Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Starriors> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 34 of
34
with 100 items per page.
- Starriors abstract "Starriors was a robot toyline created by Tomy in association with Marvel Comics in 1984. They were based on Zoids, but had a new storyline that U.S. Zoids had not had at all. Four Marvel mini-comics were distributed with each toy, and a four-issue limited series was written by Louise Simonson, with art by Michael Chen and Ian Akin & Brian Garvey, and covers painted by Bill Sienkiewicz.In the future, solar flares threaten all life on Earth. Earth's scientists build three Classes of intelligent machines, Protectors, to restore the Earth for human use, Destructors, to ward off any potential alien invasions, and Guardians to protect humanity after they go into a hibernative state underground. The brains of the Starriors, called control circuits, are crafted in the human image. The leader of the Destructors, Slaughter Steelgrave, becomes craven at the thought of deactivation upon the restoration of the humans, and enslaves the Protectors after what he believes to be a successful attempt to destroy all of the Guardians. Eventually, the human race and the Starriors' mission is forgotten as a reality and regarded as a myth - none of the Starriors had been activated when the humans disappeared. Then the Protector Trashor, Nipper, discovers a human skull. A band of Protectors, eventually joined by a few dutiful Destructors, sets out to release the humans from their overly prolonged hibernation.The toys were not commercially successful. After the initial wave, it appears that there were only eight more toys produced, and only two additional minicomics, though most of the new toys came with the old ones. The Simonson series told a complete story in itself, and did not include the eight new characters. The principal figures, the humanoid Wastors, did not transform, nor did most of the other robots in the line, though many could be disassembled and reassembled, and had motorized parts. Also, there was a tendency toward making new characters out of the same molds as other characters, in different colors, which is more true of the first wave than of the second. Consumer Reports' Penny Power, when it reported on robot toys, found them the least satisfying of all the lines covered, though it must be said that the narrative aspects of all the lines were ignored, and the magazine would extol the economic value of Gobots ("sturdy and cheap") over Transformers in later issues.".
- Starriors thumbnail Starriors.jpg?width=300.
- Starriors wikiPageExternalLink www.starriors.com.
- Starriors wikiPageID "6183906".
- Starriors wikiPageRevisionID "594582777".
- Starriors cleanup "November 2008".
- Starriors hasPhotoCollection Starriors.
- Starriors refimprove "January 2010".
- Starriors tone "January 2010".
- Starriors subject Category:1980s_toys.
- Starriors subject Category:1984_introductions.
- Starriors subject Category:Marvel_Comics_titles.
- Starriors subject Category:Takara_Tomy.
- Starriors subject Category:Toy_robots.
- Starriors type 1980sToys.
- Starriors type Artifact100021939.
- Starriors type Automaton102761392.
- Starriors type Device103183080.
- Starriors type Instrumentality103575240.
- Starriors type Mechanism103738472.
- Starriors type Object100002684.
- Starriors type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Starriors type Plaything103964744.
- Starriors type ToyRobots.
- Starriors type Whole100003553.
- Starriors comment "Starriors was a robot toyline created by Tomy in association with Marvel Comics in 1984. They were based on Zoids, but had a new storyline that U.S. Zoids had not had at all. Four Marvel mini-comics were distributed with each toy, and a four-issue limited series was written by Louise Simonson, with art by Michael Chen and Ian Akin & Brian Garvey, and covers painted by Bill Sienkiewicz.In the future, solar flares threaten all life on Earth.".
- Starriors label "Starriors".
- Starriors sameAs m.0fvmkr.
- Starriors sameAs Q7602259.
- Starriors sameAs Q7602259.
- Starriors sameAs Starriors.
- Starriors wasDerivedFrom Starriors?oldid=594582777.
- Starriors depiction Starriors.jpg.
- Starriors isPrimaryTopicOf Starriors.