Maybe this is why Astro isn't as popular in the US ?

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Postby AprilSeven » 14 years ago

I'm jealous!! I'm moving to the GREAT WHITE NORTH!!
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Postby I-Am-Atom's-Sister » 14 years ago

Lol, compelling argument. Coming from A Japanese-Canadian-German Robot, everyone I know only knows Astro as a comic series or movie.
I had an argument over who liked Astro more; and (and I was winning, it was great) my opponent was like "How can you like Astro when you don't own the movie??" And so I was, "...Wait...you think Astro boy is just a movie?"
Then I lost the argument 'cause I started laughing.
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Postby Xenops » 14 years ago

"AprilSeven" wrote:I'm jealous!! I'm moving to the GREAT WHITE NORTH!!


:lol: Or rather, move there 30 years ago. Though in my case I would need a time machine, since I wasn't alive 30 years ago.

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Postby ASTROBUDDY » 14 years ago

"Fauna" wrote:[QUOTE=ASTROBUDDY;120700][QUOTE=Fauna;120674][QUOTE=ASTROBUDDY;120606]Also in order to make it in the U.S. syndication market a program in the 1980s would have to have at least 65 episodes. There were some FCC rulings that brought about more cable and UHF channels, which is where a show with fewer than 65 episodes might be picked up. This is where "Astroboy" comes in. One of the UHF stations to pick it up happened to also cover the Philadelphia area. But its broadcast in the U.S. was very limited as to say that it ran its course before anyone really knew it had aired.


This rule is sadly true, not just because it doomed the 1980 series to obscurity, but because some good shows from the eighties and nineties sometimes never were finished; they got up to the bare minimum of 65 episodes and the studio would let the show go.

I know the 1980 series could've done pretty well in America if not for this. I mean, heck, it was big enough in Canada for us to get exclusive merchandise![/QUOTE]


Canada got exclusive merchandise connected to its dub of "Astroboy" (or "The Legend of Astroboy" as I like to call it, to distinguish it from Tezuka Pro./NTV's official English dub which you all call "the American dub")! This is very interesting to me! Like what?

I :heart: :astro: :) [/QUOTE]

There's a few colouring books, a series of storybook adaptations of the episodes that were exclusive to Quebec, postcards and a few buttons. I have both the English-Canadian and French-Canadian buttons...

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The original artwork we had was pretty cool, too. I'll try and dig around for it...[/QUOTE]

It looks like great stuff! I believe I have seen an "Astroboy" coloring book printed in French & published in Canada for sale on eBay!
Thank you! I love looking at "rare" Astro Boy items!

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Postby Dragonrider1227 » 14 years ago

I assumed that the 80s Astro Boy didn't air in the US because of the violence and rather downer and bitter sweet stories. Censors probably didn't approve. I don't know what their deal with the 2003 series was. I guess when it wasn't the instant hit they thought it would be, they just gave up on it.

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Postby Dr. Jerk » 14 years ago

Well, with the 2003 series, they did kinda stopped halfway with it. I have no idea how YTV handled it when it aired in Canada.

Britain did get the entire series aired though.

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Postby ASTROBUDDY » 14 years ago

"Dragonrider1227" wrote:I assumed that the 80s Astro Boy didn't air in the US because of the violence and rather downer and bitter sweet stories. Censors probably didn't approve. I don't know what their deal with the 2003 series was. I guess when it wasn't the instant hit they thought it would be, they just gave up on it.


As I have stated before the 80s Astroboy did air in the U.S. (and I mean the official English dub coordinated by Tezuka Pro. and NTV), but only on a few UHF stations like WTGI--channel 61 covering the Philadelphia-Wlimington area where it was broadcast at 10:30 a.m. Mon.-Fri. I know this to be fact becasue I have video which shows the call letters of the channel the show was recorded from and a Philadelphia edition of "TV Guide" which shows the days, and time slot of its broadcast. The reasons you state may be why along with its less than desirable number of episodes (51 , instead of the desirable number of episodes for television syndication in the 1980s--65) that the series was a hard sale in the U.S. But you may be right about the fate of "Astro Boy/TetsuWan Atom".

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