. But enough about that, let’s check out the plot.

Matt (he’s the only name I could make out from the ass audio for what I assume would’ve been the theme song) and his friends go to the lab of a mad scientist named Professor Doozy. He has a monkey and a hot daughter/assistant. Matt is the captain of his school’s football team, the blonde girl’s a cheerleader and I assume his girlfriend (or at least love interest), the fat kid’s a hockey player, the surfer dude has no real personality to speak of (though to be fair, none of them really do) and the black guy is a cripple. Doozy, because he’s a fuck up, accidentally let some of his robots go ape-shit and so commissions these athletes/token cripple to go beat them up and stop them from robbing the world of fun. (No I did not make that up. Also, if this sounds like the plot of Mega Man 1, then I should point out that Doozy looks like Dr. Wily.) The misguided robots are led by this yellow robot (if you get mad at me for not using its proper model name, remember that I have little experience with Gundam and only wanted to talk about this because of how weird it was), who rides on the back of a giant turkey which supposedly lays eggs to create their army. To this end, they steal electricity from a power plant, but fortunately the Doozy Bots show up to stop them just in time (at least, that’s what I think Matt says, despite them clearly showing up several hours later). The Doozy Bots use all kinds of wacky weapons, including lassos, bubblegum shots, and tar bombs on the robots. After the battle, the black guy (who by the way is the only one without the ability to fly) scoops them all up in a giant gashapon shell and dumps them into a river. The scientist and shows up with a serum, before his hot daughter throws it without even considering what it does (along with the narrator calling the series “beautifully animated”, which gave me a nice chuckle), and as a result nearly kills one of the token dweeb sidekicks (one of whom is the black guy’s brother, who is literally named Tag-along). Needless to say, this series never saw the light of day ever again... which is a shame to be honest, because I’m genuinely curious to see where this series would’ve gone. Would we get some seriously awesome/stupid memes? What would this series’s Char archetype be like, if there would even be one? Did the voice actors get paid to do this?

These are questions I want answers to.