Do I remember? I've still got the action figrures! Hands down the coolest series of my youth. Hear that it's being updated CG-style in the near future. That box set could stand in for several years of regressive psychotherapy. Did I really just confess that?

We're off... to out space...
We're leaving mother earth..
To save the human race...
Our Star Blazers!

Searching for a distant star...
Heading off to Iscandar...
Leaving all we've left behind...
Who knows what danger we'll find...

I remember racing home from school to watch Star Blazers. So 70s!

Just in case you're reeaally nostalgic:

Listen:

http://www.clarence.com/multimedia/mp3/starblazers-iscandar.mp3

Of course you have to have the return voyage:

http://www.clarence.com/multimedia/mp3/starblazers-cometempire.mp3

Marc, Ed, don't think that wasn't a hint.

;-)

A hint that you're ALL OLD?

So what was their super-blaster weapon called in English. When I saw it (dubbed in Spanish) it was the "rayo de onda de choque."

My brother and I always wondered why they wouldn't just fire it early on. . . and get on with their journey.

Leo,

They called it the Wave Motion Engine.

Marc and Ed will be contacting you soon to chip in.

I watched it on UHF (remember that ancient technology?) but I have heard the US television version was at times hard to follow because they chopped out the mature and ultra-violent content.

But yeah, it was (is?) way cool. Can't beat the space bell-bottoms with the arrow shirts.

I have 'em all on VHS. I'm not sure that the digital precision of DVD will do justice to my scratchy memories. And for at least one summer, I insisted (unsuccessfully) that my friends call me "Wildstar."

I'll settle for one of the single season DVDs.

I tried watching a few episodes online recently - I guess it was ... tantalizing tinged with an unbearable weight of melancholy over its complete unwatchability.
A must-have dust collector.

I remember wanting to be Conroy or any of the pilots in the Black Tigers squadron because 1.) they were fighter pilots (childhood ambition after seeing _The Battle of Britain_ at age 3), and 2.) There yellow stripes on black jumpsuit gave them an aura of distinction over the rest of the crew's some sort of stripe over white jumpsuit (the Captain, Doc, and of course Nova being the only other exceptions). I actually tried Supreme Commander Desslock for Halloween a few years back, but couldn't get the blue make up or my hair right. The plan's been shelved till I have time and money to capture the villain accurately.

Matt, I'd go for the Season 3 DVD, as I don't think it ever made a wide U.S. distribution when it was in sindication. Season 1, Gamelons. Season 2, Comet Empire. Season 3 ????. I remember picking up a graphic novel covering something called "The Bolar Wars" which was kinda like the Star Force being pulled into Kosovo duty, but I don't know if it was based on an actual television production or some sort of derivative Manga.